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Thousands stranded as Zimbabwe fuel crisis
bites
Earth Times
Posted : Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:59:34 GMT
Author :
DPA
Harare - Thousands of Zimbabwean commuters were Tuesday
stranded
throughout the country as fuel shortages bite, state media
reported. People
in Harare are spending up to four days looking for buses to
take them to
rural villages ahead of a public holiday due next week, ZBC
radio said.
Major highways leading out of Harare are teeming with
people trying to
get any form of transport that can take them to the rural
areas, the report
said.
People are stranded and becoming
desperate.
Bus operators countrywide have been accused of
suspending services in
protest over cuts in fares ordered by the
government.
An official with the Rural Bus Operators Association
told state
television that the problem was a lack of fuel. He said operators
were being
allocated just 500 litres per bus per week, enough for just one
and a half
days service.
On June 26 the authorities ordered
prices on all goods and services -
including fuel - to be reduced by at
least 50 per cent in a bid to reduce
inflation and halt spiralling
prices.
Fuel is now mainly available on the black market for around
300,000
Zimbabwe dollars per litre - 5 times the official rate.
Private urban transport companies have also either scaled back
operations,
or withdrawn their vehicles from key routes. They say they
cannot run at a
loss.
Desperate office and factory workers have to hitch lifts on
the back
of trucks, or walk.
The official Herald daily
newspaper admitted Tuesday that since the
imposition of price controls, the
state-run oil company has only been
importing 1.5 million litres of fuel a
day, compared to a national demand of
around 6.5 million litres.
Zimbabwe rights body says outraged by Mugabe's
abuses
Zim Online
Wednesday 08 August 2007
By Edith
Kaseke
HARARE - Zimbabwe's leading rights body, the Human Rights Forum
has
expressed dismay at continued rights abuses against opponents by
President
Robert Mugabe's government after it recorded more than 5 300 cases
ranging
from torture to murder during the first half of this
year.
Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
party and
human rights groups accuse Mugabe, the country's leader since
independence
from Britain in 1980, of sanctioning an often violent crackdown
against
those opposed to his rule.
"The Human Rights Forum deplores
the use of torture by the state to punish
opposition and also to solicit
confessions," the Forum said in its half
yearly report. "This is contrary to
international human rights instruments
to which Zimbabwe is a
party."
"The Forum therefore urges the government to respect and protect
the rights
and freedoms of its citizenry regardless of political persuasion
or
affiliation," the Forum said.
Mugabe is facing growing pressure at
home and abroad over his political
tactics, which analysts say are meant to
entrench his 27-year-old grip on
power.
The United States and the
European Union have imposed travel and financial
restrictions on Mugabe and
his top ruling party and government officials
partly over charges of gross
rights violations and rigging of past
elections.
Mugabe rejects the
accusations insisting that the West is demonising him for
his policy of
seizing vast tracts of fertile land from white commercial
farmers to give to
landless blacks as part of a drive to address colonial
land
imbalances.
In March, Mugabe drew worldwide condemnation after police
brutally assaulted
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and several other opposition
and civic leaders
for daring to attend a banned prayer rally, leaving most
of them with broken
limbs.
Last month, respected rights group,
Amnesty International said Mugabe's
government had intensified a clampdown
on women fighting for basic freedoms.
The Human Rights Forum - a grouping
of several rights groups - said cases of
assault by the police, unlawful
arrest and detention and curtailment of
freedom of expression and
association were on the increase as the
crisis-sapped southern African state
gears for national elections in 2008.
The Forum also pointed to the
arrest and reported torture of six people,
including a former and serving
army officer for plotting a coup to topple
Mugabe, as a worrying
trend.
The opposition says the government crackdown on opponents showed
the ruling
ZANU PF party was panicking as anger against a severe economic
crisis grows.
Zimbabwe's economic crisis is seen in an official inflation
rate of 4 530
percent as of May although independent economists say the
figure is much
higher.
The International Monetary Fund has predicted
inflation could top 100 000
percent by the end of this year, adding to the
misery of a majority
grappling with an unemployment rate above 80 percent
and shortages of
foreign currency, food and fuel.
Political analysts
said as anger grows against the government's policies,
including a recent
order to freeze prices of basic commodities that has
backfired after
manufacturers stopped or slashed production, the government's
response was
more political crackdown.
"The only instrument left for the regime
naturally is to continue the
onslaught on the opposition and all those who
oppose the regime," said John
Makumbe, a political science lecturer at the
University of Zimbabwe.
"So the level of human rights abuses will also
increase because this is the
only way Mugabe can try to crush dissent hoping
he will ride out the
crisis," said Makumbe, a fierce Mugabe
critic.
The Forum however said it welcomed the lifting of a ban on
political rallies
in most of Harare's districts, which the opposition had
described as a state
of emergency but which the government said was
necessary to ensure peace and
security.
"The Human Rights Forum notes
with satisfaction the lifting of the ban on
all political gatherings and
rallies and implores the government to allow
the people of Zimbabwe to
express themselves freely especially with the
coming 2008 elections in
mind," it said. - ZimOnline
ZANU PF waits for Mugabe to decide on
talks
Zim Online
Wednesday 08 August 2007
By
Sebastian Nyamhangambiri
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe is the man
standing between the success of
South African-brokered Zimbabwe crisis talks
and a further plunge into chaos
in Harare, ZimOnline heard
yesterday.
ZANU PF officials said the talks would only resume after
Mugabe takes a
position on the contentious issue of a new constitution for
the country as
demanded by the main opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) party.
ZANU PF deputy spokesman Ephraim Masawi told
ZimOnline yesterday that the
ruling party could not "speak with authority"
on the constitution issue
until its negotiators in the talks are briefed by
Mugabe.
"The party at the moment does not have a position as regards
that. Only
after the president's briefing can speak with authority about the
talks,"
Masawi said.
Mugabe has scoffed at previous calls for a new
democratic constitution for
Zimbabwe, insisting the country did not need any
new constitution.
Sources close to the talks say the dialogue between the
two protagonists is
presently delicately poised after the veteran Zimbabwean
leader rejected
demands by the MDC to bring constitutional matters up for
discussion.
Masawi said only after the briefing with Mugabe would ZANU
PF's position on
the talks be known.
"We are waiting for a briefing
from the president on whether the talks will
go ahead or not," Masawi
said.
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Labour Minister Nicholas
Goche are
representing ZANU PF at the talks while Tendai Biti and Welshman
Ncube are
negotiating on behalf of the two MDC splinter groups.
Ncube
could not be reached for comment yesterday while Biti was said to be
out of
the country.
Nelson Chamisa, spokesperson of the main MDC splinter group
led by Morgan
Tsvangirai and represented at the talks by Biti, yesterday
said there were
'no developments that are newsworthy' regarding the
talks.
"The party does not have any news, I am afraid to say," said
Chamisa,
referring ZimOnline to Biti.
The MDC has itself been rocked
by internal strife during the past week,
which is likely to affect its own
cohesion during the talks.
Arthur Mutambara who heads the smaller faction
of the MDC fired a broadside
at Tsvangirai, describing the former trade
unionist as a "weak and
indecisive" leader.
Mutambara said his party
would field separate candidates in next year's
presidential and
parliamentary elections following the collapse of talks
aimed at reunifying
the party.
The South African-brokered talks are part of an ongoing
regional initiative
meant to resolve the long-running political impasse
between ZANU PF and the
MDC, which has claimed the economy as its main
casualty.
South African President Thabo Mbeki was last March tasked by
the regional
Southern African Development Community (SADC) to lead talks
between the MDC
and ZANU PF. - ZimOnline
MDC businessmen cry foul over price
blitz
Zim Online
Wednesday 08 August 2007
By
Prince Nyathi
HARARE - Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Tuesday
accused President
Robert Mugabe's government of targeting shops owned by the
party's
supporters in rural areas under an ongoing crackdown on
prices.
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party
said several
shops belonging to the party's supporters in rural areas had
been targeted
under the controversial price blitz that began last
June.
The spokesperson for the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC, Nelson Chamisa
said the
move to target shops owned by opposition supporters was a
calculated move by
Mugabe to weaken the party's support base ahead of key
elections next year.
Chamisa said price inspection teams, working closely
with ruling ZANU PF
officials in rural areas were moving around identifying
and targeting
businesses owned by MDC supporters.
"The axe is always
hitting those suspected of belonging to the opposition
party. Those who are
politically correct are being spared," said Chamisa of
the controversial
price blitz that has seen most businesses in Harare and
Bulawayo on the
verge of virtual collapse.
The Zimbabwean government last June ordered
all shops to roll back prices to
mid-June levels as well as slash prices by
50 percent after businesses had
hiked prices by almost 500 percent in a
space of three weeks.
Mugabe, whose government is battling its worst
economic recession since
independence from Britain 27 years ago, accused the
businesses of hiking
prices in order to foment rebellion against his
government.
The crackdown has however resulted in empty shops in most
cities and towns
after retailers failed to restock citing the uncompetitive
prices at which
they have been forced to sell their commodities.
The
Harare authorities have since shifted the price crackdown to rural
areas,
where Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party draws most of its support.
Chamisa
said the systematic closure of businesses owned by opposition
supporters was
most prevalent in Manicaland, Masvingo and Mashonaland East
and Central
provinces.
The MDC has in the past accused the government of enforcing
the price
controls selectively with several ZANU PF officials running their
businesses
being spared under the crackdown.
Pishayi Muchauraya, the
MDC spokesperson for Manicaland province, said a
retail shop owned by the
party's district chairperson for Makoni North
district in Manicaland,
Valeshio Nhando, was forced to close after ZANU PF
militia ordered him to
sell all basic commodities well below those gazetted
by the
government.
"ZANU PF militia and the police are specifically targeting
our supporters in
rural areas and it looks like we can't do anything about
it," said
Muchauraya.
Industry and International Trade Minister Obert
Mpofu whose ministry is in
charge of enforcing the price freeze, denied that
the government was
targeting businesses run by opposition
supporters.
"We cannot reduce ourselves to such levels. We are punishing
anyone who
fails to comply and if the MDC guys were caught by law
enforcement agents,
they must not complain," said Mpofu.
Over 7 500
managers and shop owners have been arrested so far under the
crackdown for
defying the government directive to roll back prices to
mid-June levels. -
ZimOnline
Communicatiosn Interception Bill - Zimbabwe
Communications Interception – Zimbabwe
August 6, 2007
“The act empowers President Robert Mugabe's
government to establish an
information centre to eavesdrop on telephone
conversations, open mail and
intercept faxes and e-mails.”
Here I will discus from a technical point of view as to what the
Information
Center and can not do. To
start with the government failed to setup up the so called Command Center. The key reason for this failure
was namely lack of funds and lack of expertise.
So as a quick fix the government will force ISP to install and maintain
the equipment and train its own people at their own costs.
What can be intercepted?
- Postal Mail – letters this is too obvious as all
the government agents need to do is wait at the post office serving your area to
open your letter before you get it. As a result sensitive communication should
never be sent via the postman.
