Zimbabwe Democracy Now http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com Zimbabwe Democracy Now Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:54:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Zimbabwe Democracy Now SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe Democracy Constitution no Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 08.03.10 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/03/09/rules-for-our-rulers-%e2%80%93-podcast-%e2%80%93-08-03-10/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/03/09/rules-for-our-rulers-%e2%80%93-podcast-%e2%80%93-08-03-10/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:22 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1464 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 retroviral drugs is one of them.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/03/09/rules-for-our-rulers-%e2%80%93-podcast-%e2%80%93-08-03-10/feed/ 0 <p>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 retroviral drugs is one of them.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="" width="80" height="19" /> Rules for our Rulers [16:47m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr080310.mp3">Download</a></p> 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 [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 22.02.10 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/23/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-22-02-10/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/23/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-22-02-10/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:12:04 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1396 Last week it was reported that the constitution making process had stalled over disagreements between the government and donors bankrolling the process through the United Nations Development Programme. This week on, Lance seeks to get more information on the latest crisis and speaks to Jessie Majome, the Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, who is also the Chairperson on the Sub Committee on Information and Publicity in the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/23/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-22-02-10/feed/ 0 <p>Last week it was reported that the constitution making process had stalled over disagreements between the government and donors bankrolling the process through the United Nations Development Programme. This week on, Lance seeks to get more information on the latest crisis and speaks to Jessie Majome, the Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, who is also the Chairperson on the Sub Committee on Information and Publicity in the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /> Rules for our Rulers [20:11m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr220210.mp3">Download</a></p> Last week it was reported that the constitution making process had stalled over disagreements between the government and donors bankrolling the process through the United Nations Development Programme. This week on, Lance seeks to get more [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 15.02.10 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/16/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-15-02-10/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/16/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-15-02-10/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:40:35 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1374 With the country’s political parties having reached a deadlock in the talks the focus has now moved to the holding of elections in 2011. This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma asks whether a new constitution will be able to guarantee free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. He speaks to Munjodzi Mutandiri from the National Constitutional Assembly chapter in South Africa who says ZANU-PF wants to have the elections under the current climate of violence and intimidation.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/16/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-15-02-10/feed/ 0 <p>With the country’s political parties having reached a deadlock in the talks the focus has now moved to the holding of elections in 2011. This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma asks whether a new constitution will be able to guarantee free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. He speaks to Munjodzi Mutandiri from the National Constitutional Assembly chapter in South Africa who says ZANU-PF wants to have the elections under the current climate of violence and intimidation.</p> <p><a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /></a> Rules for our Rulers [19:37m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr150210.mp3">Download</a></p> With the country’s political parties having reached a deadlock in the talks the focus has now moved to the holding of elections in 2011. This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma asks whether a new constitution will be able to guarantee free [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 08.02.10 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/09/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-08-02-10/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/09/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-08-02-10/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:32:04 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1331 This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to the Director of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition McDonald Lewanika. The coalition put out a statement last week in which they made a number of recommendations for the constitution making process. Lewanika says all bases and militia groups deployed in the countryside to influence people should be disbanded, civil society should be allowed a greater role and that there should be no secrecy surrounding the constitution making process.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/09/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-08-02-10/feed/ 0 <p>This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to the Director of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition McDonald Lewanika. The coalition put out a statement last week in which they made a number of recommendations for the constitution making process. Lewanika says all bases and militia groups deployed in the countryside to influence people should be disbanded, civil society should be allowed a greater role and that there should be no secrecy surrounding the constitution making process.</p> <p><a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /></a> Rules for our Rulers [20:37m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr080210.mp3">Download</a></p> This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to the Director of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition McDonald Lewanika. The coalition put out a statement last week in which they made a number of recommendations for the constitution making [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 01.02.10 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/02/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-01-02-10/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/02/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-01-02-10/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:13:48 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1304 Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Jessie Majome is Lance’s guest on Rules for our Rulers. They discuss the efforts being made to craft a new constitution and how the process is being hampered by negative and partisan media coverage from the state media.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/02/02/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-01-02-10/feed/ 0 <p>Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Jessie Majome is Lance’s guest on Rules for our Rulers. They discuss the efforts being made to craft a new constitution and how the process is being hampered by negative and partisan media coverage from the state media.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /> Rules for our Rulers [26:18m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr010210.mp3">Download</a></p> Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Jessie Majome is Lance’s guest on Rules for our Rulers. They discuss the efforts being made to craft a new constitution and how the process is being hampered by negative and partisan media coverage [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 25.01.10 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/26/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-25-01-10/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/26/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-25-01-10/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:48:43 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1249 This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga, about reports claiming the constitutional outreach programme had been ‘suspended’ over bickering between the political parties. Does he think ZANU-PF is simply trying to scuttle the process by causing endless delays?

