Bulawayo, Zimbabwe News

A Zimbabwean mother arrives to collect her monthly rations of food aid from Rutaura Primary School in the Rushinga district of Mt Darwin about 254km north of Harare March 7, 2013.

A conveyor belt carries ore extracted at Mimosa Platinum mine about 400km south of Harare, Feb.

New and Noteworthy: This week's book releases all seem to take place on an international stage.

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur , an incomplete epic poem on King Arthur, has been edited for publication by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and newly released.

GOVERNMENT is mooting a policy that forces telecommunication firms to share infrastructure in far reaching reforms set to remove the duplication in investments by operators.

Darling, Bastard, Chipo, Godknows: With a little imagination, that could almost be a grammatically correct sentence.

THE prevailing liquidity crunch and inability of most manufacturing sector companies to access external lines of credit due to negative country perceptions are hampering production,the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce has said.

Bangladesh will play against Zimbabwe in the 2nd T20 match at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo.

Robert Mugabe's redemption narrative will be less convincing if civil society groups are right and his Zanu-PF party resorts to intimidating voters this autumn.

Court officials in Zimbabwe say a man has been charged in the murder of six people who died from poisoned food meant only for a neighbor he accused of flirting with his wife.

FROM a distance, one could mistake the gathering for a funeral where a few mourners were paying their last respects to their loved one.

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister and President of the Movement for Democratic Change Morgan Tsvangirai and his wife Elizabeth cast his vote in a referendum at a polling station in Harare March 16, 2013.

Zimbabwe's politics and unions have always been intertwined. Godfrey Huggins, prime minister of then Southern Rhodesia between 1933 and 1953, once gave his reasons for barring black workers from forming a union: "The Europeans in this country can be likened to an island of white in a sea of black," he said.

YOUTH Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere last week laid into Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono's path once again, accusing the central bank chief of being corrupt without offering any evidence to substantiate his claims.

A little while ago, Zimbabwean-born photographer Lisa King suggested it might be interesting to revisit Zimbabwe's country clubs.

Youths from Movement for Democratic Change led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe are vocal at the party's rallies but can they get younger voices into the legislature? Trevor Davies/IPS - As Zimbabwe's young politicians increase their demands to be allowed to play a greater role in the running of the country, analysts say that this ... (more)

CHINESE nationals exhibiting at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo raised eyebrows after reducing the standards of the showcase to a flea market by selling their products directly to the customers.

President Robert Mugabe and his Malawian counterpart, Joyce Banda temporarily brought the city of Bulawayo to a near standstill with hundreds of residents jostling to get a glimpse of their motorcade on its way to the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair .

Once the country's industrial hub, companies in Bulawayo have either closed down or relocated to Harare.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, April 27 -- Visiting Malawi President Joyce Banda on Friday said Africa has the potential to become a global economic hub if it implements measures required for sustainable growth, Zimbabwe's news agency New Ziana reported.