Zim Online
Tue 8 November
2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe
Mumbengegwi is
expected to summon United States (US) Ambassador Christopher
Dell on
Wednesday for his stinging criticism of the government last week,
which the
Harare administration says was undiplomatic
behaviour.
Authoritative sources said President Robert Mugabe and
his Cabinet
would deliberate Dell's case at length at today's Cabinet
meeting in Harare
and said the Executive would instruct Mumbengegwi to read
the riot act to
the US envoy.
"We expect the Foreign Affairs
Ministry to summon Ambassador Dell this
Wednesday over recent statements
attributed to him which are of concern to
us," said a top official at the
ministry, who declined to be named.
But the official was adamant
Dell would not be expelled from Harare, a
move that could immediately see a
freeze of already badly strained ties
between Zimbabwe and the
US.
"We are not aware of these threats to expel him
(Dell) but clearly his
actions and statements are undiplomatic and he would
be told in no uncertain
terms that the government of Zimbabwe will not be
entertaining that kind of
behaviour," said another government
official.
State media had reported yesterday that Dell risked being
expelled for
continuing to meddle in the country's internal affairs after
the envoy
blamed corrupt rule and gross mismanagement by Mugabe's government
for
plunging the southern Africa nation into its worst economic
crisis.
The government media also said Mugabe would himself summon
the US
envoy but Information Secretary and Mugabe's spokesman, George
Charamba, was
yesterday quoted by the Press saying the issue would be dealt
with by
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Mumbengegwi was not
available for comment yesterday but last Friday
told journalists that the
government would issue "an appropriate statement
at the appropriate time" on
the Dell saga.
Dell's comments in Mutare last week that Mugabe's
government is
squarely to blame for plunging the once prosperous country
into its worst
economic crisis since 1980 has met with anger in Harare's
corridors of
power.
In the most forthright condemnation yet of
Mugabe's rule by a foreign
envoy, Dell said neither drought nor sanctions,
as espoused by the Harare
authorities, were responsible for the country's
economic ills.
Mugabe constantly rejects accusations of mismanaging
the economy and
instead charges that the West have ganged against his regime
as punishment
for the often violent expropriation of white-owned commercial
farms, which
critics say has resulted in food shortages
Western
diplomats were mum over the issue yesterday while officials at
the US
embassy in Harare said they had no comment on the issue.
One
Western diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity however said
they were
watching the saga with keen interest but said they could only
issue a
statement in the event of any action being taken against Dell.
Dell
was last month briefly detained by members of the Presidential
Guard after
trespassing into a restricted security zone at the National
Botanical
Gardens in Harare, near Mugabe's official State House residence, a
move
Harare said was calculated to provoke an unnecessary diplomatic
row.
Government officials said Dell was lucky not to have been
shot.
The sources said Dell was likely to be put under open
surveillance as
was the case to former British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian
Donnelly in June
2002 who was accused personally by Mugabe of being involved
in activities to
undermine the government.
Meanwhile, former
Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohammed arrived in
Zimbabwe last night on a
three-day working visit, state television reported.
It said
Mohammed, one of Mugabe's closest allies, is today expected to
deliver a
lecture in Harare on civil service reform. Top government
officials and
chief executives of government-owned companies are expected to
attend the
lecture, according to the television report.
Mohammed is en route
to the Southern African International Dialogue
biennial fete scheduled for
Maseru. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Tue 8 November 2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Timber Producers
Federation (TPF) has said about
Z$1.3 trillion (nearly US$22 million) of
export timber was lost to forest
fires since the beginning of the year,
adding that the government was for
political reasons reluctant to act
against black farmers accused of causing
the fires.
In a report
to Environment Minister Francis Nhema at the weekend,
federation chairman,
Joseph Kanyekanye, said the fires were largely caused
by black villagers
some of them illegally occupying plantations but many of
them settled there
by the government contrary to its earlier claims that it
would not seize
plantations for redistribution to landless blacks.
Kanyekanye, who
said the damage caused to plantation agriculture could
take up to 20 years
to correct, said damage caused by forest fires since
2000 when the
government began its chaotic land redistribution exercise was
greater than
damage incurred in the previous 30 years before the land
seizures.
"In 2000, the Forest Act was sidelined in favour of
the Land Reform
Programme. Since then, the plantations have had little
protection against
fires. Fire damage in the last four years is greater than
the previous 30
years added together," Kanyekanye said in his
report.
In many cases plantation managers have reported the black
farmers to
the police for burning down forests but the police have shown
unwillingness
to arrest the farmers because they considered the matter to be
political,
according to Kanyekanye.
"(There is) frequently no
reaction (as the) matter would be deemed
political. The absence of policy
and related lawlessness is encouraging
illegal occupation of plantations,"
the TPF chief said.
