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CAPE TOWN (AFP) - South Africa rejected calls Tuesday
for a more combative
approach in its efforts to mediate a resolution to
Zimbabwe's crisis,
warning that pushing the government into a corner would
only backfire.
Pretoria's policy of "quiet diplomacy" towards its
northern neighbour has
been widely criticised but Foreign Minister Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma told MPs
it did not want to push the protagonists to the
brink.
"Why do we want to be pushed to take a war approach?" she asked in a
debate
on her department's annual budget.
"We must not look at it
from the (perspective) of those who want to push
everybody to the
brink."
South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has long refused to
publicly
criticise his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe, has been
mandated by
leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to
mediate
between the government and opposition in the run-up to elections
planned for
next year.
Mugabe, 83, is widely blamed for Zimbabwe's
political and economic meltdown,
characterised by world record inflation, 80
percent joblessness and a recent
violent crackdown on opposition
activists.
Dlamini-Zuma sought to assure critical opposition MPs that the
South African
government was concerned about the situation across the
border.
"It is the very reason we have agreed that our president must
spend time,
resources and energy on Zimbabwe to bring it back from the brink
of
collapse, not push it to collapse."
Dialogue, not war, was the
answer, she said, and cited South African
liberation activists abandoning
the armed struggle and supporting the
lifting of sanctions once the
apartheid government committed itself to
talks.
She stressed that
success depended on the political will of the Zimbabwean
government and
opposition "to take Zimbabwe out of this crisis".
Senior members of South
Africa's ruling African National Congress party have
questioned the
effectiveness of Mbeki's approach with leadership hopeful
Tokyo Sexwale
recently claiming that Mugabe's regime was turning a blind
eye.
Mail and Guardian
Cape Town, South Africa
29 May 2007
01:53
President Thabo Mbeki's facilitation of political
dialogue in
Zimbabwe will succeed only if its people show they are serious
about finding
solutions to that country's crisis, Foreign Affairs Minister
Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma said on Tuesday.
"The success of
President Mbeki's facilitation largely depends
on the political will of the
Zimbabwean government and opposition political
parties to take Zimbabwe out
of this crisis," she said in her budget-vote
debate in the National
Assembly.
Mbeki has been mandated by the Southern African
Development
Community to facilitate dialogue between Zimbabwe's government
and
opposition.
However, the Inkatha Freedom Party's Ben
Skosana told MPs in the
House that Mbeki is doomed to fail as long as other
parties -- such as
ordinary Zimbabweans, churches and the country's business
community -- are
excluded.
Joe Seremane of the Democratic
Alliance said the South African
government's lack of condemnation of the
situation in Zimbabwe is
regrettable.
"Daily, thousands
of Zimbabweans illegally enter South Africa in
search of money and food to
keep their families alive. The Department of
Foreign Affairs should make it
clear that they would not support a
government that does this to its
citizens," he said.
Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder
said that last Friday
Zimbabwe had extended a ban on political protests in
Harare, and on Saturday
police raided the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change head office and
detained more than 200 people.
"Why? Is the country at war? No. A very simple reason. The
president of that
country feels threatened that he might lose his position
in the next
election.
"Because the minister [of foreign affairs] and the
department
have not yet reacted to the Zimbabwe ban and raid, must I
conclude that they
approve of it?" Mulder asked.
United
Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa urged the
government to be more
open about progress made in Zimbabwe.
"While we appreciate
that there is a reported blackout on the
media by all the players involved
in these negotiations, we nonetheless call
on the South African government
-- as leader of this process -- to release
periodic interim reports on the
progress of these talks.
"We need this so that such a report
can be matched with the
daily reported realities in that country. It would
avoid the possibility of
any of the players involved undermining the process
in their daily
activities and would assist South Africa in assessing its own
efforts in
leading this process," he said.
Mail and Guardian
Cape Town, South Africa
29 May 2007
01:53
Opposition parties on Tuesday castigated the government
for not
doing more to uphold human rights around the world, particularly in
Burma
(Myanmar) and Zimbabwe.
Speaking in the National
Assembly debate on the foreign affairs
budget vote, Freedom Front Plus
leader Pieter Mulder said South Africa has
lost its image as the champion of
human rights in the world.
Burma opposition leader Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi has been in
detention for more than 11 of the past 17 years, and
there is a worldwide
campaign against the military junta and its human
rights violations.
"[But] when, as part of this campaign, the
United Nations
Security Council was asked to condemn the human rights
violations in
Myanmar, including the detention of the opposition leader,
South Africa was
one of the few countries that voted against it. Speaker, it
was a big
mistake," he said.
Among the reasons given by
South Africa were that the detention
of an opposition leader was not a
threat to world peace and that Professor
Ibrahim Gambari, the special UN
envoy for Burma, reported progress in that
country.
"What
progress? Last week Myanmar's military junta extended the
house arrest of
the opposition leader for yet another year, ignoring
international pleas for
her release. The message they got from South
Africa's vote in the Security
Council is that the world is divided on this
issue and that they may
continue with their human rights violations.
"Because the
minister [of foreign affairs] and the department
have not yet reacted to
this new detention in Myanmar, must I conclude that
they approve of it?"
Mulder asked.
In the 1960s, very few people in the world knew
who Nelson
Mandela was. His detention was not a threat to world peace. Why,
then, did
the African National Congress (ANC) use every possible strategy,
including
the Security Council, to make the world aware of his
plight?
"When there is a similar campaign to do exactly the
same for
Aung San Suu Kyi, it is South Africa and the ANC that votes against
it."
Last Friday, Zimbabwe extended a ban on political
protests in
Harare and on Saturday police raided the Movement for Democratic
Change's
head office and detained more than 200 people.
"Why? Is the country at war? No. A very simple reason. The
president of that
country feels threatened that he might lose his position
in the next
election. Because the minister and the department have not yet
reacted to
the Zimbabwe ban and raid, must I conclude that they approve of
it?
"How sad that within 13 years South Africa has lost
its image as
the champion of human rights in the world," Mulder
said.
'Negative'
The Democratic Alliance's
Douglas Gibson said it is a great pity
South Africa's recent chairmanship of
the UN Security Council has turned
into "such a negative", damaging the
country's relations and reputation.
"I regret that the
attitude on Myanmar, or Burma, was so
dismally legalistic and bureaucratic.
It put us on the wrong side of
history.
"One can only
urge the government to take steps to put it right
by raising it in the Human
Rights Council and wherever else appropriate so
that South Africa is seen to
be doing the right thing in support of the
legitimate aspirations of
democrats in Burma and the release of Aung San Suu
Kyi," Gibson
said.
His colleague, Joe Seremane, said the lack of any
condemnation
of the situation in Zimbabwe is regretful. Daily, thousands of
Zimbabweans
illegally enter South Africa in search of food and money to keep
their
families alive.
The Department of Foreign Affairs
should make it clear it would
not support a government that did this to its
citizens, Seremane said.
United Democratic Movement leader
Bantu Holomisa said South
Africa's tenure as president of the Security
Council is characterised by a
lack of policy direction and
clarity.
