Zim Online
Wednesday 11 July 2007
By Menzi
Sibanda and Hendricks Chizhanje
HARARE - In a bizarre turn of events,
Zimbabwe police have set up roadblocks
on major roads to block city
residents from moving basic commodities to
rural areas and to prevent
farmers from moving maize to urban areas.
Police spokesman Oliver
Mandipaka on Tuesday told state radio that the
blockade was necessary after
police picked up information that city shop
owners were moving loads of
basic commodities to rural areas for "safe
keeping", away from government
price control and anti-hoarding squads. He
did not say why the police were
blocking maize being moved to cities.
Mandipaka spoke as police sources
told ZimOnline that police deployed at a
roadblock along Victoria Falls road
linking the second largest city of
Bulawayo to rural Matabeleland North
province had by midday Tuesday seized
at least 100 kgs of maize from
travellers ferrying it to the city.
The plan to stop movement of the
country's staple maize and basic
commodities between cities and rural areas
will however plunge Zimbabwe's
delicate food supply chain into more chaos
and will exacerbate shortages
both in rural and farming areas as well as in
cities.
Families in rural areas have traditionally depended on relatives
working in
cities and towns for supplies of factory-made basic commodities
such as
soap, sugar, salt and cooking oil. Shops in rural areas also get
stocks from
wholesalers in urban areas.
In turn people in urban areas
have since the beginning of Zimbabwe's
economic crisis in 1999 largely
depended on their rural folks for the supply
of maize, the main staple for
more than 90 percent of Zimbabwe's 12 million
people.
Consumers in
urban areas have become even more dependent on their rural
cousins for
maize-meal after most milling firms either scaled down
production or shut
shop altogether since the government banned price
increases last
month.
"So where exactly do they expect us to get the maize-meal if they
will not
allow us to bring some from rural areas," said Thuba Dube, a worker
at one
of the factories in Bulawayo.
Dube was speaking moments after
police at the Victoria Falls road roadblock
seized a 20 kg bag of maize he
was ferrying from his rural home in Nkayi
district.
"I went to my
rural homestead in Nkayi last Friday to get some grain after
my family had
gone for days without maize-meal, but the police have just
taken it all," he
added, anger unmistakable in his quivering voice.
Industry Minister and
head of the government's Price Monitoring and
Stabilization Taskforce Obert
Mpofu was not immediately available to explain
the rationale behind the ban
on transportation of maize and food commodities
between cities and rural
areas.
The government last month froze prices of all commodities
following a spate
of price hikes that had seen prices of basic goods rising
by more than 500
percent in the space of just three weeks.
Soldiers
and police have raided several shops in Harare to force owners to
lower
prices. Over 1 300 people have been arrested during the crackdown and
the
figure is set to rise as the police intensify the crackdown on
businesses
defying the order to reduce prices.
But the price cuts have seen goods
such as bread, cement and fuel vanishing
from shop shelves only to resurface
on the illegal black market. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Wednesday 11 July 2007
By
Wayne Mafaro
HARARE - The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) on
Tuesday filed an
urgent application at the High Court to force University of
Zimbabwe (UZ)
authorities to rescind a decision to evict students from the
campus.
Armed riot police on Monday violently evicted thousands of
students from
halls of residence following violent protests at the weekend
over
deteriorating standards at the government-run
institution.
ZINASU President Promise Mkwananzi told a press conference
in Harare
yesterday that several students were injured during the eviction
after UZ
Vice-Chancellor Levy Nyagura gave the students two hours to leave
the
campus.
"We managed to evacuate a number of students and
organised accommodation for
them at churches in the vicinity of Mount
Pleasant area.
"ZINASU has since instituted an urgent High Court
application seeking to
compel the University of Zimbabwe to readmit students
back to the halls of
residence," Mkwananzi said.
Mkwananzi said the
heavy-handed approach by the university authorities was
meant to silence and
stop students from highlighting the corruption and
autocracy at the campus
and around the country.
Zimbabwe's education system, once revered as one
of the best in Africa, is
in shambles in tandem with a deep seven-year old
political and economic
crisis that is blamed on President Robert Mugabe's
policies.
Lack of state funding has seen most government-run universities
and colleges
operating on shoe-string budgets, compromising the quality of
education.
Thousands of university lecturers, who are among the lowest
paid civil
servants in Zimbabwe, have also fled the country to seek better
paying jobs
elsewhere. - ZimOnline
IPSnews
By Moyiga
Nduru
JOHANNESBURG, Jul 10 (IPS) - Pius Ncube, the outspoken Catholic
archbishop
of Bulawayo in southern Zimbabwe, has urged President Robert
Mugabe to step
down -- this as the country faces deepening political and
economic woes.
"Mugabe is a man who is a megalomaniac. He loves power, he
lives for power.
Even his own party is appealing to him to step down.
Zimbabweans are
desperate to offer him anything (for him) to relinquish
power," he told
journalists in South Africa's commercial hub, Johannesburg,
Tuesday.
Ncube was launching a report titled 'Destructive Engagement:
Violence,
Mediation and Politics in Zimbabwe', published by the Solidarity
Peace
Trust. He chairs this church-based non-governmental organisation
(NGO),
which aims -- in part -- to further justice and peace in
Zimbabwe.
In the 44-page document, the trust accuses the Mugabe regime of
continuing
to use violence against its political opponents in order to cling
to power.
"Out of 414 individuals interviewed, 30 percent or 122 reported
torture
between March, April and May 2007. This is a shockingly high figure,
yet it
represents the tip of the iceberg in Zimbabwe. Apart from politically
motivated torture, torture of those arrested on suspicion of having
committed a criminal offence is routine in Zimbabwe," notes the
report.
"In 90 percent of the attacks.government agencies such as the
police,
Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Criminal Investigation
Department
(CID) and army" were involved, it adds. More than three-quarters
of reported
cases were in the capital, Harare -- "one of the two major urban
areas
considered to be opposition territory".
Recent years have seen
Zimbabwe plunged into a crisis caused by a variety of
factors, including
increased repression and politically-motivated farm
seizures. Mugabe accuses
the West of plotting to unseat him, and of opposing
land reform in Zimbabwe
because it has caused minority white farmers to be
dispossessed.
Tuesday's launch came as the president, in power since
1980, had ordered
price cuts, this amidst runaway inflation and widespread
shortages of
essential goods.
"Inflation is now 5,000 percent. But
economists say it's (actually) 10,000
percent," Arnold Tsunga, executive
director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human
Rights, an NGO based in Harare, said
in an interview with IPS.
More than 1,300 supermarket managers and owners
have been arrested for
refusing to sell their merchandise at the lower
prices.
"I think Mugabe is trying to impress and woo voters for next
year's
elections. Unfortunately his ploy isn't working," Ken Tandare, a
youth
activist with Zimbabwe's main opposition group, the Movement for
Democratic
Change (MDC), told IPS on the sidelines of the
launch.
"All basic items such as cooking oil, salt, sugar and mealie meal
(maize
meal, a staple food) have disappeared from the supermarket shelves
and
resurfaced in the thriving parallel market. The goods are now being sold
for
more than triple their original prices in the parallel market. This has
made
people very angry."
Noted Brian Raftopolous, a Zimbabwean
academic and veteran political analyst
who is now based in South Africa:
"The price cuts are not going to deal with
shortages. Shortages will
continue. There's no way out for the economy. It's
going to affect the
region, especially South Africa."
The foundering economy has forced
Zimbabweans to take desperate measures.
"Watchmen now live at the
premises where they work. They can't afford the
50,000 Zimbabwe dollars
(about 35 U.S. cents) for a one-way fare on public
transport. A watchman
gets 1.5 million Zimbabwe dollars (about 11 U.S.
dollars) a month," said
Jonah Gokova of the Christian Alliance of Zimbabwe,
in response to a
question from IPS about how low-paid workers in the country
were making ends
meet.
"They also need money for sugar, cooking oil, salt and bread. The
price of a
loaf of bread, which used to cost 40,000 Zimbabwe dollars (about
28 U.S.
cents), has now been slashed to 22,000 Zimbabwe dollars (about 16
U.S.
dollars) under the ongoing price cuts."
Professionals are also
feeling the pinch.
"For example, junior lawyers get about 70 U.S. dollars
a month. This means
they can't afford a car and they have to use public
means. A seven-seater
commuter bus crams around 15 people. A lawyer has to
cram himself or herself
in there. Since work starts at eight AM, he or she
has to wake up at around
5 AM and wait for an hour to catch public
transport," recounted Tsunga.
"Usually there's a queue of 30 to 50 people
waiting for public transport."
Concerned over events in Zimbabwe, the
14-nation Southern African
Development Community, of which Zimbabwe is a
member, asked South African
President Thabo Mbeki to mediate in the crisis
earlier this year -- this
after Zimbabwe experienced another spike in
violence. Millions have fled the
state, mainly to neighbouring South
Africa.
Various media sources report that the ruling Zimbabwe African
National
Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the two factions of the MDC are
already
meeting in the South African capital, Pretoria, to engineer a way
out of the
current impasse.
However, the confinement of reported
talks to ZANU-PF and the MDC has
enraged Zimbabwe's civil
society.
"We hear that they are meeting in Pretoria. But we don't know
how much the
MDC will be prepared to compromise. The MDC has quietly and
quickly gone to
the negotiations without consulting its structures,"
Nicholas Mkaronda,
co-ordinator of the South African branch of the Crisis in
Zimbabwe
Coalition, an NGO, told IPS.
Asked whether he was optimistic
about the SADC initiative, Mkaronda replied,
"One must have
hope."
But hope may be beyond the reach of many in Zimbabwe.
"The
political and economic situation in Zimbabwe has now reached
life-threatening proportions," observed Ncube.
"The rapid decline of
the economy and the commandist response of the state
indicate a government
that has neither a strong sense of responsibility
towards its citizens, not
any substantive plan to move Zimbabwe out of its
deepening crisis."
(END/2007)
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Zim Online
Wednesday 11 July
2007
Own Correspondent
PRETORIA -
South Africa Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma on Tuesday said
her country and the regional Southern African
Development Community (SADC)
should step in to save Zimbabwe's sinking
economy, in what appears a
departure from Pretoria's 'quiet diplomacy policy'
towards its northern
neighbour.
South Africa has in the past rejected calls that it
intervenes in a
more robust way in Zimbabwe's crisis, saying it was the duty
of Zimbabweans
themselves to fix their problems.
The
continental superpower had, under its much criticised quiet
diplomacy
approach, also refrained from publicly criticising President
Robert Mugabe's
government or acknowledging that his controversial rule and
economic
policies were hurting the region.
But Dlamini-Zuma appeared to open
a new chapter in Pretoria's
relations with Harare, telling the media that
South Africa's economy and
those of other SADC countries had taken a knock
from the deepening crisis in
Zimbabwe.
"We are concerned about
the situation in Zimbabwe and its economic
situation, which has been
deteriorating," said Dlamini-Zuma, speaking to
reporters shortly after
holding talks with Massimo D'Alema, Italy's Deputy
Prime
Minister.
She added: "The problematic economy in Zimbabwe means
that SADC as a
region and South Africa in particular will, or already, feel
the
consequences. That is why we must do our best to revitalise and restart
the
economy for the benefit of Zimbabwe and the region."