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/26/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-25-01-10/feed/ 0 <p>This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga, about reports claiming the constitutional outreach programme had been ‘suspended’ over bickering between the political parties. Does he think ZANU-PF is simply trying to scuttle the process by causing endless delays?</p> <p><a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /></a> Rules for our Rulers [18:39m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr250110.mp3">Download</a></p> This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga, about reports claiming the constitutional outreach programme had been ‘suspended’ over bickering between the political parties. Does he think [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 18.01.10 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/19/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-18-01-10/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/19/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-18-01-10/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:14:15 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1207 Lance Guma speaks to the co-chairman of the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee, Douglas Mwonzora, about the reasons for delaying the deployment of outreach teams countrywide. He tells the programme they needed to carry out an audit after several people tried to be fraudulently accredited onto the outreach list.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/19/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-18-01-10/feed/ 2 <p>Lance Guma speaks to the co-chairman of the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee, Douglas Mwonzora, about the reasons for delaying the deployment of outreach teams countrywide. He tells the programme they needed to carry out an audit after several people tried to be fraudulently accredited onto the outreach list.</p> <p><a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /></a> Rules for our Rulers [12:11m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr180110.mp3">Download</a></p> Lance Guma speaks to the co-chairman of the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee, Douglas Mwonzora, about the reasons for delaying the deployment of outreach teams countrywide. He tells the programme they needed to carry out an audit after [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 04.01.10 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/12/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-04-01-10/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/12/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-04-01-10/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:05:55 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1167 The National Constitutional Assembly got the New Year running by issuing an ultimatum to government to abandon its ‘defective’ constitutional process or face a campaign of rejection of any draft it produces. Lance speaks to NCA spokesman Madock Chivasa and asks him why they are so opposed to the current process.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2010/01/12/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-04-01-10/feed/ 0 <p>The National Constitutional Assembly got the New Year running by issuing an ultimatum to government to abandon its ‘defective’ constitutional process or face a campaign of rejection of any draft it produces. Lance speaks to NCA spokesman Madock Chivasa and asks him why they are so opposed to the current process.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /> Rules for our Rulers [15:49m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr040110.mp3">Download</a></p> The National Constitutional Assembly got the New Year running by issuing an ultimatum to government to abandon its ‘defective’ constitutional process or face a campaign of rejection of any draft it produces. Lance speaks to NCA spokesman Madock [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 28.12.09 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2009/12/30/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-28-12-09/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2009/12/30/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-28-12-09/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:54:17 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1157 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 in 1999 was a mistake, given what transpired after that.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2009/12/30/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-28-12-09/feed/ 0 <p>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 in 1999 was a mistake, given what transpired after that.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /> Rules for our Rulers [33:35m]: <a href="../podcasts/rfr281209.mp3">Download</a></p> 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 [...] SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now Rules for our Rulers – Podcast – 21.12.09 http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2009/12/22/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-21-12-09/ http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2009/12/22/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-21-12-09/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:43:54 +0000 ZDN http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/?p=1150 Lance talks to Mike Sambo from the Democratic United Front, what have in the past organized demonstrations against ‘constitutional chicanery’.

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]]> http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/2009/12/22/rules-for-our-rulers-podcast-21-12-09/feed/ 0 <p>Lance talks to Mike Sambo from the Democratic United Front, what have in the past organized demonstrations against ‘constitutional chicanery’.</p> <p><img class="size-full wp-image-197 alignnone" title="audio_mp3_button" src="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/audio_mp3_button.gif" alt="audio_mp3_button" width="80" height="19" /> Rules for our Rulers [14:32m]: <a href="http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr211209.mp3">Download</a></p> Lance talks to Mike Sambo from the Democratic United Front, what have in the past organized demonstrations against ‘constitutional chicanery’. Rules for our Rulers [14:32m]: Download SW Radio / Zimbabwe Democracy Now