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* First opposition Speaker of Parliament
* Judge says ballot marking was secret
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s High Court on Tuesday refused to
overturn the election of the first opposition Speaker of Parliament since
independence, after a challenge by a lawmaker from President Robert Mugabe’s
ZANU-PF party.
The ruling will ease [...]
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High Court Judge Bharat Patel has dismissed with costs an application by
Tsholotsho North MP Jonathan Moyo and three other legislators, who were
seeking to nullify the August 2008 election of Lovemore Moyo as Speaker of
Parliament.
Professor Moyo, who stood as an independent in the general elections but has
now [...]
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State prosecutor Johannes Tomana closed his case against MDC official Roy
Bennett on Monday after he finished calling his witnesses. The MDC Treasurer
General is facing terrorism charges, which he denies.
As soon as the State said it had no further witnesses to call the defence
argued that the evidence that [...]
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Leaders from the various civil service unions have resolved to begin a
series of hunger strikes and other forms of protest, at the offices of the
Public Service Commission, until their wage demands are addressed. The
President of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, Takavafira Zhou,
told Newsreel that despite state workers [...]
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HARARE – The directors of two firms licensed to mine diamonds at the
Chiadzwa diamond field continued to play truancy with Parliament, dodging
for the second time on Monday a hearing to probe their activities at the
controversial diamond field in eastern Zimbabwe.
Mbada Investments and Canadile Miners – joint venture [...]
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HARARE – Zimbabwe should start emergency food relief programmes to areas
that have been affected by drought, while 500 000 metric tonnes (MT) of
maize should be set aside annually to mitigate any food deficits, a joint
government and United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) crop
assessment report states.
The [...]