Posted by ZDN on December 30, 2009
Lance presents Rules for our Rulers which reviews the 2009 constitutional process. He is joined by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition Director Macdonald Lewanika and group Information Officer Nixon Nyikadzino. The programme looks at the failure to meet deadlines, lack of funding for the process, and other disruptions. They debate whether the ‘No’ vote campaign by the National Constitutional Assembly...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 28, 2009
For Zimbabwean commercial farmer Ray Finaughty and his wife Lorraine, Christmas Eve should have been an opportunity to enjoy a family reunion on their farm in the Rusape area with their three teenage sons, the eldest of whom had just returned home from Australia. Instead, it was a day of high drama as they were initially barricaded in their home by a group of drunken thugs then allowed to pack ...
Continue ReadingPosted by Nxwala on December 23, 2009
...and those who have just arrived. Do these groups try and help each other? Many Zimbabweans all over the world started migrating during the liberation struggle and later during the times of Gukurahundi, and the number rose to millions in the late nineties. Many civic organizations were then formed in a way to help refugees with food, health services and accommodation provisions. I believe muc...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 22, 2009
Lance talks to Mike Sambo from the Democratic United Front, what have in the past organized demonstrations against ‘constitutional chicanery’. [podcast]http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr211209.mp3[/podcast] Rules for our Rulers [14:32m]: Download...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 18, 2009
Politics Zanu-PF’s fifth congress, which ended on Saturday in Harare, approved Robert Mugabe as the party’s leader for another five years, Joice Mujuru as senior vice president, John Nkomo as second vice president and controversial South African Ambassador Simon Khaya-Moyo as party chairman. Mugabe will be 92 at the end of his new term in office. The delegates allegedly adopted a number of...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 17, 2009
After months of interviews with MP’s, cabinet ministers and civil society leaders Lance Guma hosts an edition of the programme to evaluate what has been done in the constitution making process. SW Radio Africa correspondents Lionel Saungweme and Simon Muchemwa provide reports on what has, or hasn’t happened, so far. Have the outreach programmes begun yet? Is there still rumbling noise about th...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 12, 2009
Week ending 11 December 2009 We opened up our Sunday Mail newspaper this week to find a lengthy rant, teeming with salacious lies, from the much-loathed spin doctor Jonathan Moyo. Moyo, clearly anxious to prostrate himself at the feet of the party in the hope of slithering back into the Central committee at the Zanu-PF Congress, is gabbling the required propaganda with all his might. The re...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 11, 2009
Harare, Thursday 10 December 2009 Today is International Human Rights Day. ZIMRIGHTS organised a peaceful demo starting at 10am. I was so excited last night to be part of a big (not knowing how big!?) "legal" demo that I got out an old white t-shirt and using a whole bottle of nail varnish decorated my t- shirt front and back. My friend dropped me off outside ZIMRIGHTS and there were litera...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 9, 2009
Zimbabwe Exiles’ Forum In an article published on the Zimbabwejournalists.com website on 24 December 2007, the author, Freeman Forward Chari, posed the following question: “In a country of nearly 200 000 military people….. whose public sector is run by the military, where does the common man fit in? Is there a possibility of civil participation in the country?” Chari breaks do...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 9, 2009
As South Africa’s mediation team prepares for another round of tough negotiations to resolve contentious issues raised by the three coalition partners in Zimbabwe’s transitional government, Zimbabwe Democracy Now is calling for a full investigation into the deaths of two liberation war generals. December is the 30th anniversary of the death of General Josiah Tongogara and people across Zimb...
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