"For instance, we were misconstrued in our
opposition to the
motion against Myanmar, and we received criticism even
back here in South
Africa," he said. -- Sapa
Reuters
Tue May 29, 2007 8:24 AM EDT
By Adrian Croft
LONDON (Reuters) - British
Prime Minister Tony Blair will discuss Sudan's
Darfur conflict with Libyan
officials and consult South African President
Thabo Mbeki about Zimbabwe
during a trip to Africa this week, an aide said
on Tuesday.
Blair
flies to Libya, Sierra Leone and South Africa on one of his last trips
abroad before stepping down on June 27 after a decade in power, handing over
to finance minister Gordon Brown.
Other aims of the tour are to
prepare for a summit of the Group of Eight
industrialized countries in
Germany next week, when Africa and climate
change will top the agenda, and
to push for a global free trade deal, aides
say.
"This trip is all
about showing you need to keep re-engaging with Africa,"
Blair's spokesman
said.
In a sign of growing economic ties between Britain and Libya,
British oil
giant will announce on Tuesday it is returning to Libya, the
spokesman said.
"We are now beginning to develop an economic relationship
with Libya which
is hugely important," the spokesman said. "That's why
companies such as BP
can begin to go back into the country
today."
Blair first visited Libya in 2004, sealing Tripoli's return to
the
international fold after it abandoned efforts to acquire banned weapons
and
agreed to pay damages for a 1988 airliner bombing over
Scotland.
His spokesman said during this trip, Blair would meet Libyan
leader Muammar
Gaddafi and discuss Darfur with Libyan
officials.
"Libya has played a useful role in the African Union and has
been playing a
useful role in regard to Sudan," the spokesman said. "We will
want to hear
their assessment of where we are."
The U.N. Security
Council endorsed plans last Friday for an African
Union-United Nations
peacekeeping force for Darfur, where some 200,000
people have been killed
and more than two million made homeless since 2003.
Blair has pushed for
tough action over Darfur and his spokesman welcomed
President George W.
Bush's decision to impose new U.S. sanctions on Sudan
over Darfur.
Peoples Daily
The effect of ivory ban in Zimbabwe will cost the country 40
million U.S.
dollars in revenue and all the people employed in the
manufacturing of
leather handbags and shoes, among other things, would lose
their jobs, a
cabinet minister has said.
Zimbabwe has the right to
use its natural resources to its best advantage
and it is wrong for other
countries to campaign for the prohibition of trade
in natural resources such
as ivory, Environment and Tourism Minister Francis
Nhema was quoted by The
Herald on Tuesday as saying.
Nhema said the ban would prejudice Zimbabwe
of over 40 million dollars in
revenue and put thousands of jobs on the
line.
"Moreover, at least 10-15 rural councils in this country greatly
benefit
from these elephants as they construct schools and roads with
proceeds from
the utilization of those resources," said Nhema.
He
said the ivory ban would deny grassroots communities the right to enjoy
the
benefits of their natural resources and might, therefore, not see the
need
to conserve them.
Nhema said wild animals could not be divorced from
human beings, especially
in Zimbabwe, as people derived their totems, and
sometimes their names, from
wild animals.
"It is natural that
elephants will knock out trees here and it is evident
that we are probably
the best managers of wildlife in the world," said
Nhema.
The minister
said the ban would not only affect the Government but also poor
rural
communities and the private sector whose survival depended on the
sustainable use of ivory.
Nhema said his ministry had already started
speaking to Western diplomats to
make sure that two-thirds majority out of
171 member of states needed to
effect the ban, was not achieved.
The
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species meets next month
in
The Hague, the Netherlands, to deliberate on the ivory ban.
Source:
Xinhua
UN Integrated Regional
Information Networks
29 May 2007
Posted to the web 29 May
2007
Harare
The decrease in spending power caused by the world's
highest inflation rate
is seeing basic commodities being sold in smaller
packages, both in
Zimbabwe's formal and informal marketplaces.
With
an inflation rate of 3,713 percent, prices of goods are not only
changing on
a daily basis, but are resulting in the sale of smaller portions
in a
practice referred to in the poorer suburbs as the 'Tsaono
Basket'.
The 'Tsaono Basket', meaning 'tragedy' in the predominantly
spoken language
Shona, has evolved from small scale street traders reducing
the size of
commodities for sale, by repackaging and downscaling the goods,
to make
basic commodities more affordable for an increasingly impoverished
population
Shamiso Zvenhamo and her neighbour Nelia Chiomo routinely
spend their
afternoons repackaging beans, rice, sugar and other basic
commodities into
smaller packs to resell at the local shopping centre in the
evening. So a
standard bar of soap is cut into three tablets, and then each
priced at just
slightly more than a third of the price of a full bar, while
rice is sold by
the cup, as is other food stuffs such as beans, and cooking
oil is decanted
into smaller plastic bottles or measured out into a
customers own container.
The two housewives are cross border traders and
regularly go "down South"
(South Africa) to source cartons of soap, cooking
oil, rice and other
grocery supplies, to resell in their home suburb of
Kuwadzana, a working
class district in the capital Harare.
The two
women are part of huge band of subsistence traders who also have to
contend
with regular raids on their stalls by the police, Chiomo, a mother
of three,
told IRIN, but "nowadays there is the added danger of armed
soldiers who can
appear at any time and order us to go home, apart from the
frequent swoops
by the municipal police."
Independent economist Tony Hawkins told IRIN
that the downsizing of
commodities was also commonplace in Harare's
supermarkets and was a "symptom
of an inability to live on the salaries that
are being paid."
The government-funded consumer watchdog, the Consumer
Council of Zimbabwe
(CCZ), priced its latest monthly cost of living for a
family of six at Z$1,7
million (US$34 at the parallel market rate of
Z$50,000 to US$1), where only
two out of 10 people have work and even then,
the majority of those with
jobs earn substantially less than what is
required for adequate nutrition.
Phillip Bvumbe, chairman of the CCZ,
told IRIN, "As a consumer watchdog, we
have gradually accepted the existence
of the Tsaona Basket as a measurement
of a family's survival needs. This is
despite the difficulties in coming up
with precise measurement and
benchmarks."
"These subsistence traders serve a useful purpose to the
poor. Otherwise
some families would go without food on their tables had it
not been for such
enterprising petty traders," he
said.
Profiteering
Bvumbe said the Tsaona Basket is a product of
daily price increases for
basic commodities, which he blames on the
manufacturers "insatiable appetite
for making super profits", a situation he
believes would only be rectified
by the introduction of stringent price
control measures.
Callisto Jokonya, the president of the Confederation of
Zimbabwe Industry
(CZI), denied the charge of profiteering by his members
and business people
and said "Every entrepreneur is in business to make
money. We should be
credited for keeping industry afloat in an environment
where the cost of
inputs rises on a daily basis."
Jokonya attributes
the frequent price increases to the persistent foreign
currency shortages,
which have forced manufacturers and industry to operate
at 10 percent of
their production capacity. "Most businesses buy foreign
currency on the
black market in order to survive. The exchange rates change
on the whims of
those that possess the hard currency. So manufacturers pass
the costs to the
consumer."
He said the introduction of price controls were not the answer
to the
country's economic woes, because "Price controls create shortages.
They have
an adverse effect of transferring products from the shop shelves
to the
pavements where informal traders charge higher prices than if the
goods had
remained on shop shelves."
