Globe and Mail, Canada
STEPHANIE NOLEN
From Friday's Globe and
Mail
April 17, 2008 at 10:38 PM EDT
JOHANNESBURG — South African
President Thabo Mbeki, lambasted from all sides
for his approach to the
political turmoil in Zimbabwe, was forced to cede
his “quiet diplomacy”
strategy yesterday, as his government took its
strongest stand ever on the
machinations of Zimbabwean President Robert
Mugabe and his ZANU-PF
party.
Government spokesman Thembo Maseko called the situation in
Zimbabwe “dire”
and said Mr. Mugabe's government should release results of a
presidential
ballot held three weeks ago tomorrow, a vote that the
opposition is widely
believed to have won.
“We are concerned about
the delay in the release of the results and the
anxiety this is causing,” he
said after Mr. Mbeki met with his cabinet
yesterday afternoon. “We're
obviously concerned about the incidence of
violence and the possibility that
the incidence will increase if the results
are not released
speedily.”
Last weekend, Mr. Mbeki flew north to meet with the autocratic
Zimbabwean
leader. He emerged from their talks holding Mr. Mugabe's hand and
said there
is “no crisis” in Zimbabwe.
This despite more than 160
people hospitalized after beatings by police and
militias this week,
inflation of more 168,000 per cent and food supplies
that have all but run
dry.
Mr. Mbeki's words drew strong international condemnation, but they
particularly irritated South Africans, who see the visible proof of a crisis
in the three million Zimbabwean refugees in their country, and were seized
upon by the considerable constituency here that seeks to drive Mr. Mbeki
from power.
The leadership of his own African National Congress has
now openly turned on
him, saying it may open its own “crisis talks” with the
Zimbabwean parties.
“He lost the debate even within cabinet; he's
isolated,” said political
analyst Aubrey Matshiqi. “Clearly there is a
growing disjuncture between the
feelings of ordinary Africans and those
leaders … that don't want to take an
interventionist approach.”
Mr.
Mbeki is the chief international mediator in Zimbabwe and for the past
five
years, he has pushed his policy of “quiet diplomacy,” insisting that
behind-the-scenes talks with Mr. Mugabe and the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change would be the best way to ensure a peaceful, democratic
transition.
But many are weary of this approach, or see it as thinly
veiled cover for
doing nothing. They accuse Mr. Mbeki of emphasizing loyalty
to Mr. Mugabe, a
former comrade in the liberation struggle, over the rights
of Zimbabweans.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the
latest critic yesterday,
when she said African states must “do more” about
Mr. Mugabe's regime, which
she called “an abomination.” British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown said
earlier this week that there must be regional
pressure on Mr. Mugabe. Crowds
of protesters outside the United Nations,
where Mr. Mbeki tried to keep
Zimbabwe off the Security Council agenda on
Wednesday, also slammed his
position.
Zimbabwean opposition leader
Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday that he has
asked the Southern Africa
Development Community, the top regional body, to
replace Mr. Mbeki as a
mediator and to give the job to Zambian President
Levy Mwanawasa, who has
been more critical of Mr. Mugabe.
There are rumours that regional leaders
will hold a second emergency meeting
tomorrow, a week after they last
gathered to discuss the Zimbabwe situation.
Diplomats who attended that
meeting said that Mr. Mwanawasa, as well as the
Tanzanian, Malawian and
Botswanan leaders, all expressed frustration with
both Mr. Mugabe's
intransigence and Mr. Mbeki's approach.
But the heat the South African
leader faces at home is worse. Every senior
figure of the ANC leadership –
from which Mr. Mbeki was ousted last
December, over matters that included
Zimbabwe – has now contradicted his
position.
“The [new leaders] are
a totally different generation from Mbeki, … and they
see the idea of quiet
diplomacy undermining the idea of a liberation
movement,” said William
Mervin Gumede, the author of Thabo Mbeki and the
Battle for the Soul of the
ANC. “Whereas Mbeki sees a liberation movement
giving Mugabe a soft
landing.”
On Wednesday, ANC leader Jacob Zuma spoke of a “deepening
crisis” in
Zimbabwe, a not particularly subtle rebuttal of Mr. Mbeki's “no
crisis”
declaration. Mr. Zuma is a canny populist who recognizes that there
is a
huge constituency in South Africa that would like to see the government
doing something forceful about Zimbabwe. Many of the refugees, whose numbers
swell by the day, are blamed by South Africans for increasing crime and
draining social services.
Mr. Zuma is viewed with suspicion in the
West because he faces an imminent
court case on corruption charges and, last
year, was acquitted of rape in a
sensational trial. In Zimbabwe, he sees an
issue where he can carve out
respectable territory. And his fiercest
supporters, who want Mr. Mbeki to
step down to make room for Mr. Zuma as
president, see an issue on which Mr.
Mbeki may have fatally
stumbled.
Indeed the stakes are now sufficiently high that, Mr. Matshiqi
said, it has
people speculating about why Mr. Mbeki has clung so
determinedly to his
stand.
Mr. Matshiqi said that Mr. Mbeki may have
been unfairly criticized over
Zimbabwe. “South Africa and Mbeki are not as
influential as some tend to
assume. You're dealing with Mugabe as a head of
state who is quite
impervious to external opinion,” he said. “It's quite
possible that he
settled for quiet diplomacy purely by default but not by
design … and to the
extent that quiet diplomacy failed, the other
alternatives have failed too.”
The Telegraph
By Sebastien Berger in Johannesburg
Last Updated: 3:26am
BST 18/04/2008
Zimbabwe was close to a smooth hand-over of
power from Robert Mugabe
to Morgan Tsvangirai before talks collapsed, the
opposition leader claimed
last night.
Morgan Tsvangirai
said his Movement for Democratic Change party was
approached by Mr Mugabe's
envoys about forming a unity government that would
include members of the
ruling Zanu-PF party, only a day after the disputed
March 29
election.
"In fact they were suggesting how many and they were
talking about a
panel from which we were going to choose," Mr Tsvangirai
told the BBC,
indicating that the talks were well-advanced.
But
they collapsed after a few days when some members of the ruling
party would
not accept a deal with the opposition and indicated they were
prepared to
fight for power.
