Eddison Zvobgo, the Member of Parliament for Masvingo South, this week accused the government of condoning corruption, saying it was time to hunt down those spreading the "Aids of corruption". Moving a motion in Parliament for the establishment of an anti-corruption commission, he said government departments, politicians and parastatals were riddled with corruption and it was time for the "bigger hunt to commence".

Zimbabwe, a declared pan-Africanist nation that claims to respect and uphold all the statutes and treaties that bind the continental club of African countries, the African Union (AU), is openly flouting conventions and declarations governing human rights and freedoms, especially in relation to freedom of expression, says the Media Institute of Southern Africa.

Ari Ben-Menashe, the key State witness in the MDC treason trial, allegedly blew the US$97 600 (Z$5 368 000) paid by the MDC to his company to hold in trust. Defence lawyer Advocate George Bizos said Ben-Menashe was, therefore, not a credible witness.

It is evident that a strong case can be made that militia in Zimbabwe are a significant threat to peace and security and furthermore that a strong prima facie case can be made for the militia's deployment being state-condoned and state-controlled, according to a new report, 'The role of militia groups in maintaining ZanuPF's political power'.

Zimbabwe's opposition has obtained evidence that President Robert Mugabe won re-election in March last year with the help of as many as 1.8m "ghost" voters who were added to the electoral roll. Tobaiwa Mudede, the registrar-general and a Mugabe loyalist, has repeatedly refused requests by the Movement for Democratic Change for a copy of the roll to be used in a court action challenging the result - even though the roll is a public document.

Newly elected Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, his government and ordinary Kenyans have launched one of the biggest house cleanings in post-colonial African history. Kenyans, fed up with their east African country being branded as one of the most corrupt nations on Earth, are fighting back against corruption. But at the same time Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis relentlessly deepens and Africa's other leaders have steadily increased their support for Zimbabwe's corrupt President Robert Mugabe.

A warrant of arrest has been issued against former Daily News editor Geoff Nyarota, reports MISA-Zimbabwe. The warrant was issued after Nyarota failed to appear in court for a hearing in which he is charged with publishing falsehoods. Nyarota is jointly charged with Lloyd Mudiwa, a Daily News reporter. The two are being prosecuted under section 80 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA).

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Police in the Zimbabwean capital Harare on Saturday arrested more than 50 members of the main opposition party who were canvassing ahead of a by-election, the opposition said. But police have denied the claim. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said in a statement that those arrested were carrying out home visits in the suburb of Kuwadzana, where a by-election is to be held at the end of the month.

Twenty-one church leaders were arrested in Zimbabwe last week when they tried to deliver a petition to the police urging an end to its abuse of power. The ministers, carrying three big wooden crosses, walked through the streets of Harare to the police headquarters to deliver a petition urging "immediate corrective measures to ensure that the police force in this country performs its duties with respect for the church and all citizens of Zimbabwe".

Gas lines, food shortages and political repression are making life tougher than ever for ordinary Zimbabweans. So why are regional leaders softening their stance on Robert Mugabe? asks Karen MacGregor.

Two Dutch journalists Raymond Bouuman and Pim Hauinkels, were arrested on 26 February in the city of Bulawayo for filming a bread queue. The two work for the Dutch TV Journal ITL5. The two journalists were taken in for questioning by the police.

Two Dutch journalists Raymond Bouuman and Pim Hauinkels, were arrested on 26 February in the city of Bulawayo for filming a bread queue. The two work for the Dutch TV Journal ITL5. The two journalists were taken in for questioning by the police.

Two Dutch journalists Raymond Bouuman and Pim Hauinkels were arrested on 26 February in the city of Bulawayo for filming a bread queue. The two work for the Dutch TV Journal ITL5. The two journalists were taken in for questioning by the police before being released after about an hour.

Justice Paddington Garwe has ordered the chief witness in the high treason trial of three top MDC officials to provide the defence lawyers with certain documents they say would help exonerate their clients. Ben-Menashe, who was last Friday granted leave to return to his Canada base, will be notified of the ruling by the Attorney-General's Office.

The hearing of MDC leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's election petition challenging the re-election of President Mugabe in March last year is expected to begin in April at the High Court. High Court judge Justice Antonia Guvava is expected to preside over the case.

Job Sikhala, 30, a tall, energetic leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change, chain smokes as he tells his story: Although he sits in Parliament, he has been arrested 17 times in the last three years. The last time police took him, blindfolded, to a basement room outside Harare. During the next eight hours they beat him, applied electrodes to his mouth and genitals, urinated on him and forced him to swallow poison. Two days later they released him on bail, charged with sedition - an accusation quickly thrown out in court. During hospitalization, doctors confirmed evidence of torture. "It was a terrible experience, gruesome and horrendous,” he says. “This regime has lost control of its senses. It should not be recognized by anyone.”

No words can best describe the debilitating effects of food shortages and the hopelessness that have hit rural Zimbabwe than those of Josephat Madzamba, a leader of a Pentecostal church, in rural Headlands. Church halls are either empty or congregations have shrunk, reports AANA Correspondent, Tim Chigodo. Fifty-two-year old Madzamba says that food shortages in villages have become so acute that it is difficult to try to spread the Word of God.

CANADA has donated $96 million towards a project to help the poor get legal assistance under the test case litigation scheme run by the Legal Resources Foundation.Handing the money to the LRF this week, Canadian High Commissioner Mr John Schram said his government, through the Canadian International Development Agency (Cida), was ready to assist projects that improved the lives of the poor.

Despite having pretended as if the issue of last year's widespread strike organised by the Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) had been resolved, the government has now begun to penalise all the 625 teachers who participated in the strike by threatening them with transfers to remote and politically volatile areas, The Standard reports.