MP Arrested For Playing Anti-Mugabe Song
A legislator from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party, was arrested on Friday for playing a song they said denigrated President Robert Mugabe, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said. The MDC, is accusing ZANU-PF, Mugabe’s party, of arresting lawmakers to whittle its slim majority in parliament. Stewart Garadhi, an MP for Chinhoyi constituency about 100 [...]
Zimbabwe Lifts BBC Restriction After 8 years
The BBC will now be able to report from Zimbabwe for the first time in eight years after restrictions were lifted by the country’s government, according to a report in the Zimbabwe Times on Wednesday. The report said the breakthrough follows meetings between the broadcasters and senior government representatives. The BBC’s world news editor, Jon [...]
Tendai Biti Receives A ‘Live Bullet’
Tendai Biti, the Zimbabwean Finance Minister has received a death threat, his MDC party said on Monday. “The MDC secretary-general, Hon Tendai Biti, has received a letter with a live bullet inside, it in what the party is treating as a death threat,” it said in a statement. The MDC formed a unity government with [...]
Mixed Reviews For Zimbabwe Investment Conference
A two-day international investment conference ended in Harare Friday with some potential investors saying that now have a better understanding of the investment environment in Zimbabwe. But others say the country is still a risky investment destination because of the political environment. Over the two days meeting conference attendees heard how Zimbabwe needs massive investment [...]
Tobacco Crop Reaches Record Prices In Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s annual tobacco auctions this year were notable for record prices and the second smallest crop in more than 50 years. Thousands of new small-scale tobacco farmers failed to grow tobacco this season because neither commercial banks nor the government had money to lend for inputs such as fertilizer. Zimbabwe’s 2009 tobacco crop will earn [...]
Zimbabwe Farmers: No Political Motive in Midlands Killing
The head of Zimbabwe’s Commercial Farmers Union said Wednesday that there was probably no political motive in the axe murder Friday of white commercial farmer Bob Vaughn-Evans, a director of the organization, who was attacked at his home in Gweru with his wife. Vaughan-Evans’s wife Jean was reported to be in serious condition at Gweru [...]