Mr Tsvangirai said that under the deal, he was
prepared to offer Mr
Mugabe a guarantee that he would not be prosecuted, but
would now consider
putting him on trial for trying to "suppress the people"
if he took power.
The disclosure of the proposed deal came as Mr
Tsvangirai accused Mr
Mugabe of misplaced priorities in importing a
controversial shipment of arms
from China which could be used against his
people, rather than buying food
to feed them.
South Africa, which
until Wednesday had been virtually silent on the
Zimbabwe crisis, said it
was powerless to stop the weapons including small
arms ammunition, mortars
and rocket-propelled grenades, passing through its
territory to
Zimbabwe.
The Chinese boat, An Yue Jiang, off Durban, had the
proper
documentation and there was no arms embargo on Zimbabwe, South
African
officials said.
Mr Mugabe's regime stepped up its
battle to retain power yesterday,
accusing Mr Tsvangirai of conspiring with
Gordon Brown to bring about
"regime change". Treason is a capital offence in
Zimbabwe.
"It is clear that Tsvangirai along with Brown are seeking
regime
change in Zimbabwe, and on the part of Tsvangirai, this is
treasonous,"
Patrick Chinamasa, the justice minister, told the Herald
newspaper, a
government mouthpiece.
His comments came after Mr
Brown told the United Nations Security
Council on Wednesday that "no one
thinks Robert Mugabe has won" the
election.
The Herald
yesterday printed a report headed "Tsvangirai's bid for UK
military
intervention exposed", based on what it claimed was an internal
document
from the MDC.
The newspaper said he sought backing for armed
insurrection from an
unlikely alliance of the MDC, farmers, businessmen,
far-Right South Africans
and that country's Democratic Alliance
opposition.
It claimed Mr Tsvangirai's helicopter pilot, arrested
during the
election campaign, was linked to MI6 and flew weapons into the
country.
A letter from Mr Brown was also cited - and pictured - as
alleged
evidence, but the language is unlike anything to have previously
emerged
from Downing Street. The British High Commission in Harare denounced
the
letter as a fraud.
Mr Tsvangirai yesterday called for South
African president Thabo Mbeki
to stand down as a mediator.
Reuters
Thu 17 Apr
2008, 22:13 GMT
By Jeremy Lovell
LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) -
Members of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF were
negotiating for a government of
national unity days after last month's
elections but hardliners scuppered
the deal, opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai said on Thursday.
The
results of a March 29 parliamentary election have been declared, giving
Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) a majority, but those for
a presidential poll have not.
Tsvangirai says he won the presidency,
but President Robert Mugabe, in power
since then Rhodesia won independence
from Britain 28 years ago, has not
conceded. He has called for a recount of
part of the parliamentary vote and
a rerun of the presidential
race.
"We were prepared to consider the issue of an inclusive government,
including some members of ZANU-PF, in fact, they were suggesting how many
and we were talking about a panel from which we were going to choose,"
Tsvangirai told BBC television news in an interview recorded in Johannesburg
on Thursday.
He added that the approach came from Mugabe's party.
ZANU-PF said earlier
there had been an approach for talks from the
MDC.
Tsvangirai said part of the deal had been that no one should lose
their jobs
or face prosecution. The immunity deal would include Mugabe, he
added.
But he said the atmosphere of the talks suddenly
changed.
"The very same people who were coming to us for discussions
organised the
meeting and did not turn up for almost two hours, our guys
left and we
realised that the situation had totally changed, they were back
to their
plan," he said.
"I am sure that the hardliners just put a
stand through the military," he
added, suggesting that Mugabe had been
prepared to go but that he had been
persuaded to stay by senior members of
his party who were afraid of
retribution.
The interview came the same
day as South African President Thabo Mbeki, who
has been criticised for
saying there was no crisis in his northern
neighbour, called for prompt
publication of the election results.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
on a visit to the United States, told a
meeting of the United Nations in New
York on Wednesday that Mugabe was
trying to steal the election.
The
sharp language was endorsed on Thursday by U.S. President George W. Bush
who
told a news conference after meeting Brown he supported his stand on
Zimbabwe.
The former breadbasket of Africa is in the throes of
economic and social
meltdown with inflation running at an annual rate of
over 160,000 percent
and reports of widespread famine and
deaths.
Mugabe blames a colonial plot for the troubles he barely admits
the country
is suffering. (additional reporting by Ibon Villelabeitia)
(Editing by
Elizabeth Piper)
Independent, UK
By a Special
Correspondent
Friday, 18 April 2008
Mike had reached the safety of a
hospital in Harare after being attacked by
President Robert Mugabe's youth
militia a week ago. The 20-year-old's arms
were heavily bandaged from
fingertip to elbow, and his face was scorched
from bundles of burning grass
that been thrust at his eyes and hands.
Struggling for clarity through a
heavy dose of painkillers, Mike told a
story that has become all too
familiar as Mr Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party
take revenge for their
unexpected setback in the elections last month at the
hands of the Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC).
Zanu-PF lost its parliamentary majority, and
the result of the presidential
contest has still not been released, almost
certainly because Mr Mugabe
finished well behind the MDC leader, Morgan
Tsvangirai.
"On Friday I was taking supplies to a shop my family has in
Mudzi [in Mutoko
district, about 90 miles east of the capital]," Mike said.
"About 9pm I was
attacked by Zanu-PF youths from the local area. They said
it was because I
am a member of the MDC, but I couldn't identify any of them
because they
were shoving burning grass in my face. My hands were burnt when
I put them
up to protect myself."
Mike's attackers beat him with
thick wooden staves, breaking his right arm
and dislocating two fingers of
his left hand before looting his shop. Police
took him to the local
hospital, but, crippled by Zimbabwe's economic
collapse, it had no drugs to
treat him and Zanu-PF's other victims. The MDC
had to pay for two trucks to
bring them to the capital.
Many patients had similar stories. In one room
lay an uncle and nephew, the
former with both arms broken, the latter with a
broken leg. In another was a
man with his left arm broken, a fingertip
missing from his right hand and a
severe wound in his leg. He said a man
wearing an MDC T-shirt knocked on his
door and asked where he could find a
local party activist. When the ruse
failed, they attacked him
instead.
Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights said it had treated 173
victims of
organised violence and torture between 29 March and 14
April.
In a statement marking Zimbabwe's independence day today, the US
ambassador,
James McGee, said: "We have disturbing and confirmed reports of
threats,
beatings, abductions, burning of homes and even murder, from many
parts of
the country."
Zanu-PF suffered in the election because
voters in its heartland – the three
provinces of Mashonaland, across the
north and north-east of Zimbabwe –
dared to turn to the opposition. It is
here that the retaliation has been
most brutal. The MDC says at least two of
its supporters have been killed
and scores more badly beaten. One man
recognised his local Zanu-PF MP among
his attackers.
A senior MDC
official, who asked not to be named because of a wave of
arrests of party
figures, said reports were coming in of villagers' huts and
granaries being
torched and livestock being killed. Last week, dissident
policemen said they
had been given orders to seal off areas while the
inhabitants were
terrorised by "war veterans", party militias and members of
the security
forces.
According to an affidavit seen by The Independent, people in
Murewa West, a
rural area of Mashonaland East province where the Zanu-PF MP
lost her seat,
were forced to attend a meeting last Thursday. Zimbabwe's
Minister of
Health, Dr David Parirenyatwa, threatened them with death if
they voted
again for the MDC in a presidential election run-off.
Back
in his hospital bed, Mike has just one question for the outside world.
"Why
is Zimbabwe being overpowered by one person?"
The Sowetan
18
April 2008
Bill Saidi
Last June the then US ambassador to
Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, made a
prediction that must have sent shivers
down the spines of every Zanu-PF
official.
Within
six months, he predicted, Robert Mugabe’s government would be
toppled.
How so? N o government in history ever survived with an
inflation rate of
more than 100000 percent.
Mugabe was almost thumped
out of office by Morgan Tsvangirai last month. The
jury is literally still
out on the final verdict of the presidential
election, but Mugabe will know
he came within a whisker of being thoroughly
humiliated by a man he loves to
call names.
Mugabe’s reaction to Dell’s prediction was very political
.
Many believe he could have reacted by addressing the inflation
conundrum. He
could have made an impassioned appeal to the Chinese to lend
him enough
yuans to pay off his arrears to the International Monetary Fund
and have
them restore his country’s entitlement to balance of payment
funds.
With that grand gesture of penance, he probably would have
persuaded the US,
European Union, Australia, New Zealand and Canada to
resume normal trading
relations with Zimbabwe.
But Mugabe has
convinced colleagues they are still fighting the cold war and
that
imperialism is still the No 1 enemy. Nothing matters more than
sacrificing
even the lives of children and expectant mothers in this fight.
The
immediate “solution” was to decree a price freeze on essential
commodities,
which immediately emptied the shop shelves and must have thrown
thousands
out of jobs and sent would-be investors running.
Unfortunately for
Zimbabweans, Mugabe has very rarely considered their
urgent need for health,
shelter, education, food and transport in the same
context as his mortal
combatant with The Enemy.
Take the origin of the farm invasions. They
were launched after he lost in a
referendum over a new constitution. Again,
he reacted politically to the
humiliation.
There was no ready
blueprint for a smooth takeover of the former commercial
farms. The funds
were just not there for such a massive undertaking. But he
was ready to
apply ad hoc measures to satisfy his and his friends’ political
egos.
What mattered most was the political objective – to sock it to
the West.
Even if you go as far back as Gukurahundi, politics was the
primary
consideration. There was a perceived attempt to overthrow the
politically
dominant Zanu-PF element of the coalition government. That
challenge had to
be ended once and for all and if, in pursuit of that goal,
20 000 citizens
were killed, didn’t the end justify the means ?
If
the present impasse on the election results is not ended equitably,
Zimbabwe
is in for prolonged strife. Eventually, politics could destroy the
country,
if it hasn’t done so already.
Bill Saidi is deputy editor of The
Standard in Zimbabwe.
VOA
By Jonga Kandemiiri
Washington
17 April
2008
Lawyers representing members of the Zimbabwean
opposition arrested Tuesday
in the midst of a general strike called to
pressure the Harare government to
release election results said some 27 of
the detained were freed late
Thursday.
They said the activists were
freed after signing statements admitting guilt
to offenses such as blocking
traffic, and paying fines of Z$40,000 - less
than one U.S. cent. The
country's currency has vastly depreciated amid
hyperinflation of
165,000%.
Members of the Movement for Democratic Change formation headed
by Morgan
Tsvangirai freed Thursday included Shepherd Madamombe, recently
elected
house member for the Harare constituency of Mabvuku-Tafara, accused
of
inciting violence.
But more than 100 others, including MDC
staffers Kudakwashe Matibiri and
Luke Tamborinyoka, and freelance journalist
Frank Chikowore, were still
detained in connection with the burning of a bus
Tuesday in Warren Park,
Harare.
MDC lawyer Charles Kwaramba told
reporter Jonga Kandemiiri that about 120
people have been held by police
since Tuesday.
Wall Street Journal
April 18,
2008
Robert Mugabe is putting on a clinic for African despots. A lost
election,
inflation at 200,000% and the contempt of his people can't budge
the
octogenarian.
The Mugabe regime wobbled, briefly, after the March
29 elections. Opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai humiliated the strongman
by winning close to or
above 50% of the vote in a three-man presidential
race, according to tallies
from individual polling stations. His Movement
for Democratic Change also
wrested control of Parliament from the ruling
ZANU-PF party. Optimists in
Harare speculated that Mr. Mugabe was about to
resign.
That turned out to be wishful thinking. Instead, Mr. Mugabe
regrouped.
Official presidential results haven't been released, and the
regime, which
somehow let the parliamentary results slip out, is now
reviewing votes in
enough districts to make sure ZANU-PF gets back
Parliament. The counting is
unsupervised by independent
observers.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mugabe let his goon squads loose. So-called war
veterans,
often led by military professionals, are out in force. "There is
growing
evidence that rural communities are being punished for their support
for
opposition candidates," the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGee,
said
yesterday. "We have disturbing and confirmed reports of threats,
beatings,
abductions, burnings of homes and even murder, from many parts of
the
country."
