Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Zimbabwe update
RSS FeedResolution from Pre-ACHPR NGO Forum in Swaziland
2008-05-07
We the participants gathered at the Forum on the Participation in the 43rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, held in Ezulwini, Kingdom of Swaziland, from 3-5 May 2008:...
Chinese arms ship heading to Congo Brazza
2008-05-08
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) says the Chinese vessel An Yue Jiang carrying weapons for Robert Mugabe's beleaguered regime in Zimbabwe is still on African waters looking for a friendly port more than three weeks after ...
Concerns over terror in farms
2008-05-08
General Agriculture and Plantantion Worker's union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) have expressed concern over the harrassment of farm workers in farms around the country as the post election violence continues to inflate. In a letter sent yesterday, GAPWUZ Gen...
Post-election death toll rises as state sponsored violence escalates
2008-05-08
The number of post-election deaths has now risen to at least 32 as the ruling party continues to hunt down opposition officials and supporters. It remains extremely difficult to get the full details and the death toll is almost certainly much higher....
Lawyers, journalists and trade unionists targeted in crackdown
2008-05-08
One of the country’s top lawyers, Harrison Nkomo, was arrested by police on Wednesday for allegedly insulting Robert Mugabe. Nkomo who was representing arrested freelance journalist Frank Chikowore at the High Court, is alleged to have told Michael M...
Zanu (PF) kills another four MDC members
2008-04-30
The regime of Robert Mugabe's violent onslaught on the MDC continues without remorse. Four more members of the MDC have been killed in Guruve, seven shot in Rusape, and one of them died on his way to the hospital. In Hurungwe North, the regime has...
Angola to allow arms ship to dock
2008-04-30
Angola's government has authorised a Chinese ship carrying arms destined for Zimbabwe to dock, although it says it will not be allowed to unload weapons. In a statement, the government said the vessel would only be allowed to deliver goods intended f...
Truth and Justice coalition formed
2008-04-30
"The destruction of democracy begins when good people just people or merely those who are well intentioned do nothing", Gabriel Shumba, a torture victim, human rights lawyer, exile and spokesperson for the Truth and Justice Coalition announced. The I...
Locals defend themselves against Mugabe's militia
2008-04-30
Reports from the rest of the provinces paint a bloodcurdling picture. Army barracks across the country are issuing war veterans and former military/police officers with weapons (AK 47 assault rifles). The official line is that they need to protect th...
MDC reunites as recount confirms victory
2008-05-01
As the recount process for the parliamentary elections confirm the victory of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the party's rival factions announced on Monday that they had reunited. This gives the opposition a comfortable majority in the par...
Beijing says arms shipment being returned to China
2008-04-25
A shipment of Chinese weapons headed for troubled Zimbabwe will be returned to China because there is no way to deliver it to the landlocked country in southern Africa, China said Thursday. Countries neighboring Zimbabwe refused to allow the Chinese ...
Zimbabweans ambush Tanzanian vice-president over delayed March 29 polls results
2008-04-24
In what they are calling Operation Talk Talk African Union (AU) on the delay in issuing the results of the Presidential election held March 29 the militant radical pressure group Free-Zim Youth and Zimbabwe Action Group(ZAG) in a joint operation a...
Archbishops' issue joint statement on Zimbabwe
2008-04-24
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have today (April 24) issued a joint statement in support of the strong voice of fellow bishops in Zimbabwe. They have called for greater efforts on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe who are "left even more vulne...
Namibia: TUC urges government to turn Zimbabwean arms ship away
2008-04-24
As the Chinese ship An Yue Jiang and its cargo of arms intended for the Mugabe regime heads for Namibia, the TUC has today (Wednesday) written to the President of the Southern African country urging him to turn the shipment away....
Zimbabwe crisis now 'unacceptable'- Zuma
2008-04-25
African National Congress (ANC) leader, Jacob Zuma has continued his calls for the immediate release of Zimbabwe's presidential results, saying the delays were now unacceptable. This position is far from president Thabo Mbeki's who keeps lenient rega...