[ This report does not
necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations ]
In my own business we passed a
milestone today - by our calculations
inflation in our business now exceeds
10 000 percent per annum. I was told
by my supplier today that flour for the
bakery would now cost me Z$250 000
for a 50 kilogram bag and that I have to
collect it at my own cost from
Harare - 600 kilometers distant, the last
time I bought flour from the same
supplier it was Z$30 000 a 50 kilogram bag
delivered to Bulawayo.
We have given our staff a 100 per cent raise at
the month end for two months
now - it still leaves them with insufficient
funds to cover their basic
costs of living. We started today to provide food
to them in addition to
their wages or they simply will not be able to feed
their families and come
to work.
One major supplier told me today
that they are selling every product in
their range below cost. They are
headed for bankruptcy and do not know what
to do next. Another service
provider told me they were not able to replace
their stocks of spares and
essential inputs. When they had run their stocks
down to zero, they would
then go onto a hand to mouth basis, asking their
clients to source the
required spares and raw materials before they could
start work.
Fuel
is trading at Z$45 000 a litre, the dollar at Z$50 000 to 1 against the
US
dollar and it has depreciated by 50 per cent in a week. I estimate prices
are rising 20 per cent a day and this is putting huge pressure on all
firms.
There is no sign of this process slowing down and with the
government simply
spending wildly in anticipation of an election in 2008, we
cannot expect
inflation to slow - we are headed for super inflation in the
near future. It
will then be impossible to hold money - people will have to
consider barter
and the widespread use of another currency. In Mozambique
when they were
experiencing similar conditions the common currency was the
US dollar. The
same situation existed in Angola but because of the shortage
of actual
foreign currency notes there, they also used things such as canned
beer and
coca cola as currency.
The difficulty in Zimbabwe is that we
have a relatively sophisticated
economy and strict currency controls. The
use of either the Rand or the US
dollar for exchange would actually be
illegal at present.
From other countries experience this situation will
be bound to escalate the
collapse of the formal sector, exacerbate human and
capital flight, destroy
the value of savings in any form except property and
the stock market and
plunge civil servants, whose conditions of service are
less flexible, into a
state of crisis.
In the face of these critical
concerns, neither the government nor the
Reserve Bank exhibits any concern
or understanding of just what they are
doing. Their remedies suggest they
have little understanding of the
complexities of macro economic management
policy or how the economy and
business actually functions. Virtually every
prescription they have trundled
out in recent weeks has simply made things
worse.
Food is scarce and unaffordable and a real humanitarian crisis is
building
up - one that might still threaten national stability and put the
lives of
millions are at stake. There is plenty of evidence that Zimbabweans
living
in the Diaspora are pouring money into the country to try and keep
their
families afloat. With some 4,5 million adult Zimbabweans abroad, this
carries quite a punch and is probably the single most important factor in
helping keep things stable.
Eddie Cross
Bulawayo, 29th May
2007
It is ten years since the original publication of 'Breaking the Silence: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands' (by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) and the Legal Resources Foundation (LRF)). We are delighted to let you know that the report has been re-published in book form by the South African publishing house Jacana under the title 'Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe'.
Gukurahundi is a traditional Shona word, which means 'the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains.' It is the word chosen by the Mugabe regime to describe a military operation against a civilian population during the 1980s.
In 1980, a few short months after Independence Day, Robert Mugabe signed an agreement with the North Korean President Kim Il Sung to have the North Korean military train a brigade for the Zimbabwean army. Training of the 5th Brigade lasted until September 1982. The objective of the 5th Brigade was to crush the people of Matabeleland, force them to submit to Mugabe's Zanu PF and relinquish their loyalty to Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu).
The infamous red-bereted 5 Brigade were soldiers equipped with unusually cruel skills. We learn through the 'Breaking the Silence' report that the methods used to address "reorientation", "change", "unfounded grievances" - methods designed to teach a community to "accept defeat" - included civilian murders, civilian rapes, civilian torture and the destruction of civilian property.
The report describes in detail some of the techniques used, and it's important to understand that all the techniques were calculated to maximise terror, pain, grief and humiliation. The soldiers, under Mugabe's instruction, set out to injure and mutilate human beings, to kill them, but to do so in such evil cruel ways that the scars would be indelibly etched in memories for generations to come.
Mugabe intended to leave this civilian population with fear for the rest of their lives, for the horror to be so great that they would pass the fear down to subsequent generations. This is how he believed he would manage discontent in the region, and hold onto power indefinitely.
When the soldiers were first deployed in Matabeleland, the shock was significant and the impact immediately felt:
"Five Brigade passed first through Tsholotsho, spreading out rapidly through Lupane and Nkayi, and their impact on all these communal areas was shocking. Within the space of six weeks more than 2000 civilians had died, hundreds of homesteads had been burnt and thousands of civilians had been beaten. Most of the dead were killed in public executions involving between one and 12 people at a time."
The book form of the report, 'Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe', has an introduction by Elinor Sisulu and a foreword by Archbishop Pius Ncube:
Sisulu recounts how she was horrified by the detailed account in the CCJP report of the "mass shooting of 62 young men and women" on the banks of Cwele River in Matabeleland. She contrasts the silence that greeted the 1983 massacre in Matabeleland with the shock and dismay throughout the world occasioned by the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in March 1960. (The Sunday Independent SA: 27 May 2007)
One of the most difficult things for decent people to comprehend is that these perverse barbaric acts of cruelty were not the actions of psychopaths, but soldiers. Their 'enemy' was not an invading army from foreign borders, nor were they fighting for freedom against a repressive racist regime; the vast majority of the 'enemy' were our fellow Zimbabweans - men, women, children, and the elderly: the innocent and the defenceless; the helplessly isolated.
Donald Trelford, editor of The Observer (UK) at that time, recalled an interview that he had with Robert Mugabe in 1984 where he asked Mugabe whether he would ever consider a political solution to the Matabeleland issue rather then the military one. Trelford describes Mugabe's response to his question as 'blunt' and 'chilling':
"The solution is a military one. Their grievances are unfounded. The verdict of the voters was cast in 1980. They should have accepted defeat then ... The situation in Matabeleland is one that requires a change. The people must be reoriented."
Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, carries another chilling quote from Mugabe in the early 1980s: "We eradicate them. We don't differentiate when we fight because we can't tell who is a dissident and who is not."
The publishers of 'Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe' write: "the [Breaking the Silence] Report is offered again at a time when the events it describes the Gukurahundi have acquired a fresh relevance". They say that they hope "the reavailability of the Report will mean that more people will campaign for an end to human rights violations in Zimbabwe, and for restorative justice for the victims".
'Fresh relevance' indeed. We only need to look at the language used by Zanu PF to see a recurring pattern in thinking: Gukurahundi (1980s) - 'the early rain which washes away the chaff', and, Murambatsvina (2000s) - 'clearing out the trash'. The 'chaff' and the 'trash' being anyone who dares disagree or challenge the power of Robert Mugabe, or anyone that Mugabe thinks might one day in the future disagree with him or challenge his power.
