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14/04/2010 18:12:00
Harare,
April 14, 2010 - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday
rejected
claims by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office that the
government had
reversed a law forcing foreign firms to cede a majority stake
to
locals.
Mugabe said that the remarks that the indigenisation and
empowerment
regulations had been scrapped were not true but cabinet was
working on
improving the rules.
"They (the remarks) are completely
false," Mugabe told reporters after
touring tobacco auction
floors.
"There is no nullification of the indigenisation and economic
empowerment
law, no nullification of the regulations which have been made,"
he said.
"What there is is that the regulations are being studied by a
committee of
cabinet just to improve them."
The law, which came into
force on March 1, would have affected foreign-owned
firms valued at 500 000
dollars (369,000 euros) or more.
They had been given 45 days to report
their efforts at complying.
Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office
said on Tuesday the government had
declared the indigenisation law "null and
void".
The biggest targets included local subsidiaries of British banks
Barclays
and Standard Chartered, as well as mining companies such as Impala
Platinum,
Anglo Platinum and Rio Tinto.
Indigenisation Minister
Saviour Kasukuwere confirmed that the law would not
be scraped.
"We
are still going ahead with the law," he told AFP.
"Yes, cabinet said we
still need to give business more time, but we are
going ahead with the law,"
said Kasukuwere.
Mugabe had defended the regulations as a measure to
correct the economic
imbalances created by Zimbabwe's colonial past.
AFP
http://www.swradioafrica.com
By Violet Gonda
14 April
2010
Confusion surrounds the status of the ‘indigenisation’ law as a
result of
conflicting statements issued by the political parties in
government.
The Prime Minister’s Office has said the implementation of
the controversial
law has been suspended and that cabinet agreed on Tuesday
that this policy
was ‘null and void,’ pending a review of the process and
further
consultations.
However the man in charge of the regulations,
Indigenisation Minister
Saviour Kasukuwere told SW Radio Africa on Wednesday
that the policy was
irreversible.
He is also quoted on the New
Zimbabwe website denying the ‘suspension’
plans. “How do you do that
(reverse the regulations)?” he asked. “It sounds
like gossip, more than
anything.”
The Minister was also quoted by the Zimbabwe Guardian saying;
“The law is
still in force and companies have to comply in line with the
regulations
issued. The first deadline is set for Thursday this week
(tomorrow) and is
still in force.” He then added, “Nothing of that sort
happened in
yesterday's Cabinet seating. The law is still operational, valid
and in
effect. There was no such discussion in Cabinet.”
But the same
Minister is quoted by the news agency Associated Press saying
the law has
been delayed for discussions with business leaders: “There are
consultations
which must be made with various sectors and this is why the
Act has been set
aside.”
When asked about these conflicting statements Kasukuwere told SW
Radio
Africa: “Oh well, you have to look at the people you are giving
interviews
to and you tell them what they want to hear. But this is an
irreversible
process.”
The Minister said he would not comment any further
after that.
A source in the Prime Minister’s office maintains that ZANU
PF tried to
force the regulations through during the cabinet meeting on
Tuesday, which
was attended by the President and the Prime Minister, but in
the end it was
declared ‘null and void.’ The source also said indigenisation
will go ahead,
but that there is going to be an ‘amended policy which will
be similar to
South Africa’s policy of black economic
empowerment.’
Economist Tony Hawkins said the conflicting statements
expose a deeply
divided government: “This illustrates very vividly the
problems that the
coalition government is having. It typifies the problem
and demonstrates to
all and sundry that Zimbabwe is in this kind of
situation and that no one
seems to be in control.”
“Of course it’s
the economy, the business community and the 80 percent
unemployed living in
poverty etc who are the victims of this unsatisfactory
situation,” Hawkins
said.
The Indigenisation and Empowerment Regulations law which came into
force on
March 1st require companies to hand over at least 51 per cent
ownership to
‘indigenous’ Zimbabweans over the next five years, and the
deadline for
businesses to submit handover proposals was set for April
15th.
