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DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL? LEGAL NOTES ON DEATH AND THE PRESIDENT

Posted by ZDN on September 7, 2010

By Derek Matyszak, Research and Advocacy Unit, Harare “We say to hell, to hell, to hell with them.” - Robert Mugabe1 ZANU PF supporters have on several occasions expressed the wish that President Robert Mugabe die in office.2 With speculation about Mugabe’s ill health rife3 and more plausible than usual, it is interesting to consider the legal position and what ought4 to happen in term...

DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL? LEGAL NOTES ON DEATH AND THE PRESIDENT

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Sabina Mugabe

Posted by ZDN on July 30, 2010

Sabina Mugabe (75), one of President Mugabe’s three surviving sisters, who was counted among his closest allies and confidantes, passed away at the Avenues Clinic in Harare on Thursday after a long battle with illness. Almost ten years younger than the President, Sabina was the mother of Leo Mugabe, Patrick Zhuwao and Robert Zhuwao. Her nephew is the prominent and controversial businessman Ph...

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Lives of Survival – Migrants and refugees in South Africa

Posted by ZDN on May 13, 2010

Briefing paper - Medecins Sans Frontieres - Click here to download the MSF report of May 10, 2010 May 12, 2010 The reality of thousands of survival migrants and refugees arriving and existing on the margins in South Africa is grim. In June 2009, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) released a report, No Refuge, Access Denied, which outlined the severe risks Zimbabweans t...

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Part Two: Proposed Solutions to the Crisis of Governance and the Minimum Requirements for the effective implementation of Free, Peaceful, and Credible Elections in Zimbabwe

Posted by ZDN on April 19, 2010

PART TWO: The Solution In Part one, we concluded that: The only acceptable means of achieving this transition is for the region to refuse another rigged election in Zimbabwe, while enabling a solution by one of two methods : A) a process similar to South Africa’s CODESA, or B) the holding of free and fair elections under a neutral and independent electoral administrat...

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Part One: Proposed Solutions to the Crisis of Governance in Zimbabwe and the Minimum Requirements for the effective implementation of Free, Peaceful, and Credible Elections in Zimbabwe

Posted by ZDN on April 16, 2010

PART ONE: The Problem Before the 2000 general election in Zimbabwe, the late Vice-President, Simon Muzenda, told the nation that if Zanu-PF chose to nominate a baboon as candidate, then the people would have to vote for that baboon. Not surprisingly, the people did not choose the Zanu-PF candidate, but the regime at the time did not intend to simply rely on people's free choices. Robert M...

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Kimberley Process monitor’s Marange report

Posted by ZDN on April 7, 2010

Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Fact Finding Mission By Abbey Chikane, KP Monitor for Marange, Zimbabwe 21 March 2010 Introduction The author prepared this report to confirm the understanding of the mandate of the KP Monitor for Zimbabwe. The report is written with a view to ensuring that the KP Monitor’s approach to the implementation of the Joint work plan is consistent wit...

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Zimbabwe situation getting worse – UK Committee

Posted 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...

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Zimbabwe: Political and Security Challenges to the Transition

Posted 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...

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Summary of the Judgment in Gramara (Pvt) Ltd and another v The Government of Zimbabwe and Others

Posted by ZDN on January 27, 2010

PATEL, J Harare, 24 November, 2009 and 26 January 2010 Facts of the Case This case was an application for the Registration of the SADC Tribunal Judgement in the matter of Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd and others versus the Republic of Zimbabwe by 2 out of the 77 applicants in that case. This case found that the rights of white farmers to approach a court for redress and not be discriminated aga...

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Murderers and torturers appointed to Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Outreach Programme

Posted by ZDN on January 15, 2010

The Inclusive Government in Zimbabwe has started it's Constitutional Consultative Programme (CCP), as outlined in the terms of the GPA. No doubt, this fact was proudly presented at the Maputo meeting of the SADC Troika on Security, which met yesterday and pronounced the GPA alive and well and is, according to Jacob Zuma, "Making good progress". However, the SADC Troika undoubtedly had not been ...