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FinGaz

      200 000t maize vanishes

      Staff Reporter
      2/6/03 2:50:47 AM (GMT +2)

      AT LEAST 200 000 tonnes of maize earmarked for starving Zimbabweans is
unaccounted for, with no indication whether it reached intended recipients,
according to the National Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZNVAC).

      The ZNVAC is a task force of non-governmental organisations working in
collaboration with the ministries of Agriculture and Finance as well as the
Civil Protection Unit, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and
Agriculture Organisation.

      The committee undertakes surveys to assess Zimbabwe's food supply and
security situation.

      In its latest report on Zimbabwe's food security situation, the ZNVAC
said there was a glaring discrepancy between the amount of food distributed
to starving people by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) between April and
December 2002, and the quantity of maize imported into the country over the
same period.

      The ZNVAC said in its report: "Distribution of GMB imports at the
community level is inconsistent with reported imports at the national level.

      "For the period April 1 2002 to December 1 2002, total maize available
from domestic availability, GMB imports and food aid was 1.3 million metric
tonnes. The requirement for this period was 1.1 million metric tonnes,
indicating a surplus of 200 000 metric tonnes at the national level."

      Two-hundred-thousand metric tonnes of maize can roughly feed Zimbabwe'
s entire population for two months. At least eight million of the country's
13 million people face starvation because of shortages of maize and wheat.

      The ZNVAC, which advises the government and aid groups on the food
supply situation, recommended in its report that the discrepancy between
levels of food imports and availability at the community level be
investigated.

      Agriculture Minister Joseph Made and GMB chief executive Joanna
Mutukwa could not be reached for comment on the matter.

      However, the revelations of the ZNVAC's findings come amidst
allegations that the government is using food aid for political gain,
handing it out to its supporters only and barring opposition Movement for
Democratic Change supporters from receiving it.

      There have also been widespread, but unconfirmed, reports that some of
the food imported to feed hungry people has been illegally siphoned out of
Zimbabwe.

      The government has publicly denied charges of partisanship in the
distribution of food aid, insisting grain was being allocated to people
according to need.

      However, WFP director James Morris two weeks ago asked President
Robert Mugabe during talks in Harare to allow a United Nations task force to
monitor the government's food aid distribution in order to allay donor fears
that it was being used for political gain.

      Lack of donor support could worsen food insecurity in Zimbabwe, which
is the epicentre of southern Africa's hunger crisis.

      According to the ZNVAC report, the country faces a food deficit of 239
000 metric tonnes (MT) in the April 2002-March 2003 consumption year.

      "Given the estimated in-country stocks of 50 000 MT, planned GMB
imports of 361 219 MT, and planned food aid imports of 276 508 MT, the
country is expected to have a four-month deficit of 56 849 MT," the report
said.

      "A possible scenario based on current rates of GMB imports, however,
is that the GMB may only be able to import 196 000 MT, leading to a national
deficit of 222 068 MT. This is 30 percent of national requirement, and would
lead to a severe food crisis in the coming months."

      The ZNVAC said shortages of bread already gripping Zimbabwe were set
to worsen because harvests of last August's winter wheat crop would only
meet 75 percent of the national annual consumption requirement of 398 000
metric tones per year.

      "Even with rationing, wheat imports of about 200 000MT are required to
meet consumption requirements before the next harvest comes into the market
at the start of October 2003," the organisation said in its report.

      A critical foreign currency crisis that has gripped Zimbabwe for the
last three years and the country's worst economic crisis are expected to
worsen the humanitarian situation.

      The ZVNAC said food insecurity was expected to be most critical
between January and March and advised the government and humanitarian
community to act with urgency to avert crisis through market channels and
food aid.

      The assessment team also said that there was need for contingency
measures for food imports for 2003 to be put in place.

      "Government should reconsider the potential role of the private sector
in importing food. The discrepancy between reported imports and observed
availability of GMB food warrants further investigation," the report said.

      "The need for humanitarian assistance will continue into 2003/04,
hence the need to start planning for assistance of potentially equal or
greater magnitude than current levels. There is currently inadequate
information on the urban, health and nutritional situation, hence a need to
fill these gaps."

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ABC News Australia

Senate passes Zimbabwe cricket motion

The Senate has passed a rare joint party motion calling on the Government to
ban the Australian cricket team from playing its scheduled world cup match
in Zimbabwe.

Three of the four Senators involved were part of a delegation to Zimbabwe to
oversee the 2000 elections.

Liberal Senator Alan Ferguson returned last year for the presidential
elections, where he says he again witnessed the extreme brutality of the
Mugabe regime.

Australia is due to play Zimbabwe on February 24.
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Economic Times

      World Cup: Zimbabwe not to play if matches shifted to SA

      REUTERS[ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 06, 2003 09:32:05 AM ]
      HARARE: Zimbabwe hit back against a threatened boycott of their home
World Cup matches on Wednesday by refusing to play if the games are switched
to South Africa.

      Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) chairman Peter Chingoka, reacting to
England's request to move their game from Harare to South Africa because of
security concerns in the strife-torn country, said: "We have made a decision
that we will not play any of our home matches away if they are shifted for
political reasons."

      The ZCU's stand is the latest twist in a long-running controversy
bedevilling the tournament over whether matches should go ahead in Zimbabwe
and Kenya. The first game of the World Cup is due to be played on Sunday.

      Chingoka said: "For us, there is no good reason for the games to be
shifted from Zimbabwe. We have addressed all security and safety reasons.

      "What remains are political arguments which have no place in cricket."

      The International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to decide on Thursday
whether to agree to England's request to move their February 13 match.

      Australia have also expressed some concerns but are still planning to
play against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo on February 24, while India and Pakistan,
the Netherlands and Namibia have said they are happy to go ahead with their
games as scheduled.

      New Zealand, meanwhile, are refusing to play their match against Kenya
in Nairobi on February 21, also because of security fears. They have yet to
formally appeal to the ICC for a shift of venue.

      Six World Cup pool matches are due to be staged in Zimbabwe, with two
more in Kenya. South Africa is scheduled to host 46.

