HIV/AIDS awareness meeting HAS BEEN called by the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, in order to encourage people to take some safety measures so as to avoid the contraction of the disease.

Johannesburg - President Robert Mugabe was back in Zimbabwe on Monday following a brief holiday abroad, state-media reported.

London - Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Wednesday that South Africa had "betrayed its own legacy" by failing to remove Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe from power.

In a BBC interview broadcast Wednesday, the archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner accused South Africa of losing the moral high ground by failing to stand up to Mugabe.

Harare/Johannesburg - The Zimbabwean government has rejected calls from the United States for President Robert Mugabe to resign, calling them irrelevant.

Bern/Geneva  - The Swiss government has announced plans to freeze the bank accounts of 11 political allies of embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

Switzerland will also block the 11 - many of whom have been accused of orchestrating violence surrounding this year's Zimbabwean presidential elections - from entering the country.

London - A British government minister Monday called on President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to "step aside" as he had become an "obstacle" to any power-sharing deal.

Africa Minister Mark Malloch-Brown told the BBC: "Power-sharing isn't dead but Mugabe has become an absolute impossible obstacle to achieving it."

Harare/Johannesburg - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is expected to give a key note address as a conference by the ruling Zanu-PF enters its second and final day in the town of Bindura.

Mugabe, who on Friday was in a defiant mood, is likely to repeat vitriolic attacks on the West.