Dlamini-Zuma spoke three days after a delegation from President Robert
Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party failed to pitch up in Pretoria for talks with
the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party aimed at
finding a solution to Zimbabwe's seven-year old political
crisis.
The SADC last March appointed Mbeki to lead efforts to
resolve
Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis by facilitating dialogue
between
ZANU PF and the MDC.
The Mbeki-led talks - that some
analysts say present the last chance
to save Zimbabwe from total economic
collapse and possible anarchy - now
appear in grave danger of failing after
ZANU PF's apparent show of
disinterest, although the Zimbabwe party is said
to have indicated it could
still send a delegation to South
Africa.
"It is difficult to rebuild an economy where there is
severe division
and polarisation. It is important that on all fronts that
the economy is
regenerated," said Dlamini-Zuma, long perceived as friendly
to Mugabe's
government.
Zimbabwe, which was once an economic
model for Africa has plunged into
political and economic crisis in the last
seven years due to what critics
say are Mugabe's controversial policies such
as seizing white-owned
commercial farms to give to blacks.
The
economic crisis deepened further over the past few weeks after the
government ordered businesses to roll back prices to June 18
levels.
Soldiers and police have raided several shops in Harare to
force
owners to lower prices. Over 1 300 people have been arrested and the
figure
is set to rise as the police intensify the crackdown on businesses
defying
the order to reduce prices.
But the price cuts have
seen goods such as bread, cement and fuel
vanishing from shop shelves and
now available on the illegal black market
amid warnings by economic experts
that clampdown on prices could bring
Zimbabwe's weakened economy to its
knees in a couple of weeks.
Mugabe, who has held power for more
than 27-years and plans to stand
for another five-year presidential term in
2008, blames the deepening crisis
on what he calls sabotage by Western
governments out to punish him for
seizing white land. - ZimOnline
VOA
By Peta Thornycroft
Southern Africa
10 July
2007
Riot police forced all students at the University of
Zimbabwe to leave the
Harare campus late Monday, including those in
residential housing who had
nowhere to spend the night. Peta Thornycroft
reports for VOA from southern
Africa that the closure of the university
followed a weekend demonstration
against a sudden hike in school
fees.
Harare riot police moved onto the campus of the University of
Zimbabwe
after Vice Chancellor Levy Nyagura ordered its
closure.
About 4,000 students were at the university when the police
arrived. The
students had a small demonstration over the weekend protesting
the increase
tuition following a month long strike by lecturers early in the
year.
Many students at the university live in the crumbling residential
halls as
their homes are in the rural areas.
Student union spokesman
Benjamin Nyandoro said after the closure that many
students had nowhere to
stay and would have to sleep in the streets. He
said students were due to
start exams next week.
The university, which used to be one one of the
best in Africa, is now in a
state of disrepair. There is little equipment
left in any of the
laboratories, and most of the basic facilities of an
academic institution no
longer function. The parking lot outside the
university is covered in tall
grass.
There are almost no cleaning
facilities in the dormitories; maintenance work
ceased about four years
ago.
The campus literally stinks and the dorms have been described by
many
students as unfit for human occupation. Nevertheless, few students can
afford to rent accommodations off campus.
A senior lecturer at the
university, who was on campus when the riot police
arrived, said students
were roughly treated when they were evicted.
This university has in the
past produced many of Zimbabwe's most successful
academics and
businessmen,
Lecturers have repeatedly gone on strike in the last two
years protesting
that they are not paid a living wage.
The university
now has less than half the number of teaching staff it needs,
according to
statistics published in the independent press in Zimbabwe.
Academics say
educational standards have dropped significantly in the last
five
years.
Most of Zimbabwe's political leaders and top businessmen send
their children
to South Africa or overseas for higher education.
The
university of Zimbabwe was a hotbed of anti-government protests until
about
15 years ago, but since then there have been few demonstrations or
student
involvement in opposition politics. Most of the protests in recent
years
have been about the cost of living on campus.
The Telegraph
By
Sebastien Berger in Johannesburg
Last Updated: 1:44am BST
11/07/2007
The Zimbabwean government has plunged
crucial negotiations with the
opposition into crisis after ministers failed
to attend talks due to be held
in South Africa.
As the
country's economy spirals out of control amid hyperinflation, a
collapsed
currency, and fuel and food shortages, senior officials stayed in
Harare for
emergency meetings at the weekend rather than attend the
discussions.
Representatives of the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change had
already gone to Pretoria for the talks, due to be
mediated by the South
African president, Thabo Mbeki, at a secret
location.
The process is President Robert Mugabe's best chance of
finding a
face-saving way out of the current turmoil.
The South
African Development Community is preparing a rescue plan
that would see vast
sums of money pumped into the Zimbabwean central bank
and the South African
rand become legal tender.
The offer is a measure of how concerned
Zimbabwe's neighbours are at
the situation. However, Harare's chief
government spokesman, Sikhanyiso
Ndlovu, dismissed the proposal as "wishful
thinking" because it would
infringe the country's sovereignty.
In Zimbabwe, goods have disappeared from shops, while petrol pumps
have run
dry after the regime ordered all retailers to cut fuel prices by 60
per
cent.
The government has also instructed private bus companies to
cut their
fares by 75 per cent.
Inflation is officially at
4,530 per cent, the highest in the world.
iafrica.com
Wed, 11 Jul
2007
Zimbabwe has dismissed claims of a plan to peg its dollar to the
South
African rand to stabilise Harare's currency, reports Zimbabwe's Herald
newspaper.
Its website quoted Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor
Gideon Gono on
Wednesday as saying media reports on the so-called rescue
scheme were
unfounded.
"As governor, I want to assure the market that
nothing of the sort, as
reported, has ever been or is under our
consideration," he said.
SADC denies report
The secretariat of the
Southern African Development Community (Sadc) also
rejected the
reports.
"Sadc disassociates itself from any reported support packages as
they did
not originate from its secretariat," said a Sadc
statement.
Weekend reports said Sadc was putting together a plan to peg
the rand to the
Zimbabwe dollar by extending the multilateral monetary area
of South Africa,
Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland to Zimbabwe.
The
Zimbabwe dollar is reportedly being traded on the black market for up to
Z$250 000 for one US dollar.
Sapa
VOA
By Blessing Zulu & Jonga Kandemiiri
Washington
10 July 2007
The Zimbabwean government
deployed police and soldiers in stores on Tuesday
to monitor prices on a
full-time basis as business leaders meanwhile warned
that they cannot afford
to restock shelves and national fuel stocks rapidly
dwindled.
Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesman Oliver Mandipaka said
told another 468
alleged violators of price control regulations had been
arrested in the past
24 hours, bringing the total to some 1,768 since Harare
intensified its
crackdown on the weekend.
Despite - or because of -
the government effort, consumers faced severe
shortages of basic commodities
and fuel, hindering transport companies. But
Information Minister Sikhanyiso
Ndlovu and Mandipaka said that the crackdown
would continue.
Those
arrested included senior executives of leading retail chains such as
National Foods, Inscor, TM supermarkets and Nandos. On Tuesday police
arrested managers of Capri and Snacks Box along with car dealers who had
resisted cutting prices.
Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries
President Marah Hativagone said many
manufacturers have indicated that they
cannot follow the government
directive not to reduce production, setting the
stage for a showdown with
the government which has said production levels
must be maintained or Harare
will seize companies.
The chaos in
business was mirrored on Tuesday in the courts, where police
arrived late
with charge sheets in disarray. The Home Affairs Ministry
later said
prosecution would henceforth be coordinated with the Office of
the Attorney
General, which had been bypassed in enforcement following
promulgation of a
price control act.
Many accused were released on summons to appear in
court Wednesday.
Lawyer Jonathan Samkange, representing many of those
being prosecuted, told
reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe
that his clients face
charges under the price control act promulgated late
last week by the
government.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
meanwhile was vowing to fight a
proposal to cut salaries along with prices
under Harare's scorched-earth war
on inflation.
The union said some
employer representatives have already put the proposal
on the table with
affiliate unions. Sources said the cabinet task force
behind the price cuts
is pushing employment councils to reduce salaries. The
ZCTU said the
construction union has informed it that employers want to meet
to talk about
pay cuts.
ZCTU Secretary General Wellington Chibebe told reporter Jonga
Kandemiiri of
VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that Zimbabwean labor law forbids
breaching
agreements with unions and workers once they have been
concluded.
MONEYWEB: Last night we had a focus on Zimbabwe. Unfortunately we weren't able to link up with Trevor Ncube, the chief executive of the Mail & Guardian and our expert on all matters Zimbabwean. But more fortunately Trevor is with us in the studio today. What's the latest feedback? Did you get much from people in Zim today?
TREVOR NCUBE: Ja, quite a lot, Alec. The chaos continues. Basically the shelves continue to be emptied, and people are now basically having to go without [indistinct] shoe gum, cooking oil, things like fizzy drinks and so forth. And transport is now almost impossible to get because fuel - people have been instructed to sell fuel at half the price. I mean, you now get fuel in Zimbabwe at R3 per litre.
MONEYWEB: If you can get it!
TREVOR NCUBE: If you can get it, which is pretty ridiculous. And so basically the movement of people has been affected, people's survival has been affected, because the basic products are not available in the shops. The militias that have been deployed by the government basically become a law unto themselves - they get into shops, they empty the shops, they link up with people that want to come in and ransack the shops and then set up stalls somewhere else. To give you an example, cement manufacturer instructed to slash prices to Z$300 from Z$1.4m per bag of cement. The next thing, somebody comes and takes the whole lot and sets up a stall across, and you buy that same cement at Z$1.8m instead of Z$1.4.
MONEYWEB: But who are those people?
TREVOR NCUBE: They are linked to the ruling party. It's looting.
MONEYWEB: So it's looting. It's looting by those who happen to be privileged.
TREVOR NCUBE: Those who are connected to the ruling party. That's what's happening.
MONEYWEB: Who is advising Robert Mugabe on this kind of strategy?
TREVOR NCUBE: This is a strategy from what is called the "Joint Operations Committee". It's called JOC. The people that sit on that committee are all the service chiefs, military intelligence, police, prisons. The Reserve Bank has a seat there, but I'm told they have boycotted that over the past three weeks because of the discussions around this. Alec, what's happening is that Robert Mugabe has decided that, whilst this is an economic problem that he's facing, that is hyper-inflation, he is going to come up with a military solution. That's the only way he's going to win this. And that military solution involves the intelligence, the military and the police conducting ground operations, which is identifying shops, targeting them, raiding them, emptying them of the commodities. The one fundamental thing that they want to do is that Robert Mugabe has identified business as his biggest opposition - therefore cripple the businesses and make sure that they are not in a position to be a threat to him, and therefore you've dealt with the problem.
MONEYWEB: But how does he then feed his people?
TREVOR NCUBE: Let me finish this. The strategy from the Joint Operations Committee is that, if Robert Mugabe had not done this, come the elections in 2008 he would lose those elections, because inflation at that time would be anything between 500 000% to 1.5m%. So pre-empt that by coming in and attacking that and ordering the producers, retailers, to reduce the prices by 50% and hope that in the interim you get a hold on that. But what he hasn't bargained on is that you basically kill the producers and, in many instances, particularly the retailers are having to import most of these things. Importing, buying foreign currency at the par rate, and you are coming and ordering them to sell at 50% of the marked price - basically they are selling at a loss and they cannot continue producing. So this is a strategy that is to all intents and purposes likely to fail, I think.