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Daily News

      MP says Zanu PF duo out to humiliate him

      2/6/2003 6:33:48 AM (GMT +2)


      Staff Reporter

      Mathias Matewu, the Chipinge North MP (MDC), has accused his Zanu PF
counterparts of politicising the consultative meetings of the parliamentary
portfolio committees.

      Matewu, a member of the committee on land, alleged in an interview in
Harare this week he was humiliated at one of their meetings in Odzi last
week as they toured farms in Manicaland.

      Other members of the committee touring the farms were Kumbirai Kangai
(Buhera South), Chief Edward Jigu Mukota (Mashonaland East), Shadreck
Chipanga, chairman (Makoni East).

      Killian Mupingo, the provincial administrator for Manicaland, and
Charles Pemhenayi, the Zanu PF secretary for information and publicity,
accompanied the committee.
      But Kangai yesterday dismissed Matewu's claims, saying: "I am
surprised. That's absolute nonsense. We don't know anything about that."

      He referred further questions to Chipanga, who was unavailable by late
Tuesday. Mupingo was expected back in his office on Monday.

      "The conduct of our committee was shameful and very unprofessional,"
Matewu said. "I expected to be treated like an MP, but I was shocked to be
confronted by a hostile audience that denigrated my party and its
leadership.

      "Our duty as a committee of parliament is to gather people's views,
and not to attack each other."

      He said during the tour, they visited A2 and A1 resettlement schemes,
seeking information from settlers, only for him to be reduced to a mere
spectator and an object of ridicule by Zanu PF supporters.

      Matewu said at Withgift Farm in Odzi, he failed even to pose questions
to the settlers because of his colleagues' hostility.

      "I told my chairman to avoid politicising the committee but he told me
to keep quiet because he knew how to conduct the hearings without my
 advice," he said. "Imagine, I had whispered this to him but he loudly told
me to shut up. Several Zanu PF supporters in their party regalia started
chanting anti-MDC slogans. The meeting ended up as a talk-shop against the
MDC.

      "I felt so embarrassed. I later refused to board the same bus with my
colleagues and opted to board another bus back to Mutare.

      "There are several problems that resettled people are facing but the
committee chose to dwell on partisan politics. What happened showed me that,
in this country, under Zanu PF, a one-party system is effectively in
operation."
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Daily News

      Police guard at Nkala grave queried

      2/6/2003 6:38:57 AM (GMT +2)


      By Sam Munyavi

      DEFENCE lawyers in the Cain Nkala murder case yesterday suggested to
the High Court that the police knew Nkala was dead and where he was buried
before they had even received the alleged confessions from two suspects.

      Cross-examining Sergeant Jemitias Sibanda, a State witness who was on
the stand for the second day yesterday, Advocate Edith Mushore said Nkala's
widow, Sikhumbuzo Mguni, had only identified his body on 13 November 2001.

      Sibanda on Tuesday said he was assigned on 12 November 2001, with
three constables, to guard the place where Nkala was believed to be buried.

      He said Kethani Sibanda and Sazini Mpofu had been brought for
indications the next day.
      Mushore said: "That means that at the spot you were guarding there was
no knowledge then that the body was that of Nkala."

      Sibanda, however, said: "I will simply limit myself to what pertains
to me. I will not comment on what was done by Mrs Nkala."

      Mushore then said: "The only inference is that the police knew what
had happened to Cain Nkala and where he lay well before they received any
confessions that he was dead."

      On Tuesday, Advocate Eric Morris suggested that Nkala's body might not
have been there the whole time Sibanda guarded the place and might have been
planted there the next day for the benefit of ZBC cameras.

      The ZBC filmed the exhumation, apparently at the invitation of the
police.
      Justice Sandra Mungwira yesterday asked Sibanda if it was normal
practice for the broadcasting media to be called out for an exhumation or at
indications by suspects.

      Sibanda said he did not know, and had never witnessed the media
attending indications at crime scenes.

      Nkala, a war veteran, was allegedly abducted from his Magwegwe,
Bulawayo, home on 5 November 2001. His body was exhumed from a shallow grave
at Norwood Farm near Solusi University, about 40 kilometres south-west of
Bulawayo, on 13 November 2001.

      Fletcher Dulini-Ncube, the Member of Parliament for Lobengula-Magwegwe
(MDC), Sonny Masera, the MDC director of security, Army Zulu, Kethani
Sibanda, Remember Moyo and Sazini Mpofu are on trial for his murder.

      Further cross-examination of Sibanda by Advocate Deepak Mehta
yesterday dwelt mainly on the location of the shallow grave and the
condition of the ground around it.
      Mehta asked Sibanda why he had not mentioned, in his
evidence-in-chief, the red broken handle of a shovel that he said he saw at
the grave site in the lights of the police vehicle when he was deployed
around 9pm on 12 November 2001.

      Sibanda said he had only remembered when he saw it among the exhibits
in court.He said he had, however, told his superior, one Detective Inspector
Matira.

      Neville Wamambo, the prosecutor, said the government pathologist who
conducted the post-mortem on Nkala's body is expected in court today to
confirm the results.
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Daily News

      Mix-up leaves 80 without exam results

      2/6/2003 6:36:28 AM (GMT +2)



      EIGHTY students at Guinea Fowl High School in Gweru have failed to
collect their Advanced Level results after a mix-up at the Zimbabwe School
Examinations Council (Zimsec)

      A Zimsec official admitted the results were recalled after the
students were awarded points for subjects they had not sat for.

      "This was a result of truncation occurring as the records were being
printed in the displacement of data on the printed page," the official said
in a statement.

      "This affected 80 candidates at that particular centre. This was not
noticed at the packing stage but much later when the results were being
checked before handing them over to candidates.

      "This problem has since been rectified and the correct results have
been dispatched to the centre."

      Contacted for comment officials at Guinea Fowl High School said they
had not yet received the correct result slips for the affected students.

      A-Level results at other centres countrywide were released on Friday
last week.
      Several parents have attacked Zimsec officials for failing to have
proper controls over examination materials.

      "We are now not even sure whether the results they have released are
genuine or not because there seem to be no proper checks and balances at
Zimsec," said a Gweru parent who declined to be named.Security systems at
Zimsec have come under fire almost each year for leakages of examination
papers before their dispatch to schools.

