Thursday, March 11 2010
Posted by ZDN on March 11, 2010
Read it first here! We name names and repeat allegations and gossip that cannot be published in conventional papers - the word on the street and the stuff whispered by 'an eyewitness', a 'reliable source' or 'someone you know who has connections'. Rumour and street-news is a favourite national pastime in Zimbabwe and we think it deserves it's own space. Because there is no smoke without fire! ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 9, 2010
Politics The MDC on Sunday said it was seeking SADC intervention to help resolve outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement (GPA). The decision will be passed to the party's national council, due to meet in Harare on March 12. In a government gazette issued on Friday, President Robert Mugabe reassigned powers from the Ministry of Information and Technology and the Ministry of ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 9, 2010
This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to Emmanuel Gasa an activist who is living with AIDS and who started the ‘AIDS and Arts Foundation’. Not only does the organization campaign for the rights of people affected by the disease but they also use the arts to articulate their concerns. Gasa tells Lance what they want to see in a new constitution for Zimbabwe, and access to anti ret...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 8, 2010
Tuesday 23 February 2010 MR GARETH THOMAS MP, MR MARK LOWCOCK and MR JOHN DENNIS Evidence heard in Public Questions 50 – 135 USE OF THE TRANSCRIPT 1.This is an uncorrected transcript of evidence taken in public and reported to the House. The transcript has been placed on the internet on the authority of the Committee, and copies have been made available by the Vote Office for the use...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 5, 2010
Zimbabwe Report from the International Crisis Group Africa Briefing N°70 Harare/Pretoria/Nairobi/Brussels, 3 March 2010 I. Overview As Zimbabwe enters its second year under a unity government, the challenges to democratic transformation have come into sharp focus. Despite reasonable progress in restoring political and social stability, ending widespread repression and stabilising the eco...
Continue ReadingPosted by Nxwala on March 4, 2010
From victim to victim, youth from Zimbabwe are helping those who are in pain after the earthquake that almost destroyed Haiti. The Matabeleland Youth Network (MYN) met on 27 January to donate money to the victims in Haiti, which was broadcast on South African television. These youth are victims of Zimbabwe violence and the Gukurahundi genocide that swept their parents from 1982 to 1987 and killed ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 2, 2010
Politics The MDC is demanding drastic action against Zanu-PF youths who last week threatened Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for not calling for the removal of targeted sanctions. The youths were marching in the capital on Wednesday in protest against the sanctions. They also detained a freelance photojournalist Andrison Manyere for filming the demonstration, but he was later released. ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 25, 2010
In the Pretoria High Court today Judge Garth Rabie has ruled in favour of Zimbabweans farmers whose land has been seized by the Zimbabwe government confirming that the land grab exercise was both racist and illegal. The case, brought on behalf of the applicants, Louis Fick, Michael Campbell and Thomas Etheredge by South African human rights organisation Afriforum sought to have the ruling by th...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 24, 2010
BILL WATCH 6/2010 - 22nd February 2010 - Courtesy of Veritas The Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment (General) Regulations [Statutory Instrument 21/2010] Introduction These regulations, which were gazetted on 29th January, have caused consternation in many quarters. Economists and business commentators fear they will discourage foreign investment at a time when Zimbabwe desperately...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 23, 2010
Politics Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Thursday the inter-party talks had reached a deadlock and were “going nowhere.” Biti called for South Africa and SADC to intervene. President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday the extension of targeted sanctions by the EU was a deliberate ploy by the West to undermine development in the country. But he said he would not breach the power-sha...
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