SADC to Support More Mediation in Zimbabwe Crisis
Voice Of America 17 August 2007 Regional heads of state are expected to encourage South African President Thabo Mbeki to continue his efforts to facilitate negotiations between Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Peta Thornycroft for VOA reports that the Southern African Development Community’s summit in Zambia also launched its first
Mbeki has been outflanked by Mugabe – MDC
Independent On Line August 12 2007 at 10:56AM By Peta Thornycroft President Thabo Mbeki seems likely to go to the Southern Africa Development Community summit in Lusaka on Thursday unable to claim much progress on the Zimbabwe crisis. Unless there is an unlikely and last-minute breakthrough between the Zanu-PF and opposition Movement for Democratic Change,
New law allows Mugabe to eavesdrop
Financial Times By Tony Hawkins in Harare Published: August 5 2007 18:23 A new law in Zimbabwe allowing the state to tap private phone conversations and monitor faxes and e-mails is unconstitutional and impracticable, said local lawyers, opposition politicians and internet service providers. Lawyers said they are confident the government’s Interception of Communications Act which
New spying law ‘unconstitutional’
Zim Standard By Vusumuzi Sifile 5th August 2007 THE Interception of Communications Act, signed into law by President Robert Mugabe last week, is unconstitutional and can be successfully challenged in the courts, legal experts said yesterday. The government will find it difficult to adequately monitor communications, particularly e-mails and other internet communications, they said. The
News Analysis: In Zimbabwe’s chaos, a kleptocracy thrives
International Herald Tribune By Michael Wines Published: August 2, 2007 BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe: Earlier this month, shortly after President Robert Mugabe proposed legislation mandating a gradual transfer of ownership of all businesses to “indigenous” citizens, a Zimbabwean businessman received an unexpected telephone call. The caller, a stranger, said that he represented a group of indigenous investors.
Just what ZANU PF’s doctor ordered – Talks collapse further cripples opposition
By Clemence Manyukwe Staff Reporter Financial Gazette 2nd August 2007 THE collapse of opposition unity talks is like manna from heaven for President Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF and creates an unimpeded path for them to march to victory in next year’s polls, analysts say. Arthur Mutambara, leader of one faction of the Movement for
No mealie meal in Bulawayo as nation starves
Voice of America July 29 2007 By Peta Thornycroft There has been no mealie meal in Zimbabwe’s second city Bulawayo for the past week.Not a single bag has been available in any of the city’s supermarkets and even blackmarket supplies have dried up. “We are very worried and we are not yet ready to increase
Hundreds pray for scandal-hit Ncube
Independent On Line/SAPA July 25 2007 Bulawayo – Hundreds of residents in Zimbabwe’s second city thronged the cathedral on Wednesday for prayers in support of outspoken Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube who is being sued for alleged adultery. “The purpose of the prayer was mobilising and giving moral, spiritual, mental and physical support to Archbishop
Wounding cuts
Leader Saturday July 21, 2007 The Guardian It was presented as medicine, but the shock therapy being applied to Zimbabwe is poison. Three weeks ago President Robert Mugabe ordered that prices be cut by at least half. It was a panic response to galloping inflation, which had reached the point where the price of some
Mugabe’s price cuts spur national spending spree
A NATION IN CRISIS: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s bid to curb runaway inflation by decree has resulted in a countrywide run on consumer products THE GUARDIAN, LONDON Tuesday, Jul 17, 2007 Zimbabweans are shopping like there’s no tomorrow. With police patroling the aisles of Harare’s electrical shops to enforce massive government-ordered price cuts, the widescreen