Zim Online
Sat 8 July
2006
HARARE - Police have cancelled a rally scheduled to be
addressed by
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Kwekwe on Sunday on the
grounds that
his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party was inciting
supporters to
violently overthrow President Robert Mugabe's
government.
Tsvangirai was scheduled to address a rally in the
Midlands town of
Kwekwe, some 200 kilometres south of Harare. But the police
in the town
turned down the application for permission to hold the rally
while other
rallies by Tsvangirai's party were cancelled by police in the
cities of
Chinhoyi, Chitungwiza and Rusape.
"The application
for your rally has been turned down because at a
similar rally at Mulamulela
business centre in Zhombe on 2 July 2006,
political utterances inciting
people to engage in violent demonstrations
were uttered. We are still
monitoring the situation," the police wrote in a
letter signed by one
Superintendent Chagonda.
This week's
cancellations come as police stepped up the clampdown on
MDC officials. Last
Wednesday, the police arrested the opposition party's
legislator for
Kambuzuma constituency in Harare, Willas Madzimure, accusing
him of inciting
Zimbabweans to revolt against the government. Madzimure was
however later
released without charge.
Tsvangirai, whose MDC party split into two
last year, has threatened
to instigate a Ukraine-style Orange revolution in
Zimbabwe to force
President Robert Mugabe to give up power to a transitional
government to be
tasked to lead the writing of a new constitution and to
organise fresh
elections under international supervision.
The
government has vowed to crush the planned protests, with the
police
prohibiting virtually all gatherings and protests, especially by the
opposition and civic society groups fearing the MDC might take advantage of
such occasions to turn them into anti-Mugabe protests.
MDC
spokesman Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the party would not be
deterred by
the cancellations of its rallies from pursuing its mass
mobilisation
programme.
"They are scared by our nationwide rallies. They cannot
scare away an
idea whose time has come. These are terror tactics to thwart
the people's
wishes but the people will eventually express themselves," he
said. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Sat 8 July 2006
HARARE - Zimbabwean human rights and
pro-democracy civic groups on
Friday said they would boycott a United
Nations-backed conference scheduled
for later this month to discuss plans by
the government to set up a human
rights commission in the
country.
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights executive director
Arnold Tsunga
told ZimOnline that the groups resolved at a meeting in
Harare that they
would not attend the Victoria Falls meeting because they
did not want to be
seen as supporting the state's proposed human rights
commission
The non-governmental organisations feel a human rights
commission
should only be a product of a holistic constitutional reform
process aimed
at entrenching democracy, human rights and the rule of law in
the country,
according to Tsunga.
He said: "Civic groups are of
the opinion that an exploration of the
context in which the commission is
going to function should be the main
focus before even delving into the
merits and demerits of establishing a
commission.
"We feel that
the Zimbabwe government wants us to simply rubber-stamp
the setting up of
the commission and legitimise its creation."
The conference,
organised in consultation with the United Nations
Development Programme
(UNDP), was initially scheduled for this weekend but
had to be postponed to
the 14th or the 21st of this month after civic
groups indicated they needed
more time to study the proposals.
However, the groups appeared to
harden their position yesterday,
insisting they would not take part in the
conference or setting up of the
human rights commission unless the
government agreed to sweeping
constitutional and democratic
reforms.
"What we want in Zimbabwe is a review of democratic space
through a
new constitution," said Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe executive
director
Jacob Mafume.
The spokesman of the National
Association of NGOs, Farai Ngirande,
said civic groups want the government
to draft a new constitution before
setting up the human rights
commission.
"We want a wholesale constitutional reform. You can't
talk of a human
rights commission without addressing issues pertaining to
freedom of
expression and association."
The main opposition
Movement for Democratic Change party, Western
governments, local and
international human rights groups accuse President
Robert Mugabe's
government of repression against opponents and gross human
rights abuses,
charges Harare denies. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Sat 8 July
2006
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe's top diplomat in Pretoria Simon
Khaya-Moyo
has criticised South African media for what he said were false
allegations
that former Zimbabwean army soldiers were behind an upsurge in
violent crime
in the country.
One of South Africa's biggest
newspapers, the Sunday Times, claimed in
its edition last week that
deserters from Zimbabwe's army were behind a
bloody shoot-out between
criminals and the police in Jeppestown,
Johannesburg two weeks
ago.
The paper also claimed that Harare police failed to assist a
South
African Police Services (SAPS) team that visited the Zimbabwean
capital as
part of investigations into the shoot out and other crimes
allegedly
committed by Zimbabweans.
Moyo told the Press on
Friday: "In an attempt to seek clarification on
the reliability of these
claims (that Zimbabweans were behind crime in South
Africa), the relevant
authorities responsible for police in the province
(Gauteng) have expressed
shock as well at these allegations which have no
basis in fact.
"The authorities confirm that South African Police Services (SAPS)
enjoy
excellent working relations with Interpol in Harare, contrary to
claims that
a SAPS team recently visited Zimbabwe and received no assistance
from their
counterparts.
"To the contrary, no SAPS delegation ever visited
Zimbabwe in
connection with the Jeppestown incident."
Four SAPS
policemen and at least eight suspected gangsters said to be
linked to a
group of alleged supermarket robbers were shot dead in the
Jeppestown
shoot-out. Among the gangsters were South African citizens and
exiles from
Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Moyo said the claims by South African
papers that Zimbabweans were
behind crime would fuel xenophobia by the local
community against immigrants
from Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile,
Zimbabwe's ambassador in Gaorone, Thomas Mandigora on
Thursday attacked
Botswana civic groups for allegedly demonising Mugabe's
government.
The ambassador, apparently miffed at the
increasingly vociferous
condemnation of Harare's controversial policies by
the Botswana Civil
Society Coalition (BOCISCOZ) civic society accused the
coalition of teaming
up with Mugabe's Western opponents to push for regime
change in Harare.
"BOCISCOZ is interfering in the internal affairs
of Zimbabwe," he
said.
But BOCISCOZ representatives yesterday
dismissed Mandigora's charges
of interference saying it was their right to
speak out over human rights
abuses anywhere in the world, Zimbabwe
included.
Civic groups in Botswana have over the past few months
spoken out
against Mugabe's government which they accuse of serious human
rights
violations and economic mismanagement. - ZimOnline
b
From PBS Frontline/World (US), 27 June
How would you characterize
the current legislature in Zimbabwe?
