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THE South African government has accepted that the ongoing land invasions are unlawful, and that rulings of the Sadc Tribunal were binding.

A lack of cash is likely to prevent Zimbabwe unveiling any major projects in its 2010 budget, but analysts say it could provide the impetus for the reforms needed to attract foreign aid to rebuild the economy.

President Robert Mugabe's former chief media policeman Tafataona Mahoso has invaded a commercial farm near Mutare, He has given the white owner only 48 hours to vacate the property that had been his home for years.

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has reiterated his party's commitment to the inclusive Government saying that the arrangement was the only viable option the country could have.

HARARE // The Zimbabwe government has stepped up forced removals of the few remaining white commercial farmers from their properties.

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai complained Sunday that his unity government deal with President Robert Mugabe was not being implemented and appealed for South African help.

Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is thankful for South African efforts to rescue his coalition government.

PUBLIC Service minister Elphas Mukonoweshuro on Wednesday said a national civil service payroll and skills audit will begin on November 30, but will exclude soldiers and other security personnel.

Robert Mugabe, known for his widespread human rights abuses, basks in a center-stage moment on the World Cup trophy's tour of Africa.

The treason trial of Roy Bennett, a top aide to Zimbabwe's prime minister, was deferred to January next year after a key state witness failed to show up in court to testify.

Three Americans on the seven-member crew died and a fourth American was injured, U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Buangan told The Associated Press .

Four farms in Chegutu are under siege this week by land invaders, as the campaign against the country's remaining commercial farmers keeps escalating.

A Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Saturday from a Shanghai airport with seven crew members aboard, state media and witnesses said.

ALL state-owned tertiary education institutions in the country are understaffed with the University of Zimbabwe and the Harare Institute of Technology being the hardest hit, a report by the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education has shown.

PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru on Tuesday lambasted Finance minister Tendai Biti over the contentious handling of the over US$500 million facility from the International Monetary Fund in what officials this week said was the most dramatic high-profile clash within the inclusive government since its formation in February.

A RULING in the North Gauteng High Court yesterday paved the way for the signing today of a historic bilateral investment protection treaty between Zimbabwe and SA.

Zimbabwe and South Africa signed a bilateral investment agreement on Friday which would protect investments made by nationals of both countries in each other's territory.

Human rights activists are angered that Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe was allowed to hold the 2010 World Cup trophy during its tour of Africa.

A father has today written to the Minister of Health complaining about the treatment of his pregnant wife and how after their baby son died he had to search through 40 dead babies to find his child at Johannesburg's Coronation Hospital.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held out the prospect on Friday that Zimbabwe could be re-admitted to the Commonwealth in 2011 if it pushes ahead with reforms.

On Saturday 28 November at The Book Cafe in Fife Avenue, Pamberi Trust's gender project FLAME proudly presents the 16 Days Concert, running for the third year under the international "16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women campaign", this year featuring some of Zimbabwe's best known women artists, with a strong message against violence ...

The trial of Roy Bennett, the MDC senior official accused of trying to overthrow the Mugabe regime, continued on Wednesday with the cross examination of another state witness, Superintendent Arnold Zorodzai Dhliwayo.

President Barack Obama denounced President Robert Mugabe as a "dictator" and said the 85-year-old leader is on the wrong side of history.

Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health Also Included In: Respiratory / Asthma HIV / AIDS Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 26 Nov 2009 UNICEF and the government of Zimbabwe announced Tuesday that, according to new social development data, the mortality rate for children under age five has risen by 20 percent since 1990, ...

President Mugabe last week capped some 1 311 graduates of the Zimbabwe Open University .

The government has set up a diamond processing plant at the Harare International Airport for purposes of processing the raw mineral from the Marange diamond fields in Manicaland, sources say.

A group of De Doorns protesters vented their anger on refugee activist Braam Hanekom on Monday, threatening to beat him up because he was "spying for the Zimbabweans". Hanekom, the leader of People against Suffering, Suppression, Oppression and Poverty who is considered an active protector of the rights of refugees, had made an ...