MONEYWEB: You say that you call them JOC or they call themselves JOC - appropriately named. But they obviously don't look at history and they certainly haven't thought this one through very carefully, because from here it seems that the only result, the only consequence, must be further chaos.
TREVOR NCUBE: The people that I've been talking to quite closely, the celebration all around Zanu PF, that we've finally achieved what we wanted to do, which is cripple the private sector, the businessmen - have them on their knees, begging. But you're right, Alec, this is a short-term solution which is not going to work. But one thing which is pretty surprising is the fact that the majority of Zimbabweans who have been at the receiving end of the cut in prices are celebrating, because they suddenly are getting this short-term relief of being able to buy bread which was Z$45 000 yesterday, at Z$22 000. But the thing is, they don't realise that tomorrow, that bread is not going to be available. So you have been able to purchase short-term political capital from the people who have been at the receiving end of their skeleton prices, but clearly this is unsustainable. And I think in the long term of this - not the long term, really the short term - I will be surprised if Robert Mugabe is in power by the end of this year.
MONEYWEB: So it's almost the spike, as you would have, with stock markets, a final blow-off. It does seem very over the top, the kind of decisions that he has been making in the last few days. Is this because he is getting increasingly desperate?
TREVOR NCUBE: He's getting desperate. Remember, they talk about "the coup", which is manufactured by his own intelligence people, to deal with certain people around him. There was never such a coup. It's manufactured by his own intelligence people. He is getting desperate, he is running out of solutions, and I think there's all this talk about the talks that President Mbeki and SADC have started. Unfortunately right now, those talks are totally irrelevant as far as the situation in Zimbabwe is concerned. Those talks have been overtaken by what has taken place on the ground. And nobody in Zanu PF is interested in these talks. Even MDC is not interested in these talks, because they don't see much being gained out of this. So we've got a crisis that nobody is able to manage, and the only way that Robert Mugabe thinks he's going to manage this is through what he calls Constitutional Amendment Number 18, which will allow him to hand-pick his successor, and he hopes that he will be able to do so by the end of the year, and that when he finally goes to an election in March, there will be a new person to run for Zanu PF.
MONEYWEB: So he's putting his people through this incredible pain, destroying parts of the fabric of the society, of the private sector, so that he can be safe when he gets his successor?
TREVOR NCUBE: That's what it's all about. I've always maintained, Alec, that unfortunately politics in Zimbabwe, of Robert Mugabe, is about his survival, and in everything that he does he looks at that. And let me just quickly say to you, look at what happens with the land invasions. This is the same strategy. Look at what happened in the destruction of urban squatter camps. This is exactly the same strategy, and it comes from that same Joint Operations Committee, JOC, which sits around and comes up with military solutions to social and economic problems.
MONEYWEB: Will the Zimbabwean people ever learn anything from this? Here you have a gentleman who has been in power ironically for the same period of time that Nelson Mandela spent in prison, and you could hardly have found two greater contrasts.
TREVOR NCUBE: I think the Zimbabweans have learnt quite a lot, but they find themselves in a very difficult situation. It's a game of survival, it's a game of facing reality every day, Alec - of getting up in the morning and there's no electricity, there is no water. Facing that everyday challenge and saying to yourself, how do you face it? But I think one lesson, Alec, that people have gotten out of this is you talk to people and people feel the pain. People feel the frustrations of having seen their dreams and hopes of 1980 being blown into pieces, and the lesson that they've learnt is never again should something of this nature take place - that they must not allow another Robert Mugabe to come from within their midst. But how are we going to arrive at that destination is a big thing - particularly, Alec, with the evidence of failure to manage a process of this nature. There is clearly a need to manage the change, to marshal Zimbabwean energy towards a solution that is durable. But unfortunately, there isn't the leadership to focus Zimbabweans into saying let's find a solution. Is it a new constitution that we need? Is it a government of national unity? How do we get to that? But unfortunately the person who is supposed to be providing that leadership is concerned about one thing only - and it is survival. And one other thing which I've shared with you and your listeners is - will he be safe when he loses power? Is anybody going to protect him from the abuses that he has inflicted on Zimbabweans? Will he be dragged to The Hague and be tried like Charles Taylor and others? Is anybody able to offer him those assurances? Unfortunately, some people within the region and internationally say they can't offer him those kind of assurances. But the people close to him within the party think that they can offer him those assurances - to say to him, you need to get out of power. And I think for me the most important thing right now, Alec, is that the biggest opposition to Robert Mugabe now comes form within the party. They want him out and, as far as they are concerned, they will find their way of getting him out, not being held by SADC, or being held by the South Africans.
MONEYWEB: But it seems to be a bit broader than that because, if the members of JOC are behind this insane policy that has been implemented, then they too should surely be ejected along with Mugabe?
TREVOR NCUBE: Clearly. The JOC intervention, which is the military solution, is a short-term, short sighted one. They go to him with a solution to save him from being kicked out in an election in 2008. This is the short-term solution. You do this to the business, that way you are delivering something to the population; you are saying to the population, I am relieving you of this pain via this way.
MONEYWEB: Trevor, just as a businessman, the fact that Impala Platinum is still heavily invested and the biggest investor in Zimbabwe - do you think it's going to count against them in future?
TREVOR NCUBE: I don't think so, Alec. I think there is a sense that the situation in Zimbabwe is bad, yes. But certain people are reluctant to compare it with what happened in South Africa during apartheid, for instance - that there are opportunities and people should get there. One of those people that have said on this programme, that I believe that if one is so positioned to have the resources to go in, it's time to go in and get those assets.
MONEYWEB: Even now?
TREVOR NCUBE: Even now. There might be certain people that might think there are moral difficulties, but I don't have those difficulties.
MONEYWEB: Trevor Ncube, chief executive of Mail & Guardian, a Zimbabwean and a big investor in his homeland. Well, David Shapiro, I think we all hope that there is going to be a solution at some point in time - that Trevor is right and that Mugabe is gone by the end of the year.
DAVID SHAPIRO: I am sure there will be, but unfortunately, I think, for the people Zimbabwe it's going to be a generation away before they have the living standard that they dreamed of in 1980. I think it's going to take a long, long time to turn it around.
Business Report
July 11, 2007
By INGI SALGADO and MZWANDILE JACKS
Cape
Town and Johannesburg - South African companies in Zimbabwe are
attempting
to outlast a hyperinflationary environment and government-imposed
price
controls to maintain a presence in expectation of eventual political
and
economic stability.
None of several large businesses canvassed by
Business Report had intentions
of divesting from Zimbabwe.
In fact,
two mining firms, Impala Platinum (Implats) and Metallon, had plans
for
capital investment in a stable climate.
"There's a lot of money waiting
to come into Zimbabwe, but it needs the
right conditions for that to be
unlocked," said Mark Wellesley-Wood, chief
executive of Metallon, Zimbabwe's
biggest gold mining company with 100 000
ounces of annual
production.
Businesses affected by the regime's order to slash prices
included retailers
such as Edcon, which owned 42 percent of Edgars Zimbabwe,
and Shoprite,
which owned a store in Bulawayo.
"We have a strong
belief that things will return to normal. We are not going
to close shop,"
said Whitey Basson, chief executive of Shoprite.
But others have been hit
by hyperinflation, estimated at about 9 000
percent.
Tongaat, which
owned a majority stake in Zimbabwe's second biggest sugar
business Hippo
Valley Estates, said it had for some time been implementing
its domestic
market pricing strategies in consultation with appropriate
government
ministries.
Tommy Edmonds, chief executive of Tourvest, which owns the
Wild Horizons
activity business in Victoria Falls, is one of the few South
African
businesses whose income stream, paid exclusively in US dollars, has
been
unaffected.
Some other South African companies are reliably
understood to be trucking in
food parcels for their
staff.
Metallon said it would consider doing so for its 5 000
employees, while
Tongaat said that it from time to time engaged in "creative
initiatives" to
assist employees.
Implats chairman Fred Roux said the
operating risk was negligible compared
with the risk of operating at
relatively deep levels in the Western
Bushveld.
Implats spokesperson
Bob Gilmour said Zimbabwe had the world's
second-largest known deposit of
platinum group metals, offering enormous
upside potential for the
company.
"Given a stable social and political environment, we have plans
to expand
production to an excess of 1 million ounces of platinum per
annum."
Edcon head of investor relations Tessa Christelis said that the
group had no
intention of selling its shares in the Zimbabwe
operation.
PPC, South Africa's biggest lime and cement producer - which
also has a
presence in Zimbabwe - acknowledged that operating in Zimbabwe
was
difficult, but had no intentions of disinvesting in the
country.
Clive Tasker, the managing director of Standard Bank Africa,
said it was a
very difficult operating environment with increases in the
amount of cash in
circulation and the challenges that came with
hyperinflation.
"But we have a competent local management team which is
coping well under
trying circumstances," Tasker said.
Standard Bank
runs a retail and wholesale bank with 16 branches and about
600 staff
members.
It had invested more than R170 million in the country and at its
peak, the
operation was the bank's most successful African
business.
Pick 'n Pay, said that goods at its Zimbabwean operation, TM
Supermarkets,
were in "very short" supply.
iafrica.com
Wed, 11 Jul 2007
The situation for business is Zimbabwe is looking very
dire... not least for
Edcon, who is a shareholder in Zimbabwe's Edgars.
They've halved their
prices in the country, and may have to close their
doors in the country.
Bruce Whitfield:
Well the situation in Zimbabwe
in focus now. Over the weekend more than a
thousand business executives
detained for failing to heed the order by
President Robert Mugabe to cut
their prices in half and among those
executives were executives from
Edcon.
Mark Bower is the chief executive of group services at Edcon and
Mark have
you had contact with your operations in Zimbabwe? What is going on
there?
Mark Bower:
Yes I have I have spoken to them yesterday and
today. The executives that
were arrested are now out of jail. We have
reduced all our prices by 50
percent and the stores are all open and
trading.
Bruce Whitfield:
Now what does that do to a business model in
a country like Zimbabwe where
we have seen hyperinflation north of a 1000
percent where you go into your
shop and you take the prices of the goods and
you chop them in half, what
happens then?
Mark Bower:
It is not
sustainable in the long-term because we have to replace those
goods and
clearly we have sold them for a lot less than the replacement cost
will
be.
Bruce Whitfield:
And I am assuming that once you've cut prices in
half you have people
running into the stores taking advantage of those
opportunities and you are
going to end up with empty shelves and then unable
to stock them again.
Mark Bower:
That is exactly what is already
happening in the food areas which is
obviously where customers are shopping
first and the clothing will run
short.
Bruce Whitfield:
What then
for the future of Edcon in Zimbabwe? Surely you have to look at
these
operations and say hold on a second we cannot be suckers forever, we
can't
keep funding Zimbabwe, you have to make a business decision on that.
Mark
Bower:
We haven't funded them for a long time. They are an independent listed
company on the Zimbabwean stock exchange and we have written them off in our
own books some years ago because we haven't received any dividend flows from
that country for five years.
Bruce Whitfield:
So what then is the
future of Edcon within Zimbabwe? They are going to have
to make their
decisions then, will they.
Mark Bower:
They have to make their own
decisions but we have to protect our people and
our brand.
