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Posted by ZDN on March 25, 2010
What sort of person attracts an asset freeze and a travel ban to the USA and the EU? The sort of person who, if targeted sanctions are lifted, would then be free to mingle with the citizens of the USA and the EU. By no means the worst on the list, meet Olivia Muchena: coming soon to a neighbourhood near you. Olivia Muchena was well educated at two of the best universities in the USA - yet sh...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 15, 2010
15 March 2010 Tsk, tsk. Apparently Robert Mugabe is able to discipline an entire nation but not the children in his own household. Mugabe has recently been embarrassed by DisGrace's son, who was expelled from St George's College for being 'disruptive'. The miscreant pupil then managed to get accepted (probably under duress) at St John's, another posh independent school - where rumour has it he...
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 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 January 26, 2010
Politics Inter-party talks were again adjourned on Wednesday and are expected to resume in two weeks. MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa said that the party is losing patience and allegedly wants to declare a deadlock in its negotiations with Zanu-PF. It plans to refer the agenda to SADC and South African President Jacob Zuma. The MDC appears to be standing its ground on key issues it wants re...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on January 20, 2010
Politics The inter-party negotiations between the coalition partners did not take place on Monday Jan. 18 as scheduled after Zanu-PF negotiators Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche failed to attend. Talks were meant to resume on Saturday but were postponed to Monday because of the absence of Goche who was in Tanzania, reportedly on government business. South Africa P...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on January 14, 2010
This is the first update for the New Year and covers the period from December 16 to January 13. Politics Inter-party talks between the coalition partners will resume January 16. The MDC on Friday Jan. 8 again announced it would not pull out of the unity government, saying any differences will be resolved. But on Tuesday Jan. 11, MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa said that any further farm invas...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 18, 2009
Politics Zanu-PF’s fifth congress, which ended on Saturday in Harare, approved Robert Mugabe as the party’s leader for another five years, Joice Mujuru as senior vice president, John Nkomo as second vice president and controversial South African Ambassador Simon Khaya-Moyo as party chairman. Mugabe will be 92 at the end of his new term in office. The delegates allegedly adopted a number of...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 9, 2009
As South Africa’s mediation team prepares for another round of tough negotiations to resolve contentious issues raised by the three coalition partners in Zimbabwe’s transitional government, Zimbabwe Democracy Now is calling for a full investigation into the deaths of two liberation war generals. December is the 30th anniversary of the death of General Josiah Tongogara and people across Zimb...
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