The Daily IIJ

During my days in Maputo I mixed a lot with Mozambican and Zimbabwean artists plying their trade at the popular Fish Market and the weekly Saturday open art fair in the downtown part of the old city called ‘Baixa’ in Portuguese. The Fish Market situated along the beachfront is one of the busiest wining and [...]

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There are many Zimbabweans living in South Africa. At my flat in central Durban I estimate that more than eighty percent of the people I stay with are people from various parts of Zimbabwe who find themselves in Durban for various reasons. I know this because I hear them talking every day. Almost everyday I [...]

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Durban – MORE than 10.000 South African identity documents falsely acquired by Zimbabweans have been seized since January at the main borders by authorities, a home affairs official said today.

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It takes an average of about four days of hard travelling from Harare by bus and sometimes by train for someone to arrive at a place like Durbanin KwaZulu Natal or Worcester in the Western Cape, two of South Africa’s provinces.

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The story of Shaka is not myth but fact. It is the story of a persecuted young man who rose to become one of the most feared rulers and greatest military commanders of his time. At the height of his reign in the early 19th century Shaka united more than nine different Nguni tribes into [...]

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November 12 2009, Maputo – The 30-day SADC deadline for Zimbabwe’s three leaders to resolve their conflicts in the unity government are a stringent reprimand on Mugabe’s Zanu PF and a victory for civil society, activists said last Friday.

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Underdog Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai makes his third emergency visit in the last two years to neighbouring Mozambique this Wednesday to meet President Armando Guebuza, despite clear indications in the past that shuttle diplomacy with Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders has failed dismally to slacken President Robert Mugabe’s iron grip on power.

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Next week on October 28 more than nine million Mozambicans go to the polls in national elections that already show the incumbent political party, Frelimo led by Armando Emilio Guebuza winning the presidential vote by a sweeping margin.

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Maputo – A SADC Politics, Defence and Security Organ mission is expected to be in Zimbabwe next week to measure rising political discord in the shaky unity government following the recent arrest of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)-proposed deputy agriculture minister Roy Bennet, the daily Noticias reported Wednesday.

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Maputo – A programme to clear land covering more than 500 subsistence farms has started in Gare district some 20 kilometres from the Mozambique capital and will spread to other parts in the south and centre of the country, opening up new land for agriculture and economic development.

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