Harare  - Three prisons officers in Zimbabwe have been arrest on allegations that they helped film the shocking conditions in two of the country's prisons for a documentary that was screened to international outrage last week, reports said Sunday.

The television documentary, Hell Hole, produced by the South African Broadcasting Corporation, on Wednesday showed scores of skeletal prisoners dressed in rags and reportedly dying of malnutrition and HIV-AIDS in filthy institutions without food, medication or basic cleaning materials.

Harare - Tragedy has struck again at Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai with the death of an infant grandson, just days after Tsvangirai returned to work after grieving the recent death of his wife.

According to an official from Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party, Tsvangirai's infant grandson died in a drowning accident Saturday at the family's Harare home. The property has a swimming pool.

Harare - New Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Friday gave beleaguered white farmers some reassurance when he said that people invading their properties with fraudulent documents would be arrested.

His remarks come amid a worsening crisis on the estimated 400 white-owned farms left in the country, where President Robert Mugabe's supporters are forcing their way onto the land, evicting families, seizing their crops and assaulting farm workers.

Harare  - Expectations that decades of violent repression meted out by President Robert Mugabe's henchmen would end with the creation of the new coalition government have been bitterly disappointed, a leading local human-rights body said Thursday.

Instead, "not much has changed yet" to the "almost inherent Zimbabwean culture of political victimization and discrimination," said the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO forum in its latest report.

Harare  - Revenue from tax on alcohol and tobacco has been the key contribution to Zimbabwe's overall income, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said in presenting a revised 2009 budget to Parliament.

"Indirect taxes made up of customs and excise duty have contributed 88 per cent of government revenue which means that the government has been literally sustained by beer and cigarettes. This is unacceptable," Biti said.