Since independence in 1980, we
have seen 17 amendments to the Zimbabwean
constitution. The 17 amendments
that we've seen have been directed at
increasing the power of the president,
increasing the power of the state. So
the state, the government, the
president have been expropriating those
rights and people's liberties. It
rather concludes that he can only extend
his political tenure by limiting
people's liberties. The legislature
itself - parliament - is full of people
who cannot see themselves surviving
without Robert Mugabe, people of
questionable character, who see politics
and the ruling party as a way
toward self-enrichment. It's in their
interests to make sure Robert Mugabe
rules for as long as possible. Linked
to that is the fact that Robert Mugabe
saw the judiciary as an impediment to
his grand design of dislocating the
whole country. He has been known to get
rid of judges who were
independent-minded and replacing them with judges
that are "yes" men, judges
that will rubber-stamp everything that he says.
So there is no guarantee
that you'll go to a court and that that court is
going to look at your case
and look at it fairly. There's no rule of law to
talk about, just a
selective application of the rule of law. It depends on
who you are. Are you
a friend or an enemy? Are you a member of the ruling
party or are you not?
Are you a member of the elite or are you not?
I've heard people say
things like, "Under Smith the laws were bad, but under
Mugabe they're
worse."
You understand why a lot of people feel Zimbabwe was better
under Ian Smith
than it is at the present moment. I think in all honesty,
the situation in
Zimbabwe has degenerated to the extent that comparison
between Ian Smith and
Robert Mugabe becomes fair game. I'm embarrassed to
actually admit that. But
what's the difference between Ian Smith and Robert
Mugabe? I'm saying now
that because there are 4 million Zimbabweans who are
in exile. There are in
excess of 2.5 million Zimbabweans who are in South
Africa. Were there that
many Zimbabweans during the liberation of Zimbabwe
who are outside Zimbabwe
during Ian Smith's regime? The extent of poverty
that you experience at the
present moment - can it not be compared to the
extent of social destitution
that there was during the Ian Smith regime?
Sentiment aside, let's look at
what Ian Smith did and let's look at what
Robert Mugabe has done. What makes
this whole thing criminal is that this is
another black man doing this on
his own black people. To me, that just
worsens the crime. But I could
understand Ian Smith as a white man behaving
the way he did toward black
people. So I think, yeah, to answer your
question, the comparison is a
legitimate one. In any case, Robert Mugabe has
become worse than Ian Smith.
How has the Zanu PF way of doing
business affected the Movement for
Democratic Change, the MDC [Movement for
Democratic Change]?
The Zanu PF way of doing things, the Robert
Mugabe way of doing things,
unfortunately, has permeated the whole society.
For me, that's the most
frightening thing - the way the Zanu PF thinking has
poisoned national
thinking. The only way we have known to resolve our
differences is through
killing, through threats, through intimidation.
That's how Zanu PF has
operated from day one, 1980. The MDC is a victim of
that political culture
inasmuch as MDC has been fighting to get rid of Zanu
PF. And the interesting
thing about the problems that MDC is experiencing
now is that they are
actually the creation of Zanu PF. Witness the kind of
exchanges that have
been taking place between the two factions. Its
pettiness of insults; its
threats, its violence. The whole thing is
degenerating into chaos that is
endangering lives. Can the MDC get out of
this thing? I doubt it. Some of us
have always said that the people who were
in charge of the MDC were not the
people who could be expected to get this
nation out of the challenges that
it experiences. And indeed, some of us, I
in particular, have voiced a
series of reservations about Morgan Tsvangirai
having what it takes to be
the next leader of this country. We can't take
away the fact that he's been
a brave man who has stood up to Robert Mugabe
to challenge him. But beyond
that, what does MDC have to offer? What are
their policy options?
The whole focus has been getting rid of Mugabe.
But get rid of Mugabe and
then what?
Take for instance on land
[redistribution]. What is MDC offering? What is
different? Nothing. This
illustrates the MDC's tactics and its political
naíveté. That's why Mugabe
has outfoxed them again and again and destroyed
them. That doesn't take away
from the fact that they operate in a very
difficult environment, with real
repression, but they went into this needing
to be much
smarter.
Would you say that Mugabe is as much a brilliant strategist
as he is a
political thug?
Robert Mugabe is a very bright man,
very streetwise. He has outmaneuvered
the Brits, the Americans and the South
Africans again and again. They don't
know what to do with him. The man
understands politics, knows how to
manipulate African leaders, render South
Africa totally ineffective. They
can't give a commitment to the civilized
world that they'll stop this chaos
in Zimbabwe. At the end of the day, when
we study this man and how his mind
works, we'll be amazed at how very
intelligent this man is, but intelligent
in the wrong way, oppressing his
own people, killing them, just so Mugabe
can survive to another
day.
Why don't South Africans do something?
The South
Africans haven't done anything because they understand how he
works, and
they know that if they order him, he'll react, and [President]
Mbeki
realizes that to be effective, he must engage with this man,
understand
where he comes from, because in that way he can influence him,
lean on him
by understanding his system better. But one would hope you'd
realize there
is a point where quiet diplomacy is no longer productive. And
that's where I
depart from the South African position. Why have they behaved
in that
manner? One is the race issue. Mugabe claims he's solving the race
issue.
The fact that 70 percent of the land is owned by 1 percent of the
population. How can Mbeki stand up to that idea when he faces a similar
situation in South Africa? How do you deal with hero worship, a fallen hero
like Mugabe, a man the whole continent looked up to, who assisted the South
African resistance? How do you tell your father to sit down and shut up?
Nobody has been able to do this. In terms of authority, Mugabe would say,
"Mbeki, I dealt with your father," with Mandela, "How can you tell me what
to do?" That may seem like a small thing, but in African politics it looms
large. So these are things that together explain the current
paralysis.
Mugabe repeatedly says he is not breaking the laws of his
country.
They show real sophistication in using the law to restrict
people. But as
Martin Luther King said, there are good and bad laws, and
citizens have the
right to break bad laws. Fortunately, we live in a world
that is civilized.
We have a UN bill of rights and an African bill of
rights, and I think the
time has come to say the way Zimbabwe behaves is
outside the bounds of what
is acceptable.
Is Zimbabwe a
cautionary tale for the continent?
What future do we have as a
continent if our leaders behave as Mugabe? What
future do we have as a
people and generation if we allow dictators like
Mugabe to live within our
midst? It's a huge indictment of the continent
that up to now very few
African leaders have stood up and said, "He doesn't
represent us." I think
Robert Mugabe's behavior is an indictment of African
people and of black
people everywhere. He is a huge embarrassment for us.
But if you look at the
first 10 years of Mugabe showing us what he could do,
you can't deny that he
invested in his people. In terms of education and
health system, there's no
comparison. Now what he's doing is trashing that
system. We in South Africa
need to stand up and say we stand for something,
we stand for human rights,
dignity, civilization, and say it's not right to
kill people, to shed blood
to make a point. So what is happening in Zimbabwe
is a lesson for the
continent. The lesson is that it's important to be a
principled people. As
Africans, when we see a wrong, we must stand up and
say, "That's not right."