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FinGaz

      Govt to fork out unbudgeted $715 billion in subsidies

      By Godfrey Marawanyika Senior Reporter
      2/6/03 1:24:54 AM (GMT +2)

      THE government will have to spend an unbudgeted $715 billion in
subsidies to several sectors of the economy this year unless it introduces
uniform exchange rate incentives for exporters, according to statistics from
the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF)'s sub-committee on economic
stabilisation.

      According to the statistics, contained in a report presented by the
sub-committee to the TNF's technical committee at the end of last week, the
government will have to fork out the money to support the multiple exchange
rates prevailing in several sectors.

      Sectors in which the Ministry of Finance has allowed exchange rates
below the government-fixed $55 to US$1 include the tobacco industry and gold
mining. Customs duty is also calculated using a depreciated exchange rate.

      According to the report, which is yet to be debated by the TNF, the
mining industry has indicated that for it to remain viable, it requires an
export support rate of $1 350 to the US dollar for 50 percent of its export
earnings.

      Mining companies, like other exporters, have to remit 50 percent of
their proceeds to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, with the remainder also
being lodged with the central bank.

      Their proceeds attract a rate of $55 to US$1, which is uneconomic and
could force a large number of exporters out of business.

      The TNF report says submissions from other exporting sectors indicate
that their viability can be safeguarded if they are allowed an incentive
rate of $800 against the American greenback on half of their export
proceeds.

      "One approach to ensure that companies remain in operation is to give
subsidies which will ultimately be financed from the budget, of which
government will pay $238.5 billion to mining companies . $90.1 billion to
the horticulture sector and $386.4 billion (to other exporters)," the
document says.

      It added: "The total cost of these multiple export support rates to
the fiscus is $715 billion. Total expenditure and net lending for the 2003
(national) budget amount to $782 billion.

      "The subsidy to the exporting sectors will imply that the government
would have to double its expenditures with consequent impact on money supply
growth and resultant inflation."

      Money supply growth had reached 112 percent last September, while
inflation rose to a record high of 198.9 percent in the year to December
2002.

      "This scenario is clearly therefore unsustainable," the TNF report
said.

      In its report, the sub-committee on economic stabilisation said to
"forestall" the expected inflationary impact of multiple support rates, the
social partners - that is the government, business and labour - had to
agreed to a uniform support rate.

      This would maintain the fixed exchange rate of $55 to US$1 but
introduce a nominal support rate pegged at $800.

      "In addition, a 20 percent retention on the inflation adjusted support
rate will be affected. This rate will be administered and reviewed by the
Reserve Bank on a quarterly basis in consultation with the Ministry of
Finance and Economic Development," the TNF report said.

      Local analysts this week said failure to adopt measures that would do
away with subsidies would force the cash-strapped government to resort to
borrowing on the domestic market.

      This would fuel Zimbabwe's domestic debt, which has already reached
$340 billion, while pushing up inflation and widening the budget deficit.

      The deficit reached 14.9 percent last year and the government expects
it to fall to 9.2 percent in 2003, which independent analysts say could be a
serious under-estimate.

      "The government now knows what it means to continue with these
subsidies. Besides there is no money (to finance the subsidies) unless they
print it," a Harare-based analyst told the Financial Gazette.

      "At the end of the day, that money could have been used to finance
other important social services in the country. I doubt if they would pursue
such policies of continued subsidies."
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Zimbabwe sanctions elude EU

Ian Black in Brussels
Thursday February 6, 2003
The Guardian

The European Union last night failed again to agree to renew its sanctions
against Zimbabwe.
With time running out before the measures expire, EU ambassadors were unable
to finalise a deal under which the "smart" sanctions will be extended for a
year from next month but still allow President Robert Mugabe to attend a
Franco-African summit in Paris.

Diplomats said that an EU-Africa summit, scheduled for Lisbon in April, may
be postponed or dropped to avoid a mass boycott by EU heads of government.
Britain and several other countries have made it clear their leaders would
stay away if Mr Mugabe was present.

Ambassadors will meet to discuss the problem again next week, their last
chance before February 18, when the sanctions lapse.

The measures ban travel to Europe by Zimbabwe's leaders, freeze their
financial assets and maintain an embargo on weapons that might be used for
internal repression.

A compromise may allow member states to be exempt from applying the travel
ban if they are hosting an international conference such as an EU summit or
an event convened by the UN.
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epxNews
            Tatchell to seek Mugabe's arrest during Paris visit




                 Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has said he will
seek Robert Mugabe's arrest if the Zimbabwean president visits France later
this month.

                  Armed with sworn affidavits from Zimbabwean torture
victims, Tatchell has pledged to renew his attempts to have the African
dictator taken into custody.

                  He will make his move during Mugabe's controversial visit
to Paris, which is planned for February 19.


                  Tatchell has previously made allegations of assault during
violent public confrontations with Mugabe's bodyguards, but is ready to
renew attempts to indict Zimbabwe's leader "under France's anti-torture
law".

                  He is also calling on Europe's leaders to stop playing
"diplomatic games" and to arrest Mugabe for human rights abuses.

                  "While Zimbabwe burns, Mugabe will be wined and dined by
president Chirac at the Elysee Palace," he told ePolitix.com.

                  "Tony Blair is expected to agree to this blood-stained
banquet as part of a trade off to win French support for the renewal of the
EU travel ban on Mugabe.

                  "Renewing the ban by violating it? Where is the sense or
morality in that?

                  "It is time to stop playing diplomatic games. Instead of
feting the Zimbabwean dictator, Chirac should arrest him for crimes against
humanity.

                  "If he won't arrest Mugabe, I will go to a Paris
magistrate and apply for an arrest warrant myself."

                  "Legal precedent is on my side" he added, citing the
indictment, arrest and trial of former Serbian president, Slobodan
Milosevic.


                  "The international tribunal in The Hague ruled that a head
of state does not have immunity from prosecution for grave human rights
abuses," he said.

                  "The indictment of Milosevic sets a contemporary precedent
for the arrest of the Zimbabwean president. If Slobodan Milosevic can be put
on trial, why can't Robert Mugabe?"