The government has yet to issue an official statement about the
status of
this law.
http://www.swradioafrica.com
By Lance Guma
14 April
2010
The chances of a free and fair election to break the political
deadlock in
Zimbabwe looked even more remote following reports that ZANU PF
has stepped
up youth militia deployment in most rural areas. The news comes
hot on the
heels of other reports suggesting traditional chiefs have been
given a 100
percent salary increase despite government recently rejecting
demands from
civil servants for improved wages. Chiefs have always been used
by ZANU PF
to whip villagers into voting for Mugabe's party.
The
Youth Initiative for Democracy in Zimbabwe (IDEZ) says it will hold a
press
conference in Harare on Thursday to highlight some of these worrying
developments. Facilitator Sidney Chisi told Newsreel although they were not
opposed to national youth service training as a principle, they rejected the
partisan manner it has been conducted by ZANU PF for political and often
violent ends. He told us that an Inter-Ministerial Committee had been set up
to oversee the 'official' resumption of the training.
Since January
this year several bases countrywide have been re-opened in
various provinces
including Manicaland and Masvingo. Defence Minister
Emerson Mnangagwa was
accused of setting up bases in the Masvingo Central
areas of Barahanga and
Chikarudzo, which were later burnt down by angry MDC
supporters in the
middle of the night. ZANU PF militia in the area vowed to
retaliate. In
Nyanga North and Makoni other bases have also been opened
which are manned
by a combination of youth militia and soldiers with the
intention of
intimidating villagers.
While the youth militia bases are a constant
source of worry it's the
proliferation of new guns and ammunition that
serves to underline ZANU PF's
long term strategy. With accusations that the
diamond wealth from Marange is
helping the regime buy arms of war from China
and other rogue states it's
hard not to make the connection. For example
villagers in Mutoko report
seeing soldiers and war veterans brandishing
brand new AK47 and FN assault
rifles including Uzi sub-machine guns. By all
accounts ZANU PF has no
intention of losing the next
election.
http://www.thedailynewszw.com/?p=28882
April 14, 2010
By Owen
Chikari
MASVINGO – Zanu-PF has launched an internal investigation into
allegations
that party officials, including two cabinet ministers here,
converted gifts
and funds meant for President Robert Mugabe’s birthday bash
held in Bulawayo
in February to personal use.
At the centre of the
shameful allegations are Tourism and Hospitality
Minister Engineer Walter
Mzembi, Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Stan
Mudenge and Masvingo
provincial governor Titus Maluleke.
The three are accused of
misappropriating the money and gifts donated to
Mugabe by party followers in
Masvingo.
Mudenge, Mzembi and Maluleke allegedly received gifts and money
from party
members in Masvingo and converted both gifts and cash to personal
use.
The three were part of a fundraising team that had been established
to
canvas for funds and gifts, among other things, to be donated to the
Zanu-PF
leader on his birthday.
Mugabe’s birthday has over the years
been celebrated by Zanu-PF as a
national event annually.
Zanu-PF
Masvingo provincial chairman Lovemore Matuke on Wednesday said the
party
would leave no stone unturned in its efforts to ensure the missing
gifts and
funds were recovered.
“We have launched investigations into the
allegations that some of our party
members abused the funds and gifts meant
for the president,” said Matuke.
“We are not going to spare anyone from
the probe, and once investigations
are complete we will hand over the
culprits to the police for possible
prosecution.”
It emerged
Wednesday that Zanu-PF supporters here have now refused to donate
anything
towards the hosting of Independence celebrations here for fear of
having
their donations misappropriated.
Independence celebrations are held on 18
April every year.
According to sources in the party, Mugabe’s missing
gifts included chickens,
goats, sheep and an undisclosed amount of
money.
“We are no longer going to donate anything to the party because
the bigwigs
are taking advantage of their posts to abuse our money,” said a
party
supporter who refused to be named.
On Wednesday, Mudenge
refused to comment on the issue while Mzembi said that
the allegations were
coming from his enemies in the party.
