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Typhoid slowly engulfing Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe, his unity government with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai struggling to restore basic services and social amenities.
A typhoid outbreak that began in Harare last year is steadily spreading across Zimbabwe with more than 3 000 cases reported although only one death due to the disease has been reported so far, health officials have said.
New infections have in recent months...
Wikileaks: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has Cancer
Dictator Robert Mugabe has been in power since 1980
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable.
The cable, published by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, cites central bank governor Gideon Gono as saying Mr Mugabe’s doctors had urged him to quit.
The cable, written in 2008 by the US embassy in Harare, also...
Zimbabwe: Farm Invasions Continue Across Country
The remaining white commercial farmers across the country are facing intensified threats by mobs of land invaders, as the lawless invasions of farms continue.
Last week Banket farmer Roy Crawford was reportedly abducted from his farm and tied up with barbed wire, apparently for “failing to chant election slogans supporting (Robert) Mugabe.” Crawford was eventually released after the police...
End Near for Zimbabwe's Last White Farmers
Zimbabwean farmers attend a meeting of white commercial farmers in capital Harare.
Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court heard a case on behalf of three farmers who claimed the constitution excluded confiscation of their land because they bought their properties after the colonial era ended with independence in 1980.
The Supreme Court did not agree and quickly dismissed their application.
One of the farmers,...
Zimbabwe: We can't feed nation - "new" farmers confess
Farmers who benefited from President Robert Mugabe’s chaotic and corrupt land “reform” programme, which was ostensibly meant to empower disadvantaged blacks, have confessed that they do not have the capacity to feed the nation.
The farmers, under their umbrella body Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFUZ), said this during a meeting with seed producers in Harare last week, and confirmed...
Zimbabwe PM wants Egypt-style uprising against Mugabe
Supporters of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have been assaulted this week. State-run radio has accused him of inciting anti-government protests.
Zimbabwe’s state-run radio has accused the prime minister of trying to spark anti-government uprisings similar to those seen in Tunisia and Egypt, as an independent doctors’ group said recent political violence has left at least three...
Mugabe threat to nationalise US and UK Zimbabwe firms
Robert Mugabe’s addresses his Zanu-PF party conference in Mutare.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe says his country will nationalise all US and UK companies operating in the country unless Western sanctions are removed.
He told his Zanu-PF party’s annual conference it was time to fight the sanctions imposed on him and party leaders.
Mr Mugabe also said it was time to end power-sharing...
Mugabe tells EU, US to 'go to Hell' at sister's funeral
Robert Mugabe told EU and other diplomats to ‘go to Hell’ over their sanctions regime
EU, German and US envoys to Zimbabwe have been berated by Harare for walking out of the funeral of President Robert Mugabe’s sister.
The diplomats left the burial ceremony on Sunday after Mr Mugabe used the occasion to lay into the West.
In his speech for his younger sister Sabina, who died at age...
Australia to renew ties with Genocidal state of Zimbabwe
No Zimbabwean team has toured Australia since 2003
Australia could renew cricketing ties with the genocidal state of Zimbabwe which killed countless farmers, next year starting with a series between the two countries’ A teams, the African country’s Sports Minister David Coltart has revealed.
The Zimbabwe A team will likely tour Australia in mid-2011, the first step in an agreement that...
Mass Murderers, Torturers and Rapists All Welcome in Labour’s “Enriched” Britain
The Labour government has allowed more than 500 suspected war criminals to live in Britain, an act of criminal irresponsibility that reflects its abject failure where matters of public safety and morality are concerned.
The human rights group, Aegis Trust, which campaigns against genocide and crimes against humanity, obtained figures from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Genocide Prevention which...
In Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, people eat Elephant meat, even raw
There is a resemblance between Hitler’s Germany and Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Both preached racial supremacy but as some people already know, black people are far from being superior to anyone. In Hitler’s Germany everyone had a car, a job, money, and all it ever wanted, however in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, white farmers are being killed, rapped and even cast away by racist black people....
"We torched your farm and we'll come back to eat your children"
Beaten: Mike, left, and Ben whose farmland in Zimbabwe was torched
They turned up that dark evening, as they would for many more to come, when supper was over. Screaming ‘out, out, out’ and thumping drums, Mugabe’s mob lit a noose of 50 fires around the farmhouse.
In the flickering circle of flames, it was easy to see the AK-47 automatic rifles they waved above their angry faces.
Inside,...
Mugabe and the White African: The Last Stand
Robert Mugabe’s ‘land redistribution’ policy, under which Zimbabwe’s white-owned farms have been brutally plundered, has ruined thousands of lives and turned once-productive areas into wastelands. A new documentary tells the moving story of one family, their bodies beaten, their home torched, who refuse to roll over. Graham Boynton reports.
There is a moment in Mugabe and the White African...
Zimbabwe releases the 100 TRILLION Dollars bank note
Finally we ran across an image of this bank note! We knew about it for about 1.5 years now, but we had yet to see an actual image of it. We ran across a picture of it today, plus two more similar images of a 50 Trillion and a 10 Trillion denomination. Keep in mind that Zimbabwe was an ex-colony of England and under European leadership this country developed smooth and fast. It used to be called Rhodesia...
Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe Wants To Hang White Politician Roy Bennett
Robert Mugabe absolutely hates Roy Bennett. Bennett is a wealthy white farmer who is extremely popular among black people who then voted him in as a member of parliament. Bennett is a strong character who once even punched one of Mugabe’s officials in the mouth in parliament some years ago, which earned him quite a long stint in jail. The black people absolutely love this white farmer and they...