- Faxes – Faxes can be intercepted pretty easily by
agents if of course they know your fax number. The technology and software
involved is expensive but very possible considering the govt owns TelOne which
runs the telephone wires to the fax machines in Zimbabwe. In
this instance the agents have to physically tap directly into TelOne circuits.
As a result use of FAX for sensitive info should be avoided unless of course you
are using a cellular fax number which will in turn mean agents will GSM provider
access to intercept the cellular faxes. The best option here is using web based
faxes. Internet faxes. These internet faxes have an international number based
in say US or UK.You send and receive your faxes from your computer. You pay like
$ 9.99 per month.
- Local - E-mail Interception of email depends on 2
specific items (i) is your email a local Zimbabwe email
or NOT. If your mail ends with .co.zw .org.zw .co.ac.zw it is a local email.
International emails are email services like Yahoo , Hotmail , Gmail just to
mention a few. To intercept your local (Zimbabwe ) email the govt agents will
only need to go to the ISP where the email services are being hosted.Loginto the
mail server and read your emails. Again the local emails are stored in machines
that reside in Harare, Byo servers being provided by the likes
of ZOL, Mweb, Telco internet etc.
- International email – Any of the FREE
international emails are the safest to use. The command center can not intercept
them. Traffic on the web travels in different routes every time you send a
messaged. Also MOT importantly the email services are NOT hosted in Zimbabwe but
in the US or UK or Japan etc.All you do when you open your email from Yahoo for
instance is sending a request to Yahoo with your username and password and Yahoo
will respond and push your messages onto your inbox. When you send your username
and password they are encrypted meaning it would pointless for any person to try
and intercept your login details. Of course your must NOT have weak passwords
like “father”. Your passwords must not make sense to anyone except you. A good
password will contain a variety of characters. The stronger your password the
harder for any person to guess it.
- Summarily – if you are a lawyer, journalist or
someone who thinks the govt has reason to intercept your emails – use Yahoo.com
or Gmail.com or Hotmail.com.They are free and secure – unless of course you tell
someone your password.
- Telephone calls – of course if you are using a
TelOne phone tapping is pretty easy here as the agents only need to put a wire
from the CO (central office) this is an exchange that switches your
calls.
- Cell phones – this can be done of course with the
cooperation of GSM providers who can listen to your conversation from the
switches.
- As you can see from above – the bill is only
effective for those systems that are operated in Zimbabwe like local email , land line
.And the BILL has no leverage to intercept what you post on the internet and the
emails/faxes you send on the internet.
Yahoo and Gmail would be excited to hear that the
agency from Zim intercepted emails from and to their servers based in Sunnyvale and Mountain View California !!
Robert Ndlovu
NY , USA
.
Zimbabwe Opposition Set To Lobby Regional Leaders At Lusaka
Summit
VOA
By Jonga Kandemiiri
Washington
07 August
2007
The faction of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for
Democratic Change led MDC
founder Morgan Tsvangirai said it will highlight
events in Zimbabwe during a
summit of the Southern African Development
Community set to open Friday in
Zambia.
Senior faction officials said
they will engage all regional leaders ahead of
the summit to inform them on
the situation. The 27th SADC ordinary meeting
is being held under the theme
of "Infrastructure Development in Support of
Regional
Integration."
At the meeting, which runs through August 18, President
Levy Mwanawasa of
Zambia will take over the SADC chair from Lesotho Prime
Minister Pakalitha
Mosisili.
International Affairs Secretary Eliphas
Mukonoweshuro of the Tsvangirai
faction told reporter Jonga Kandemiiri of
VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that
he expected the regional leaders to heed
the MDC as a legitimate opposition
party.
Price cuts will halve Zim revenue
Mail and Guardian
Lloyd Gedye with Harare correspondent
06 August 2007
11:59
Although Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's recent
price cuts
are projected to halve the state's income in the short term and
will further
cripple the economy, business leaders remain reluctant to
openly criticise
his policies.
A large proportion of
businesses in Zimbabwe are expected to
report losses within the next
quarter, which will have a severe effect on
the revenue generated by the
state through corporate tax.
Manufacturers are downscaling
operations now, with some closing
shop because of the lack of demand. The
decline in manufacturing is expected
to strike a blow to exports, which will
affect the amount of foreign
exchange flowing into the
country.
Foreign exchange shortages will, in turn, restrict
imports of
fuel, electricity and medical supplies.
Nonetheless, business is tiptoeing around Mugabe, using flattery
to win his
ear at a crucial meeting last week.
According to a
confidential business briefing handed to Mugabe,
and minutes taken by one of
the 12-member business team that attended the
meeting, business leaders
plied Mugabe with accolades, saying his
"contribution to Zimbabwe was
without equal", that he was a "decisive"
leader and that "the country" was
responsible for the economic crisis by
failing to meet his goals of
"creating a prosperous society for all".
The business leaders
said Mugabe's price war, which has left
store shelves empty and worsened the
dire economic situation of most
Zimbabweans, "had very good
reasons".
Publication this week of the contents of the
document presented
to Mugabe at last week's meeting is certain to attract
criticism for
business leaders.
Although Mugabe accuses
business of backing his opponents and
working against his policies, business
has hardly ever publicly criticised
his government, opting instead for a
policy of appeasement in the face of an
increasingly irritable
government.
In spite of 4 000 arrests and the closure of
hundreds of
businesses, not only did business refuse to blame the crisis on
Mugabe, but
it even took the extraordinary step of taking the blame
itself.
"When we look at how we as a nation have performed
against the
goal that you set for us, that is the goal to create a
prosperous nation
where the lives of all our people are uplifted, we can all
clearly see that
we have all let you down . this country, business and
government, have let
you down."
Business leaders argue
that outright criticism of Mugabe will
only worsen matters. But others point
out that in an economy in which new
private investment has dried up and
businesses are scaling down existing
operations, government has emerged as
the last single source of meaningful
business.
Meanwhile,
the increasing dominance of the black market is
depriving the state of
much-needed tax revenue.
An analyst, who preferred to remain
anonymous, said the informal
economic system in place now is resulting in
massive tax evasion. The
analyst said the loss in tax revenue will severely
limit the state's ability
to finance its activities.
Anticipated losses of close to 50% of revenues are expected to
lead to a
widening of the budget deficit, likely to be financed by
increasing domestic
money supply, a move which will put increased pressure
on already soaring
inflation.
With an increased perceived risk in Zimbabwe, it
is becoming
more difficult for the state to secure finance from banks and
friendly
countries such as China. Zimbabwean sources say business confidence
is at an
all-time low and this is deterring domestic and foreign
investment.
The analyst said price controls not related to
cost will
ultimately drive the economy into deep economic
recession.
Another analyst warned that the price controls
could lead to an
inflation explosion soon.
Documents from
last week's meeting show that business believes a
"robust implementation" of
a package of reforms it proposes will bring
stability to the
inflation-ravaged economy within 90 days.
"It is our view
that we face extraordinary challenges that
require extraordinary measures
and unconventional methods," business said,
recommending that Mugabe
assemble "a team of business and government to put
together and implement a
comprehensive emergency package of measures to
rescue, stabilise and
eventually turn around our economy".
The package of reforms
includes the need to approach "friendly"
states and institutions for a
"substantial" foreign currency injection to
stabilise the battered currency
rate and a new pricing policy that strikes a
balance between viability for
business and affordability for consumers.
Business also wants
an end to all forms of government controls
on the economy, an end to
insecurity on the farms and finalisation of
proposed legislation that will
have a bearing on investment, such as the
Empowerment Bill and planned
changes to mining laws. Mugabe was asked to
reform state-owned enterprises
-- some of which report losses equal to the
national budget and are run by
corrupt ruling party appointees.
"Once this internal package
of measures achieves traction," says
the document, foreign support will rush
in and recovery could be as soon as
three months.
Minutes
of the meeting disclose that Mugabe instructed the
business leaders to add
the "removal of sanctions" to their list of what
measures are necessary to
end the crisis.
Too much to monitor for snooping squads
By Lance Guma
07 August
2007
Hardly four days after Robert Mugabe signed the Interception of
Communications Bill into law, unconfirmed reports suggest that out of 45
state security operatives trained by Chinese instructors, at least 10 have
now been deployed at the Mazoe Earth Satellite station outside Harare this
week. The station serves as the portal for Internet traffic in and out of
Zimbabwe via satellite connectivity to Intelsat, the world's largest
commercial satellite communications services provider. The Mazoe station is
also Zimbabwe's largest international telecommunications link.
The new
law provides for the setting up of an interception centre but it's
not clear
whether this will be located in Mazoe and if so what the role of
those
deployed there will be.
A well-placed source says the general talk among
those implementing the
project is that they have conceded it will be
impossible to monitor everyone's
communication. 'It would need the whole
security industry to participate in
this exercise, so essentially they are
relying on the fear factor to
discourage free speech amongst Zimbabweans.' A
considerable number of people
in urban areas use e-mail, faxes, mobile and
landline phones. The net result
is that traffic is so huge even the networks
are failing to manage. This is
certain to place an unmanageable workload on
those trying to monitor.
The role of China in aiding repressive regimes
around the world comes under
the microscope once again. It has been reported
that it's the Chinese who
supplied equipment for jamming outside broadcasts
from independent stations
like SW Radio Africa and Voice of America's Studio
7. That the same Chinese
government will help implement the latest project
in Zimbabwe comes as no
surprise. Big corporate entities like Microsoft,
Google and Yahoo have also
come under criticism for cooperating with the
Chinese government in its
censorship drive. Whether Mugabe will secure
similar concessions is yet to
be seen. Tapping into the Yahoo and Hotmail
systems would in principle need
the cooperation of those companies.
Media
watchdog Reporters Without Borders has meanwhile slammed the
government for
passing the controversial snooping law. The group said, 'the
promulgation of
this law is further evidence of Mugabe's desire to keep news
and information
under close control.' To add insult to injury Internet
Service Providers are
compelled to install and pay for the equipment
themselves, and the cost
implications in foreign currency are likely to
cripple some of them. "A
service provider who fails to give assistance in
terms of this section shall
be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine or
to imprisonment for a period
not exceeding three years or to both," reads
part of the Act.
As
usual government is depending on the 'fear factor' to do much of the work
for them - silencing discussion and criticism. But the bottom line is that
they can't listen to and monitor every single person - what they can do is
target individuals, and they've been doing that already for a long, long
time.
SW Radio Africa
Zimbabwe news
ISPs counting the
cost of 'big brother' law
TeleGeography
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
The Interception of Communications Act was signed
into law by Zimbabwe's
President Robert Mugabe on 3 August, enabling the
government to intercept
phone calls, e-mails and faxes with the declared aim
of protecting national
security. Internet service providers are now
reportedly facing financial
difficulties as a result of the bill, because of
the costs of installing
monitoring equipment on their platforms. Under the
law ISPs have to meet the
costs themselves
Zim stock exchange forced to calculate
inflation
Mail and Guardian
Harare, Zimbabwe
07 August 2007
01:39
Zimbabwe's tortuous economy has been causing headaches
for
companies listed on the local stock exchange, it emerged on Tuesday,
particularly on the question of how one calculates inflation-adjusted
half-year results if no one knows what the true figure
is.
