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1.	What this year’s Christmas meant to the Zimbabwean diaspora
	Author: Sarudzayi Chifamba-Barnes	Date Written: 4 January 2009
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: The Harare Tribune
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.hararetribune.com
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, 2008, Christmas, diaspora
	Summary & Comment: Most things can be changed easily if one is not happy with them. When you dont like your house, you move, a relationship you get out of it. You can even change your school, church, car, or your looks. Both parents and children have been known to disown one another. But what happens if it is your country that you are not at all happy with. Not every . . . [expand]
2.	Don’t open schools, ZANU-PF govt. urged
	Author: correspondent	Date Written: 4 January 2009
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: Harare Tribune
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL:
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, schools, PTUZ,
	Summary & Comment: There really is no point in opening schools when the government is not able to honour its part in the provision of school requirements, when teachers do not have money to travel to their stations, and parents have no money for fees and can not afford to buy uniforms. What kind of learning can take place under this unenabling environment? FG
3.	School Examinations Council invites examination markers
	Author: The Herald	Date Written: 1 January 2009
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: The Herald
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.herald.co.zw
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, school examinations, Council, markers,
	Summary & Comment: Zimbabwe’s school system was one of the best on the African continent after the country gained independence in 1980. Previously the government provided furniture and other necessities and decided to go ahead with public examinations for Grade VlI, Ordinary and Advanced Levels. In the face of problems facing the education sector the Zimbabwe School . . . [expand]
4.	Quotable quotes: What they said in 2008
	Author: News Editor, Brian Mangwende	Date Written: 30 December 2008
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: The Financial Gazette
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.fingaz.co.zw
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, quotable quotes, 2008,
	Summary & Comment: The year 2008 has been a hectic one for Zimbabweans who were kept on their toes in their daily struggle to put bread on the table. Despite this desperate and unenviable situation, some quotable quotes made during the course of the year livened up political and economic debate in the country. FG
5.	Dragging out the end
	Author: The Zimbabwean	Date Written: 27 December 2008
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: The Zimbabwean
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, collapse, SADC,
	Summary & Comment: It is darkest before dawn. The end is nigh. This is envisaged by killings of ZANU PF stalwarts by their own people. It is just a matter of a little time. FG
6.	The zeros get out of hand in Zimbabwe
	Author: Archive	Date Written: 23 December 2008
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: Gulf News
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://archive.gulfnews.com
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, dollar, inflation, exchange,
	Summary & Comment: How far in numbers do they teach in schools? Maybe up to one million or one billion. Anywhere beyond that I for one was not taught. So how are the senior citizens in Zimbabwe coping with hyper inflation? No wonder most goods are quoted in US dollars. The compounded problem is that Zimbabweans have lost it. Goods quoted in US dollars are pitifully o . . . [expand]
7.	The Africanisation of exploitation - Mamdani, Mugabe, African scholars
	Author: Horace Campbell	Date Written: 18 December 2008
	Primary Category: Zimbabwe	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 413
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org/
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, Mamdani, Mugabe, scholars,
	Summary & Comment: African scholars and progressive forces must use their resources to support effective challenge as Zimbabweans seek new forms of emancipatory politics in the face of the global capitalist crisis. DN