                  His threat comes as Europe's diplomats again failed to
renew sanctions against Zimbabwe.

                  Wednesday's Brussels meeting of EU ambassadors had been
expected to reach a deal "rolling over" a travel ban for the country's
president and senior officials.

                  But at the insistence of France, negotiations had been
expected to allow the Paris visit and Zimbabwe's participation in a
Franco-African summit - a compromise move thought to be backed by the UK.
Some European capitals, including Paris, are thought to be holding out for a
sanctions exemption for countries hosting international summits - including
those under an EU aegis.

                  But with these complex diplomatic issues at stake,
Wednesday's meeting was unable to find consensus.

                  Ambassadors will be meeting next Wednesday in a bid to
break the deadlock before the measures, which include an arms trade ban and
a government assets freeze, expire.
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Reuters

Zimbabwe Court Hears of 10-Day Plan to Kill Mugabe

     Feb. 6
      - By Cris Chinaka

      HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader agreed in 2001 to
a 10-day timetable to have President Robert Mugabe assassinated, the key
state witness in his treason trial said on Thursday.

      Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two
senior party officials face a possible death penalty if convicted of
plotting to kill Mugabe, which all deny.

      Reviewing a video recording crucial to the prosecution's case against
Tsvangirai, Canadian political consultant Ari Ben-Menashe told the court
Tsvangirai had agreed Mugabe should be "terminated" within 10 days of the
meeting, held in Montreal, Canada.

      Besides Tsvangirai and Ben-Menashe, the secretly taped meeting was
also attended by Alexander Legault, a colleague at his Montreal-based
consultancy firm and a man called Edward Simms whom Ben-Menashe said he
believed to be working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

      "As the meeting is winding up, Mr. Legault says we have to come up
with a timetable for the termination of Mr. Mugabe and of meeting with the
military. Mr. Simms came up with a timetable of about 10 days for things to
happen," Ben-Menashe told the court.

      Asked by state prosecutor Bharat Patel what these 'things' were,
Ben-Menashe said: "For the termination of Mr. Mugabe."

      Ben-Menashe frequently wiped sweat from his face in the sweltering
summer heat, while Tsvangirai, somber-faced in a dark blue suit, constantly
referred to a thick folder in front of him during the proceedings.

      Ben-Menashe told the court this week his company alerted Canadian,
Zimbabwean and U.S. authorities to the assassination plot after meeting
Tsvangirai twice and arranged a third meeting to gather videotape evidence.
He says he and his colleagues had no intention of going through with any
assassination.

      Representing Tsvangirai, famed South African human rights lawyer
George Bizos objected to Ben-Menashe commenting on a part of conversation
held while he was briefly out of the taped room.

      Ben-Menashe told the court he understood the conversation to mean that
"Mr. Mugabe has to be terminated within the next 10 days and Mr. Tsvangirai
agrees that this has to go forward."

      The defense team says the video was altered to incriminate Tsvangirai
and told the High Court when the case began on Monday that Ben-Menashe was
an unreliable witness.

      The court was packed with journalists, diplomats and supporters of
Tsvangirai, who controversially lost to Mugabe in presidential elections
held three months after the Montreal meeting.

      Britain and other Western countries accuse Mugabe of rigging those
polls but the veteran leader says the West wants to see him ousted over his
forcible acquisition of white-owned farms for redistribution among landless
blacks.

      All three defendants have denied plotting to kill Mugabe, who assumed
power at independence from Britain in 1980 and has toughened his stance
against the opposition as the country sinks into an economic crisis widely
blamed on his misrule.

      Critics say the policy is largely to blame for acute food shortages
affecting half of Zimbabwe's 14 million people, a charge Mugabe rejects.

      The trial is expected to last three weeks.
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IOL

EU sanctions against Zimbabwe set to stay

      February 06 2003 at 05:29AM



Brussels - European Union ambassadors have agreed "in principle" to extend
sanctions against Zimbabwe - but the deal has to be finalised at a meeting
next week, diplomats say.

Meanwhile, the EU's Greek presidency is to seek reassurances from African
countries that Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe will not be attending the
EU-African summit in Lisbon in April.

The accord has, however, paved the way for Mugabe to travel to Paris later
in February for a Franco-African summit.

"There was a green light from all member states. No one opposed this
outright," said one diplomat.

The renewal of the sanctions had previously been blocked by disagreement
regarding waivers on the travel ban currently imposed on Mugabe and 71
senior Zimbabwean officials. Two previous attempts have failed to resolve
the row.

A compromise is being sought and could lead to Zimbabwe being represented in
Lisbon by its foreign minister, Stan Mudenge. - Sapa-AFP



  a.. This article was originally published on page 1 of The Cape Times on
06 February 2003
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BBC
 
Thursday, 6 February, 2003, 16:45 GMT
Zimbabwe witness 'a fraudster'
Morgan Tsvangirai (c) and his wife, Susan, (l)
Tsvangirai says he is being framed
Lawyers defending Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on treason charges have accused the key prosecution witness of being a serial fraudster.

They say that Canada-based political consultant Ari Ben-Menashe video-taped a meeting with Mr Tsvangirai as part of a government plot to stifle the opposition.

Ari Ben-Menashe
Ari Ben-Menashe: A former Israeli intelligence officer
Mr Tsvangirai and two colleagues from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) pleaded not guilty to treason charges when the trial began on Monday.

Mr Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer, says the three contracted him to assassinate President Robert Mugabe before last year's elections.

Mr Mugabe won but international observers said the poll was marred by violence and fraud and Mr Tsvangirai is contesting the result in court.

Coincidence

South African anti-apartheid lawyer George Bizos said prosecutors would not give him any information on Mr Ben-Menashe's work for the government, though the consultant testified that he had been paid about $1m for his lobbying work.

Prosecutors said Mr Ben Menashe's services to the government were unrelated to the treason charges, Mr Bizos told Judge Paddington Garwe.

MORGAN TSVANGIRAI
Morgan Tsvangirai
Previous treason charges dropped
Former union leader
Appealing against 2002 election results
Click here for a full profile

"There is a similarity between the fraud we say was committed against the MDC and its office bearers and a number of other frauds that have been committed by the witness and his companies by interfering with high profile political matters, getting money and then turning the tables against the people to whom the fraudulent representations were made," Mr Bizos said.

