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Zimbabwe: Political and Security Challenges to the Transition

Posted by ZDN on March 5, 2010

Zimbabwe Report from the International Crisis Group Africa Briefing N°70 Harare/Pretoria/Nairobi/Brussels, 3 March 2010 I. Overview As Zimbabwe enters its second year under a unity government, the challenges to democratic transformation have come into sharp focus. Despite reasonable progress in restoring political and social stability, ending widespread repression and stabilising the eco...

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Zimbabwe Weekly Update – week ending 22 February 2010

Posted by ZDN on February 23, 2010

Politics Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Thursday the inter-party talks had reached a deadlock and were “going nowhere.” Biti called for South Africa and SADC to intervene. President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday the extension of targeted sanctions by the EU was a deliberate ploy by the West to undermine development in the country. But he said he would not breach the power-sha...

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Zimbabwe Weekly Update – week ending 15 Feb 2010

Posted by ZDN on February 16, 2010

Politics Jonathan Moyo was passed over for promotion to the new Zanu-PF Politburo lineup. The spin-doctor was hoping to become either information secretary or to head the party’s commissariat. The central committee was reportedly wary of trusting political chameleon Moyo enough to be part of the party’s inner circle. The EU has decided to extend targeted sanctions until 2011 against ...

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Zimbabwe Weekly Update – week ending 25 Jan 2010

Posted by ZDN on January 26, 2010

Politics Inter-party talks were again adjourned on Wednesday and are expected to resume in two weeks. MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa said that the party is losing patience and allegedly wants to declare a deadlock in its negotiations with Zanu-PF. It plans to refer the agenda to SADC and South African President Jacob Zuma. The MDC appears to be standing its ground on key issues it wants re...

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Zimbabwean judge Joseph Musakwa applauded

Posted by ZDN on December 7, 2009

PRESS STATEMENT After months of stress and the heart-ache of trying to load a lifetime’s work onto the back of dusty trucks, Mrs Hester Theron (79), a commercial farmer from the Beatrice district of Zimbabwe, has been given a glimmer of hope. On November 6, a Harare magistrate gave Mrs Theron a month to vacate her dairy farm, where she has lived for the past 50 years, or face a prison sent...

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Zimbabwe Weekly Update – week ending 24 Nov 2009

Posted by ZDN on November 25, 2009

Politics Zanu-PF pre-Congress provincial nominations reveal a widening rift within the party. Vice-president Joice Mujuru has been nominated to retain her position, representing a defeat for the man even insiders call 'the cruellest one' - Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa. John Nkomo is set to become the second vice-president, replacing the late Joseph Msika. Nkomo's vacated post of Zanu...

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Zimbabweans want sticking issues addressed urgently

Posted by ZDN on November 20, 2009

MDC Media Release The MDC is extremely concerned at the dragging of feet by Zanu PF and Professor Mutambara’s party in resolving the outstanding issues as advised by the guarantors. The deadline set by the SADC troika for the resolution of outstanding issues has once again been missed because of the intransigence, mischief and insincerity exhibited by the political players who are not taki...

Zimbabweans want sticking issues addressed urgently

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Zimbabwe Weekly Update – week ending 17 Nov 2009

Posted by ZDN on November 17, 2009

Politics The three principals in Zimbabwe’s coalition government met on Friday to negotiate a solution to outstanding issues threatening the power-sharing agreement. President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara face a 30-day deadline set by the SADC Troika. Botswana's President Ian Khama has again called for the holding of new ele...

Zimbabwe Weekly Update – week ending 17 Nov 2009

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Zimbabwe Weekly Update – week ending 13 Oct 2009:

Posted by ZDN on October 14, 2009

Business South Africa’s largest food retailer, Shoprite, said it is no longer pursuing investment opportunities in Zimbabwe, citing political and economic “uncertainty.” Shoprite/Checkers planned to buy OK Bazaars, Zimbabwe’s second largest supermarket chain, despite the recent designation of the Meikles/TM supermarkets Group by Zimbabwe government interests. The Reserve Bank of ...