Monthly Archives: October 2010

www.nzfgw.org.nz By Esther Watt, NZFGW Fellow 21 October 2010 My year at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, studying for the LLM has been amazing. Academically, the year has been challenging and very rewarding. I took four papers relating to areas of my interest. Although the LLM paper in which I had hoped to write my thesis was unavailable this year, I was able to examine key aspects of […]

Newsday 20 October 2010 By Phillip Chidavaenzi and Veneranda Langa Within the forbidding prison complex, Rudo Masara (not her real name), sits silently, her vacant eyes gazing into the future, now just a wasteland. For a year now, she has been in this grim dungeon of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, to which society has banished […]

Newsday By Fortune Moyo 19 October 2010 Patrick Nabanyama, who disappeared after being abducted at the beginning of Zimbabwe’s political turmoil in 2000, has finally been declared dead. The declaration was officially made on August 11, but the announcement was made by his wife Patricia Nabanyama only Tuesday. She immediately applied for private prosecution of […]

Chronicle 18 October 2010 Chronicle Reporter THE Ministry of Public Service has called for the fast-tracking of the re-engagement of temporary teachers. In an interview, Minister of Public Service, Professor Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, said there was a shortage of teachers in schools and there was an urgent need for the Ministry to speed up the re-engagement […]

The Standard 17 October 2010 By Nqobani Ndlovu BULAWAYO — A human rights organisation representing victims of political violence has written to the Attorney General (AG) demanding a fresh inquest and prosecution of six surviving war veterans accused of kidnapping and murdering MDC activist Patrick Nabanyama in 2000. The Zimbabwe Victims of Organised Violence Trust […]

The Zimbabwean By Paul Ndlovu 13 October 2010 HARARE – The Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture has issued directives to his subordinates to use US$10 million that lay unutilised at the treasury to acquire learning materials for secondary schools in the country. Senator David Coltart said he came to know about the funds […]

The Zimbabwean 12 October 2010 BULAWAYO – As the late Welshman Mabhena was buried at  Lady Stanley Cemetery on Saturday, his relatives lamented the torture that the departed politician suffered under Zanu before the Unity Accord of 1987. Family spokesman, Norman Mabhena told The Zimbabwean: “The assault by Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives and other pro […]

Newsday By Feluna Nleya 11 October 2010 Amnesty International Zimbabwe (AI) will this week petition the legal secretaries from the three political parties in the inclusive government to help abolish the death sentence in Zimbabwe. AI wrote to Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs Emmerson Mnangagwa and the two Secretaries for legal Affairs from the […]

Herald 11 October 2010 GOVERNMENT will allow payment of teachers’ incentives by parents and guardians to stay while a permanent solution to improve their conditions of service is being sought, a Cabinet minister told Parliament on Wednesday. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said while payment of incentives to teachers had a discriminatory […]

Daily News By Maxwell Sibanda 11 October 2010 HARARE – Zimbabwean teachers last Friday celebrated The World Teachers’ Day amid disgruntlement over  poor salaries and working conditions. Sifiso Ndlovu, a Zimbabwe Teachers Assciation (ZIMTA) official, said teachers’ struggles continued 44 years on since the signing of the 1966 UNESCO recommendation for teachers. “Teachers continue to […]