The lawyer submitted documents of a London arbitration court ruling that one of Mr Ben-Menashe's companies had failed to deliver $7million-worth of promised corn to Zambia.

Mr Ben-Menashe said that deal was altered by former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba and was still being contested by lawyers.

'Not elimination'

The court has also been watching the grainy video, which Mr Ben-Menashe recorded as evidence against Mr Tsvangirai.

During one of the audible sections of the tape, Mr Tsvangirai said:

"The discussion was never about the elimination of Mugabe, it was about the election, and the post-election outcome."

MUGABE AND JUDGES
President Robert Mugabe
Mugabe has lost several important cases
White judges forced to resign
Replaced by government sympathisers
Zimbabwe's judges remain defiant

Mr Ben-Menashe said on Tuesday that the MDC had signed a $500,000 contract with his firm and promised $10m to the head of the air force, Air Marshal Perence Shiri, to stage a coup after Mr Mugabe's assassination.

Mr Tsvangirai had said sources in the British Government would provide the money, according to Mr Ben-Menashe.

"He also asked us to enlist the United States Government to assist the MDC in carrying out his plot," he said on Thursday.

If found guilty, Mr Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube and Renson Gasela could face the death penalty.

Mr Tsvangirai was the main challenger to Mr Mugabe during last March's presidential elections.

Previous treason charges against Mr Tsvangirai were dropped when they were ruled unconstitutional.

The trial comes as the European Union is considering whether to renew sanctions on Zimbabwe's leader, which are due to run out on 18 February
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No Local Beef Exports to the EU Yet



The Daily News (Harare)

February 6, 2003
Posted to the web February 6, 2003


ZIMBABWE will only resume its billion-dollar beef exports to the European
Union (EU) if it does not experience footandmouth outbreaks for the next six
months, an official from the Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) has
said.

This announcement dashes the country's hopes of reviving the beef export
sector which, before farm invasions three years ago, contributed
considerably to the country's foreign currency earnings.


The country is already facing severe foreign currency shortages due to poor
economic management and the chaotic land reform programme which have
resulted in a decline in the country's food production.

Dr Stuart Hargreaves, director for the Department of Veterinary Services
said in an interview on Tuesday Zimbabwe would not begin exporting beef to
the EU soon because the deadly disease was far from being eradicated.

"According to the EU regulations, our exports to EU can only begin when we
do not have outbreaks for at least six months," Hargreaves said, adding that
the EU would also send its representatives to check if the country was
meeting other veterinary regulations.

There were footandmouth disease outbreaks in January in Zaka, Bikita and
Buhera. "We are a long, long way from resuming our exports to the EU because
we continue to have outbreaks," he said.

Zimbabwe' beef exports to the EU and South Africa were suspended in August
2001 following an outbreak of the footandmouth disease.

The country exported 9 100 tonnes of beef to the EU and 5 000 tonnes to
South Africa before the ban.

The outbreak of the disease was caused by the lawlessness in newly resettled
farms because cattle mixed freely with wildlife such as buffalo, a natural
carrier of the footandmouth disease.

Fences demarcating footandmouth disease-prone and free zones have been
destroyed, leaving cattle to roam about freely.

The spread of the footandmouth disease has been exacerbated by the shortage
of vaccines due to the foreign currency crisis in the country while drought
in the past two years has increased cattle movement.

The department has limited funds with which to import footandmouth vaccines
while there has been no money set aside to repair fences damaged by poachers
and the "new farmers".

Hargreaves said: "The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) confirmed to us
yesterday (Monday) that it had paid the Botswana Vaccine Institute US$400
000 (Z$2,2 billion) to supply 350 000 doses of footandmouth vaccine. This
will assist as we will continue vaccinating in areas where there have been
outbreaks."

Hargreaves said these doses were enough to vaccinate 350 000 cattle and that
more was needed for the department to continue with the vaccination
programme.

The RBZ procured 254 000 footand-mouth disease doses last December and last
month 106 000 doses were procured but despite the RBZ's efforts more
vaccines were required. The country needs immediately about 2,3 million
doses of vaccine while the need for the next two years is 14 million doses.

Last August, the Botswana Vaccine Institute in suspended vaccine supplies to
Zimbabwe because it was owed about US$1,2 million (Z$66 million at the
official exchange rate).

This amount has not yet been paid. In the same month of August 2002,
Zimbabwe received 250 000 doses of the footandmouth vaccine and these are
also still to be paid for.

The Botswana Vaccine Institute is now only providing vaccines on a cash
upfront basis.
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Reuters


Zimbabwe treason plot 'set up'

By Cris Chinaka
HARARE (Reuters) - A defence lawyer in the treason trial of Zimbabwe's
opposition leader has accused the key prosecution witness of setting up the
case and taking $1 million (610,000 pounds) from the government.

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two senior
party officials face a possible death penalty if convicted of plotting to
kill President Robert Mugabe, which all deny.

Tsvangirai's chief defence lawyer on Thursday attacked key prosecution
witness Ari Ben-Menashe, a Canadian-based political consultant, as an
unreliable witness with a history of defrauding southern African governments
of money under the guise of helping them.

Advocate George Bizos asked Ben-Menashe questions over his business deals,
including a commodity broking firm which he alleged had taken millions of
dollars from Zambia but failed to supply its government with promised grain.

Bizos said Ben-Menashe, who said he video-taped Tsvangirai discussing
Mugabe's assassination and seeking help to stage a coup against his
government, had taken $100,000 from the MDC but failed to deliver the
promised political consultancy.

Ben-Menashe had also taken about $1 million from the Zimbabwe government,
Bizos said, but he did not elaborate.

Ben-Menashe said his business problems were "not as simple as that", and
objected to being labelled a fraudster.

Bizos said he brought up Ben-Menashe's business dealings to show that he was
unreliable and had set up Tsvangirai in the same way he had done some
African states.

"We intend proving that he is a fraudster," said Bizos.

SLANGING MATCH

A furious Ben-Menashe cut into Bizos's statement, gesturing at him with his
hands and shaking his head, saying: "I really resent that word (fraudster).
We are not on trial here, and I have not been convicted of any fraud."