This blunt repression has stopped the opposition's
postelection momentum. It
also makes it harder to find a way out of the
crisis. In such a violent
environment, a second round in the presidential
race is all but impossible.
The regime appeared to rule out that prospect
yesterday by accusing Mr.
Tsvangirai of "treason." The Justice Minister
claimed that the opposition
leader plotted with British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown to bring "an illegal
regime change in Zimbabwe."
The old
white colonial bogeyman is another Mugabe favorite. With four in
five people
out of work, millions faced with starvation and millions more
forced to flee
abroad, not many Zimbabweans will fall for it. Yet people are
frightened and
unwilling to stick their necks out if the country's
establishment won't do
so first. A general strike call this week went
unheeded.
A way out
would have to start with Zimbabwe's African neighbors, who have
propped up
the regime for the past decade. Thabo Mbeki is the worst
offender. The South
African President declared last weekend in Harare that
there was "no crisis"
in Zimbabwe. Yesterday his government modified its
tone, expressing
"concern" about the delay in the release of election
results. But also last
weekend, at the meeting of southern African states in
Zambia, no one had a
critical word to say about Mr. Mugabe.
Another stolen Zimbabwe election,
amid closed regional eyes, reinforces the
worst stereotypes about Africa. A
rare encouraging sign comes from Jacob
Zuma, the new African National
Congress President who is next in line for
South Africa's presidency. He
rebuked Mr. Mbeki this week, saying, "The
region cannot afford a deepening
crisis in Zimbabwe."
Zimbabwe's long-suffering people are no different
from Serbs in 2000 or
Filipinos in 1986 who seized an election opportunity
to push an illegitimate
ruler out. The principle of "one man, one vote" is
as valid in Africa as
anywhere else. Unfortunately for Zimbabwe, one man –
Comrade Bob – stands in
the way.
Globe and Mail, Canada
DAVID
MOORE AND DAVID SANDERS
Special to Globe and Mail Update
April 17,
2008 at 7:18 PM EDT
Only Robert Mugabe and his cronies benefit if
Zimbabwe's deepening,
desperate impasse remains. The concatenation of vote
rigging, international
intervention and talk of governments-in-exile merely
buy time for the
dictatorship.
As the regime's sell-by date lingers,
Zimbabwe rots. Its whirling decline
and rocketing repression bring more
brutality, nastiness and pestilence to
all but the parasitic elite. Any
government of “national unity” – the South
African and international
community's mutual mirage – will fail unless it
encompasses the popular will
demonstrated by the Movement for Democratic
Change's fourth victory since
real electoral races began in 2000.
A unity government will only
consolidate Zimbabwe's exchange-rate-rich
bourgeoisie. Progressive elements
of the MDC and civil society can either
accept this blight or halt Mugabeism
by other means. Some historical lessons
might enable the means and ends to a
better prospect.
Zimbabwe's political past tells us that Mr. Mugabe has
answered challenges
with repression for 32 years now. Back then, he was
opposed by
constellations resembling today's democratic impulses and radical
projects.
There were elements of civil society, younger generations,
party-building
efforts, radical democracy, pushes to national unity – even
factions of the
military. If the democrats against him now forget this
history, they're
myopic. If they remember its ideological and political
elements but ignore
the military, they are utopian. Coercion, consent and
negotiation were
wrapped up in the war of liberation. The Zimbabwean state's
current heavy
securitization means the military role still cannot be
ignored.
In 1975, efforts by South Africa and Zambia to create a
government-in-waiting of national unity among factions of Zimbabwe's
national liberation movement (for which Mr. Mugabe was released from
Rhodesia's prisons) failed. Zimbabwean African National Union national
chairman Herbert Chitepo was assassinated and the party
disintegrated.
A group of young Marxists filled the vacuum, restarting
the liberation war.
Resembling some of today's civil-society activists, they
tried to unify
liberation armies, establish innovative educational
structures and work with
progressive regional power-brokers. However, in
1976, Mr. Mugabe travelled
to Mozambique to join the eastern flank of the
liberation struggle. His move
to the top culminated in his alliance with
British and U.S. foreign-policy
makers who sought to stem the rise of
Zimbabwean radicalism. By early 1977,
those attempting to unify the armies
of ZANU and ZAPU – the Zimbabwean
African People's Union, led by Joshua
Nkomo – were dumped in Mozambique's
prisons at Mr. Mugabe's instigation.
Hundreds of young supporters were
brutally incarcerated in ZANU training
camps.
Although these militarily and ideologically savvy young Turks
trained
thousands of recruits in the Tanzanian and Mozambican camps, they
failed to
make strong alliances with the core of their army's security
forces. Mr.
Mugabe brought the leaders of the military's old guard to his
side after
their release from Zambia's prisons, where they were held under
suspicion of
having murdered Mr. Chitepo. This was the undoing of the new
united army,
ZIPA. In 1978, more “dissident” cadres were tortured and
imprisoned in
Mozambique. After independence, an assault on ZAPU in
Matabeleland by ZANU's
notorious 5th Brigade logically followed. As many as
20,000 were killed
between 1982 and 1986.
In 2000, ZIPA's core
reappeared in the Zimbabwe Liberators' Platform,
genuine war veterans
countering the many posers enrolled in ZANU-PF's
land-invasion strategy
against the MDC. The veterans' initial activist
inclinations were
resurrected as they joined the Crisis in Zimbabwe
Coalition, which was
temporarily paralyzed by secret police infiltrators.
Now back in action,
it urged last week that parliament be immediately sworn
in to oversee the
electoral process's next stage. It called for genuine
liberation war
fighters and security commanders to “uphold their
constitutional duty to
respect the outcome of the election as the genuine
sovereign expression of
the popular will of Zimbabweans. To act otherwise
would be a treasonable
offence for which they will stand accountable and
answerable jointly and
severally.”
This statement echoes ZIPA's recognition of the importance of
the fusion of
military, civil and political fronts. Now, civil society and
party activists
must look to the soldiers and police, most of whom are from
the working and
middle classes. They suffer along with their families, and
most do not
support Mr. Mugabe – the forces meting out the current
repression are
paramilitary and ragged “war vets,” not regular
troops.