“These are just the works of my
enemies within the party,” said Mzembi. “I
did not abuse anything meant for
the President.
“Let them investigate and I know I will emerge
clean.”
The Masvingo governor also denied the allegations.
“I
never handled anything regarding the President’s birthday,” was all
Maluleke
said.
Mugabe held a party in Bulawayo in February to mark his 86th
birthday.
Zanu-PF supporters from different parts of the country showered
Mugabe with
gifts.
However, it now emerged that some of the gifts and
cash donated to him in
Masvingo never reached him.
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14/04/2010 13:40:00
Harare,
April 14, 2010 - Zimbabwe police have started investigations into
the
alleged land scandal involving Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo
and
business tycoon Philip Chiyangwa, a senior police spokesperson has
said.
Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena said
although no
arrests have been made so far, investigations into the
case
have started.
"Yes, we have a report that was made by one Charity Bango
where they are
alleging fraud in which two Harare City employees
Cosmas
Zvikaramba and Psychology Chiwanga connived to sell Odar Farm to
Philip
Chiyangwa on September 2, 2009. So we are carrying
out
investigations into the matter," said Bvudzijena adding that no arrests
have
been made so far.
Zvikaramba is the finance director while
Chiwanga is the director of urban
planning in the Harare City
Council.
Acting mayor Bango on Monday made the police report IR number
040725/10 over
the alleged land scandal and handed over a
special
investigations report that was tabled before the council 2 weeks
ago.
The committee has recommended that Chiyangwa and Chombo must be
arrested for
irregularly acquiring land in the capital. In its 54 page
report entitled
'special investigations committees report on city of
Harare's land sales,
leases and exchanges from the period October 2004 to
December 2009' the
committee observed that there was no council approval for
all land acquired
by Chiyangwa. The committee also discovered that all land
associated with
him was acquired fraudulently and council procedures were
not followed.
Chiyangwa's Kilima Investments allegedly entered into land
swap deals with
the council in December 2007.
Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai has also stamped his authority and recently
summoned the
co-ministers of Home Affairs, Giles Mutsekwa of MDC and Kembo
Mohadi of Zanu
(PF) to explain why councilors who carried out the land
audit were arrested
instead of the people accused of illegally grabbing
land.
http://www.thedailynewszw.com/?p=28853
April 13, 2010
By Ray
Matikinye
MASVINGO - CIO operatives last week failed in their attempt to
recruit
members of the VaPositori religious sect to join President Robert
Mugabe's
Zanu-PF party when they tried to sell party cards to thousands of
worshippers gathered for their just ended annual Easter retreat held just
outside Masvingo.
Sources among the sect members told The Daily News
that dozens of CIO
operatives clad in the sect's trademark flowing white
robes and carrying
their long staffs mingled with genuine worshippers during
the week-long
event. They tried to persuade the members to buy Zanu-PF
membership cards
while promising them that President Mugabe would finance
projects of their
choice.
Members of the VaPositori Sect, conspicuous
by the white robes worn by both
men and women, have for some years now
aligned themselves with the then
ruling Zanu-PF party, thronging Zanu-PF
rallies and the Harare International
Airport, either to bid farewell or to
welcome President Mugabe back from
foreign trips.
It was never clear
whether they were card-carrying members of his party.
"We were taken by
surprise, when a group of men started political
discussions urging our
members to join Zanu-PF in order to benefit from what
they said was a large
amount of money that President Mugabe was ready to
disburse if we bought
party cards," one of the sources said.
President Mugabe has told his
supporters that they should prepare for
general elections next year although
it is doubtful whether this could be
feasible before a new constitution is
adopted.
The constitution making process is mired in controversy over
whether to use
the Kariba Draft as a basis for a new constitution and is
facing serious
financial constraints after donors demanded that government
find the
remaining US$7 million required.
The Swedish government
recently provided $21 million through the United
Nations Development
Programme on condition that the money would not be used
to pay allowances to
outreach teams expected to spearhead the process.
