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Zimbabwe update
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2010-11-18, Issue 505
Officers from Bulawayo police’s law and order section say calling for the ratification of the Convention Against Torture and the abolition of torture is offensive and causes disharmony. Chief Superintendent Patrick Moyo summoned representatives of th...
Development foundation for Zimbabwe launched
2010-11-08, Issue 504
In December of last year, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) hosted a public lecture by Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in Cape Town on 'The State of Zimbabwe’s Economy', as well as a dialogue with members of country’s dia...
More economic reform needed, says IMF
2010-11-09, Issue 504
Zimbabwe's economy will grow for the second successive year in 2010 due to positive policies and strong commodity prices, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday, while calling for more reforms to sustain the recovery. An IMF team that visited...
Soldiers go on rampage in Chipinge East
2010-11-11, Issue 504
Heavily armed soldiers wearing military fatigues on Wednesday launched a lunchtime raid on Green Valley farm in Chipinge East, in an operation in which they took away MDC officials. One of those ‘abducted’ by the soldiers, who were brandishing AK47 r...
IMF unhappy about policy slippages
2010-11-01, Issue 503
Zimbabwe’s economic recovery programme is unlikely to get full marks from a visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) team amid allegations that the Bretton Woods institution is unhappy about policy slippages by Harare’s fragile coalition regime. A ...
Exiles’ roadmap to a better Zimbabwe
2010-11-01, Issue 503
Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa and the United Kingdom have called for devolution of powers and the slashing of provinces by more than half in submissions to the Constitutional Select Committee that is leading the drafting of a new charter for ...
Diamond watchdog debates Zim mine 'abuses'
2010-11-02, Issue 503
Members of the Kimberley Process diamond watchdog began talks in Jerusalem on Monday over whether to allow Zimbabwe to resume exports of the gemstone from its controversial Marange fields. The organisation, which is meant to ensure diamonds are 'conf...
Civil society statement on referendum and elections
2010-11-04, Issue 503
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network, the leading independent network on elections in Zimbabwe, convened a conference in Vumba – Leopard Rock Hotel which brought together various organisations and partners working on elections to deliberate on elect...
NGOs want SADC role in polls
2010-10-26, Issue 502
Zimbabwe’s civil society has urged Southern African leaders to ensure the country’s next elections comply with regional benchmarks for democratic polls requiring an independent body to run polls and that the military not to interfere with voting. In ...
New constitution a damp squib, say NGOs
2010-10-26, Issue 502
Civil society groups have warned that the proposed new constitution could turn out to be damp squib, reflecting the short-term interests of political parties instead of a truly democratic charter that Zimbabweans have long hoped could safeguard basic...
'Unwelcome' IMF returns to hostility
2010-10-26, Issue 502
An international Monetary Fund team arrives in Zimbabwe today to assess the state of the economy under its Article IV consultation mission, ahead of the country's national budget next month. The IMF's visit is, however, likely to cause serious politi...
Zimbabwe: Minister uses Twitter to air frustrations
2010-10-27, Issue 502
On October 22, 2010 Zimbabwean blogger Hope noticed a series of fast twitter updates coming from Professor Welshman Ncube, the Zimbabwe Minister of Commerce and Industry and the MDC Secretary General. In a blog post appearing in Sokwanele: This is Zi...
Zim unity government must end in 2011, says Mugabe
2010-10-18, Issue 501
President Robert Mugabe wants Zimbabwe's power-sharing government to end next year, saying the unity pact was only meant to last two years, state media has reported. 'Some will say let us negotiate and give it another life. I am reluctant because par...
Civil society leadership to meet Zuma team
2010-10-20, Issue 501
The top leadership of Zimbabwe’s civil society organizations will meet with South African President Jacob Zuma’s facilitation team at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday. The meeting, at the instigation of Zuma’s team, will explore ways of h...
Mugabe threatens retaliation if ambassadors sent back to Zim
2010-10-20, Issue 501
Robert Mugabe has threatened to retaliate if ambassadors he unilaterally appointed to the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) are sent back to Zimbabwe. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai last week told the EU and the UN that ambassadors ap...
