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Posted by Nxwala on October 11, 2010
My sister at home in Zimbabwe died and I had to go back home for her burial. I do not have money for the border so I had to go under the fence. I travelled to Lupane using my thumb and rural buses. When I got to St. Luke's it was much worse than when I was last time there. I think we must no longer call them government hospitals because the patients pay for almost everything: food, medicine, dr...
Continue ReadingPosted by Nxwala on March 17, 2010
The government has deployed outreach teams to consult the Zimbabwean people on the new constitution, hoping to make the document ready before next year’s general elections. But I do not think a new constitutional document will be completed in Zimbabwe. Zanu-PF wants the Kariba draft to form the basis of the new constitution, while the MDC wants the new constitution to be “people-driven.” If ...
Continue ReadingPosted by Nxwala on March 14, 2010
Signs are slowly showing that Zanu-PF is starting to prepare for the elections, which many strongly believe will be next year. Torture camps are cropping up, which is a clear indication that Mugabe will call for elections soon, if not next year. The militia and the war veterans are the backbone that has made Zanu-PF win the elections since 2000. Most of the militia camps were disbanded after the r...
Continue ReadingPosted by Nxwala on March 13, 2010
It has been a long battle for Zimbabwean refugees who are staying in the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg. The Municipality is trying to resettle them in another place they call suitable for residential purposes, something that the refugees and the Bishop do not support and pledged to not give up easily. I suspect this is why he was recently suspended from the church. But without the Bisho...
Continue ReadingPosted by Nxwala on March 12, 2010
Our blogger recently took a trip to Botswana to see how Zimbabwean refugees are faring there. Refugees in different countries in Africa face similar problems to what we face here in South Africa. In South Africa, refugees have been faced by the problems of xenophobia, unlawful arrest and detention in various police stations and a repatriation centre called Lindela. Lindela is one of the biggest...
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 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 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 Nxwala on November 16, 2009
A Day in the Diaspora - Nxwala Ncube I have just got back from a trip to Zimbabwe and it appears Zanu PF can’t block everything that is being achieved. I think Zimbabwe will be back on its feet. There’s a big change that is taking place in Zimbabwe. There are some problems here and there but people are now managing to survive. In Gwanda, I saw that people are managing to travel from point A t...
Continue ReadingPosted by Nxwala on November 12, 2009
A Day in the Diaspora - Nxwala Ncube Everything was normal until I reached the Beitbridge border. As soon as I left the border there was no tarred road, it was gravel. I do not know what all the money which they charge at customs is used for. I think it is supposed to be used to repair the road and improve the infrastructure there at the border gate but this is not the case. The place is dry ther...
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