Zimbabwe Insider - Part 1573

  • Empowerment ultimatum

    Zimbabwe today gave foreign firms, including mines and banks, a 14-day ultimatum to submit “acceptable” plans on how they propose to transfer majority stakes to...

  • No progress on Zimbabwe

    Southern African leaders ended two-day talks today with no major progress announced in resolving leadership battles in Zimbabwe and Madagascar that have topped the regional...

  • Police probe Mujuru’s death

    Police today said they are investigating the death in a house fire of powerful former army commander Solomon Mujuru. Details of Mujuru’s death were sparse,...

  • Mujuru dies

    Solomon Mujuru one of the two leading forces in President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African Union- Patriotic Front died in a mysterious fire today. Mujuru was...

  • Payback

    Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said Zimbabwe will use US$140 million of a US$500 million Special Drawings Rights facility to pay part of its debt...

  • Moyo raises gukurahundi

    ZANU-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo today raised the controversial issue of Gukurahundi in which an estimated 20 000 people, mostly Ndebele, were killed in the...

  • MPs face prosecution

    Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga today threatened to take legal action against legislators refusing to explain how the used their $50000 constituency grants....

  • Penalties reduced

    Zimbabwe has reduced penalties for foreign companies that violate a government mandate to sell a majority of their shares to locals, according to a government...

  • Jesse’s short-lived victory

    Self-proclaimed former Selous Scout David Israel Ben Jesse managed to have The Insider website shut down for just 30 hours before it was reinstated following...