This book – ‘Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe’ - is an essential book to read for anyone who wants to fully understand Zimbabwe's history. Both the government enquiries - the Dumbutshena enquiry into the Entumbane battle and the 1984 Chihambakwe enquiry into the 1983 massacres - have never been made public and the Legal Resource Foundation’s attempt to get an order through the Supreme Court (on the basis of access to information in terms of the Constitution) failed. This book therefore stands as perhaps the most critically important record of the violations against the people of Matabeleland during the 1980s. It exposes Mugabe's capacity for evil, and the enormity of the threat he and his party's politics of violence presents for any hope that our country might ever enjoy a peaceful non-violent future where human rights are fully respected.
We are delighted that it is now easily available to a worldwide audience.
The book is available for purchase from Exclusive Books in South Africa (full details below). International readers can buy the book via the Exclusive Book website.
Please buy the book and read it and please encourage everyone you know to do the same. If you have a website or blog, please help publicise the fact that this book is now available.
Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe (Price:
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Sub-title: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the
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New Zimbabwe
By Daniel Fortune
Molokele
Last updated: 05/29/2007 20:50:09
I HAD an unplanned visit to
Zimmbabwe recently.
I was forced by circumstances to go to Harare and
sort out some problematic
issues pertaining to my legal status in South
Africa.
In the end, I had to apply for a new visitors' visa altogether,
and the
rather lengthy process ended up lasting up to fifteen
days.
The circumstances in which I had to leave Zimbabwe in January 2004
are a
well documented fact that I have also highlighted in my previous
articles.
Ever since I left Zimbabwe for South Africa, I had only managed
to visit my
motherland on three occasions. So this was my fourth visit. But
what made
this visit more special was the unique fact that it was much
longer than all
my other previous visits.
It was the first time that
I had an opportunity to really return to Zimbabwe
and have a better feel of
what it is now like not to be part of the ever
growing Diaspora community.
But after having spent fourteen consecutive
nights in Harare, I must say
that I was left with a very bitter taste in my
mouth.
What I saw is
definitely not the Zimbabwe that I want to be identified with.
The Zimbabwe
that I saw is certainly far below my minimum hopes and
expectations of how
things should be in the land of my womb.
To say that the country has gone
to the dogs is most certainly a huge
understatement. Someone actually
suggested to me the other day that it is
actually more appropriate to say
that the country has now gone to the
zhing-zhongs, reference to the growing
Chinese community seelling cheap
wares all around Harare!
Zimbabwe is
a country that has immense potential. Yet as I discovered during
my visit,
it is now a country that has completely lost direction. It has
become a
country with no master plan, with no vision and most disheartening
of all,
with no minimum standards of excellence at all.
This is a country that
shuns excellence, and embraces any form of
underachievement. This is one
country where mediocrity is celebrated day in
and day out.
I was so
disgusted to see ZTV, the only national television channel in the
entire
country, give at least five minutes of prime time television news to
one
Joseph Chinotimba. The man was supposedly speaking on behalf of all the
Zimbabwean workers in his capacity as the Vice President of the so-called
Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions. Yet it is common cause that the
legitimate representative body for all the remaining few workers in the
country is the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions.
It was so sad to
note that while the news bulletin afforded Chinoz, as he is
called here,
ample time to waffle about Workers' Day celebrations, the ZCTU
was not given
even a second to air their own planned programme for the same
day. Under
normal circumstances, Chinoz should not be even allowed near the
television
cameras at all. He is a glorified former municipal security
officer whose
only claim to fame is that he led some of those violent farm
invasions a few
years ago, the same farm invasions that have brought untold
hunger and food
shortages to many workers and their families in Zimbabwe
today!
I
also had an opportunity to spend an afternoon at the University of
Zimbabwe
campus. It was at this very same college that I joined student
activism.
Between 1995 and 1999, I was a law student there who also got
elected into
all the three highest offices of the students' union
leadership. The UZ I
saw is a pale shadow of its former great self.
In particular, the once
proud and revolutionary students' union building is
now no more. Not to
mention the symbolic October 4 bar! The students' union
no longer has an
administrative building it can call its own any more. The
truth is that
without a strong culture of student activism, the UZ is now
just a glorified
high school. They might just as well introduce a
prefectorial system to
officially represent the broader students' body
interest. How have the
mighty fallen!
Yet the saddest thing about it all is that no-one in the
high offices seems
to take care of the rapid decline of standards in most of
the country's
public systems. The national leadership seems to be so
engrossed in the
desperate struggle for political survival; so much that
they are now more
than prepared to sacrifice the greater national interest
on the alter of
political self-aggrandizement. In the meantime, the nation
continues to
suffer rapid degradation and stagnation.
I also had an
opportunity to visit the Westgate Shopping Mall on a Saturday.
What I saw
there really broke my heart. The place that used to be a thriving
social
hive now lies forlorn and deserted. The shops are still there but the
customers are no more. Many have left the country. While those who remain
simply cannot afford to pay for most of the things that are on
offer.
Most restaurants were empty; the movie houses were also virtually
empty. In
fact the busiest shop was TM supermarket. Otherwise the rest of
the mall was
deserted. I really felt sad! This is so especially if I compare
with what I
always witness when I visit any mall here in South Africa. At
any time of
the week or month, there is always lots of life and
vibe.
As for the topical issues in the political discourse of the
country, things
have become even more depressing. One cannot help develop
the feeling that
there is a now lot of political sterility and stagnation in
the country. The
politics of personalities and survival has become the order
of the day. It
is so hard to be both a visionary and a politician in
Zimbabwe today. The
biggest culprit is no doubt Robert Mugabe
himself.
It was so nauseating to see him continue to convince himself
that he is
still a relevant asset to our country. I still don't understand
why he
cannot see that he has long gone past by his sell-by date. What is
even more
depressing is that while Tony Blair and George Bush are preparing
to leave
public office, the man is preparing to launch another presidential
election
campaign!
Admittedly, there are still some genuine leaders
from various facets of the
pro-democracy movement that is still burning the
flames of the struggle at
home.
There are a lot of brave men and
women that are still facing the brunt of
the dictatorship at the political
battlefront. Some have been brutalised,
detained or even murdered in the
name of the struggle for a new Zimbabwe. We
need to always do our best to
appreciate their efforts, in spite of the
obvious counter attacks from the
desperate regime.
But one thing I felt as I walked on the UZ campus
grounds and also the other
day when I was outside the national Parliament
building, is that somehow,
Zimbabweans now living in the Diaspora have a
greater responsibility to the
country than ever before. The truth is that
the country now needs you, more
than ever before.
Wherever you are,
please do not give up on the dream for a better and new
Zimbabwe. Wherever
you are, stand up and be counted among those who are
actively campaigning
for a new democratic Zimbabwe.
Do not keep quiet anymore. Let your
silence come to an end now. Join the
growing movement fighting in various
ways to keep Zimbabwe high on both the
African and broader global agenda.
Speak out and tell whoever listens to you
that Zimbabwe under Mugabe is
definitely not the Zimbabwe you want! Another
new Zimbabwe is possible. It
starts with you. It starts with me. It starts
with both of us. United.
Together. Today. Don't wait for tomorow bercause it
might never
come!
Daniel Molokele is a Zimbabwean Human Rights Lawyer who is
based in
Johannesburg. He can be contacted at zimvn@danielmolokele.com
Business Report
May 29, 2007
Harare
- A six-member team from diamond certification body Kimberley Process
has
arrived in Zimbabwe to assess whether the country is in compliance with
diamond trade regulations, reports said Tuesday.
The team is expected
to visit key diamond mining areas in the country, Mines
Minister Amos Midzi
said in comments carried in the official Herald
newspaper.
"The team
was not imposing itself on Zimbabwe but was in the country at the
invitation
of the government," Midzi was quoted as saying.
Areas to be visited by
the team include the Chiadzwa diamond field in
Zimbabwe's eastern Marange
district, recently the site of unprecedented
looting of the mineral by
thousands of fortune seekers after the government
cancelled a claim to the
area by an international mining company.
The visit by the Kimberley
Process - which certifies that diamonds are not
being used to finance wars -
comes after the chairman of the World Diamond
Council, Eli Izhakoff last
week said Zimbabwe and Venezuela had to do more
to comply with the Kimberley
Process Certification Scheme.
In April, Zimbabwe's central bank
governor Gideon Gono estimated Zimbabwe's
cash-strapped economy had lost
$400 million worth of revenue due to
smuggling of diamonds out of
Marange.
The country's security minister has said diamonds looted from
Marange have
been sold in places as far away as Israel. Government officials
have been
implicated in the smuggling though no-one has yet dared name any
senior
figure.
Midzi told reporters in the capital on Monday that the
government had now
imposed order in Marange.
"The security level has
been upgraded. The (state-run Zimbabwe Mining
Development Corporation) ZMDC
is working with security agents to maintain
high-level security," Midzi
said.
"An area covering two kilometres has been fenced," he
said.
The diamond field is in fact believed to cover a much wider area.
Last month
an illegal miner was shot and killed during a police raid on a
hideout.
Locals in Marange say some corrupt policemen are illegally
mining the
precious gems. - Sapa-dpa
The Herald (Harare) Published by the government of Zimbabwe
29 May 2007
Posted to the web 29 May 2007
Fortious
Nhambura
Harare
INDIGENOUS agro-business dealer Farmers World has started distributing tractors and various other farming implements which it acquired from China to tobacco and other farmers throughout the country.
The distribution had been put on hold to allow Government to assess the suitability of the farming implements to Zimbabwe's climatic conditions and soils.
Speaking at the programme's official launch yesterday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono said the tractors would go a long way in helping the country achieve mechanisation, stressing it was imperative that all precautionary measures be taken to ascertain the suitability of the farming implements to the country's geographical conditions.
He said the central bank had advised Farmers World to suspend the distribution of the equipment to give Government and the central bank time to assess its suitability.
"The implements were imported through a loan received from China and that loan will have to be repaid. As a result, we advised Farmers World to make sure that beneficiaries of the scheme would be in a position to generate foreign currency to enable the country to repay the loan.
"The central bank recommended Farmers World to put the distribution exercise on hold so that Government made sure the minimum standards of operability of the equipment for the good of the country and our relations with friendly nations that are keen to help us.
"It was important for RBZ, the Ministry of Agricultural Engineering and Mechanisation and Farmers World to make pre- and post-delivery checks to avoid a repeat of past experiences," said Dr Gono, referring to the furore over inferior quality fertilizer imported from South Africa last year.
He said the central bank had recommended that the distribution be spread evenly across Zimbabwe and to all the country's tobacco farming regions for the sake of transparency.
"We also understand that some regions do not have tobacco farmers and have put in place support programmes sustainable in those areas that do not engage in tobacco farming to encourage an equitable distribution of national resources," said Dr Gono.
"We saw that it was critical to have a proper inventory of the farming equipment so as to guard against abuse of these schemes and to promote accountability when it comes to national resources. RBZ has also recommended that the distribution be mindful of other groups such as women, war veterans and youths in the exercise," Dr Gono said.
He said the mechanisation programme would also see Members of Parliament, senators and chiefs, among other national leaders, getting an opportunity to own a tractor and farming implements in addition to ox-drawn implements for communal and resettled farmers.
"This is part of a holistic approach to the mechanisation programme and stakeholders should bear with the Government as the first part of the programme will not be able to cater for all farmers," he said.
Speaking at the same function, the Minister Agricultural Engineering and Mechanisation, Dr Joseph Made, said he recognised the importance of private sector participation in land reform as the programme would not be complete without its participation.
Dr Made said it was important for farmers observe recommended the run-in periods as they adjust the equipment for optimum performance.
"My ministry will soon open depots at provincial, district and local level to teach farmers on how to maintain farming implements that will be supplied to them," said Dr Made.
Farmers World managing director Mr Edward Raradza said the tractors would be availed to both farmers contracted to his company and others.
"The names of the beneficiaries will be submitted to the central bank to allow for the smooth repayment of the loans. Distribution depots will be opened in Mvurwi for farmers in Mashonaland Central, Chinhoyi for Mashonaland West, Marondera for Mashonaland East and Rusape for Manicaland province," he said.
Catholic
Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)
29 May 2007
Posted to the web
29 May 2007
Harare
Zimbabweans are praying for an end to the
"autocratic" and "brutal" regime
of President Robert Mugabe that has brought
untold suffering to the country,
says outspoken Catholic Archbishop Pius
Ncube of Bulawayo.
"There is a lot of prayer in Zimbabwe right now -
praying of the rosary,
night prayers to Our Lady for the country," the
archbishop says in an
interview to be published in the June-July issue of
Inside the Vatican
magazine.
He says it was "imperative" for the
bishops of Zimbabwe to write their
Easter Pastoral Letter which blamed the
crisis in the country on bad
governance. Mugabe dismissed the letter as
political nonsense.
"The situation of the people was becoming worse and
worse. Among the young
people, there was a growing anger and a growing sense
of uncertainty and
desperation. We were in the hands of a man who for
27-plus years had been
autocratic and using his army to be brutal on the
people."
He says Mugabe's regime tries to intimidate the clergy for their
solidarity
with the people. "We were told: 'You keep to the Bible, to
religious
affairs, don't comment on political matters. If you want to come
into
politics then give up your religious garb, and be a politician and then
we
will deal with you properly.'"
But the church will not be cowed.
"We feel duty bound to stand with the
people in a time when there is so much
suffering; in times when the
humanitarian situation of the people food wise,
education-wise, health-wise,
is getting worse and worse."
The Zimbabwean
(29-05-07)
THE
STUDENT
Student leaders kidnapped in Bulawayo.
as the situation in
colleges remain tense.
The NUST Student Representative Council (SRC)
president and his vice
Clever Bere and Mehluli Dube respectively have been
arrested. Hell broke
lose
this morning at around 0900 hours when the Bere
and Mehluli were going about
their normal business and were captured by the
Chief Security Officer,
Banda. The two student leaders were detained in the
university control
room. They were denied access to both fellow students and
their lawyers.
Bere
and Mehluli were transferred from the NUST security
office at around 1300
hours and are suspected to be in detention at Bulawayo
Central police
station.
The 2 student leaders had retreated into
hiding following a police hunt
in Bulawayo following the 10th of May 2007
peaceful demonstration by
students at the National University of Science and
Technology (NUST) in
Bulawayo
where 53 students were arrested including
the student chorister ,
Themba Maphendeka.
During the demonstration,
police used "war methods" to handle students
with pens and papers. Tear gas
was fired towards them resulting in 5
students collapsing.
Meanwhile,
the security situation at NUST remains volatile. The ZINASU
president Promise
Mkwananzi said that the students of Zimbabwe will not
intimidated by the
mighty show of force by the Zimbabwean police. He
said students are right,
and right is mighty.
The Zimbabwean
(29-05-07)
PRETORIA:
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki's mediation in
the Zimbabwean
crisis is treated with some suspicion as the country's main
opposition of
the
Democratic Alliance (DA) questions the fairness and
credibility Mbeki
whom they widely believe to be pro-Mugabe's
regime.
According to a South African evening daily newspaper of the
Citizen,
the DA's spokesperson, Joe Seremane challenged preisent Mbeki to
"reflect
fairness and an understanding of both government and opposition in
that
country".
It is alleged that president Mbeki had given some
pre-conditions to
Zimbabwe's main opposition political party, the Movement
for Democratic
Change (MDC) before the dialogue could resume, a development
the DA
argued was disturbing.
"Unfortunately, there are no conditions
given to Mugabe and that is
unfair," Seremane was quoted as saying on Monday
afternoon.
Mbeki was appointed by the Southern African Development
Community
(SADC) regional leaders at a hastily organised Arusha Summit in
Tanzania as
mediator to resolve the Zimbabwean crisis.
According to
Seremane, the MDC was required to accept and recognise
that Mugabe is the
President, and that he won the elections.
"Mbeki is also asking the
opposition to denounce violence," the paper
quotes Seremane.
According
to Mbeki's alleged statements, the opposition MDC should
comply with the
conditions, while the ruling Zanu-PF continued to brag about
the free rein
given to Mugabe by Mbeki.
Over 3 000 000 million Zimbabweans are believed
to be staying in South
Africa while dozens of hundreds of thousands others
are believed to
have scattered throughout the SADC, Europe and America as a
result of
Mugabe's misrule- CAJ News.
Mineweb
State-owned ZMDC is moving ahead with mining the Marange diamond field
amid
crticism, while Kimberley Process team examines Zimbabwe diamond
industry.
Author: Tawanda Karombo
Posted: Tuesday , 29 May
2007
Harare -
Zimbabwe, currently under a probe from a Kimberley
Process team which is in
the country, has revealed that it will not seek
foreign partners to mine
diamonds in the controversial Chiadzwa Diamond
fields situated in the east
of the country.
Mines and Mining
Development Minister, Amos Midzi, said the Kimberley team
is in the country
on a fact-finding mission to establish whether the
country's diamond mining
is in line with set rules.
Last month, Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Governor,
Gideon Gono deplored the
Zimbabwe government's mode of diamond mining,
saying it was "haphazard".
"The continued unstructured mode of diamond
mining and marketing is fast
becoming an embarrassing development to the
country's mining industry," Gono
said in his interim monetary policy
statement.
He also implored the Zimbabwe government to speedily conclude
ongoing
"reviews to the mining sector legislation" to take away sector
apprehensions
and uncertainties that are "keeping potential investments at
bay."
But it is the decision by the Zimbabwean government to "go it
alone" in
diamond mining that has raised scepticism in industry
experts.
"The decision of the government is that the Zimbabwe Mining and
Development
Company (ZMDC) should go it alone. From what we've seen, there
is no need
for that (external investment). ZMDC has not drawn on any
expertise or
equipment from outside, which is testimony that we are able to
do it on our
own," Midzi said.
The ZMDC is a government parastatal
that has been tasked to oversee mining
operations in the
country.
Midzi however said the six member Kimberley Process team is in
the country
at the invitation of President Robert Mugabe's government
following a recent
meeting on Diamond mining held in neighbouring
Botswana.
At that meeting, Minister Midzi said, he "met the incoming
chairman of the
Kimberley Process and made a voluntary presentation of the
situation at
Marange, (in the east of the country), to prove" that the
country is in
compliance with diamond mining requirements.
During its
visit to the country, the Kimberley Process team is expected to
visit the
contentious diamond fields, whose ownership and control have
stoked up
bitter legal wrangles between the Zimbabwe government and, British
mining
explorer, African Consolidated Resources (ACR). ACR is claiming
ownership of
rights to mine in the area.
The team, according to mines minister Midzi,
is also expected to meet mining
authorities in the country.
"We
expect the team to visit River Ranch, Murowa and Marange so that they
can
make their own assessment. I'd like to dispel the notion that the team
has
imposed itself on us ... they are here at our invitation," Midzi
added.
The diamond fields have been fraught with rampant illegal mining,
amidst
reports that the precious mineral was being smuggled outside the
country
through unofficial and illegal routes.
But Midzi refuted
this, saying the Zimbabwe government had already moved in
to stamp authority
in the area.
"The security level (at the Marange Diamond fields) has been
upgraded. The
Zimbabwe Mining and Development Company (ZMDC) is working
together with
security agents to maintain high level security. An area
covering two
kilometres has been fenced," he said.
"Starting on 22
April, ZMDC started the first run of the trial mining,
starting with two
tonnes of ore and they were able to produce the first
carats from Marange,"
Midzi added.
He said the trial runs had since risen to 25 tonnes of ore
per day and
indications were that the yield would be enough to allow
full-scale
operations, but added that ZMDC would not seek foreign partners
in the
project.
About 20 000 illegal miners had set up shop at the
Marange Diamond fields
since the discovery o f the mineral late last year.
Several people and a
policeman have since died in clashes at the field as
illegal miners and the
police were involved in running battles. This
immediately stoked up fears by
the World Diamond Council (WDC) that the
diamonds from the area are
increasingly becoming blood diamonds, which are
used to fuel civil wars in
much of the African continent.
Following
the unrest at the diamonds fields , the Zimbabwe government
subsequently set
up a taskforce to look into the illegal mining of Diamonds
in the Marange
area.
VOA
By Carole Gombakomba
Washington
29 May
2007
The activist group Women of Zimbabwe Arise and its consort, Men
of Zimbabwe
Arise, have offered a contribution to the crisis mediation led
by South
African President Thabo Mbeki in a document that outlines "Ten
Steps to a
New Zimbabwe."
The paper asks whether the intention of the
heads of state of the Southern
African Development Community, who gave Mr.
Mbeki his mediation brief, is to
bring forth a new Zimbabwean order without
political, economic and social
reform, or if the process will be more
meaningful than that.The groups have
also demanded whether ordinary
Zimbabweans will have a voice in the Mbeki
mediation process.
The 10
steps urged by WOZA and MOZA include a halt to political violence,
equal
participation by all groups in society, the repeal of repressive laws
such
as the Public Order and Security Act, or POSA, and the Access to
Information
and Protection of Privacy Act, or AIPPA, and an end to the
selective
enforcement of other laws.
WOZA and MOZA, are also demanding a land audit
to lay the basis for a
permanent and equitable resolution of land reform,
while promoting immediate
resumption of food production, and urge that the
2008 presidential and
parliamentary elections are conducted according to
SADC principles and
guidelines.
WOZA coordinator Jenni Williams told
reporter Carole Gombakomba of VOA's
Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that the
organizations want to urge politicians
involved in the crisis talks to bear
their "Ten Steps" in mind so mediation
will yield meaningful
results.