It was not possible to get comment from Nhema
or Home Affairs Minister
Kembo Mohadi on Kanyekanye's report.
President Robert Mugabe and his government have since 2000 seized
white-owned land, parcelling it out to landless blacks in what they said was
a campaign to correct an unjust land tenure system that reserved 75 percent
of the best arable land to the minority whites while blacks were cramped on
poor soils.
More than 90 percent of the country's large-scale
producing white
commercial farmers were forcibly evicted from their
properties under the
chaotic and often violent government land reforms that
have also seen food
production plummeting.
Zimbabwe has in the
past five years avoided famine only because
international food agencies
provided food aid. But a third of the country's
12 million people face
starvation between now and the next harvest around
March/April 2006 unless
more than one million tonnes of food aid is urgently
provided.
Mugabe's government had said it would not seize plantations and game
conservancies but backtracked on its promise allowing its supporters to
seize huge tracts of forestry and game conservancy land.
It is
estimated that more than 50 percent of Zimbabwe's wildlife may
have been
lost to poachers during the chaotic government farm seizures. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Tue 8 November 2005
HARARE - The Zimbabwe government on
Monday said it would not reverse
plans to seize the giant Mkwasine sugar
estates owned by South Africa's
Anglo-American Corporation.
Speaking ahead of Friday's visit to Zimbabwe by Anglo officials trying
to
persuade the government to return Mkwasine, Willard Chiwewe, the governor
of
Masvingo province, in which the estate is located, said the South African
firm should not expect any favours from Harare.
"I look
forward to meeting them on Friday but they should know that
Mkwasine Estates
tatora (we have taken over) . . . . we will leave them
with Triangle and
Hippo Valley only," Chiwewe said.
Triangle and Hippo Valley are
Zimbabwe's largest sugar estates and
like Mkwasine are located in the
country's south-eastern lowveld.
The 11 500 hectare Mkwasine sugar
estate was last September issued
with a Section 8 order which under the
government's land acquisition laws,
gives the company 90 days to wind up
operations and vacate the property.
Although the government had
initially said it was not going to seize
timber, tea and sugar estates, it
appears to have backtracked on the promise
with several estates now targeted
for acquisition by the state.
Harare's plantation seizures are also
in violation of bilateral trade
and investment protection agreements with
several countries including its
major ally, South Africa.
President Robert Mugabe's farm seizure programme has destabilised the
mainstay agricultural sector knocking down food production by 60 percent.
The southern African nation, once self sufficient in food, has since the
farm seizures which began five years ago virtually depended on food handouts
from international aid agencies. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Tue 8 November 2005
JOHANNESBURG - At least 200 blind
Zimbabwean immigrants are living on
the streets after they were last week
evicted from some municipal-owned
flats where the local authority said they
had been staying illegally.
The evicted families, who survive on
begging on the streets of
Johannesburg, were staying in the poor suburbs of
Berea and Hillbrow after
fleeing hunger and economic hardship in Zimbabwe
over the past five years.
One of the evicted Zimbabweans, Andrew
Swetu-Mutero, said they were
ejected out of the flats last week after the
Johannesburg city council said
they were occupying the properties
illegally.
"Right now we have nowhere to go and the rainy season
has just
started. When we left Zimbabwe to come and settle here, we brought
our
families including children . . . . But now things have become very
difficult for us here," he said.
Efforts to get comment
yesterday from the Johannesburg city
authorities on the evictions failed.
But the council has in the past carried
out similar evictions of people who
had taken over some run-down buildings
in a bid to revamp the
city.
At least three million Zimbabweans, a quarter of the
country's 12
million people, are living outside the country the majority of
them in South
Africa after fleeing home because of the economic and
political crisis.
Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for
Democratic Change party and
the West blame President Robert Mugabe for the
crisis which has seen prices
of basic foodstuffs soaring beyond the reach of
many.
Mugabe however denies ruining the economy blaming the crisis
on
sabotage by Britain and its Western allies whom he says are unhappy over
his
seizure of white-owned land for redistribution to landless blacks five
years
ago. - ZimOnline
Mail and Guardian
Johannesburg, South Africa
08 November
2005 08:02
Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
leader Morgan
Tsvangirai was chased away by party youths at a rally in
Lupane on Monday,
that country's Herald Online reports.
It quoted MDC sources on Tuesday as saying youths opposed to
Tsvangirai's
boycott of Senate elections "camped" at Somhlolo Stadium to
stop their
leader from speaking.
Apparently, no one else turned up for
the rally.
"Tsvangirai was sent scurrying when a group of
youths came
rushing to his car, threatening to beat him up. He was parked by
the garage
near the main Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway to gauge the mood
of the
people of Lupane," said an MDC member.
