20101219
Nation

Nairobi — Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan offered Mr Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement package in an overseas haven if he stood down as Zimbabwe's president, leaked diplomatic cables reveal.

20101219
africanews

Tough headed Zimbabwe president, Comrade Robert Mugabe, has said power-sharing government is not working and must end. He has been in a goverment of national unity with opposition leader and the country's prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai after Zimbabwe's 2008 bloody elections.

20101219
The Herald

Harare — PRESIDENT Mugabe has said attempts by MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai to mislead the nation into thinking only Presidential elections will be held next year are contrary to the Constitution.

20101210
Financial Gazette

Njabulo Ncube — THE troubled Government of National Unity (GNU) is likely to be extended by six-months as pressure piles on partners in the coalition not to rush polls before the adoption of a new constitution that ushers in conditions that would guarantee the legitimacy of the party that would form the next government.

20101210
SAPA

Cape Town — The December 31 deadline for Zimbabwean nationals to regularise their stay in South Africa will in all likelihood not be extended, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane said on Thursday.

20101207
Nation

Harare — Zimbabwe's central bank will lay off 1,600 workers at the end of this month as it battles with huge debts from projects it was forced to embark on to prop up President Robert Mugabe's previous government.

20101206
SW Radio

A Harare court has been approached to prevent the government's mining corporation from selling Chiadzwa diamonds, mined controversially by the Canadile mining group.

20101205
Zimbabwe Standard

RESIDENT Robert Mugabe's plan to have elections next year suffered a major setback after a report from the negotiators to South African President Jacob Zuma all but said it was impossible to hold the polls, as the electoral roadmap would not be ready.

20101203
africanews

Human rights activists have been called upon to investigate the high death rate of babies in communities resettled by Zimbabwe's government after a widely condemned slum clearance drive.

20101129
allAfrica.com

A confidential 2007 diplomatic cable from the outgoing American ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, is among the U.S. State Department documents released online by the website WikiLeaks on Sunday.

20101127
BuaNews

Pretoria — Zimbabwe's top leaders are said to have acknowledged the need to work together to resolve disputes in that country's power-sharing government.

20101119
SW Radio

A Bulawayo magistrate denied Standard journalist Nqobani Ndlovu bail on Friday, because she is 'afraid of getting into trouble' if she released him without properly checking the facts.

20101119
SW Radio

The three principals to the Global Political Agreement are in Gaborone, Botswana for the SADC Troika meeting on Zimbabwe. The meeting began Friday afternoon and is expected to finish late in the evening.

20101118
africanews

Former Mozambican President and top ZANU (PF) ally Joachim Chisano said politicking and not sanctions is the country's top drivers for the economic problems the southern African country has been going through.

20101109
africanews

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has received an internationally recognized democracy medal from the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC)'s 2010 edition.

20101105
africanews

The European Union office in Zimbabwe has dismissed claims previously made by the country's state controlled Herald newspaper that the European bloc had accepted President Mugabe's unilaterally appointed envoy.

20101024
Zimbabwe Standard

Harare — THE Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac) on the writing of the new constitution has suspended two senior officials for allegedly mishandling data collected during consultation meetings.

20101015
africanews

Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, has said a power-sharing deal which expires in four months' time should not be extended. He said the country should hold a referendum on a new constitution early in 2011 and then elections. Mugabe said he was reluctant to renegotiate the unity deal as some events happening in the coalition were "foolish".

20101010
This Day

Harare — FARMERS in Masvingo and Manicaland provinces are crying foul after the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe took away their property and livestock following their failure to honour contracts they entered into under an inputs support scheme.

20100926
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zimbabwe must show greater respect for human rights and political freedoms before the U.S. sanctions on the impoverished African nation can be removed, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday.