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November 06 2005
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By Peta Thornycroft
Harare - Zimbabwe's
opposition party, the Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC), has
split.
While Morgan Tsvangirai, its leader, on Saturday decisively
won the
battle to boycott senate elections, he lost most of his most senior
colleagues in the process.
Tsvangirai called on Saturday's
meeting of the MDC's national council
and it voted overwhelmingly against
participation in the upcoming national
elections to establish a senate,
reversing a narrow decision on October 12
to field candidates for the
poll.
Tsvangirai went against the party's constitution and ignored
that
decision. But with new-found energy, he embarked on a hectic campaign
around
the country to change opinion.
Tsvangirai's opponents in
the MDC say youth members loyal to
Tsvangirai and some in his "kitchen
cabinet" - made up of party employees
and unofficial advisers - are
conducting a violent intimidation campaign.
They
say the MDC leader has ignored decisions by elected officials
since violence
first began a year ago when Peter Guhu, the then director of
security, was
nearly killed at the party's Harare headquarters. The MDC has
26 out of 50
possible candidates registered at the nomination court for the
elections on
November 26.
The section of the MDC led by Gift Chamanikire, the
deputy
secretary-general, Welshman Ncube, the secretary-general and
Tsvangirai's
former friend and comrade, and Gibson Sibanda, the party's
vice-president,
are refusing to recognise the council's
decision.
"This was a kangaroo meeting of the national council
which has no
respect for the party's constitution," Ncube said on
Saturday.
"The only useful thing to come out of the meeting in
Harare is that a
line has been drawn in the sand and the door has been
closed to a negotiated
settlement.
"I don't know what will
happen to the MDC in the future, but whatever
it is we will not be going
forward together and we hope no candidate for the
senate elections will
withdraw."
Tsvangirai became the party's only spokesperson on
Saturday, although
he refuses to speak to either the domestic media or the
handful of foreign
correspondents left in Zimbabwe. - Foreign
Service
This article was originally published on page 1
of Sunday Independent
on November 06, 2005
Our Guy Fawkes Vigil started
quietly but ended with explosions of colour all
over London. Come to think
of it, we had a bit of explosion of colour at
the beginning when Caroline
from Exeter brought dozens of scarves in the
Zimbabwean colours to sell at
the Vigil. With winter approaching, they were
a popular choice - though the
weather today was quite benign and the
threatened downpour failed to
materialize - over us anyway. Perhaps it gave
up at the sight of our green
tarpaulin strung from the four maples outside
the Embassy.
We were
quite a market today with Francesca bringing wristbands reading
"Make Mugabe
History",for our supporters. She is an English schoolgirl who
has taken the
cause of Zimbabwe to her heart. It was lovely to see her
dancing with other
Vigil supporters to the sensational drumming of Ephraim,
Evelyn, Moses and
Julian. We were delighted that two young girls came and
joined in the
dancing, after being assured they didn't have to pay.
As happens quite
frequently, we had someone asking whether the Western media
could be
believed and was Mugabe really a bad guy. He was taken aside by
one of our
supporters - a torture victim.
Ephraim "of the drums" Tapa, Chair of MDC
Central London Branch spoke of the
importance of the Vigil in bringing
Zimbabwe to the notice of the public.
He said that the Central London Branch
along with the UK diaspora was not in
favour of the MDC contesting the
Senate elections. Julius "also of the
drums" Mutyambiizi-Dewa reminded our
supporters that the Vigil was not
political but followed the consensus of
Zimbabwean civil society.
The Vigil is pleased to report that Geoff
Hill's latest book "What happens
after Mugabe" has sold out and is being
reprinted. He is a great supporter
of the Vigil.
FOR THE RECORD:
about 35 supporters came today.
FOR YOUR DIARY: Monday, 7th October, 7.30
pm, Zimbabwe Forum at the George,
Fleet Street, London (opposite the Royal
Courts of Justice). The forum will
discuss future action particularly
focusing on the UN International Human
Rights Day on 10th December. PRIOR
NOTICE: From 21st November the Forum is
changing its venue. We will be
meeting from that day forward at the
Theodore Bullfrog pub, 28 John Adam
Street, London WC2. There will be a
more detailed notice posted on this
website nearer the date.
Vigil co-ordinator
The Vigil, outside the
Zimbabwe Embassy, 429 Strand, London, takes place
every Saturday from 14.00
to 18.00 to protest against gross violations of
human rights by the current
regime in Zimbabwe. The Vigil which started in
October 2002 will continue
until internationally-monitored, free and fair
elections are held in
Zimbabwe. http://www.zimvigil.co.uk
The Scotsman
ARTHUR
MACMILLAN
EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT
THE Zimbabwean president, Robert
Mugabe, stands to lose his honorary degree
from Edinburgh University after
students began a process to strip him of the
award.
Mugabe was
described as "one of the great figures of modern Africa" when he
received
the degree of doctor honoris causa in 1984, in recognition of
educational
programmes he instigated in the country.
But since then Mugabe's
human rights record has led him to be ostracised by
the international
community and censured by the Commonwealth.
Students are appalled at
widespread reports of massacres in Matabeleland,
torture, suppression of
freedom of speech and association and oppression of
homosexuals.
A
motion to be debated on Wednesday at the university's Students'
Association
annual general meeting will urge university bosses to rescind
the award. If
the petition is passed the association will take the matter to
the
University Court, the institution's highest decision-making
body.
Edinburgh University Students' Association president, Ruth Cameron,
said:
"This shows that students are becoming a bit more political. I don't
think
Mugabe is the kind of person that the university should be associated
with.
He was rewarded for doing good at the time but a lot has happened
since then
and the university should consider that."
The former
Edinburgh University rector and Green MSP Robin Harper said: "I
am very much
on the side of the students in this. Whether it is possible to
withdraw
Robert Mugabe's degree or not is another question. It is important
that the
regime should be challenged and it is heartwarming that students
are willing
to take this step. What Mugabe is doing is appalling."
A similar motion
was proposed by Labour students three years ago on the
grounds the honorary
degree was damaging the university's reputation. But
only 100 students
turned up to vote at a general meeting, instead of the 300
required to make
it quorate.
Mugabe was a teacher in Rhodesia and Ghana before entering
politics
full-time in 1960. After being held in detention by the Rhodesian
authorities between 1964 and 1974, he led the Zanu party to power.
A
university spokeswoman said: "Robert Mugabe's award was made based on the
merits of the case at the time. The University of Edinburgh currently has no
official procedure for withdrawing such degrees. However, the University of
Edinburgh does its best to take the wishes of the student body into account
... and further consideration will be given to this matter."
Cricinfo
staff
November 5, 2005
The gloves are off in the
battle for control of Zimbabwe Cricket, and it
seems almost anything goes,
with both sides in the dispute accusing the
other of dirty tricks, and the
newspapers clearly taking sides in the
battle.
Earlier this week,
Macsood Ebrahim, the chairman of Masvingo and the head of
national
selection, told of how the ZC board was forcing pro-board loyalists
into key
positions in his province in a bid to oust him.
On Wednesday, Ebrahim
reported that Lazarus Zizhou, who had been suspended
by the board in 2004,
had arrived at Masvingo and said he was taking over as
general manager under
orders from Ozias Bvute, the controversial ZC managing
director.
Less
than 24 hours later, Zizhou's name was all over the newspapers,
claiming
that he had been racially abused by Ebrahim. "Macsood stormed into
my office
and threatened to remove me," Zizhou told the Independent
yesterday. "He
called me a black c*** after I refused to produce my letter
of appointment
as he was demanding. I could not cooperate with him because
he has no power
to do so since he was booted out by the province."
