Zim Daily
Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 12:45
AM BST
Contributed by: correspondent
The
ruling Zanu PF party is printing thousands of 'MDC
T-Shirts' to be worn by
Zanu PF thugs in order to spark trouble during the
nationwide mass
confrontation that have been planned by the opposition at
the onset of the
cold season, Zimdaily can reveal. Zimdaily unveils the
covert plan as the
Zimbabwean army units begin deploying across the country
in preparation for
the planned opposition protest aimed at expressing
disgust over President
Robert Mugabe maladministration and marauding
tyranny.
Government officials said soldiers in barracks around Harare
were moving
weapons and deploying in other cities and towns. Zimdaily heard
that the
ruling party was intent on using its green bombers, spotting MDC
t-shirts,
to stir mayhem during the protests and give the army room to use
live
ammunition against unarmed civilians.
Opposition leader
Morgan Tsvangirai has insisted the protest
should be a "peaceful democratic
mass confrontation." The deployments
followed a public threat by President
Mugabe during the funeral of his
aide-de-camp that he would ruthlessly crush
the protests called by the MDC.
Officials said the entire
Zimbabwean army had been mobilised and
officers' leave cancelled. The MDC
raised the stakes weekend during a first
leg of nationwide rallies by
insisting that it would press ahead with its
plans. MDC leader Morgan
Tsvangirai said he was ready to go to jail or die
for the liberation of
Zimbabwe against Mugabe's marauding tyranny. Justice
Minister Patrick
Chinamasa warned yesterday that the planned demonstrations,
illegal under
the country's strict security laws, would be met with "the
full wrath of the
law."
Chinamasa said this means the opposition has threatened
to
remove Mugabe from office by unconstitutional means. "The state cannot
take
such threats lightly," he told Zimdaily yesterday. The justice minister
said
the opposition's call for Zimbabweans to take to the streets meant they
were
bent on a campaign of violence and anarchy against the government
intended
to result in the overthrow of Mugabe's office. The opposition has
promised
only peaceful protests. "Resort to a coup d'etat is
unconstitutional and
unlawful and thus constitutes the serious crime of high
treason," Chinamasa
said, repeating an earlier mantra by Home Affairs chief
kembo Mohadi last
week.
The army said it would not
tolerate the protests because they
were likely to turn violent. Mugabe
warned the MDC that it had no chance of
pushing him out of power. He said
the opposition would rule Zimbabwe only
"over our dead bodies" and said "it
will never happen." The Zimbabwe Defence
Forces warned the MDC that it was
"standing ready" to resist against
violence. But the MDC has called upon the
army to disobey "illegal orders"
to suppress the will of the
people.
The MDC blames Mugabe's government for the crippling
economic
problems in the country and says it has popular support for the
marches.
Inflation is running at close to 800 percent and
shortages of
food and fuel are causing intense hardships for Zimbabweans.
Tsvangirai told
a rally weekend that protests would go ahead in defiance of
angry reactions
from the ruling elite. He warned his supporters not to be
intimidated by
shows of force by the army or police. Starting yesterday,
members of the
police force and the army have started jogging across the
city centre, clad
in white jogger shorts and white vests with some of them
brandishing
firearms. Residents feel intimidated by the gun toting
soldiers.
People have been panic buying this week amid fears
of a mass
shutdown. Zimdaily understands soldiers and police were deployed
in populous
suburbs on Saturday in what a spokesperson said was a bid to
"reassure
peace-loving Zimbabweans that the uniformed forces have the
capacity to deal
with anarchy, sabotage and banditry." But Tsvangirai said:
"If the people of
Zimbabwe are going to be intimidated by army or police
presence then they
must accept the status quo for ever." Zimdaily heard that
to counter Zanu
PF's insidious plan to give green bombers MDC T-Shirts, the
opposition was
looking at ways to counter the plan, which could include a
call on all
protesters not to wear any MDC regalia.
Zim Daily
Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 12:43 AM BST
Contributed by:
correspondent
The embattled airline Air Zimbabwe, one of whose
planes had to
make an emergency landing to refuel in Lusaka, Zambia,
yesterday morning,
has only three days' supply of Jet A1 fuel left. The
national airline might
have to ground some of its planes if it does not
receive deliveries by
Friday. While it was not possible to obtain comment
from Air Zimbabwe
spokesman David Mwenga, sources at the airline confirmed
that the airline's
fuel stocks were running low.
The
source, however, denied that the plane that made an
emergency stop-over in
Lusaka yesterday, delaying passengers, had run out of
fuel. The sources said
the Harare-bound flight, UM767 from London, had been
diverted to Lusaka to
refuel to enable it to fly to Johannesburg. He said
Air Zimbabwe had opted
to refuel in Lusaka to conserve the low stocks in
Harare. "You have to
understand that we are facing severe fuel shortages in
this country. But it
is absolutely not true that the plane had run out of
fuel," he said. "We
wanted to use the same plane to go to Johannesburg.
"But
since we did not have enough Jet A1 here, it had to divert
its route to
Lusaka for refuelling." Zimbabwe is facing a severe shortage of
liquid fuel,
stemming from a serious foreign currency squeeze that has
adversely affected
the country's industry and commerce. The crisis has also
crippled the public
transport system. The government, in a desperate move,
has asked banks to
source foreign currency from the parallel market at
whatever rate to ease
the worsening crisis.
The source said the national airliner,
which is already
operating below capacity because of a decline in
international and domestic
travellers, had enough stocks of Jet A1 fuel to
last between two and three
days. The parastatal had no indication as of
yesterday when it might next
receive supplies. "We have enough stocks for
two to three days. Fuel
companies would be in a position to say when the
next deliveries of Jet A1
will come," he said. He said there was little the
airline could do once
stocks ran out but to wait for deliveries. Meanwhile
Zimbabwe should brace
for a fresh round of fuel price increases, in line
with the rising wholesale
fuel price in South Africa, the country's biggest
source for fuel. South
Africa's department of minerals and energy announced
last Friday that the
wholesale price of diesel will go up by as much as 25.6
cents (about Z$10
000) a litre, while the retail price of petrol will go up
between 21c and
24c a litre on Wednesday.
Meanwhile
paraffin will become 5.6c more expensive per litre and
its single maximum
national retail price will jump by 8c a litre.
International crude oil
prices rose to the highest point in almost two
months to levels around US$65
per barrel on Thursday 30 March in response to
the biggest drop in US oil
inventories since August 2003, geopolitical
tensions and fears of disruption
in supply from Iran and Nigeria.
International oil prices have risen by more
than 17% this year. As a
consequence, petrol, which is currently retailing
in Zimbabwe at an average
$200 000 per litre, is set to go up by at least
$20 000 as fuel importers
factor in transport and handling
costs.
The Zimbabwe dollar is currently trading at about $35
000 to the
rand on the thriving parallel market where fuel importers source
funds for
imports, although the official rate remains stuck at $15 996.90 to
the rand.
Government, which has in the past insisted on pegging the fuel
price at
unrealistic levels spawning shortages and corruption as well as
losses at
the state fuel firm, has watched as fuel importers retail the
commodity at
levels higher than the stipulated price. Government last year
set the price
at $22 800 per litre, but both diesel and petrol currently
retail at about
$200 000. Fuel queues, which had become a common feature in
Zimbabwe, have
disappeared, with service stations enjoying brisk business at
the
'unsanctioned' price levels.
Zim Daily
Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 12:42 AM
BST
Contributed by: correspondent
A shortage of
blood, its by-products, test kits and blood bags
has hit Zimbabwe, the
country's blood bank said on Wednesday. The lack of
the vital health product
has been precipitated by scarce fuel and foreign
exchange, the National
Blood Transfusion Services (NBTS) said. Blood,
essential in surgical
operations, for haemophiliacs and for transfusions
after major accidents, is
the latest product to join the list of shortages
in crisis torn
Zimbabwe.
Among the basics in short supply so far has been
petroleum-based
fuels, electricity, drugs and food. Zimbabwe's opposition
blames the
shortages on economic mismanagement, while President Robert
Mugabe says they
are a result of a Western plot to topple him. The NBTS said
persistent fuel
shortages had adversely affected its blood collection
activities, as have
the scarcity of forex used in importing blood bags. NBTS
mobile units
normally move to schools, factories and commercial offices
collecting blood
from donors, but the lack of fuel have impacted negatively
on the
collection.
The combination of shortages "has led
to shortages and
intermittent supply of blood and blood components to
hospitals nationwide",
the NBTS said in a statement on Wednesday. "The
foreign currency shortage
has put severe and enormous pressure on NBTS, as
the import of essential
plasma derivatives is no longer possible," it said.
Plasma is essential for
transfusion to haemophiliacs and is imported because
the country does not
have the technology to extract it from donated
blood.
A spokesperson for the NBTS said everything that is
imported,
including test kits and anti-D, administered to Rhesus-negative
mothers
shortly after giving birth, were in short supply. The blood bank
said donors
were also feeling compromised because the traditional "donor
comforts" or
refreshments given to them after donating blood were not
readily available.
New Zimbabwe
DANIEL FORTUNE MOLOKELE: THE VIRTUAL
NATION
By Daniel Fortune
Molokele
Last updated: 04/05/2006 12:17:32
ONCE again the
Zimbabwean nation has been plunged into another
unnecessary controversial
debate on who really deserves the country's
national hero
status.
This time the furore and the hype have centered around one
of the
founding fathers of the nation's liberation movement. James Chikerema
the
veteran nationalist, passed away last week in the United States after a
long
illness.
Under normal circumstances, any objective test
and criteria for the
national hero status will not have any difficulty in
according Chikerema the
status. Everyone knows that as a pioneer of the
nationalist struggle for the
nation's independence his personal contribution
was not only immense but
also immeasurable. During the 1940s and right
through to the end of the
struggle in 1980, Chikerema was a prominent public
voice of our people. He
rightfully deserves some place among the nation's
list of its founding
fathers like Joshua Nkomo, Josiah Tongogara, Jason Moyo
and Herbert Chitepo,
among others.
