Archive for May 18th, 2012

What progress has EU’s Catherine Ashton ‘seen’ in Zimbabwe?

It is mind-boggling that the EU’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton reportedly said she had “seen” progress in Zimbabwe, which some of us have hardly noticed.

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Zimbabwean man arrested after he is overheard saying Robert Mugabe was castrated

A Zimbabwean man faces jail after he was overheard commenting about the sexual prowess of the country’s president Robert Mugabe, it was reported today.

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Zimbabwe: Govt to Tackle Inflated Interest Rates – Biti

GOVERNMENT will introduce a policy framework to reduce banks’ inflated interest rates, currently hovering between 15% and 25%, Finance minister Tendai Biti has said.

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Music Thursdays with Tony Sarabia and Richard Steele: Protest songs

Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Gil-Scott Heron: They’re three names that immediately come to mind when I think of the phrase “protest song.” But the history of protest songs began decades before Guthrie’s landmark 1940 album, Dustbowl Ballad s. Some of t…

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VIDEO: Africa Beats: Vieux Farka Toure

The young Farka Toure still singing Mali’s desert blues

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Zimbabwe politicians chase the religious vote

Mugabe and his opponents seem to be looking elsewhere for the religious vote. They are taking the battle to the open-air spaces, writes Jason Moyo.

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