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The largest book fair of Africa is the Cairo International Book Fair, which focuses on the Arab world and largely on the readers. [2] In 1997, the Zimbabwe International Book Fair was honoured with the principal Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands. The jury praised the book fair's networking function in combination with its modern and ...
Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, [3] with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most common. Zimbabwe is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. The region was long inhabited by the San, and was settled by Bantu peoples around 2,000 years ago.
In August 1995, he was due to open a human rights-themed Zimbabwe International Book Fair in Harare but refused to do so until a stall run by the group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe was evicted. [291] In 1996, Mugabe was appointed chair of the defense arm of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). [292]
A stampede at a government-organized job fair involving hundreds of young people in Zimbabwe desperate for work left some limping and others screaming in pain after being stomped on or beaten by ...
Instructing employees of the state or local authorities of their responsibilities in ensuring free, fair, proper, and fair conduct in any elections or referendums. Providing voter education which is: accurate, adequate and not biased to any political party or candidate; in compliance with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Act
As of January 2018, it held over 800,000 ads, attracting over 160,000 sellers and 7 million original users per months, who look for bargains in cars, [2] household goods, mobile phones, [3] cosmetics, toys, pets, livestock, electronics, [1] services, and most recently, to look for jobs by searching through job vacancies.
In recent years, Zimbabwe has moved toward becoming a more democratic regime, but electoral conflicts and human rights violations still exist leaving Zimbabwe as an anocratic regime. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] In the late 1990s, when Zimbabwe was a closed anocracy, the country experienced major human rights violations. [ 57 ]
The ZiG is Zimbabwe's sixth attempt since 2008 at creating a new currency that will make it independent of the US dollar. [16] Since the currency crisis of 2008–2009, Zimbabwe has a multi-currency system. It was introduced in 2009 after the hyperinflation of the fourth Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL). For ten years there was no Zimbabwean currency.