"But before
he could do anything, youths came running from the
stadium and wanted to
beat him up. When he [Tsvangirai] saw them coming, he
quickly jumped into
his car and they sped away towards Bulawayo."
Some of the
youths were said to have followed his entourage up
to St Luke's to make sure
that it did not return to Lupane.
"The message to him was
loud and clear: he is not welcome here
in Matabeleland with his anti-Senate
views," said a high-ranking member of
the MDC.
Tsvangirai
is on a tour of Matabeleland North to address party
supporters and campaign
for a boycott of the Senate polls scheduled for
November
26.
Tsvangirai's spokesperson, William Bango, said the MDC
leader
boss did not flee Lupane.
"There was no plan to
address a rally in Lupane. The only rally
was at Dete. After addressing that
rally, he [Tsvangirai] left." -- Sapa
Simon
Tisdall
Tuesday November 8, 2005
The Guardian
Christopher Dell,
the US ambassador to Zimbabwe, did not mince words.
President Robert
Mugabe's government was guilty of gross mismanagement and
corruption, Mr
Dell said in a speech last week. "No wrongs are righted. The
rule of law
(is) in a shambles."
Zimbabwe's economic collapse was due primarily to the
seizure of 5,000
white-owned farms, not drought or limited western
sanctions, he said. The
"astonishing" nosedive in agricultural production
had reversed 50 years of
progress in six years.
Article
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Mr
Dell is not alone in his criticisms. Thirteen western governments
including
Britain issued a joint statement in Harare at the weekend
demanding Mr
Mugabe accept that Zimbabwe faced a deepening crisis, caused in
part by the
government's urban clearance operation, Operation Murambatsvina
(Restore
Order).
"Tens of thousands of people [are] still homeless and in need of
assistance
five months after the eviction campaign began," the statement
said. It urged
Mr Mugabe to reverse his decision to reject international aid
as
unnecessary. Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, made a similar appeal,
saying he was "deeply concerned about the humanitarian
situation".
Whatever the Mugabe government may say, Zimbabwe's position
looks
increasingly perilous. Various estimates suggest food shortages now
affect
half the population; 4 million people face famine. Average life
expectancy
has halved in a decade, the economy has contracted by 30% in six
years, and
unemployment is about 70%.
A special UN inquiry last
summer condemned Operation Murambatsvina as a
"catastrophe" that violated
international law. It had displaced 700,000
people and affected another 1.7
million. Unicef estimated 250,000 children
were made homeless.
Human
Rights Watch said the evictions had disrupted treatment for people
with
HIV/Aids in a country where 3,000 die from the disease each week and
about
1.3 million children have been orphaned. The operation was "the latest
manifestation of a massive human rights problem that has been going on for
years", said Amnesty International.
"Zimbabwe's governance has
reached a low point which it is now almost
impossible for its neighbours to
ignore," the independent International
Crisis Group said in an
investigation, Zimbabwe's Tipping Point.
But all these statements and
reports have yet to bring an effective
international response - and have
been flatly rejected by Harare. State
media reported yesterday that the US
ambassador faced expulsion "for
interfering in the country's internal
affairs".
Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, the foreign minister, accused Britain
last week of
manufacturing a "fictitious crisis" and mocked its failure to
take Zimbabwe
before the UN security council. Mr Mugabe continues to accuse
"hypocritical"
Britain of masterminding an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy against
its former
colony.
Critics of British and western policy say a
tougher, more proactive approach
is needed if the UN's "responsibility to
protect" principle is to have any
meaning, and if many Zimbabweans are to be
saved from catastrophe this
winter.
"Mugabe's brutal expulsion of
white farmers was only a trial run. He has
since persecuted and starved
hundreds of thousands of black Zimbabweans,"
Andrew Mitchell, the shadow
international development secretary, said
yesterday. "The government should
be doing more to coordinate a response
with what used to be called the
frontline states, the UN and other African
countries, particularly South
Africa.
"You try everything. You don't take no for an answer. What Mugabe
is doing
is immoral and wrong."
We in MDC
must accept that to differ is not to be disrespectful. Why did the Gibson led
faction boycotted the National Council meeting on Saturday? There is no doubt
that Morgan Tsvangirai did not handle the first debate on the Senate tactfully
but why Gibson Sibanda and others decided to boycott a meeting to resolve their
differences is shrewd and suspicious.