A new report by UNICEF and the Zimbabwean shows reduced access to key social services for the poorest women and children especially those in rural areas.

Zimbabwea s three governing parties have suspended until Saturday their negotiations on outstanding issues impeding the work of the unity government after three days of marathon meetings.

It's a victory for the rule of law and it has spared the South African government the embarrassment of being unable to sign the agreement Responding to an urgent application to halt the signing of the promotion and reciprocal protection of investments agreement Judge Roelof du Plessis congratulated both parties for reaching a settlement.

The imminent signing of a new bilateral investment protection treaty between Zimbabwe and South Africa could be halted, if an application in the Pretoria High Court on behalf of more than 200 farmers proves successful on Thursday.

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.

As Americans count their blessings, it is useful to remember women who count their beatings -- in the once-fair country of Zimbabwe, cursed by Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwean state agents tortured a gun dealer until he passed out to make him confess to working with a top ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in a plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, the Harare High Court heard yesterday.

The draft constitution is gender sensitive and protects human rights and besides it is a declaration by Zimbabweans, because it was crafted by the representative of the three major political parties that formed the inclusive government, hence it should be supported and used as a reference." The Kariba Draft was drafted in September 2007 by MDC.

NANGO chairperson ,Dadirai Chikwengo and Chief Executive Officer Cephas Zinhumwe have been acquitted.The two who appeared in court today were acquitted by the magistrate who said there was no evidence to warrant any case against them.

HEADLINES author/source:Fast Company published:Tue 1-Dec-2009 While money isn't flowing into government coffers, plenty is ending up in the pockets of rank-and-file soldiers and Mugabe's inner circle Zimbabwe's newfound diamond fields could have helped lift the country from its misery.

Britain is behind plans to bring Zimbabwe back into the Commonwealth in two years.

Zimbabwe's infant mortality rate has risen by 20 percent over the past two decades as children under five succumb to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and pneumonia, a joint government and United Nations survey showed on Tuesday.

UNICEF together with the Government of Zimbabwe today released new social development data which revealed a worsening situation for women and children in Zimbabwe.

A 68 year old Jotsholo man locked, raped and detained two minors, who included his daughter, in his room for two days, it has been learnt.

Zimbabwe will be offered a seat back in the Commonwealth within two years as long as it agrees to political and economic reform.

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

Police have said they are still on the trail of smugglers suspected to have driven trucks loaded with high quality cigarettes into Botswana from Zimbabwe.

A Zimbabwean national and a Motswana man were last week convicted of conniving to provide false information to an immigration officer with the intent of acquiring a Botswana passport.

A power deal that is to be signed between Zimbabwe and Botswana before the end of the month is expected to ease acute power shortages being experienced across the country and that has resulted in increased load shedding.

The country'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.

U.S. President Barack Obama honored a group of women on Monday who have confronted Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said they had defied a dictator.

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been described as a 'God-given leader' by his feared militant backers, the war veterans association.

By Khanyisa Tabata 23 November 2009 AfriForum says it will apply for a court interdict if a discriminatory investment agreement between the governments of South Africa and Zimbabwe is signed in Harare on Friday.

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 reports.

A man got the shock of his life when he found his wife being intimate with a traditional healer.

A woman from Bhule village in Tsholotsho district placed an 18-month-old boy in a tin before placing it over a fire.

Health Ministry AIDS chief Dr. Owen Mugurungi told a Zimbabwe Aids Network conference in Nyanga that Zimbabwe risks losing ground in the battle against HIV/AIDS if gains against the disease lead to complacency Sandra Nyaira Washington 23 November 2009 Though Zimbabwe has made notable gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS as measured by the country's.

A police investigator on Monday told the Harare High Court he was unable to prove the existence of a bank account into which Roy Bennett allegedly deposited money for use to buy weapons, a serious dent on the state's treason case against the senior MDC party official.

The summary expulsion of three student leaders - Vivid Gwede, Samson Nxumalo and Kurayi Hoyi, and the fateful, two-year suspension of six other student activists namely, Sheunesu Nyoni, Power Mabhoyi, Edius Mucheuka, Kudakwashe Maguchu, Nyasha Nyakura and Emmanuel Munyenyiwa, by the National University of Science and Technology administration is a ...