High Court Judge President Paddington Garwe, who is hearing the treason
trial, stepped in with a warning: "I will have order in this court. I will
not have a slanging match here."

Bizos said Ben-Menashe had deliberately lied to Tsvangirai that the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. government were involved in
his consultancy, and he was refusing to disclose the true identity of a man
he said posed as an American agent during his video-taped meeting with
Tsvangirai.

"I put it to you that you set up this whole assassination plot
case...because this is what you do," Bizos said.

Ben-Menashe said: "That is not true. You are creating a smokescreen to cover
up for a crime that your client committed."

Earlier, Ben-Menashe told the court Tsvangirai had agreed Mugabe should be
"terminated" within 10 days of the meeting held in Montreal, Canada. A video
recording of the meeting is crucial to the prosecution's case.

Ben-Menashe told the court this week his company alerted Canadian,
Zimbabwean and U.S. authorities to the assassination plot after meeting
Tsvangirai twice and arranged a third meeting to gather videotape evidence.
He says he and his colleagues had no intention of going through with any
assassination.

The defence team says the video was deliberately altered.

The court was packed with journalists, diplomats and supporters of
Tsvangirai, who controversially lost to Mugabe in presidential elections
three months after the Montreal meeting.

Britain and other Western countries accuse Mugabe of rigging those polls but
the veteran leader says the West wants to see him ousted over his forcible
acquisition of white-owned farms for redistribution among landless blacks.

The trial is expected to last three weeks.
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Reuters

Cricket chiefs meet to defuse Zimbabwe crisis

By Tony Lawrence
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Cricket World Cup organisers will meet today with a
long-running row between England and Zimbabwe threatening to escalate into a
crisis just two days before the opening ceremony.

The tournament's technical committee will convene in Cape Town on Thursday
to rule on an England request for their Harare match to be switched after
their players expressed concerns over the political and social unrest in
Zimbabwe.

The Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU), however, has upped the stakes by
announcing that they will themselves refuse to play if the February 13 game
is moved to South Africa, the tournament's main host.

With 1999 champions Australia also concerned over security in strife-torn
Zimbabwe -- they are due to play in Bulawayo on February 24 -- and New
Zealand refusing to play Kenya three days earlier in Nairobi -- the
tournament, the largest and most lavish ever staged by the sport, is facing
a meltdown before it has even begun.

WARNING SHOT

ZCU chairman Peter Chingoka on Wednesday fired a warning shot less than 24
hours before the technical committee's meeting, starting at 1430 GMT on
Thursday.

"We have made a decision that we will not play any of our home matches away
if they are shifted for political reasons," he said. "For us, there is no
good reason... We have addressed all security and safety reasons."

The row has simmered since December when British ministers urged the England
team to boycott the match in protest at Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe,
who it accuses of rigging his re-election last year and compounding a food
crisis by seizing white-owned farms.

Similar calls have been made in Australia and New Zealand.

The English cricket chiefs resisted the pressure, arguing they were not in a
position to make political judgements and adding they could face demands for
compensation if they pulled out.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), however, did an about-face after
skipper Nasser Hussain and players said they were increasingly worried about
the fixture.

Should Thursday's technical committee meeting reject England's request,
Hussain's side would have to decide whether to appeal to a judge, go ahead
with the game or forfeit the match, making their chances of reaching the
second round of the competition slimmer still.

A forfeit by one or more teams would seriously devalue the 14-team event. It
had almost been derailed earlier when India's players clashed with the ICC
over their sponsorship rights.

Australia's players said on Tuesday they were still committed to travelling
to Bulawayo while continuing to monitor matters. India and Pakistan, the
other major teams in Group A due to travel to Zimbabwe, have said they have
no concerns.

New Zealand, meanwhile, have yet to put in an official request for a venue
switch but have already warned they could take the matter to the Court of
Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.

SUICIDE BOMBING

Their concerns have been fuelled by a suicide bombing in November that
killed 16 people in the coastal resort of Mombasa.

Sri Lanka, the other Group B team due to play in Nairobi, have also said
they will go.

The first of the World Cup's 54 games will be staged on Sunday, one day
after a spectacular opening ceremony.

South Africa is scheduled to stage 46 of those fixtures, with organisers
saying they could also handle further matches at short notice if required.

South African statesman and former President Nelson Mandela joined the fray
on Wednesday, telling England and New Zealand they should play the matches
as the ICC told them last week after security inspections of Zimbabwe and
Kenya.

"If we refuse to follow what the international body says, we introduce chaos
in cricket," he told reporters in Johannesburg.

Britain and Australia's leaders have led a campaign for sanctions against
Mugabe in a row that has split the Commonwealth on roughly racial lines.

South Africa advocates a less confrontational approach to its northern
neighbour, and fellow Commonwealth members India and Pakistan say they are
happy to play in Zimbabwe.
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Business Day

Zimbabwe may boycott SA

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HARARE - Zimbabwe have warned they will refuse to play pool matches in South
Africa if the International Cricket Council allows England and Australia to
pull out of their scheduled matches in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) chief executive Vincent Hogg said they will
claim the points if England pull out of their World Cup clash in Harare on
February 13.

"We expect the technical committee to rule in favour of the Zimbabwe-England
match being played according to the schedule," said Hogg.

"We believe we have every right to refuse to play any match rearranged in
South Africa, and without penalty to ourselves."

Hogg spoke before he left for Cape Town to join his ZCU president Peter
Chingoka at the International Cricket Council (ICC) technical committee
meeting which will hear England's request to move the Harare match to South
Africa.

Australia have similar reservations about playing their match in Bulawayo.

"We see no reason for any change in their previously stated position. If the
England players afterwards then decide they will not come here, that
decision will obviously be on moral and political grounds, which the ZCU has
not and will not get involved in," Hogg said.

"England will then logically have to forfeit the ponts, whatever their
reasons."

England have demanded the game be moved because of their fears over the
deteriorating security situation in the famine-ravaged land.

If the ICC and the World Cup organisers do decide Harare and Bulawayo are no
longer safe to host the six group matches, they will have to switch them all
to South Africa.