Unfortunately, we haven't done that with Zimbabwe.
Africa must create a
democratic space where ideas compete and the best idea
wins the
day.
This interview between Alexis Bloom and Trevor Ncube took place
in February
2006 in Johannesburg
Mail and Guardian
Jean-Jacques
Cornish and Godwin Gandu
07 July 2006
06:00
Going into the African Union summit in Banjul, The
Gambia,
Zimbabwe's beleaguered President Robert Mugabe already knew that he
would
once again escape censure by the African Commission on Human and
Peoples
Rights (ACHPR) for his controversial slum clearance plan that
displaced more
than 700 000 people.
But this doesn't
explain why he was walking around like the cat
that had got the cream, and
why he was confident enough to doze lazily
throughout the human-rights
debate on the opening day of the gathering.
The ACHPR's
damning report on Operation Murambatsvina was yet
again held back by the
AU's executive council of foreign ministers. It felt
Mugabe needed more time
to comment, even though the same report was tabled
at the AU summit in
Khartoum in January.
It was not until the closing hours of
the summit that the source
of his delight became clear, after out-going
United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan announced that his long-planned
visit to Zimbabwe was off
and that former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa
had been appointed to
mediate between Mugabe and Western
countries.
"There is room for only one mediator in this
matter and I will
give time and space to former president Mkapa to do his
job," said Annan.
Whether Annan ever really intended to make
that visit before
leaving office at the end of this year is arguable,
particularly after
Mugabe had indicated his invitation had gone cold. It is
also by no means
certain that Annan would have gone armed with an exit
strategy for Mugabe,
as was widely reported.
Annan's
withdrawal certainly surprised the United Kingdom's
Africa Minister Lord
David Triesman: "If Annan feels he can't take things
any further, I think
that is very sad," he commented.
"If Mkapa wants to convey
anything to us he will be very welcome
in the UK. He is widely admired for
the job he did as president although he
has said things in Mugabe's defence.
Nevertheless, we'll listen to anything
Mkapa has to say."
Sources privy to the details of a hurried meeting between Mugabe
and Annan
say the Zimbabwean president ran the show.
In attendance,
Annan, Mugabe, UN Under Secretary Ibrahim
Gambari, Zimbabwe Foreign Affairs
Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Central
Intelligence Organisation Director
General Happyton Bonyongwe and Justice
Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Out of
sight, President Thabo Mbeki.
Mugabe apparently quizzed Annan
on why he was allowing himself
to be used by the West to put "Zimbabwe in
the dock" and helping its critics
"to have a tiny innocent Southern African
country made an issue on the
Security Council". Mugabe told Annan there were
more pressing issues to deal
with on the continent, such as the crisis in
Darfur.
"Mugabe will always have his way -- it's a strategy
he plotted
even before he left, that he would advise Annan that any attempt
to mediate
will amount to political interference," a source privy to the
discussion
told the Mail & Guardian.
"The more
protracted the crisis becomes, the more difficult it
will be for measures to
restore the crisis," says Dr Reginald Matshava-Hove,
a Zimbabwean human
rights activist.
Political analysts say Mugabe seems to be an
expert on the
political diplomatic chessboard, fooling all the people all
the time and
getting away with it.
"Whoever is going to
be a mediator in this diplomatic impasse
should have undoubted credibility,"
says Simon Badza, lecturer in
international relations at the University of
Zimbabwe. "In the recent past
we have seen Mkapa more on the side of the
president [Mugabe] and his
impartiality is likely to be doubted by the
Western world," he said.
Cashing up
When
African leaders departed from Banjul, they left behind
three stretch
Hummers, a fleet of Korean 4x4s and 200 Taiwanese motorcycles.
Then there
were the 53 luxury beachside villas, used only once.
Apart
from the real estate, which was being offered for sale, it
isn't certain
what will remain in the friendly hands of the hosts.
As the
Gambians ponder the harsh realities of their future, the
African Union
itself has to consider its own cash-strapped existence.
For
all the euphoria expressed by United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan
and African Union chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare, there's
no escaping the
fact that the continental body is going broke.
Members are
being asked to meet a budget of $129,6-milion over
the next year. This
consists of $69,4-million from assessed payments -- that
reflected the
ability to pay in accordance with members' gross national
product -- and
$60,2-million from voluntary payments.
South Africa is
pushing to have these two items joined into a
single assessed payment, but
did not achieve this in Banjul.
Five countries -- Algeria,
Egypt, Libya, Nigeria and South
Africa -- pay 75% of the assessed
payments.
By the commission's own admission, the assessed
payments don't
cover its expenses and this hinders its ability to do its
work.
This leaves AU organs, such the Pan African Parliament,
based in
Midrand, totally hamstrung.
Unable to maintain
its running expenses, the AU cannot embark on
developmental programmes so
eagerly suggested by members.
The reality is that no fewer
than 11 AU countries are under
sanction for being more than two years in
arrears.
Thus the leaders of these bad payers -- Cape Verde,
the Central
African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea,
Guinea, Guinea
Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, the
Seychelles and
Somalia -- are permitted to attend summit meetings but are
not allowed to
speak. Hardly an auspicious debut for Liberia's Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf,
Africa's first elected woman president.
Going into the summit nine countries were in arrears on this
year's budget.
A total of $39-million has been paid, leaving a shortfall of
$93,8-million.
-- Jean-Jacques Cornish
VOA
By Blessing
Zulu
Washington
07 July 2006
United Nations
Secretary General Kofi Annan has come under pressure to
reconsider his
recent decision to step aside as a possible broker for a
solution to the
Zimbabwe crisis to leave a clear field to Tanzanian
ex-president Benjamin
Mkapa.
Though Annan has said he wants to give Mkapa a chance to mediate
at the
request of President Robert Mugabe, diplomatic sources say U.N. Under
Secretary for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari could be called on to help
advance the mediation process.
Gambari, the U.N.'s top political
officer, received the backing of the
United States, Britain, Denmark and
Japan last year when they recommended he
visit Harare to address Zimbabwean
government resistance to U.N.
humanitarian relief efforts following the 2005
slum-clearance drive known as
Operation Murambatsvina.
UN spokeswoman
Marie Okabe told journalists in New York Tuesday that she was
positive the
U.N. would have contact with Mkapa, but she stressed that he is
not a U.N.
mediator. Prospects for mediation by Mkapa between Harare and
London have
dimmed, as they already differ on the agenda for such talks.