But sadly for most of us,
life in Zimbabwe is not as simple and
straightforward as it ought to be.
Later this month on 18th April, we will
as a nation celebrate our 26th
Independence anniversary. For almost three
decades now we have claimed to be
a free and independent country. In some
instances we have even claimed to be
a democratic country. Yet we all know
that this is just a perceived
assumption. The reality on the ground is that
strictly speaking, we all know
that things are not what we would like them
to be.
The truth is
that we are not a proud and sovereign people as we
pretend to be. Instead we
all know that as a nation, we are all simpletons
and morons in the eyes of
one of us. We all know that the nation is not
really ours but really is a
big private estate of one of us. Indeed we all
know that for 26 years we
have all been subjected to the will and whim of
the nation's most eminent
person. That person for the record is none other
than Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
He and his personal private company known as
Zanu-PF really own the country
with him as the nation's majority
shareholder.
Thus when it
comes to making collective decisions as a nation, the
truth is that the
individual voices of the 12 million or so of us do not
really matter at all.
What matters always is the opinion of one individual,
one Mugabe. The rest
of us have to face up to the reality that after all has
been said and done,
we are seen by him as the povo. In other words, his
people of valueless
opinions.
It thus does not come as a surprise that when we as a
nation have now
been forced to mourn the death of two of our sons, he then
decided for us
who really deserves to be mourned collectively by all of us.
He in his
wisdom or lack of it made a decision on our behalf as to who was
indeed a
national hero or not. He then proceeded to declare his personal
bodyguard a
national hero for us to celebrate his nationalist contribution
to our
nation.
So as a result, Winston Changara is buried in a
State funded funeral
with all pomp and ceremony. On the other hand, Mugabe
then decided on our
behalf that his late cousin, he who decided to defy his
absolute leadership
and even questioned his leadership credentials, must now
pay dearly for his
sins. He then wants all of us in our millions, to accept
his view that James
Chikerema is not a national hero. Just like he did with
the likes of
Ndabaningi Sithole and Lookout Masuku, he now expects all of us
to respect
his opinion about who really deserves to be seen by all of us as
a national
hero.
The point I am trying to say is that there is
really no national hero
as long as Mugabe feels or says so. He alone has the
final say. Period.
So what then do I say to that? I say that there
is really no national
heroes' acre. What are there are Mugabe's private
graveyards for all his
people and cronies. It is in reality an acre for him
to bury his own
favourite people and not a national shrine as he would like
us to believe.
So the next time he calls us to his acre, let us not really
bother to go
there. Let us just allow him to bury his dead in his privacy.
Let Mugabe
just bury his own dead!
Daniel Molokele is a
Zimbabwean Human Rights Lawyer and is based in
Johannesburg. He can be
contacted at zimvirtualnation@yahoo.com
zimbabwejournalists.com
By a Correspondent
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe
Governor Gideon Gono, whose efforts to have
Zimbabwe back in good books with
the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
failed last month, is in Russia
leading a delegation of government
officials, business leaders and bankers
in search of new opportunities for a
country whose economy continues to go
down the drain as international
investors shy away from the crisis-ridden
country.
Zimbabwejournalists.com can reveal that Gono headed for
the cold
temperatures of Moscow to lead the delegation comprising Transport
Minister,
Chris Mushohwe, permanent secretaries, mining officials,
representatives
from the Attorney General's office, the telecommunications
sector and others
after attending an Afri-Exim Bank extraordinary general
meeting in Accra,
Ghana. The central bank chief attended the Accra meeting
with his boss,
finance minister, Herbert Murerwa, who is reported to have
clashed with him
over the economic direction of the country.
Murerwa, who has overall responsibility over economic policy, is said
to
have accused Gono of acting without consulting him and of overstepping
his
role as monetary policy chief to undertake quasi-fiscal activities with
Gono
on the other hand accusing Murerwa of hypocrisy. Following their
acrimonious
exchanges recently, Murerwa is now expected to go before
Parliament seeking
a Zd 50 trillion supplementary budget as Gono has closed
the tape on
government departments access to RBZ funding without the
requisite funding
from the finance ministry.
While Murerwa headed back home,
Gono, who apparently has President
Mugabe's support after appointing him to
help heal the ailing economy, went
on to Russia. Precise details of the
itinerary and business being pursued by
this delegation remain sketchy but
it is the first such high-level
investment promotion ever taken by Zimbabwe
to the former Soviet Union.
Sources in Harare, however, said Gono is
expected to hold talks with the
Central Bank Governor of the Russian
Federation in Moscow as well as meet
several high-ranking business and
government officials. It is not
inconceivable that the delegation may be
after Russia's oil, investment,
fertiliser, farming equipment and assistance
to deal with their political
and economic crisis. Russia and China are the
two major countries on the
international arena that have supported Zimbabwe
at the IMF, the United
Nations and other forums.
This is not the
first time Gono has tried to attract investment and
assistance from foreign
countries. Last July he led Zimbabwe's efforts to
borrow US$800 billion from
China after meeting the country's Central Bank
chief but the efforts came to
naught. He also tried, together with Murerwa,
to borrow money from South
Africa after extensive meetings with South Africa's
central bank Governor,
Tito Mboweni and finance minister Trevor Manuel and
his officials.
Gono, who remains tight-lipped following the IMF's refusal to admit
Zimbabwe
back into the fold despite paying off a huge part of the country's
outstanding debt to the Bretton Woods institution, could not be reached for
comment.
As opposed to Zimbabwe, vast Russia, which is 45
times the size of the
southern African country, with a population of over
145 million, ended 2005
with its seventh straight year of growth, averaging
6.4% annually since its
financial crisis of 1998. Although high oil prices
and a relatively cheap
Ruble, which stands at 28 against one US dollar, are
important drivers of
this economic rebound, since 2000 investment and
consumer-driven demand have
played a noticeably increasing role in the
revival of its economy. As
opposed to Zimbabwe's sorry state, real fixed
capital investments have
averaged gains greater than 10% over the last five
years, and real personal
incomes have realized average increases over 12%.
Russia has also improved
its international financial position since the 1998
financial crisis, with
its foreign debt declining from 90% of GDP to around
36%. Russia is now a
member of the G8 countries but is still to join the
OECD or World Trade
Organisation (WTO) countries. Strong oil export earnings
have allowed Russia
to increase its foreign reserves from only $12 billion
to some $180 billion
at yearend 2005. These achievements, along with a
renewed government effort
to advance structural reforms, have raised
business and investor confidence
in Russia's economic prospects.
Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80% of
exports
and Gono could be scouting for fuel from the former Soviet country
as he had
done before with Libya and Kuwait. Russia's inflation rate stands
of 12.8
percent and sources in Harare say in jest the Governor of the RBZ
maybe
trying to learn how he could manage inflation, among many other
issues.
Zimbabwe's inflation rate is expected to top 1 000 percent anytime
now.
"Zimbabwe presents major opportunities for a country like
Russia that
is trying to rebuild its dilapidated manufacturing base," a
source in Harare
said. "Particularly in the geo-political order where Gono
is feeling snubbed
by the IMF and the West. He could be turning his sights
to Russia - when
combined with Chinese interests - would present a serious
challenge to the
West if they maintain a hard stance on the country. Russia
of yesterday is
not the Russia of today so it cannot be brushed
aside."
With its cold climate, Russia does not produce much of
its food and
Gono could be trying to entice the Russians with the country's
agricultural,
tourism and manufacturing potential, the huge platinum
reserves, uranium and
precious minerals like gold. Russia imports virtually
all its food
requirements due to bad weather. "These are factors that should
not go
unnoticed by any fair-minded international investor and if you put
Russia,
China and India, which has of late been smelling the Zimbabwean
coffee and
if they rally in favour of Zimbabwe, the landscape could be
interesting,"
another source in Harare said. But Zimbabwe's lack of respect
for property
rights has proved its major undoing in the past six years. The
government-sponsored land invasions and the general absence of the rule of
law are some of the reasons for Zimbabwe's continued slump as foreign
investors prefer to go elsewhere. Mugabe and his government recently
capitulated over attempts to take over mining enterprises in the country.
Gono clashed with mines minister, Amos Midzi, on the proposed mining laws
and led attempts to stop the government from taking this route and he
continues to make enemies both in Zanu PF and the government while on
another level he continues to head the country's efforts to revive a
battered economy. Observers wonder how he is managing to walk the tight rope
of working with people who regard him as usurping their powers and behaving
like a "prime minister". Gono, who is on America's list of targeted
Zimbabweans, courted controversy recently by attending, as guest of honour,
a reception held in his honour in the U.S. Capitol Hill in part to "hear new
opportunities for African-American investors" in Zimbabwe's mining, tourism
and agricultural-processing sectors.
At the same time
daggers were being drawn for him in Harare by
ministers and government
officials who feel his wings need to be clipped
urgently.
Energy
Minister Mike Nyambuya became the latest among a growing list
of senior
government officials to criticise the reformist and affable RBZ
chief and to
call for his wide-ranging powers to be clipped.
Nyambuya was peeved at
Gono after the he blocked his proposals for
increases in power tariffs going
up to 770 percent. He attacked Gono during
a meeting Cabinet meeting while
State Security Minister is at loggerheads
with the central bank governor for
calling new farm invaders "criminals that
ought to be locked away". Some of
those who have fallen out with the
outspoken Gono include Agricultural
Minister, Joseph Made, Mushohwe, City of
Harare officials and the generality
of the big wigs in Zanu PF for
championing bilateral investment protection
agreements and calling on former
commercial farmers, now outside the
country, to bring back their skills and
assist the new farmers and re-build
the agricultural sector. His detractors
within the government accuse him of
trying to reverse the gains of the
country's chaotic land reform programme.