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2. Wanted Items
3. Accommodation
4. Recreation
5.
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6. Pets
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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.
The one stop shop for ALL your Generator Requirements
SALES:
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the Retreat
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533 pages; quality
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Southern African edition,
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and a link to
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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 $5000 and 250g of pigs liver or heart
costing $5000 for 250g.
Collection points: Benbar in Msasa at
09.00
Jag offices in Philips Rd, Belgravia at 10.30
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
HORSE BOX FOR SALE (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Double axle, takes two horses,
back ramp only. Offers phone Johan Cruger on
011 605 166 or
885014.
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1.5
Laptop for Sale; Surplus to Requirements (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
SATELLITE
PRO A120, Toshiba Laptop.
Microsoft Vista Business 32BIT
Intel core duo
T2250 1.73 MHZ
80GB Harddisk Drive (5400RPM) SATA
15 WXGA TFT
screen
DVD-Super-Multi Drive (2-layer)
56K Modem / LAN
W-LAN
(802.11A/G)
(Wireless + Bluetooth)
Brand new, never used, surplus to
requirements. Suggested price US$2 000.
Contact Mrs. S. Bown: e-mail soaz@mweb.co.zw or Tel: 702402 (office) 023
316
739
(cell)
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For Sale (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
BASSBOAT, WRANGLER X 13, complete with as
new 60HP Yamaha, Electric start,
Trim and Tilt, Live Well, Boat Cover, Motor
Cover. Price equivalent of
USD5500. Phone
741913
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For Sale (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Mazda 626 South African assembled, 1994
model. Body complete with doors,
windows etc in fairly good condition, for
sale. (no engine or tyres) Phone
091-2-887
783
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For Sale (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Paraffin-Petrol/Diesel for Sale. Phone
0912235465, chippy@ecoweb.co.zw
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1.9
THE WEAVERY (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
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--$255,000.
Cotton oven gloves--$240,000.
Small woven
bags--$210,000.
Large woven bags--$255,000.
Crocheted
bags--$300,000.
Queen(approx.250x240cms) size
bedcover--$1,920,000.
Double(approx.250x210cms) size
bedcover--$1,730,000.
Other sizes to order.
Single Duvet cushions(open
into a duvet)--$1,290,000.
Other sizes to order.
2x1 meter
Throw--$915,000.
Baby Blanket(1x1meter)--$555,000.
3 piece toilet
set--$510,000.
Bath mat--$360,000.(small rug).
Decorated cushion
covers--$255,000.
Table runner--$150,000.
Set(4)Bordered table mats +
serviettes--$510,000.
Set(6)Bordered table mats +
serviettes--$765,000.
Set(4) crocheted table mats
only--$405,000.
Set(6)fringed table mats + serviettes--$765,000.
Lots of
other combinations.
Small(approx.105x52cms) plain cotton
rug--$360,000.
Medium(approx.120x65cms) plain cotton
rug--$510,000
Large(approx.150x75cms) plain cotton
rug--$765,000.
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rug--$1,650,000.
Small patterned cotton rug--$510,000.
Small rag
rug--$360,000.
Medium rag rug--$510,000.
Medium patterned cotton
rug--$765,000.
Large patterned cotton rug--$1,020,000
Ex.Large patterned
cotton rug--$2,030,000.
Small patterned mohair rug--$1,010,000.
Medium
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Large patterned mohair
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Ex. Large patterned mohair rug--$2,790,000.
Lots of
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notice and
orders take some time as they have to be woven and sent from
Gweru to
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Items for Sale (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
2 Crastermatic Stokers
2 Twin
Pass 4 Bank Radiators
Drotsky Mill
Electric Motor 25HP 1450 rpm
380V
Please call 665398 after
1pm.
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For Sale (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
We have a Toyota venture 2,4 diesel for
sale it is a 1996 model in good
condition . 230 thousand ks on the clock.
price US10000,00 or equivalent on
nco. Contact me Tony at the following email
rbzhatchery@iwayafrica.com..
or
phone Rod 0912255726
zim.
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For Sale (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Brand New Falcon with 135HP Mariner
Outboard, complete with 15HP Auxilury
motor, Lorrance depth finder with built
in GPS and numerous other extras.
US$16,000 o.n.c.o NO CHANCERS
For
any further details and to view boat please contact, Gary Haigh 331726
/
305812 (w) 369616(h) 091 2
402727
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1.13
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
1 x 30 cubic metre Cold Room Unit, new,
unused. TFH 4531 F Compressor
Condenser, 3 Fan Blower unit with complete
electrics.
1 x 3kw Motors, Electric 1400 RPM, with Starter, new, unused.
Orbit pump
head all mounted on frame. 16 Pipes x 50mm with drive
shafts.
1 BH50 Pump unit, new, unused.
Offers please contact:
054-228640 or
850863
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1.14
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
2 Carpets for Sale, Imported Sage green
carpets with under-felt, 9 x 12, $14
000 000 (as new)
12 x12 $6 000
000
Electric Lawn Mower, $ 3 000 000
Fax phone;Panasonic KX F 50,
Telephone answering System with facsimile, $12
000 000
Please tel:
882566 or 0912 400
759
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1.15
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
4 plate gas stove, eye level grill,
timer, oven ,warmer draw with a 50kg gas
bottle. make monanch
7
years old. Price $10 million. Prestcold fridge 6cubit.electric. $5
million.
phone Joe Lewis 755149 or 0912363471.to view no 6 lincoln
road, rainbow rest
flats
Avondale.
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1.16
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Sale of the following items if anyone is
interested please contact Tom
Lambert on 494 796 or 0912 288 448.
1 x
Ford 7 tonne truck 1970 model D750. Reconditioned engine. Owner
driven
only.
1 x Series 3 short wheel base Landrover diesel
1 x
Motorola high frequency radio base set with telescopic stand, aerial
and
cable
1 x 16 channel Ericsson hand held radio
1 x 2 channel
Motorola hand held radio
1 x magnetic car aerial for hand held radio
1 x
old hardwood baling press for tobacco with
slats.
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1.17
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Aquazone enhanced safe water enrichment
purifier. No expensive expert
installation charges. No filters. Internal
treated water with this unique
innovation. Only Z$3,2 mill.
Phone Joe
339378 or 0912 338414. e-mail countryjukebox@hotmail.com
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1.18
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Satellite TV Receivers. Focus your
satellite dish onto various satellites
and receive TV FREE! This is a one of
payment - NO subs to pay. Example,
Telstar 12 has National Geographics,
Reality TV, Club Zone, Extreme Sport
and others, Eutelsat 7/10 has SABC,
Botswana, e-TV etc. Contact Joe
Esterhuizen on 339378 or 0912 338414 or
e-mail countryjukebox@hotmail.com
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1.19
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
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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1.20
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
PINE COFFEE TABLE GLASS TOP 2mtr X 1mtr
- $ 3. MIL
OLD/ NEW BOOKS - GALORE
1940's /50's TRANSISTOR RADIO-
RELIC FROM THE PAST
OFFERS
STEEL COUNTER DOOR WITH LOCKING
MECH.