"It was unusual to hear
people talking to us about politics during the event
that we have all along
dedicated to worship and prayer. We were surprised
too that none of our
genuine members could identify with these strange
people. They could not
identify which groups they attend regular services
with," another source
said.
The CIO has gained infamy for infiltrating church and other civic
organization on behalf of Zanu-PF.
Last December thousands of women
at a national convention of the Reformed
Church of Zimbabwe rebuffed Zanu-PF
district and provincial executives
accompanied by CIO operatives who sought
to address them at Chivi Secondary
School.
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14/04/2010 18:50:00
Harare, April
14, 2010 - The Minister of Education, Sports and Culture,
David Coltart,
says donors have told him that they will not support the
payment of teacher
salaries because Zimbabwe is a bottomless pit.
Coltart said : "Donors
have told me that this country is a bottomless pit
and they will not support
anything until the GPA is fully implemented.
"They will not give us a
cent even for teachers salaries. They have however
said they are willing to
give us 13 million text books for primary school
children next year. We will
only get money to pay teachers in the 2011
National budget."
Coltart
was responding to enquiries from members of the Zimbabwe Teachers
Association (ZIMTA) who are meeting in Harare until Friday this
week.
About 300 ZIMTA members are in Harare from all over
Zimbabwe.
Raymond Majongwe from the aggressive Progressive Teachers
Alliance of
Zimbabwe (PTAZ) paid a surprise visit to the packed conference
held in
Harare.
ZIMTA President Tendai Chikowore told Coltart that
teachers were very
unhappy and he was lying to them about
salaries.
She said money was disappearing from Chiadzwa and yet it could
be used to
pay cash strapped teachers countrywide.
"I will look into
the matter," a shocked Coltart said in reply. "I know you
guys are very
unhappy but there is no money in Zimbabwe right now full
stop."
Zimbabwean teachers are earning about USD 150 a month, which
the government
calls an allowance. The government says it will only ba ble
to pay a decent
salary to civil servants once its coffers have improved.
Most western
countries have denied assisting Zimbabwe financially, demanding
the full
implementation of the GPA and a stop to human rights
abuses.
Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, recently admitted that Zimbabwe
was on its
own as no-one was interested in lending it money. The
International
financier, International Monetary Fund, said it will resume
lending Zimbabwe
money once it clears all its debts.
http://www.thedailynewszw.com/?p=28864
April 14, 2010
By Our
Correspondent
BULAWAYO - A top Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority
(ZESA) official sent
shock waves through Bulawayo residents attending a
meeting on Tuesday when
he said they should stop complaining over the high
electricity bills they
are currently receiving.
He said ZESA tariffs
were the cheapest in the SADC region.
Many households, especially in
Bulawayo and Harare, are currently receiving
ZESA monthly bills of up to $2
000.
Addressing a public meeting organized by the Competition Tariff
Commission
(CTC) at the Large City Hall, Ernest Machiya, managing director
of the
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a
subsidiary of ZESA, said the authority's tariffs were justified as they were
the lowest in the SADC region.
"We have the cheapest electricity
rates in the region at 7, 50 US cents per
unit. compared to Mozambique's
Electricidade de Mozambique and South Africa's
Eskom who charge 24 US cents
and 12 US cents per unit respectively," said
Machiya.
Asked by a
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) representative
to explain
why then Zimbabweans were receiving such exorbitant bills,
Machiya said the
problem might be that the electricity meters installed on
most houses were
old and out dated.
"What people should understand is that most of our
meter readings are very
old and sometimes give us wrong figures, as time
goes on we will phase them
out but at the moment we have no money to do
that," he said
Machiya also said that ZESA would continue to export
electricity power to
Namibia as the authority needs the money to service
power stations
especially Hwange Power Station which has old
equipment.
"Some people have criticized us for selling electricity to
Namibia at a
time when we have shortages in the country but the main reason
we are doing
this is we need money to refurbish our power stations
which have old
equipment especially at Hwange."
