Friday, March 12 2010
Posted by ZDN on March 9, 2010
Politics The MDC on Sunday said it was seeking SADC intervention to help resolve outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement (GPA). The decision will be passed to the party's national council, due to meet in Harare on March 12. In a government gazette issued on Friday, President Robert Mugabe reassigned powers from the Ministry of Information and Technology and the Ministry of ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 2, 2010
Politics The MDC is demanding drastic action against Zanu-PF youths who last week threatened Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for not calling for the removal of targeted sanctions. The youths were marching in the capital on Wednesday in protest against the sanctions. They also detained a freelance photojournalist Andrison Manyere for filming the demonstration, but he was later released. ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 16, 2010
Politics Jonathan Moyo was passed over for promotion to the new Zanu-PF Politburo lineup. The spin-doctor was hoping to become either information secretary or to head the party’s commissariat. The central committee was reportedly wary of trusting political chameleon Moyo enough to be part of the party’s inner circle. The EU has decided to extend targeted sanctions until 2011 against ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 9, 2010
Politics The three principals in the unity government reached a small breakthrough on Friday when they agreed to appoint the chairs of two of the Commissions - the Electoral and the Human Rights – who were named as Justice Simpson Mtambanengwe and Professor Reg Austin respectively. The South African mediation team is expected to meet negotiators from the thr...
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 November 25, 2009
Politics Zanu-PF pre-Congress provincial nominations reveal a widening rift within the party. Vice-president Joice Mujuru has been nominated to retain her position, representing a defeat for the man even insiders call 'the cruellest one' - Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa. John Nkomo is set to become the second vice-president, replacing the late Joseph Msika. Nkomo's vacated post of Zanu...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on November 11, 2009
UPDATE: 12 November 2009 Reports were received this afternoon that three more soldiers died this morning from severe torture. Two more are in an extremely critical condition. The dead men are among many soldiers being detained at King George VI barracks in Harare, under allegations of stealing weapons from Pomona barracks. -------------------------------------------------- Calls fo...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on November 10, 2009
Zimbabwe's most anticipated trial produced high drama, as expected. The MDC Treasurer Roy Bennett is on trial in the High Court on charges of possessing firearms for purposes of deposing a lawful government through use of insurgency, banditry, sabotage and terrorism'. If convicted he could face a death sentence or life imprisonment. • The trial commenced in Harare's High Court building as pla...
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 8, 2009
The full bench of Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court, sitting as a Constitutional Court, ordered the Attorney General to cease prosecuting human rights’ activist Jestina Mukoko, 54, in what Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights describe as a litmus test for the country’s justice delivery system. The director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project and 16 others were charged with plotting to topple President Robe...
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