Bruce
Whitfield:
And again the strategy there, what are the implications for as you
as a
group?
Mark Bower:
We are watching the situation day by day
and we are hopeful that things will
come right but if they don't we will
have to make some hard decisions.
Bruce Whitfield:
And those hard
decisions include I suppose shutting stores and laying off
people in
Zimbabwe a country that can least afford it.
Mark Bower:
We would hate
that to happen and we certainly wouldn't be alone.
Bruce
Whitfield:
What is the mood of your staff in Zimbabwe though? Here we have
got
financial director, couple of store managers also arrested. I mean it
cannot
be a conducive place to do business.
Mark Bower:
No it is a
very difficult place to do business and it is very difficult for
the
staff.
Bruce Whitfield:
Again, people do listen to us on DSTV they
listen to us on the internet when
they can in Zimbabwe, they do manage to
hear us in Zimbabwe. The situation
there from a business perspective I mean
you obviously have got to keep
supporting them, you have got to keep adding
your voice to the staff in that
area. I mean is there anything anybody can
say from a business perspective
to their operations there?
Mark
Bower:
We can only give them encouragement and obviously we gave them legal
support
and that is how they got out of jail and we will continue giving
them any
help and support we can but it can't be of a financial
nature.
Bruce Whitfield:
Mark Bower it is a desperate situation
indeed. The chief executive of group
services at Edcon.
Baptist Press
Posted on Jul
10, 2007 | by Staff
ZIMBABWE (BP)--Ray Motsi knelt in prayer. His knee rested
on the dirty,
cold, concrete floor while one hand grabbed a steel bar. Two
other pastors
knelt beside him inside the jail cell. They prayed for revival
in their
country.
Arrested moments earlier at a prayer meeting,
officials charged the
Zimbabwean pastors with leading an anti-government
meeting. Hundreds of
Christians followed them to the jailhouse, continuing
the prayer meeting
asking God for revival.
"There was revival in
Kadoma that weekend," the Baptist pastor said.
"Fifty-two inmates and guards
asked Jesus to be their Savior and many more
heard the Gospel.
"Times
may be tough, but God has not forgotten Zimbabwe," Motsi continued.
Charges
against the pastors were dropped in May 2007. "Disasters are often
God's
loudspeakers to His people. People hear better during these times."
In
addition to political woes that continue to gather international
headlines,
the country is suffering from an economic meltdown that has most
Zimbabweans
struggling to meet day-to-day needs. A severe drought combined
with the
under-production of wheat and maize resulted in 4 million people
needing
food aid, according to the United Nations. HIV/AIDS, meanwhile, also
wreaks
havoc in the country.
Zimbabweans are learning to appreciate the simple
things and live by faith,
a pastor in Harare said.
"When we were
comfortable and had everything we needed, people didn't stop
to pay
attention to God," the pastor said. "Now, we live simple lives and
the focus
is slowly turning back to God. People want to know about Him. The
Lord, in
an amazing way, is looking after His people."
Nhamo Chigohi remembers a
time when he was persecuted for his faith, but now
people stop him to ask
questions about Jesus. Chigohi was among the first
believers with the
Shangaan people in eastern Zimbabwe. The Shangaan are
known for their
adherence to African traditional religions, such as
following ancestral
spirits and witchdoctors. When Chigohi turned away from
the ancestors to
follow Christ, his family and village ridiculed him.
After discussing it
with his wife, Chigohi turned down a pastorate with a
large church in Harare
to minister among his own people.
"It takes a Shangaan to minister to a
Shangaan," the pastor said nine years
after returning home. "It was slow at
first, no one wanted to believe. For
the last two and a half years now,
planting churches in Shangaan land is
easy."
Around 20 churches have
started in this area of Zimbabwe. Missionaries have
described the area as
"hungering after God." Chigohi said the difference in
heart came as the
Shangaan saw God's love and compassion shine through
difficult
times.
One village elder admitted he once regarded Christianity as a
religion only
for the Shona, the majority people group in Zimbabwe. But he
stepped back
and watched how God provided for the Shangaan through food,
water and
medicine -- not to mention caring for the orphans in their
community. He
knew Jesus came for the Shangaan as well.
"Life is not
easy here. It's very difficult," Chigohi said. "The difficult
times keep us
challenged and turning to God. God is moving. He has now
opened the Gospel
to the Shangaan people and many others."
VOA
By Carole Gombakomba
Washington
10 July
2007
Mayor Fanuel Phiri of Kadoma, Zimbabwe, on Tuesday
challenged news reports
that 29 children and one adult have died in his
Mashonaland West city due to
an outbreak of intestinal disease causing
severe diarrhea, while the Harare
government said 20 children nationwide had
died from diarrhea caused by the
e-coli bacteria.
But health-sector
sources said some 1,800 people had been treated for the
disease in Kadoma,
while another 129 cases and four deaths were reported in
Gokwe North, in the
country's Midlands Province.
Health sources attributed the outbreak of
diarrheal disease to widespread
power cuts that prevented national and
municipal authorities from pumping
water from reservoirs into water
distribution systems, leading residents to
turn to less safe
sources.
Health experts monitoring the situation said the problem was
spreading, but
Kadoma's Mayor Phiri, a ZANU-PF member, told reporter Carole
Gombakomba of
VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that the Health Ministry had
brought the problem
under control.
Opposition parliamentarian Editor
Matamisa of the Movement for Democratic
Change faction of Morgan Tsvangirai
charged that the mayor was misleading
the public and that more people have
died than the government has
acknowledged while many more are still seeking
treatment for the potentially
deadly diarrheal disease.
ABC Australia radio Transcript
AM
- Wednesday, 11 July , 2007 08:23:34
Reporter: Andrew Geoghegan
TONY
EASTLEY: A humanitarian crisis is emerging in Zimbabwe.
The President
Robert Mugabe's latest economic policy of ordering shops to
simply halve
prices has backfired, and the little food that was available
has now all
gone.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he doesn't know how people
are
feeding themselves, and it seems the population is facing widespread
starvation.
This report from Africa Correspondent Andrew
Geoghegan.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN: Just how bad can life get in Zimbabwe? With
an economy in
meltdown, the Government's latest attempt to provide some
relief from
astronomical inflation has backfired badly.
Forcing shops
to halve prices caused a rush, which emptied the shelves, and
now there's
nothing left.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai:
MORGAN
TSVANGIRAI: The immediate effect is the clearance of all goods in the
shops,
and the disappearance of goods into the black market.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN:
So how are people feeding themselves?
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI: It's very
difficult to assess, but I think it's just a
struggle for survival on a
daily basis. There's no bread, there's no salt,
sugar, all those basics. And
this has happened just over this last week. We
are yet to make an assessment
how people are able to cope.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN: Most simply can't cope,
particularly the four out of five
adults who don't have a job. They can't
afford to live - not in a country
where it now costs as much to buy one
banana as it did to buy an average
family home seven years ago, when Robert
Mugabe began his radical economic
agenda.
Catholic Archbishop Pius
Ncube says Robert Mugabe's latest economic policies
have reached
life-threatening proportions.
PIUS NCUBE: When your prices are going up
10 times in one month, as happened
in June, when basics are no longer on the
shelves because of the Government
trying to force prices by half, so that
businesspeople can no longer make
any profit. In a situation like that
people can no longer live, and even his
own soldiers can't live, his own
police, (inaudible) can no longer live.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN: But Pius Ncube
is also critical of the Opposition for
failing the people of Zimbabwe. He
says it's too preoccupied with internal
differences.
PIUS NCUBE: They
are thereby actually disappointing the people of Zimbabwe,
because when
Mugabe can always give excuses and say the Opposition's not
even united. And
then they must be, they must inspire our people to stand up
and be ready to
be self-sacrificing and ready to face pain and face up to
this man and get
rid of him.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN: However, Opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai maintains
that he's still working towards winning next year's
elections.
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI: We have to deal with the question of how to
overcome fear
amongst the people, how to continue to instil hope in the
people, and how to
make sure that every vote counts. So it's an election
strategy and not any
other.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN: So you feel as though
you still have the support of the
people?
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI: The
support is solid and growing. There's never been any
doubt in my mind about
the support of the people.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN: But clearly they want you to
do something now.
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI: Yeah, obviously, yes.
But.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN: But what are you doing?
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI:
. the question, the question has always been how do you
deal with a dictator
using democratic means? I mean, the handicaps are
there, the obstacles are
there.
ANDREW GEOGHEGAN: But the people may not have time to wait for the
Opposition to save them.
This is Andrew Geoghegan reporting for AM.
From Mineweb (SA), 10 July
Barry Sergeant
Johannesburg -
Central African Mining & Exploration once again raised
eyebrows this
week upon confirmation that it would bid for the 78% it does
not already
hold in Katanga Mining. Based on recent stock prices, such a bid
would value
Katanga Mining as a whole at £773m. In early April this year,
Camec
astounded even some specialist investors by announcing its acquisition
of
22% of Katanga Mining, one of the most advanced brownfields projects in
the
rapidly re-developing Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC). The takeover battle for Katanga Mining, now openly hostile, is
set to open a number of festering historical wounds in Katanga Province.
Katanga Mining is the current jewel in the DRC's globally important copper
belt, which runs across borders, to the southeast into Zambia, and in the
west into Angola, where it has hardly been tapped.
Katanga Mining
is going to be the earliest big restart in the DRC
copperbelt, with metal
ready for shipping before the end of the year.
Katanga Mining's two big
peers, Nikanor and Tenké Mining Corporation, owned
57.75% by copper giant
Freeport McMoRan, are only likely to ship metal in
2009 and 2010,
respectively. Beyond the sheer size of the three projects,
each has among
the cleanest sets of papers available to the current
ministerial-level
review of DRC mining projects and licences. While Camec
would like to own
all of Katanga Mining, its current interests in the DRC
copperbelt are
patchy, at best, and more likely to be disputed. In February
last year,
Camec bought a bunch of Katanga Province assets from the
notorious Billy
Rautenbach, for $80m, comprising $25m in cash, and 172m new
Camec shares,
issued at 18 pence a share. If Rautenbach has maintained his
stake in Camec,
he would currently hold some 14% of the company, and be its
biggest
shareholder.
The February 2006 transaction saw Camec buy Rautenbach's
apparent cash-flow
rights from mining concessions 467, 469 (also known as
C19 & C21) in Katanga
Province, and 50% of the Mukondo concession, said
to be the richest cobalt
deposit in the world. The other half of Mukondo was
sold in June 2006 for
around $60m by John Bredenkamp, also a Zimbabwean, to
Israeli entrepreneur
Dan Gertler, a founding shareholder of Nikanor. Camec
later bought 80% of
the shares in BOSS Mining SPRL, which held the actual
titles to the C19 and
C21 concessions, and 50% of the Mukondo concessions.
Camec paid only a
"nominal amount" for the 80% stake in BOSS Mining SPRL,
owned by Rautenbach.
But immediately upon acquiring 50% of Mukondo, Gertler
shut it down, cutting
off Camec's main source of cobalt ore and
concentrate.