In his monetary statement early
this year, Gono blasted top government
officials for corruption charging the
country was on the "edge of a cliff"
and fast losing its integrity and sense
of economic justice due to deeply
entrenched graft. among top ruling
officials. He said his efforts to placate
the country from its deep economic
crisis were being hampered by greed among
ruling officials.
The battles between Gono and Murerwa and the other
ministers are,
however, seen as part of Zanu PF's power struggles now
playing out in the
government bureaucracy.
"We all are waiting
to hear what will come out of the Russia
expedition. The man must know that
as long as Zimbabwe's political and
governance issues are not addressed, his
efforts to revive the economy will
not work," said Muchaneta Jamu, a former
employee with a top financial
institution in the capital who is now based in
the US. "He seems to be
courting controversy and working with people who
want to work for his
downfall."
IPSnews
Vusa
Nyathi
HARARE, Apr 4 (IPS) - The child squirms drowsily as it struggles
to roll
over on the bunk bed, eventually succumbing to sleep. The skin on
its face
is too taught. Wisps of hair look as if they could fall out at any
minute.
"He is just from his daily ARVs (anti-retroviral drugs)," says
the woman who
takes care of him at Fairfield Children's Home, an orphanage
in the eastern
Zimbabwean city of Mutare, which houses 74 children up to the
age of 14.
Several of Fairfield's charges are HIV-positive.
"We try
to accommodate everyone and never discriminate against babies
infected with
the virus. We take them on board and give them special care,"
says Peter
Mufute, administrative officer of the home.
However, the extra needs of
children infected with the AIDS virus have
placed a heavy financial burden
on Fairfield -- and raised questions about
whether government is doing
enough to care for children who face the double
burden of parental loss and
HIV.
According to the National Aids Council (NAC), a government body,
Zimbabwe's
orphan population has grown from 345,000 just under a decade ago
to some 1.3
million today. About 165,000 of these children are infected with
HIV - and
the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that just
over 20,000
need ARVs. However, only 2,000 are receiving the life-prolonging
medication.
"Both national HIV/AIDS plans and poverty reduction
strategies (in Zimbabwe
and various other nations in sub-Saharan Africa) are
stronger on proposed
policy actions than on budget allocations and clear
statements of targets to
be achieved for children, young people and
HIV/AIDS," said a December 2004
report by the World Bank and UNICEF, titled
'Poverty Reduction Strategy
Papers: Do they matter for young people made
vulnerable by HIV/AIDS?'.
"The situation of children who have been
orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS
receives little attention," added the
document.
These words are echoed by Festo Kavishe, UNICEF's
representative in
Zimbabwe.
"There remains an urgent need to boost
prevention, care and treatment
programmes in Zimbabwe, ensuring the rights
of orphans, while preventing HIV
infection in infants and young children,"
he said.
The plight of HIV-positive orphans reflects the situation in
society at
large.
According to UNICEF, about 1.6 million of the
approximately 13 million
Zimbabweans have contracted HIV. Just over 340,000
require anti-retroviral
treatment, but only a fraction of these persons are
on ARVs.
"There is still a huge gap between those who need and those
under
anti-retroviral therapy (ART)," Health and Child Welfare Minister
David
Parirenyatwa said recently.
"By December 2005 only 26,000 were
on ARVs. Of these, 20,000 were on
government ART programmes, while the
remainder were being taken care of by
the private sector."
Latest
figures from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
put
adult prevalence in Zimbabwe at 24.6 percent. However, the 'AIDS
Epidemic
Update' for 2005, published by UNAIDS and the World Health
Organisation,
also notes a drop in HIV prevalence among pregnant women from
26 percent in
2002 to 21 percent in 2004.
John Robertsen, an economist based in the
capital of Harare, says worsening
economic conditions are undermining
efforts to address the ARV crisis.
"Crushing poverty, high unemployment
and low wages.have reduced the ability
of households to take care of their
sick, and this has increased the burden
the government has to bear in
welfare interventions," he noted.
"But the government is currently trying
to reduce its welfare expenditures
because already it is in a fix with its
economy which has the highest
inflation rate, the highest unemployment rate
and among the highest economic
shrinkage (rates) in the world."
For
several years, Zimbabwe has suffered from acute shortages of foreign
exchange, fuel and food -- this in the wake of a controversial programme of
farm seizures ostensibly aimed at rectifying racial imbalances in land
ownership that dated back to the colonial era. Zimbabwe's involvement in the
Democratic Republic of Congo's five-year civil conflict, which ended in
2002, also proved a drain on state coffers.
Although Zimbabwe
launched a 'National Plan of Action for Orphans and
Vulnerable Children' in
2004 in a bid to provide comprehensive care for
these children, Parirenyatwa
admits that much more needs to be done.
"Because a majority of our people
are poor we have a big financing problem.
The money allocated to us from the
budget is too little to do anything much
about the orphan crisis," he
said.
IPS was not able to obtain figures for how much of the national
budget is
spent on orphans at present.
According to Parirenyatwa,
however, "The most visible HIV/AIDS support
programme run by government is
BEAM (Basic Education Assistance Module)
which is implemented by the
Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social
Welfare in conjunction with
the Ministry of Education. It provides school
fees, uniforms and
supplementary feeding for AIDS orphans."
NAC Executive Director Tapiwa
Magure says government would like to phase out
orphanages in favour of
placing orphans in community care.
"Our thrust is to discourage
institutional care. We are therefore exploring
possibilities of facilitating
an exit plan for institutionalised children,"
he noted earlier this
year.
However, another NAC official who did not wished to be named told
IPS that
such initiatives seemed ill-advised when incidents of baby dumping,
and the
proliferation of child-headed households and street children
suggested
communities were already unable to cope with
orphans.
"Community-based care may be the best rehabilitative model, but
more
resources will be needed in terms of mobilising community-led
initiatives,
paying community outreach workers and government care
coordinators," said
the official.
"In Zimbabwe this is wishful
thinking considering that the government is
perennially broke. If the
government had that money, would we be having
orphanages in the first
place?"
NAC statistics indicate that there are about 60 registered
children's homes
in Zimbabwe providing care for about 800 children.
(END/2006)
New Zimbabwe
By Staff
Reporter
Last updated: 04/05/2006 12:17:11
ZIMBABWEAN police on Tuesday
arrested MDC Zengeza MP Goodrich Chimbaira
while another opposition
legislator Job Sikhala was issued with a warrant of
arrest after failing to
appear for a hearing.
The two opposition MPs' neighbouring constituencies
of Zengeza and St Mary's
are situated in the satellite town of
Chitungwiza.
Charges being faced by Chimbaira were not clear Tuesday
night, but his
lawyer Alec Muchadehama, said police were alleging that he
had smuggled
tobacco out of the country.
"I'm on my way to the police
station, but the police accused him on a news
bulletin of smuggling
tobacco," said Muchadehama.
On the other hand, the arrest warrant for
Sikhala was issued after he failed
to appear in court on allegations that
the MP, together with a group of
supporters, assaulted some residents of
Chitungwiza.
Sikhala's lawyer, Charles Chikowore said: "The MP was issued
with a warrant
of arrest. I phoned him and he said he had forgotten that he
was supposed to
appear in court".
"I then informed the Honourable MP
to come to court. I don't know if the
warrant has been cancelled or not, but
I told him that if he has any
problems he should call me."
Efforts to
reach Sikhala later were fruitless as he was attending a
parliamentary
session.
In January 2004 he was issued with a warrant of arrest after he
left the
court room without paying a $25 000 fine for allegedly assaulting a
police
officer.
New Zimbabwe
By Jonathan
Maphenduka
Last updated: 04/05/2006 12:17:37
SCREAMING headlines in two
public media editions last week announced the
so-called Media and
Information Commission (MIC) proposals for the amendment
of the Access to
Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA).
But it turned out to
be an anti-climax, with Tafataona Mahoso pursuing his
old hobby horse to
claw The Zimbabwean newspaper and those journalists who
write for
"organisations hostile to Zimbabwe".
The MIC chairman was also reported
as saying he would "welcome"
self-regulation among journalists. What he
omitted to say is what steps he
has taken to remove regulation by
law.
But of course we all know that such a move would leave him without a
job.
His job hinges on using AIPPA, not to promote self-regulation among
media
practitioners, but to ensure that they walk the streets without jobs
after
closure of their newspapers.
So no one will be fooled by this
seemingly sudden change of heart. A leopard
cannot change its spots.
But
no one knows more than Mahoso just what makes AIPPA unacceptable to most
people in this country.
Who can expect him to propose the removal of
sections of the Act that have
been used as an iron rod to batter private
media businesses to death and, as
a measure to ensure their permanent
demise, remove vital equipment imported
at high cost?
Why is it that
AIPPA has no other penalties for offenders but the ultimate
sentence of
death?
We all know what the man lives for, and why. He knows where his
bread is
buttered. He tries hardest to outdo authors of AIPPA as though he
is anxious
to cover up an unknown past.
I have a few suggestions for
him to propose their repeal, not just
amendment: Why not start with Section
71(1)(a) which ensures victimisation
of citizens in the media industry, like
it did with publishers of the Weekly
Times newspaper after only one
edition?
How about scrapping all the clauses that provide only for
closure of a
newspaper for minor breaches of the Act like twice happened to
the
publishers of The Daily News and The Daily News on Sunday? All this in
shameful disregard of the fact that the courts had acquitted the publishing
company of a trumped-up criminal offence.
All the inexplicable
vindictiveness has been witnessed even after the
Supreme Court absolved the
Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ),
publisher of The Daily News and The
Daily News on Sunday and ordered its
application remitted afresh.
The
MIC has no shortage of public funds to hire legal advisers to interpret
the
law accurately, although, by practice, some of them have failed in their
hour of duty to the nation.