To an outside world, MDC has
never had internal differences, far away from it. Like an organization the
purpose of having meetings is both for the purpose of information dissemination
and making conclusive decision based on human suffrage. Past differences were
resolved amicably using the constitution to whip every member into line. A good
example is when Morgan, Welshman and Gasela were caught in the web plot by Ben
Menashe and the Madison PR company. There was a feeling of mistrust that the 3
acted outside the party lines to meet a dubious PR company just like what Mugabe
did with the intervention in the DRC war without parliament approval, and the
suspension of Sikhala, Musekiwa, Jongwe and Mashakada for infighting and the
firing of Gwisai. The party was able solve these serious misdemeanours with no
protracted fighting unlike this Senatorial election fiasco. That to me were
graver than the Senatorial election but as a party we resolved it amicably. What
then has changed in Zimbabwean politics to warranty this political mudslinging?
Mugabe is still the dictator he was, ZANU (PF) is still in power plundering the
economy of Zimbabwe wily nily. As I see it the only thing that has changed is
the value of the dollar, of course to the worse. I would not be wrong then if I
say that the infighting currently in MDC is born out of greedy and economic
survival. I don’t stand to be corrected that none of those being political
manipulative and thick still have the struggle at heart. They will have very
little to show me that there are not sell-outs to a struggle that has been for a
very long time on course through blood of sons and daughters of Zimbabwe. Surely
if MDC agreed to talk with ZANU (PF) in the last aborted talks what makes MDC
fail to talk to MDC if they are still committed to the struggle.
While
in my last article I alluded to Morgan Tsvangirai making an error of political
judgement, I have always supported the total boycott of the senate and the Lower
House and anything ZANU. In principle there is need to have a political
consensus on such matters and they must be no political grey area. I repeat, it
is wrong to use a decree to solve an electoral process and what ever Morgan want
us to believe, I remain adamant that he should have campaigned for the no vote
rather than leave it to the mercy of political vultures, if you can not convince
your own subordinates on what is a matter of principle then how then do you
expect to convince ZANU (PF) that you are an alternative government, it sounds
sordid to say the least. Worse still if you agree to a voting process then be
prepared for any outcome and be the first to admit defeat if it comes your way.
If as a matter of principle you needed it reversed, then you must use your
leadership charisma to force reason unto your doubting Thomases, such is the
language of politics.
Lets look at the pending results of the Senate
election. ZANU (PF) has already 40 seats out of 66 possible seats even assuming
those registered to participate under MDC tickets win the elections. If numbers
are to go by, then ZANU (PF) has already hijacked the electoral results. It is
then illogical to expect anything coming from the 26 November election. How does
MDC even justify being in the House of Parliament as window dressers for ZANU
(PF)? Gibson and Morgan must stop behaving like school hooligans. There must be
dialogue and unity of purpose. Let the congress decide who should lead the party
rather than start snatching none existing powers from each other. What ever is
happening in MDC is giving Mugabe the longest laugh. MDC belongs to us the
people of Zimbabwe those bent on hijacking it for their own personal gains must
be warned that history will be at your mercy.
Elliot Pfebve
I do not know if you have ever experienced a sudden death
in your family?
Two years ago my son in law, Antony, died from a heart attack
without any
real warning. We had just spent a wonderful few days with them
and their new
baby who was just 5 months old at the time. He was a highly
intelligent, fit
man of 34 years and was headed for a superb career as a
lawyer. He was also
a man of impeccable integrity and real personal faith,
and perhaps most
special to us; he deeply loved our daughter and was besotted
with their
first child after 11 years of a happy marriage.
I do not
think we will ever recover from the nightmare of that day when our
daughter
phoned us from the emergency medical clinic in Harare and told us
Antony was
dead. Even today it is tough for us to talk about and we often
grieve the
loss as his young son grows up into such a splendid young man
near
us.
The past week two friends died suddenly here in Bulawayo - first,
Phil
Whitehead who, like Antony was a fit man and died running a marathon
for
charity in Bulawayo. Phil leaves behind Sandy and four children. Then
on
Friday, Dave Lowe died after a very short illness. Also a big man
and
someone who never gave the impression of having anything wrong with
him.
Dave leaves behind Tracy and two teenage girls.
Let me tell you,
no experience is tougher than this. We all grieve with
Sandy and Tracy and
wish we could stand in their place and take the hurt,
but we cannot. It does
not help that both men were highly successful in
business, were men of faith
and courage and principle. That they were both
wonderful dad's and deeply
loved their families and their homes. Phil was
the CEO of a tyre
manufacturing plant here and Dave ran one of the largest
engineering
factories in the country.
They were both outstanding individuals -
working hard for a better future
for all in Zimbabwe and they simply cannot
be replaced. All of us who knew
them and worked with them will miss them very
deeply. But none of us will
know the deep pain and sense of loss of Sandy and
Tracy and the kids. The
girls will especially miss their father and his
guidance and love as they
grow up and find their own feet in the world. We
will have to rally round to
see that the families are cared for and are not
left alone to face the
future. That is the very least we can do and perhaps
that is one of the
wonderful things about life here is that we do care for
each other in a
special way.
