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Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

THE US has been caught in yet another embarrassing plot to grab the limelight from the country’s 44th Independence celebrations by derailing Harare’s ongoing Zimbabwe Structured Dialogue Platform on Debt Clearance by tasking its officials to bring into the fray issues to do with governance...

US onslaught on Zim continues

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THERE was nothing surprising about Tendai Biti’s decision to abandon the opposition's turbulent  politics by taking a ‘sabbatical’. The CCC has become nothing more than a playground for clueless political nonentities. Indeed, the CCC has not only been drowning in a sea of confusion,...

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Patriotic front formations in Zim: Part 24…birth of regime-change proxies

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Patriotic Front formations in Zim: Part 23

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 School holidays …periodic breaks essential 

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Patriotic front formations in Zim: Part 22…the Catholic-Coltart conspiracy

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Patriotic front formations: Part 21…David Coltart and the birth of Umthwakazi

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Patriotic front formations: Part 20…legacy of sponsored education

AT this juncture, it is important to note that while the patriotic front cast...

Patriotic front formations: Part 19…contradictions in patriotic front formations

IT has already been established that, of the whole patriotic front cast, the one...

Patriotic front formations: Part 18…the Chitepo solution was confrontational

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Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

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