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Business Day Online - Neighbour who got in the way by Nicole Fritz

17th December 2008
THIS week, the United Nations (UN) Security Council again considers the issue of Zimbabwe. Members of the security council concerned at the situation have reportedly been planning to wait for SA's departure from the council.....
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ZimOnline - Magistrate allows activists to take case to Supreme Court

21st January 2009
HARARE – A magistrate's court has allowed a jailed human rights campaigner and an opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party activist to have their case referred to the Supreme Court.....
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Save Zimbabwe Now launched

22nd January 2009
The launch of the movement Save Zimbabwe Now was launched today, 21st January 2009, at Central Methodist Mission, Johannesburg. Speakers included:.....
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Zimbabwe:Zimbabwe pulls out of SADC court over land reforms

1st October 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe has pulled out of a regional court, which ruled that 78 white farmers can keep their farms because Harare’s land reforms programme discriminated against them.
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Zimbabwe: Ten 'MDC' students kicked off presidential scholarship program

7th October 2009
Ten Zimbabwean students at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa have been kicked out of a Presidential Scholarship Fund, for allegedly supporting the MDC. (Pictured: Fort Hare University) The programme is meant to assist under-privileged students, using taxpayer's money, but has been dogged over the years by accusations of being politicized in favour of beneficiaries aligned to ZANU PF
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Zimbabwe: Violence at Foothills Farm

19th October 2009
Pinsi Tauro, Gladys Guvheya and Tariro Benhura were heavily assaulted with an iron bar by a ZANU PF self confessed war veteran Jacob Chiripanyanga yesterday around 0700 hours in the morning at Foothills farm in Bindura.
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Zimbabwe: Zim's Mukoko free at last

28th September 2009
Harare - Zimbabwe's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the government could not prosecute a leading human rights activist facing terrorism charges because her abduction and torture in custody infringed her rights.
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Zimbabwe's Challenge to the SADC Tribunal

22nd September 2009
In the last few weeks Zimbabwe’s Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, Patrick Chinamasa, has sought to attack the SADC Tribunal, primarily alleging that it has been established in violation of international law.
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Zimbabwe: MISA: Ruling says AIPPA should be amended

28th August 2009
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has ruled that the Zimbabwean government should repeal sections 79 and 80 of the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) which contravenes Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights.
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SADC Summit and the Generals Report on Zimbabwe

27th August 2009
In May 2008, then President Thabo Mbeki commissioned six retired South African Generals to report on allegations of violence committed in the aftermath of the first round of Zimbabwe’s elections of March 2008. That report has never been made public and the Presidency now maintains that a written report was never compiled. The report was commissioned under the auspices of Mbeki’s SADC-appointed role as facilitator of political dialogue in Zimbabwe. The existence, or non-existence of the report, has implications for the obligations owed by former President Mbeki and the current South African government to SADC, and for the obligations of SADC itself. For a more comprehensive account of these obligations, see the attached briefing document.
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Zimbabawe: Clash looms between Mugabe, congressmen

3rd September 2009
HARARE – A potential war of words looms between the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, His Excellency President Robert Mugabe and the United States government following a visit to Zimbabwe by a five-member delegation from the US House of Representatives.
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Zimbabwe: Don't lift Zim sanctions - HRW

10th September 2009
Cape Town - Sanctions against Zimbabwe should not be lifted until rights violations end in that country, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, ahead of a meeting between South Africa and the European Union.
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Zimbabwe: Diamond Researcher Denied Bail

10th June 2010
A Harare magistrate on Thursday denied bail to Farai Maguwu and remanded him in custody. Maguwu is the diamond researcher who was arrested last Thursday, shortly after giving evidence to the Kimberley Process monitor to Zimbabwe, Abbey Chikane, about the volatile situation in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.
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Zimbabwe: US condemns arrests of civic leaders, rising violence in Zimbabwe

9th June 2010
The United States on Wednesday condemned a recent wave of arrests of leaders of Zimbabwe’s embattled civil society, as well as signs of burgeoning violence around the country.
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Zimbabwe: Chiadzwa Activist 'Snatched' From Jail

12th June 2010
Harare — THE intrigue surrounding the detention of a researcher whose organisation has exposed serious human rights violations at the notorious Chiadzwa diamond fields deepened after he was seized from the Harare Remand Prison on Friday night.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's elites use violence to exploit diamonds

