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| [Survival International]Dozens of Botswana Bushmen threatened with eviction, reportedly because they live in an area proposed as a 'wildlife corridor', have won a significant court victory in their struggle to stay on their land. |
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| [The Herald]GOVERNMENT has filed an application to extend the July 31 deadline for holding harmonised elections in the wake of an appeal by the Sadc extraordinary summit in Maputo, Mozambique, last weekend. |
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| [AEP]The African Union says it is up to Zimbabweans to resolve disputes over election dates. At a press conference in Geneva on Monday, the chair of the commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said that the primary concern is for the elections to be free and fair. |
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| [RFI]As anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela spends his 11th day in hospital on Tuesday, South African satirical cartoonist Zapiro tells RFI that hanging onto Mandela is not helping the country. Referring to a meeting five years ago, Zapiro says the former president was "not as lucid" as he had been... |
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| [SW Radio]A 10-member African Union (AU) team arrived in Zimbabwe this week to assess prevailing conditions ahead of the country's elections. |
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| [SW Radio]Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has been ordered by the Principals to sit down with Finance Minister Tendai Biti and MDC President Welshman Ncube to craft a 'document by consensus', which will reflect the position of the government in its inclusive nature. This will then be filed before... |
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| [GroundUp]The struggle between Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, and activist organisation Equal Education, is getting nasty. The Department has accused EE of using whites to mislead black people and EE has accused the Department of racism. EE held Youth Day marches on Monday 17 June in ... |
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| [New Vision]Visiting South African Special Forces Commander, Brigade General Rudzani Maphwanya has held talks with the Chief of Defense Forces, General Edward Katumba Wamala. |
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| [Malawi News Agency]Lilongwe -The World Bank says Malawi's economy is recovering with official figures' estimates showing an expected growth of 5.7 percent in agriculture and more than 6 percent growth in manufacturing. |
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| [RFI]Does Museveni want a political monarchy? Is Sejusa a coward? Why shouldn't you take to a life of crime in Uganda? Why has the AU fallen out with the Sadc over Zimbabwe? Why are SA mining jobs vanishing? And why are Kenyan MPs up in arms about Mwai Kibaki's office? |
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| [SA Info]Building projects at the Coega Industrial Development Zone outside Port Elizabeth have injected over R1.2-billion into South Africa's Eastern Cape construction industry over the past two quarters, in the process creating over 2 500 jobs, the state-owned Coega Development Corporation (CDC) s... |
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| [SA Govt]The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), Ms Tina Joemat-Pettersson, has welcomed a New York court decision to pay South Africa approximately R294 million following unlawful harvesting of South African fish by a syndicate. |
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| [USAID]Chairman Coons, Ranking Member Flake, and Members of the Subcommittee, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. I appreciate your continued interest in how U.S. policies and assistance programs can help Zimbabweans build a peaceful and stable democracy in which p... |
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| [ANGOP]Geneva -Angola spoke on Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland, at the first ministerial conference dedicated to the African diaspora, under the international dialogue on migrations, ANGOP has learnt. |
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| [CPJ]Cape Town -All parties in Zimbabwe's government of national unity must respect the responsibility of journalists to document events and report the views of citizens, especially in the run-up to the country's elections in July, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In four different c... |
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| [Namibian]THE executive of the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) will apologise to the party leadership tomorrow, The Namibian has learned. |
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| [IPS]Masvingo -A newborn baby lets out a feeble cry as midwife Anna Mungara tends to a small wound on its head, at the provincial hospital in Masvingo, a town in southeast Zimbabwe. |
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| [Namibian]“THE conduct of the accused was truly diabolic and unforgivable. The sheer savagery of this crime boggles the mind.†|
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| [The Herald]THE Zanu-PF National Elections Directorate yesterday scrutinised applications by aspiring candidates seeking to stand on the party's ticket in the harmonised elections and is expected to present a reporton its findings to the Politburo today. |
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| [GroundUp]For all the sound and fury of the current fight between poultry producers and meat importers, their dispute may turn out to be only a minor skirmish in what promises to be a war of words and protest action aimed at securing the high ground of economic policy. And central to this will be th... |
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| [Times of Zambia]CHAIRPERSON of the tribunal set up to probe the alleged professional misconduct of three judges, Lovemore Chikopa yesterday ruled that the panel will go ahead to hear allegations levelled against Supreme Court Judge Philip Musonda. |
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| [OSISA]The residents of Ranyane, a small San settlement in Botswana, have scored a significant legal victory against the government of Botswana, which had been attempting to relocate them despite a court interdict ordering them to desist from doing so. |
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| [Times of Zambia]INVESTRUST Bank Plc has sued former President Rupiah Banda for alleged failure to settle an overdraft and interest on a mortgage of more than KR2 million. |
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| [HRW]Thank you Chairman Coons, Ranking Member Flake, and other members of the committee for providing Human Rights Watch the opportunity to testify at this hearing on Zimbabwe. I would like to request that my statement in its entirety be submitted for the record. |
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| [SW Radio]A lack of political will has been described as the major stumbling block preventing Zimbabwe's coalition government from implementing political recommendations by the regional facilitator, Jacob Zuma. |
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| [SW Radio]The security forces in Zimbabwe are under pressure to explain why some of its members are planning to represent ZANU PF in the forthcoming elections, despite the new Constitution explicitly barring this. |
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| [SA Info]French telecommunications operator Orange and South Africa's Nashua Mobile have signed an agreement to expand the firm's South African footprint by opening several local retail outlets. |
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| [ANGOP]Luanda -Capital flight in Angola, in 2011, was amounted at 1.7 billion kwanzas, according to the director of the Studies and International Relations Office of the Finance Ministry, João Boa Francisco Quipipa. |
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| [GroundUp]Jack Lewis argues that government's transformation plan is based on identity politics and is misguided. He asks people on the political left to speak out against it. |
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