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ConCourt reserves judgment in Kawa and Machingura challenge to CAB3

ConCourt reserves judgment in Kawa and Machingura challenge to CAB3

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Zimbabwe gazettes landmark oil and gas deal for Cabora Bassa

Zimbabwe has gazetted a Petroleum Production Sharing Agreement (PPSA) for the Cabora Bassa Project in the north of the country, setting the long-term rules that will govern how oil and gas will be explored, developed and produced.

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Nurses and midwives are backbone of healthcare – Mombeshora

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Senate decries human rights failure as prison officers use own salaries to feed babies behind bars in Zimbabwe

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Rural livelihoods in the pandemic: notes from Zimbabwe

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10.5.2021 8:47

Would you eat an orange laced with cyanide, so why accept poisoned constitutional amendments just because of some youth/women’s quota clauses?

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10.5.2021 6:50

U.S. Donation Kicks Off Landmine Clearing in One of the Largest Conservation Areas in the World

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Mnangagwa signs constitutional amendments into law – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary

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Where are the millions who voted for Zimbabwe’s ‘new’ 2013 Constitution when it’s being ravaged and raped by the ruling elite?

The past week has, arguably, been the darkest epoch in the history of our beloved Zimbabwe...
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Zimbabweans rally to #ResistDictatorship

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Constitution Amendment No. 2 Act Gazetted

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Africa’s drought crisis: Zimbabwe seeks solutions, Madagascar edges toward famine

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8.5.2021 10:57

“Buy Zimbabwe” noble initiative, but sub-standard local products threaten success

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ZIMBABWE: Eaziflush technology to limit open defecation

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Kazembe and Matanga evade jail

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‘He was lifted up’

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