It may be that peace-loving people, including intellectuals, will
find it
necessary to resist by force the violence of the Mugabe thugs. In
any event,
the task at hand is to persuade the fusion of progressive fronts
to take
forward the process begun in 1975.
Progressive Zimbabweans
must make strategic alliances and maintain the
mobilization. The next stage
is just over the horizon.
David Moore teaches politics and development
studies at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal and has been researching and
writing on Zimbabwean politics
since 1984. David Sanders, a Zimbabwean,
heads the School of Public Health
University of the Western Cape
Church Times, UK
18 April, 2008
by Pat Ashworth
THE POLITICAL impasse in
Zimbabwe is hampering the humanitarian aid
effort, says a statement issued
by Save the Children last Friday. It
estimates that one third of children in
rural areas are chronically
malnourished.
“Children we are
working with are trying to survive on bitter wild
fruit that they mix with
ash to soften the taste,” said Rachel Pounds, the
charity’s country director
in Zimbabwe.
“Many have been forced to drop out of school
because they have no
clothes, are too weak to travel the long distances, or
have to try and find
work in an attempt to get food or money for their
families.” Children are
also bearing the brunt of the HIV and AIDS epidemic
in Zimbabwe.
Aid organisations are finding themselves unable to
deliver aid, said
Ms Pound. She spoke of undistributed stocks of mosquito
nets and kits to
help children look after relatives with AIDS and not become
infected
themselves.
“None of [this] can be delivered until
there is a resolution to this
crisis. The chronic shortages in the country
are also impeding what we can
do. We can’t even buy seed to distribute in
preparation for next year’s
harvest.”
The failure of
Zimbabwe’s neighbours, the Southern African Development
Community (SADC), to
do more than recommend the “expeditious” release of the
election results
provoked fury and despair this week.
Amid clear evidence of the
intimidation, torture, and abduction of
voters who supported the opposition
party, the Movement for Democratic
Change, the Bishop of Natal, the Rt Revd
Rubin Phillip, called on South
African church leaders to rediscover their
prophetic voice. They should
engage the country’s politicians on the
question of Zimbabwe.
Speaking from Natal on Tuesday, Bishop
Phillip said that despondency
had “grabbed the hearts” of Zimbabweans. “They
had really hoped SADC would
pull them out of this mess by at least setting
some deadlines for Mugabe.
Nothing has happened. Local people fear it could
drag on for months.”
The Bishop promoted an ecumenical mission
from churches in Durban and
Pietermaritzburg before and during the election.
The mission confirmed the
heavy pre-election bias of state-run media: “The
few reports on other
political parties were always negative to the point of
being abusive.”
The mission also observed ZANU-PF “using food,
tractors, buses,
computers, and many other goods to entice the voters”. It
is in possession
of a letter stipulating that people had to be approved by
ZANU-PF in order
to get food from the Grain Marketing
Board.
Bishop Phillip, who this week received photos of people
who had been
tortured and beaten in the aftermath of the elections, declares
himself
“perplexed by the muted response of many of our leaders in South
Africa, and
their lack of urgency in the face of imminent civil
strife”.
He also expressed himself grieved by the “weak and
pathetic” response
of the Anglican Church in South Africa, which had been so
prophetic on
apartheid. The only public comment on Zimbabwe that the synod
of bishops had
made was within a general Easter statement that included a
hope that
“elections [in various societies] must not fall into chaos,
manipulation or
post-election violence”.
www.savethechildren.org.uk
Financial Times
By Alec Russell in
Johannesburg and William Wallis in,London
Published: April 18 2008 03:00
| Last updated: April 18 2008 03:00
South Africa faced fresh
embarrassment over its relations with Zimbabwe last
night as officials
confirmed they had cleared a shipment of arms to dock at
the port of Durban
for transit to its northern neighbour.
The case threatens to embroil
Beijing, Harare's most important ally in
recent years, as the ship carrying
the cargo, the An Yue Jiang, is Chinese.
With China facing embarrassment
over its crackdown in Tibet and over its
links with Sudan, diplomats say the
last thing it needs ahead of the Beijing
Olympics is a furore over its ties
with Zimbabwe.
The South African newspaper Beeld said a copy of the
ship's cargo
documentation showed it was carrying almost 3m rounds of
ammunition suitable
for AK-47 assault rifles. There were also reports that
the shipment
contained mortar bombs and rocket-propelled grenade
equipment.
Police confirmed that the shipment included arms, sparking an
outcry and
demands from the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance,
for it to
be impounded. The discovery comes at a sensitive time for South
Africa's
government as it faces international criticism of its "quiet
diplomacy"
towards Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president.
Mr Mugabe
faces accusations of trying to steal last month's presidential
election.
Harare's electoral authorities have not released the results
almost three
weeks after the polls closed. Supporters of the opposition
Movement for
Democratic Change - which says it won the election - are being
intimidated
by statesponsored militias.
Themba Maseko, the South African government's
chief spokesman, said the
authorities could not prevent the shipment
reaching its destination. Mr
Maseko said South Africa had to be seen to be
"treading very carefully" in
its relations with Zimbabwe, given its role as
chief mediator between the
MDC and Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF.
Arms control
lobbyists disagreed. "The South African government has a legal
obligation,
as well as a moral obligation, not to issue the permit to allow
the weapons
to leave Durban port," said Joseph Dube, Africa co-ordinator for
the
International Action Network on Small Arms, a global weapons control
lobby
group.
Mbeki urged to quit Zimbabwe role
Pretoria's year-old role
as chief mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis was thrown
into doubt last night
after Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean MDC opposition
leader, called on
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to step down.
In a sign of the
increasing divisions in the region, Mr Tsvangirai called on
the Southern
African Development Community, the regional grouping, to lead a
new
initiative led by the Zambian government. "President Mbeki needs to be
relieved of his duties," Mr Tsvangirai said.
He said Levy Mwanawasa,
Zambia's president, who last year described Zimbabwe
as a "sinking Titanic",
should head a new effort to resolve the crisis.
Mail and Guardian
Sam Sole | Durban, South Africa
18 April 2008
07:10
The South African government is determined to allow the
export
of a large consignment of Chinese weapons and ammunition to the
Zimbabwe
Defence Force (ZDF).