The state-run Central Statistical Office (CSO) stopped
releasing
official inflation data three months ago when Zimbabwe's annual
inflation
rate stood at more than 3 000%.
Critics said at
the time that President Robert Mugabe's
government wanted to suppress the
highly embarrassing figures. Estimates of
the current inflation rate differ
wildly: from well over 4 500% to at least
13 000%.
Anxious that all 30 or so companies due to release their
half-year results
do so using the same figure, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
(ZSE) has had to
engage chartered accountants to come up with a definitive
rate, the
state-controlled Herald daily reports.
"We are hoping to have
a flat rate that will be used by all
companies in their half-year financial
results," ZSE chief executive
Emmanuel Munyukwi said.
Mugabe last month ordered massive price slashes in a bid to cut
inflation.
But growing shortages of many basics in shops across Zimbabwe are
leading to
fears that prices on the black market will soar.
The
authorities have been forced to up the price of beef by more
than 50% in a
bid to fill shop freezers, empty of meat since early in July,
the Herald
said in a separate report.
Beef will now sell at Z$144 000
dollars per kilo, up from Z$90
000, said the newspaper. There are reports
some butcheries in the east of
the country have been selling meat at night
to try to dodge price
inspectors.
As shortages bite, the
International Monetary Fund has predicted
annual inflation in
once-prosperous Zimbabwe could reach a staggering 100
000% by year end. --
Sapa-dpa
Asmal Seeks UN Pressure on Mugabe
Cape Argus (Cape Town)
7
August 2007
Posted to the web 7 August 2007
Angela
Quintal
South Africa should turn to the UN Security Council to put
pressure on
President Robert Mugabe to embrace democracy, says veteran ANC
MP Kader
Asmal.
In one of the strongest statements to date from a
senior ANC member and
former cabinet minister about the deteriorating
situation in Zimbabwe, Asmal
said he favoured an "internationalized"
approach.
South Africa is currently involved in mediation efforts
sanctioned by the
Southern African Development Community.
However, if
Asmal has anything to do with it, the pressure on Mugabe for
change will be
wider and more drastic, including turning to the UN to turn
the screws on
Mugabe.
Asmal told the Cape Town Press Club that he detested what he was
seeing in
Zimbabwe and that he did not believe that Mugabe should stand in
the next
election there.
In an interview after delivering the
inaugural memorial lecture in honour of
the late Barry Streek, veteran South
African journalist Asmal suggested
pressure on Zimbabwe should be
"internationalized".
Asked what, if anything, South Africa could do, he
said: "We have to work
out much more drastic options.
"I think we
need to go to the Security Council. I know it is unpopular to
say that,"
Asmal said.
Armed anti-riot police deployed in Zimbabwe's eastern
border-Mutare
The Zimbabwean
(07-08-07)
MUTARE :-
THERE is a heavy police and army
presence in the Eastern border city with
speculation that they are ready to
crush demonstrations from members of the
National Constitutional Assembly,
NCA, who are advocating for a new, home
grown and people driven constitution
of the country.
Armed anti-riot police and the police crack unit the
Support Unit and
soldiers were early today deployed into the city's suburbs
and streets
carrying random searches from members of the public.
The
police and soldiers complete in anti riot gear and camouflage were armed
with fire-arms, baton sticks, tear smoke canisters, shields and police
dogs.
Police vehicles moved up and down the streets of the city leaving
may people
wondering what could be happening in the usually quite
city.
Most public places such as commuter ranks in the central business
district,
public parks and market places are targets by the government
agents who
included police in plain clothes and government spy agents, the
Central
Intelligence Organisation, CIO operatives.
Some people were
being subjected to random body searches and left to go.
Noone had been
arrested at the time of writing. CAJ News could not establish
what they were
looking for, but it is believed they are weapons, as victims
of the police
harassment also confirmed the police never told them what they
were
after.
"They just stopped me searched me all over including my bag and
they ordered
me to go without saying anything," said Patrick Mateko of
Chikanga in
Mutare.
While CAJ News could not get official comment
from Manicaland police
spokesperson Inspector Brian Makomeke, observers said
the government is
worry on the mood of the people such as NCA activists who
are demanding a
new constitution for the country to ensure next year's
elections would be
free and fair.
"They are afraid the NCA will take
them by surprise and the opposition MDC
might take advantage of the
demonstration to advance their goal. So police
are in full forces as other
government arms to sniff out all who intend to
demonstrate," said Lawrence
Dube of Sakubva.
Another Mutare resident Shupikai Mangezi said he was
shocked with the
increased number of the police, soldiers and other
government agents today.
"I think they are up to something sinister.
There are so many of them in
residential areas and in the city. It makes us
feel unstable of what is
likely to happen," he said.
The NCA has in
the past held successful demonstrations with a few arrests in
Mutare.
The heavy police presence and of the soldiers resulted in the
eastern border
city being in a sombre state, while some people went about
their business
but careful not to move in groups of more than five people,
as doing so
might be regarded as a crime under the repressive Public Order
and Security
Act, POSA- CAJ News.
19 WOZA & MOZA activists arrested while playing sport in Masvingo
By
Violet Gonda
7 August 2007
In the past members of the pressure group
Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise
have been arrested while praying, walking or
marching in the streets, but on
Tuesday, playing sport was added to the list
of crimes for the group. WOZA
coordinator Jenni Williams said 19 activists
were arrested at Macheke
Stadium in Masvingo while they were playing netball
and mixed-gender soccer.
At the time of broadcast, a lawyer had been
deployed to the police station
to find out the reason for the arrests. They
are currently being held at
Masvingo Central Police Station.
Williams
said people had been playing netball and mixed soccer as part of
peaceful
non-violent community activities. She said members of the Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) arrived while people were playing and
arrested one of the members. The agents are said to have returned to arrest
more people.
The pressure group has been at the forefront of peaceful
protests against
repression in Zimbabwe. The WOZA coordinator said: "We will
continue to do
whatever we want to do as long as it is peaceful, non-violent
and promotes
the full and unlimited practice of our human
rights."
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news
Makwavarara Out
The Herald (Harare) Published by the government
of Zimbabwe
7 August 2007
Posted to the web 7 August
2007
Michael Padera
Harare
HARARE commission chairperson Ms
Sekesayi Makwavarara resigned yesterday
after being at the helm of Town
House for four years.
No reasons were given for her
resignation.
She was immediately replaced by property mogul and
Zimbabwe's first black
chartered quantity surveyor, Engineer Michael
Mahachi.
The Mahachi commission is expected to administer Harare until
January next
year when elections for a substantive council are
held.
The Minister of Local Government, Public Works and Urban
Development, Cde
Ignatius Chombo, made the announcement at a brief Press
conference in Harare
yesterday afternoon.
"We are appointing new
commissioners to run the affairs of Harare until the
appropriate council is
elected. Ms Makwavarara has resigned. She elected not
to be reconsidered for
reappointment," said Cde Chombo.
Clad in a yellow and white dress and
matching white shoes, Ms Makwavarara
showed no emotions and did not give a
farewell speech.
Scientific and Industrial Research and Development
Centre chief executive
officer Dr Robson Mafoti was retained as commission
deputy chairperson.
Professor Jameson Kurasha also resigned from the
commission while the
director of Civil Protection Unit, Mr Madzudzo
Pawadyira, was dropped.
Retained in the new commission are
under-secretary responsible for rural
local authorities Mr Killian Mpingo,
Borrowdale district administrator Mr
Alfred Tome, Harare Metropolitan
provincial administrator Mr Justin
Chivavaya, principal director in Vice
President Joice Mujuru's Office Dr
Sylvia Masango, city planner Mr Sasha
Jogi and lawyer Mr Thembinkosi
Magwaliba.
Three more commissioners
would soon be appointed to make a full complement
of 11.
Cde Chombo
said Ms Makwavarara opted not to be reconsidered for
reappointment. Her term
expired in June but was allowed to lead Harare until
yesterday.
Minister Chombo said the new commission should ensure that
all posts with
acting persons were filled with substantive heads while
labour disputes with
senior employees on suspension were resolved by the end
of this month.
"We want you to ensure that no one who is not working for
council right now
is paid anymore. You cannot be at home for two years and
still withdraw a
salary," he said.
Eng Mahachi immediately set out
his targets for the next six months, putting
housing delivery on the top of
his priority list.
"During my tenure as chairman, I will do all I can to
make sure that
residents of Harare are assisted to acquire land on which to
build their own
houses.
"The commission should see to it that land
for housing around the city is
surveyed and subdivided into stands and sold
to beneficiaries on the housing
waiting list. The beneficiaries can build
the houses at their own pace," he
said.
He said he would strengthen
the construction unit to build social houses for
rentals.
Eng
Mahachi's ambitious programme includes partnering the private sector to
build cluster homes and garden flats for young graduates.
He outlined
a programme for road construction and rehabilitation as well as
capacitating
soup kitchens.
He said team effort that brings together residents,
Government and civic
leaders would assist to bring the sparkle back to
Harare.
Eng Mahachi thanked outgoing commission chairperson Ms
Makwavarara for her
leadership role.
Ms Makwavarara will remain in
the mayoral mansion until the end of the month
when she is expected to
vacate the house.
Meanwhile, Cde Chombo announced the appointment of
former Harare town clerk
Mr Edward Kanengoni as the new head of capacity
building unit at the Urban
Development Corporation.
Floodgates in Zim are open
Dispatch
7/8/2007
JUDGING by
the reports streaming in, the floodgates between South Africa and
its
northern neighbour Zimbabwe
have well and truly opened.
Last week, IFP
leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi quoted statistics saying that on
average 3000
refugees per day now cross the border in search of a better
life south of
the Limpopo.
Shockingly Buthelezi - a former Home Affairs minister -
added that police
managed to intercept fewer than 200 of these
refugees.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad last week called
the influx of
Zimbabweans a "serious problem". Increasingly, SA is paying
the price of not
putting in place proper contingency plans.
Some
economists believe that the country has shed three percent of its
annual
gross domestic product by having to take care of border crossers.
And
it's not only South Africa that is taking strain.
Zambian authorities
reported that they were struggling to cope with a sudden
upsurge in
Zimbabweans crossing the border to shop for basic foodstuffs.
Botswana and
even Mozambique have reported an increase in Zimbabwean
numbers.
Pahad said that neighbouring countries "will not be able to
sustain the
levels of refugees".
To add to ordinary Zimbabweans'
woes, experts have predicted that this year's
wheat harvest will fall well
below the target, blamed on electricity
shortages which prevented farmers
from irrigating their crops.