On March l4 2005, Chief Justice Godfrey
Chidyausiku, in the Supreme Court
judgment 1115, ruled against the MIC board
decision of September 15 2003
which denied ANZ a hearing on its first
application for registration.
In an earlier judgment, the chief justice
had already declared the applicant
to be operating with "dirty hands",
urging the ANZ to submit to the
requirements of the law.
The sum of
the judgment was simply that there was nothing to prevent it from
pursuing
its constitutional challenge later, but that it had to first
cleanse itself
of charges of defying the law, no matter how abhorrent it was
to the
company.
In response to the Supreme Court advice, ANZ submitted its first
application
for registration, an admission that defiance of the law did not
pay, and an
abandonment of its earlier stance of confrontation.
But,
instead of recognising this as a welcome change of heart, the MIC board
saw
the submission of an application for registration as a victory for the
board
and an admission of weakness by the applicant.
The board, in pursuance of
its agenda to frustrate the applicant,
disregarded the Supreme Court order
to consider the application on its
merits or demerits, denying ANZ
registration for the second time.
Perhaps saying the board disregarded
the court order is not accurate. It
would be better to say it was a
combination of a disregard of the order and
poor legal advice.
This
decision of the board was declared an irregularity and the
determination was
not only set aside by the chief justice as a breach of
some rules in law,
but the board was ordered to consider the application.
A key point to
remember was that contravention of the Act could only emerge
"after
commencement of consideration of an application by the commission."
The
MIC board had on September 15 2003 refused the applicant a hearing on
the
grounds that the ANZ had a record of operating without a licence.
But there
is no provision in the Act which stipulates that "records" of past
infringement of the Act should be used to determine the fate of an
application before the board.
If there was such provision, Trends
magazine could have had its registration
certificate cancelled for failing
to protect the privacy of a television
celebrity who complained to the
commission and the magazine was compelled to
retract a report.
There
are two important points to remember.
The one is that the "record" of the
breach of the Act was not recognised by
the Supreme Court in its judgment of
March 14 2005. The other is that the
MIC had denied the applicant a hearing
in September 2003, and how could the
applicant had breached the Act when the
board had refused it a hearing?
Because the commission failed to observe
Section 69(1), which requires that
a breach of the Act "can only emerge
after commencement of consideration of
an application by the commission",
the Supreme Court set aside the MIC's
ruling of September 15
2003.
The commission missed the whole point of the ruling, which was that
the
application had to be considered on its merits or demerits "after" its
submission for consideration.
The advice later given to the MIC board
on July 18 2005 was that it had to
focus attention on the "record" of
contravening the Act, which, as already
explained, the Supreme Court
judgment did not uphold.
Even if the Supreme Court judgment on the
constitutional case No 3233 of
March 3 2004 had declared the ANZ to be
operating "with dirty hands", this
record could not be proffered as an
excuse to deny the applicant
registration in the case where the applicant,
armed with a superior court
order, was now seeking the right to operate a
media service and not to
challenge the constitutionality of the
Act.
The MIC board on June 16 2005 took the position that there was no
legal
excuse to continue denying the applicant registration.
This
understanding was, however, on July 18 2005, overturned by fresh legal
advice that the board was required only to focus on a "record" which is not
provided for in the Act, but was also not recognised by the Supreme Court.
This led to the debacle of July 18 2005.
The commission has no
authority of a criminal court. But has it got
authority, like it was led to
attempt to do, to confirm or review decisions
of a superior court? The
zealous manner in which it ignored the decision of
the Supreme Court would
suggest that it has that ambition.
Questions have been asked why I voted
with the rest of the board on July 18
and then proceeded to resign in
protest. I have never attempted to conceal
the manner in which I voted
because there was a compelling, though
disappointing, reason why I did
so.
The compelling reason was that the board, on that fateful day, was
advised
by legal experts that determination of the board had to focus purely
on the
"record" of publishing without a licence after December 31 2002. This
could
be denied.
The guiding principle in my resignation, however,
was that I could no longer
be associated with a body whose sole function is
the closure of newspapers,
and I have explained this in a detailed letter to
the Minister of
Information and Publicity dated August 18 2005. I do not
consider I would be
serving my country's best interest by such
association.
I have further explained to him and all those who feel
impelled to ask me
why I believed the MIC board had erred in its judgment,
which appears to
have been caused by an obsession to keep the ANZ out
forever at whatever
cost.
This obsession appears to have clouded the
interpretation of Chief Justice
Chidyausiku's judgment, whose message
becomes clearer and clearer with the
benefit of hindsight that I have found
with the patient study of the history
of the case.
The letter to the
minister was a confidential document intended to highlight
how the MIC board
had erred in its judgment, and was not an attempt to
absolve
myself.
After Justice Rita Makarau's judgment last month, I have decided
that it
created a completely new dispensation which overtook the
confidentiality of
the contents of the letter.
I am now, therefore,
able to refer to its existence without compromising
confidentiality of the
subject. Readers who may want an unedited copy are at
liberty to ask for
it.
An attempt has been made to play up the bit about who was involved in
the
July 18 decision. This argument, however, is beside the point. The point
to
remember is that the decision was in error and it has been explained why
the
board erred.
The effect of that decision is that it has prolonged
the agony and
frustration the applicant has had to endure, let alone the
cost to all
parties to the case.
The commission, instead of trying to
vindicate the decision, should swallow
its pride in shame, recognising its
responsibility to the nation.
It is clear to all that the calibre of the
current members of the board
leaves a great deal to be desired.
Commissioners should be men and women who
command respect and not scorn.
Otherwise it would be better to have no
commission at all.
Maphenduka is
a former commissioner on the MIC panel. This article was
originally
published in the Fusion Voice newspaper.
Mail and Guardian
Percy
Zvomuya
04 April 2006 11:59
One would
have assumed that the tumultuous chorus that this week
accompanied the
proposed formation of a human rights commission in Zimbabwe
was a response
to a presidential decree that any person found without a
Zanu-PF membership
card would be flogged at two-hourly intervals in a public
square.
All that Minister of Justice Patrick Chinamasa
was announcing
was the setting up of a body that would receive, investigate
and redress any
complaints that are human-rights related.
Instead of the universal applause Chinamasa was yearning for, he
had to plug
his ears as the divided opposition, Movement for Democratic
Change, and
civic group the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA)
threatened to engage
in all-terrain warfare. Morgan Tsvangirai's new
secretary general, Tendai
Biti, called the commission "much ado about
nothing" and railed against
"piecemeal amendments to the Constitution".
The combative
chairperson of the NCA, Lovemore Madhuku, said it
would take the government
"head on over the matter, in the streets and in
the courts", if it is not
consulted about setting up the commission.
"You can have a
perfect human rights commission but as long as
you have a watered-down Bill
of Rights then it is of no use," pointed out
Biti, who is a practising
lawyer.
"If you have a regime that does not have respect for
human
rights, that has a culture of impunity, you may have a million human
rights
commissions but that won't ensure and guarantee human
rights."
South Africa-based human rights lawyer Daniel
Molokele described
the project as a "welcome idea", but stressed that "it
should not come as a
government process". He is nonetheless keen that it
"should be done under
the broader framework of constitutional
reform".
The commission has not only attracted a feisty
comeback, but
also a stodgy response from the bureaucrats at the United
Nations. Its
Harare resident coordinator, Agostinho Zacarias, weighed in:
"The [United
Nations Country Team] remains committed and has pledged that it
would
provide the need [sic] support it can, technical or otherwise, for the
establishment of such an independent human rights body."
But displeasure managed to filter through all the sieves of
diplomatic
speak. "We are also confident that the government of Zimbabwe's
commitment
to the establishment of a National Human Rights Commission will
be carried
out through a process of consultation with all relevant
stakeholders,"
Zacarias said in a statement.
The commission would be the
custodian of human rights and would
position Zimbabwe as a paragon of
protecting rights and distinguish it from
its hitherto soul mates such as
Swaziland, North Korea, Belarus and
Ethiopia.
But then
again, the announcement of the body came hard on the
heels of the
introduction of legislation intended to legalise the
interception of e-mails
and bugging of telephones and in the same week that
information filtered
through of the Suppression of Foreign and International
Terrorism Bill. If
passed into law, the terrorism Bill would make one of
Robert Mugabe's
arch-opponents, United States President George W Bush,
chuckle in spite of
himself. He would identify in the Southern African
leader, ideological
quarrels aside, a kindred spirit.
Daily Mirror, Zimbabwe
Patson Ndhlovu
issue date :2006-Apr-05
POWER utility,
Zesa Holdings, needs a staggering US$30 million (about Z$29,
7 trillion) to
rehabilitate the Hwange Power Station in order to generate
750MW to
complement power supply for the winter peak period, the Business
Mirror has
established.
However, the figure is in direct contradiction to information
presented to
Cabinet by the Minister of Energy and Power Development, Mike
Nyambuya, on
March 28, 2006 which shows that he had recommended for a total
of $944, 8
billion and US$5,9 million between now and August.
Nyambuya
also said small thermals - Harare, Bulawayo and Munyati power
stations -
need a total of $1, 2 trillion to achieve 220MW for the same
period.
"The
purpose of small thermals is to come up in case of generation
disruptions at
Hwange and/ or Kariba Power Stations as well as cover for
winter peak period
of May to August", Nyambuya wrote to Cabinet.
He acknowledged that the power
sector in the country is operating under
severe constraints whereby internal
generation capacity is considerably
lower than expected achievable
output.
"The constraints include inadequate financial resources to provide
the
needed raw materials in terms of coal, diesel and water as well as
foreign
currency to import critical spares for generating plant," he
said.
Information revealed to this paper by sources in the industry shows
that the
performance of Hwange can be addressed by a comprehensive
rehabilitation
project that would gobble over US$30 million.
"The under
performance of Hwange Power station can only be addressed through
a
comprehensive rehabilitation project which requires a capital injection of
US$30 million," said the expert on condition of anonymity.