" A bi-lateral investment treaty between Zimbabwe and South Africa hangs in the balance seven months after its scheduled deadline, as the two countries continue to haggle over clauses contained in the document.

In honoring Zimbabwe 's tenacious women protesters at the White House on Monday, President Obama gave his sharpest critique yet of President Robert Mugabe , the octogenarian who has ruled the southern African country with repressive zeal since 1980.

On 18 November 2009, the Zimbabwe Europe Network hosted a conference in Brussels for all actors interested in the development of Zimbabwe.

A failed asylum seeker who lived in a car outside his wife's hostel has been handed a suspended prison sentence after using a false passport in a bid to gain work.

As if sleeping on the floor in jail wasn't enough, former Zimbabwe finance minister Chris Kuruneri's bout of bad luck is continuing in South Africa.

Fresh negotiations to deal with the so-called outstanding issues in the unity government are expected to begin in earnest this weekend nearly two weeks after the Southern African Development Community Troika directed at its meeting in Mozambique that Zimbabwe resolves its niggling issues within 30 days.

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.

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.

AN Epworth woman and her daughter are on the run after death of a woman they had performed backyard abortion.

The question still remains.What exactly led Elmon Mupombwa of Marange to axe his five children -three of them fatally ,kill all his livestock, torch his home and commit suicide last month? Well, it appears the answer will remain a mystery as long as those suspected to have some inside information do not open up.Earlier investigations by The Sunday ...

Venezuelan president defends Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter at gathering of leftist political parties 'I defend him.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left today 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.

T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and some of the negotiators to the Global Political Agreement met for less than two minutes on Monday.

The MDC has accused ZANU PF of mobilizing its militia to re-open torture bases countrywide, to intimidate the electorate into accepting the controversial Kariba Draft constitution.

THE Unity Accord survived its sternest test ever on Monday when all but one of the ZANU-PF provinces that were still to select their preferred candidates to the presidium upheld a decision by the politburo to reserve the chairmanship of the party for the former PF-ZAPU to avert cracks that were threatening to further split the party.

HAPPYMORE Mapara, the group chief executive officer of AICO Africa Limited was this week sent on suspension pending investigations into the operations of the company after falling out with key shareholders at the Zimbabwe Stock Exch-ange -listed conglomerate.

Chavez defends Carlos the Jackal, calls imprisoned Venezuelan 'revolutionary fighter' CARACAS, Venezuela - CARACAS, Venezuela a ' Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important "revolutionary fighter" who supported the cause of the Palestinians.

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.

The German government has sent a written protest to Zimbabwe over the attack on a German priest by soldiers over the weekend.

Harare - 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.

The Girl Child Network, a rights group, says 95 per cent of all rapes against minors are perpetrated by men against girls.

Zimbabwe's feuding political parties look set to miss a month-end deadline set by SADC to conclude outstanding issues of their power sharing agreement as negotiators are yet to meet.

Fearing a resurgence of xenophobic attacks, around 2,500 Zimbabwean migrants have taken refuge in government buildings in De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, after some of their shacks in an informal settlement were attacked and demolished, said a police official.

RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, President Mugabe has said.

THE succession race has reached fever pitch ahead of the selection of candidates for the Zanu PF presidium this weekend, with four names surfacing for the two vice-presidents' posts and three for the chairman's. As the Sunday deadline looms, Zanu PF insiders say three possible lists for the presidium have emerged, making it one of the most ...

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe , blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday's opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger.

The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has extended the availability of some US$38 million in unused grants to the country aiming to speed implementation of programs not rolled out due to the political and economic crisis of recent years.

We received a very disturbing report today that is yet another indication that the army is getting completely out of line.

TWO nurses involved in a medical error that led to two cancer patients being killed by a drug overdose at a Birmingham hospital are to go before a disciplinary panel.

The meeting was called following the death of two vendors over the past two months in skirmishes between vendors and municipal police officers.

