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Zimbabwe to sell diamonds directly to China

2013 May 10 | 2938 Views

Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe will set up offices in Shanghai and Dubai this year to sever intermediate links and sell precious stones, including diamonds, directly to China and the UAE.The corporation is a wholly government-owned company which falls under the ambit of the Zimbabwe Mini...

by Li Jiabao

Chinamasa, Mutasa clash in the presence of Mugabe

2013 May 10 | 5332 Views

Dramatic scenes rocked Zanu-PF's 11-hour Politburo meeting last Friday as secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa fiercely clashed with Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa and Women's League chief Oppah Muchinguri in the presence of President Mugabe. The bigwigs were locked in combat over the Ma...

by Staff reporter

China's cyber spying targets US govt

2013 May 07 | 2113 Views

WASHINGTON - China has engaged in widespread cyber espionage in a bid to extract information about the US government's foreign policy and military plans, said a Pentagon report issued Monday.China kept up a steady campaign of hacking in 2012 that included attempts to target US government computer ne...

by Staff Reporter

Online users liken China's state newspaper HQ to giant penis

2013 May 06 | 2215 Views

A Chinese state newspaper has been left red faced after internet users pointed out its new building's remarkable similarity to a penis.So much is the People's Daily newspaper's embarrassment that censors have been trying to quell chatter on social networks.Despite this, a few comments have managed ...

by Staff Reporter

Chinamasa, Matinenga fail to meet to craft polls roadmap

2013 May 03 | 2267 Views

Two cabinet ministers tasked by the shaky inclusive government principals to craft an election roadmap have failed to meet a month after their work was cut out for them. As a result, hopes of holding elections by the expiry of Parliament's five-year lifespan on June 29 were fading fast. Constitution...

by Staff reporter

Didymus Mutasa lashes out at Chinamasa, Muchinguri

2013 April 28 | 3230 Views

Embattled Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa has lashed out at his critics, accusing them of causing irreparable damage to the party in the province.Mutasa singled out Justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa and women's league boss Oppah Muchinguri for being behind the recent petition ...

by Staff reporter

Is Zimbabwe's dependence on China a ticking time bomb?

2013 April 23 | 2060 Views

That China has emerged as a global economic powerhouse especially in the aftermaths of the global financial crisis cannot be disputed. In fact, it is credited as having been the key driver of global economic growth, in a period where the western economic markets were largely subdued. Africa has ben...

by Perry Munzwembiri

A response to Patrick Chinamasa

2013 April 18 | 2293 Views

Our fight is, and remains, internal. It is a fight based on what we wish to be and what Zanu-PF thinks and, indeed insists, we ought to be. I listened, with intense curiosity, to the dispositions of Zanu-PF on Zimbabwe, which I think were well articulated by Patrick Chinamasa, the current Minister o...

by Vince Musewe

Chinamasa scuttles UN poll funding

2013 April 12 | 2362 Views

ZANU-PF and MDC-T are embroiled in a fight over the visit of a United Nations (UN) election assessment team amid reports that Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa had blocked the visit, whose recommendations could result in the body funding the country's forthcoming polls.Finance minister Tendai Biti...

by Staff reporter

Chinamasa to Diaspora, 'Know a high thief to do business in Zimbabwe!'

2013 April 04 | 4066 Views

I listened to Minister of Justice speaking to some Diaspora Zimbabweans in London and explaining what has been going on in Zimbabwe since in the past decades.Mr Chinamasa spoke like a calm, regular and real human being who resonates and mingles with the human species harmoniously. He spoke a lot ...

by Rayton Dzimiri

Chinamasa smiles all the way to London, leaving Mugabe in the cold

2013 April 03 | 4308 Views

The last two weeks have been dominated by discussions over crucial and interesting developments in Zimbabwe's political landscape. The European Union removed 81 members of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party from the sanctions list. This was followed by a three member team of Zimbabwe's ruling coalition visiting...

by Mathula Lusinga

Four new rare bird flu cases reported in China

2013 April 02 | 1677 Views

Beijing - China reported Tuesday that four more people in one province were seriously sickened by a bird flu virus new to humans while cities along the eastern seaboard stepped up public health measures to guard against a disease that has already caused two deaths.The health bureau of eastern Jiang...

by Staff Reporter

Chinamasa in near fist fight with British MP

2013 April 02 | 4710 Views

JUSTICE and Legal Affairs minister, Patrick Chinamasa caused a storm at a reception in London last week when he engaged in a verbal spat with outspoken British MP, Kate Hoey.Chinamasa, who is part of a three member cabinet re-engagement committee, charged towards Hoey and had to be restrained.&nbs...

by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe snubbed by China?