Camec coyly said that mining at Mukondo had been
"suspended until agreement
can be reached with the new owners" on how "best
to develop the concession
area". Camec laughed off the idea that the Mukondo
closure would affect it,
stating that production at its Luita processing
facility continued with
supply from "newly opened deposits as well as in the
region of 40 deposits
on the C19 & C21 concession areas". Camec started
up copper production at
Luita in September 2006, with output projected at 40
000 tons by 2007,
rising to template capacity of 100 000 tons of copper
cathode by the end of
2008. The fact is that Camec's non-Mukondo ore sources
may provide for a
copper flow, but precious little is moving in the way of
cobalt. In its 2006
annual report, Camec said it was "on track to produce 8
200 tons of cobalt"
in full year 2006-07, viz., the 12 months to March 31
2007.
Beyond the unresolved Mukondo issue, Gertler is also now
knocking heads with
Camec over Katanga Mining. Late last month, RP Explorer
Master Fund (RPEMF)
said it had purchased some 6% of Katanga Mining, taking
its total stake to
15.7% in Katanga Mining. The latest RPEMF transaction
manifests the
interest, directly or indirectly, of Gertler in Katanga
Mining, via RP
Capital Partners Cayman Islands. Camec's hunger for Katanga
Mining squares
it up not only against Gertler, one of the most influential
operators in the
DRC, but also against Katanga Mining founding shareholder,
Georges Forrest,
of Forrest International, with a 24.5% stake in Katanga
Mining, via George
Forrest International Afrique SPRL. None of these people
or entities, bar
Camec, have much time for Rautenbach, who's had squabbles
in and around the
Katanga copper-cobalt belts for years.
In
November 1998, he was named the MD of state-owned copper-cobalt miner La
Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines) during a visit to Harare by
then-DRC president Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Some of Gécamines' best
cobalt-producing areas were transferred to a joint venture between
Rautenbach's Ridgepointe International and the Central Mining Group, a
Congolese company controlled by Pierre-Victor Mpoyo, then DRC minister of
state. Rautenbach, who had no mining experience, was also made MD of the
joint venture. Rautenbach's business practices saw Kabila replace him with
Forrest in March 2000. Rautenbach was stripped of all connections to
Katanga, including the Kambove and Kakanda processing plants, and the large
parcel of deposits known as the Kababancola Concessions, including Mukondo.
These assets were officially transferred to Bredenkamp's Tremalt, which
established a new joint venture, Kababancola Mining Company (KMC). Kabila
was assassinated in January 2001, and replaced by his son
Joseph.
A year later, Rautenbach's name cropped up again, as one of
the biggest
exporters of heterogenite (cobalt ore) from the DRC, via Congo
Cobalt
Company, known as CoCoCo. But then Rautenbach's name was also linked
to
another DRC entity, Boss Mining which, it was said, had acquired two
lucrative mining concessions, C19 and C21, as well as 50% of Mukondo. These
were, of course, part of the same portfolio of assets once stripped from
Rautenbach and dealt to Bredenkamp. So-called "rights" to the assets can be
traced back to the DRC's 1997-2003 war, under the Zimbabwe military's
Operation Sovereign Legitimacy (Osleg), a period which saw more than 3m
Congolese die from unnatural causes. Camec, which professes a deep belief in
logistics in Africa, also owns Wheels of Africa/SABOT, which Camec aims to
build into a fleet of 500 trucks/vehicles. Wheels of Africa had long been
associated with the Rautenbach family, which for years used the fleet to
ship copper and cobalt concentrate from Katanga Province to ports on the
east coast of Africa.
In March this year, Katanga Province
governor Moise Katumbi started to crack
down on exports of the raw material,
a practice said to cost the DRC
hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
London-based Camec executives
Phillipe Edmonds and Andrew Groves (who, like
Rautenbach, hails from Harare)
are not people who return calls. It would be
fascinating to hear their take
on how and why Kinshasa-based lawyer Roger
Masamba transferred his 2% stake
in Camec Congo SPRL to Katanga Investments
Limited, an entity incorporated
in the British Virgin Islands, and
controlled by Camec. Then there is
Lubumbashi-based lawyer Herve Ngoy
Kalumba, who acts for Camec Congo SPRL,
and has acted for CoCoCo and BOSS
Mining. Then there was Casmin SPRL, and,
between and betwixt, there is John
Swanepoel. These are smaller names, all
right, but may prove invaluable in
unraveling the complex chess game now
overwhelming the southern parts of
Katanga Province.
MONEYWEB: We had a really good discussion on CNBC Power Lunch today with Neal Froneman, chief executive of Uranium One. So I asked Neal just to come into the studio - maybe to take it a little bit further, Neal. Today you gave some announcements and updates on Sens about Uranium One, and it's incredible story, as we were talking about on television today - from a bankrupt company four years ago, from sitting in that chair in the studio, getting pummelled by not only me; I think, David, you also threw a couple of punches at Neal that night, huh?
DAVID SHAPIRO: Afrikander Lease? Ja.
MONEYWEB: "How can you do this to shareholders?" And today, Neal?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Well, it's four years later. We put our heads down, noses to the grindstone, and we've built, I think, a really solid company.
MONEYWEB: Dave, it's worth more than Bidvest.
DAVID SHAPIRO: That's incredible!
MONEYWEB: How's that, hey? Worth a lot more than Harmony Gold.
DAVID SHAPIRO: But credit to Neal - I mean, he saw the gap, he saw the energy crisis developing, knew he had uranium, studied the market and developed it and got in.
MONEYWEB: But what's next? Neal, you've done the acquisition. So you started off doing the acquisition of a Canadian company, you got the Toronto listing. Then you did an acquisition of three Kazakhstani mines, producing plenty of uranium. Now you are in the process of doing an acquisition of the biggest producer in the United States. But once you've done that, what happens next? Vertical integration?
NEAL FRONEMAN: That is certainly on the cards. But I think if we can just divide the answer into the short term, and in the short term we've still got a lot of delivery to make. We've got three projects that come on stream within nine months - now that's a serious challenge from a mining point of view. So we will be very operationally focused.
MONEYWEB: Have you got the guys on the ground who can do it?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Oh, for sure. We've got some of the best, certainly ISR experts in the world.
MONEYWEB: What's ISR?
NEAL FRONEMAN: ISR is "in situ recovery mining", and three of those projects - actually there is four - there are three projects that are ISR, and we've got another conventional project we are bringing on into production, which is Dominion, which is well advanced, as you saw today. We delivered our first ADU. So we do have the ...
MONEYWEB: You love these abbreviations, hey?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Sorry!
MONEYWEB: Just to go back, Dominion is a mine like we can all understand. You send down your trackless mining, you pull out the rock, bring it to the surface, crush it, and out comes the uranium cake - is that what you call it?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Yes. It goes through a plant, you leach out the uranium, you precipitate it, and you produce a product called ADU, which is ammonium diuranate, which then gets calcined and you produce a yellow cake, which is uranium oxide.
MONEYWEB: And that goes to Nufcor?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Well, Nufcor does the calcining, the uranium oxide goes off to the converters for conversion and then finally enrichment fuel fabrication. And then it goes into a reactor.
MONEYWEB: So take the product that came out today - the cake, the yellow cake. Who is that being sold to?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Well, that eventually gets sold to a utility, but for now it goes to Nufcor for calcining. They have a centralised plant that was put in the seventies for the uranium industry in South Africa, and a calcining process is very simple - it's basically heating the ADU or this yellow cake slurry, driving off the liquids, oxidising the uranium which creates the yellow cake, which then gets packaged and shipped off to the end user.
MONEYWEB: Can't you do that yourself?
NEAL FRONEMAN: We can. It was really a decision about additional capital. I would think that in the longer run, as we grow, it will probably make financial sense to build our own calcining plant. It's not a complicated plant - there are many calcining plants in South Africa that calcine all sorts of different products.
MONEYWEB: And if it was built in the 1970s, presumably it's not exactly new technology?
NEAL FRONEMAN: No. It's not, it's really just a drum that has a heat source. We have paid to have one of the streams at Nufcor refurbished and, of course, we have a contractual obligation with Nufcor to treat our uranium.
MONEYWEB: So where does it go from there? Have you got a buyer at the other end of the line?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Yes, certainly. We enter into sales contracts with end users, who would then tell us where to have it delivered. So from Nufcor it gets packaged into 45 gallon steel drums, it gets shipped on a special ship to a converter, where it gets converted into a uranium hexafluoride gas, and then it goes through enrichments. There's a number of enrichers in the world; they have slightly different technologies and you produce an enriched uranium pellet.
MONEYWEB: But what you are selling, you are getting $135 a pound for?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Correct.
MONEYWEB: But you're getting that price, not a lower price than that?
NEAL FRONEMAN: We sell uranium oxide, so that's the product after it's been calcined.
MONEYWEB: And there's plenty of demand.
NEAL FRONEMAN: There is a lot of demand; in fact there is more demand than supply at the moment.
MONEYWEB: What about enriching the uranium itself - going the next logical step?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Well, that was the second answer to your original question. In the longer term, I do believe there's a lot of business sense regarding becoming involved in the downstream processing of uranium. It gives you more control over your product; there are definitely business advantages from a profit point of view. I think if you are in the industry for the longer term, we all expect uranium prices to come off. It's about identifying the next constraint in the system. We believe that's enrichment and certainly, as we've grown, we will start bumping our head on anti-trust issues with further horizontal growth, and of course we are not going to sit on our hands and therefore we would want to grow vertically.
MONEYWEB: And Aflease Gold, where it all started? Are you going to get rid of it now?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Well, you know, Aflease Gold has become less than 3% of our market cap, and therefore, it just makes no business sense to continue to manage both companies. As you know, I am the CEO of both. I've always said it's not sustainable and I've always said that towards the end of this year that position needs to be resolved.
MONEYWEB: But Uranium One is still the major shareholder in Aflease Gold. Would you sell that stake?
NEAL FRONEMAN: We would probably not want to sell it outright. I think that we would look to diluting our stake through merger and acquisition type activity in Aflease Gold. Aflease Gold has got some really nice assets, and it needs to move on with its own strategy, business plans and new management team.
MONEYWEB: So what do shareholders of Aflease Gold have to look forward to?
NEAL FRONEMAN: Well, I think they can really look forward to some dynamic movements in the next six months.
MONEYWEB: Neal Froneman, chief executive of Uranium One.
And that's been the Moneyweb Power Hour for this evening, an hour of considerable power, I am sure you will agree - and appropriate that we close off on a higher note, a uranium note, rather than the real sad story about Zimbabwe. But Dave, there's not too many commentators around who can give you a better insight than Trevor Ncube, and he's really gone through the mill from the troubles in his homeland. Let's hope that he's right, that things are finally coming to a head.
DAVID SHAPIRO: Look, the assets are there, Alec, from agriculture to mining to tourism. So everything - the base is there to build a great nation. It was there. But it can be revived, I don't think it's an end game.
MONEYWEB: If there was one book that I could force Robert Mugabe to read, and his cohorts from JOC, it would be Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, because what he has done there is exactly what the jokers in Atlas Shrugged did - destroyed an economy by short-sightedness and really pillaging and looting. And it appears as though that's exactly what's going on right now. But there is always hope, there is a God in heaven, and he's looking down here. Maybe, who knows, maybe Zimbabwe will return one day to be the jewel of Africa, as it once was.
Eastern Province Herald
PORT ELIZABETH Wednesday July 11,
2007
By Tabelo
Timse
ZIMBABWEANS living in Port Elizabeth say the only solution to
Zimbabwe's
problems is to bring constitutional change and remove President
Robert
Mugabe.