Malawi has been highlighted in a petition to the EU calling for punitive action against SADC countries over Zimbabwe affairs.

Civil rights organisation PASSOP has lodged a complaint against Old Mutual with the South African Human Rights Commission .

President Robert Mugabe called for the West to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe, which he said were designed by "neo-colonialist enemies" who want his land reforms to fail.

PF national chairman Cde John Nkomo has all but wrapped the Vice-Presidency after winning support from six provinces that nominated him as the ideal candidate to fill the post that fell vacant following the death of fearless founding nationalist, Vice President Joseph Msika, in August.

Emmanuel Fundira, president of the Zimbabwe Council of Tourism, said at an investment conference in neighboring South Africa that a unity government formed in February has brought political and economic stability.

Five people have died of cholera in Zimbabwe since the beginning of September out of 116 cases, according to the World Health Organization, signaling that as anticipated the disease has broken out again with the onset of seasonal rains which spread bacteria.

An acute shortage of labourers on Zimbabwe's newly resettled farms, combined with the farmers' inability to raise loans from financial institutions to purchase agricultural inputs, and money owed to them by the Grain Marketing Board , do not bode well for food security.

MDC-T has fired its South African executive amid allegations of misappropriation of funds and abuse of resources among other issues.The executive was recalled following a marathon meeting in Johannes-burg last week.

Occupancy rates at hotels in Zimbabwe, especially those for businessmen, have trebled since last year, pointing to signs of life in the battered African economy, the country's industry chief said on Monday.

A senior official in Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party pleaded not guilty on Monday to terrorism charges in a trial that has raised tensions in the unity government formed early this year.

If you drive a Toyota, the body is mostly likely fortified by a rare form of metal from the Bindura Nickel plant here in the ancient and magical hills of Eastern Zimbabwe.

The voice that inspired many women By Joyce Jenje Makwenda Zimbabwe Herald IN the olden days, women used stories as a way of educating children.

DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is an unwanted interference in the government of national unity.

ZIMBABWE is once again dominating international headlines for the wrong reasons -- an investment-wreaking decision had been taken to push through a contentious plan to expropriate 51 percent of all foreign-owned companies.

By Owei Lakemfa SOUTH Africa has again postponed the target date of its land reform programme.A In its post apartheid election manifesto, the ruling African National Congress had promised to redistribute 30 percent of agricultural land in its first five years in office.

ZIMBABWE will this month sign a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with South Africa, amid a farm ownership dispute between deputy Reserve Bank governor Edward Mashiringwana and a South African farmer, Louis Fick.

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has called on the co-ministers of Home Affairs to resign their positions over the abuse of power being exercised by the police.

THE Vice-President of the African Export-Import Bank , Okey Oramah, was due to meet President Robert Mugabe last week to break the impasse between the bank and the Ministry of Finance over Zimbabwe's outstanding debt obligations.

EARLY in the year, a high-powered South African business delegation visited Zimbabwe to assess opportunities following the formation of the unity government.

South African insurance giant Old Mutual, which this week admitted to being a major shareholder in Zimpapers, is now also set to reap its financial share of the Chiadzwa diamond fields.

The wife of a pastor who allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old girl from his church on Tuesday stunned the court when she said her husbanda s manhood is inactive when it comes to other women.

Dead men tell no tales, but not so for Fortune Muparutsa whose family wants him to "tell" them how he died.Some of the artist's family members are throwing allegations of murder and want his body exhumed to establish the actual cause of his death.

Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Lovemore Matombo and four other unionists spent the fourth day in jail on Wednesday after police successfully applied to court for permission to keep the unionists in detention pending trial.

A weekend spate of arrests of trade unionists and students activists is set to further threaten Zimbabwe's political stability, with observers arguing that it is clear that Robert Mugabe has no intention of abiding by regional calls to uphold the Global Political Agreement.

President Jacob Zuma says he still maintains that the people of Zimbabwe are the best placed to find a solution to the political crisis in that country.

