Category Archives: Press reports
Zimbabwe: opposition very negative
The Third Chamber During discussions in The Third Chamber in 2003 Zimbabwe was often used as a negative example when it came to democracy and good governance. The media were often victim to censorship, elections were manipulated and food relief was used as a political weapon. For the last few months the country has been […]
Mugabe has no intention of negotiating a democratic solution to present crisis
Daily News by David Coltart OPINION PIECE: South African President Thabo Mbeki in a recent State visit to Canada assured Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien that talks were taking place in Zimbabwe between the Mugabe regime and the opposition MDC and that a settlement was likely soon. These comments follow similar confident assurances given by […]
Mugabe’s new palace in a land of hunger
The Daily Telegraph 27th August 2003 By Peta Thornycroft in Harare Builders are putting the finishing touches to a retirement home for President Robert Mugabe that will rival the most extravagant of African leaders’ residences. The project is the latest sign of how his regime is prospering while vast numbers of Zimbabweans are close to […]
Mugabe ‘cannot pay his security forces’
The Daily Telegraph 15th June 2003 By David Harrison in Harare Zimbabwe’s security forces, the front-line enforcers of President Robert Mugabe’s brutal regime, are being paid only a fraction of their salaries as the country’s economic crisis deepens. Many soldiers and police officers, whose loyalty has traditionally been bought with high pay and other perks, […]
The full story of what is going on in Zimbabwe
Allister Sparks The original plan to bowler-hat Mugabe and put Emmerson Mnangagwa in charge of Zimbabwe has been stymied because the opposition MDC won’t play ball as the ANC wanted, but the plan may now be implemented unilaterally with the Commercial Farmers Union in the token partnership role The first indication that Robert Mugabe might […]
England call for Harare switch
The Daily Telegraph 26th January 2003 By Scyld Berry and Neil Manthorpe in Harare England’s cricketers will declare their deep reluctance about going to Zimbabwe for their World Cup match on Feb 13 in a statement to be issued on their behalf by Richard Bevan, the managing director of the Professional Cricketers’ Association. The statement […]
Politics has no place in sport – so boycott the World Cup
Daily Telepgraph by: David Coltart The decision of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on December 19 to allow Zimbabwe to host World Cup matches has aroused fierce debate in Britain. A similar debate has raged within Zimbabwe for several months, and has threatened to split the cricketing fraternity. As a passionate supporter of Zimbabwean cricket, […]
Open Letter to Mugabe
SW Radio Africa by Siphosami Malunga Dear Mr. President I read with utter dismay what was ascribed to be your comments relating to David Coltart and Roy Bennett as reported in the Herald of 5 September 2002. Those comments have motivated me to set the record straight and jolt your memory somewhat about the past. […]
Open Letter to Mugabe – by Siphosami Malunga
SW Radio Africa – letter from Siphosami Malunga Dear Mr. President I read with utter dismay what was ascribed to be your comments relating to David Coltart and Roy Bennett as reported in the Herald of 5 September 2002. Those comments have motivated me to set the record straight and jolt your memory somewhat about […]
Zimbabwe’s Man-Made Famine
The New York Times In the last two years Zimbabwe has been transformed into a state that increasingly resembles Cambodia under Pol Pot. The government seems set on adding famine to the list of oppressions visited on the nation. In May, a law was passed decreeing that any commercial farmer who continued to farm 45 […]