The Mail & Guardian has
confirmed that AB Logistics, state-owned
Armscor's transport arm, has been
approached to handle the transport of the
weapons to Zimbabwe, after several
private logistics firms backed out of the
transport contract because of the
sensitive cargo and concerns about the
ability of the Zimbabwean government
to pay the transport costs.
The government's role flies in
the face of growing evidence of a
campaign of human rights abuse intended to
intimidate supporters of the
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) -- and
independent observers'
assessment that there is a de facto military
government in Zimbabwe.
This week, noseweek editor Martin
Welz blew the whistle on the
arms shipment, following the leaking to
noseweek of the delivery
documentation.
The documents,
which the M&G has obtained, show that six
containers of weapons destined
for the ZDF were shipped to Durban by the
Chinese government-controlled
conglomerate Poly Technologies for onward
transport to Harare. The
consignment comprises three million rounds of AK-47
ammunition, 1 500
rocket-propelled grenades and more than 3 000 mortar
rounds together with
mortar tubes.
It is aboard the Chinese vessel An Yue Jiang,
which was, at the
time of going to press, still waiting for a harbour berth
in Durban.
An employee of AB Logistics in Durban, who asked
not to be
named, said: "We have been asked to assist this tie because their
usual
agents couldn't handle this delivery ... At AB we all have the
necessary
security clearance, but it's up to the government to say whether
the
shipment must take place."
But government
spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Thursday that
South Africa was "not in a
position to act unilaterally and interfere in a
trade deal between two
countries".
"South Africa is not at all involved in the
arrangement: it's a
matter between the two countries. It would be possible,
but very difficult
for South Africa to start intervening and saying that we
will not allow the
shipment through," Maseko told a media
briefing.
Indications are that the consignment is a rushed
delivery. It
left China on March 15, days before the Zimbabwean elections,
and apparently
arrived off Durban on April 10 without the necessary
documents to allow its
entry into port.
Defence Secretary
January Masilela said he had issued a
conveyance permit on Monday after
being alerted. He said the permit,
allowing the weapons to transit through
South Africa, was issued in terms of
powers granted to him to make
determinations between sittings of the
national conventional arms control
committee (NCACC).
Normally such permits would be sought well
ahead of the shipment
of the weapons.
Masilela said he
had "informed" Defence Minister and NCACC
chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota and
Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi of
the permit issue. He said: "The
position on arms to Zimbabwe is that we
trade normally with Zimbabwe; there
is no embargo."
Asked whether consideration had been given to
NCACC policy,
which discourages weapons exports to conflict zones and
countries involved
in the "systematic violation or suppression of
humanitarian rights and
fundamental freedoms", Masilela said he could not
take account of
"allegations".
He said there was no
United Nations or African Union embargo on
the supply of weapons to
Zimbabwe, nor was there a Cabinet decision, as in
the case of
Israel.
Attempts to get comment from Mufamadi were
unsuccessful.
The M&G has also established that the chief
inspector of
explosives -- whose approval is also required for the shipment
to proceed --
dispatched an inspector to Durban from Pretoria on the first
flight
available on Thursday morning. He is expected to check safety aspects
of the
consignment as soon as the vessel docks, but the policy decision has
already
been taken by the NCACC.
Meanwhile, the
International Action Network on Small Arms has
called on the South African
government to prevent the trans-shipment of the
weapons to Zimbabwe "in view
of the strong likelihood that such arms will be
used in Zimbabwe ... to
contribute to the violent attacks on civilians and
the abuse of fundamental
human rights including the suppression of
democracy".
Democratic Alliance defence spokesperson Rafeek Shah said on
Thursday: "If
the government allows the weapons consignment to cross South
African
territory unhindered, and stands idly by while these weapons are
used to
suppress the Zimbabwean people, then any pretence that we are an
honest
broker in the Zimbabwean electoral process will be exposed for the
sham that
it is."
International Herald Tribune
By Graham Bowley Published: April 18, 2008
The
verbal salvos over Zimbabwe's disputed election escalated on Thursday,
with
the government accusing the opposition of treason, South Africa
toughening
its position by calling for the release of election results and
the
Zimbabwean opposition demanding that South Africa bow out as the
mediator of
the political standoff.
Zimbabwe's government, in a state-run newspaper,
said it had uncovered a
plot by the opposition to conspire with Britain to
topple President Robert
Mugabe, who has led the nation since its
independence 28 years ago. The
government paper printed a 2,200-word
document — which both British and
opposition officials have dismissed as
fake — laying out a plan to "bring
about change at any cost."
"This
amounts to treason," said Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwe's justice
minister,
according to local news reports.
Zimbabwean opposition officials said the
government was simply trying to
manufacture a case to round up opposition
leaders.
"The intention is to justify atrocities," said Nelson Chamisa, a
spokesman
for the main opposition party, Movement for Democratic
Change.
Chamisa said that the atrocities had already begun and that
hundreds of
opposition supporters had been detained and badly beaten. He
said that
opposition leaders were worried after seeing the article in the
state-run
newspaper that the crackdown was only going to get
worse.
"Nobody's safe," he said.
Zimbabwe has been pitched into
uncertainty since a presidential election
last month between Mugabe, an
84-year-old former guerrilla fighter, and
Morgan Tsvangirai, the top
opposition leader. Independent election monitors
have said that Tsvangirai
won more votes, but Zimbabwe's election commission
has refused to release
final results, and now it appears the two men are
headed toward a run-off.
Many Zimbabweans fear it could get bloody. A court
case on the government's
demand for a partial recount was postponed on
Thursday until
Friday.
Tsvangirai's party has complained bitterly that South Africa, the
most
powerful country in the region, is not putting enough pressure on
Mugabe to
step down. Last week, South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, urged
the world
to be patient and denied that Zimbabwe was in the throes of a
political
crisis.
The country's economy is in a free-fall, with an
official inflation rate of
more than 160,000 percent, and millions of
impoverished Zimbabweans have
already fled into South Africa.
On
Thursday, the South African government seemed to change tack, calling for
election results to be released as soon as possible.
"The situation
could escalate and soon get out of hand," said Themba Maseko,
a South
African government spokesman.