The UN's World Food Programme last week
appealed for R840 million ($118m) to
help more than 3,3 million Zimbabweans
- more than a quarter of the
population - facing severe food
shortages.
Despite efforts by the Southern African Development Community
to try and
resolve the impasse, a sense of urgency has been
lacking.
Time is running out.
President Thabo Mbeki is expected to
report to the SADC on Friday of his
mediation efforts. So far, these have
had little promise of success.
Later this month, the SADC will converge
in Zambia for a meeting of heads of
state and government, where surely the
Zimbabwe issue must find a place at
the top of the agenda.
Leaders
must talk about an exit for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe - and
at what
cost.
But they may find talking about getting rid of Mugabe the easy
part.
Far more interesting and intriguing is what happens after Mugabe
leaves -
when the vultures descend on the scraps of a country once called
the
breadbasket of southern Africa.
Harare's counter-culture cafe
BBC
By Eugene Ulman Independent film-maker |
The Book Cafe has just turned 10 years
old | Zimbabwe is a country
in crisis and for a new generation astronomical inflation, empty supermarket
shelves, fuel queues, power cuts, Aids, censorship and political violence have
become the norm.
But the Book Cafe is one of the places that make the capital
city Harare so addictive, in spite of all the problems.
I first visited the Book Cafe in 1998, not long after it opened.
I saw a Tracy Chapman-style singer-songwriter and a stand-up comedian called
Edgar Langeveldt who made jokes about the recent riots.
It was hard to imagine back then how significant this place
would become.
Transformed
An environment of tight radio and TV control means that in
Harare popular culture happens live.
The modest-looking Book Cafe has just quietly turned 10 years
old. In 1997, a "lefty" bookshop called Grassroots Books was transformed into
cultural venue, with book launches, discussion nights and performances.
Over the years, the cafe has become the epicentre of Harare's
alternative culture. Six nights a week an audience gathers here, which is as
varied as the city itself.
The events each night vary greatly, but they have one thing in
common: at the Book Cafe there is no censorship.
|
The Book Cafe provides an environment where performers and audience
can debate, challenge and confront | The cafe was the
brainchild of Paul Brickhill, owner of Grassroots Books who needed a venue where
his band Luck Street Blues could play. So he created one.
His son Tomas Brickhill says the cafe has an important role,
especially in difficult times.
"If you've got a chance to tell people what you think then you
have to do that, especially in times of crisis," he says. "Not that rock and
roll is going to save the world or anything as silly as that. But in a way music
gives a voice that maybe can push the boundaries a little bit."
Protest poet
The economic crisis has hit the arts hard in Zimbabwe, and
venues must support commercial music and culture to survive. So the Book Cafe
has evolved into an all-important space for artists to connect and collaborate
without being limited by genre or market.
Besides creative innovation and entertainment, the venue also
provides an environment where performers and audience can debate, challenge and
confront.
Samm Farai Monro, better known by his stage name Comrade Fatso,
is a regular - a protest poet who is becoming something of a celebrity in
Harare, mixing English with the majority language of Zimbabwe Shona. He features
in the cafe's monthly "poetry slam".
Even Comrade Fatso acknowledges the difficulties of speaking
out. "One thing with Book Cafe is that if you've got the guts to say what you
want and spit it out in a poem - you can do it - but you don't know what's going
to come next," he says.
"That's the joke - in Zimbabwe you've got freedom of expression
but you don't have freedom after expression."
The venue plays host to a range of musical styles - from the
jazz band Too Open, through hip hop artists Unity Vibes to The Spirit of the
People with singer James Mujuru. They carry on the great tradition of the late
Ephat Mujuru who introduced so many around the world to traditional Shona music
and who also played memorable sets at the Book Cafe.
Intimidation
The cafe has become the epicentre of Harare's alternative
culture | There has never been
an attempt by the government to shut down the book café, but the artist and
management are never entirely safe from run-ins with officials.
During a recent comedy night the police burst in and arrested
two performers. They were released the following day, physically unharmed but
intimidated.
As the stress of everyday life intensifies and Zimbabweans have
come under increasing pressure to turn against each other, The Book Café is a
reminder that sometimes simply getting along can be the most powerful form of
protest.
It is not a venue that advocates a political stance, and it does
not represent any political party or corporate interest.
Although there is an energy of rebellion and freedom, it is not
a place of slogans or campaigning; it is a place of open dialogue and
expression.
|
'I detest what is happening in Zim'
IOL
August 07
2007 at 03:49PM
By Angela Quintal
South Africa should
turn to the UN Security Council to put pressure on
Zimbabwean president
Robert Mugabe to embrace democracy, says veteran
African National Congress
MP Kader Asmal.
In one of the strongest statements to date from a
senior ANC member
and former cabinet minister about the deteriorating
situation in Zimbabwe,
Asmal said he favoured an "internationalised"
approach.
South Africa is currently involved in mediation efforts
sanctioned by
the Southern African Development Community.
However, if Asmal has anything to do with it, he would want something
wider
and more drastic, including turning to the UN to turn the screws on
Mugabe.
Asmal told the Cape Town press club that he detested
what he was
seeing in that country and that he did not believe that Mugabe
should stand
in the next election there.
In an
interview with Independent Newspapers after delivering the
inaugural
memorial lecture in honour of the late Barry Streek a veteran
South African
journalist Asmal suggested pressure against Zimbabwe should be
"internationalised".
Referring to the systematic repression in
Zimbabwe, the interference
with the judiciary and the economic melt down, he
said: "We can no longer be
tolerant about his.
"I detest what
is happening in Zimbabwe."
However, he acknowledged that South
Africa's options were limited.
Asked what, if anything, South
Africa could do, he said: "We have to
work out much more drastic
options.
" I think we need to go to the Security Council. I know it
is
unpopular to say that."
Asmal said South Africa, with
international backing, should push to
ensure that Zimbabwe's elections were
free and fair.
This included changing that country's electoral
laws.
"The mistake is to say that elections legitimise. It is the
process
that legitimises," Asmal said.
However, he noted the
European Union approach, which involved smart
sanctions against Mugabe and
his cabinet, had not been successful.
On Mbeki's mediation efforts,
he said he hoped the president would
succeed and could persuade Mugabe to
embrace democratic rule.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad
said last week that Mbeki
was set to report to the SADC on his political
mediation in Zimbabwe, while
SADC executive secretary Tomaz Salamao would
give his recommendations on
solving the "very serious" economic
problem.
The government last week also acknowledged for the first
time that it
needed to do more about the increasing numbers of Zimbabwe
refugees.
This article was originally published on page 3
of Cape Argus on
August 07, 2007
Zimbabwe's Ruined Economy
Signals End for Mugabe
RealClearPolitics.com
August 07, 2007
By Ian Bremmer
Robert Mugabe may finally be
losing his grip on Zimbabwe's throat. The
accelerated decline of what's left
of Zimbabwe's economy might soon leave
the embattled president without the
cash to pay off those on whom his
political survival will depend. As prices
spike and waves of Zimbabweans
flee the country in desperation, the inner
circle of his ZANU-PF party may
finally have little choice but to push him
aside.
The 83-year old president, in power since 1980, is unlikely to go
gracefully. He vows to seek another five-year term in elections scheduled
for March. Yet, across his country, high inflation has become
hyperinflation. To this point, Mugabe's government has been able to collect
taxes and maintain the president's patronage network, buying the loyalty of
the army and police. ZANU-PF officials have been able to feed their most
useful constituents.
But official estimates now set inflation rates
at around 4,500 percent. The
real figure is almost certainly much higher.
The director of the
International Monetary Fund's Africa department warned
on July 31 that the
figure could reach 100,000 percent by year's end. Prices
for consumer goods
change several times a day. Meat, produce, eggs, bread,
cooking oil and soap
have become precious commodities.
Officially,
one American dollar buys 250 Zimbabwean dollars, but the black
market rate
is often 1,000 times higher. A typical pensioner is provided
about 6,000
Zimbabwean dollars per month. In Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, a
loaf of bread
now costs between $Z30,000 and $Z40,000, a pack of chewing gum
around
$Z15,000.
On June 25, the president launched "Operation Slash Prices,"
ordering that
prices for all goods and services in the country be cut in
half. As many as
2,000 vendors, unwilling to sell their entire inventories
at a loss, have
reportedly been arrested, including dozens of senior-level
company managers.
Others have simply closed their doors. Much of the country
has resorted to
barter.
Many of those who are able now drive into
South Africa for supplies. By some
estimates, as many as 3 million
Zimbabweans have crossed into that country
and remain there as refugees.
South Africans living along the border
complain that the human flood has
intensified sharply in the past few weeks.
Falling life expectancy and the
flight of the desperate may well have
reduced Zimbabwe's population by more
than one-third since the most recent
census was taken in 2000.
A
gasoline shortage has restricted both automobile traffic and public
transportation. For many, the commute to and from their jobs now takes
hours. Some walk. Others have stopped showing up for work. If they can
afford it, Zimbabweans now buy beans labeled "proudly made in Zambia." A
decade ago, Zimbabwe fed Zambians. This indignity reminds them -- if they
need another reminder -- how far they have fallen.
The enterprising
few profit from black market transactions, but other
criminal acts are more
violent. There have been several recent cases in
which uniformed police have
robbed and murdered white Zimbabweans entering
their homes. Faced with such
anarchy, increasing numbers of people are
forced to give up on law and the
government, fending for themselves in a
scramble for the country's last
crumbs.
Robert Mugabe was once lauded at home and abroad for his
moderation. In
1980, he helped dismantle Ian Smith's oppressive white-led
regime. Once
Rhodesia had become Zimbabwe, Mugabe charted a gradualist
course toward
black dominance of the new country's economy. But by the late
1990s,
Mugabe's failure to tackle unemployment and lift millions of black
Zimbabweans out of poverty threatened his political survival. To rebuild
popular support, he ordered a large-scale state seizure of white-owned
land.
The move produced disaster. Farmers who had cultivated the land for
generations fled, passing ownership to squatters with little idea how to
manage it. Zimbabwe's economy, once among Africa's strongest performers,
contracted by more than 30 percent. The arbitrary enforcement of property
rights for political purposes drove investors from the country in droves.
Inflation spiraled, the stock market plummeted, and the economy is now in
ruins.
Mugabe has survived many crises. He's now working frantically
to secure a
temporary bailout from Libya and other countries that share his
anti-Western
worldview. If he fails, the government will likely nationalize
parts of the
country's lucrative mining sector to collect foreign exchange
revenues and
wring the last drops from the country's natural wealth. New
loans might
allow him to avert a complete collapse and continue subsidizing
those within
the country who can ensure his presidency limps along for
another several
months.
But this time, things may truly be different.
The fast-growing wave of
refugees may soon force South Africa's President,
Thabo Mbeki, to drop the
"softly, softly" approach to relations with his old
anti-apartheid comrade
and finally deprive him of his most valuable
political cover. Mbeki's
mediation efforts to bring ZANU-PF and the
opposition Movement for
Democratic Change to political compromise may
finally turn toward
post-Mugabe planning.