Ringrose Moyake, a customs and transport service
controller at VWSA, said he
had been in South Africa since 1993. His
emigration was not politically
motivated.
He said he still had family
in Highfield township, Harare, and kept in
contact with them by
phone.
"My family says the situation is very tough . . . if they didn't
receive
money from me they wouldn't survive. This is how other families are
surviving as well. The situation is very frustrating," he
said.
Moyake said Zimbabweans living in South Africa had to do something
to raise
awareness about the crisis.
The first step had been
mobilising Zimbabwean nationals and establishing a
local branch of the
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The party last week held a protest
march at City Hall and handed a petition
to ANC chief whip Mike Nzotoyi,
bringing the desperate plight of Zimbabwean
exiles to his
attention.
"The Zimbabwe I know was free of crime. People had a choice
and our
education was among the best in the continent. Now we have lost
confidence
and pride in being called Zimbabweans."
Regarding possible
plans to help Zimbabwe, Moyake said: "We appreciate the
rescue plans, but
not at the moment. We need political reforms first," he
said.
Prince
Matavire, an area sales manager at NSB Brewing, said he had been
living in
SA for 10 years. He left when Zimbabwe's economy was starting to
go
bad.
"When I go back home, I go with a bakkie full of food. At this stage
my
family hasn't faced political harassment. Their struggle has to do with
the
economic crisis.
"Two weeks ago prices were going up every day,"
Matavire said.
He thought the rescue plan was a short-term solution,
because in the end of
the day the economy would nonetheless
collapse.
"It is time people put their foot down and said enough is
enough, because
this is affecting everyone.
"The only solution is to
get Mugabe out of the way," he said.
A qualified male nurse, who did not
want to be named for reasons of safety,
said he was forced by circumstances
to leave Zimbabwe. He arrived in Port
Elizabeth in April after being
arrested and assaulted by law and order
officers.
He said he was
arrested at Harare Central Hospital, where he worked with
three other male
nurses.
"All the nurses had a meeting discussing the deteriorating
conditions of
service at the hospital and the best way to approach the
government. The
next thing I know, I am arrested by police who said that we
wanted to
strike," he said.
The four male nurses were assaulted for
four days before being released.
"They (police) beat us with anything they
could lay their hands on - it was
so brutal. We were only released when our
colleagues managed to collect some
money and hired a lawyer who demanded
that we be released."
After his release he returned home, but he said he
was constantly followed
and decided to come to South Africa.
"I
arrived here and stayed with my colleague from Zimbabwe who helped me
with
food. Now I need to work to survive, but unfortunately I cannot get
work
here because I need to apply first to the health department and to the
Zimbabwean Consulate. That takes a long time. At this stage I am doing piece
jobs in construction," he said.
He had to leave his wife, whom he
married last December, and his mother in
the rural town of
Rusape.
Obedient Tshabalala, a second-year computer science and physics
student at
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, said he came from
Bulawayo. He has
not been home for almost two years because of the political
and economic
situation in his country.
However, despite the crisis,
he said, he hoped to return to his home country
once he graduated, provided
the situation had improved by then.
A lawyer working for Investec in Port
Elizabeth said he spoke to his family
regularly. Things were so bad that the
people no longer cared who came to
power, as long as that person improved
the situation.
Making the rand legal tender in Zimbabwe would not help,
he said, as the
black market already used rand currency.
timset@johncom.co.za
Moneyweb
Black and white, we lack common
compassion
David Carte
11 July 2007
On holiday I have been
reading The State of Africa, a sorry but accurate
700-page history of 50
years of independence by Martin Meredith (Free
Press).
The quality
most lacking in the many villains of the piece was ordinary
compassion.
It was by no means only the natives of Africa that
practiced genocide, rape
and corruption. People of European extraction in
Algeria, the Belgian Congo,
Angola, Mozambique, the Federation of Rhodesia
and Nyasaland and, as we all
know, South Africa, did unconscionable things
in the name of Christianity
and civilisation.
They came to Africa,
first to benefit their home countries and second to
carve out a privileged
and luxurious lifestyle for themselves. Today's
borders of African countries
were settled between the European powers in the
19th century. Never mind the
natives.
In some African countries, there were undoubted benefits of
colonisation -
some law and order some of the time, some modernisation in
the form of
economies based on money and the division of labour, roads,
railways and
hospitals. There were also a couple of schools.
With
that went a lot of rank exploitation of the native populations and some
violence to preserve the status quo.
A minority of the colonists,
mainly missionaries, were genuine do-gooders
and made an effort to educate
and uplift the natives.
But, as proof of white neglect, at the time the
independence bandwagon
started rolling in the 1950s, according to Meredith:
"Most African societies
were predominantly illiterate and innumerate. Only
16% of the adult
population was literate. In black Africa in the late
1950s...the entire
region containing a population of 200m, produced only 8
000 secondary school
graduates..."
That was after some of these
countries had hosted white societies for 300
years. After independence, the
colonial powers abandoned Africa to its fate.
The Portuguese in Angola and
Mozambique, the French in Algeria and the
Belgians in the Congo destroyed
most of what they had built before
withdrawing in haste.
What
Africans did subsequently to other Africans in virtually every state
from
north to south and east to west - with rare exceptions, such as
Botswana -
hardly bears reading about.
Where was ordinary human compassion in the
killing fields of Algeria, Egypt,
Zanzibar, Sudan, Nigeria, Liberia, Uganda,
the Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe and
South Africa?
You could say that the
West has lately had some compassion. Since
independence more than $500bn in
aid has been thrown at Africa, much of
which ended up in the Swiss bank
accounts of Africa's Big Men.
Aid fatigue has set in. I have written most
of this in the Netherlands and
Portugal. You won't find much compassion for
Africa in Europe these days.
Having deserted Africa, modern Europeans have
advanced defence forces, tight
border controls and a Schengen visa to
preserve and protect their
prosperity. They subsidise their farmers, partly
at the cost of Africa, to
the tune of $370bn a year.
Over the years
they have allowed entrance to a trickle of people from the
colonies to do
the menial jobs. Suddenly the resulting populations - up to
10% of the
European total - are a cause for concern because many are not
assimilating
and some, also lacking compassion, leave bombs around from time
to
time.
Meredith records that it was Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia and Samora
Machel of
Mozambique who prevailed on Robert Mugabe to enter multilateral
negotiations
with the outgoing Smith government. Machel stressed that Mugabe
should do
all he could to retain Zimbabwe's white
population.
Mugabe's words of conciliation as he assumed power in April
1980 are
breathtaking today:
"The wrongs of the past must now stand
forgiven and forgotten...oppression
and racism are inequalities that must
never find scope in our political and
social system. It could never
be...correct ...that because the whites
oppressed us yesterday when they had
power, the blacks must oppress them
today because they have
power."
This preceded a brief honeymoon during which Zimbabwe's prospects
seemed
bright.
Barely six months later Mugabe signed an agreement
with North Korea to train
a new army brigade, 5 Brigade, to commit
large-scale slaughter among the
Matabele.
What are the obvious
lessons of this sorry history?
Big Men and ruling elites are the curse of
Africa. We need more Mandelas but
where do we find them? Every penny of
State money should be vigilantly
audited. Corruption must be rooted out.
Politicians and trade unionists
committing or even uttering threats of
violence should be instantly removed
from office.
Education needs to
be moral as well as scientific and technical. "Do as you
would be done by"
must somehow be inculcated.
Wealth itself has a civilising effect. You
will respect law and order when
the law is protecting you and your goods
from the predations of your
neighbour. Fast economic growth will bring down
unemployment, crime and
disaffection.
Historians, of course,
chronicle only disaster. This book deals with 50
countries over 50 years. A
number of African countries enjoyed peace for
much of the time and did
function. Billions of good deeds were done but they
were not grist for the
historian's mill.
In SA, for instance, acts of goodwill occur across the
colour line all the
time. Corporate social investment runs to many billions.
Employment equity
has amounted to another multi-billion rand giveaway.
Thousands have stepped
in to help or even adopt AIDS orphans. We all know
people who have sent the
sons and daughters of their domestics to decent
schools. Doctors and nurses
work selflessly in under-resourced hospitals in
remote outposts. Teachers
strive on to enlighten their charges. They are the
unseen, unsung heroes of
Africa.
Today, the only active war in Africa
is that in Sudan. Others are dormant
and subject to revive, such as in the
DRC. But there is reason to hope. The
worst reaction to a book like this is
to emigrate. Nothing is more certain
to resume the decline than
that.
This history raises the question: what are whites that Africans
should be
mindful of them? Why bother with BEE and AA? We are 9% of the
population of
SA and 1% of the population of Africa. If you took all our
goods and
chattels and distributed them among Africans, as has happened in
certain
countries, it would do little for the common weal.
A million
whites have already emigrated. They represent people with skills
they could
have shared, people who could have earned for the country, paid
taxes, hired
others and advance the general weal. While we just let them
emigrate,
Australia, the UK, the US and other countries welcome our educated
émigrés
with open arms. They know the value of talent.
When will we ever learn?
New York Sun
By James Kirchick
July 11,
2007
President Carter's most recent moralizing on American foreign policy
in the
Middle East is exasperating particularly in light of President
Mugabe's
misruleofZimbabwe, whereMr. Carter's role in bringing the dictator
to power
has been mostly forgotten.
Mr. Mugabe is one of the nastiest
dictators in Africa - he has inflicted a
"silent genocide" by starving his
own people. The effects of his
authoritarian rule have been made all the
worse by his staying power. In
more than 27 years as head of state, Mr.
Mugabe has turned one of Africa's
most productive economies into a shambles.
A country whose currency once
beat the British pound now boasts an inflation
rate nearing 10,000% per
annum and a land that once exported beef and grain
now has a population
desperately in need of food and humanitarian
aid.
Last month, Mr. Carter termed the American and Israeli government's
boycott
of the Hamas-led Palestinian government "criminal." It would be more
enlightening though to hear what he thinks of the terrible situation he
helped to create in Zimbabwe.
In 1978 Ian Smith, the prime minister
of white-ruled Rhodesia, now known as
Zimbabwe, who had just declared two
years earlier that majority rule would
not come for "1,000 years," reached
an agreement with black moderate leaders
for a transition government. Under
this plan, termed the "internal
settlement," whites, who represented about
4% of the population, would be
reserved 28 out of 100 parliamentary seats as
well as control over certain
government ministries - privileges that seem
ripe for condemnation today but
hardly unusual for an African country
emerging from nearly a century of
colonial rule.
The plan facilitated
by the American and British governments that Mr. Mugabe
would eventually
accept in 1980 put aside 20 out of 100 seats for whites -
eight less than
the arrangement stipulated by the internal settlement.
In April of 1979,
the first fully democratic election in Zimbabwe history's
occurred. Of the
eligible black voters, 64% participated, braving the threat
of
terroristattacksbyMr. Mugabe'sZimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic
Front party, which managed to kill 10 people. Prior to the election, Mr.
Mugabe had issued a death list with 50 individuals he named as "traitors,
fellow-travelers, and puppets of the Ian Smith regime, opportunistic
running-dogs and other capitalist vultures." Nevertheless, Bishop Abel
Muzorewa of the United Methodist Church emerged victorious and became prime
minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, as the new country was called.
Yet the
Carter administration, led by the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations,
Andrew Young, would have none of it. Mr. Young referred to Mr.
