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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday appointed a new team to monitor Zimbabwe's troubled unity government accord, ending former president Thabo Mbeki's mediation role, his office said.

Hundreds of armed soldiers are still camped at Zimbabwe's Chiadzwa diamond fields - weeks after the government agreed to remove them to comply with the Kimberly Process certification requirements.

MDC Treasurer General Roy Bennett has described his terrorism trial, which began two weeks ago, an 'absolute farce' and 'a joke.' The MDC official, who has not been sworn into government as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture because Robert Mugabe is refusing to swear him in, said he is frustrated with the slow pace the trial is taking.

Mahlangu of Zimbabwe and her organisation Women of Zimbabwe Arise, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday US President Barack Obama on Monday gave an award to a leading women's rights activist in Zimbabwe , labeling Robert Mugabe a "dictator" in the process.

A FEDERAL Liberal MP has compared Malcolm Turnbull to Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe.

PRETORIA: AfriForum plans to assist a group of South African farmers with land in Zimbabwe this week to prevent a discriminatory investment agreement between the governments of South Africa and Zimbabwe, which is to be signed in Harare on Friday, 27 November 2009.

The countrya s three main political parties have finally begun discussing crucial outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement to try to end the long running dispute between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai.

COPE president Mosiuoa Lekota has described calls for former president Thabo Mbeki and those who served under him to be charged with genocide as an irresponsible and dangerous distortion of the history of the country, the SABC.

Zimbabwe's civil service audit set to begin end of this month is going to cost US$4 million but the money will be provided by donors, Public Service Minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro told reporters on Wednesday.

Two bodyguards of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's student daughter who roughed up photographers outside her home in Tai Po can be prosecuted for working on tourist visas, justice officials have decided.

By Kenneth Chikanga South African farmers who lost land under Zimbabwe's controversial land acquisition policy could get some of their land back as soon as President Robert Mugabe's government has finished a land audit of the land redistribution exercise.

After the beatings by President Robert Mugabe's policemen, the overcrowded, lice-ridden jail cells, the degradation of nightly strip-searches, Jenni Williams and Magondonga Mahlangu still cling to hope for Zimbabwe.

The country continues to go through traumatic experiences and shameful happenings, such as the unnecessary attack on Father Wolfgang Thamm last week.

The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instability.

Zimbabwe's lower house of Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic crisis.

Via The Washington Times :A Her hair tightly woven into an African-style braid, Jenni Williams raises her arm in the air as she asks the crowd at a popular Washington cafe to chant "the healing wind of WOZA." The phrase has been repeated over and over since 2002 by women protesting against the government on the streets of Bulawayo, the ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer "Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys". In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a terrorist but a key "revolutionary fighter". He is serving a life sentence in France for murders ...

The Casablanca connection Courtesy of the Zimbabwe Herald IN 1978 Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole signed an agreement with Ian Smith to extirpate on the people of this land a mongrel offspring called Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Muzorewa was without political guile and for that reason he thought he could convince independence-hungry Zimbabweans that his ...

ONE of the key roles of Parliament, according to the Constitution of Zimbabwe, is that of making laws for the peace, order and good of the country.

A top official from the mainstream MDC on Thursday said there were doubts Robert Mugabe would implement the Global Political Agreement, even if party negotiators manage to strike a deal.