Zimbabwe would then be obliged to play every one of their group matches in
South africa or pull out of the World Cup, with dire financial consequences
and with serious damage to the future of cricket here.

Zimbabwe are due to meet Namibia, England and India in Harare and Australia,
Holland and Pakistan in Bulawayo, between February 9 and March 4.

While Australia are expected to fly in and out of Bulawayo within a day of
their match on February 24, the other four apparently have no qualms about
playing in Zimbabwe.

AFP
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IRIN
 

ZIMBABWE: Reality of food shortages inconsistent with official figures


©  IRIN

Millions still depend on food aid

JOHANNESBURG, 6 Feb 2003 (IRIN) - Clarity is being sought over a discrepancy between Zimbabwe's official tally of cereal food stocks - which indicated a national surplus - and the reality of on-going shortages on the ground, humanitarian sources told IRIN.

In its December report the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) - a consortium of government, NGOs and UN agencies - noted inconsistencies between tallies of food sourced by the state grain monopoly, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), and what had been distributed at community level.

The ZimVAC report said: "Distribution of GMB imports at the community level is inconsistent with reported imports at the national level. For the time period 1 April 2002 to 1 December 2002, total maize available - from domestic availability, GMB imports, and food aid - was 1.3 million mt. The [national consumption] requirement for this time period was 1.1 million mt, indicating a surplus of 200,000 mt at the national level."

A local newspaper, The Financial Gazette, picked up on this note in the report and wrote that "at least 200,000 mt of maize earmarked for starving Zimbabweans is unaccounted for". However, the newspaper did not clarify that the tallies related to the total national consumption requirements - not just emergency food aid needs for people facing hunger.

A ZimVAC member explained that "the discrepancy is that when there should be a surplus there is actually a deficit ... the reality on the ground and the figures don't tally".

A humanitarian worker told IRIN that inconsistencies were unearthed when ZimVAC was "doing their field work, they came up with the result that only 1.1 million mt had reached the people, which lead them to conclude there was inconsistencies on the ground".

While there have been reports of incidents of diversion of GMB food stocks by ranking ruling party officials and so-called war veterans, this was unlikely to account for 200,000 mt - a significant amount given that Zimbabwe's total emergency food aid requirement through to March is estimated to be 345,000 mt.

Another humanitarian source suggested that the official figures - of total food stocks available through imports and in-country stock - could have been incorrect in the first instance, resulting in the discrepancy when the December assessment was undertaken. But this was dismissed as unlikely by the ZimVAC member.

It was also unclear whether backlogs in distribution could be to blame for the discrepancy.

Either way, ZimVAC is seeking clarity on the issue. The committee stated that "this discrepancy between reported import levels at the national level and community availability of cereals warrants further investigation".

Aid agencies estimate that some 7.1 million Zimbabweans require emergency food aid through March this year.

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Business Day

Zimbabwe on the verge of economic collapse

      Ray Faure | Johannesburg

      06 February 2003 10:17

Zimbabwe promises to provide a classic case study on whether economic
necessity forces political change during the course of 2003, according to a
leading Zimbabwean academic.

In an article written for Absa's latest Economic Perspective, Professor Tony
Hawkins from the University of Zimbabwe's Graduate School of Management,
says there is a widely held view -- "except in government circles" -- that
the Zimbabwean economy, whose GDP has shrunk by 27% in just four years,
won't be able to survive a fifth year of such punishment.

"Without exception, all of the macro-economic indicators of the Zimbabwean
economy paint a picture not only of a rapid, but also an accelerating,
economic decline.

"The cost of unworkable economic policies such as an overvalued, pegged
exchange rate, stricter exchange controls, a huge fiscal deficit, negative
real interest rates and price controls, are certainly going to be
devastating, resulting in the widespread closure of businesses and
retrenchments.

"In addition, agricultural crop estimates point to a maize harvest of only
700 000 tons, which will be less than 40% of the country's annual
consumption of 1,8-million tons," Hawkins asserts.

Hawkins adds that a number of lessons can be learned from Zimbabwe's 23
years of independence.

"One of the key maxims of the New Partnership for African Development
(Nepad) is that poor governance undermines even the best economic policies.
Good governance is not an optional add-on, but a prerequisite for efficient
development policies.

"Secondly, 'fast track' land reform is a contradiction in terms. There are
no quick fixes in development. Recent African history abounds with examples
of IMF/World Bank 'miracles' and role models that have run out of steam --
Kenya and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in the 1980s, Ghana in the 1990s and
Zambia, as well as Uganda up to a point, in recent years," he states.

In any event, land resettlement alone is not a viable strategy for
alleviating poverty, he argues. It can contribute to poverty reduction --
both in South Africa and Zimbabwe -- but the fact that the dramatic advance
of agricultural productivity globally, and especially in industrialised
countries, has been driven by rapid technological progress, is a constant
reminder of the trade-off between growth and equity.

"Thirdly, if economic reform is to succeed, it has to be sustained over a
decade and longer -- not just a few years. It has to achieve critical mass,
extending beyond the often superficial three-year macroeconomic stability
programmes fostered by the IMF and World Bank. Successful land reform cannot
take place in an environment of weak institutions, deep- seated corruption,
macroeconomic instability and the collapse of the rule of law."

At independence in 1980, Hawkins points out, Zimbabwe had a sound physical
infrastructure, a skilled, educated population and strong institutions.

But many of the skills have since emigrated; the infrastructure is decaying
visibly and its institutions -- the public service, parastatals, the
judiciary, the health and education delivery systems and the police -- are
also deteriorating.

"Institutional decay takes decades to remedy," he adds.

Hawkins argues further that South Africa, as the one African country that
has maintained strong institutions, cannot afford in any respect to follow
the example set by its northern neighbour.

"Given its strong institutions and its achievements in restoring
macroeconomic stability, South Africa is well placed to implement land
reform at a pace and in a manner consistent with maintaining business and
investment confidence.

