Posted by ZDN on October 31, 2009
Saturday 31 October, 7.30 pm We've just received news that the violence and intimidation at Friedawil farm is escalating - more workers' houses have been burnt down, water cut off, work stopped. Food and water is being withheld from livestock and six workers, who defended their colleagues yesterday, have been charged with public violence and detained. The person attempting to take over the f...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 30, 2009
Week Ending 30 October 2009 Our Lie-O-Meter needle remains firmly in the 'pants on fire' zone as Zanu-PF ministers continue to concoct a whole host of lies. Minister of Mines Obert Mpofu, in a sharp suit and with a shifty expression, told a bunch of bare-faced lies on SABC3 this week. Mugabe used his forked tongue with the state-owned Herald, claiming that the MDC’s actions were driven by e...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 30, 2009
Five Zimbabwean farm workers have been shot on Friedawil farm in the Chinhoyi district about 100 kilometres north of Harare. Rubber bullets were used at short range in what amounts to attempted murder. Currently there has been no confirmation of any police reaction to the latest violence. As a rule, police do not attend to incidents which they categorise as “political”. The farm belongs ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 29, 2009
Visits from the UN: On behalf of the suffering people of Zimbabwe, we call on the United Nations to deny Robert Mugabe visiting rights to all the UN organisations. We ask the UN to apply targeted travel sanctions on Mugabe and his relatives and entourage immediately. This week, an important United Nations official envoy was refused entry into Zimbabwe by Robert Mugabe. United Nations special...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 28, 2009
Zimbabweans envy the people of Mozambique resident in Zimbabwe, and elsewhere outside Mozambique. They will participate in the Mozambican national elections today, because their constitution allows them to vote as expatriates. But under Zimbabwean electoral law, Zimbabweans are denied the same rights. No non-resident citizen is allowed to vote in national elections - except for embassy staff. ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 28, 2009
What does the MDC disengagement from ZANU-PF mean for the constitution making process? To answer this question Lance Guma speaks to the Constitutional Affairs Minister, Eric Matinenga, who is from the MDC. How does he see the process moving on, in the midst of the current political upheaval in the country? Just as ZANU-PF has shown a lack of sincerity in implementing the power sharing agreement...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 27, 2009
Politics Lengthy talks on Monday between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe ended with no agreement, deepening the political crisis. It was the first meeting between the two men since Tsvangirai disengaged from the coalition government on Oct. 16. The MDC says it is now looking to a meeting in Harare later in the week with the Southern African Development Community (S...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 27, 2009
At 8.10 this morning Edith Mashaire, senior security officer for the MDC headquarters, Harvest House, was walking through Ximex Mall when she was accosted by four armed men in civilian clothing, three with AK 47 assault rifles and one with a pistol. She fought them as they tried to force her into their white twin cab Izuzu truck. They bashed her hands with the rifle butts. A man employed in...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 26, 2009
NANGO - DETENTIONS UNDER POSA NANGO, the official umbrella organisation for NGOs in Zimbabwe, held a Directors' Forum (Summer School) at Victoria Falls on 23 and 24 October 2009. On 25 October, the Chief Executive Officer of NANGO, Mr Cephas Zinhumwe, and the Chairperson of the Board of NANGO, Ms Dadirai Chikwengo, were detained on their way to the airport, and are being held under POSA, Sectio...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on October 26, 2009
25 October 2009 Police Arrest NANGO Board Chair and CEO Victoria Falls police arrested NANGO board chairperson Dadirai Chikwengo and Chief Executive Officer Cephas Zinhumwe Sunday October 25 2009 after the NGO Directors' Summer School held 23-24 October 2009 in the resort town. Information coming from Vic Falls is to the effect that the two are to be charged under POSA for holding a meeti...
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