Growing and selling vegetables has become a lifeline for 41-year-old Mavis Dube at a time when millions of Zimbabweans face increasing poverty and hunger after years of debilitating economic recession.

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Today is Wednesday, Dec. 3, the 338th day of 2008. There are 28 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Dec. 3, 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the new heart.

On this date:

In 1818, Illinois was admitted as the 21st state.

In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States by the Electoral College.

In 1857, English novelist Joseph Conrad was born in Berdychiv, Poland.

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There are growing suspicions that the looting by soldiers in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, may be an elaborate ruse to allow President Robert Mugabe to declare a state of emergency, suspending the …

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The ANC will file an urgent application against the use of the name Congress of the People in court next week Wednesday, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.

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A six-year-old girl drowned at Sacred Heart College in Observatory, said Johannesburg emergency services on Tuesday.

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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader called on the African Union Monday to mediate his nation’s ongoing political crisis, saying attempts by southern African states had failed.

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Almost 12,000 people have contracted cholera since August in Zimbabwe, and the outbreak threatens to grow more dire — and deadly — because the nation can’t pay for chemicals to treat water or for doctors to …

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South Africaa s Deputy President Baleka Mbete has launched a Summer Energy Efficiency campaign in Pretoria that is aimed at encouraging communities, business and broader civil society to save electricity.

Original post by SABC News and software by News Africa

Mike Slingsby 1/12/2008 A MOTHER of three shot dead in Zimbabwe has been described by two of her daughters as a “bubbly and vivacious” woman who would not have considered suicide.

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South African journalists must be impartial during the upcoming political elections, the SA National Editors Forum said on Monday.

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