While pro-board
newspapers have claimed that Ebrahim has been ousted by his
own province,
that is disputed by many inside Masvingo.
The timing of Zizhou's
allegation was suspicious, and while Ebrahim is not
stranger to controversy
himself, he has been at the heart of Zimbabwe's
attempts to push for racial
quotas in the national side which made the
claims all the more
surprising.
Today, Ebrahim's supporters in Masvingo rallied behind
him and issued a
letter suggesting that, in front of five witnesses, Zizhou
actually abused
Ebrahim.
How ZC deals with this remains to be
seen. It is already under fire for not
taking any action over allegations of
racial threats made by Mashonaland
chairman Cyprian Mandenge and provincial
selector Bruce Makovah when they
stopped a match in Harare. Last week,
further serious allegations were made
to the board over the conduct of
Themba Mliswa, the chairman of the
newly-created Mashonaland West
province.
There appears to be a concerted attempt to oust certain
provincial chairmen
following a meeting which produced a dossier asking ZC
many probing
questions and demanding an Extraordinary General Meeting. Aside
from
Ebrahim, Alan Walsh, the chairman of Manicaland, was reported dismissed
after a fractious meeting, but again this is disputed by provincial
officials.
© Cricinfo
Sunday Mail, Zimbabwe
Political Editor
Munyaradzi Huni
PRESIDENT Mugabe will this week summon the controversial US
ambassador to
Zimbabwe, Mr Christopher Dell, for his "undiplomatic
behaviour" that has
seen him interfering in the internal affairs of the
country by issuing
misleading statements expected from an opposition party
official rather than
a diplomat, it has emerged.
It is also
understood that Mr Dell would be asked to explain why he is
working with the
British embassy in Harare to compile a false report on the
alleged
humanitarian crisis in the country.
Impeccable sources in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs who spoke on condition
of anonymity for diplomatic reasons
said the Government of Zimbabwe "has had
enough" of Mr Dell's "undiplomatic
behaviour" and would want the diplomat to
explain why he is meddling in the
internal affairs of Zimbabwe.
"The President is not happy with Mr Dell's
behaviour. The ambassador has
been on a crusade uttering political
statements expected from an opposition
party official and I think the
President wants to put a stop to all that.
"We are not sure when he will
be summoned by the President but it's
definitely sometime this week," said
the official. Another Foreign Affairs
official said Mr Dell would be
expected to furnish the Government with the
reasons why he is working with
the British embassy to produce a false report
regarding the political
situation in the country.
"Mr Dell together with the British embassy in
Harare are currently making
consultations with other European Union member
states missions in Zimbabwe
on a draft report on the political situation
prevailing in the country.
"The reports seek to highlight that there are
gross human rights abuses and
a humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. Parts of
the draft even go to the extent
of lying that the UN has already sent a team
to assess the humanitarian
crisis in the country.
"The report is
meant for consumption by the Africa working group, an arm of
the EU in
Brussels," said the official.
The official's statement was supported by
one West African diplomat who
added that the British Embassy was
co-ordinating the compilation of the
report in its capacity as the EU
president.
"Mark Debroeker, the head of the EU Social Sector at the
European Commission
in Harare, has, however, advised the British embassy to
exclude a point
suggesting that the UN team is currently assessing the
humanitarian crisis
in Zimbabwe in the final report because there is no such
official team in
Zimbabwe," said the West African diplomat.
The
diplomat added that the Department for International Development (DFID)
is
currently consulting with other donors so that they could come up with a
joint statement condemning the Government on the alleged humanitarian crisis
following the statement from the UN expressing concern on the same
issue.
The Government, through the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has since
lashed
out at Britain for its continued abuse of the UN framework to try and
settle
old scores with Zimbabwe.
Mr Dell must have raised the ire of
the Government following a speech he
gave at the Africa University in Mutare
last week when he said the economic
crisis in the country was a result of
"corrupt rule" and not drought and
sanctions.
He said: "Neither
drought nor sanctions are at the root of Zimbabwe's
decline. The Zimbabwe
government's own gross mismanagement of the economy
and its corrupt rule has
brought on the crisis."
The ambassador made the utterances despite
glaring evidence that sanctions
imposed by his country together with Britain
and the EU have led to the
collapse of many local companies while drought
has taken its toll over the
last few years.
But Mr Dell is not a
stranger to controversy. A few weeks ago, he was caught
by security forces
after trespassing into a restricted security zone at the
National Botanical
Gardens in Harare, a move that many said was meant to
provoke an unnecessary
diplomatic incident with Zimbabwe.
After this, the Government of Zimbabwe
launched its protest to the US
embassy saying: "The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Zimbabwe
strongly deplores this flagrant
disregard by the ambassador of the United
States of America of the security
laws of Zimbabwe, a situation which would
never be tolerated in his own
country.
"Such action was taken in a calculated disregard of the rules
governing
relations between states and was clearly intended to provoke an
unwarranted
diplomatic incident."
Commenting on Mr Dell's behaviour
yesterday, the Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of Information and
Publicity, Cde George Charamba, said: "The
Government is very angry with
this ambassador. He is trying to make himself
a substitute of Tsvangirai by
taking an opposition stance not expected from
an ambassador."
Before
his posting to Harare, Mr Dell, who was coming from another "dirty"
mission
in Angola, vowed to continue his government's efforts to effect
regime
change in Zimbabwe.
When he appeared before the US Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, Mr
Dell bragged about being experienced in dealing with
"trouble spots", citing
his excursions in Kosovo, among other countries. He
told the committee that
Washington should continue to put pressure on the
Zimbabwean Government.
". I am proud to have helped in the effort to
bring about (Yugoslav
President) Slobodan Milosevic's departure from power
by 'democratic means'.
These experiences, and others from my previous
postings, have convinced me
that American engagement is critical to helping
countries such as Angola and
Zimbabwe," he told the committee.
While
in Angola, Mr Dell tried to gate-crash into ceasefire talks between
the
Angolan government and the Unita rebel movement in the remote town of
Luena
but he was told to "back off" by the negotiating partners.
Mr Dell is set
to suffer the same fate that the former British ambassador to
Zimbabwe, Mr
Brian Donnelly, met during his stay in Zimbabwe. Mr Donnelly
came to
Zimbabwe brimming with confidence that he would do a "Milosevic" in
removing
President Mugabe from power, but when he left in 2004, he had his
tail
between the legs. Due to embarrassment, Mr Donnelly ignored diplomatic
protocol and had to slip out of the country.
IrelandsSaturdayNight.co uk
By Jack Magowan
05 November 2005
TALK about Zimbabwe,
and I think of a Trevor McClintock-led golf trip there
back in the
80s.
Now retired to Scotland, the boss of Smirnoff remembers it as "a
stroll
through Kew Gardens," crowned by ten idyllic days of golf, some
lavish
hospitality, and a bird's eye view of Victoria Falls.
Here was
a nation struggling for a new identity after independence, and with
so much
to offer the tourist.
Sadly, not any more.
Today, only the golf is
welcoming as Zimbabwe has been brought to its knees
by years of greed,
cor-ruption, poverty and self-destruction.
"It's a nation in turmoil,"
says Malone's Billy Black, a past-pres-ident of
the Golfing
Union.
"The economy is shrinking so fast that Z50,000 dollars is worth
just over a
pound; queues for fuel are mea-sured more in days than yards,
and
once-fertile farms now lie scorched and weed-ridden.
"The average
wage may be less than £20 a week, but the cheapest loaf is
60p!"When Billy
was last there for the Royal Harare club's centenary, there
were close to
4,700 farms in a country the size of Spain.
Now there are fewer than 250
after the seizure of white-owned land by
machete-wielding
thugs.