He added that
the time frame needed for the rehabilitation of Hwange is 18
months as the
required spares have a leadtime of eight months and a minimum
of 10 months
for executing the project.
"Further capital injection into Hwange Colliery's
coal mine is required for
adequate coal and coke oven gas supply.
"An
adequate and consistent diesel supply is also a fundamental
requirement,"
he said.
If the above information is anything to go by, then the winter wheat
crop is
poised for a major flop this year as the power crisis cannot be
addressed in
the short term.
The winter wheat crop is heavily dependent
on irrigation for germination.
In his report to Cabinet, Nyambuya said his
Ministry is working in
conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture in
identifying major areas of
winter wheat cropping and see how Zesa can
minimise load shedding to these
areas.
The expert said it is virtually
impossible to isolate circuits connecting
farmers when implementing load
shedding.
"It is not practical to selectively prioritise supply to wheat
farmers
during load shedding, as circuits on which farmers are connected are
not
exclusively serving farmers", he said.
Power imports, which are used
to supplement domestic generation, are not
likely considering that the
region is currently short of additional power
supplies
making it
difficult to guarantee additional supplies during the winter
period.
Zesa
has been struggling to carry out maintenance work on its transmission
and
distribution system making it difficult for the power utility to deliver
fully.
The winter power supply is further compounded by the shut down of
unit 3 at
the Hwange Power station on March 30 this year after showing signs
of
distress.
This unit can only return to service after a major
overhaul.
Zimbabwe imports 890MW from HCB of Mozambique, South Africa's
Eskom, Snel of
DRC and Zesco of Zambia.
These supplies are however,
erratic during peak periods like winter hence
Zesa's resorting to load
shedding.
Daily Mirror, Zimbabwe
Our Correspondent in Bulawayo
issue date
:2006-Apr-05
OVER 1,5 million villagers in 13 districts in the country
have benefited
from World Vision's Vulnerable Groups Feeding Programme and
USAID's
Consortium for Southern Africa Food Emergencies (C-SAFE) in the
drought-prone areas of Matabeleland, Masvingo and Mashonaland
provinces.
Speaking to journalists during a field visit to a vulnerable group
feeding
point in Gwanda recently, World Vision Zimbabwe national director,
Leslie
Scott, said apart from the food distribution programme, the
organisation was
also implementing recovery schemes in areas of agriculture,
water,
sanitation, HIV and Aids.
"The programme employs a developmental
relief approach that addresses acute
food needs, but simultaneously seeks to
address the chronic nature
insecurity of food by protecting productive
assets and building community
resilience to future food security shocks,"
said Scott.
Scott explained that C-SAFE began a large-scale food distribution
programme
with some supplementary feeding for children who less than five
years and
hospital patients.
The programme later expanded to include food
for work and distribution of
supplementary rations for chronically ill
individuals. The Gwanda
Vulnerable Group Feeding Programme is being
implemented in 19 communal wards
out of a population of 144 595.
Gwanda
district falls in Agro-ecological religions IV and V in the North and
South
respectively. The district is a semi-arid area that receives less than
500mm
to 650mm of rainfall per annum. The rainy season normally runs from
November to April while the rest of the year is dry. Targeting and
selection of beneficiaries includes no fixed or temporary income, no
ownership or custody of assets with a market value.
New Zimbabwe
By
Staff Reporter
Last updated: 04/05/2006 12:16:54
A ZIMBABWEAN man on trial
for theft stunned a magistrate by asking for
temporary release in order to
pay a hooker for her services after hearing a
rooster crowing inside him,
local media reported.
The man, Gift Moyo, from the remote district of
Insuza in Matabeleland North
believes a hooker from the southern border town
of Beitbridge cast a spell
on him after he failed to pay for her services
for two days spent at her
house.
Moyo, appearing before Tsholotsho
magistrate Abednico Ndebele, said he was
failing to sleep -- and the chicken
noises were keeping other remand
prisoners awake.
He told the court
that on regular nights at around 2am, he could hear fairly
loud 'chicken
noises' inside him.
A magistrate could now set legal precedent after
saying he would visit his
cell to hear the 'chicken noises' before deciding
on bail.
"Moyo told the magistrate that he wanted to to go to Beitbridge
and pay the
hooker," reports the vernacular Umthunywa (see website)
newspaper.
Moyo, who faces an unrelated charge of stealing $8,5 million
from a farm
where he is employed as a labourer, told the court how he had
been looked
after by the hooker for two days on a diet of chicken and
eggs.
"He told the court that he had visited Beitbridge where he looked
for a
prostitute for the night," the paper reported.
The paper said
after pulling an unnamed woman, he was led to her house in
the town where he
spent two days. He was fed a regular diet of the local
staple sadza and
chicken with eggs in the morning.
"After two days being well looked after
by this woman," Umthunywa reported,
"Moyo bade her farewell and flatly
refused to pay for her services. The
hooker simply told him to go well, but
warned she would get even with him."
Magistrate Ndebele could now set
legal history in Zimbabwe after telling the
court that he would be visiting
the prisoner's cell together with the
prosecutor, Fritz Madida, to hear for
himself the 'chicken noises'.
Although Zimbabwe's justice system did not
recognise the existence of
witchcraft until recently, the majority of
Zimbabweans have individual
stories to tell about incidents of
witchcraft.
In response to widespread belief in and fear of witchcraft,
the government
has initiated the Witchcraft Suppression Act (WSA), which
prohibits the
practice of witchcraft, but also calls for prosecution of
those falsely
accusing others of the practice or engaging in witch
hunts.
As a JAG member or JAG Associate member, please send any classified adverts
for publication in this newsletter to:
JAG Classifieds: jag@mango.zw; justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
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2. Wanted Items
3. Accommodation
4. Recreation
5.
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6. Pets
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For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04//06)
HONDA XR 250 R, trail bike with lights
and indicators, 18000km only. In
near original mint condition.
Phone:
091 326 965 for
details.
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Chemicals For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Dithian (M45)
Copper Oxy
Dual
Magnum
Punch Extra
Phone: John 334764, Cell
011208893
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For Sale (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
"Shawasha hills, phase one, 4,4 acres,
extensive Msasa/acacia trees, river
frontage, for sale, share transfer, call
496829
evenings"
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For Sale (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
Datsun Pulsar 140 A, very economical, in
use every day. Looking for $200
million. Please call Cheryl or Shane on
336710 or send e-mail to
mailto:galorand@mweb.co.zw
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Stamps for Sale (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
Stamps for Sale: Mint condition,
many in albums.
First Day Covers of the following
Countries:-
Period
Envelopes
South Africa 01/82-02/95
126
South West Africa/ Namibia 12/82-05/95
72
Bophuthatswana 11/81-03/94
60
Venda 11/81-04/94
60
Transkei 01/82-03/94
54
Ciskei 12/81-04/94
58
Rhodesia 02/62-07/76
45
Zimbabwe 04/80-04/00
108
Offers: Phone:
861089
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Bakery for Sale (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
Bakery and coffee shop in Sam
Leavy`s village Borrowdale for sale.
Bakery is operating full speed and
doing catering for
numerous schools and coffee shops in Harare.
Call: 091
77 55 44 or 011 60 70 45
land line 88 2 384 or 851
729
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For Sale (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
Mazda B2500 Diesel, single cab, pickup.
1997. Driven by owner only.
Contact: Mark at 09 234757 or 011 416
937.
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For Sale (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
TOYOTA RAIDER 3.0L KZTE
2003
Model
1 owner since new
Long Range Tank
Rubberised
Back
Spotlights
Please email: office@arniston.co.zw
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For Sale (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
TROLLING MOTOR 24V (FOOT CONTROL) IN
PERFECT CONDITION US$650 PHONE
741671.
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1.10
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
Steam Iron $3
million
Porcelain Doll $2 million
Heater $2
million
Electric Blanket $3 million
Ladies Racer $10
million
Girls 28in Bycle $6 million
4 pine folding tables $5
million
Sewing Cabinet $5 million
Baby Tender $5
million
Carpet - Dusty Pink 12 x 15 ft $15 million
Carpet - Maroon
12 x 9 ft $12 million
Lace Curtain - 18 1/2m on roll (long) $5
million
Lace Curtain - 40m on roll (short) $8 million
Lounge &
Dining Room full length curtains - Pale Green 5 drops x 2 widths
$5
million
Lounge & Dining Room full length curtains - Blue Cream 6 drops x
1 width
$5 million (with pelmet covers)
Lounge & Dining Room full
lenth curtains - Wine Brocade 2 drops x 2 widths,
2 drops x 1 1/2 widths, 3
drops x 1 width $4 million
Curtains - Pink with bedcover 2 drops x 2
widths $4 million
Curtains - Rose Green & Cream (large set) $6
million
Curtains - Bathroom & Shower - green and blue sets, sun filter
$2 million
Curtains - Kitchen, fancy lace yellow & white $2
million
Vinyl Records - offers
Summer collection in excellent
condition
Long play, speed 33, 1000 records
Seven Singles, box3s of 7,
speed 45
1st single releases, boxes of 4, speed 78 (some of Elvis's 1st
original
releases)
Lots of ornaments
Lots of framed
pictures
Lots of Kitchen wear
1998 4WD Ex Jap Pulsar, in good
condition. +\- 89 000 kms $400 million.
For further enquiries please
contact Mrs L Noble on 304426 or
091340334.
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Items for Sale (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
Honda CB 650 B Motorbike. Seat
needs attention and needs new Electric start
batt.
$200
million.