Less sympathetic foreign
leaders are turning up the heat. British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown is
working to build pressure on other African leaders
to turn their backs on
Mugabe, warning that he will not attend an upcoming
summit of European and
African heads of states if the meeting's Portuguese
host invites the
Zimbabwean dictator.
Another ominous sign for Mugabe: Several local
newspapers have begun
publishing stories that he'll be gone within the next
several months -- an
explicit sign of defiance. Even some of the president's
longtime supporters
have publicly called for his retirement.
Mugabe
will not go without a fight. He has accused Britain of waging a
"terror
campaign" against his country. When Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic
archbishop,
Pius Ncube, called during a recent trip to South Africa for
foreign
intervention to remove Mugabe, a state-controlled newspaper
published photos
of him that the president says expose Ncube as an
adulterous hypocrite. To
keep track of his critics, Mugabe has approved a
law giving Zimbabwe's
security services the right to tap phone calls and
monitor e-mail and faxes
as they deem necessary.
But the risk for southern Africa of complete
chaos in Zimbabwe may finally
have become too great. When Mugabe goes, it
will probably be the ZANU-PF
elite that pulls the trigger. The president's
lieutenants have hesitated up
to now because no viable presidential
alternative has emerged from among
them. They may soon decide that any
alternative is more likely than Robert
Mugabe to pull Zimbabwe back from the
brink.
Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk
consultancy and
the author of "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why
Nations Rise and
Fall,". He can be reached via e-mail at research@eurasiagroup.net.
Where Is Nelson Mandela?
Commentary Magazine
James Kirchick - 8.7.2007
- 1:18PM
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an open letter from
the Elie
Wiesel Foundation, originally released July 11, signed by 51 Nobel
laureates, including Wiesel, the Dalai Lama, and a host of other luminaries,
decrying the various British boycotts of Israel. These boycotts, the
statement read, "glorify prejudice and bigotry."
But there is one
man, reputed to know more about the horrific effects of
"prejudice and
bigotry" than anyone on earth, missing from the collection of
signatories.
The absence of his name is made even more conspicuous by the
presence of
another name: that of Frederick Willem de Klerk, the last
apartheid-era
President of South Africa, who ably helped his country
transition into
multi-racial democracy. (No doubt the "Israel is apartheid"
crowd will use
his presence for their propaganda purposes. The presence on
the list of Wole
Soyinka, the Nigerian novelist and playwright, should
complicate their
attempt.) The missing name, of course, belongs to Nelson
Mandela. And its
absence is not all too surprising. Mandela has long been a
friend of
tyrants, from Fidel Castro to Muammar Qaddafi to Yasir Arafat. In
the
current issue of Azure, I explore the theme of Mandela's support for
these
autocrats within the larger context of the troubling direction in
which his
political party-the African National Congress-is taking South
African
foreign policy.
Say an ill word about Nelson Mandela and you become, in
the eyes of the
mainstream media, international glitterati, and pop culture
stars, a heretic
of all that's right and good in the world. But no one is
immune from
criticism, not even someone who spent 27 years of his life
languishing in
prison for the ideals of non-racialism and democracy. And if
that's the
standard for sainthood, why are figures like Armando Valladares
(who spent
22 years in a Cuban gulag suffering conditions far worse than
those Mandela
faced), Vladimir Bukovsky, and Natan Sharansky not given the
same
hagiographic treatment as Mandela? One cannot help concluding that the
nature of the regime behind the imprisonment-whether a right-wing
authoritarian one in the case of South Africa, or a left-wing totalitarian
one like the Soviet Union or Cuba-affects the attention paid to the
prisoner. And so I am left asking the same question Nat Hentoff posed four
years ago, regarding Mandela's silence in the face of Robert Mugabe's
destruction of Zimbabwe: "Where is Nelson Mandela?"
Zimbabweans, We Need Love Not Revenge
The Voice
(Francistown)
OPINION
7 August 2007
Posted to the web 7 August
2007
Simbarashe Chirimubwe
There were two families in our
village that were very close; they used to
hold functions together,
birthdays, weddings etc. They were the pride of the
village because they
were the best farmers. One day, tragedy struck in one
of the families when
the father passed away. This is the day hate and
vengeance was born in the
families. The family of the deceased concluded
that it was their family
friends who had committed the gory deed.
They opted to take revenge and
this spirit has been passed on from
generation to generation.
The
word "revenge" sends shivers down my spine because its vicious circle.
It's
more poisonous than the venom of a black mamba. It's more contagious
than
HIV Aids because it's difficult to find a cure. It can be passed from
generation to generation until eternity.
African leadership has been
infested with the spirit of revenge. If a new
President comes in, the out
going President has to flee or face music. Why
don't we emulate other
continents, which have proper handover of power?
Would it not be nice for
the new President to go to the residents of the
former President to consult?
If Morgan Tsvangirai or Simba Makoni or any
other person becomes President
of Zimbabwe, will it not be nice to see him
driving a motorcade to go and
consult his old man (mudhara) on critical
issues.
I appeal to
Zimbabweans to build their country based on love. Love is God
and as long as
there is no love drought shall persist in our country. Cloud
seeding is not
going to work except love peace and harmony. I long for that
Zimbabwe where
water would collect on a small hole made from elephant
footprints for the
whole year in Gokwe's forests. I long for that time when
crops used to ripen
earlier than expected.
President Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara are
your brothers not enemies.
Resolve the Zimbabwean problem amicably and
urgently. You are a President of
a nation with diverse political views; you
are also the founder of Zimbabwe
and first President. Why don't you leave a
legacy of love and oneness as
Zimbabweans, also the pride of being
Zimbabwean?
Nelson Mandela was meek enough to forgive Botha, you even
forgave Smith and
he is dying on his own in his farm. Why not work with your
brothers to wipe
the shame from the face of our land?
There are many
tribes in Zambia but Kaunda left the spirit of love when he
said "One Zambia
One nation". He is still living in his country, seeing the
fruits of
independence.
In Japan the President encouraged unity and hard work after
the Hiroshima
bombing and Japan has emerged a super power in
technology.
Americans say "God bless America". What have we to
say?
Our father Kwame Nkrumah was not rich materially, but spiritually,
he had
love for his continent and his country, Ghana. To date his principles
have
remained despite efforts by his detractors to do away with
Pan-Africanism.
This is simply because his doctrines were based on love.
Love cannot be
overcome.
We know some day you (Mugabe) will leave
office, but please leave a spirit
of oneness. I want to be able to visit you
at your residents when you are
retired and thank you for providing the
much-needed hope for a nation, which
was at the brink of collapse. I assure
you Mr. President that if you leave
without addressing this issue of oneness
and love, it's going to affect your
children and descendants. Zimbabwe shall
rise again brothers and sisters.
Simbarashe Chirimubwe
President,
Concerned Africans Association
Via Voice Online
Affreximbank gives $5 million loan to Zimbabwean
bank
Afrique en ligne
Harare, Zimbabwe - Africa Export Import Bank (Affreximbank) has
extended a US$5 million line of credit to a Zimbabwean bank, an official
here said Tuesday.
The official, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said Affreximbank
renewed the loan for another year for Interfin
Holdings, a diversified
financial services group in Zimbabwe.
The credit line was first granted last year and targeted primarily
exporters, specifically offering pre and post-shipment finance, the
officials said.
"Yes, the bank (Affreximbank) has renewed the
facility for Interfin,
and this is good for local exporters," one of the
bank officials said.
This is the latest in a string of credit lines
the African bank has
advanced Zimbabwe, which is reeling under economic
sanctions western lenders
have imposed on the country over alleged human
rights violations.
Last month, another Zimbabwean bank announced it
had secured a US$5
million credit line from Affreximbank, again to finance
exporters.
Harare - 07/08/2007
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200 vehicles to go under the hammer at
Beitbridge
Zim Online
Wednesday 08 August 2007
By
Regerai Marwezu
MASVINGO - The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) will
this month put 200
luxury vehicles that have been lying idle at Beitbridge
border post under
the hammer after their owners failed to raise funds to pay
import duty.
ZIMRA last April ordered Zimbabweans to pay import duty for
all luxury
vehicles in foreign currency resulting in hundreds of cars piling
up at the
border post, one of the busiest in southern Africa.
ZIMRA
corporate affairs manager Florence Jambwa said the vehicles would be
sold at
a public auction this month-end after the three months required by
law for
the owners to clear their vehicles had expired.
"We have about 200
vehicles which have not been cleared at the Beitbridge
border post. The
vehicles will be auctioned this month since we have given
the owners the
required three months to clear their vehicles," said Jambwa.
Observers
said the move to charge duty in foreign currency was a desperate
attempt to
boost government's foreign currency reserves.
President Robert Mugabe's
government has battled severe foreign currency
shortages over the past seven
years after the Harare authorities disrupted
the key agricultural sector,
the country's biggest foreign currency earner.
Several people who spoke
to ZimOnline yesterday said they would file legal
challenges to stop the
government from disposing the vehicles.
"It is very disturbing because
this issue of paying duty in foreign currency
was just forced down our
throats. After all how do they expect individuals
to raise payment in
foreign currency when it is a well-known fact that it is
scarce in this
country?
"We have already approached our lawyers and we will be ready to
confront the
government head-on in the courts," said a managing director of
a local
company whose five cars are holed up at the border
post.
Lawyers say the move to charge duty in foreign currency is illegal
adding
that the matter can be successfully challenged in courts of law. They
say
the Zimbabwe dollar, which has shed off most of its value, remains the
only
legal currency in the country. - ZimOnline
From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe
John Birch Society
By Anthony C. LoBaido
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Published: 2007-08-20
05:00 |
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At the inaugural ceremony, Prime Minister
Mugabe’s call for reconciliation between blacks and whites came as a welcome
surprise to those who had for years dismissed him as “a Marxist-terrorist trying
to gain power through the barrel of a gun.” … The unexpected size of his
majority gave Mugabe an unequivocal mandate.... All in all, the election and
handover represented a triumph of democracy in the face of considerable external
pressure.
— Andrew Young
President Carter’s Ambassador to the United
Nations
The excerpted statement above by Andrew Young
provides a small sampling of the outrageous commentary on Robert Mugabe’s
ascension to power in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in an essay penned by Young for
Foreign Affairs’ special report, “America and the World, 1980.” As President
Jimmy Carter’s emissary to Africa, Young played a pivotal role — along with
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski,
and other Carter administration officials — in enthroning Mugabe’s terror regime
and turning much of the Dark Continent into the nightmarish slaughterhouse of
chaos and terror it has become.
Two years earlier, in 1978, Ambassador Andrew Young
described Robert Mugabe in an interview with the Times of London. “Does Mr.
Mugabe strike you as a violent man?” the Times reporter asked. “Not at all, he’s
a very gentle man,” Young replied. “In fact, one of the ironies of the whole
struggle is that I can’t imagine Joshua Nkomo, or Robert Mugabe, ever pulling
the trigger on a gun to kill anyone. I doubt that they ever have.”
