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 Published: 8th Aug 2008 00:17 GMT

Charamba calls reports on Zimbabwe crisis deal 'nonsense'

HARARE — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's spokesman Thursday called reports of a deal in power-sharing talks "nonsense", but both he and South Africa said negotiations over the country's crisis were advancing.

A day after Zimbabwe's two rival parties issued a joint statement calling on supporters to halt violence, Mugabe's spokesman dismissed speculation that an accord was imminent.

"All this talk about an agreement that has supposed to have been reached, which is being reported, is utter nonsense," George Charamba told AFP, saying Mugabe had asked him to relay the message.

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So far we number about 40 experienced Zimbabwean journalists, having left the country for various reasons connected to the political and economic problems bedevilling our country.

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News 8th Aug 2008 00:33 GMT
Politics 8th Aug 2008 00:19 GMT

Security chiefs in SAfrica for talks

JOHANNESBURG — Senior members of Zimbabwe's security forces have travelled to South Africa to meet mediators trying to resolve the country's political crisis, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Members of Zimbabwe's Joint Operations Command, a powerful body that includes President Robert Mugabe's top security chiefs, met with two South African government officials mediating the talks, The Star reported.

The paper, citing unnamed sources, said the meetings occurred this week, but did not say which members of the command traveled to South Africa.

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A human-rights group on Thursday announced it was collecting legal evidence of politically motivated mass rape by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's youth militia to build a case for prosecuting the men responsible.

AIDS-Free World, set up by the former UN special envoy for AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, said it would shortly dispatch lawyers to southern Africa to collect testimony for prosecutions that could take place domestically or in an international tribunal after Mugabe leaves power.

"The legal definition of a crime against humanity is a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population," the group's legal director, Noah Novogrodsky, said on the sidelines of the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

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Opinion/Analysis 5th Aug 2008 18:18 GMT 

“Do it Right” Africans making healthy choices: A sexual healthy campaign with a difference

THE London based  National African HIV Prevention Programme-NAHIP sponsored “Do it Right” Gender campaign workshop held at the Samra’s Club in Caldmore, Walsall in the West Midlands, has been described by African residents in the town as a very valuable learning experience.

Speaking after the workshop held on the 3rd of August, many of the residents said that they consider the “Do it Right” Gender campaign as the best of all the NAHIP campaigns carried out in Walsall on HIV and sexual health.

The residents said the campaign was impressive in terms of the resources that they described as clear, simple, brief, and direct. The residents said the authors of this campaign had without any doubt, succeeded in doing some good research in the area of information about sexual health choices and services which Africans in the UK are entitled to.

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Real change must roll heads

Tobaiwa Mudede.

TWO people, neither of them politicians, have been targeted for action if the change the MDC has promised is to be viewed as more than just a mirage.

Tobaiwa Mudede and Gideon Gono have been mentioned as non-politicians who may find themselves being singled out as victims of a campaign to “cleanse” the 28-year-old, rickety Zanu PF system.

In case there is confusion over what is going on in Zimbabwean politics today let it be repeated that Zanu PF has failed to run the country properly – and that is an understatement and in line with the “softly, softly” approach adopted by many citizens in dealing with the disastrous results of Zanu PF rule since 1980.

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