"Finally, above all, it is not possible to ring-fence radical policies,
particularly unsuccessful ones. Few doubt that President Mugabe has brought
contagion to southern Africa and possibly to sub-Saharan Africa as well. It
would be absurd to argue that Zimbabwe's policies do not pose a challenge to
Nepad -- not only in the sense of the peer review mechanism, but also
because the country's policies run counter to the rational, orthodox thrust
of Nepad's economic development strategy," Hawkins states. - I-Net-Bridge
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News24

Harare short on clean water
06/02/2003 17:19  - (SA)

Rutendo Murinda


Harare - Residents of the Zimbabwean capital have been warned that the
city's water may no longer be safe after the municipality's stock of water
treatment chemicals ran out.

Some 4.5 million people live in the city and many have resorted to boiling
their drinking water.

The Harare City Council ran out of water treatment chemicals when it was
unable to pay its South Africa supplier for agents used to kill algae and
disinfect the water.

Council spokesperson Cuthbert Rwazemba said the stocks were exhausted
because of delays in paying the supplier in foreign currency.

"We are currently manually scrubbing the algae and this has an effect on the
output of treated water," he said.

He said the city owed the supplier about £334 510.

Traditionally, the government releases foreign currency to the council to
pay for such stocks through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, but has yet to do
so. - African Eye News Service
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Letter 1: Zimbabwe Cricket Supporters for Democracy

World Cup Cricket in Zimbabwe

Given the assurances to the ICC by the Commissioner of Police that
non-violent, non-disruptive protest is allowed in Zimbabwe, it is vital
that all caring Zimbabweans associated with the cricket, use this global
window to express themselves.

The Zimbabwe Cricket Supporters for Democracy appeal to all those
participating in the cricket in any way to wear black and white clothing,
and a black arm band, as a symbol of mourning for the death of democracy in
Zimbabwe.

We appeal to all spectators to heed this call and to all players and
umpires to wear black armbands during their games in Zimbabwe.

From: Zimbabwe Cricket Supporters for Democracy

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Letter 2

On the afternoon of the 5th February 2003, an elderly couple, Mr and Mrs W
M Potemans, were murdered in their home in Karoi.

A neighbour allegedly phoned Mrs Potemans at 3 pm and spoke to her, at 4:15
the bodies were discovered. Mrs Potemans had been strangled with a tie and
Mr Potemans had suffered severe head wounds and had been beaten to death. A
doctor was called but it was too late to save either of them. Although
within 10 minute walking distance of the Police Station, it took the police
an hour to arrive. They were without photographic equipment and another
neighbour was brought in to photograph the murder scene. The house had been
ransacked.

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Letter 3: Charles Frizell Kent

As an outsider and non-farmer, please forgive me if I intrude in the JAG
open letter forum. I am however intensely concerned with the future of our
country.

First, I was very surprised at the re-election of the "old" executive
after all the criticism that had been levelled at their policy of
negotiation. But I was not at the meeting, and therefore can't comment
further. My only connection with farming has been as a councillor in a
farming area, but the underlying principles involved are more or less
universal.

To me it is sad to see JAG squabbling with the CFU because this distracts
from the real problem, which is Zimbabwe government policy. Perhaps by
being further way, I can tell the wood from the trees a little better?
There will always be two ways of reacting to a threat, to oppose the
threat with all one's might - or to do a deal with those who threaten you.
The latter is of course considered the "smart" thing to do. A problem is
that you have to rely on the other side sticking to their side of the
deal!

The question of ethics and morality tend to clash with doing the "smart"
thing, religious considerations aside. I believe that we ignore ethics and
morality at our peril, because that's the recipe for anarchy.

Farmers are being spun around until they are dizzy, pushed this way and
that like puppets as some are told they are "allowed" to carry on farming
while last Friday another 31 farmers were listed for "seizure." I think
this is deliberate. I also think that allowing some to farm (how
arrogant!) near the end of the rainy season has got nothing at all to do
with the government seeing the light, the error of their ways or an
attempt to stave off starvation. Instead I believe it has everything to do
with trying to escape from the re-imposition of targeted sanctions by the
EU, everything to do with suspension from the Commonwealth and everything
to do with Mbeki's statement of "positive moves" from the Zimbabwe
government. Please don't forget South Africa's recent plea to let bygones
be bygones as the land reform was now completed.

Once again I apologise if I appear to but in, but please at least consider
the government's most likely actions if they are totally unconcerned about
famine and are playing to the political gallery in conjunction with South
Africa and Nigeria. It may also be worth consideration for JAG to divorce
itself entirely from the CFU as the approach and methods of both parties
appear to be mutually exclusive.

Charles Frizell
Kent

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Letter 4: Deirdre Carlisle

Hello,

I am trying to get back in touch with a friend I was at school with in
Marandellas.  Her family farmed at Bindura, Marsden Farm, Mr. & Mrs
Rosetti.  If you are able to give me any information that would help me I
would be very grateful.

My name is:

Deirdre Carlisle (nee Bannerman)
29 Fleet Street
Gatehouse of Fleet
Castle Douglas
Kirkcudbrightshire
DG7 2JT
UK

Thank you,

Deirdre Carlisle

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Food - Urgent

This is an urgent appeal to try help alleviate the critical food situation
on commercial farms. Farmers still operating have seen marked increases in
absenteeism, related to hunger. JAG is trying to assist in sourcing food
for these workers. If you have delivered maize to the GMB we would like to
know, as we are working on a scheme to get it replaced so that you can feed
your own workers and those around you. If you are able to assist please
contact JAG with:

1. Your name
2. Your farm name.
3. District
4. Total tonnage of maize delivered to GMB in 2002
5. Your contact details

Please note that you will have to provide proof of deliveries.

Please contact us by either email or phone as soon as possible if you are
interested.

Tel: 011 612 595
      011 205 374
      091 317 264

Email: justice@telco.co.zw
Thank you for your help.

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Claim your losses - don't miss the boat!

JAG would like to commend the CFU through MR Davison on its communiqué
entitled "compensation and consequential losses" dated 3/2/03. The document
aims to hold illegal settlers and their accomplices, including policemen,
accountable for their actions within the three-year prescribed limit. If
you fail to claim damages through a civil law suit within three years of
the event you forgo your right to do so in the future. If you did suffer
losses in February 2000, you need to see a lawyer now! Don't stand back and
do nothing. Exercise your legal rights and responsibilities.


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