Tendai Javangwe is 16 years old but looks half his age; he was born HIV-positive and has been staying at a home run by Mashambanzou Care Trust, a community care and support organisation.

Lawyers for Zimbabwean Senator Roy Bennett, accused of possessing weapons for purposes of terrorism, on Thursday asked the judge presiding over the politically charged case to recuse himself citing a previous ruling regarding the star prosecution witness.

There is rising tension in the Zimbabwe National Army after a number of senior officers allegedly died from torture whilst in military detention.

The African regional organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation has called on Robert Mugabe and the police to immediately release five members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions , who were arrested over the weekend.

While hailing China's continued support to Zimbabwe since the days of country's struggle for independence, Harare Metropolitan Provincial governor and Resident minister David Karimanzira said on Monday there is greater scope for continued growth and expansion of China-Zimbabwe relations, even between the peoples of the two nations.

The Secretary General of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe , Gertrude Hambira, has spoken of her family's distress after she was targeted for abduction by suspected state security agents a week ago.

An acute shortage of labourers on Zimbabwe's newly resettled farms, combined with the farmers' inability to raise loans from financial institutions to purchase agricultural inputs, and money owed to them by the Grain Marketing Board , do not bode well for food insecurity.

Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health Also Included In: Sexual Health / STDs Tropical Diseases Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 11 Nov 2009 The Mail & Guardian examines how the "economic collapse" in Zimbabwe has contributed to rising numbers of children falling victims to sexual abuse.

A A A' A judge ruled Wednesday in a trial that has shaken Zimbabwe's coalition government that defense lawyers for a top prime minister's aide can raise allegations that the main witness against him was tortured.

PF acting political commissar Cde Richard Ndlovu has said last week's Harare provincial chairman poll results are likely to stand despite Cde Hubert Nyanhongo's bid to have the results nullified over alleged "irregularities" and "vote-buying". In party elections carried out on Saturday, Zanu-PF provincial chairman Cde Amos Midzi retained his post ...

Intervention by the Southern African Development Community to resolve a dispute between Zimbabwe's unity government partners has highlighted the redundancy of an oversight body specifically established to smooth the road of political reconciliation.

A political impasse in Zim has raised concerns from regional leadership that the situation "could get out of hand", Department of International Relations director-general Ayanda Ntsaluba said.

The trial of Roy Bennett, a leader in the Movement for Democratic Change and its choice for deputy agriculture minister, started Monday amid signs that President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party were continuing to crack down on independent groups they see as political adversaries.

The Bulawayo City Council is providing anti-retrovirals to more than 17 000 residents while 927 died due to HIV/AIDS related illnesses in October.

There was drama at the Civil Court offices of the Bulawayo magistrates' courts yesterday afternoon when a clerk bumped into a live snake in a file she wanted to pull out.

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Tens of thousands of girls and boys abused as economic collapse affects family structures, child protection and policing Children in Harare, where one clinic says it is seeing an average of 20 child abuse victims a day.

A top aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai went on trial Monday, facing terrorism and weapons-smuggling charges.

The crisis-hit country's transport ministry confirmed one of the national airline's planes collided with a group of warthogs on the runway at Harare International Airport .

Award winning African labour body of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions President, Lovemore Matombo was arrested on Sunday night while addressing members of his union in this resort town of Victoria Falls, an official confirmed on Monday.

Police in Zimbabwe Tuesday released a lawyer arrested Monday for objecting to a subpoena issued for his client, Peter Hitschmann, who served a prison term for possession of weapons in connection with an alleged 2006 plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe remained at the top of the agenda Wednesday in an ongoing Windhoek, Namibia, meeting of the Kimberly Process which is considering a ban on the international sale of the country's diamonds over alleged human rights and other abuses in the Marange field.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday he would stay in the government and challenge President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF to implement last year's political deal in full.

A Zimbabwean deputy minister from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party who was arrested for allegedly stealing a cell phone from an ally of President Robert Mugabe has been cleared of the charges.

THE two-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation opened today, bringing together 50 countries as China looks set to expand its economic presence in Africa.