Ambassador Young could barely contain his brimming
admiration for the newest “liberator” of Africa’s oppressed: “I find that I am
fascinated by his intelligence, by his dedication. The only thing that
frustrates me about Robert Mugabe is that he is so damned
incorruptible.”
Andrew Young knew better. During the 1970s, as Mugabe
competed with his sometime ally and former mentor Joshua Nkomo for primacy in
the “liberation” movement in Rhodesia, he proudly identified himself as a Maoist
and proved himself one of the most ruthless terrorist leaders. His
Chinese-sponsored ZANU-PF guerrillas, operating out of the neighboring communist
regimes in Mozambique, Zambia, and Angola, terrorized black villages, and
tortured and killed opponents.
This was all well known not only to Andrew Young but
to other pillars in the American foreign policy establishment who were promoting
Mugabe as the “gentle,” “incorruptible” savior of Rhodesia. Foreign Affairs,
from whence came Mr. Young’s quote at the beginning of this article, is, of
course, the house journal of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), arguably
the most influential “brain trust” in the world. The council, of which Young was
a prominent member, had promoted Mugabe in its literature and had hosted him as
an honored speaker during his long terror campaign to take control of Rhodesia.
David Rockefeller, chairman of the CFR during that period, called Mugabe a “very
reasonable and charming person.” Likewise, the New York Times, Washington Post,
and virtually all the rest of the major print and broadcast media choir had
persistently sung his praises, ignoring his well-documented record of atrocities
against civilian men, women, and children — black and white.
But in the past few years, Mugabe’s erstwhile
supporters have been forced to acknowledge that he is the brutal communist
dictator that his critics had exposed him as more than 30 years ago. He has
bathed Zimbabwe in blood, turned it into a police state, and ruined what was
previously one of the most prosperous economies in Africa. Finally, the former
darling of the Liberal Establishment has been repudiated by virtually all except
Communist China and his fellow African Marxist despots.
A Beacon Extinguished
How could Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, a thriving, vibrant,
multi-cultural example of Western-style civilization, once a shining beacon for
Africa, have turned into hell on Earth?
Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence
(UDI) from Great Britain came in 1965, only a few short decades after England’s
1923 annexation of Southern Rhodesia from the South Africa Company. Under the
UDI, Rhodesia pulled away from the Mother Crown rather than negotiate with
Mugabe’s terrorists, as it was being pressured to do by White Hall and the
powerbrokers in London. Rhodesians were all too familiar with the chaos and
tyranny that had befallen neighboring countries that had capitulated to such
pressure. Rhodesian leader Ian Smith, a fighter pilot who was shot down over
Italy during World War II while fighting for the Allies, stood up to the Maoist,
Marxist, and Communist penetration in the region all by himself. This while the
rest of the Western world, wounded from Vietnam and menaced by the old Soviet
Union, sat idly by — or worse yet, helped the communist-backed
terrorists.
Smith traveled to Washington, D.C., to ask for help.
He wasn’t asking for foreign aid; he merely hoped to persuade President Carter
to call off the economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure being applied by the
U.S. State Department, the UN, and Britain in an attempt to force Rhodesia to
accept rule by the Mugabe/Nkomo terrorist forces. Carter flatly refused to see
Smith.
Henry Kissinger, meanwhile, did meet with Smith in
Geneva. But if Smith thought that he would receive kinder treatment from the
former secretary of state and adviser to Republican presidents, he was in for a
rude awakening. Precisely what threats or pressures were brought against him is
not known, but Smith, who had previously pledged not to surrender to the
terrorists “in ten thousand years,” was a changed man after the meeting. He is
said to have aged 10 years in that one week in Geneva. It has been suggested by
African observers that Smith was threatened with a military invasion of Rhodesia
backed by the UN, the United States, and the U.K. That is entirely plausible, as
such talk was in the air and detailed plans for a military invasion of South
Africa had been drawn up and published by policy wonks at the Carnegie Endowment
for Peace.
Smith asked Kissinger about things like history,
culture, civilization, and loyalty. After all, Rhodesia had fought for the West
in the great battles of the 20th century, including World War II and the Korean
War. Kissinger firmly told Smith something truly sad and even frightening, “I am
afraid those things have no place in the modern world.”
Kissinger added that “white regimes would not survive
in Southern Africa.” Ironically, it is a fact that at that time the black
peoples of Southern Africa were voting with their feet and fleeing from the
communist-Marxist regimes run by black revolutionary clients of Washington,
Moscow, and Beijing to the “white regimes” of Rhodesia and South Africa. The New
World Order and seeds of today’s African mayhem were being firmly planted by the
globalists at the Council on Foreign Relations and Britain’s Royal Institute for
International Affairs.
Under intense pressure from the
Washington-Moscow-Beijing axis, South Africa, which had long fought for
Rhodesia, cut off aid to Ian Smith’s government, hoping their own apartheid
system would be spared by the West for doing so. The sellout was on. Many
Rhodesians, including legendary soldiers like Willem Ratte, Bert Sachse, and
Luther Eeben Barlow, who would become the backbone of South Africa’s elite
special forces in the war in Angola against Cuba and the Soviet Union, fled to
South Africa. The power vacuum created by that exodus would be filled by some of
the most blood-thirsty savages Africa has ever seen.
Mugabe’s Long Record
Contrary to Andrew Young’s claims, Mugabe’s record
proves that he was (and is) indeed “a Marxist-terrorist trying to gain power
through the barrel of a gun.” And, contrary to popular misconceptions caused by
decades of media disinformation, it was not Mugabe’s thugs who ended white rule
in Rhodesia. Ian Smith and the legitimate black leaders of Rhodesia accomplished
that in 1979 in multi-racial elections that brought a black majority government
to power under a former Nkomo/Mugabe comrade, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who had
renounced violence to work for peaceful change.
Mugabe and Nkomo tried to stop the elections with
threats, intimidation, and terror. Mugabe issued a “death list” of the black
leaders who were cooperating for a peaceful transition to black rule, calling
them “traitors,” “opportunistic running-dogs,” and “capitalist vultures.”
Nevertheless, 64 percent of Rhodesia’s black population defied the threats and
turned out to vote. And an overwhelming two-thirds of them voted for Abel
Muzorewa, making him Rhodesia/Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister. They were
very much aware of the disasters brought about by communist-backed black
dictatorships in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Ghana, and
Namibia. They did not want “one man, one vote, one time,” which had become the
rule in Africa.
The 1979 election that elected Muzorewa and a new
black majority parliament had met all the conditions demanded by the United
States and Britain and was certified to be free and fair by outside observers.
But the U.S. and British governments then reneged and demanded new elections
that not only included Mugabe and Nkomo, but allowed their ZANU-PF (Zimbabwe
African National Union-Patriotic Front) and ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People’s
Union) guerrillas back into the country as well. Believing it had no choice,
Rhodesia capitulated to these outrageous demands. Following a campaign of
intimidation and terror, Mugabe was “elected” in 1980, proving the African
dictum that the man with the most guns and the most ruthless thugs
wins.
As anti-communists had predicted, soon after coming
to power Mugabe turned on his former terrorist comrade, Joshua Nkomo, who was of
the minority Matabele tribe. To accomplish this, Mugabe brought in several
hundred advisers from communist North Korea to train his infamous Fifth Brigade.
Then he began his great Matabele Massacre. Mugabe’s Mashona tribe (or “Shona”
for short) had been long-standing rivals of the Matabele, but the two tribal
groups had managed to coexist peacefully in white-ruled Rhodesia. Mugabe called
his ethnic cleansing operation against Nkomo and the Matabele Gukurahundi, the
Shona term for “the first rain that washes away the chaff of the last harvest
before the advent of spring rains proper.”
Bitter Harvest
Official figures vary, but it can be roughly
estimated that around 30,000 Matabele were slaughtered in Mugabe’s “liberation”
of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. It was an ominous prelude to what would become a fascist,
archetype Maoist revolution in Rhodesia, a country roughly the size of Montana.
Mugabe, with the help of his own de facto Hitler Nazi Youth corps called the
“Green Bombers,” would go on to slaughter Zimbabwe’s white farmers, take away
their land, and plunge the nation into a hell hole of debt, hunger,
hyperinflation, murder, HIV/Aids, and hopelessness.
Once the breadbasket of Southern Africa,
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was (and remains) home to one of the world’s grandest sights,
Victoria Falls. Called “the mist that thunders” by the locals, this natural
wonder has (thus far) defied Mugabe’s ability to ruin, corrupt, and destroy, but
where abundant game and wildlife once brought tourists from the four corners of
the planet, now conservationists worldwide have expressed alarm that Mugabe’s
policies have decimated the country’s wildlife treasure, with many exotic
species (including elephants and rhinos) facing extinction.
Apartheid never existed in Rhodesia and in general
the races got along. The race wars were launched by Mugabe’s ZANU-PF and Nkomo’s
ZAPU. All the while the American media cheered this sickening and deadly
debacle. Even the farm invasions were lionized by the late Peter Jennings of ABC
News, who in a nationally televised report made the ZANU-PF terrorists who were
murdering, torturing, and raping the ethno-European farmers out to be “war
veterans” and heroes.
By all accounts, over 400,000 agricultural jobs have
been lost. The Zimbabwean Commercial Farmers Union has issued numerous reports
about the violence, law-breaking, and devastating effects of Mugabe’s white land
grab. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s inflation is the world’s highest; the government’s
own statistics put it at 4,500 percent annually, while some economists put it at
double that. GNP, GDP, unemployment, real growth, household income, and other
major economic indicators are collapsing by the day, as they have been for most
of the past 10 years. As a result, all Zimbabweans no matter what their race,
tribe, or culture are suffering.
Tobacco had accounted for 30 percent of exports with
gold second at 11 percent. These days, heroin, mandrax, methamphetamines, and
other drugs are emerging in a narco-economy. Basic services are all but
unobtainable. Shelves are empty. The very best Zimbabweans have fled for the UK
and beyond. Zimbabwe’s infrastructure is decaying. Government corruption is
endemic. The military has turned its back on all acceptable standards of
humanity and soldiering.
It is estimated that only 100,000 Zimbabweans use the
Internet in a country of about 12 million. Those who write the truth about
what’s going on in the country and use the Internet to reach the outside world
are often hounded, harassed, and threatened by the government. Mugabe’s main
black opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), is feeling his
wrath. MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa recently said over 200 MDC members were
arrested by Mugabe’s forces. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has replaced Ian
Smith, the white farmers, and the Matabele as the ZANU-PF’s boogeyman du
jour.
Cathy Buckle, author of Africa Tears and Beyond
Tears, had her farm taken away by Mugabe during his land grab. She told this
writer, “At first I supported change. But now just look at our country.” In her
latest report from inside Zimbabwe, Buckle offered hope by pointing out that
overweight ZANU-PF leaders are having problems convincing their bone-thin
followers that all is well in Zimbabwe. As in Ethiopia and most other African
famines, the food shortages are man-made by communist, collectivist policies
that are outright genocide.