President
Mugabe has framed the issue as unfinished post-colonial business
with
Britain, saying the crisis stems from U.K. sanctions imposed in
response to
Zimbabwean land reform. But Britain has already responded that
Harare's
problems are of its own making.
First Secretary for Political and Public
Diplomacy Gillian Dare of the
British embassy in Harare said that Zimbabwe's
crisis was mounting not
because of a bilateral dispute, but because of "bad
policy". Harare insists
that Great Britain imposed sanctions as a response
to Harare's seizure of
land from white farmers of British origin.
For
perspective on how the U.N. might re-engage Harare, reporter Blessing
Zulu
of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe turned to with Brian Kagoro, a
Zimbabwean
political analyst and human rights lawyer who is based in
Nairobi,
Kenya.
nasdaq
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP)--The U.K.'s embassy Friday said
it regretted U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's withdrawal from attempts to
mediate a
solution to Zimbabwe's political and economic
impasse.
President Robert Mugabe recently rescinded an invitation to
Annan to visit
Zimbabwe following reports Annan might press him to step down
after more
than two decades in power in exchange for an aid package. Annan
told
reporters that Tanzanian President Ben Mkapa would broker any further
talks
on Zimbabwe after meeting with Mugabe on the sidelines of an African
Union
summit last weekend.
"We regret that Kofi Annan's visit will
not now go ahead," the British High
Commission in Harare said in a statement
Friday, adding that the trip could
have highlighted international concern
about the plight of ordinary
Zimbabweans and the need for tangible
reforms.
The statement disputed the government's portrayal of Mkapa's
mission as an
attempt to mediate between Britain and Zimbabwe, saying the
country's
problems were of its own making.
"Zimbabwe's problems are
mounting. They stem from bad policy .... But we
will work with anyone who
seeks to address these," the statement said.
Mugabe has repeatedly blamed
sanctions imposed by the U.K., Zimbabwe's
former colonial ruler, and other
Western nations for his country's economic
woes.
Government critics
counter that the seizure of thousands of white-owned
commercial farms for
redistribution to black Zimbabweans since 2000 has
destroyed the key
agriculture sector and plunged the country into political
turmoil.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
07-07-061158ET
Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones
& Company, Inc.
[ This report does
not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
HARARE, 7
Jul 2006 (IRIN) - Yet another mediation effort has been launched
to solve
the political and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe but analysts and
politicians told IRIN there was little hope of success.
Benjamin
Mkapa, a former Tanzanian head of state, has been asked by regional
leaders
to help find a solution to the divide between Zimbabwean President
Robert
Mugabe and an opposition that rejects the legitimacy of his
government.
Without a settlement, Zimbabwe's pariah status in western
capitals is likely
to continue, and financial aid will remain frozen.
Zimbabwe's southern
African neighbours fear the accelerating meltdown on
their doorstep. "We
remain concerned not only about the effects on the
people of Zimbabwe, but
the effect on the region as a whole," South Africa's
deputy minister of
foreign affairs, Aziz Pahad, said earlier this year.
There was much media
speculation ahead of last week's African Union summit
in Banjul, Gambia,
that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and South African
President Thabo Mbeki
would meet Mugabe to explore prospects for a
negotiated
settlement.
After 40 minutes of talks, the UN chief announced he was
throwing his weight
behind Mkapa. "There is nothing more the
Secretary-General would want to see
than to bring an end to the humanitarian
suffering of the people on the
ground," said Annan's spokesman, Marie Okabe.
"Since there is a mediator
named ... he would like to back that
process."
Mkapa takes over from former Mozambican president Joaquim
Chissano, and
Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo, among others, who have all
failed to make
headway in promoting dialogue in Zimbabwe over the past five
years.
Mugabe has repeatedly accused the opposition of being "[British
Prime
Minister Tony] Blair's puppets" and said in Banjul that he would
prefer to
negotiate directly with Britain rather than talking to Zimbabwe's
divided
opposition. The main faction of the Movement for Democratic Change
(MDC),
the country's largest opposition party, rejected the
idea.
"The crisis in Zimbabwe has to be correctly identified and then
remedied. It
is the crisis of a weak and usurped constitution, a crisis of a
privatised
and militarised state that has failed. The mediation that is
required is
between the government and the brutalised people of Zimbabwe,"
MDC secretary
for international relations, Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, told
IRIN.
"To us there can be no solution to the Zimbabwean crisis unless
Zimbabweans
are allowed the opportunity of writing a new democratic
constitution for
themselves. After that, free and fair elections can be held
under
international supervision," he added.
The MDC, a broad-based
labour-led movement, is the most serious political
challenge the ruling
party has faced since winning power in 1980. However,
the MDC has repeatedly
failed at the ballot box, blaming the government for
rigging and
intimidating voters - a charge largely accepted by the
international
community.
Mkapa has tried to assure the government of his
even-handedness. "They
[other countries] will, however, be upset by the fact
that, unlike many
people, I will not censure the Zimbabwean government over
alleged human
rights and a diminishing democratic space," he wrote in the
official Sunday
Mail just before the Banjul summit.
Welshman Ncube,
secretary-general of a rival MDC faction, commented, "Mkapa
should be very
clear that the crisis in Zimbabwe is because the government
is at war with
its people, which has resulted in misgovernance, electoral
disputes and
repressive laws."
He pointed out that "it is not a question of how many
carrots the government
should be given, but how many sticks - the issue of
international aid does
not arise, because aid will definitely start flowing
into Zimbabwe as soon
as order returns".
Zimbabwe's security and
lands minister, Didymus Mutasa, has dismissed the
notion of talks with any
faction of the MDC, saying, "Where in this world
has a government negotiated
with the opposition so that the opposition can
take over power?"
The
MDC split last year when its president, Morgan Tsvangirai, rejected a
narrow
vote by the party's leadership to participate in elections for a new
senate.
The pro-senate faction accused him of being anti-democratic, while
Tsvangirai's supporters said his critics were opportunists. The party has
been unable to heal the breach.
Gabriel Chaibva, a former MDC
legislator, suggested that only a conference
of all stakeholders, including
political parties, churches and civil society
organisations, to decide on
constitutional issues, elections and
recommendations on the future role of
Mugabe, would be able to find a
solution to the country's
problems.
Pro-democracy activist Lovemore Madhuku said no political deal
- including
promises of non-persecution for alleged human rights abuses -
were likely to
appeal to Mugabe. "There has been talk that there could be an
arrangement to
give Mugabe a soft landing, but that is unlikely ... Mugabe
is in total
control and the succession debate is taboo in [ruling party]
ZANU-PF."
