
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe wants to hold elections in March 2013 with a referendum on a new constitution this November, court papers reveal. His long-time rivals in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have condemned this timetable as “unrealistic”. The two sides are unable to agree on a draft constitution, which is supposed to be [...]

A court in Zimbabwe has thrown out a bid by Locadia Tembo to block Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wedding on Saturday to his fiancée, Elizabeth Macheka. Locadia Tembo had argued that the wedding could not take place because she was Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife under customary law. But High Court Judge Antonia Guvava ruled such marriages were not [...]
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One person has been killed and 15 others were injured in a crash involving Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade, police say. A car in the motorcade hit a commuter bus near the rural town of Zvimba – the third such accident in two weeks. Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said Sunday’s accident happened because the bus [...]