Public transport is virtually at a stand-still, and only those
with for-eign
currency - or on Mugabe's pay-roll - can afford petrol at £2 a
litre.
This was golfer Black's seventh visit to Zimbabwe in 20 years, so
he has got
to know some nice people, made many lasting friendships, and
played scores
of great courses.
Like Royal Harare, where former
Linfield footballer, Jack Scott, has been
captain and president;
neigh-bouring Chapman, where Johnny Matthews from
Newry was twice captain,
and Warren Hills and Bor-rowdale Brook, two other
beauti-fully manicured
city courses.
"Golf there has an engaging, al-most adventurous appeal,"
says Bil-ly,
"especially on courses like Elephant Hills, a Gary Player
cre-ation at
Victoria Falls, and the spec-tacular Leopard Rock, on the
border of
Mozambique.
"There's a huge baobob tree on Elephant Hills
which natives tell you is over
600 years old, and warthogs and baboons roam
the fairways.
"They are no threat to golfers, but be warned.
The
occasonal crocodile is not always so friendly."Jim Carvill, Garth
McGimpsey,
Stuart Paul and Royal Portrush pro-fessional Gary McNeill, were
in the last
Ulster team to tour Zimbabwe, where Jack and Winnie Scott
plant-ed their
roots half-a-century ago, and never looked back.
Naturally, their friends
include the Cahi's, Dick and Joan (who host-ed the
Blacks), and former rugby
international, Dr Tony Browne, an old-boy of
Dungannon Royal.
In rare
moments of nostalgia, all may reflect on why they left North-ern
Ireland,
but not for long.
As pillars of an ageing white pop-ulation, they know
the country is in a
mess economically, and must be hoping for
change.
Only then will the tourists and golfers return!
JAG OPEN LETTER FORUM
Email: jag@mango.zw;
justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
Please
send any material for publication in the Open Letter Forum to
jag@mango.zw with "For Open Letter Forum" in the
subject
line.
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Ivor
Minutes
ago I read an excellent article by you reported on The Zimbabwe
Situation
website.
As an exiled Zimbabwean living in Australia I follow events as
closely as
possible.
I have concluded that in the general context of
Zimbabwe far too much is
said and not enough is done. That said I commend the
depth and perspective
and veracity of your comments.
The real crux is:
How can the great democracies force Mbeki to ACT when it
comes to Mugabe? I
believe that this is the ideal which should motivate all
parties who desire
change in Zimbabwe. I also believe that this ideal or
motive is implicit in
the view that you have put forward.
Please confirm that this is
so.
Also, would you agree that this notion should inform the aims and
actions
of all of those persons who desire to defeat terror, tyranny
and
dictatorship in Zimbabwe?
Please continue to do all that you can.
Do not rest. Leave no stone
unturned in your efforts to effect
change.
Yours in the struggle
Rob
Gass
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submitters, and do not represent the official viewpoint of Justice
for
Agriculture.
From The Sunday Times (SA), 6 November
Brendan Boyle and Foreign Desk
Zimbabwe's top
economic negotiators met Finance Minister Trevor Manuel in
Pretoria this
week in a desperate bid to avert the collapse of talks on
South African
assistance to their failing economy. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
Governor
Gideon Gono and Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa met
Manuel as
South Africa was about to abandon the loan negotiations, which
began about
six months ago. "There was a meeting and it made considerable
progress. We
are very confident that we will be able to conclude the
discussions quite
soon," South Africa's National Treasury Chief Operating
Officer, Logan Wort,
told the Sunday Times yesterday. South Africa's chief
government spokesman,
Joel Netshitenzhe, said the meeting had been requested
by Zimbabwean
officials. He said South Africa had not changed the conditions
for an aid
package, unofficially estimated to be worth up to $500-million
over two
years. "As we have always argued, the starting point is that there
should be
capacity to pay back and that would require economic revival and
political
stabilisation," Netshitenzhe said.