GARAGE DOORS - 3MILL
LARGE MIRRORS
FIRE WOOD - $80
000 PER BAG
ZNSPCA HQ156 Enterprise Rd, or tel: 497574/497885 or
882566
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2.
WANTED
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2.1
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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2.2
Wanted Paprika (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Wanted 500tonnes+ Paprika. Top
prices paid, cash on delivery. Please
phone
011410384.
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2.3
Wanted (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
45-65 HP boat motor must be reasonable age
not more than 10 years, also
throttle and gear control, contact Graham at gtech@zol.co.zw
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2.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Mazda Pick-up single cab, petrol B1600-
B1800 or 2000 type. Top price paid
for good vehicle.
Phone: Harare 750775
Working hours, Harare 882620
Home
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Looking for a Turbo for a Nissan 3ltr,
16v. Must have done a low mileage.
Please contact:
011221088
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2.6
Wanted (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Cold Boxes (Cooler Boxes) wanted decent
condition. Please
contact:
011221088.
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2.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Wanted domestic male not younger than
50years to do housework and ironing
only. No accommodation in our block of
flats. Within walking distance of
Avondale shopping centre. Phone Joe Lewis
755149 or 0912 36 34
71.
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2.8
Companion Wanted (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Mature farming lady looking for
energetic, fun-loving male companion aged
between 60 - 70. Living on farm
near Harare.
Please contact the JAG office -
799410.
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3.
ACCOMMODATION WANTED AND
OFFERED
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3.1
Wanted Premises for Rent (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
We are still looking for
premises measuring 70 - 120 sq metres in Cameron,
Kaguvi or Charter rd
areas.
If you know of any available please contact Tony Rowley on 0912
201 606 or
443503 or Sherry Rowley on 852027/8 or 0912 724
595
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3.2
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
We have a 2 bed-roomed fully
furnished thatched cottage to rent. It has no
stove or fridge.
The rent
includes lights & water. It is in Arcturus 10km from Donnybrooke
race
track. Unfortunately no animals please as we have dogs & cats. Would
suit
elderly or young couple.
Please phone Tony on 0912 201 606 or 442503 or
sherry 0912 724 595
or
85207/8
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3.3
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
We are currently renting a
small house in Avondale but have been given 6
weeks notice to vacate (by end
of June).
My son, Scott, works for Price Waterhouse Coopers and I live in
Chiredzi. I
travel to Harare each month. I am looking for something, for
reasonable
rent, that has at least two bedrooms, etc.; good security;
and
accommodation for our maid. We are good stewards for what we have
been
renting up until now!!
My phone numbers are 091 2 740 505, home
031 2609 (evenings).
Scott's phone number in evening in Harare is 333417; or
091 2 284
901.
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3.4
Two Houses for Sale (Ad Inserted 22/05/07)
Call Pauline on 011 609 840 or
email: welch@yoafrica.com
GLEN
LORNE: Very appealing thatched 4 bedroom home with study, lounge
&
separate dining room, fitted kitchen & scullery, 2 bathrooms (main
en
suite), covered verandah, glitter-stone swimming pool & bore-hole,
art
studio, staff quarters, work-shop & store-room, double lock-up garage
&
double car-port, alarm & satellite dish, fully walled with an
electric
gate. Photos and price on request.
CHIRUNDU - Lovely thatched
home with beautiful views
upstream
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3.5
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
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
0912258491.
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3.6
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Garden flat in Greendale,
convenient shops, Msasa, town, lock up car
port, available immed, rent equiv
US80 per month, plus 1 month deposit, call
Mr Wallis 496829 or 023894597 or
email zermatt@mweb.co.zw
"
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3.7
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Attractive 2 bedroom cottage
in quiet country surroundings 50 km from
Harare. Z$750 000 per
month.
Please contact Jenny Faasem @ brookmead@mango.zw or 073 -
3399
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3.8
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Dr. Seeks cottage somewhere
near Parinyatwa hospital.
Current accommodation rent increased beyond
government doctor's salary.
Contact dr. Martyn Edwards 335352 or cell 0912 66
44 33
"
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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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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 (Ad inserted 22 May 2007)
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
PLANT PLAN INDOOR PLANTS HIRE MAINTENANCE SERVICE (Ad inserted
22/05/07)
4 Stokesay Close, Colne Valley, Chisipite
We specialise
in hire & maint of indoor pot plants.
We also have various outdoor plants
& seedlings on sale. Come in & browse
but phone first as the gate is
locked.
Contact Sherry on 0912 724 595 or
852027/8
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5.4
Flower Arrangements (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Unusual flower arrangements at
very competitive rates for any occasion
Be it for a birthday, a Thank
You, a Mother's or Father's Day, an
Anniversary or a wedding, a Fund Raiser,
Christening or Funeral.
Contact Leighann Halfpenny, 04 - 302679, 011
632272 or Leave Message at
04 - 481164, laoneill@yoafrica.com
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5.5
HARDWOOD FURNTURE (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Sleepers and Teak Custom made
Dining Tables, Coffee Tables, Bars ,Even
Wrought iron and Pine Phone Simon
Silcock persistently 668843 or sms 091
233 103 and I will reply
quickly.
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6.
PETS
CORNER
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6.1
Puppy looking for a home (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
I male puppy left out of
7, still looking for a loving home.
Contact Chere - 011 631
546.
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6.2
Wanted (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Please we have just lost our Doberman
bitch. We are desperate to find a
puppy. She does not need to have papers. We
are a good home on 15 acres. If
anyone knows of any puppies please phone us
on 0912 201 606 or 091 2 724 595
or 852027/8 ask for Tony or
Sherry
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6.3
Anyone Lost a Weimeraner Dog (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
I found a male, 5
year old Weimeraner dog in our road leading off Drew Road
this morning. The
dog had no collar or identification on him.
He had been hit and stunned
by a car I suspect and needed medical help. He
is now being cared for and
looked after at Chisipite Veterinerary Surgery,
phone 494824.
The SPCA
have been informed.
PLEASE, if you know of anyone who owns a Weimeraner,
phone them and find out
whether their dog is not lost. He is a beautiful
well cared for
pet.
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7.
SOCIAL
GATHERINGS
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7.1
Mid Year Dinner Concert (Ad inserted 22/05/07)
Combined Phoenix/Harare
Male Voice Choir Mid Year Dinner Concert (1,2,3
June)
Venue: Hellenic
Club
Time: 1st & 2nd June 7.pm Sunday 3rd June 12.00 noon
Snacks and
three course meal. $160,000
BOOKING: Church of Nazarene, Avondale. Contact:
302030 from Monday 21st May,
Weekdays. 11.00a.m. to 2.00
p.m.
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7.2
Country Juke Box (Ad inserted 29/05/07)
Come and dance with Country Juke
Box. Bring the family. Children allowed.
Reasonable bar prices, club menu and
a great atmosphere. Wide selection of
dance music from the 60's to 90's,
Country, Boeremusiek, Rock and Roll etc.
Contact Joe on 339378 or 0912 338414
for
details.
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JAG
Hotlines: +263 (011) 610 073, +263 (04) 799 410. If you are in trouble
or
need advice, please don't hesitate to contact us - we're here to help!
To
advertise (JAG Members): Please email classifieds to: jagma@mango.zw
with subject
"Classifieds".