We all ask questions at a time like this
about the meaning of life and ask
why God should allow things like this to
happen? It is not a question that
is easily answered and anyone who has a
glib answer is wrong. We know that
God shares our sense of loss, that He
weeps with us when things like this
happen, what we find difficult to
understand is why He did not just step up
to the plate and use His power to
prevent something that has such profound
consequences for everyone associated
with the two men. But I think that the
two men themselves would have
understood that sometimes as a manager, with
real power over events and
circumstances, all of us have to take decisions
for the sake of the company
rather than the simple welfare of the people who
working within its
bounds.
Every manager knows that the first loyalty of a manager with real
power (a
CEO) is to the company and its survival and welfare. This commitment
is why
they are Chief Executives and why they have power and others do not.
All
company decisions must past one acid test - is it the best decision there
is
for the company as a whole in the short and long term.
So God looks
down on His creation - mankind included - and must make
decisions that are
right for the whole of creation and not simply right for
a time for small
parts of the whole. Many times that involves real sacrifice
for Him, as we
know that he deeply cares about and loves the world and all
it's creatures.
That love is especially held for those who are of faith and
who live their
lives, or try to live their lives, according to the tenets of
God's rules for
life on earth. Antony, Phil and Dave were all such people.
When life strikes
down those who fit such a category, God weeps with us and
grieves with us in
our loss just as much or more so as we do. Especially as
He knows he could
"fix" the problem - but only at the expense of what He
knows is the greater
good.
So the question really is "what is the greater good that justifies
such a
loss?" The answer to that question is as complex and deep as the
answer to
the first question and there are no glib answers. However I feel
that if God
intervened every time we petitioned Him, mankind would not need
faith and
hope as cornerstones of their lives as Christians in a fallen
world. Jesus
said it all when He said to His disciples "In the world, you
will have
tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world!"
In other
words, life in this sphere of existence means tribulation and
trouble of all
kinds. It is a normal part of life.
The trick is to see
that what God does for us during these trials and
tribulations is to walk
with us - in fact to walk in our shoes, know our
pain and loss just as if He
was really here. He also helps us to overcome
these trials - not partly but
completely so that we become "more than
conquerors, through Him who died for
us." Whatever the trial - we can emerge
more as real overcomers in every
sense of the word. In fact that is the real
wonder of life in Christ - not
being raised from that sickbed to live as a
whole person again but to somehow
be a whole person in that bed. To become a
real example of what it means to
be transformed by the Spirit of Christ who
lives and works through us in
every circumstance of life.
That has been my experience - even in the
darkest hour and I just pray that
the women who have been left behind by the
sudden deaths of their loved ones
and the kids who share their loss, will
somehow find the strength and faith
to carry on and to live a life of victory
and thankfulness for the joy of
having lived with and known these fine
men.
A prisoner of conscience and faith who spent 25 years in
solitary
confinement in a Soviet jail, said at a conference I attended in
Europe that
he often felt a deep longing to go back to that cell because
there the love
of God and faith in Christ was a deep reality. When we go
"through the
valley of death" we will know that "His rod and His staff will
comfort us".
Wish it was otherwise, but it isn't.
Eddie
Cross
Bulawayo, 6th November 2005.
Business Day
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The
letter, Mugabe must accept UN help (November 4), by Joe Seremane of the
Democratic Alliance, is pathetic and lamentable.
Seremane must not
disgrace himself by pretending to be a friend of Zimbabwe
when his party is
regarded negatively by all patriotic people of Zimbabwe.
He and his party
represent the past and it would do him good to wake up to
reality.
Apartheid is dead and buried. We live in a new era. For the
record, the
Zimbabwe government has never taken a decision to reject
humanitarian
assistance from the United Nations. Such a decision exists only
in Seremane's
mind.
President Robert Mugabe and Kofi Annan met
recently at the UN world summit
in New York and agreed that a humanitarian
co-ordinator from Annan's office
would be sent this month to Zimbabwe to
assess the clean-up operation
Restore Order and its aftermath. The UN
humanitarian co-ordinator was
supposed to come to Zimbabwe and report back
to Annan before he himself
visits Zimbabwe. The person has not yet
arrived.
After Operation Restore Order, the Zimbabwe government embarked
on massive
construction of houses throughout the country under Operation
Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle to accommodate those who were affected by operation
Restore Order and others. These houses are permanent structures, not
slums.
If the UN is keen to assist, government welcomes it to direct its
resources
to constructing permanent structures, which is government policy
anyway and
the reason temporary, unplanned structures had been
destroyed.
