Zimbabwe News

FINANCIAL GAZETTE 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.

By Peta Thornycroft Independent Foreign Service More than 200 South African farmers whose land was seized in Zimbabwe are threatening legal action against the South African government for apparently excluding them from an investment protection treaty with Zimbabwe.

The Law Society of Zimbabwe on Monday petitioned the Minister of Justice to stop harassing its members.

The United Nations Human Rights Commission for Refugees has denied running a repatriation programme that promised Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa R7000, computers and other equipment to start up businesses once back home.

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.

People who were resettled in Matetsi near Victoria Falls are living in fear of snakes after four people were recently bitten in a week, amid revelations that a white farmer who used to keep the reptiles let them loose when he went away.

Three black rhinos at Imire Safari Park have been dehorned in order to prevent them from being killed by poachers.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has launched a public broadcasting report on issues surrounding the sector in the country.

Billy Rautenbach got an unpleasant surprise when he was served with civil litigation papers while at the High Court in Johannesburg to testify in the Jackie Selebi trail today.

The 26-year-old woman took advantage of her sistera s absence to become intimate with the teen son for seven months.

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 second-largest city of Zimbabwe.

A Zimbabwean national was arrested after the man whose identity he allegedly stole tracked him down, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

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.

The Zimbabwe National Students Union on Wednesday reported that 7 students were arrested over trumped-up charges of possessing a gun on campus.

Four MDC activists from Muzarabani south have fled their homes after they were tipped of a death threat on their lives.

On Friday 13 November, just a few days ago, Jabulani Sibanda, the leader of War veterans in Zimbabwe, held a meeting at Chawarura Business Centre The meeting took place in the rural ZANU PF stronghold of Muzarabani.

A number of prostitutes were on Tuesday night arrested in Gweru following a police blitz on prostitutes amid reports that innocent women and men were caught in the crossfire.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left on Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on President Robert Mugabe to honour their power-sharing accord.

By Luvuyo Mjekula Squeezing each other's hands, seemingly oblivious to the tears running down their faces, a group of women form a circle.

Zimbabwean security forces have started withdrawing from the country's eastern diamond fields to meet Kimberley Process reforms over human rights abuses, a report said.