2013 April 01 | 2375 Views

AS Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Africa last week, Zimbabwe could only longingly stand-by as the country was not on the Chinese leader's itinerary.Xi is the second leader to give Zimbabwe the wide berth, raising questions whether the country's much vaunted Look East Policy was anything more t...

by Staff Reporter

Explosion kills six miners in China

2013 April 01 | 1324 Views

Beijing - An explosion killed six workers on Monday at a coal mine in north-east China where 28 miners were killed in a similar accident just three days earlier, state media reported, one of a string of industrial accidents across the country that is again focusing attention on lax enforcement of sa...

by Staff Reporter

International Community Steps up Efforts to Engage Zim

2013 March 27 | 2406 Views

WASHINGTON - Zimbabwe's leading unity government negotiators resumed talks in London on Tuesday with the international community ahead of a crucial general election expected later this year.The Zimbabwe team comprises Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, Regional Integration Minister Priscilla Misiha...

by Staff Reporter

ZimVigil targets Patrick Chinamasa in London

2013 March 26 | 2449 Views

The UK-based pressure group, Zimbabwe Vigil, on Tuesday braved the icy British weather to demonstrate outside a venue hosting a meeting between the international community and a Zimbabwean delegation discussing cooperation ahead of this year's elections, the SW Radio Africa reports.The ZimVigil has ...

by Staff Reporter

British govt in major policy climbdown on Zimbabwe

2013 March 24 | 4525 Views

In a move that signals a major policy climbdown, the British government has invited Zimbabwe's re-engagement team for talks aimed at exploring ways of restoring diplomatic relations between the two countries.The invitation marks the first time London has formally sought to resolve its longstanding b...

by Staff Reporter

'We are confident about the future of Zimbabwe' says China

2013 February 25 | 2552 Views

CHINESE Commerce Minister Chen Deming has pledged his country's commitment to invest in capital projects in Zimbabwe and help the country address its infrastructural problems relating to roads, water systems and power.The Chinese Minister was addressing journalists after meeting Finance Minister Ten...

by Staff Reporter

Chinese media lambaste U.S. hacking allegations

2013 February 22 | 2073 Views

BEIJING - The Chinese media have been outraged by allegations from the United States of hacking activities by China, lambasting the U.S. for groundless finger-pointing.The Beijing Daily, a broadsheet newspaper, carried a commentary in its Friday edition which reduced the U.S. accusations of cyber at...

by Staff Reporter

China, one-child policy row - baby (1) crushed by govt vehicle

2013 February 07 | 3697 Views

A one-year-old boy has died after being crushed by a Chinese government vehicle during a row over the country's one-child policy.Two government workers have been arrested following the incident near the city of Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province.According to local media reports, a dozen or...

by Staff Reporter

China pledges continued support to Zim projects

2013 January 31 | 2379 Views

Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Lin Lin has pledged China's continued support to Zimbabwean projects that help uplift the lives of the ordinary people and underprivileged groups in the country.He was speaking at the handover over ceremony of the newly built Grace Mugabe Junior School in Mazowe th...

by Staff Reporter

Zimbabwe and Chinese imperialism

2013 January 28 | 2998 Views

I just wish I could educate Zimbabweans that, as long as they continue to import cheap goods from China, they are effectively shifting jobs and employment to China.If I were to become the President of Zimbabwe, one of my first decisions would be to rescind all deals done by Zanu-PF with the Chinese....

by Vince Musewe

China donates high definition OB van to ZBC

2013 January 16 | 2812 Views

A high definition outside broadcasting van donated by the Chinese government to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is expected in the country in two weeks time. The digital satellite news gathering van and a nine camera digital high definition outside broadcasting van are expected to improv...

by Staff reporter

Chinamasa hits out at ex-rights chairman

2013 January 11 | 1994 Views

THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Act does not take away the independence of the Commission and complaints by the body's former chairperson, Professor Reginald Austin, suggesting this are invalid, a Cabinet Minister has said.Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa said concerns by Prof Austin i...

by Staff reporter

'Chinamasa is a dishonest man,' says Tsvangirai

2013 January 09 | 3673 Views

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday accused Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa of being dishonest following the minister's claims that the PM had failed to honour his pledge to push for the release of $21 million for voter education.Chinamasa told State media last week that Tsvangirai had mad...

by Staff reporter