President Mugabe's term expires in 2008, but with the
succession issue not
having been finalised, insiders speculated he might
consider using his
two-thirds majority to amend the constitution, allowing
him to appoint a
successor. That scenario would keep him at the helm until
parliamentary
elections in 2010.
A weak MDC and a ZANU-PF that
insists it has no need to negotiate with the
opposition leaves few openings
for a settlement in the country's
humanitarian crisis, which most analysts
predict can only worsen.
Mmegi, Botswana
TUDUETSO SETSIBA
Staff Writer
7/7/2006
4:56:25 PM (GMT +2)
Members of the Coalition for Crisis in Zimbabwe
have called on the
international community to intensify targeted sanctions
on Zimbabwean
leadership.
Speaking at a seminar hosted to
sensitise the public on the crisis of
Zimbabwe at Gaborone Sun yesterday, a
member of the coalition, Itai Zimunya
said sanctions should be intensified
to an extent that the children of
president Robert Mugabe and those of his
cronies can be brought back to
Zimbabwe to endure the hardships that other
Zimbabwean students go through.
"They should drink the same dirty water that
other students drink." Zimunya
who is not apologetic about his mission
remarked that he was among the
students who travelled to Europe in 2001 and
lobbied that sanctions be
imposed. He said that Zimbabwe would not be able
to resolve its crisis by
itself. He indicated that prior to the
independence, the Frontline States
assisted in the attainment of
independence. "It is unfortunate that 26 years
down the line, the government
has the audacity to distance itself from other
countries," he said. He
decried that Zimbabwean laws are currently crafted
to protect only the
ruling party despite the fact that laws should protect
all Zimbabweans. "The
same laws are used to suppress human rights," he said.
Zimunya pointed out
that the 17 constitutional amendments that were
instituted were done purely
to protect a certain fragment of the society.
"Operation Murambatsivra has
left the poor even poorer, travelling documents
of those who are deemed to
be enemies can be confiscated if the government
sees the need to do that and
police have the right to disperse people when
they suspect that it is a
political meeting," he said. The militarisation of
the state has also raised
concern among Zimbabweans. Zimunya said former
army generals head most
institutions, among these institutions are the
ministries of youth, energy
and the independent electoral commission. His
sentiments were reiterated by
a member of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, Jenni
Williams who said that for as
long as Mugabe impose sanctions on his own
people, the international
community should do likewise to him. She decried
that human rights were
being trampled upon. "We no longer have the freedom
to assemble; to express
ourselves under this regime," she said. Williams
indicated that operation
Murambatsvina has hit hard on women and children.
She decried the continuous
harassment of informal traders by police. "Women
try to make a living out of
the crop produce but police will impound them,"
she said. William who has
been arrested on several occasions with other
women vowed to continue with
the struggle. She said that on some instances,
women are denied trading
licences when they fail to produce the ZANU-PF
identity. As a result of
these hardships, Zimbabweans often resort to crime
and prostitution. On a
vitriolic statement this week, the Zimbabwean High
Commission in Gaborone
dismissed the coalition's call for sanctions which it
referred to as
"illegal (sanction) meant to destroy the economy and incite
public
discontent and protests leading to regime change in Zimbabwe."
VOA
By
Carole Gombakomba
Washington
07 July
2006
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches elected a new president
this week,
punctuating a running controversy over the council's involvement
in a
dialogue since May between some national religious leaders and
President
Robert Mugabe.
Incumbent President Bishop Peter Nemapare,
who sought re-election in the
ballot on Wednesday, has been succeeded by
Bishop Wilson Sitchebo, who heads
the Anglican Church in Bulawayo, where
sentiment against engaging Mugabe
runs high.
Dennis Mafinyane, still
the council's secretary general, said 22 of 24
council members cast votes.
Council members elect officers every two years,
he said.
Reporter
Carole Gombakomba pf VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe asked Sithchebo
for his
thoughts on assuming leadership as the organization grapples with
the role
of Zimbabwe's churches and clerics amid crisis and a looming
political
transition.
Namapare could not be reached by phone. Political commentator
Farai Maguu,
executive director of the Civil Alliance for Governance and
Democracy,
shared his thoughts on the leadership shuffle within the
ecumenical
organization.
Mail and Guardian
Harare, Zimbabwe
07 July 2006
02:34
Britain says the crisis in former colony Zimbabwe is a
result of
bad policy and not a bilateral dispute between the two nations as
President
Robert Mugabe claims, it was reported on
Friday.
British Embassy in Harare spokesperson Gillian Dare
told the
state-controlled Herald newspaper that there was no need for
mediation
between Zimbabwe and Britain because Zimbabwe suffers from a
purely internal
crisis.
Mugabe frequently claims that
Zimbabwe's crippling economic and
political crisis, which has left the
country reeling under persistent food
shortages and sky-high inflation, is
due to a quarrel with Britain over
controversial land
reforms.
Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa was
recently named
mediator between the two sides.
That
appointment was confirmed at a key African Union summit
last weekend, when
it was also announced that United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan would
not visit Zimbabwe, denting the hopes of the
opposition.
Responding to questions from the Herald, Dare said that what was
needed to
mend Zimbabwe's crisis was a change in policy from the Zimbabwean
authorities, not an international mediator.
"We have
always said we would be ready to respond positively to
real commitment to
sustainable reform in Zimbabwe. There is still much
progress needed in this
direction," she said.
"Zimbabwe's problems are mounting. They
stem from bad policy.
Unless policy evolves in different and sustainable
directions, no one will
be able to help," she was quoted as
saying.
The Herald 0- which usually closely reflects the
government
line -- said that Dare's comments showed that Britain had been
offended by
Annan's decision not to visit Zimbabwe, and said that other
groups,
including some church leaders had welcomed Mkapa's appointment. -
Sapa-DPA
New Zimbabwe
By Staff
Reporter
Last updated: 07/07/2006 11:30:32
ZIMBABWEAN police have arrested
three members of the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) accused
of Sunday's brutal attack on Harare North
legislator, Trudy Stevenson and
four other officials of the fractious party.
Police spokesperson Memory
Pamire confirmed the arrests, adding that police
investigations were
continuing into Sunday's attack which left Stevenson
with a machete wound at
the back of her head and a broken wrist and arm.
Pamire told New
Zimbabwe.com: "We have arrested four people in connection
with the incident
and they
are being detained at Harare Central Police Station."
She
identified the arrested men as Tonderai Ndira, Tererai Todini, Tendai
Chidziva and Enerst Zhangezha of
Mabvuku.
The arrests come a day
after Morgan Tsvangirai, the man whose supporters are
blamed for the attack,
left Harare for South Africa for undisclosed
meetings.