South Africa defined the
circumstances under which it would ratify a broad
assistance programme two
months ago and has been waiting for a signal of
acceptance from Zimbabwe's
President Robert Mugabe. The conditions
include: .A credible programme of
economic recovery, including the removal
of price and exchange rate
controls;
.A broadly accepted political settlement including a new
constitution that
enforces human rights, freedom of the media and conditions
for free and fair
elections; and
.A fair and transparent programme of
land reform to undo the negative
consequences of the farm seizures and
ensure the productive use of farmland.
Pretoria is also pressing for a
bilateral investment protection agreement to
safeguard its companies under
threat by Mugabe's government.
South African officials denied a
report by a Western diplomat based in
Harare that Pretoria had relented on
some of the political conditions. But
they said that, though South Africa
had never demanded bilateral talks
between the country's two main parties,
the fragmentation of the opposition
Movement for Democratic Change was
complicating negotiations. "At the
present moment it would be difficult to
get from [the MDC] any coherent,
united approach, so that might complicate
the situation somewhat," said one
South African strategist. Government
officials said in Harare yesterday that
teams from the two countries had
agreed to a set of conditions, which needed
final ratification. But the word
in South Africa was that the two sides
remained far from a final agreement.
South Africa is offering food aid and
strictly conditional credit lines for
fuel and agricultural inputs to ensure
a better harvest next year. "The
crops for next year will determine the
final survival or the final collapse
of the economy," said a South African
official following the talks. Aid
agencies have warned that up three million
Zimbabweans could need food aid
by early next year.
From The Daily Mirror, 5 November
Clemence Manyukwe
A 42-year-old Mabvuku woman
died on the spot yesterday after being hit by a
motor vehicle while fleeing
municipal police who had descended on a group of
residents fetching water
from a vandalised pipe. Mabvuku, like many suburbs
in Harare, has been
gripped by a serious water shortage that has seen some
residents resorting
to destroying council water pipes to access the precious
liquid. Parts of
Mabvuku have gone for three weeks without water. A witness
told The Daily
Mirror yesterday that Veronica Arufanepi was knocked by a car
while running
away from municipal police officers who wanted to arrest
residents fetching
water from a vandalised manhole. The officers, the
witness said, assaulted
residents who reacted by scattering in different
directions for safety. "We
have serious water problems in Mabvuku so
residents went to fetch water from
this particular water point. The woman
was hit by a vehicle while fleeing
from municipal police who were assaulting
residents," she said. The witness
added that the accident occurred around
6am near Mabvuku's Donnybrook road.
Harare police spokesperson, Inspector
Loveless Rupere yesterday confirmed
the incident, saying the residents fled
from the water point when they saw
the municipal police officers. "What
happened is that residents from Mabvuku
were fetching water from a
municipality manhole. When they saw the
municipality patrolmen they started
running away and in the process she was
run over by a motor vehicle," said
Rupere. The police spokesperson added
that Mabvuku residents have resorted
to vandalising water pipes in the
suburb to access the commodity.
In a recent Parliamentary Portfolio
committee on Local Government and Public
works meeting that was held with
the commission running the affairs of
Harare, MDC Mabvuku MP Timothy Mubhawu
claimed that the local authority was
scuttling his plans to dig wells for
people in the suburb who have been
grappling with persistent water cuts for
a long time. Harare commission
chairperson Sekesai Makwavarara, a Mabvuku
resident, said it was not illegal
to dig up wells and promised the MP that
they would hold a meeting to
facilitate the project. Apart from Mabvuku, a
number of Harare suburbs have
been facing water problems in recent months.
