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Air Zim Facing Stiff Competition

Harare, June 24, 2010 - Air Zimbabwe is struggling to attract passengers on its regional and local routes due to the increased competition brought about by new airlines, with reports that it is flying between nine and 15 passengers on a flight that usually carries up to 120 passengers.

Zimbabwe Revises Rules On Foreign Firm Takeovers

Harare, June 23, 2010 - Zimbabwe has revised rules requiring foreign firms to tranfer majority control to local blacks, with varying shareholding thresholds being set for different sectors of the economy, a minister said on Tuesday. ...
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Telecel Zimbabwe To Reduce Shareholding

Harare, June 20, 2010 - Telecel International has submitted its proposals to government for reducing its shareholding in Telecel Zimbabwe to 49 percent as it battles attempts to close it down for failing to meet Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (POTRAZ) requirements. ...
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Comesa May Miss Deadline for Free Duty Trade

Harare, June 15, 2010 – Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) secretary general, Sindiso Ngwenya on Tuesday warned member countries that the regional body might fail to achieve a duty free trade area by 2012 as planned due to delays by some countries to submit their tariff alignments proposals....
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Zimbabwe Fugitive Businessman Will Not Get Businesses Back

Masvingo, June 01, 2010 - For Jerry Sipambi (38), a worker at the struggling Shabanie Mashava Mine (SMM), the news that the owner of the mine, prominent businessman, Mutumwa Mawere, was de-specified, brought smiles and cheers not only to him, but to many others in the small mining town, a few kilometers West of Masvingo town. ...
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Zimbabwe Revokes Specification Of Mawere, Moxon And Makamba

Harare, May 27, 2010 - Zimbabwe's two co-Home Affairs Ministers Giles Mutsekwa and Kembo Mohadi have repealed the specification of three fugitive businessmen, Mutumwa Mawere, John Moxon and James Makamba. ...
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Zimbabwe Miners Seek Compromise On Indigenisation Law

Harare, May 20, 2010 - Zimbabwe's Chamber of Mines on Wednesday proposed a compromise in the government's drive to force foreign firms to give 51 percent stakes to locals, saying 15 percent local shareholding for mines was enough. ...
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600 Zimbabwe Companies Register For Indigenisation

Harare, May 18, 2010 - More than 600 companies are said to have applied to comply with the government's controversial law that has seen some international investors backing off from investing in the country. ...
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Africa Sun To Open Hotels In West Africa

Johannesburg, May 15, 2010 - Zimbabwean hotel and leisure group, African Sun Limited, is set to open hotels in West Africa as it expand its footprint on the African continent....
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Zimbabwe's Inflation Up

Harare, May 14, 2010 — Annual inflation in Zimbabwe accelerated to 4.8 percent in April, up from 3.5 percent in March, the government statistics agency announced Friday....
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Zanu PF a terrorist group - Sikhala

HARARE, July 30, 2010 – Outspoken MDC 99 leader, Job Sikhala says President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party is a terrorist organization which should be treated the same way with Osama Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda.
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Banks fail to meet requirements

HARARE, July 30, 2010—At least seven banks have failed to meet the prescribed minimum capital requirements set by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and have been directed to raise cash from shareholders or bring new partners, governor Gideon Gono said Thursday.
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Mugabe, Tsvangirai under attack

HARARE, July 30, 2010 - Deputy Prime Minister, Arthur Mutambara has accused his partners in Zimbabwe’s shaky coalition government of poor leadership and political grandstanding.
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Grace Mugabe fingered in diamonds looting

HARARE, July 30, 2010 - First Lady Grace Mugabe has been fingered as one of the biggest beneficiaries from the diamonds from the controversial Chiadzwa fields after it emerged she is a shareholder in Mbada Diamonds.

ZMC issues media licences

HARARE, July 30 - FOUR new mass media providers are soon to hit the streets after the statutory Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) granted them licenses to operate.

Rowdy youths threaten Deputy Minister

HARARE, July 27, 2010 - SEVERAL rowdy Zanu PF Youths threatened Deputy Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment, Matutu, saying he was pushing an MDC-T agenda and not working for them at all, Radio VOP can reveal.

Tsvangirai's aide nabbed

HARARE, July 30, 2010 - POLICE on Wednesday arrested Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's top aid Morgan Komichi.

Showdown over Nkomo's statue

BULAWAYO, July 28, 2010 - A showdown is looming between the government and Bulawayo political activists following revelations that the statue of the late Vice President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, soon to be erected in the city was made in the Democratic Republic of Korea(DPRK).

Newborn babies found buried in house, garden

FRANCE, July 29, 2010 - A couple have been arrested in northern France after eight newborn babies were discovered hidden in their house and buried in their garden.

UNICEF targets the Apostolic sect

MARANGE, July 29, 2010 - THE United Nations Children’s Education Fund UNICEF has embarked on a massive persuasive drive in Marange targeting members of the Apostolic sect after it has emerged that 70% of area’s children were left out the National immunization program which was done in April.
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