Tsvangirai was
accompanied by his secretary general Tendai Biti and
secretary for
information and publicity Nelson Chamisa, among other
officials.
Tsvangirai has established a commission of enquiry headed
by Harare lawyer
Advocate Happius Zhou into the attacks on Stevenson and
four other officials
aligned to a rival faction led by rocket scientist,
Arthur Mutambara.
Zhou on Wednesday refused to comment on his mandate
referring all questions
to Biti.
On Thursday, Gabriel Chaibva,
spokesman for Mutambara's faction, once again
rubbished the creation of the
commission.
He said: "The MDC 's view on the so-called commission of
inquiry into the
attack of our four party officials is that it is a mere
damage control
exercise meant to deceive the public. Tsvangirai's officials
namely Chamisa,
Biti, Gonese, Sekai Holland, Ian Makone, Roy Bennett, know
very well that
these youths are controlled, directed and sanctioned from the
highest office
of their group."
Canada became the first foreign
government to condemn the attack on
Stevenson.
American-born Trudy
Stevenson, 61, is Zimbabwe's only white female
legislator and a founder
member of the MDC which broke into two camps last
November following clashes
between senior leaders over participation in
elections for a newly-created
senate.
The unraveling of the MDC began in October last year when
Tsvangirai refused
to accept a national executive vote to participate in
elections for a new
senate.
He claimed to have won support to boycott
the election. Stevenson then
joined the breakaway faction opposed to
Tsvangirai.
The controversy brought to a head long-simmering divisions
within the party
over the former trade union chief's leadership
style.
Two years ago MDC youths tried to murder one of its security
chiefs, but
Tsvangirai failed to take action on that and a string of further
violent
incidents before and after the split. Critics also cited
increasingly
dictatorial tendencies.
Tsvangirai still attracts
widespread support, Zimbabweans apparently content
to look the other way
over his failings. The party was founded in September
1999 on the principles
of democracy and nonviolence and hope for an end to
Mugabe's
rule.
Now the MDC is becalmed. Party insiders say that its structures
have faded
away, dedicated activists have left the country in disillusion,
and its
source of funds has dried up.
In February Tsvangirai promised
"a bitter winter of protest" against the
Government and vowed that he was
prepared to die leading the marches.
Nothing happened.
New Zimbabwe
By Lebo
Nkatazo
Last updated: 07/07/2006 10:15:22
ZIMBABWE'S Deputy Information
Minister, Bright Matonga, has looted
irrigation equipment and forcibly
harvested oranges and beans from a
neighbouring farm owned by Thomas
Beattie, signed affidavits show.
The revelations were made in a letter
written to Didymus Mutasa, the
country's Minister of National Security,
Lands and Resettlement as well as
in affidavits filed before the Harare High
Court by Beattie -- one of
Zimbabwe's few remaining commercial white
farmers.
Beattie is a Zanu PF supporter whose farm was divided and
parceled out to
Matonga in 2004 sparking a land ownership
dispute.
Matonga joins a host of ministers accused of looting irrigation
equipment
from lucrative properties.
Mutasa, Transport Minister Chris
Mushohwe, Agriculture Minister Joseph
Made, Manicaland governor Tinaye
Chigudu and others have been accused of
looting from Kondozi estate, located
in Odzi, Manicaland Province.
Mushohwe has since returned his
loot.
The Attoney General recently wrote to Manicaland police to
investigate the
ministers for purposes of prosecution, giving a deadline of
June 19.
Sources said the head of police in Manicaland Ronald Muderedzwa
was awaiting
instructions from police commissioner Augustine
Chihuri.
Unsuccessful attempts were made to get comment from Matonga last
night.
zimbabwejournalists.com
By a
Correspondent
JOHANNESBURG - "AGAINST THE GRAIN", a book
written by Geoff Nyarota,
the founding Editor of the banned Daily News, has
hit the shops in South
Africa and is said to be selling well.
The much-awaited book is an engrossing first-hand account of life in
Zimbabwe and how those who oppose government policies and expose corruption
are treated by Robert Mugabe's autocratic government.
The book
sheds new light on conditions in the country, takes a close
look at the
harassment faced by journalists working for independent
newspapers and the
consequences for a society when freedom of speech is
suppressed.
Nyarota chronicles the decline of the country under
the Zanu PF
government.
Over the years, the award-winning
Nyarota was arrested on countless
occasions for his work at the independent
and popular Daily News that was
forced off the streets under the draconian
Access to Information and
Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA).
He, like many other independent media journalists, was subjected to
extreme
harassment by the state.
The book is topical and an absorbing read
in which Nyarota traces his
roots in Zimbabwean journalism, politics and
also talks about his life. As a
young man, Nyarota fervently believed that
his children would know the
freedom of democracy that he himself had been
denied under colonial rule.
But after the liberations struggle and
Mugabe's accession to power in
1980, Nyarota discovered that the returned
war heroes were more interested
in enriching themselves than in uplifting
the poverty-stricken millions, and
he unflinchingly began to expose the
wholesale corruption perpetrated by the
Mugabe government.
It
took several arrests, torture and intimidation, costly legal fees
and,
finally, a contract on Nyarota's life before he fled Zimbabwe at the
end of
2004 to go into permanent exile.
Leigh-Anne Havemann, the publicity
manager at New Holland Publishing,
which is based in South Africa, told
zimbabwejournalists.com the book hit
the shelves in Zimbabwe's southern
neighbour beginning of July. The book
will also be sold in international
bookshops around the world.
Gripping, insightful and current,
"Against the Grain" records how
President Mugabe came to see Nyarota as
Public Enemy No. 1 and caused him to
sacrifice everything he'd worked for -
but could destroy neither his pride
nor his principles, said
Havemann.
Nyarota was the founding editor of the Daily News. He was
recently a
Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Carr
Center for Human
Rights Policy, both at Harvard University, and is the
recipient of nine
international journalism awards.
These
include the Golden Pen of Freedom, presented by the World
Association of
Newspapers, and UNESCO's Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom
Award.
Nyarota is now at Bard University in the USA where he is
visiting
professor of political studies and human rights.
He
offers courses on the successes and failures of democracy and the
media in
sub-Saharan Africa not only to students on the main campus in
Annandale-on-Hudson, but also to inmates earning degrees through the Bard
Prison Initiative (BPI) programme in the Woodbourne and Eastern New York
Correctional Facilities.
Against the Grain
Geoff
Nyarota
Pub date: July 2006
ISBN:
1-77007-112-1
Barcode: 9 781770 071124
Price:
R179.95
Format: 230 x 150 mm
Extent: 432 pages (tbc)
Imprint: Zebra Press
Binding: Softcover
Classification:
Biography/Journalism/Politics
VOA
By Ndimyake Mwakalyelye
Washington
06 July
2006
It became a lot more expensive in the month from May to June
for an average
family of six in to survive, according to the latest survey
by the Consumer
Council of Zimbabwe.