The ZESA boss
accused electricity consumers in Bulawayo and Harare of not
settling bills
on time, saying a total of 102 000 had not paid even a cent
since February
2009. They owed the power utility a total of $347 million, he
said.
Speaking at the same meeting Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
leader Magodonga
Mahlangu accused ZESA of making consumers pay full amounts
on their
electricity when they spent several days of the month without
electricity.
http://en.afrik.com/article17343.html
Wednesday 14 April 2010 /
by Alice Chimora
A member of the dreaded Central Investigative
Organization (CIO) who dared
to publicly criticize President Mugabe was
found dead in Zimbabwe on Monday.
Innocent Makamure’s corpse was found
floating in river in his rural area, in
Manicaland situated in the eastern
part of the country.
Makamure went missing two weeks ago after
apologizing to fellow villagers
for his instrumental role in the torture and
killing of innocent Prime
Minister Morgan Tsvangirai party
supporters.
Manicaland Police spokesperson inspector Philip Makomeke
could not confirm
or deny that the dead body found was that of Makamure.
“All we have is that
Makamure is on our missing persons’ list. I am yet to
check whether he is
the one who was found dead on Monday,” said
Makomeke.
He said there were high chances that out of frustration or
mental
disturbances, Makamure could have committed suicide. “If someone is
highly
frustrated or mentally disturbed, there are chances that such a
person can
commit suicide,” said Makomeke.
However, family members
say he was murdered for publicly criticizing Mugabe.
During his meetings
with villagers, Makamure would say he felt used by
Mugabe to torture
people.
Family members who pleaded for anonymity, due to fear of further
victimization, said they highly suspected foul play. “It is unfortunate that
these people do not reform. They have killed an innocent person because he
had chosen to tell the truth. He had repented and he wanted to live a free
life but they took him and murdered him,” said a family member.
“We
are all shocked because of his death but after missing him for more than
a
week, we suspected something terrible had happened. He is gone and we now
pray for our safety,” said the family member.
Meanwhile, the news
filtered through when MDC further listed three more Zanu
(PF) legislators as
suspects behind the violence in which some 253 people
were killed and around
200,000 displaced following disputes over the March
29, 2008 presidential
vote.
Ministers and MPs from Zanu (PF), security officers as well as
police
officers have so far been named in the so-called ’Name and Shame’
campaign
initiated by the MDC three weeks ago.
Mudzi West MP
Acquiline Katsande, and Guruve South MP Edward
Chindori-Chininga and Chivi
Central MP Paul Mangwana are the latest Zanu PF
legislators to be named.
http://www.zimonline.co.za/
by Ndodana Sixholo Wednesday 14 April
2010
HARARE - Zimbabwe's MDC party on Tuesday said its leader and
the country's
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was not planning to travel to
Europe next
week to call for lifting of sanctions against President Robert
Mugabe and
his inner circle.
Several Press reports over the past week
have suggested that Tsvangirai will
lead a government delegation expected to
leave Harare on April 21 for
Brussels on a mission to push the European
Union (EU) to lift visa and
financial bans imposed on Mugabe and his top
allies eight years ago.
Mugabe says sanctions were imposed at the
instigation of the MDC and insists
that Tsvangirai calls for their removal.
The President and his ZANU PF party
insist that until sanctions are scrapped
they will not fully implement a
global political agreement (GPA) with the
MDC that led to the former foes
forming a power-sharing government last
year.
But MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa told ZimOnline that Tsvangirai
will not
travel to Europe because he was too pre-occupied with "issues of
governance,
the rule of law and issues of the implementation of the
GPA".
Chamisa repeated the MDC's position that that the burden to
persuade Western
countries to lift the punitive measures was not for the
party or Tsvangirai
alone but that of the coalition government, adding that
full implementation
of the GPA would see the EU and the United States that
has also imposed
sanctions scrap the measures.
He said: "It's a
collective responsibility in the transitional government to
seek ways of
re-engaging with the international community through the
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Even the GPA appropriates responsibility on all
the political
parties and not the MDC.