Muzorewa, one
of the very few democratically elected leaders on the African
continent, as
the head of a "neo-fascist" government. Mr. Carter refused to
meet Mr.
Muzorewawhenthenewlyelectedleader visited Washington to seek
support
from
our country, nor did he lift sanctions that America had placed on
Rhodesia
as punishment for the colony's unilateral declaration of
independence from
the British Empire in 1965.
Messrs. Carter and
Young would only countenance a settlement in which Mr.
Mugabe, a Marxist who
had repeatedly made clear his intention to turn
Zimbabwe into a one-party
state, played a leading role. Mr. Young,
displaying the willful naiveté that
came to characterize Mr. Carter's
mindset, told the London Times that Mr.
Mugabe was a "very gentle man" whom
he "can't imagine . ever pulling the
trigger on a gun to kill anyone."
Mr. Mugabealreadyhadpulledthetrigger on
many innocent people, though. And
not long after taking power in 1980, he
killed about 25,000 people belonging
to a minority tribe, the Ndebele. In
spite of this, in 1989, Mr. Carter
launched his "Project Africa" in
Zimbabwe, a program aimed at helping
African countries maintain food
sustainability.
Now, however, the Carter Center maintains no programs in
Zimbabwe. There is
probably more of a reason for this than simply due to Mr.
Mugabe's recent
ban on foreign aid groups.
Since Mr. Carter was
thrown out of office by the American people in 1980, he
has spent his
post-presidential years lecturing others on morality. The same
year Mr.
Carterlostademocraticelection, Mr. Mugabe ascended to power in a
violently
flawed one. Yet over the past 27 years Mr. Mugabe has escaped
being a target
of Mr. Carter's frequent hectoring.
Rather than criticizing the American
and Israeli governments for their
stance towards Hamas, perhaps Jimmy Carter
ought to focus his efforts on how
to rid the world of the murderous despot
in Zimbabwe whom he helped create.
Mr. Kirchick, the assistant to the
editor in chief of the New Republic,
reported from Zimbabwe last
year.
New Zimbabwe
By Lloyd
Msipa
Last updated: 07/11/2007 07:04:55
FOLLOWING what might seem to be a
failure by those seeking to form the next
government to maturely iron out
their differences, it seems Zimbabweans are
left with very little choice but
to seek a third way.
This third way must avoid the pitfalls of those that
made up the first and
second ways. To carry out the mission of the third
way, we need a third
force.
The force must be an amalgamation of new
political thinking composed of
progressive Zimbabweans in the Diaspora,
forward looking pressure groups,
civil society and reformed politicians from
across the political divide.
This third way must reject the
personalisation of political parties and must
demand that all politics be
premised on national interest, rather than the
politics of plunder and
domination. The third way must seek the
institutionalisation of political
parties in the true sense of the word.
This way, political parties may
compete on the political field, hence
allowing the party with the best
developmental policies to prevail. The
third way must stand for zero
tolerance on matters of corruption, no matter
who the perpetrator is. There
should be no sacred cows and all judicial
processes should be based on
justice, fairness and equity.
In the words of Mahatma Ghandi, "the roots
of violence and underdevelopment
are a result of wealth without work,
pleasure without conscience, knowledge
without character, commerce without
morality, science without humanity,
worship without sacrifice and politics
without principles"
For us to speak of a third way, there must have been
a first and second way.
In order to succeed in the third way, we must seek
to understand the
shortcomings of the first and second ways. In order to
understand these
shortcomings, we must look at them in the context of
Mahatma Ghandi's
principles.
The Vanguard parties represent the first
way in our history. The first way
elite is largely a product of the elite
colonial education. Education that
was largely designed to create servants
that would carry out the will of the
colonisers. Many believe in the
superiority of the colonisers and will
generally demonstrate a clear dislike
against even their best brains.
However this group is synonymous with their
love for anything European. Many
in this class are indeed white man in a
black man's skin.
For most of these first way politicians, politics is
about power and the
fact that they hold it. Power allows them to maintain an
intricate
client-patron system composed of similar interests across the
whole country.
They publicly declare their right to rule arbitrarily as a
god given right,
having brought independence to Zimbabwe. The public wealth
of the country
eventually ends up in private hands. The first way is an
incestuous class of
economic and political interests whose priority is their
well being and not
nation-building.
The first way in Zimbabwe does
things with impunity, it perpetuates
corruption and when others question
them, it circles to protect their own.
The first way is a selfish elite
whose intent is to stay in power for the
gains that power brings.
Aggrandizement, economic and political domination
of others seems to be the
norm.
The first way talk is of the glorious years of yester year, and how
things
would have been different if they had not made the sacrifices made.
Some
talk of their detention by the colonial regimes. We need to respect and
acknowledge their contributions, but not worship them.
The first way
elite cannot understand the agitation for change, many think
all is well as
long as they are in power. The first way resists change for
fear of loss of
power, hence the refusal of a new constitution and other
forms of
relief.
Those of the second way, the current opposition, are themselves
envious of
why they themselves are not in power. They fight for change. In
Shona they
sing "Chinja Maitiro, Maitiro Chinja!" In Ndebele, "Guqula
Izenzo, Izenzo
Guqula"
They believe they fight to bring fundamental
change, but all they want is a
different set of actors -- themselves. Simply
put, the second way elites are
opposed to those in power because they are
out of power. We have witnessed
this too often that second way elites
condemn corruption and aver to fight
to the death.
Their rhetoric
appeals to the people, as witnessed by the large numbers at
their rallies.
Once in power, second way elites always evolve into first way
elites. The
MMD next door in Zambia came to power by a landslide majority
following the
promises made by the Chiluba movement. Today Zambia is
prosecuting the same
leader for corruption.
The politics we play should address issues of
education, security, health,
prosperity, jobs, national well being etc. for
our people and must be based
on ideas for taking Zimbabwe
forward.
Politicians should be elected based on solutions they present to
deal with
issues that affect the people. Zimbabweans should reject
individuals bent on
acquiring power to serve their self-interest; such
individuals talk use
language like, "I personally appointed Makuvise and
that is final." This
should get our warning bells going, coming from a
presidential aspirant.
The third way must be based on reason and not
passion, a structured approach
to national challenges. Third way advocates
should reject power for power's
sake. Instead politicians and political
parties should be asked to
demonstrate what they will do once in
government.
The third way should ask politicians to back their promises
with evidence
that whatever they are proposing, they will deliver. Promises
that "we will
lead from the front" were broken. It does not take a rocket
scientist to
figure out what the trend will be, should the second way elite
make it to
government.
The third way celebrates diversity and rejects
tribalism, nepotism and
cronyism. It is based on exploiting the strength
that comes with the
diversity of our people and natural resources for the
benefit of all
Zimbabweans.
The task ahead is onerous but not
insurmountable, we can do it. It is
simple, we create a third force, guided
by a third way thinking and focused
on making Zimbabwe a strong country, a
key player on the international
stage, a country of justice over
passion.
Third way advocates are called upon to fan out in all
directions, register
for elections and participate in the political process
from grassroots to
national level. Our objective must be to elect as many
third way players as
possible, come March 2008.
Lloyd Msipa is a
lawyer resident in the United Kingdom and can be contacted
at lmsipalaw@virtalukandco.com
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sheets, pictures, etc.) and quote your subscription receipt
number or
membership number.
Notify the JAG Office when Advert is no
longer needed, either by phone or
email.
Adverts are published for 2 weeks
only, for a longer period please notify
the JAG office, by resending via
email the entire advert asking for the
advert to be
re-inserted.
Please send your adverts by Tuesdays 11.00am (Adverts will
not appear until
payment is received.). Cheques to be made out to
JAGMA.
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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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1.
OFFERED FOR
SALE
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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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1.2
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
Pet Food for Sale
Still supplying pets food which consists of 500g of
precooked pork offal and
veg costing $15000 and 250g of pigs liver $20000 or
heart costing $20000 for
250g.
Collection points:Benbar in Msasa
at 09.00
Jag offices in Philips Rd, Belgravia at 11.00
Peacehaven which is
75 Oxford St at 12.00
This is on Fridays only. Contact details: phone 011
221 088 or E mail at
claassen@zol.co.zw
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1.4
For Sale
Road motorcycle for sale. YAMAHA - Model YZF 600cc - Thundercat
- in
immaculate condition.
Highest cash offer secures. For further
details contact Dave on 011 600 770
or 091 22 55 653 or email dapayne@zol.co.zw
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1.5
For Sale (Ad inserted 26/06/07)
Toyota Landcruiser 100 series, Africa
specification GX turbo diesel.
Year 1st used 2005, 23000km, Ex Aid org
vehicle White. To view at Mike
Harris, or phone
0912-731147.
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1.6
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 26/06/07)
Coarse salt Z$ 97,500 per 50kg bag
delivered Harare.
Lady's buffalo hide slip-on slippers Z$
100,000.
Wheat Bran US$ 1 for 25 kg bag collected Ruwa [ currently Z$
14,000]
Apply mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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1.7
For Sale (Ad inserted 26/06/07)
Bass boat, wrangler x13, complete with as
new 60hp Yamaha, electric start,
trim and tilt, 29lbs thrust bass motor, live
well, boat cover, motor cover
price equivalent of USD 5500 phone
741913
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1.8
For Sale (Ad inserted 26/06/07)
Overlocker Empisal - Brand New
(Boxed)
Domestic
4 Thread
Differential Feed
1200 stitches per
minute
Trim trap for excess fabric
Colour coded threading
system
Includes DVD for Instructions
Hard copy manual
55 million
Negotiable
Phone 0912 425 468 (self) 0912 708 343 (sister), E-mail:
julietjokomo@yahoo.co.uk
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1.9
For Sale (Ad inserted 26/06/07)
Colour Printer - Brand New
(Boxed)
Lerxmark Z730
25 million Negotiable
Phone 0912 425 468 (self),
E-mail: julietjokomo@yahoo.co.uk
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1.10
For Sale (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Mobile Southern Cross irrigation pump
powered by 22kw electric motor. US
$3000.
If you are interested I will
take it to WrighRain for checking and testing
before purchase. Phone
04-701940 or 011-649
310
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1.11
For Sale (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
New Landcruiser gearbox for sale. 75
Series. For more details: Email -
edelafr@mweb.co.zw or tel: 091 223
6317
BMW Motorcycle for sale - R850R. For more details: Email -
edelafr@mweb.co.zw or tel: 091 223
6317
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1.12
For Sale (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Brand New Laptops, Latest new processor
not just Duo core but Duo Core 2
(newest processor in world,
64bit)
Brand new Big screen, Acer Aspire 9424WSMI Centrino Core2 Duo
T5600 @
1.83GHz / 17" Crystalbrite color TFT LCD / up to 256MB NVIDIA
graphics /
120GB hard drive / DVD Super Multi Drive (Dual Layer) / Bluetooth
/ Wireless
Lan / 1.3mp Web Cam / Video out / Windows XP Media Center Edition
/ includes
laptop bag. (Has side number pad)
Price cash $280 000 000
RTGS $480 000 000
Brand New, Toshiba Core2 Duo T5600 @ 1.83GHz / 1GB DDR2
RAM / 80GB HDD
/15.4" Truebrite Wide View TFT Color Display/Bluetooth / DVD
Super Multi
Drive (Dual Layer)/ Intel 945GM Express Chipset 128MB RAM / 5-1
Card Reader
/ SRS TruSurround System/MS Office OneNote/Win XP Home and
Express upgrade
to Vista / 2.71 Kg. Includes Laptop Bag, plus wireless HD
mouse
Price $238 000 000 RTGS $408 000 000
Contact Zane on
0912301396 or email me @ zane@yoafrica.com I can send
you
pics.