What can the United States, the world’s “sole,
indispensable superpower,” do? Apparently not very much. Secretary of State
Condi Rice has noted “outposts of tyranny” from Burma to Venezuela to North
Korea to Zimbabwe to Iran. (Outposts of course must have a main garrison home,
and those homes are Russia and Mainland China.) President Bush, Jr. signed an
Executive Order against Zimbabwe, citing it as an enemy of the United States. A
travel ban on Zimbabwean officials has been enacted. But our good “trading
partner,” China, continues to shower aid on Mugabe’s regime.
Clearly Zimbabwe can work. Rhodesia proved that. It
was a model for a post-colonial, still-developing Africa. There should be an
agricultural bounty, beyond tobacco. There’s also coal, chromium ore, gold,
nickel, copper, iron ore, vanadium, lithium, tin, and platinum ready to be
mined.
As for the future, Mugabe is 83. It is rumored he has
throat cancer. He is shunned by most on planet Earth, even the BBC, save for
allies like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, and the Chinese Politburo.
Mugabe continues to practice yoga and still vacillates between his Spartan
upbringing and new-found tastes for the good life. He has been known to use the
state airline to assist his wife on her legendary if not ebulliently lavish
shopping jaunts. Mugabe showed up at Thabo Mbeki’s last South African
presidential inauguration and was greeted as though he were a rock star.
Zimbabwe’s constitution allows for Mugabe to stay in power till he is 90 years
of age, but Africa watchers from across the political spectrum are speculating
that his tottering regime could implode before the year’s end.
Will the truth about Zimbabwe ever become fully known
and acted upon by all decent people in Africa, the West, and the rest of the
world?
As noted by actress Nicole Kidman in the film The
Interpreter, which many believed to have been made as a psycho-social operation
against Mugabe, “Even the faintest whisper can be heard above the sound of
armies … when it speaks the truth.” Perhaps this article will serve as the
faintest of whispers.
JAG Classifieds dated 7 August 2007
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1.
For Sale Items
2. Wanted Items
3. Accommodation
4. Recreation
5.
Specialist Services
6. Pets Corner
7. Social
Gatherings
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OFFERED FOR
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1.1
Generators & Inverters for Sale
The JAG office is now an official
agent for GSC Generator Service (Pvt) Ltd
and receives a generous commission
on sales of all Kipor generators and
equipment. Generators are on view at
the JAG office. Please could all
those JAG subscribes who deal directly with
GSC, rather that through the JAG
office, clearly stipulate that the
commission if for JAG.
The one stop shop for ALL your Generator
Requirements SALES:
We are the official suppliers, repairs and maintenance
team of KIPOR
Equipment here in Zimbabwe. We have in stock KIPOR Generators
from 1 KVA to
55 KVA. If we don't have what you want we will get it for
you. We also
sell Inverters (1500w), complete with batteries and
rechargeable lamps. Our
prices are very competitive, if not the lowest in
town.
SERVICING & REPAIRS: We have a qualified team with many years
of experience
in the Generator field. We have been to Kipor, China for
training. We
carry out services and minor repairs on your premises. We
service and
repair most makes and models of Generators - both petrol and
diesel.
INSTALLATIONS: We have qualified electricians that carry out
installations
in a professional way.
SPARES: As we are the official
suppliers and maintainers of KIPOR Equipment,
we carry a full range of KIPOR
spares.
Don't forget, advice is free, so give us a call and see us at:
Bay 3,
Borgward Road, Msasa. Sales: 884022, 480272 or admin@adas.co.zw
Service: 480272, 480154
or gsc@adas.co.zw
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For Sale
So Far and No further! Rhodesia's Bid for Independence during
the Retreat
from Empire 1959-1965 by J.R.T. Wood
533 pages; quality
trade paperback; pub. Trafford ISBN 1-4120-4952-0
Southern African edition,
pub. 30 Degrees South : ISBN 0-9584890-2-5
This definitive account traces
Rhodesia's attempt to secure independence
during the retreat from Empire
after 1959. Based on unique research, it
reveals why Rhodesia defied the
world from 1965.
Representing Volume One of three volumes, Two and Three
are in preparation
and will take us to Tiger and thence to 1980;
To
purchase:
Zimbabwean buyers contact Trish Broderick: pbroderick@mango.zw
RSA buyers:
WWW. 30 degreessouth.co.za or Exclusives Books
Overseas buyers see: http://www.jrtwood.com
and a link to
Trafford Publishing http://www.trafford.com/04-2760
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1.3
For Sale
Road motorcycle for sale. YAMAHA - Model YZF 600cc - Thundercat
- in
immaculate condition.
Highest cash offer secures. For further
details contact Dave on 011 600 770
or 091 22 55 653 or email dapayne@zol.co.zw
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1.4
For Sale (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
1996 Toyota Land-cruiser for sale. Very
good condition with plenty extras.
Tel: 498001, 0912 437845 or email dtoy@zol.co.zw
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1.5
For Sale (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
ZNSPCA IS SELLING GOODS DONATED FOR
RESALE TO HELP WITH OUR WORK.
ZNSPCA HQ 156 Enterprise RD. Tel 497574/
497885
OLD/ NEW BOOKS SALE RECORDS-MAGAZINES JIGSAW PUZZLES, TOYS,
VIDEO'S
BOOK/JUMBLE SALE 4 AUGUST 10 - 12 PM
156 ENTERPRISE
RD
LARGE MIRRORS
113cm x 139 cm - $3 600 000
90 cm x136cm - $3
000 000
70 cm x 61.5cm - $900 000
59,5cm x 62 cm - $700 000
PARQUET
WOODEN BLOCKS (SMALL) APPOX 15 SQ METRES - 2 MIL
OREGON PINE FRENCH DOOR
- 2 MILL
PINE COFFEE TABLE GLASS TOP 2mtr X 1mtr - $3.
MIL
PRINTERS TRAY - $ 500 000
2 SECOND HAND STEEL DOORS WITH
FRAMES WINDOW FRAMES- SOME WITH GLASS
PEDESTRIAN GATE FENCING
POLES
FIRE WOOD - $150 000 PER
BAG
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1.6
For Sale (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
1 x MF265S tractor - front to back
rebuild. US$12,500 equivalent
1 x Ursus 3512 tractor - front to back
rebuild. US$12,500 equivalent
1 x Renault ME160 7 tonne truck -
immaculate condition, new tyres, imported
batteries etc. + 1 x 5 tonne drop
side trailer - immaculate conditon, new
tyres etc. - US$40,000
equivalent
Telephone Marondera 079-21421, 0912 256 661, e-mail rdsaul@zol.co.zw
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For Sale (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
10 kg LPG cylinders (empty): ea-
20
2 kg LPG cylinders - need attention ea- 10
Army (ex) steel
frame stretchers: 20
Bar (small): 25
Book case (teak) 2 shelf
small: 20
Camping stools and chairs: 6 - 10
Coffee table
30
Dart board with darts 15
Fans various from fixed to
oscillating: 30 - 40
Garden hose on hose roller 15
Rucksacks
(Hiking) (empty!): 20 - 40
Pentium 1 computer and screen 30
Soda
streams and CO2 cylinders - 10 and 15
Spring-Master 4 serving bowl
Hostess Food Warmer: 50
Steel garden swing chair (1950 era):
60
Steel garden round table and four chairs and securing chain:
55
Steel chaisse longez: 20
Well used golf set with various clubs
and woods and about 2 doz golf balls:
30
Figures
represent US$ also payable at the current equivalent.
Email: timcopley@zol.co.zw for more details or
Phone 301646 or 011 201 231
for
viewing
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1.8
THE WEAVERY.(The African Craft Market) (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Going
Overseas or down South? Why not take hand woven gifts for your friends
or
family? These super articles which are light, easy to pack, take
or
send,
and fully washable. Contact Anne on 332851 or 011212424.Or
email
joannew@zol.co.zw
Discount of 20% on
all articles.
Crocheted oven gloves--$810,000.
Cotton oven
gloves--$765,000.
Small woven bags--$665,000.
Large woven
bags--$810,000.
Crocheted bags--$945,000.
Single Duvet cushions(open
into a duvet)--$4,080,000.
Other sizes to order.
3 piece toilet
set--$1,610,000.
Bath mat--$1,140,000.(small rug).
Decorated cushion
covers--$810,000.
Table runner--$473,000.
Set(4)Bordered table mats +
serviettes--$1,610,000.
Set(6)Bordered table mats +
serviettes--$2,420,000.
Set(4) crocheted table mats
only--$1,280,000.
Set(6)fringed table mats + serviettes--$2,420,000.
The
table mat range is to be discontinued once present stocks are
sold.
Small(approx.105x52cms) plain cotton
rug--$1,140,000.
Medium(approx.120x65cms) plain cotton
rug--$1,610,000
Large(approx.150x75cms) plain cotton
rug--$2,420,000.
Ex.Large(approx.230x130cms) plain cotton
rug--$5,210,000.
Small patterned cotton rug--$1,610,000.
Small rag
rug--$1,140,000.
Medium rag rug--$1,610,000.
Medium patterned cotton
rug--$2,420,000.
Large patterned cotton rug--$3,230,000
Ex.Large patterned
cotton rug--$6,390,000.
Small patterned mohair rug--$3,180,000.
Medium
patterned mohair rug--$4,010,000
Large patterned mohair
rug--$5,210,000.
Ex. Large patterned mohair rug--$8,810,000.
Lots of
other articles.PLEASE be aware that prices may change without
notice and
orders take some time as they have to be woven and sent from
Gweru to
Harare.
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For Sale (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Nissan CWA 45. 15 tonne Lorry with 10
Tonne trailer. 176000 kilmetres.
Immaculate condition. Phone 747777 mornings
or
011606595
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1.10
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
1. GENERATORS AND
INVERTERS
Following units ex stock:
Generators - 5 Kva Silenced, 15
Kva Silenced, , 40 Kva Silenced, John Deere
60 Kva Open Frame, John Deere 100
Kva open frame.
Inverters - 1500 Watt complete with 1 x 100 Amp Hr
battery and charger in
cabinet
5000 Watt complete with 4 x 100 Amp Hr
Batteries and charger in cabinet
Large Range of Generators available from
5 - 2200 Kva ex import (some in
Bond South Africa)
2. HARROW
DISCS
We now have imported Harrow discs (24", 26" and 28") available
:
3. FORAGE HARVESTERS
Single Row forage harvesters available ex
stock
4. AGRICULTURAL SPRAYERS
Tractor Mounted 12 Metre / 600
Litre tank Boom sprayers and Canon sprayers
in stock.
5. D1SC
HARROWS
Imported Offset disc harrows suitable for 80 Hp Tractors
currently on order
and will be available August / September,
2007.