Pink Carpet. 12 x 9 ft $12 million
Blue single bedspread
set $2.5 million
Brand New Double bed sheets $5 million
Brand new 12
piece tea set (6 cups & 6 saucers) $4 million
Brand new Pyrex oval dish
with metal frame $4 million
Brand new Pudding bowls $4
million
Tupperware Rice Cooker $3 million
Tupperware deep oval
casserole dish $3 million
Tupperware low oval casserole dish $3
million
Tupperware round casserole dish $3 million
Tupperware rolls
container $3 million
2x tea sets (for 6) $1 million each
Deep
Fryer $8 million
Ice Cream Machine $10 million
Snug and Safe
Baby carrier/car seat (0 - 9mths) $5 million
Baby bath seat $1.5
million
Baby monitor $3 million
Baby carrier $3 million
Microwave
Sterilser (brand new) $5 million
2 man canvas Tents $10 million
each
Tennis Rackets $2.5 million each
Hockey sticks $2.5 million
each (one is for goalkeeping)
2000 pieces puzzles $2 million
each
Pictionary Game $2 million
For further details please contact
Venetia Bratley on 309914 or
091777668
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For Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
Sokkia Automatic Dumpy - Level /
Theodolite
In immaculate condition with Tripod contact 851380 or
091272572 to view or
with realistic
offers.
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1.13
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
Various second hand items for sale
- All must go!!!
Prices are negotiable.
Filing cabinet, 2 draw, wooden
(good condition) - $25m
Wooden and black leather bar 140 x 50cm with 3
leather stools - $20m
5 man Tent (dome shape - water resistant) -
$18m
Camp bed x 2 (army edition) - $5m each
Square folding table,
wooden 92 x 92cm - $2m
Roller Blades size 5/6 - $2m
The Mad Max
Magazine Game (good condition) - $3m
Cluedo (good condition) -
$3m
Please contact Monique 309274(w) 091 315 411 (cell)
monique@oxfordit.co.zw
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1.14
FOR SALE (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
2 Toshiba Satellite Pro Pentium Laptop
Computers in good working order.
Complete with carrier cases.
Loaded with
Windows 95 and Lotus Word Perfect.
Price ZD$ 50,000,000.00 each
onco.
Call B. Brown on 04-754301/2 or
091-754301.
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1.15
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
Leather Coat - full length - size
107cm - only worn once
Leather Coat - 3/4 length - size 112cm - in very good
condition.
Health Walker
A set of 18 Volumes of Claxton
Encyclopaedias
A set of 4 volumes of Claxton Children
Encyclopaedias
Serious offers only
Contact R. Jordaan on 011 603
110
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1.16
For Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
One Humidifier.
Phone 04 - 701940 or
011 -
616342.
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1.17
For Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
Brand new (unused) Delco Remy 24 volt
starter suitable for Mercedes, MAN or
ADE engine trucks, complete with all
mounting brackets and solenoid.
$100 million ONCO.
Contact 091
321006 or 335573 (after hours) to view or for further
information.
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1.18
FOR SALE (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
30,000 litre steel tank on skids,
complete with lockable filler and outlet
fixtures. In excellent condition
and suitable for fuels. $1 billion. New
tank costs in excess of $2 billion.
Contact 091 321006 or 335573 (after
hours) to view or for further
information.
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1.19
For Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
NISSAN SE 3.2 Diesel , D/Cab , 4 X
4, White , 2001 .
14,000 Kms ( only )
Rubberised back, Canopy, Bull bar,
Roll bar, as new
usd 27,000:
cell 011
208848.
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1.20
For Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
A NUMBER OF LARGE BANANA
TREES
PLEASE PHONE:- 071 8 474
CELL 091 238 462/ 091 303
097
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1.21
For Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
MAZDA 323 YEAR 1986
One careful
owner
Excellent condition
500 million
Please phone: 011603070,
486326, 486293, or
011605219
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1.22
Toyota Starlet 116 000 km 1997
Wonderful runner round town. Extremely
fuel-efficient.
Air conditioning, alarmed, cut out switch, anti hijack,
central locking
Kenwood front loader CD with speakers.
Please phone
851558/851375
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1.23
For Sale (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
CHILDREN'S, COLOURED CHAIRS
$350,000
TABLE TENNIS TABLE & TRESTLES $ 35 MILLION.
BATS, NET &
BALLS $ 5 MILLION
APPLY mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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1.24
For Sale (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Hewlett Packard printer 610C (brand
new)
French lessons course (Oxford) never used
Supersonic radio
and record player (superb condition)
.270 rifle with Lynx scope (4x40)
licensed.
2 Black and Decker bench grinders
1 Hoover bench
grinder
Small ladder
Various motors 1 to 3 hp in working
order
2 BC jackets (excellent condition) for diving
1 old English
saddle and a polocrosse helmet.
To view in Bulawayo
Contact no:
011 416937 or 09
234757
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1.25
For Sale (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Cottage at Sunshine Motor Club, Lake
Chivero for Sale. Ideal for weekends &
holidays - for more details
please phone
741671.
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1.26
For Sale (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
1991 Toyota Hilux 2.8D 4 x 4 for sale in
good running order - offers Phone
741671.
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1.27
For Sales (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
S.E.E.D. DESIGNS (Based in
Chiredzi)
Beautiful hand embroidered exclusive ethnic items for sale
:-
Duvet covers Q/size $13,500 000
Muslin
Throwovers/tablecloth $ 3,150 000
Wall hangings and
throws $11,850 000
Wallets (accommodate chqe book) $
1,300 000
Webbing handbags $ 2,900 000
Medium
size cushion covers $ 2,600 000
Small size cushion
covers $ 1,700 000
Set of 6 table mats & serviettes
$ 6,600 000
Shoulder bags $ 2,500
000
Oven gloves $ 1,340 000
Pillow
cases matching duvets $ 1,100 000
And much more!! Prices
subject to change. For further details, please
contact Michelle Ross
(Harare rep) on 091 202 138 or alternatively
883606.
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1.28
For Sales (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Baby fold up camp cot (new) (fits into
bag) red, yellow and green for sale
$25 000 000.
Small carry cot for
sale $500 000
Please contact Michelle Ross on 091 202 138 or alternatively
883606.
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1.29
ITEMS FOR SALE (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Singer hand sewing machine English
and still in excellent working order
26" Panasonic TV older but able to
take DVD, videos
Defy Automatic washing machine and tumble drier
4
upholstered swivel bar chairs
Kitchen table and 6 stools
Small Hoover
single tub washing machine (not automatic)
Beige Carpet
Old pine
table
Tennis court/ driveway/garden roller
Pine bedroom suite, single
headboard, bedside table, desk and chest of
drawers
1 painted white chest
of drawers
1 GEC old fridge 8 cubic foot
5 large pot plants
Garden
spray backpack for roses, fruit trees etc
1 fertilizer spreader
Children's
games
2 jet master braais
Please phone 884076 or
011204060
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1.30
For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
BMW 323i beautiful condition 1998 133 000
km on the clock.
Alarm, central locking, CD player etc
Please phone
884076 or
011204060
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1.31
For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Toyota Starlet 116 000 km
1997
Wonderful run a round town. Extremely fuel-efficient.
Air
conditioning, alarmed, cut out switch, anti hijack, central locking.
Kenwood
front loader CD with speakers. A car that needs to be seen.
Please phone
884076 or
011204060
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1.32
For Sale (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
MAZDA 323 YEAR 1986
One careful
owner
Excellent condition
Please phone: 011603070, 486326, 486293, or
011605219
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1.33
Whiskey Collection For Sale (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Large whiskey
collection. Must all go together? Serious buyers only.
Please phone
884076 or
011204060
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1.34
For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
"THE WEAVERY."
Phone your orders
to--Anne--011212424 or 332851.
Email joannew@zol.co.zw
Fax--332851.
SUPER
GIFT IDEAS FOR LOCAL OR OVERSEAS FRIENDS AND FAMILY. LIGHT,EASY TO
WASH AND
SOMETHING DIFFERENT. EASTER IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!--SO IS
WINTER!!!
Prices.
Small woven bags--$440,000 each.
Large
crocheted bags.--$1,200,000 each.
Large woven bags.--$880,000
each.
Table Runners.--$640,000.
Set of 4 Fringed Table mats +
serviettes--$2,000,000.
Fringed mats only(4)---$1,200,000.
Set of 6
Fringed mats+ serviettes--$2,900,000.
Set of 4 Bordered table mats+
serviettes---$2,300,000.
Bordered mats only(4)--$1,800,000.
Set of 6
Bordered mats + serviettes--$3,500,000.
Set of 8 Bordered mats +
serviettes---$4,700,000.
2m Throws--$2,800,000.each.
Tea
cosy(L)--$360,000.
Tea cosy(m)--$350,000
Tea
cosy(s)--$340,000.
Crocheted oven
gloves(pair)--$860,000.
Cotton(lined)oven
gloves(pair)--$500,000.
Aprons--$900,000.
Decorated cushion
covers--$800,000.
Plain cushion
covers---$600,000.
Scarves(knitted)--$850,000. each.
Hand Woven
Scarves--$1,000,000 each
Hats(Beanies)--$480,000 each.
Large plain
cotton rug--$2,000,000.
Med. plain cotton rug---$1,300,000.
Small plain
cotton rug.---$800,000.
Cotton Rag Rug--$800,000.
Med. plain mohair
rug--$1,500,000.
Med.patterned mohair rug.--$2,000,000.
X Large plain
mohair rug.--$5,800,000.
Bedspreads-- QS/DB/3/4 and
Single--$6,500,000,/$5,700,000/$5,200,000/$3,500,000.
Wholesale
prices available for orders(over 6 of an article) or large
purchases.
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1.35
For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Excellent Canon EOS still Camera(2004)
with automatic focus and other
beautiful features (three films to go with
the camera
A brand new pair of men's waterproof leather boots
(size
Ten)
A beautiful Black leather jacket (large)
All these were
bought in the UK.
Phone Grasian on 091 430
799
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1.36
For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
SONY HANDYCAM VIDEO Hi8 VIDEO CAMERA 330x
DIGITAL ZOOM IN EXCELLENT
CONDITION.
OFFERS?
