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  • At some of the roadside markets, such as Macheke along the Harare-Mutare highway, Ngundu along the Harare-Beitbridge road and Mutoko in the north-east of Harare, trucks can still be seen carrying produce to major commodity markets in Harare and Bulawayo.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

  • The same person who sent us this message also advised us that someone he knows in the Macheke area saw two youngsters walking down the road with AKs slung over their shoulders.

    Zimbabwe: Post-election violence on the rise 2008

  • When I asked about her mother's background, for instance, Lili stated briefly (almost tersely) that her mother's name was Machun'wasse Macheke, that she was born in Musapa, and that she was MuHlengwe.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • Stevens was abducted from his farm, Arizona, in the Macheke area

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Zanu-PF affiliated militia operating from 10 bases located near the town of Macheke in Mashonaland East Province were torturing suspected political opponents.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Mugabe's illegal bid to seize white-owned farms moved to serious new dimensions this week as lawless ruling party militias closed down all new production on a block of 27 highly productive farms in the Macheke area about 120 km east of Harare.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Asked if he felt reassured that some farmers who had fled after the murder of a neighbour in the nearby Virginia-Macheke area had been escorted back onto their land by police, White said: "I don't think it is calming down."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The rest of the approximately 80 families who evacuated Macheke after the abduction and shooting of farmer David Stevens on April

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Hundreds of mourners, meanwhile, paid their respects Tuesday to tobacco farmer David Stevens who was shot dead by mobs occupying his land on April 15 in the Macheke district, 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Harare.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • There was no record of violence by him against militants occupying his farm in Macheke district,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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