These were the most alarmist words yet from
South Africa, but still, they
did not satisfy Zimbabwe's opposition leaders.
On Thursday, Tsvangirai said
at a news conference that Mbeki should step
down as the mediator between
Mugabe and the opposition. Mbeki has been
appointed that role by a regional
bloc of 14 African
nations.
Chamisa, the opposition spokesman, said that Mbeki's approach of
soft
diplomacy and non-confrontation was pointless with a government that
was
intent on using intimidation and brutality to stay in power.
"If
you could just see the people here, they're all walking around shaking
their
head at what Mbeki is doing," Chamisa said by telephone from
Zimbabwe.
South Africa's government bristled at the
criticism.
"Our president has been the only leader who has rolled up his
sleeves and
talked to both parties," Maseko said.
He said that it was
thanks to the steady, pre-election mediation efforts by
South Africa that
Zimbabwe's voting was as transparent as it was, with the
results from each
polling station tacked to the door.
"This will go down in history as one
of the most peaceful elections in
Zimbabwe's history," Maseko
said.
But international criticism of the elections have been widespread.
Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that Zimbabwe's African
neighbors
had to do more to solve the crisis, and described Mugabe's last
few years of
rule as an "abomination."
The election has been
particularly difficult for foreign journalists to
cover. Most who applied
for official permission to come to Zimbabwe as
journalists have been denied.
Several journalists have been arrested,
including Barry Bearak, one of The
New York Times correspondents based in
South Africa. Bearak was released
from the country on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Jonathan Clayton, an Africa
correspondent for the Times of
London, left the country after being jailed,
tortured and interrogated by
the Zimbabwean security services, the Times
said.
Clayton was arrested last Wednesday after flying into the country,
but was
quickly spirit away by the authorities.
"The chief
interrogator kicked the soles of my feet and then hit me across
the face,"
Clayton said, according to the Times. "He warned me that he'd
count to five
and do it again. He tried to make me stand on my head and
stand on one leg.
I did very badly and got angry."
Clayton was eventually acquitted of the
primary charge of falsifying his
immigration form but found guilty of making
a false declaration and fined.
Graham Bowley reported from New York and a
Zimbabwean journalist contributed
from Harare, Zimbabwe
Yahoo News
by
Susan Njanji 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's
beleaguered President Robert Mugabe was set to
make Friday his first keynote
speech since the country's disputed polls at
celebrations to mark the 28th
anniversary of the country's independence.
Mugabe was scheduled to be the
main speaker at a rally at the Gwanzura
stadium in Highfield, a suburb of
Harare which was once one of the hotbeds
of opposition to the erstwhile
whites-only regime of Ian Smith.
The 84-year-old president, still regarded as
a hero in many parts of Africa
for his leading role in the 1970s liberation
war, is facing the biggest
threat to his grip on power which began with
independence on April 18, 1980.
His ruling party lost control of
parliament in elections on March 29 and,
even though the results have yet to
be announced, his camp has already
acknowledged he failed to win a majority
over opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai in a simultaneous presidential
election.
While Mugabe has made few public comments since the elections,
he told a
group of youngsters on Thursday that it was vital to defend the
country
against British "imperialism".
"We should not let our
children down by dropping our guard against
imperialism, British
imperialism, which is surreptitiously and clandestinely
weaving its way
through our society trying to divide us," he told hundreds
of children at an
eve-of-independence party in the capital Harare.
Mugabe was expected to
expand on his theme at the independence day
celebrations which he has
previously used as an opportunity to paint
Tsvangirai and his Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) as puppets of the
British.
Tsvangirai was set
to be absent from the anniversary celebrations, having
been accused by
Mugabe's government of "treason" after he allegedly courted
Britain to
intervene militarily in its former colony.
The correspondence, published
in the state-run Herald newspaper, was
dismissed by the British embassy in
Harare as a hoax.
In a press conference in Johannesburg on Thursday,
Tsvangirai said the
country known as Rhodesia during British rule was facing
its darkest days
since independence.
"This is the saddest
independence day since our liberation from colonial
rule," said Tsvangirai
in an address to reporters in which he also accused
Mugabe's followers of
embarking on a campaign of violence and intimidation
against supporters of
the opposition MDC.
In an independence day message, the US ambassador to
Zimbabwe also charged
that MDC supporters had been murdered, abducted and
forced from their homes
in a spate of violence in rural areas since last
month's elections.
"Sadly, as Zimbabwe celebrates its 28th birthday, many
Zimbabweans are
unable to celebrate. What should be a proud and joyful day
for Zimbabweans
is overshadowed by uncertainty and fear," Ambassador James
McGee said.
International pressure for the release of the poll results
has been steadily
growing with the South African cabinet calling on Thursday
for the outcome
to be declared as soon as possible.
Frustrated at
South African President Thabo Mbeki's refusal to publicly
criticise Mugabe,
Tsvangirai has called for Mbeki to be "relieved of his
duties" as a mediator
in Zimbabwe.
US President George W. Bush has also criticised the
softly-softly approach
of some African leaders.
"I appreciate those
in the region who have spoken out on this issue --
appreciate the fact that
some in the region have spoken out against
violence. More leaders in the
region need to speak out," Bush said after
talks with Britain's Prime
Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday.
SABC
April 18, 2008,
07:15
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says today is the
saddest
Independence Day in Zimbabwe. Today marks 28 years since Zimbabwe's
independence from Britain in 1980.
President Robert Mugabe is set to
address the main celebrations in the
capital Harare. Results from last
month's presidential elections are still
outstanding, almost three weeks
after the poll. Tsvangirai says there is
nothing to celebrate. "Zimbabwe is
among the worst humanitarian case of the
new century, Zimbabweans have no
food, no schools and hospitals because of
Mugabe's policies" says
Tsvangirai.
Yesterday President Mugabe urged hundreds of youths to defend
the country
against what he called British imperialism. He said the British
were trying
to divide the people of Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile Tsvangirai
has called on Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa to lead
new mediation efforts
to resolve the election crisis. Tsvangirai yesterday
said President Thabo
Mbeki should be relieved of his duties as mediator, as
the new initiative
will expand beyond him.