The Council reported that the
cost of a basket of basic goods needed by
households rose 24% in one month
from Z$49 million to Z$61 million (US$490
to US$610)
Council Chairman
Phillip Bvumbe told reporter Ndimyake Mwakalyele of VOA's
Studio 7 for
Zimbabwe that even a minimal standard of living is out of reach
for
many.
For an explanation of why prices in Zimbabwe keep relentlessly
going up,
Mwakalye turned to economist and ZimConsult Director Daniel
Ndlela, who said
the price surge is a combination of inflation driven by a
parallel market in
goods and currencies.
zimbabwejournalists.com
By Nancy Lazarus
BIRMINGHAM - I TOOK
a friend to Gatwick International Airport to catch
a plane to Zimbabwe a
week ago. This journey was planned and booked for
with Air Zimbabwe months
ago and the ticket for the flight was bought from
Air Zimbabwe
then.
On the scheduled date of the journey the national airbus was
nowhere
to be found. Booked passengers were not notified of this
cancellation of the
flight.
There was no one available at
Gatwick to give an explanation of the
whereabouts of the plane. Passengers
booked on this flight had to wait for
two days to catch a flight to
Harare.
Air Zimbabwe could have issued a prior notice of the
cancellation of
the flight from its London office if the airline valued its
passengers.
Cancellation of a flight is just a telephone call away to
television or
radio stations.
Does the national airline
have a publicity and marketing department at
all? The inconveniences caused
to passengers could have been
avoided if this department
existed.
But then isn't it typical of the ZANU PF Zimbabwean
government and a
known fact that it does not care at all about the plight of
its own
nationals?
The Zimbabwean people are aware of the
man-made economic hard times
that have hit all sectors in Zimbabwe. People
are also aware of some of the
reasons for previous flight delays such as
strikes by engineers and pilots
due to poor pay, lack of aviation fuel,
shopping trips of VIP
shopperhollicks etc.
What was the reason
for the delay this time around?
If Air Zimbabwe is now being run
like a rural chicken bus company or
as emergency taxis that fit in impromptu
journeys in between scheduled trips
and have little concern for keeping time
schedules or customer satisfaction,
would any one be surprised if the
patronage of the airline declines as
travellers shop around and opt for
reliable airlines?
It is an open secret that the national airline,
like every industry
in Zimbabwe is struggling to keep afloat. Why can't
Air Zimbabwe make
a realistic assessment of its economic status and team up
with other viable
airlines until it is able to run its airline without
hiccups?
Sunday Times, SA
Friday
July 07, 2006 06:32 - (SA)
HARARE - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe
has for the first time appointed
a woman to head the southern African
nation's high court, state television
reported.
Justice Rita Makarau,
a former private lawyer and lecturer at the University
of Zimbabwe, was
sworn in by Mugabe at a ceremony held at state house as the
judge president
of the high court, the television report said.
A judge president is the
most senior position in the high court here.
Makarau replaces Paddington
Garwe, who has since been promoted judge in the
supreme
court.
Makarau is a founder member of an association of local women
lawyers and is
a member of the International Association of Women Judges as
well as a
member of the International Association of Women Lawyers, the
report added.
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was quoted by state
television as saying
Zimbabwe needed four more judges to ensure efficient
service delivery.
Zimbabwe presently has 29 justices.
He said the
country would continue to identify suitably qualified and
experienced
lawyers to serve on the high court.
Sapa-AFP
sportal.com.au
Sportal
One of the first actions to be taken by the incoming president of the
International Cricket Council, Percy Sonn from South Africa, is to be a trip
to Zimbabwe.
Sonn has taken over the presidency from Ehsan Mani
and told the ICC's
Business Forum at Lord's on Friday that he wants to see
the state of the
game for himself in the troubled country.
"What I want is some degree of understanding of the issues that
surround the
administration of cricket within Zimbabwe," CricInfo reported.
He
has been given an invitation from Zimbabwe Cricket to make the
visit.
"I will hear first hand of the
challenges that confront the sport
there, how these challenges will be dealt
with and, at the same time, we
will discuss how the ICC can assist the game
in Zimbabwe.
"Once I have done that I will then report back to the
ICC's executive
board so that we, as an organisation, are better informed
about what is
happening there."
Malcolm Speed, the ICC's chief
executive, will make the trip with him.
"Zimbabwe has seen many of
its leading players walk away from
representing the national side over the
past few years and that has led to
an inevitable weakening of cricket
there," Sonn said.
"We are not at a stage where Zimbabwe has
voluntarily stepped back
from its Test commitments and they will only return
to that arena when they
are ready to do so.
"By traveling
there, talking and listening, I believe we will be in a
better position to
support cricket in Zimbabwe at a time when such support
is clearly
needed."
By Violet
Gonda
7 July 2006
The Secretary General of the Tsvangirai
MDC, Tendai Biti, has
dismissed allegations that his party had smuggled out
of the country some of
the suspects in the Mabvuku violence incident. The
rift between the warring
MDC factions had deepened last Sunday when
officials from the Mutambara MDC
were attacked in Mabvuku by people they
claim belong to the other faction.
Then on Thursday Gabriel Chaibva
spokesperson of the Mutambara MDC
made more serious accusations saying that
some of the youths alleged to have
attacked Harare North MP Trudy Stevenson
and others had been smuggled out of
the country into South Africa by a top
official of the Tsvangirai group.
Chaibva claimed, "The opposition
faction was tipped off by members of
the public that a number of people were
housed at Eddie Cross' house in
Bulawayo over the night, en-route to a
foreign country."
Chaibva also said one of the vehicles that the youths
allegedly used
to get away in Mabvuku, was found in Bulawayo.
But the Tsvangirai MDC denies this.
Biti said the party will not
protect anyone who breaks the law and the
law must take its course on this
issue. Responding to the allegations of
smuggling people out of the country
he said this is an attempt to mislead
people and an attempt to score
political points. He defended Eddie Cross
vehemently saying, " I have known
Eddie Cross throughout my life and Eddie
Cross cannot hurt a fly."
The opposition official said the allegations won't fool the people of
Zimbabwe because what they want are solutions to address critical issues of
unemployment, housing and food.
Biti said his party condemned the
attack on Trudy Stevenson and the
others; "And I made it very clear that if
our commission of inquiry
establishes that any member or supporter was
indeed involved, due processes
will take place and we will expel
them."
