Zimbabwe News

A Zimbabwean Catholic priest has told Catholic aid agency CAFOD that despite supermarket shelves heaving with food imported from South Africa, the majority of Zimbabweans are still in need of food and basic medicines.

The loud music is back. so is the late night high speed car cruise along the Mutare-Masvingo Highway.

Jocelyn Chiwenga, the wife of Zimbabwea s Defence Forces commander, has taken the triplets of a poverty-stricken mother who appealed for help on national television.

The International Monetary Fund has told Zimbabwe that it will not provide the country with more funds until its existing $1bn debts are settled.

Teachers threatening a strike over unfulfilled pay promises have been told that civil servants are likely to get proper salaries when Finance Minister Tendai Biti presents the mid-term fiscal policy on 16 July.

The Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement Dr. Herbert Murerwa said as part of efforts to provide security of tenure to beneficiaries of the land reform, over 15 000 A2 farms will soon be audited for registration of 99 year leases.

Zimbabwe will next month hold its first international investment conference in a bid to lure investors into the country.

Zimbabwe's high court Wednesday handed down a crushing blow to the government's case against a group of Movement for Democratic Change supporters and officials.

Regional power suppliers have given Zimbabwe a month to settle its power bills a cabinet minister has said. Zimbabwe owes US$76 million to regional power suppliers for imported electricity. .

Nicholas Von Hessen Businessman Nicholas Von Hessen was on Monday acquitted of exchange control violations and another charge of illegally possessing pornographic material.

Last week Murisi Zwizwai, the MDC Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Development, told a meeting of the Kimberley Process in Namibia there were no killings in the Chiadzwa diamond mining area.

Some Masvingo teachers are allegedly demanding buckets of maize and sweet potatoes from students who fail to raise school fees, a practice condemned by parents as a "raw deal" for them.

Zimbabwe has joined one of the worlda s largest dancing platforms, Battle of the Year , with Jibilika Entertainment set to host the first ever BOTY event on August 1.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, which has become a major recipient of food aid over the past decade, was to deliver remarks on agriculture to his fellow heads of state at the African Union summit that opened Wednesday in the coastal city of Sirte, Libya.

The Minister of Media, Information and Publicity Webster Shamu, and his permanent secretary George Charamba are reportedly challenging a High Court interim judgment which declared the state-controlled Media and Information Commission defunct.

Knives are out for Simba Makoni following the launch of his Mavambo-Kusile-Dawn party in Harare on Wednesday.

The Movement for Democratic Change party led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has publicly censured Mines and Mining Development Deputy Minister Murisi Zwizwai for dismissing claims by human rights groups that security forces killed dozens of illegal miners in the Marange diamond fields.

Five MP's from the Mutambara MDC are due to appear before a disciplinary committee this weekend, Newsreel has been told.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday dismissed claims by Media, Information and Publicity permanent secretary George Charamba, that he could be breaking the country's media laws by publishing his newsletter without a licence.

There are reports suggesting ZANU PF backed militias have been reactivated to play a pivotal role in mobilising people in rural areas to actively participate in the constitution making process.