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1.13
For Sale (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Motorbike: Suzuki TF 125 --- excellent
condition: Price US$1500
equivalent.
For further details and viewing,
contact: zanadu@zim.co.zw
Engine
parts: Hino FF 177, including Injector pump and Cylinder head
---
Offers.
For further details and viewing, contact: zanadu@zim.co.zw
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1.14
THE WEAVERY (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
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
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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1.15
For Sale (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Boat
Cougar 16' Hull on trailer with
Mercury redline 125 motor, electric start,
ride glide steering system, two
built in fuel tanks, one carry tank.
Various '94 Peugeot 405 body
parts
Windscreen - cracked
Rear window (with heater
lines)
Bonnet
Boot
4 Doors (one bit of a dent)
3 glasses for the
doors
Door panels
Headlights
Grill
Rear tail lights
Back
seats
Rims x3
Front & rear suspension
Boat motors:
Mercury
Blue line 40hp motor, running but needs minor attn, complete with
controls,
plus many spares
Contact: Sandy on 661220 or 091 2908262 for further
details.
Car for Sale
Datsun 180U 1800 Automatic in good running
condition
Contact Tyron on 091 2 317961 or 772156 for further
information
Motorbike for Sale
Suzuki Bandit 400
Contact Tyron on
091 2 317 961 or 772156 for further
information
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1.16
For Sale (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Armoured Cable: 102m of new 4 core 16mm
armoured cable
Contact B Carter: 701 940, 011-649
310
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1.7
For Sale (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
FREE TV! Buy a Wiztech 222 Super
Satellite Receiver and receive satellite TV
FREE! This is a one-of payment -
NO subs to pay. No hidden costs. SABC 1,2,
3, Botswana, e-TV, SA News
International, CNBC, Trade and Travel, several
religious channels, Radio
stations like RSG, Radio Pretoria, SAFM, 5 FM,
2000 Fm etc. Contact Joe
Esterhuizen on Harare 339378 or 0912 338414 or
e-mail countryjukebox@hotmail.com
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1.18
For Sale (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
1 X Electric Tobacco Baling Press and Box
: $ US 2000 equivalent
1 X Shaker / Grader -- Suitable Tobacco Scrap and
variety of other products
; $US 750 equivalent
2 X Comet B.P 60/20
Diaphragm pumps --- fully functional : $US 1000
equivalent each.
Contact:
zanadu@zim.co.zw
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1.19
For Sale (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
ZNSPCA IS SELLING GOODS DONATED FOR
RESALE TO HELP WITH OUR WORK.
ZNSPCA HQ 156 Enterprise RD. Tel: 497574/
497885
OLD/ NEW BOOKS SALE 14JULY 10 - 12PM
RECORDS-MAGAZINES JIGSAW
PUZZLES, TOYS, VIDEO'S
PRINTERS TRAY - $ 500 000
PINE COFFEE
TABLE GLASS TOP 2mtr X 1mtr - $3. MIL
Steel framed lazyman door with
locking mech. - $2 500 000
2 second hand steel doors with
frames
Pedestrian gate
Fencing poles
STEEL FRAMED GARAGE/GATE
DOUBLE DOORS 3 METRES HIGH WITH IRON CLADING - 8
MILL
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
FIRE WOOD - $150 000 PER
BAG
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1.20
For Sale (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
Carpet for Sale - Imported Sage green
carpets with underfelt 12 x12 - $4 000
000
Fax phone; Panasonic KX F
50: Telephone answering System with facsimile $8
000 000
Tea Trolley
-Oak - $3 000 000
Swimming/Irrigation pump and fish pond pump (needs
recoiling) offers
Please tel: 882566 or 0912 400
759
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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 26/06/07)
Looking for Langford Beehives complete with
supers. Phone Hannes on 490847
or
0912243018
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 26/06/07)
Wanted Britidh motorcycle spares B.S.A.,
Matchless, A.J.S. or bits and
pieces.
Phone Harare
747953
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2.6
Wanted Maid/Baby Sitter/Cook (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Looking for an honest
reliable maid/baby sitter/cook with a traceable
references. I have two kids
and expecting a third so would like someone
with hands on
experience.
Contact: 04-480079, 011-231914 or Email: devon@mweb.co.zw
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2.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Urgently is a working / Non-working Colour
TV, VCR, Hifi, Satellite Dish &
Decoder. Cash paid on spot & can make
collection arrangements.
Please contact Joel on 011 569 194 OR Email: joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com
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2.8
Wanted (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
I am desperate for a water pump for my
Sunny which I am told is an HB 11. I
have been given a water pump but it is
an HB 12 and consequently does not
fit my car which is now off the road and
stuck at work. I am over sixty and
self supporting and so would be grateful
if anyone has a water pump HB 11 to
swop if necessary with adjustments. I
may be contacted on phone 498951
during office hours or at home on 572136. I
simply cannot afford the over
two million to buy one from the spares shops.
Please
help.
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2.9
Wanted (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
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
dog kennels
and
blankets.
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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 on Chere
011631546.
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3.2
Shareholder Wanted (Ad inserted 26/06/07)
Be a shareholder in a beautiful
Ranch Style Home over looking Knysna heads.
Fully furnished with all mod cons
-7 weeks per year.
Contact shell@it.bw -
view
web:wwweastwestford.com
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3.3
EXECUTIVE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (26/96/07)
HOUSES FOR RENT
MT
PLEASANT - Executive Home, or upmarket offices, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms,
2
lounges, newly fitted modern kitchen, borehole, very secure - available
1st
August.
HIGHLANDS - 6 Bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, ideal for offices (10
offices) or large
home, borehole - available immediate.
EMERALD HILL
- House with Cottage available 1st September
BORROWDALE BROOKE - Newly
built, stunning home - available 1st August
EASTLEA - 6 Offices ,
double storey, neat and secure, close to old
Parklane Hotel - available
immediately.
MAZVIKADEI - Lovely waterfront home on a hill with a view,
fully furnished,
pool, can sleep 18.
HIGHLANDS: On Enterprise road, 1
office with store room and kitchen,
sharing property with other companies. No
phone line in this office.
Available immediately.
MAZOE SPRINGS - 2
Townhouses under construction will be available 1st
August. AVONDALE WEST -
Garden flat, 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms - available
mid July
Finding the
right premises or home for you.
Contact : Junelee Ziegler 091 2 248 468,
or Nola Dollar 091 2 401 134,
Email : ziegler@zol.co.zw
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3.4
Accommodation For Sale (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
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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3.5
Holiday Accommodation (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
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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3.6
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
To Rent - Bromley - 50 kms
Harare
Attractive thatched 2 bedroom cottage. Nice garden, plenty of
space and
good security.
$4000,000 (four million) per month. Contact
073 3399 or 011
423614
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3.7
Wanted House-Sitter (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
Accommodation offered to
mature single person or couple to house sit a
Borrowdale garden flat for
September and October.
Please phone Wightman 04-883172 or email: johnw@zol.co.zw
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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
GACHE GACHE LODGE (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
KARIBA. CONTACT Andrea or Fatima
for info on the JULY SPECIAL OFFER or to
book for the 4 day LONG WEEKEND in
August (11-14).
Tour Leaders Harare Office: 301889 or 0912 208 836,
Email:
tourleaders@zol.co.zw
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4.3
Savuli Safari (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
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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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 26/06/07)
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 or Joobie62@yahoo.co.uk
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5.5
Dichwe Implements (Pvt) Ltd (26/06/07)
No1 Charles Prince, Airport Rd,
Mt. Hampden, Harare
General Engineering Specialists in grain handling
including:
Grain cleaners, Seed maize graders and seed treater's
Conveyor
belts, augers, bucket elevators, cob sorters, bins and hoppers.
All made to
clients exact specifications
We also do 150 Litre Sunshine solar water
heaters and water tank stands up
to 10.000 Litre's
Contact: John or
Philip Brown - Tel/fax: +263 4 334865 - PB Cell: +263 912
235579 - Office
Cell: + 263 912 757479 - Email: Dichwe@mweb.co.zw
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5.6
Extra Lessons (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Extra lessons / homework tuition for
the following primary school subjects:
- English
-
Mathematics
- French
Please contact Tarryn - 091 2 413 323
(cell), 04 851 873
(home)
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5.7
INVESTMENT (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
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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5.8
Creative Minds (Ad inserted 10/07/07)
Advertising and concepts -
Copywriting and editing - Print media (including
annual reports and
magazines, brochures, stationery, posters, logos) -
Illustration, artist
impressions, portraits - Fine art commissions.
We handle a project from
concept through design and production of the
finished article, supported by
many years of industry experience and using
only quality
suppliers.
Tel: 091 2 400 759 - Email: creative.minds07@yahoo.co.uk
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5.9
Christian Counselling Centre
8 Coltman Road, P O Box MP 1129, Mount Pleasant,
Harare
Tel: 744212 / 744580. Email: hccc@mweb.co.zw
Dear Friends
The
Scriptures tell us to "Carry each other's burdens and in this way you
will
fulfill the law of Christ". (Gal 6:2).
We especially need to do this for
each other as we go through this hard time
in Zimbabwe.
But, how can
we do this effectively?
The Basic Counselling Course is a short course
that will equip you to be a
valuable support to those around you. It is
useful to anyone interested in
people even if you do not go on to train as a
counsellor. Our next course
starts on 14 July.
The cost is the
equivalent of 50 US dollars at the rate on the day of
payment (this includes
meals, manual and a book.)
We ask for full payment on registration. We
do have some places available
so please register soon to avoid
disappointment.
The details for the course are below.
Yours in
Him,
Ian & Adie Wilsher
The BASIC COUNSELLING COURSE will be
lead by the CCC Team.
The Course, spread over three Saturdays, will teach
you basic skills to help
friends or family members who have
problems.
Topics include: * What makes a good counsellor, *Active
Listening, * Why
people have problems, * Crisis Counselling, * A practical
model for
counselling, * Bereavement.
Date: Saturdays, 14, 21 &
28 July
Time: 9.00 am - 4.30 pm
Cost: Equivalent of US$50 (includes
lunches, manual, book & teas).
The Basic Course is a requirement for
those wishing to train to Intermediate
or Advanced
levels.
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6.
PETS
CORNER
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6.1
Wanted (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
ANY FEMALE TERRIER (about 2yrs old) to keep
our Jack Russel male company.
Good home.
Contact: 860477 or townsend@zol.co.zw
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6.2
Pet looking for a home (Ad inserted 3/07/07)
Lovely cat -bout three years
old, fat and fluffy, looking for a home. She
is very loving, but doesn't
like big dogs. Or lets say she isn't used to
them. Her name is Ginger.
Please urgently looking for a home for her!!!
Contact Sandy on 091 2 908262
for further
information.
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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 26/06/07)
Come and dance 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. Contact Joe on 339378 or 0912
338414 for
details.
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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
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with subject
"Classifieds".