Biti says he suspects the police and the notorious Central
Intelligence Organisation (CIO) may have played a role in the Mabvuku
incident and created the violence.
He said, "To me I have no
illusions about the system we are dealing
with. We are dealing with a ZANU
PF that was founded on violence, got to
power through violence, has
sustained itself through violence, will use
violence to destroy the
opposition and will use violence to destroy and put
wedges in the democratic
forces."
The Secretary General added, "In recent times there has been
no state
that has unleashed more moral, physical and intellectual violence
than the
Robert Mugabe regime and that is the violence we need to deal
with."
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe
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Competitive salary offered
to the right person.
Please apply to 609841@ecoweb.co.zw with CV and
references.
Phone no. (067) 28603/4 (067) 29299
011609841
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Ad
inserted 15 June 2006
OPERATIONS MAN / CONTROLER REQUIRED
1) Small
scale tobacco project in D.R.C.
2) Tough conditions (but safe!)
3) Project
in developing stages.
4) This post is for a "Jack of all trades" person with
sound knowledge of
tobacco and admin skills.
5) Applicants to reply to
advertiser, at Box 4601, Harare. Please advise
contact phone number.
6)
Salary to be
negotiated.
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Ad
inserted 22 June 2006
Wanted
SUPERVISOR- NORTHFIELD FLATS FITH ST
/JOSHIAH TONGARA
CONTACT HENK BOTHA
091-324-976
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Ad
inserted 22 June 2006
Manager Wanted
Position Offered: Manager
required to oversee factory in Harare and to
travel to Chalala, Kariba for
one week per month for stock takes etc. In
Harare the job will entail the
overseeing of factory, machinery and vehicles
maintenance and managing
labour, stocks and security. Position available
immediately. Interested
applicants please email headoffice@matmark.co.zw
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Ad
inserted 29 June 2006
VACANCY:
C.E.O required to Head the Kapenta
Industry in Kariba. Good package
depending on applicants qualifications. To
start, 1st August 2006. Applicant
required to be good & meticulous
administrator & very active (35 years &
above). Please apply to email
address: conquest@mweb.co.zw
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Ad
inserted 29 June 2006
SITUATION VACANT
BUSY ESTATE AGENT IN
AVONDALE NEEDS A GIRL FRIDAY/ADMINISTRATOR AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE - COMPUTER
SKILLS NOT NECESSARY. IDEAL FOR MATURE LADY WITH
ENTHUSIASM, INTELLIGENCE
AND A SENSE OF HUMOUR. PLEASANT WORKING
ENVIRONMENT
AND VARIED
DUTIES.
PLEASE TELEPHONE 091 305 313, OR EMAIL dundawidaho@mango.co.zw
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Ad
inserted 6 July 2006
Workshop Manager Required
Workshop located in
Ashbrittle
Work involves water supply systems
Applicant should be
approximately 60 to 68 years old, needing to supplement
his pension.
Knowledge of pumps and vehicle maintenance an advantage
Job covers stock
control and workshop activities as well as
telephone/reception
Salary
negotiable
Please telephone 091 212 163 for further discussion (evenings
882718)
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Ad
inserted 6 July 2006
VACANCIES
We are an Agricultural Commodity
Trading company, also involved in Contract
Farming.
We are looking
for a Farmer Liaison Officer/Broker/Agronomist
DUTIES are outlined below
but are not limited to: -
Data entry of contracts, deliveries and
communications (Computer skills
essential).
Liaison with Farmer's with
regard to delivery Procedures.
Handling of quality disputes and contracting
problems with both buyers and
sellers.
Managing any queries during
delivery of crop.
Weekly collection of documentation from various delivery
depots.
Liaison with the storage depots, transporters and other interested
parties.
Managing the supply of inputs to farmers during contract growing as
well as
monitoring the crop progress and any queries during delivery of crop
and
empty grain bags.
Crop progress reports and crop management.
Must
have a farming background.
Please apply to the General Manager,
04-307868/9
04-339575 or email sheyns@stayweltrading.co.zw
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Ad
inserted 6 July 2006
Operations Manager
"Operations Manager"
required for retail shops in Manicaland. Would suit ex
farmer and wife. Age
and experience not important. Email aylen@mweb.co.zw"
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Employment
Sought
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Ad
inserted 22 June 2006
Position Required in Safari/Outdoor
Organization;
Single male with previous experience in Zimbabwe and
Mozambique seeks
position. Has experience in camp management, catering,
lodge/camp
construction, and administration. Please contact Ned via Duncan on
011 405
387, 309971 (work hours) or email at ddollar@genham.co.zw
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Ad
inserted 22 June 2006
"HEAVY DUTY DRIVER
We are shortly leaving
Zimbabwe and wish to find employment for our driver
Munyaradzi Maliki. He is
a non-drinker, very reliable, hard working and
honest. Munyaradzi has driven
our T35 extensively on long distances over
extremely poor dirt roads to our
Kapenta Fishing Camp (Harare to Kariba -
via Gokwe). He is meticulous in
conducting regular full vehicle checks and
has proved to be a valued employee
and a good team player, who willingly
undertakes other duties if he is not
driving. His availability would be on
an immediate basis. Please contact
Shaw: 091 945686 or 091 270 245
(landline not
working)."
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Ad
inserted 22 June 2006
Farm Manager
Looking for a farm job as a
manager, Qualified at Blackfordby Agricultural,
Institute.
Three years
farming experience in tobacco, maize and wheat.
Please contact George Heyns
home: 064 8388
Cell:091272216
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Ad
inserted 22 June 2006
Ex Farmer
Ex Farmer/Consultant and
Agronomist for Alliance One Tobacco aged 50 years
living in Zimbabwe with 23
years experience in growing tobacco, maize, seed
maize, horticulture, beef
cattle, pigs, chickens. Excellent management,
administration and
communication skills, computer literate, full clean
drivers licence. Was
runner up'Tobacco Grower of the Year' in 1985. Spent
last 2 years consulting
for Imperial Tobacco Group in Madagascar on the
production of flue-cured
tobacco.
AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. CONTACT: 091 439 911/011 602 583 or
heather@karina.co.zw
Can send CV
if
necessary.
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Ad
inserted 6 July 2006
Girl Friday
Mature lady seeks position as a
Person Friday. Typing skills, Clerical
work, some computer experience i.e.
Email.
Reliable, Honest, Available immediately has own
transport.
Prefers not to have to deal with any figure work or
money.
Areas - Workington, Light Industrial Sites, Msasa, Newlands,
Southerton.
Contact Address: Phone Heather Don on 571737 or Email: digger@mango.zw
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For
the latest listings of accommodation available for farmers, contact
justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
(updated 6 July 2006)