Executive Director of Research at Unisa,
Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, says
Tsvangirai's call for Mbeki to recuse
himself as mediator is nothing but an
expression of frustration.
SABC
April 18, 2008,
06:00
Zimbabweans living in South Africa will march in Musina, Limpopo,
today to
demonstrate against their country's independence celebrations. The
group,
known as the Peace and Democracy Project, are also calling for the
release
of Zimbabwe's election results.
Today marks the 28th
anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence from Britain in
1980. Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe is set to address the main
celebrations in the
capital Harare amid a climate of political uncertainty.
Results from last
month's presidential elections are still outstanding, more
than two weeks
after the poll. Shrugging off the delayed results saga,
Mugabe kicked off
Independence Day celebrations with a children's party in
Harare.
Public attendance and participation in the celebrations will
be watched
keenly as many feel disillusioned by the results impasse. A
controversial
recount of ballots in 23 constituencies is set to get underway
tomorrow.
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Below are the numbers with the names......
If dialing by
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traced that
way.
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There
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to
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A phone campaign
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across the globe and
Zimbabweans abroad are taking action by phoning top
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Please do your bit and call today and tell them we want the
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If you wish to hide your number, use phone cards, dial 141
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Please pass this
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Hamuyarira
Nathan SHAMUYARIRA : 04 862073 6
7 RUBIDGE CL BORROWDALE
SAMUEL
MUMBENGEGWI MUMBENGEGWI S C: 04 882930
22 STOUR ROAD VAINONA
BORROWDALE
CHIMUTENGWENDE C C C: 04 251386
8 SAN FERNANDO 130 FIFE AVE
HARARE
CHIHURI AUGUSTINE: 04 862410
431 BINTON RD
BORROWDALE
Mnangagwa - 011 605700
OFFICE OF PRESIDENT 04
252440
MUNHUMUTAPA BLDG S MACHEL AVE HARARE
Francis Nhema: 04
882926
3 FARTHINGHILL P O BORROWDALE
BVUDZIJENA WAYNE: 04 884971
75
SRONECHAT LANE BORROWDALE
CHIYANGWA P HON: 04 883148
8 HOBOURNE HILL
BALLANTYNE PARK HARARE
KANGAI K M: 04 861944
25 GLENFOREST RD
BORROWDALE HARARE
MANGWANA P M: 04 797845
9 BATH RD
AVONDALE
TOBAIWA MUDEDE MUDEDE T: 04 860033
903 TOP CLOSE HATCLIFFE
BORROWDALE
O.MUCHINGURI(mugabe's ex-girlfriend): 020 61840
4 BAHUNIA
CLOSE MUTARE
CIO boss BONYONGWE H: 04 497849
76 ORANGE GROVE DR
HIGHLANDS
Ministry of CIO NICHOLAS T.GOCHE: 0718 2204
CERES FARM
SHAMVA 0718 2205
SEKERAMAI S T THE HON: 04 860042
MADE J M: 04
492982
101 HARARE DR ATHLONE HARARE
CHOMBO I DR HON: 067 25297
221
CHITOMBORWIZI CHINHOYI
MUJURU JOICE T.R: 04 443062
18 COGHLAN RD
GREENDALE
BARWE REUBEN: 04 740245
51 LAWLEY AVE BELVEDERE
HARARE
MSIKA J W (Vice PRESIDENT): 04 883097
11 NIGELS LANE
HIGHLANDS
Dydimus MUTASA(CIO): 02582 2087
STD NO. 201
HEADLANDS
Saviour Kasukuwere:04 369444
19 TWICKENHAM DR MT
PLEASANT
Patreck Chinamasa( this one crafting all the laws to oppress
the masses):04
860006
2 HONEY BEAR LANE BORROWDALE HARARE
Joseph
Chinotimba(War vet idiot): 04 614826
State House Office of the
President:
700071, 700073-76, 700098, 701947, 701956, 708682, 708690, 708691,
708712
Police Commisioner
Augustine Chihuri: 250008/792621/
700171
Home Affairs Minister
Kembo Mohadi: 011-605424/ 430422/ 794628/
703695
Text him 011-605424
State Security Minister
Didymus Mutasa:
011200532-774189
Resident Governor for Matabeleland
Cain Matema: cell
no: 011871431
Work no: 09 887596 .
ZVINAVASHE VITALIS: 062 2371 or 062
3007
MERTON PARK FARM NORTON
CHIWENGA CONSTANINO GUVEY: 04
862530
614 NICK PRICE RD BORROWDALE HARARE
MORE NUMBERS ON
http://www.telone.co.zw
Amos
Midzi: 04 301712
Charm Muchinguri: 04 496629
Minister of Economic
Development
Sylvester Nguni: 04-862032 / 04-862035
Obert Mpofu: 09
246060
Bulawayo CID: 09 884132
SAMUEL MUMBENGEGWI: 04 882930
22
STOUR ROAD VAINONA BORROWDALE
Shamuyarira Nathan: 04 862073
67 RUBIDGE
CL BORROWDALE
MPOFU OBERT 04 852033/4
2501 GAYDON RD GREYSTONE PARK
BORROWDALE
Lt Co, Mazaiwana: 04 741 604
Chihuri cell is:
+26311808290
Bvudzijena cell is: +26311801172
Lt Co Sedze L: 04
860533
Herald House and ask for the Editor: 708296 / 704088 / 794893 /
705199
Lt Tsodzai: 04 860 953
Made: 04 860 953
CHIHURI
AUGUSTINE: 04 862410
Chihuri cell: +263 11808290
CHIWENGA: 04
862530
BUKA FLORA :04 745342
14270 STRAKER AVE GUNHILL
HARARe
BONYONGWE Happyton ( CIO director): 04 497849
76 ORANGE GROVE
DR HIGHLANDS
Here are some FAX numbers:
President's
Office: +263 4 708848
Fidelity Printers: +263 4 486474
RBZ: +263 4
707800 / +263 4 706450
Min. Info & Pub: +263 4 790402 / +263 4
707768
Min. Ind & Int Trade: +263 4 704116 / +263 4
729311
Min. Of Chombo: +263 4 792307
UPDATING
NUMBERS....
Gono's Office: 703096
Presidential guard: 707745
or 707451---2156