Villagers in Muromo in Mutare West constituency have accused soldiers and members of the support unit in the area of harassing them for supporting and attending MDC functions.

Groups campaigning to suspend Zimbabwe from a diamond regulatory body say they will begin lobbying its new chair after last week's failure to oust the beleaguered African country from the organisation.

On Friday, 06 November 2009 the editor of an online paper Zimdiaspora published an article titled MUGABE PLOT TO ELIMINATE BETTY MAKONI TURNS UGLY.

An international body charged with stopping the illicit trade in diamonds that fuel conflict has decided not to suspend Zimbabwe, officials said Friday, though its investigators had concluded that Zimbabwe’s military had organized smuggling syndicates with the government’s permission and used “extreme violence” against illegal miners. .

A possible company ownership structure in Zimbabwe has shaken the business community in the country.

Zimbabwe on Thursday evaded a temporary ban from a global scheme to ban trade on conflict diamonds despite calls for the country to be suspended over human rights abuses in its gem fields.

The Zimbabwe Guardian on Thursday 05 November 2009 reported that Oxfam Novib in The Netherlands confirmed that there were reports of financial impropriety concerning GCN in Zimbabwe and they have commissioned an extra audit, from the annual one, to investigate the allegations.

Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda is a troubled man. When he took office in July 2008, one of his most immediate tasks was to resolve the water crisis in the capital.

Freed mercenary Simon Mann celebrated his freedom with his wife Amanda today as he thanked people for the 'warmth' shown since his release from a 34-year jail sentence for his part in plotting a coup.

Mujuru blasts MDC-T over disengagement Bindura Bureau Zimbabwe Herald Vice President Joice Mujuru yesterday blasted the MDC-T's disengagement from Government, saying it was a ploy calculated to derail preparations for the forthcoming agricultural season and discredit the land reform programme.

Police have seized £350,000 worth of cars in Leeds as part of a probe into an alleged car clocking fraud and money laundering by three Zimbabweans.

The Kimberley Process, which is an initiative intended to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, may decide to suspend Zimbabwe from its ranks.

The Queensland Government has promised a full investigation into concerns about the registration and performance of an overseas-trained doctor who used to work in the Northern Territory.

Johannesburg, - Zimbabwe's rough diamond trade has escaped a six-month suspension by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - after its own investigating team recommended earlier in 2009 that the country be temporarily barred from importing and exporting the gems.

The Southern African Development Community has called a meeting Thursday in Mozambique of its troika or committee on politics, security and defense to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe's national unity government, SADC officials said Monday.

Tendai Biti, the Finance Minister of Zimbabwe, has effectively been barred from presenting the 2010 National Budget after Mugabe insisted that there will be no deviation from the normal procedures of crafting it and steering it through cabinet.

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced on Thursday evening that he and his party the Movement for Democratic Change have withdrawn their boycott on the unity government in the country.

A lesbian who claimed to have been impregnated by another woman has given birth to a child with a tooth, disparate arms and a crooked leg, reports said.

The influential Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa in its new report "Zimbabwe: A way forward", calls on SADC to intervene more vehemently in Zimbabwe.

A top Zimbabwean human rights campaigner on Wednesday said the country's Central Intelligence Organisation spy agency has tracked him to an international summit in Namibia to try to stop him from exposing the serious human rights violations his organisation has compiled in the controversial Marange diamond fields.

Zimbabwe looks set to escape any punishment over its trade in blood diamonds after a ruthless lobbying campaign by Robert Mugabe's regime that included intimidation of a key witness at an international summit in Namibia.

Three people have been arrested in connection with a scam involving the sale of so-called "clocked" cars.

Over two million Zimbabwean children country-wide will benefit from a multi-media awareness campaign on child protection.

Zimbabwe's transport ministry says one of the national airline's planes collided with five wild pigs on the runway in the capital during takeoff.

The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human rights violations stemming from Zimbabwe's lucrative diamond industry.

A plane was forced to make an emergency stop in Zimbabwe after hitting a warthog on the runway.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's threat to appoint interim ministers to plug the gap left by the "disengagement" of the Movement for Democratic Change from the unity government could lead to a review of donor funding, a highly placed official from a major donor country told IRIN.