PHONE STEVE 067 23112
OR 011 808 262 OR KATE 091 356
981
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1.37
For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Panasonic Hifi, 5 CD Changer, 6 month old,
remote, manual, silver in colour
$35m - Phone 04
335820
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1.38
For Sale (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
RADIUM
Imported harrow discs 24"
and 26"
New Montana boom sprayers 10m boom, 600l tank.
New 16KVA
generators
Radium Zimbabwe 04 870264 / 011 600
389
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2
WANTED
ITEMS
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2.1
WANTED (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
MEASURING WHEEL
Does anyone have a
measuring wheel to, donate, lend or sell to Pony Club?
Ours 'went missing'
last weekend and we urgently require another one
for our shows and eventing.
Many thanks.
Please call Jo on 091 247001 or 494720 or Kathy on 023
317537
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2.2
Wanted (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
I am looking for a second hand cellphone to
buy. If there is anyone out
there selling his/her cellphone please contact
me on 023756589 or e-mail
babsmandava@yahoo.com
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2.3
Items Wanted (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
Wanted Items
Is there anyone
out there with a second hand jungle gym for sale? Please
phone Michelle Ross
on 091 202 138 or alternatively
883606.
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2.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
Pensioner looking for second hand walking
frame to buy.
Any further details please contact Mrs L Noble on 304426 or
091340334
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
PICK-UP VEHICLE WANTED!
Mazda B1600,
1995 - 1998, petrol or
Ford Bantam/Mazda Rustler 1995 - 1998
LAWN
MOWER WANTED!
Electric, used but in good condition.
Call 091 256 326
or mail rejoice@earth.co.zw
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2.6
Wanted (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
City Bowling Club
Desperately
required: Lawnmowers (drum type) for bowling greens. If you know
of any
clubs that are closing their bowls or golf sections please let me
know.
Contact Malcom Evans 011 604929 or motley@zol.co.zw or Joe 04 756363-9 or
091-338414 or joe@radius.co.zw
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2.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
Petra Junior School in Bulawayo needs to
buy a good quality lawn mower for
its premises. A second hand will be an
option if the condition is
good.
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2.8
Wanted (Ad inserted 28/3/06)
Planning to leave? We will buy your T.V. or
Video and you can use it up
until the last moment - Phone Hire Electric -
741913.
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2.9
WANTED ITEMS (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
TEDDY BEARS - any condition, old
etc.
BOOKS. - MAMMALS OF SOUTH AFRICA. - by Austin Roberts.
JOCK
OF THE BUSHVELD - early illustrated.
phone
882713.
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2.10
Wanted (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
I am looking for a small tape recorder, for
recording purposes. If you have
one to sell please ring me at 332798 or 011
231 541or email me on
pcj@earth.co.zw
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2.11
Wanted (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
WANTED urgently is a Working / Non- Working
TV, VCR and Hifi. Cash paid
instantly. Please contact Joel on joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com or leave a
message
with Mercy on 011 611
637.
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2.12
Items Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
1. Swimming Pool Fence, for a young
couple with baby.
2. A Playpen.
Please contact Venetia Bratley
on 309914/304426 or
011777668
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2.13
Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
HAS ANYBODY GOT ANY SECOND HAND POOL FENCING
FOR SALE AT A REASONABLE
PRICE - WE ONLY NEED ABOUT 5 OR 6 SECTIONS TO
SAFEGUARD OUR POOL FOR OUR
GRANDCHILDREN. PLEASE PHONE SHARON LONG ON
302919.
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2.14
Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
I am looking for unwanted Rhodesian history
books and general non fiction
covering the turn of the century 1890/1930's
including the Matabele War and
the
Rebellions or any other similar
books with British South Africa Police
content up to 1980 - perhaps someone
has some old Outposts or Police
Reviews stacked away
somewhere?
Contact me on andrew@field.co.zw
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2.15
Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Looking for a truck preferably a Toyota land
cruiser second hand but in good
working condition.
Am happy to do
the transaction in Either US$ or pound sterling.
"Most people pursue
pleasure with such breathless haste they often hurry
past it"
Phone
Grasian on 091 430
799
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2.16
Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Ripper for 85hp Landini Tractor, 1 or 2 or 3
teeth, good condition. Local
product and replaceable shoes should be locally
available.
Phone: 04 442681
Cell: 011 621
572
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2.17
Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Motorcycle BMW RG 80 or RG 100. Any
condition!
Phone: 04 442681
Cell: 011 621
572
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2.18
Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
1. Swimming Pool Fence, for a young
couple with baby.
2. A Play pen and Baby high chair
Please
contact Venetia Bratley on 309914/304426 or
011777668
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3
Accommodation Wanted and
Offered
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3.1
House for Sale (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
Helensvale Area, on just over 2
acres (8138 sq.mtrs)
Mediterranean style, very neat, well
maintained.
Spacious lounge with jet master fireplace
Separate dining
room
Kitchen with walk in pantry
Two large bedrooms
Two lock up
garages
Well-developed garden of indigenous trees
Good borehole
Offers
phone:
861089
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3.2
Wanted (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
Accommodation Wanted
Elderly couple
looking for 3 bedroomed house for long term lease with lock
up garage(s).
Able to maintain home and property very well. Able to pay
rental up to $25
million per month. Please contact Reg Gravett on 302983
after 1800
hrs.
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3.3
Looking for House Sitter (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
House Sitter
Wanted
Marondera - Smallholding - Mature couple required to house sit
from 1st
April to 1st July. Must be animal lovers. Beautiful environment, on
tar
road, Town Centre only 4kms away.
Please phone Rene' on 091
395-576 or 04 747
411
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3.4
Looking for House Sitter (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
House sitter required
from May to end of July in Bulawayo. Large house with
3 dogs and 3 cats
plus staff. Traceable references please
Contact: 011
416937
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3.5
House Wanted for Rent (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
A reliable married couple
(no children) are looking for a 3 or 4 b/roomed
house to rent as from Ist
June 2006. (Long term lease) preferably with lock
up garage and domestic
quarters. A granny cottage/bachelor flat would be a
bonus. We are able to
maintain home and garden very well.
Contact:
Dudley or Colleen
Potgieter
04 335455 - evenings
091 202303 (Dudley)
011 613268
(Colleen)
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3.6
Wanted (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
HOUSE / COTTAGE WANTED
2 - 4
Bedroomed House
Long lease preferred
Marlborough / Highlands / Chisi /
Borrowdale
Eastlea or near to these
$ in the region of 30 per
month
Please contact - Elizabeth Lundt garage@adhart.co.zw
or Jo Lundt jlundt@mweb.co.zw
or
Karen Lundt ljs@hms.co.zw
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3.7
House for Sale (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Arcturus upmarket residential
suburb Cromlet Township. Stunning executive
hilltop residence with
unbeatable 270degree northfacing panoramic views over
the Enterprise Valley,
10 acres, electric fenced, electric gate, fully
serviced with water, zesa,
roads. Recently built needing a few finishing
touches, double storey
''safari style'' home, under chromadek, comprises of
double carport, view
deck, 3 lounges, openplan dining/kitchen area, laundry,
workshop, 5
bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (MES). Property has many indigenous trees,
and a haven
for birds.Ideal for retired/displaced farmer wanting to do small
scale agric
projects. Adjoining this property are 2 x 10acre, 1 x 14 acre
undeveloped
plots with stunning views, serviced, with great agricultural
potential. Just
30kms from city centre, 15kms to Chisi, quick and easy
access via Enterprise
Rd, Cromlet Rd (Pig Industry Board). Share transfers,
all with individual
Title Deeds. Preferable Sale or possible Rental - Tel
011 610 222, email ecolynx@zol.co.zw
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4
RECREATION
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4.1
Harare International Festival of the Arts (Ad inserted
7/2/06)
The Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) is one
of Zimbabwe's
premier artistic events. It gives Zimbabweans the change to
meet and
interface with top local artists, as well as regional and
international
artists and performers. The Festival's appeal is for all ages
and interests
and during HIFA, Zimbabweans come together in a truly carnival
atmosphere to
experience the sheer joy that is art in whatever form - art as
healer, art
as educator, art as up lifter of the spirit.
HIFA
2006 is scheduled for 25th to 30th April 2006. All the major
international
festivals offer a "Friends of Festival" scheme and ours is
known as
HifAmigos. HifAmigos are a highly valued and regarded
component of the
Festival. HIFA offers a series of comprehensive benefits
in several
categories of HifAmigos to cater for all interests and needs and
subscriptions are reasonable. HIFA has been described as "second to
Edinburgh" and "among the top ten festivals of the world!" HIFA 2006 now
invites you to become a HifAmigo or to renew your HifAmigo membership. If
you do so by 24th February 2006, you will be listed in the Official HIFA
2006 Programme and invited to what is becoming the hottest even on the
Zimbabwean social calendar - the HIFA Opening Party. Our launch events are
legendary. Join early & be there!
2006 HifAmigos will enjoy 20%
discounts on all shows and workshops.
Procedure for becoming a
hifAmigo
Contact the hifAmigo Manager for an application form -
Angie
Thomas - contactable via HIFA as below.
Harare International Festival of
the Arts
Box A42, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
Phone & Fax: +263 (4)
300 119
Email: amigos@hifa.co.zw
Website: www.hifa.co.zw
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4.2
KARIBA (Ad inserted 21/02/06)
GACHE GACHE LODGE
Book now for
Easter!
Contact us: tourleaders@zol.co.zw or phone Andrea
on
091 208 836.
Rates on
request!
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4.3
(Ad inserted 7/03/06)
The National Institute of Alied
Arts
Presents their Annual Festival from 8th - 23rd March
Choirs
at Harry Margolis Hall
Music across the board
21st, 22nd and 23rd
March
Final Concert at Prince Edward School
Public welcome we need
your
support
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5
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
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5.1
Ad inserted (7/03/06)
Blackfordby College of Agriculture
DIPLOMA IN
AGRICULTURE
Enrolment applications for the intake
Commencing
in
August 2006 are now open
The minimum entrance qualifications for
the diploma
Is: Five O-Levels; English, Maths,
Science and two
others.