The Zimbabwe National Water
Authority (Zinwa) recently took over the
management of Harare water. The
capital city water woes are in part due to
breakdowns at water pumps and
shortage of foreign currency to import water
treatment chemicals. In some
cases, affected people have been forced to
fetch water from unprotected
sources, thereby exposing themselves to
waterborne diseases. Some
enterprising residents with access to water have
resorted to selling it for
as much as $5 000 for 5 litres. The water
problems are not confined to
Harare alone, but are a national crisis. Two
months ago, Banket was hit by
demonstrations after residents went for three
weeks without water after
Zinwa disconnected the town for failing to settle
its bill. This week,
residents of Chitungwiza also protested following a
critical wave of water
shortages. In Bulawayo, the country's second largest
city is drawing water
from Inyankuni and Insiza dams, which can only supply
the city with 90 000
cubic meters of water a day against a demand of 141
000cubic metres.
From: "Sekai Holland"
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:23 PM
Subject: Re:
MDC National Council Resolutions - November 5,
2005
Resolutions
1. That the National Council acknowledges
its omission in appreciating
the provisions of Article 13 of the Constitution
and accordingly rescinds
the
purported decision in favour of participating
in the Senatorial Election
made on 12th
October 2005.
2. For
the avoidance of doubt this council resolves that the MDC
will
not
participate in the Senatorial Election set for 26 November 2005
and shall
accordingly campaign against this election.
3. That the
National Council resolves that any candidates purportedly
registered as
senatorial candidates of the MDC on the 24th of October 2005,
withdraw their
candidature within seven days, and in the event of a default,
that
it is
acknowledged that they are not standing on the party ticket.
4. That
between now and congress the party President shall be the sole
spokesperson
of the party on all party matters.
5. That the council resolves to
maintain the unity and integrity of the
party, its leadership and its
reaffirmation of the party's commitment to its
democratic and social justice
values.
6. That forthwith the party engages in a nationwide debate and
demand for
a new people driven National Constitution.
7. The party
strengthens its relations, chemistry and interraction with
civic society and
social organisation.
8. That the party proceeds with speed to ensure
that the party Congress
is held in terms of the Constitution by the end of
February 2006.
Internal Resolutions
1. Party
Congress
i That the issue of the Party Congress be and is hereby
speeded up in
terms of the Constitution.
ii That the following
Committees be and are hereby established:
a) Congress
Preparation Committee to be chaired by the
National
Chairperson
b) Institutional Reform Committee to
manage and complete
recommendations on
administrative and
procedural issues.
c) Constitutional Amendment Committee
chaired by the Legal
Secretary
d) Logistics and
Fundraising Committee
e) Policy and Ideology
Committee
iii That District Executive elections must be conducted by
November 31st
2005 while provincial Council elections are concluded by 31st
December 2005.
2. The Council notes the suspension of Job Sikhala and
resolves that the
matter is hereby referred to the National Executive
Committee for
appropriate
action and that the party apologises to the
governments of Ghana, Nigeria
and
Taiwan.
3. That a four member
committee chaired by the National Chairperson be
and is hereby established to
engage other colleagues in the party to ensure
that
the unity, integrity
and cohesion of the party is maintained. The
Committee's other
members
shall comprise of:
Sheppard Mushonga
Thokozani Khupe
Eddie Cross
The Committee shall
conclude its work within fourteen days of the
date of this
meeting.
4. That the Council resolves that employees of the party
whose offices
and contractual place of employment is at Harvest House must
report for duty
at
Harvest House in terms of their contracts of
employment.
-- ENDS
From: Trudy Stevenson
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 10:53 PM
Subject:
Harare Municipality Budgets and Charges - public meeting Wed
lunchtime
Anglican Cathedral Hall
Harare Municipality Budgets and
Charges
Combined Harare Residents Association is holding a Lunchtime
public meeting
on the above topic on
Wednesday 9 November
Anglican
Cathedral Hall
1 - 2 pm
Please note that the Supplementary Budget
increases put into effect on 1
November are not legal because the statutory
30 days' notice has not yet
expired, while the 2006 Budget has not been
presented by 31 October 2006 as
ordered by the minister. Don't pay
unnecessary increases! Don't pay for
services not delivered!