"Once we implement the GPA we believe that all
the other things will fall
into place. So, it's not a question of us
shouting about the removal of
restrictive measures. That will not help at
all."
Mugabe has successfully used the sanctions wrangle to delay
implementation
of key democratic reforms that could weaken his hold power
and see his party
defeated at the next elections that should be held under a
new constitution.
Southern Development Community (SADC) mediator in
Zimbabwe, South African
President Jacob Zuma, has unsuccessfully called on
the US and EU to lift
sanctions to help Zimbabwe's troubled political
transition process to move
forward.
Zuma is soon expected to hand a
report to the SADC's special organ on
politics defence and security on the
Zimbabwean political stalemate. -
ZimOnline
http://www.zimonline.co.za/
by Own Correspondent Wednesday 14 April
2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Vice-President John Nkomo today visits the
controversial
Chiadzwa diamond field to assess operations by two mining
firms – Mbada
Investments and Canadile Miners – two weeks after police
barred
parliamentarians from touring the area.
Mbada and Canadile are
two joint venture firms formed by state-owned
Zimbabwe Mining Development
Corporation (ZMDC) and some South African
investors to exploit the Chiadzwa
deposits, also known as Marange.
Nkomo who in December took over the post
left by the late Vice-President
Joseph Msika – who died last August after a
long illness – will also during
the visit meet with the local villagers of
Chiadzwa and other government
officials, his office said
yesterday.
Parliament’s mines and energy committee, chaired by ZANU PF
legislator
Chindori Chininga, was denied access to the area to acquaint
itself with
operations of the two firms exploiting the resource and to
convene a public
hearing with the locals.
The parliamentary committee
is probing among other things how and why Mbada
and Canadile were licenced
to exploit the Chiadzwa deposits without
following proper
procedures.
Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has admitted that his department
did not follow
proper procedure when it allowed the two firms to work the
Chiadzwa claims
but said it was because the government was in urgent need of
cash from the
diamonds.
The committee earlier this week urged the
authorities to allow the
parliamentarians to visit Chiadzwa, in a statement
that also called on the
Executive to uphold the principle of separation of
powers.
“It is the committee’s stand that the relevant authorities should
uphold the
principle of separation of powers and cooperate with Parliament
in
facilitating the granting of the clearance and allow the committee to
exercise its oversight responsibilities so that it can compile and table its
findings in Parliament without further delay for the interest of the
nation,” said the statement.
“The committee has taken note, with
concern the challenges and unsuccessful
efforts by the Acting Clerk of
Parliament to secure approval of the Ministry
of Mines and Mining
Development to authorise police to grant the clearance
for the to visit the
restricted and reserved Chiadzwa diamonds fields.”
The statement said in
upholding the principle of the separation of powers
among the arms of state,
the committee will not probe the issue before the
courts relating to claims
or special grants ownership dispute between ZMDC
and London-based African
Consolidated Resources (ACR) who hold legal claim
to the
deposits.
Mbada and Canadile were brought to Chiadzwa in a bid to bring
operations at
the notorious field in line with standards stipulated by world
diamond
industry watchdog, the Kimberley Process (KP).
However, the
two companies’ operations in the field are shrouded in
controversy, amid
revelations that some members of the boards of the two
firms were once
illegal drug and diamond dealers in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo and
Sierra Leone.
Some of the directors of the two firms are also known to
have close ties
with Zimbabwe’s military establishment that is accused of
stealing millions
of dollars worth of diamonds from Chiadzwa and offloading
them onto the
foreign black market for precious stones.
Chiadzwa is
one of the world’s most controversial diamond fields with
reports that
soldiers sent to guard the claims after the government took
over the field
in October 2006 from ACR that owned the deposits committed
gross human
rights abuses against illegal miners who had descended on the
field.
Human rights groups have been pushing for a ban on Zimbabwean
diamonds but
last November, the country escaped a KP ban with the global
body giving
Harare a June 2010 deadline to make reforms to comply with its
egulations. – ZimOnline
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:59 UK
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