Journalists denied coverage of Mugabe
2010-10-21, Issue 501
State security agents on 15 October 2010 allegedly blocked accredited journalists from covering the graduation ceremony at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, officiated by President Robert Mugabe. According to the daily NewsDay the state security...
NCA to begin mobilising for 'No Vote' campaign
2010-10-14, Issue 500
The chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), Dr Lovemore Madhuku, has said that from next week they will begin mobilising people to reject the constitutional draft that will be produced by the parliamentary committee. ‘The constitution...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe issues warning on equity law
2010-10-05, Issue 499
President Robert Mugabe has insisted that foreign investors should embrace Zimbabwe's equity laws, which require them to sell a 51 per cent stakes to locals, or 'stay out'. 'Our resources are ours, they belong to Zimbabweans, they belong to the sons ...
Zimbabwe: Should the EU appease Jacob Zuma?
2010-10-06, Issue 499
In his latest partisan move on Zimbabwe, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma told EU Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs on Wednesday 29 September that 'the international community should lift sanctions against Zimbabwe', and claimed credit for giving lea...
Zimbabwe: Sanctions stay until rights improve
2010-09-27, Issue 498
Zimbabwe must show greater respect for human rights and political freedoms before the US sanctions on the impoverished African nation can be removed, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday. The State Department said its top diplomat for Africa and ...
Zimbabwe: Constitutional meetings spark rights abuses, says peace group
2010-09-30, Issue 498
As public involvement in creating a new constitution for Zimbabwe draws to a close, a rights group reports the process has sparked increased human - rights violations. The Zimbabwe Peace Project says ZANU-PF supporters were the main perpetrators of i...
83 WOZA members to spend night in cells at Harare Central Police Station
2010-09-22, Issue 497
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have confirmed that 83 WOZA members are being held at Harare Central Police Station. They will spend the night in custody even though police officers are still not sure what charges to prefer or if they even have a c...
'I was beaten on the head and all over the body'
2010-09-23, Issue 497
'President [Robert] Mugabe [leader of ZANU-PF] and Prime Minister [Morgan] Tsvangirai [leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)] must apologise to me because I was beaten on the head and all over the body by ZANU-PF militia and sustained a ...
WOZA activists released but leader Williams briefly detained
2010-09-23, Issue 497
Around 73 WOZA activists arrested Monday, following a demonstration at the Parliament Building in Harare, were eventually released on free bail on Wednesday. The activists marched to commemorate International Peace Day and police arrested them at the...
MDC says ZPF deliberately delaying implementing GPA
2010-09-16, Issue 496
This week the coalition government that is currently running Zimbabwe reached two important milestones. Tuesday was the end of the 30 day deadline, suggested by South African President Zuma and facilitator of the Zimbabwe crisis, to resolve and imple...
Constitution Revision will not produce desired change, say critics
2010-09-10, Issue 495
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition says it is drafting a list of grievances on the ongoing constitution revision and will present a dossier to the select committee leading the process in the next few days. The organization said Thursday it was concerne...
Zimbabwe 'wants normal ties with the West'
2010-09-10, Issue 495
Zimbabwe wants normal ties with Western powers critical of its policies but will press ahead with a plan to hand control of foreign companies to local blacks, President Robert Mugabe said in a rare interview. Mugabe told Reuters that his government w...
Mugabe required to consult PM on elections under GPA
2010-09-10, Issue 495
The chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) this week told the Bulawayo High Court that only Robert Mugabe as President can call for an election. The ZEC chief was responding to a court application by three MP’s expelled from the Mutambar...
Zimbabwe nets around $71 million from diamond auction
2010-08-13, Issue 494
Zimbabwe's government netted around $71 million from a major sell-off of rough diamonds from its controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields, the country's mining minister has said. On Wednesday, Zimbabwe resumed full-scale diamond exports by auctioning cl...
Two MDC activists hospitalized after ZANU PF attacks
2010-08-13, Issue 494
While some senior politicians in the coalition government bury their heads in the sand, professing ignorance about incidents of violence, it is the ordinary villagers in remote areas who are facing the reality of ongoing ZANU PF sponsored political v...
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