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More than five months after Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) beat the ruling Zanu-PF into second place in elections, the country's major political parties have reached an agreement to share power.

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa confirmed at a news conference in Harare on Thursday night, Zimbabwe time, that "a unanimous agreement, arrived at without any reservation by all the negotiating parties" had been concluded. The news conference was broadcast in ...

Jan Raath, Martin Fletcher and Jonathan Clayton

“We’ve got a deal,” Morgan Tsvangirai told journalists waiting in the lobby of the Rainbow Towers hotel in Harare. It was the first news the world had that he and President Mugabe had at long last thrashed out a power-sharing agreement.

If they really have, and if it sticks, it will mean an extraordinary alliance between Robert Mugabe and those who until yesterday were his bitterest foes – people who have been spied ...

President Robert Mugabe's ruling party and both factions of the Movement for Democratic Change are studying proposals aimed at ending a political stalemate in Zimbabwe, all parties said today.

``Right now negotiators are studying the proposals, working flat out and deliberating on the options,'' Nelson Chamisa, a spokesman for the Morgan Tsvangirai-led faction of the MDC, said in a telephone interview from Zimbabwe's capital Harare today. ``We don't know precisely when we'll reconvene ...

Nelson Mandela Bay – A seamless single public service will see as many services as possible located in one place and at a service delivery point located close to where one lives.

Given the potential for integration offered by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), it may in future be possible to apply for an ID book at a clinic, or to pay for a traffic fine at a supermarket.

“Globally, the technology already exists for many of these innovations ...

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President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party has dismissed as frivolous and an affront to Zimbabweans calls by the leader of the main opposition for fresh elections.

Morgan Tsvangirai of the opposition ...