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Posted by ZDN on March 9, 2010
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 ret...
Continue ReadingPosted 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...
Continue ReadingPosted 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...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 23, 2010
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...
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 16, 2010
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 ...
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 February 9, 2010
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 gre...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 2, 2010
Politics Zanu-PF’s supreme decision making body, the Politburo, said there will be no more Global Political Agreement (GPA) compromises until targeted sanctions have been lifted. The sanctions question is not included in any conditions of the GPA. A leaked Zanu-PF working document reveals that the party wants “an all-powerful presidency” and has no intention of sharing power in the...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 2, 2010
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. [podcast]http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr010210.mp3[/podcast] Rules for our Rulers [26:18m]: Download...
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