Zimbabwe police raid opposition HQ, detain scores
2008-04-25
Armed riot police raided the headquarters of Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Friday and detained scores of people in the biggest crackdown on the MDC since elections last month, officials said. The Movement for Democratic Change says it defeated ...
African governments reject U.N. intervention in Zimbabwe
2008-04-18
Despite mounting pressure from some major Western powers to intervene in Zimbabwe's electoral crisis, U.N. involvement remains a distant possibility. At the U.N.-African Union (EU) Summit held Wednesday, both the United States and Britain argued that...
Position Paper: Zimbabwe Feminist Political Education Project
2008-04-18
We the under-signed Zimbabwean women, in our capacity as THE FEMINIST POLITICAL EDUCATION PROJECT (FePEP), urgently call for an end to the political impasse that our country is in. Over a week after we voted in the harmonized elections, we note with ...
SALAN Statement on Zimbabwe
2008-04-18
The Southern African Legal Assistance Network (SALAN), a network of legal aid NGOs in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe joins the regional and international community in noting, with great concern, the disturbing developments unfolding in Zimbabwe. Though acknowledging the effort made by the SADC member states to mediate an end to the election crisis in Zimbabwe, SALAN joins the rest of the world in adding its voice to the following demands:...
State-sponsored violence - Appeal by AI secretary-general
2008-04-18
At the time of Zimbabwe’s 28th anniversary of independence, Amnesty International is deeply concerned about reports of the deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe following presidential, parliamentary and local government elections which too...
Zimbabwe: EALS to hold consultative meeting
2008-04-18
East Africa Law Society (EALS) is calling for an emergency Pan-African Citizens’ Consultation next week to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis. The meeting which is supported by the Foundation Open Society Institute (FOSI) takes place in Dar es Salaam, Tanz...
‘War Vets’ unleash orgy of violence
2008-04-18
Gangs of Zanu-PF youths, labelling themselves war veterans, have unleashed a reign of terror in Umguza on the outskirts of Bulawayo. Our Bulawayo correspondent Lionel Saungweme told us the youths are believed to be loyal to Obert Mpofu, the Zanu-PF M...
Emergency meeting of SADC to be held Saturday 12th April
2008-04-11
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has called an emergency meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to discuss the Zimbabwean presidential poll delay. This is the first move by Zimbabwe’s regional neighbours to intervene since the e...
WOZA Zimbabwe take to the streets of Bulawayo
2008-04-10
Having watched and waited to see if anyone would mobilise nonviolent action and having seen none to date, around 800 members of WOZA and MOZA began their rollout of peaceful actions in Bulawayo. The group started their protest at the provincial court...
FHRI Appeal on Zimbabwe
2008-04-11
It is now eleven days since Zimbabwe held its disputed General Elections. It is very troubling that since 29th March 2008, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has not declared the Presidential election results and the people of Zimbabwe have not been given any credible explanation for the ordinate delay....
Mugabe's party expects to fight runoff
2008-04-04
The leadership of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party met on Friday to decide whether President Robert Mugabe should contest a runoff vote against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Mugabe convened his politburo after the party lost control of parliame...
Where to, Zimbabwe?
Patrick Bond (2008-04-04)
As the world waits to see what will happen in Zimbabwe, Patrick Bond argues that lessons should be taught and retaught about the dangers of elite transition between a voracious, corrupt, violent and divisive set of rulers, and an incoming crew who mi...
Zimbabwe opposition suffer pre-election harassment
2008-03-27
Opposition groups in Zimbabwe are suffering harassment, intimidation and discrimination in the run-up to national elections on 29 March. Police in some parts of the country are clearly restricting the activities of opposition party members, while sup...
Soldiers and police officers forced to vote under supervision
2008-03-21
Over 75 000 members of the country’s security forces have already cast their votes, in an exercise that has been a closely guarded secret, according to information received by the MDC. In Bulawayo most police officers were allegedly forced to vote se...
SA silences MPs on SADC observer mission to Zimbabwe
2008-03-21
It appears that the policy of “quiet diplomacy” practiced by South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki is about to be applied to the regional observer mission deployed to Zimbabwe. South African parliamentarians assigned to the SADC team that will be moni...
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