14th June 2010
Zimbabwe's political and military elites are using violence and their links to companies to exploit the country's diamond wealth, a new report from campaign group Global Witness said Monday.
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Zimbabwe: Zim diamond activist rearrested

13th June 2010
Harare - Police have rearrested an activist who was already awaiting trial on charges of endangering Zimbabwe's economic interests after blowing the whistle on abuses at diamond mines, his lawyer said on Sunday.
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Zimbabwe: Report on Zimbabwe Diamond Trade Angers Rights Groups

8th June 2010
JOHANNESBURG — A monitor for the United Nations-backed body charged with halting the illegal trade in diamonds that finance conflict has recommended that Zimbabwe be allowed to export the stones, prompting condemnations from human rights groups that say the country’s military is still deeply involved in smuggling and violence against local miners.
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Zimbabwe: Landmark Ruling For Zimbabwe Women

3rd June 2010
Harare — THE Registrar-General has no right to bar married women from obtaining travel documents for their children, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
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Zimbabwe: Diamond Researcher Is Arrested

3rd June 2010
Farai Maguwu, who leads the Center for Research and Development in Mutare, the leading civic group investigating human rights abuses in the Marange diamond fields, turned himself in to the police on Thursday and was charged with providing false information to Abbey Chikane, the Kimberley Process monitor appointed to ensure that the diamonds mined there are not being sold illicitly to fuel conflict. Mr. Maguwu met with Mr. Chikane on May 25. Since then, Mr. Maguwu’s brother has been picked up for questioning, and his cousin has been arrested and charged with obstructing justice.
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Zimbabwe: Rights group calls to halt to Zim diamond trade

21st June 2010
A leading international human rights group called on the global diamond industry's oversight body to remove Zimbabwe from its ranks because of alleged illicit trading and abuses in its diamond fields.
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Zimbabwe: Gems bloody, claim NGOs But Zim claims abuses halted

20th June 2010
Zimabawe's turbulent unity government might have its last hope for economic recovery dashed when Kimberley Process members meet in Tel Aviv, Israel today, to decide on the status of the country's diamonds.
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Zimbabwe: Court dismisses Maguwu’s bail application

22nd June 2010
THE High Court yesterday dismissed an appeal for bail by Centre for Research and Development Trust director Farai Maguwu, who is charged with communicating falsehoods on the human rights situation in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.
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Zimbabwe: Presidency to appeal ruling on Zim election report

18th June 2010
President Jacob Zuma's office has announced that it intends appealing against last week's judgement in the North Gauteng High Court ordering the government to release to the Mail & Guardian a confidential report on the 2002 Zimbabwe presidential election.
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Zimbabwe: We’ve no policy on gays — Mutambara

21st June 2010
BULAWAYO— Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-M) led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara on Friday said it has no policy on gays and that it was up to the people to decide whether homosexuality should be included in the constitution.
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Zimbabwe: Galz staffers' trial postponed

14th June 2010
The trial of two staffers from the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) Ignatius Mhambi and Ellen Chademana has been postponed to June 30 and July 1 respectively.
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Zimbabwe: Zim rulers running diamond trade with 'corruption, violence'

14th June 2010
According to Global Witness, a campaigning group, the Zimbabwean army has abused civilians in Marange's diamond fields over the past three years while the ruling Zanu PF party is blocking oversight of the joint venture company boards via its supporters.
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Zimbabwe: Zim ignoring SADC tribunal remains hot

10th August 2010
A COMMITTEE of justice ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will report to heads of state during the regional summit in Windhoek this weekend about Zimbabwe continually ignoring rulings made by the SADC Tribunal.
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Zimbabwe: Clinton: Zim is difficult

15th June 2010
"It's a very sobering situation, it's a very sad one indeed because the ruling party, the ruling clique within that party continues to benefit from aid, benefit from the diamond trade, benefit from corruption to a very significant degree," Clinton told a seminar at the State Department.
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Zimbabwe: Diamond watchdog talks deadlock over Zim

24th June 2010
Talks between members of the Kimberley Process diamond certification scheme were deadlocked over whether to allow Zimbabwe to resume trade in gems from its controversial Marange fields.
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