There are claims of another attempted abduction of a high-profile rights activist in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart Joseph Kabila speak to the media after their meeting at the State House in Harare, November 2, 2009.

Southern African leaders must pressure Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party to end human rights abuses when they meet to discuss the current impasse in the country's unity government, a rights body said on Wednesday.

The MDC employee, Pascal Gwezere, who was abducted by armed men from his home in Harare last Tuesday, has made an appearance.

Zimbabwe has lost about 200 rhinoceroses - a quarter of its total population - to rampant poaching over the last three years as security and the economy deteriorated, state media reported yesterday.

A Zimbabwean lawmaker from PM Morgan Tsvangirai's party has been cleared of charges of stealing a mobile phone, a report says.

Zimbabwe's cash strapped government has managed to raise only US$5.7 million out of $48 million it had planned to use to fund agricultural production this season, the ministry of agriculture said on Tuesday.

Girl Child Network World director and founder Betty Makoni who has been nominated for the CNN Hero of the Year is being sought by Oxfam Novib to explain financial maladministration.

In an incident that left the Dete community in Matabeleland North Province shell-shocked, a man strangled his wife before trying to commit suicide when his wife refused to have unprotected sex with him.

Raqibul Hassan hit a giant six to bring up the winning runs as Bangladesh completed a series-clinching six-wicket victory Tuesday after removing Zimbabwe for 44, the fifth-lowest total ever in a limited-overs international.

President Mugabe has lashed out at factionalism in Zanu-PF's Harare province, saying it is threatening stability in the province.

British mercenary Simon Mann, who was jailed for 34 years in Equatorial Guinea for plotting to overthrow the Government, has been granted a presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds.

CHITSA, Zimbabwe, Nov 2 - In Chitsa, a village with some 2,000 inhabitants located about 250 km from Zimbabwe's capital of Harare, it has become difficult to conduct everyday transactions involving money.

Zimbabwe is facing an international ban on the sale of its diamonds amid allegations of a brutal and deadly crackdown in the country's multi-million dollar mining industry.

Harare - Efforts were underway on Monday to secure freedom for a worker from Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's arm of the country's coalition government, with his lawyers saying he needed medical attention after undergoing "severe torture" for four days.

A mob has seized a white-owned farm and opened fire on farm workers on the property, seriously injuring three of them, according to victims of the attack.

Botswana faces a shortage of nurses and doctors following a British funded campaign by the International Organization on Migration , which seeks to repatriate Zimbabwean health professionals living in the diaspora.

Zimbabwe's neighbors will hold a summit this week to try to break an impasse that threatens the southern African nation's unity government, a spokesman for Zimbabwe's prime minister said Monday.

A woman from Mandalay Farm in Umguza gave birth to a live baby boy and later dug a 20cm deep pit and buried it alive.

A man from Bulawayoa s Entumbane suburb died after hot porridge was poured on his privates by his wife, police said.

Pressure was mounting on Monday on the international watchdog set up to combat so-called "conflict diamonds", the Kimberley Process to suspend Zimbabwe from the global diamond trade over alleged human rights abuses and smuggling.

The Zanu PF succession race to replace the late Vice-President Joseph Msika has become messy with senior party officials trying to outmanoeuvre each other in a bid to block national chairman John Nkomo's ascendancy.

Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's state media say a man allegedly killed three of his children with an ax and wounded two others in what police describe as Zimbabwe's most brutal crime in recent years.

A 22-year-old Zimbabwean man has been beaten to death by Diepsloot residents who accused him of robbery, said police.

The use of handmade bricks is revolutionizing housing in Chinhoyi, 120km north of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, where housing estates built by poor people have mushroomed in a development that has caught the attention of the housing ministry.

Two black farm workers and a child were shot and severely wounded in Zimbabwe yesterday when a mob of pro-Mugabe thugs invaded a white-owned farm.

GOVERNMENTAL organisations have given a thumbs-down to the inclusive government's performance since its formation in February.