Please phone:- Radium Africa - Tel + 263 4 335848 / 307740
Sean
Bell: + 263 11 600389, Keith Lowe + 263 11 800859
E-mail: radiumkeith@junglecomms.com
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1.11
For Sale (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Rare book for sale/Rhodesiana, Welensky's
4000 days, The life and death of
the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, by
sir Roy Welensky, personally
signed by Sir Roy, with dust jacket.US$50.00
equivalent. Email -
zermatt@mweb.co.zw
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1.12
For Sale (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
NISSAN SUNNY , EX SALOON , 1999 MODEL,
AIRBAGS , ABS , CD PLAYER , ALL
ELECTRICS , FULL HOUSE , WHITE & SILVER ,
PRISTINE CONDITION. PHONE JUSTIN
011402896
VW JETTA VR6 , 1998
MODEL , AIRBAGS , ABS , MP3 PLAYER , ALARM/ IMMOBILISER
, ALL ELECTRICS ,
FULL HOUSE , RUBY RED , PRISTINE CONDITION.
PHONE JUSTIN
011402896
BRAND NEW TRUCK TYRES, 12R22,5" , GOODYEAR KELLY , MADE IN
SOUTH AFRICA.
PHONE
011402896
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1.13
For Sale (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Buy the Wiztech 223 Super Satellite
Receiver and receive satellite TV FREE
by using your existing dish! This is a
one-of payment - NO SUBS to pay. No
hidden costs. SABC 1,2, 3, Botswana,
e-TV, SA News International, CNBC,
Press TV, Trade and Travel, several
religious channels, Radio stations like
RSG, Radio Pretoria, SAFM, 5 FM, 2000
Fm etc. Contact Joe Esterhuizen on
Harare 339378 (anytime) or 0912 338414 or
e-mail countryjukebox@hotmail.com
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1.14
For Sale (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Scrap-booking papers for sale, various
themes - holidays, baby christenings,
birthdays, weddings etc. sold as sets
as well as single pages sold. Lots of
designs, colours including tartans,
florals, etc. Also frames, borders,
tags, word/thought bubbles used for
scrap-booking. Please sms or call Carol
on 091 2 264160 to arrange to
see.
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2.
WANTED
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2.1
Wanted
By way of loan or donation to the JAG Trust. The Trust is
Capacity Building
a New Project which necessitates the furnishing of an
office with desks,
chairs, cupboards and shelving. Any surplus office
furniture or trimmings
will be welcomed. Phone
799410.
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2.2
Wanted
Sheila Macdonald (Sally in Rhodesia) - If you have any of Sheila
Macdonald's
books for sale, please let JAG know the details including
condition etc with
your name, telephone number and price
wanted.
Telephone JAG - 04 -
799410
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2.3
Shotgun Wanted
Good quality, Baretta or Browning, 20 bore over/under
shotgun. In excellent
condition. Please contact the JAG office on
799410.
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2.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
ZNSPCA : We are looking to purchase two
second hand 165 / 13 inch rims for
our horse box and one of our pickups.
Currently we have no spare for these
vehicles. We are also looking for tools
for our vehicles - pliers, spanners
and screwdrivers - so please if you are
clearing your workshops we are keen
to buy your junk off you. Any donation
of the above equipment will be
greatly appreciated.
Head Office: 04 -
497885 / 497574
ZNSPCA
Is also looking for donations of
Buiding
Materials:
Pit and River Sand, Bricks
Second hand Window Frames, French
door
Wooden doors
Door handles/Locking Mech.
Fluorescent light fittings
tubes and bulbs
ZNSPCA is always looking for 2nd hand Dog collars, leads,
kennels and
blankets
ZNSPCA HQ156 Enterprise Rd or Tel:
497574/497885
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Barwick School is in urgent need of a
changeover switch for a 60KVA
generator (approx 100 amps). Please phone 0912
262566 or
BarwickTrust@mango.zw
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2.6
Wanted (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
We are looking for deep freezers and cold
room units.
Please contact David and Janet Cunningham 09 251555/
234879/232136 or
davidjanetc@yahoo.co.uk
You can
also contact Khosi Bhebhe - 09 251555/234879/232136 -
zimteam@impact.co.zw
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2.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Am looking for a wheelchair for a child who
was born with severe curvature
of the spine and who now cannot walk. Any
suggestions as to who to approach
or offers please.
Julia Burdett 744207,
0912236641, mtemwa@zol.co.zw
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3.
ACCOMMODATION WANTED AND
OFFERED
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3.1
Accommodation Wanted
Ex farmers daughter, husband and two young children
looking for 3/4
bed-roomed, 2 bath-roomed house, with domestic quarters to
rent. Prefer a
long lease. Please call Chere
011631546.
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3.2
House-sitter Wanted (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
I am looking for a
house-sitter for mid August till mid October on my little
farm in Bromley
There is no farming to be done, the settlers have seen to
that, just 6 pets
(4 dogs and 2 cats) to love and look after. I have a
lovely
home
and
garden (the house is over 100 years old), good security with two
night
watchmen, and a very good house servant. We are 50 kms from Harare.
No
money exchanges
Please contact Jennifer at 073 3399 or 011 423614 -
or sms, or E mail
brookmead@mango.zw
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3.3
FOR SALE (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Blue skies and warm seas
Situated
in the village of PENNINGTON in Kwa Zulu Natal Mid South
Coast,close to the
sea ,surrounded by up market homes and simplexes , three
golf courses in the
town area ,an ideal investment for the future with real
possibilities for a
simplex development.The two beautiful acres are side by
side with two road
fronts together are 100 x 80 meters...,secluded open
natural forest park
land. ,almost level , 5 minutes from the beach and the
very smart brand new
Village Mall shopping centre. Price on request.
Please look up our
website www.coastalvillageproperties.com
to see all or
properties for sale in the village of PENNINGTON.Our mission
statement is
"Making homes more affordable" by reducing our commission
tariffs.
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4.
RECREATION
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4.1
Need a break
Getaway and enjoy peace and fresh air at GUINEA FOLWS
REST
Only 80kms from Harare, Self-catering guest-house
Sleeps 10 people,
Bird-watching, Canoeing, Fishing, DSTV
REGRET: No day visitors. No boats
or dogs allowed.
Contact Dave: 011 600 770 or Annette 011 600 769
or 091
22 55 653 or email dapayne@zol.co.zw
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4.2
Savuli Safari (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
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. Best value for money.
U12 are 1/2 price
Contact John : savuli@mweb.co.zw or Phone 091 2631
556
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4.3
GACHE GACHE LODGE - KARIBA (Across the lake.) (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Still
some available dates for August hols. Prices reduced to 18 June!
Contact:
Fatima - tourleaders@zol.co.zw or
phone 301889.
Open for provisional bookings for December holidays
too.
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4.4
Self Catering Holiday Cottages S.A (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Figtree Self
catering Holiday cottages almost on the beach in the quiet
village of
Pennington four cottages which may sleep comfortably 20 persons.
Minimum of
R300 per night and R60 per person per night.Kindly book in
advance so as not
to be disappointed. Contact Cindy or Willy on 27833002394
or Email : cvp@eastcoast.co.za We really look forward
to hearing from
you
all.
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5.
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
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5.1
Vehicle Repairs
Vehicle repairs carried out personally by qualified
mechanic with 30 years
experience. Very reasonable rates.
Phone Johnny
Rodrigues: 011 603213 or 011 404797, email:
galorand@mweb.co.zw
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5.2
SpeedWorx - WYNN'S
Intelligent Car Service has arrived!
Why pay
ridiculous prices and be without your car for days.
Our services are done
while you wait & cost a fraction of the normal repair.
At SpeedWorx
we will:
Service your car
Increase your engine's performance and
improve your fuel economy
Completely flush your engine oil to prolong your
engine life
Restore your Power steering performance and stop it
leaking
Restore your Automatic Transmission performance and stop it
leaking
Completely flush your brake system and make you safe
Stop your car
overheating and reduce the risk of leaks
Remove bad odours from the interior
of your car and keep it fresh
Services done at your home or
office.
Contact: Bryan 011 612 650 or Russell 011 410
525.
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5.3
VIDEO PRODUCTION
Filming & Editing of Weddings & Special Events.
DVD Production, Broadcast
Quality. DVD & VHS transfers. Call Greer on
744075 / 0912 353 047
Greer Wynn - Focused Video Productions: 0912 353
047 /
744075
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5.4
HUNTING TROPHY EXPORTS (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
For:
· Fast and
efficient dipping and shipping
· Professional administration and
storage of trophies
· Taxidermy in the USA
· Convenient
drop-off
Contact me, Joe Wells on Tel/fax (263) 04 490677, Cell: (263)
0912 239305
Email: josh@zol.co.zw, Joobie62@yahoo.co.uk
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5.5
INVESTMENT (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Are you leaving Zimbabwe and wanting an
investment to take with you? For
sale (Valuation certificate by Sharon
Caithness available):-
Solid silver tray (2.836 gms), Solid silver tea
set - Teapot, sugar bowl and
milk jug (1.307gms).
Valued by Sharon
Caithness at Z$2,201,000.000.00 (two billion, two hundred
and one million
dollars).
NO chancers email: joannew@zol.co.zw
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6.
PETS
CORNER
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6.1
Looking for a Home (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
Jack Russell male, tan/white
'PERCY' needs kind and loving home. 5 years,
owner left. Has been spoilt and
adored. Tel Michelle on 884294 or 011602903
or e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw.
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6.2
Looking for a Home (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Please would some kind person
give a home to 'Jessica'. She is a 4 year old
brindle English Bull Terrier
bitch. Loves cats but is terrified of other
dogs so doesn't get on with them.
If you are wanting an only dog Jessica is
for you, she has a lovely
temperament and just wants love in return. Tel
Michelle on 884294 011602903
or e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw
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7.
SOCIAL
GATHERINGS
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7.1
CUTTY SARK HALF MARATHON KARIBA
MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2007 (over long
weekend)
All serious runners, fun runners/walkers, family and friends are
invited to
take part in the second Kariba Half Marathon, sponsored by Cutty
Sark Hotel.
Disco, full bar and catering at Cutty Sark after the
race.
Email: kiara@zol.co.zw or guyhammond@zol.co.zw for more information
or
telephone 011 208 218 / 0912 275
714
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7.2
Country Juke Box (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Come and party with Country Juke
Box. Bring the family. Children allowed.
Reasonable bar prices, club menu and
a great atmosphere. A wide selection of
dance music from the 60's to 90's,
Country, Tiekkie Draai, Rock and Roll
etc. For details contact Joe
Esterhuizen on 339378 or 0912 338414 or e-mail
countryjukebox@hotmail.com
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JAG
Hotlines: +263 (011) 610 073, +263 (04) 799 410. If you are in trouble
or
need advice, please don't hesitate to contact us - we're here to help!
To
advertise (JAG Members): Please email classifieds to: jagma@mango.zw
with subject
"Classifieds".