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Zanu-PF is softening its policies on land reform and indigenisation. Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters

Zanu-PF’s dizzy policy spin

The party seems to have realised that it cannot continue with its hardline stance and has made significant policy shifts since the July poll.

Mugabe’s Zanu-PF battles to regain absolute power

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF may never regain absolute power after losing its parliamentary majority last year, analysts say.

Mugabe wants to regain lost ground

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Saturday the unity government is short-lived and he plans to regain his hold over the country.

Mugabe: Internal fights eating up Zanu-PF

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday condemned internal fighting over leadership posts, saying this was tearing apart his Zanu-PF party.

Succession battle threatens Mugabe’s Zanu-PF

A battle over who will succeed 85-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as party leader threatens the future of his long-ruling Zanu-PF.

Mugabe endorsed to remain Zanu-PF chief

The top leadership of Robert Mugabe’s party has decided that he will remain its leader for the next five years, officials said on Tuesday.

Rautenbach’s fast and furious ride to riches

Muller Conrad ”Billy” Rautenbach is a controversial businessman who has parlayed his closeness to the Zanu-PF government into a personal fortune.

Zim civil leaders call for immediate action

Zimbabwean civil society leaders are calling for immediate action to implement a SADC-brokered global political agreement and halt violence.

Mugabe takes sharp dig at Tsvangirai

President Robert Mugabe took a sharp dig at his governing partner Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday, but said they were still allies.

New terror fear in Zim

Zimbabwe’s unity agreement has collapsed and violence against MDC supporters is rising.

Mugabe may replace MDC ministers boycotting govt

Robert Mugabe may appoint acting ministers in place of officials from the MDC who are boycotting Cabinet meetings, Zimbabwe’s media said on Wednesday.

Roy Bennett free on bail

The politician whose trial shook Zimbabwe’s government is free on bail. Roy Bennett says after the weekend he will return to Mutare for his trial.

Mugabe doesn’t see US sanctions being lifted soon

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday he was giving the US Obama administration time to lift sanctions.

Zuma: Zim making ‘significant progress’

Zimbabwe has made progress towards ending its political crisis as its once feuding leaders learn to bury their differences, Jacob Zuma said on Monday.

Mugabe ‘preparing for war’, warns DA

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is stockpiling arms and ammunition and preparing for war, the Democratic Alliance warned on Thursday.

Robert Mugabe ‘in bid to wreck unity’

Zimbabwe is on the verge of a political crisis, amid evidence that Zanu-PF has launched a strategy to wipe out the parliamentary majority of the MDC.

MDC bemoans ‘victimisation’ of its MPs

Controversy over the perceived selective prosecution of Morgan Tsvangirai’s MPs by officials loyal to President Robert Mugabe intensified this week.

Zim MDC ministers boycott Cabinet meeting

Zimbabwe’s MDC ministers boycotted a Cabinet meeting on Monday, saying it had been brought forward to stop Morgan Tsvangirai from presiding over it.

Tsvangirai says country still lives in fear

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday that his efforts to restore democratic freedoms and the rule of law to Zimbabwe have so far failed.

Tsvangirai says MDC faces limitations in new govt

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday his party was struggling to deliver quick reforms in a new coalition government.