The Daily IIJ

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 one [...]

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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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Maputo, 15 September 2009 – MORE than 3000 Zimbabweans living in neighbouring Mozambique – most of them illegally – have been counted in a two week survey concluded on Saturday, Joseph Matongo, national coordinator of Zimbabwe-Mozambique Solidarity Alliance (Zimosa) said.

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Maputo – The first census of Zimbabwean immigrants in neighbouring Mozambique is being launched this Friday in Chimoio, a border town in the central province of Manica. “We are going to carry out this two-week national population survey of all Zimbabweans who live in Mozambique due to the economic and political hardships back home,” Joseph [...]

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Maputo – China, Vietnam and India have taken the lead in pouring financial assistance, technology transfers and human resources training into Mozambique’s agriculture sector in a series of growing cereal partnership agreements and contracts that promise to transform the lives of millions that depend on farming for a living.

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