Our people deserve no less. Hundreds of houses have been built
already. The
beneficiaries are already on various sites, a clear
demonstration of
government commitment to housing delivery.
I am
aware that when Joe Seremane last visited Zimbabwe, he ended up at
Harare
Airport. I understand his bitterness, but that must not obscure his
mind to
live in a world of falsehoods and fiction. Zimbabwe shall never be a
colony
again.
Simon Khaya Moyo
Zimbabwean Ambassador
Pretoria
Xinhua
www.chinaview.cn 2005-11-08
05:34:23
HARARE, Nov. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Three little known
opposition
parties in Zimbabwe have formed an alliance named the Zimbabwe
Opposition
Parties Council, which seeks to provide a platform for the
opposition to
share ideas.
Parties participate the alliance
are Zimbabwe National
Congress,National Alliance for Good Governance (Nagg)
and the Multi-Racial
Open Party of Christian Democrats.
The
president of Nagg, Llyod Chihambakwe said on Monday the
alliance was a
working group meant to bring together all opposition parties
in the country
in a bid to unseat the ruling Zimbabwe African National
Union-Patriotic
Front (ZANU-PF) through constitutional means.
Zimbabwe's
fractious opposition has failed to provide a formidable
challenge for
ZANU-PF, which has won all parliamentary and presidential
elections held
since 1980. Enditem
New Zimbabwe
By Lebo
Nkatazo
Last updated: 11/08/2005 15:24:42
ZANU PF has taken the control of
Chitungwiza Municipality following the
appointment of a ruling party
functionary to take charge of the affairs of
the municipality.
Local
Government Minister, Ignatius Chombo, said Monday that MDC mayor,
Misheck
Shoko, had failed to run the affairs of the politically volatile
town as
evidenced by the collapsing service delivery system.
The minister imposed
on the council Chitungwiza's District Administrator
Godfrey Tanyanyiwa, a
known Zanu PF supporter whom he said would be
reporting directly to
him.
Shoko will keep on reporting for duty, but if he fails to co-operate
with
the minister or Tanyanyiwa, he would be fired.
"This is meant to
bring back sanity," Chombo said.
The takeover of Chitungwiza follows a 24
hour deadline the mayor was issued
with by the minister "to come up with a
turn around strategy".
Last week, Zanu PF supporters set the stage for
the take-over after barring
the mayor and all officials from entering
council premises.
Chombo visited Chitungwiza a day later and issued the
ultimatum.
Shoko is on record as saying the problems faced by Chitungwiza
are beyond
the control of his council as they their solutions lie with the
government
putting its house in order.
He singled out the
non-collection of refuse which is being caused by fuel
shortages which have
crippled service delivery countrywide.
Over the years Chombo has replaced
MDC-led councils with people loyal to the
ruling party.
Opposition
officials complain that in cases where councils fail to deliver
or
councilors are corrupt, he has not taken action if they belong to Zanu
PF.
In Chinhoyi which is under the control of Zanu PF, council
officials have
been arrested before on allegations of flouting tender
procedures but the
minister has never issued a public statement on the
issue.
New Zimbabwe
By Lebo Nkatazo
Last updated: 11/08/2005 16:19:35
LOCAL
Government Minister, Ignatius Chombo, has reinstated 10 Zanu PF
Chegutu
councilors more than a year after they were suspended on corruption
allegations.
Chombo said the 10, who form part of the ruling party
dominated council,
headed by a lone MDC member, mayor Francis Dhlakama, have
to come back to
work since time for their suspension has lapsed with no
charges having been
preferred against them by the police.
Only one
ruling party councilor, Wellington Macheka, out the 11 Zanu PF
councilors,
has been convicted and would not be reinstated, Chombo said.
Chombo
suspended the councilors in May last year after an audit team he
appointed
unearthed rampant corruption that included favoritism in the
allocation of
stands, abuse of council funds, and mismanagement, among other
things.
Chombo's decision goes against the audit team recommendations
that all the
councilors be fired for corruption. Apart from a damming report
by Chombo's
audit team last year, the fourth report of the Sixth Parliament
of Zimbabwe's
Portfolio Committee on Local Government also recommended the
sacking of the
ruling party members and the jailing of deputy mayor, Phenias
Mariyapera.
Mariyapera was accused of muzzling the municipality and
interfering in its
affairs therefore hindering the operations of the
executive.
He was also pinpointed in the disappearance of about $150
million from
council's drying coffers by placing his disciples in key
strategic positions
in the finance and recruiting departments whom he would
then manipulate.
The committee blamed some of the rot on Zanu PF
factionalism which it said
was making Chegutu "ungovernable".
