South Africa's Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has warned Zimbabwean immigrants living in South Africa that they have just a few days left to apply for visas that would allow them to stay in the country legally.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s wife has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Zimbabwe Standard, a Sunday weekly, after it published a story referring to WikiLeaks cables alleging her involvement in illegal diamond deals, the paper's CEO said Thursday.
It is official: The road to economic recovery is being paved in Zimbabwe as we speak.
McDonalds is coming to town.
The world’s biggest fast-food chain, McDonalds has reportedly targeted Zimbabwe as a new market for its outlets. Zimbabwe continues to recover from an array of political and economic chaos over the last decade.
Zimbabwe will be able to sell some of its diamond stockpiles under the terms of the deal. Following a review of worker conditions in the Marange diamond fields, Zimbabwe may be able to resume full exports by September.
“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 said, stressing that “people are suffering”.
The revised growth forecast, which appears in the IMF World Economic Outlook report released this month,has arisen due to uncertainty over Zimbabwe’s controversial indigenisation law.
Last Friday, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said: “The position is that there can't be further concessions from us unless the illegal sanctions are gone.”
Mugabe added that there was “no agreement” in resolving issues within the year-old unity government.
Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe has unleashed a blistering threat to defy the Kimberley Process to sell diamonds from a field where the global regulator accuses the army of forced labor.
He said: “We are trying to play it their own way, that is following the KP, but we can do it otherwise.”