Zimbabwe's ruling party has ordered impeachment proceedings to begin against President Robert Mugabe and expressed confidence he could be voted out within two days.

Nine white farmers could face up to two years in jail for refusing to leave their properties to make way for blacks under Zimbabwe’s land redistribution scheme, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported.

Zimbabwe turned back a fact-finding delegation from South Africa’s main union group after it landed at the capital’s airport today.

A parliamentary meeting between EU nations and their former colonies was on the verge of collapse today over the exclusion of two Zimbabwean government officials seeking to attend the fourday conference in Brussels.