Zimbabwe Actueel

Police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri’s term of office expired yesterday, with coalition government partners immediately saying the Zanu PF-alligned police boss is staying onto the post illegitimately with effect from today.

Magistrate Dorothy Mwanyisa on Monday acquitted the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) and its senior official Joel Hita on charges of organising a photo exhibition in Masvingo showing the 2008 election brutality.

Zimbabwe will not be on the agenda at the next African Union summit, it has emerged, after President Robert Mugabe held talks with AU chairman and Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in Harare this week.

Controversial army general implicated in election rigging, rhino poaching and partisan food distribution, and last year calling for Mugabe to be declared life president, unilaterally promoted ahead of election.

Profit boost for British American Tobacco due to seized farms, MDC-N remains MDC-N, MDC99 leader and media arrests and further reading.

Global Witness abandons Kimberley Process, President Zuma's team last meeting of 2011, Zanu-PF Conference kick off, COPAC discussion on hold.

On the 2012 Annual Budget, Solomon Madzore's Case and the admission of two new radio stations in Zimbabwe.

Now that Zimbabwe got permission to trade diamonds from Marange interesting things are happening. China declared to invest 700 million US dollar in mineral processing, while De Beers on the other hand said they will avoid diamonds from Marange.

The ban on diamond trade from the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe has yesterday been lifted by the Kimberley Process (KP), a tripartite organization to deflect conflict diamonds from trade.

Rio Tinto, one of the world biggest mining multinatinals now states it will surrender 51% of their stake in Zimbabwe.