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The finalisation of approving various development projects, to be funded by the German government, could be concluded within the next two weeks.

Jacob Nhlanhla in Bulawayo

Amid escalating calls to excommunicate him from the Roman Catholic Church, President Robert Mugabe has donated a large sum of money to it.

Mike Nyoni in Harare

With Libya and now, seemingly, China cooling off Zimbabwe, some say Mugabe’s remaining friends are purely of sentimental value.

David Masango

Paris – Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora should take global responsibility towards the development of Africa, says South Africa’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.

Tshwane – A second week into the refuse collection workers’ strike in the Tshwane metro municipality, has seen waste from homes and businesses go uncollected in the area.

Michael Appel

Pretoria – The Department of Home Affairs has announced the immediate suspension of two senior officials pending further investigation.

VoA

The British Foreign Office on Monday discounted reports that Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently issued an ultimatum saying he will not attend the Euro-African summit in December in Lisbon if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is present.

Janine du Plessis

Pretoria - The Health Department is to recommend the blacklisting of Zalatex, a company alleged to have bribed a South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) official to approve inferior quality condoms.

Michael Appel

Pretoria - The ongoing strike by refuse collection workers contracted to the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, has been ruled illegal and unprotected by the High Court.

IRIN

HARARE, 6 September 2007 (IRIN) - The acute shortages being experienced in Zimbabwe could lead to the closure of the ZANU-PF government's youth militia training camps, established in 2001 to instil the...

NBC

The Swapo Party Hardap Regional Conference has been postponed indefinitely.

The President of the Congress of Democrats, Ben Ulenga, says his party will oppose a court application filed against him and five others by a faction, led by Ignatius Shixwameni.

The case of Deputy Director of Wildlife Management in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Sacky Namugongo, still awaits a decision from the Office of the Prosecutor-General.

Namugongo was...

Zachary Ochieng

Hardly before the dust settles on the controversial Media Bill of 2007, the media fraternity has discovered yet another equally controversial and even more sinister and draconian piece of legislation, which is in the process of being promulgated.

VoA

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Thursday opened a summit of the Southern African Development Community in Lusaka, Zambia, with a speech in which he urged Zimbabweans to maintain peace and stability in safeguarding their independence.

IWPR

Jim Rose, who was struck and killed a few weeks ago by a motorist while riding on his bicycle to Harare from his home in Chitungwiza 30 kilometres away, was considered rather odd by the standards of modern Zimbabwe.

IRIN

LUSAKA, 14 August 2007 (IRIN) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state meeting this week in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, is to put the Zimbabwean crisis "high on the agenda", and is poised to take "practical steps" to resolve the country's problems, the regional body's deputy executive secretary, Joao Caholo, told IRIN on Tuesday.