Last Update: Sat Jul 31, 2010 15:10:38 Friday July 30, 2010
6:46pm From:  Imagine over 20 000 of your supporters brutally murdered by a team of crack soldiers trained in North Korea and then, 11 years after your death, a statue 'honouring' you is made in North Korea to be erected in Zimbabwe. Joshua Nkomo, the father figure of Zimbabwean politics, must be turning in his grave at the National Heroes Acre, over what his former rivals in ZANU PF are plotting.
6:46pm From: A number of international legal organizations have warned that the current dire state of the legal and justice system in 'impunity riddled Zimbabwe' has continued to decline, despite the formation of the coalition government.
6:06pm From:   Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA submits: Investors are understandably scared of the sovereign debt crisis unfolding in Europe. Amid their angst, however, they are ignoring a more likely, and significantly larger, debt catastrophe that is about to hit the nation with the second-largest economy in the world — Japan. Two decades of stimulative, low-interest-rate fiscal policy have made Japan the most indebted nation in the developed world, and as new Prime Minister Naoto Kan recently said, in his first address to Parliament, that situation is not sustainable. Japan has little choice but to raise interest rates substantially, with dire consequences far beyond its shores. The prelude to the current crisis began in the early 1990s, after Japan’s housing and stock market
5:39pm From: THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), once the second largest exchange in Africa in terms of market capitalisation, is in dire need of foreign investment. In the absence of foreign investment, privatisation of government entities could be used to excite the market.
3:16pm From: Health and nutrition experts in Zimbabwe are worried that one of the lowest exclusive breastfeeding rates in the region could have a negative impact on the country's prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme.
12:13pm From: Calafia Beach Pundit submits:
(Click to enlarge) I'm now in Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) and finally have some access to the internet (though quite slow). I picked up a cold somewhere out in the bush last week, so I stayed in the hotel this afternoon to catch up on the market rather than go out shopping with my wife. I'm still sorting through photos, and hope to post some interesting shots soon. Complete Story »
6:56am From: Warriors caretaker coach Norman Mapeza will get a chance to kick-start Zimbabwe's preparations for the 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifiers when the senior team date Botswana in an international friendly in Selibe Phikwe next Wednesday.
6:56am From: Defending champions Zimbabwe will face bitter rivals Namibia in a repeat of last year's final when the two sides square off at the Junior Africa Cup rugby tournament in Abidjan, C´te d'Ivoire this afternoon. Thursday July 29, 2010
5:55pm From: The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has announced that four new media houses have been granted licenses to operate in the country. According to the ZMC chairperson Godfrey Majonga, the Cable News Agency and the African Open Media Initiative will run news agencies, while Berimark Enterprises will publish a monthly magazine called Zimceleb and Feyjay Investments will publish a weekly sports magazine called Sport/24. Sunday July 18, 2010 |
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