Read
the committee's report: "Your committee was highly disturbed by the
effects
of Zanu PF factionalism that existed in the town. While your
committee
recognises that factionalism was normal and progressive, it was
disturbed by
the damage it has done to Chegutu town."
The report said some of the
effects of the factionalism were that a
"youthful mafia" was resorting to
extensive damage of council property such
as blocking water and sewer pipes
in order to discredit others.
New Zimbabwe
By Lebo
Nkatazo
Last updated: 11/08/2005 15:40:22
ZIMBABWEAN farmers have rebuffed
government moves to force them into a
single farmers' union, charging that
it was an attempt to control their
activities.
Over the past five
months, the government, under the guise of the need for
the country's farmer
unions -- the commercial farmers Union (CFU) the
Zimbabwe Farmers Union
(ZFU) and the Zimbabwe Commercial farmers Union
(ZCFU) -- "to speak with one
voice", has been agitating for their
amalgamation.
On October 26,
Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said the three unions should
disband and
form a single entity to do away with what he termed the colonial
legacy
where blacks had their own organisations, with whites having theirs.
Made
has not been alone in making these calls.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)
governor, Gideon Gono has also pushed for a
single union saying "there are
too many voices" in the farming sector.
However, on Monday, the unions
said they would not follow the government's
directive. CFU president Doug
Taylor- Freeme said there was no need for the
government to interfere in the
affairs of farmer unions.
"The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) and the
Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) are
working closely and co-operating on many
issues concerning our unions and
our membership," said
Freeme.
"Although the CFU supports the concept of the unions speaking
with one
voice, this does not mean amalgamation of the unions. Agricultural
unions
are grassroots, membership driven organisations and will continue to
function with a bottom up approach.
"Everyone should focus their
attention on maximising production rather than
have their minds diverted by
the issue of amalgamation. Rather than talking
about that (amalgamation), we
should be aligning ourselves to producing
without interference as we are in
a serious situation," the CFU president
added.
ZFU Vice President
Edward Raradza said the issue of the merger should not be
imposed on them
and could only be done if it comes from the unions
themselves.
"The
country's laws are very clear. Everyone can belong to a union of his
choice," the ZFU vice president said.
New Zimbabwe
By Chikoko Muponde
Last
updated: 11/08/2005 15:36:00
WHAT is happening in the MDC should force us to
ask questions about ideas of
democracy and the constitution.
If
Tsvangirai believes in free and fair elections, why is it that he goes on
to
reject the outcome of an election he suggested himself? Will he be able
to
accept results of any election that do not promote his own vision and
ambitions? And, for the pro-senate faction, why do they also not accept that
46 out of 70 (or 52 out of 66 as reported) members of the so-called
all-powerful National Council attended the meeting and overturned the
watershed 33-31 vote last October? Is there anyone in the MDC who likes to
lose? Something is rotten in the MDC party, and the sooner members of the
party get to the bottom of it the better for the struggling democratic
forces.
The faction that favours participation in the senatorial
election is
presenting strong arguments about defending whatever space the
electoral
process allows them. But it seems to be the benefits of fighting
for and
maintaining that space are just symbolic. To put it in Chenjerai
Hove's
conscience-raising words on the same issue, the pro-senate faction is
out
'kunodziya moto wembavha'.
Real practical benefits have not been
delivered in most MDC territories
acquired through mayoral or parliamentary
elections, nor have the MDC's
presence in parliament been respected by the
ruling party which is
determined to reduce it to mere nuisance
value.
This is where Tsvangirai's argument makes sense. To what extent
can a party
constitution be allowed to enslave the majority of the people it
sets out to
represent, even if the so-called all-powerful National Council
would like to
make MDC followers participate in something that has no moral
principle? The
pro-senate faction seems to believe in legality or
constitutionality without
morals or conscience. They would like to make us
believe that conscience is
not a basis for breaking the
law.
Prisoners of conscience like Mandela will laugh at them. Mugabe will
crack
his fists at them, because if he had been schooled by the pro-senate
faction
in the MDC, he would never have led ZANU PF into a ruling
party.
But that Robert Mugabe is not laughing at the pro-senate faction
is not
because he is not aware of their timely gullibility and foolishness
that
will soon render them irrelevant to Zimbabwean politics. Mugabe himself
knows any politician who ties himself to serving unjust laws, whether of his
own making or not, will never know the true taste of unfettered liberty.
