South Africa, Zimbabwe's most influential neighbour, is actively seeking to end its isolation.
Thanks to his misrule, Zimbabwe depends on South Africa's generosity for its electricity and on food aid to prevent many of its people from starving.
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Mr Mbeki's deputy, Jacob Zuma, may have triggered the rand's latest slide by seeming to sympathise with Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, whose policies have pushed South Africa's neighbour to the brink of economic collapse.
The Singaporean was also heavily implicated in the match-fixing scandal that affected South Africa's neighbors Zimbabwe between 2007-2009, a process which has had repercussions for nearly 100 footballers while two former national coaches have been banned.
In Zimbabwe, in Southern Africa, it's said as many as one million people have been forced from their homes and tens of thousands arrested in a government campaign.
Most recently, South Africa's northern neighbour, Zimbabwe, has abandoned the rule of law as its ageing autocrat, Robert Mugabe, has taken ever more desperate measures in his efforts to cling to power.
As well as being appalled by events at home this past year, whites have watched Robert Mugabe's pauperisation of neighbouring Zimbabwe and wonder whether South Africa will be next to descend into the same spiral.
It's a major crop in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania, as well as Mozambique.
The vast Kruger park lies in South Africa's northeast, next to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Once one of Africa's most promising economies, Zimbabwe is reeling under its worst humanitarian and economic crisis.
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But Obama is a high achiever who didn't intimidate her husband, says Mbaya, a native of Zimbabwe who is the advocacy director for World Vision's Africa's region.
The ICC has been discussing Zimbabwe's future at a board meeting in Dubai after England and South Africa broke off cricketing relations last week.
Bizarrely, Mr Chikane, whose brother Frank was chief of staff to South Africa's former president, Thabo Mbeki, let Zimbabwe intelligence agents accompany him to his meeting with Mr Maguwu, despite warnings that this could endanger the NGO man's life.
South Africa and Nigeria are lobbying for the Commonwealth to lift Zimbabwe's suspension when it comes up for discussion next month.
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The leader of one of Zimbabwe's neighbours, Zambia, who is also chairman of the regional Southern Africa body, SADC, has alsow warned that if Mr Mugabe is not allowed to attend the summit, then neither will he.
No place is that more evident than in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has overseen the downfall of one of Africa's most promising nations.
South Africa's farmers need only look to the farm seizures in Zimbabwe to appreciate the need to participate in black empowerment initiatives, Paul Cluver says.
Katty's career with the BBC began in Zimbabwe in 1990 where she filed radio reports for the Africa Service of BBC World Service radio.
"Both Gadhafi and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe dare to stand up against the West ... they are seen as Africa bad boys and wear their medals with pride, " Johnson said.
AfriForum said High Court judge N B Tuchten had forbidden South Africa's government from exporting any Alouette helicopters or spares for such helicopters to Zimbabwe until a full hearing could be held on 19 February.
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The 33-year-old from Multan, Pakistan's City of Saints, managed a feeble 19 runs in six matches in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Talks on power-sharing in Zimbabwe between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, mediated by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, appeared to stall.
During Mugabe's first two decades in power, Zimbabwe grew into one of the most prosperous nations in sub-Saharan Africa.
South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, whose envoys endorsed the past two electoral travesties in Zimbabwe, seems determined to see no evil this time, either (see article).
Denied passage to Zimbabwe, Carter, Annan and Machel were left to consult with regional leaders -- including Tsvangirai, Botswana President Ian Khama and South Africa President Kgalema Motlanthe -- as well as United Nations officials, nongovernmental organizations and Zimbabwe's civil leaders.
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Mr Mugabe said Zimbabwe's history of racial reconciliation was a "priceless export" which had been an example to Namibia and South Africa as those countries moved to majority rule.
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