The course covers two years and is written in
five
Disciplines, Animal Husbandry, Crop Husbandry,
Horticulture, Farm
Mechanization and
Farm Management.
Applicants must send a
non-refundable deposit of
$1 000 000.00 (one million dollars) to the address
below
or deposit the money
into our account:
Standard Chartered
Bank, Avondale Branch
Account Number: 0101723103701.
A copy of the
deposit slip with the applicant's name and
Address must be faxed to
075-2539.
The application forms will then be sent to you, and will
Include
details of fee structure.
Blackfordby College of Agriculture
P.O. Box
EH 197
Emerald Hill
Harare, Zimbabwe
Phone: 075-2532/2533
Fax:
075-2579
E-mail: agfordby@mweb.co.zw
Applications close
on 31st May
2006.
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5.2
(Ad inserted 7/03/06)
T.M. LAMBERT (Agent for Mono Pumps
Zimbabwe)
Capacity Test, Installations, Repair Maintenance On All
Borehole Pumps
PO Box GT 629
Graniteside, Harare
Tel:
04-494796
Cell: 091 288 448 or 011 726 062
E-mail: tlambert@zim.co.zw
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5.3
G - TECH (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
G - TECH: Diesel and plant
maintenance, site contracting, generator and
stationary engine installation
and maintenance, tractors and hydraulics.
Contact Graham at gtech@zol.co.zw or call 011 406023, 091
286657, 04 741001,
075
2264
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5.4
For Hire (Ad inserted 14/03/06)
21 & 14" Televisions & videos for
hire - Please phone Hire Electric on
741913.
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5.5
(Ad inserted 21/03/06)
Air-conditioning
Servicing and re-gassing of
aircon done on all vehicles and fridges/deep
freezes. Reasonable rates -
same day car return.
Call Russell or Teresa Hook on 305381 331970 331976
091201744
011201744
Plastic Repairs
For all plastic repairs, on
car bumpers ,grilles, door handles, trims,
mouldings, cowlings, right down
to cooler box handles. Anything plastic
bring to us.
Call Russell or
Teresa Hook on 305381 331970 331976 091201744
011201744
Boats
All Fibre Glass repairs to boats, Repairs and
Servicing done on all motors.
Call Russell Hook at Dragon Marine on 305381
331970 331976 091201744
011201744
Motor Vehicles
Servicing and
minor repairs to all motor vehicles. Affordable rates. Come in
and see us at
6 Childwall Road Bluff Hill or phone Russell Hook 305381
331970 331976
091201744 011201744
Stationery
For all your stationery
requirements call AF Stationers. Our prices include
delivery!
Phone
Teresa Hook 305381 331970 331976 011201744
Holiday in
Amanzimtoti
2 Bedroom flat at Toti Cabanas. Sleeps 6. Available from 15-22
or/and
22-29 May.
USD150 for the week.
Call Noeleen on 011 205 183 or
305381 or
065-204.
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5.6
(Ad inserted 28/03/06)
MODULAR MINING MACHINERY
Small Mining
Supplies manufacture process machiney for many ore types
contact Small
Mining Supplis p/l
satmark@zol.co.zw
011601230
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5.7
Savuli Safari (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
Savuli Safari, self-catering chalets
in the heart of the Save Valley
Conservancy. Game watching, fishing, horse
riding, canoeing, walking trails
and 4x4 hire. Camp fully kitted including
cook and fridges. Just
bring your food, drinks and relax. $1 500 000 pppn,
1/2 U/12.
Booking direct to John Tayler at 091 631 556 or savuli@mweb.co.zw
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5.8
For Hire (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Primgate Contracting Services has a Case
2344 combine and tractors available
for land prep.
Contact:
011-633190
Email: devon@mweb.co.zw
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5.9
(Ad inserted 28/03/06)
NATUREWAYS SAFARIS
LOWER ZAMBEZI
CANOEING
SPACE AVAILABLE - CAMP ZAMBEZI 14 - 17 APRIL 2006
Z$12,000,000per
person per night
Includes : All meals, all drinks (Zimbabwean), all
activities (canoeing,
walking, game drives)
services of professional
walking & canoe guides, fully backed-up Luxury Camp
Excludes : National
Parks Fees and transfers to Mana
Contact Julie on julie@natureways.com or phone 333414,
339001
28 Bath Road, Avondale
Please confirm Annual Subs as am sure
are now more than $500,000
SPACE AVAILABLE - CAMP ZAMBEZI 14 - 17
APRIL 2006 - CONTACT US ABOUT OUR
SPECIAL RATES
Julie MacKenzie,
Sales & Marketing, Natureways Safaris
P O Box 1714, Borrowdale,
Harare
Phone : + 263 (4) 333414, 339001
Fax : + 263 (4) 339008
Cell :
(263) 91 249382
www.natureways.com
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6.1
Homes Wanted (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
2 ex farming male cats both
neutered,
2 ex farming female cats both spayed,
Very relaxed and well
house trained. Looking for a new home. Used to
travelling and good at
settling into different life styles. Please contact
04 490758 after 6pm
weekdays or
weekends.
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6.2
HOME WANTED (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
I have two very beautiful tabby cats
that we took onto farm from someone
leaving the country. However now
refusing to come into house because of
dogs. I would very much like to find
them good home where there are no dogs.
Very friendly, young, females,
spade. Independent but love people.
Please phone Carrie 091 206
558.
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6.3
Wanted (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
LOOKING FOR 2 PEAHENS FOR LONELY PEACOCK
AND WHITE DUCKS COUPLE OF PAIRS.
WOULD LIKE TO BREED PEKIN DUCKS IF ANYONE
HAS ANY BREEDING STOCK.
PHONE JACKIE 091 240 923 OR EMAIL be1371@mweb.co.zw
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6.4
HOME WANTED (Ad inserted 7/03/06)
Looking for a good home for a 6 year
old female Pure Bred Boerbul.
Excellent guard dog but very dominant and
probably needs to be an only dog.
Prefer a Farm or big
property
Contact
Colin Paterson 011-206626
Gill Paterson
091-294185 or
04-882013
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6.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
Staffordshire Pup
We are looking for
a Staffordshire Bitch Pup. Preferably between 6 and 8
weeks old. Please
contact Colleen on 091275624, or email us at
peat@zol.co.zw
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6.5
Looking for a Home (Ad inserted 21/03/06)
English Bull Terrier
Lovers.
Magnificent white English Bull Terrier Male, 4 years, looking for
kind and
loving home. Came from a farm but owners have left. Please help as
will be
put to sleep if home not found soon. Tel Michelle on 884294 or
e-mail
gandami@mweb.co.zw
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6.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Toy Pom (male or female)
preferably
puppy
Please contact:
Riana Inger 011-220955 or email wombat@zol.co.zw
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6.8
Dog Meal for Sale (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
"Dog Meal $ 900 k per 20 kg
bag, please order on Harare
495897"
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6.9
WANTED (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Looking for a Miniature Toy Pom Puppy (male
or female). Anyone who breeds
them please let me know.
E-mail - charlespat@zol.co.zw
Tel -
481419
Cell - 011-611-360
011-603-889
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6.10
Wanted (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
I am desperately looking for a Toy Pom
puppy. Preferably a female puppy.
Please contact Willem on 068 - 24577
or 091326882 or email
albotha@ecoweb.co.zw
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6.11
Home Wanted (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
We are urgently seeking a home for our
beautiful 12 year old Lab / Border
Collie... We are leaving the country on
Monday 27th. Will put her into
Friendly Foundation on
Sunday.
PLEASE HELP
Beryl Park-Pearson
861714 / 091 240
823
bushbaby@zol.co.zw
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6.12
Home Wanted (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Staffy Lovers! 3 beautiful
black/brindle staffies looking for good home,
owners left. 1 male Rusty, 2
spayed bitches Lady and Sandy, can go together
or separately. Tel Michelle
on 884294 or e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw
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6.13
Found (Ad inserted 28/03/06)
Elderly female, black and white Jack Russel,
very sweet and well behaved.
Found Sunday night on Ridgeway North
Road.
Contact 011
408044
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6.14
Home Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
TYSON, absolutely magnificent
red/brindle pedigreed and registered staffy
dog needing special home as soon
as possible as owner leaving. Please help.
Tel Michelle on 884294 or e-mail
gandami@mweb.co.zw
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6.15
Home Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Looking for a good home for a 1 1/2
year old female staffy cross jack
russel.
Good guard dog. Cheeky
with strangers and strange dogs. Not sure about
children, does not seem to
like them. She also seems to have a slight skin
problem.
Please
contact Venetia Bratley on 309914 or
011777668.
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6.16
Home Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
3-year-old male boerbul called shumba
and a 2-year-old spayed rottie called
sheeba. Please is there any one out
there who can give them a good home, as
we have to leave. They are excellent
watchdogs and would love to stay
together.
Please phone Tony at 091 404
449
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6.17
BORDER COLLIES (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
Pure bred but unregistered. Pictures
of both parents available. Pups due to
be born this week, ready in 6 weeks.
Please contact Maria (BYO) 286155 or
091266 476. or email antlaw@mweb.co.zw
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6.18
Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
BUDGIES TO JOIN A LONELY ONE IN
AVIARY!
PHONE 067 23112 OR 091 356 981
KATE
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6.19
Homes Wanted (Ad inserted 4/04/06)
LOOKING FOR HOMES FOR 2 MIX BREED
DOGS, ONE A VERY GOOD GUARD DOG,
(RIDGEBACK-ISH), ONE A "SMILER"
(BRINDLE
POINTER-ISH)!
PHONE 067 23112 OR 091 356 981
KATE
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