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1.	Makoni: Mine’s leadership of values, ideas
	Author: Chofamba Sithole	Date Written: 6 September 2012
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: New Zimbabwe.com
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.newzimbabwe.com/
	Key Words: Government, party, Mavambo
	Summary & Comment: Simba Makoni has wealth of knowledge about the crisis in Zimbabwe but somehow he misses cracking the conundrum. M.Makoni
2.	The investor who saved Mugabe
	Author: Stefaans Brummer, Craig McKune & Owen Gagare	Date Written: 10 August 2012
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: Mail and Guardian
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http:// http://mg.co.za/
	Key Words: Loan, elections, Zanu-PF
	Summary & Comment: Robert Mugabe’s party was too broke to finance the re-run of the contested 2008 elections, but a kind man from Britain saved the day. Today, the opposition still struggles to bid Mugabe farewell from the presidency. M. Makoni.
3.	Trash collectors become Zimbabwe’s unlikely climate change ambassadors
	Author: Stanley Kwenda	Date Written: 1 August 2012
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: Inter-Press Services Africa
	Secondary Category: Ecology	Source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net
	Key Words: Plastic, trash, climate change,
	Summary & Comment: The humblest way of fighting climate change is underway in Zimbabwe - picking up of plastics for recycling. M. Makoni
4.	Makoni denies sanctions have hurt ordinary people
	Author: Lance Guma	Date Written: 30 July 2012
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: Short Wave Radio Africa
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http://www.swradioafrica.com
	Key Words: ZANU PF, finance, sanctions
	Summary & Comment: Zimbabwe is torn with the issue of sanctions imposed by Western countries to whip the government into line on a number of issues, including human rights abuses. M. Makoni.
5.	Zimbabwe: ZBC raises fees while viewership drops
	Author: Dumi Sigogo	Date Written: 23 July 2012
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: Jocoza
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http://www.journalism.co.za
	Key Words: operational costs, channel, reporters
	Summary & Comment: The standards at Zimbabwe’s Broadcasting station have gone down so much so that viewers and listeners believe its not worth paying their licenses any more and company is hard pressed to collect the money to fund expansion and new programmes. M. Makoni
6.	Zimbabwe gets privately-owned radio station
	Author: Sebastian Mhofu	Date Written: 25 June 2012
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: Voice of America
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http://www.voanews.com/
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, radio station, news media
	Summary & Comment: The first privately owned FM radio station in Zimbabwe called Star Radio has started broadcasting. However, the media outfit is unlikely to be a credible alternative news source to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s five radio stations. This is because it is owned by a company that publishes newspapers considered part of the propaganda machine . . . [expand]
7.	Zimbabwe: Burial societies provide for the here and now
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 8 June 2012
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, savings, funerals
	Summary & Comment: Burial societies in Zimbabwe have traditionally pooled members’ savings to help cover funeral expenses for family members. Some of these societies are now setting up small businesses to generate income to be able to give out loans to members who have pressing humanitarian and financial needs. In recent years, there has been an increase in the numbe . . . [expand]