That is why the state controlled political editors are suddenly giving acres
of space to every utterance by Gibson Sibanda, Gift Chimanikire, Paul Themba
Nyathi and Welshman Ncube. Wily Mugabe is luring them into what will finally
choke them for good. It is not daydreaming to think that a Unity Accord 2 is
in the offing, but it will be with the Bulawayo-based faction, as it was in
the past. It will still lack a broad-base, and will be supported by the
elite, not the general povo. Hence there is need for the pro-senate faction
to think through the limitations of their constitutionality, and stop being
viewed as Ndebele ethnic leaders (in spite of pushing Gift Chimanikire to
spew venom once in a while, and having all but one of the white legislators
in their wings). Will the white section of the community be better served by
an ethnic and elitist politics or broader mass movement, the latter which
overlooked their whiteness as MPs?
Leaders must have that extra
vision beyond the clauses of a constitution.
But ultimately, the
constitution must be respected, if it respects the will
of the people, the
minorities and the majorities. How the constitution
should balance this is
something that the MDC should be thinking about.
In a technical sense,
Tsvangirai has not respected the constitution of the
MDC. The 33-31 vote
shows the pro-senate lobby had a simple majority, but
whether it translates
to a majority in terms of the grassroots support is
still very questionable.
This is perhaps why Tsvangirai decided to challenge
his electoral loss by
going back to the people. From what we read in the
papers, his rallies are
well-attended, and the key constituencies that
ultimately decide the fate of
any popular leader in Zimbabwe, the women and
youths and the workers are
fully behind Morgan Tsvangirai.
So, who does Welshman Ncube and Gibson
Sibanda and his faction represent?
Elites in the MDC who have no national
appeal? If the numbers game is
pursued to its logical conclusion, Tsvangirai
has a larger national
following, much larger than the numbers that the
pro-senate faction can
manage. As it has turned out, many other districts
and provinces have now
rallied behind the Tsvangirai faction. Only the three
Matebeleland provinces
have stood out as the champions of the 33-31 vote.
What actually happened
during the 12 October National Council election? Why
have the supporters of
the pro-senate faction dwindled so fast? Why would
the secretariat of the
MDC not call for another election if they were so
sure the 33-31 result was
binding and immutable? So, is the MDC constitution
serving the interests of
its many followers or the elites and their narrow
interests? Isn't it time
the party gets down to the business of amending its
constitution, or
redrafting it, to make it more responsive to the wishes and
struggles of the
common members of society, than try to make us believe that
its laws are
immutable. Aren't there professors and legal scholars in the
party who
understand that when laws begin to work against popular
aspirations they
become redundant and causes of friction and war? Aren't
there historians and
war veterans in the party to remind all of us why the
liberation war was
fought in the first place? Aren't there poets and priests
of conscience in
the party to remind all of us that when the yoke of unjust
laws becomes too
heavy, the protest of the prisoner of conscience finds
echoes in the depths
of the suffering of the poor?
If the pro-senate
faction believes Tsvangirai is a dictator in the making,
and is unwise and
uneducated because he has flouted the MDC constitution,
the same can be said
about the dictatorial and oppressive tendencies of the
MDC Constitution
which rejects a person's right to be directed by the pangs
of his
conscience, whether he is in the majority or not. Fortunately in this
case,
Tsvangirai's conscience speaks to the majority of the population, and
that
of the pro-senate faction is still to be tested at grassroots level.
Recent
events have shown that it is now a wobbly pro-senate faction that is
threatening to take more than half of the MDC membership to court in order
to insist on its discredited, and rejected politics of elitism and
tribalism.
Retreating to Bulawayo as a place of bitter memory in
order to score points
is in itself one way of playing tired politics. Zanu
PF tried in the past
twenty years to cool the pain of Matabeleland by
promising Zambezi water,
and recently by donating computers to schools, but
the Matebeleland vote
still eludes them. The pro-senate faction is aware of
the elusiveness and
bitterness of the Bulawayo vote, and would like to split
the MDC party in
such a way that Matebeleland remains forever quarantined,
hounded and
marginalized by frustrated politicians desperate to sign Unity
Accords with
them. For as long as the pro-senate faction holds Matebeleland
hostage, that
part of the country will forever remain a Ndebele space, and
not a national
space. It will forever be oppressed by the sentimental
politics of always
being regarded as the mourned ones, without real value
being delivered in
terms of development and national integration. There is
need to develop a
broader, trans-ethnic vision of history, which recognizes
that forces that
unleashed Gukurahundi on Matebeleland in the 1980s, are the
same ones that
unleashed Operation Murambatsvina across the country in 2005.
Retreating and
restricting politics to the hurts of one geographic space
will miss the
broader links that are important for the democratic
struggle.
Bulawayo people should reject people who speak into their pain,
and feed on
the fodder of the painful past, in order to get seats in the
discredited and
impoverishing senate, or ministerial posts as a result of
political
handshakes and compromises. What we are seeing in the pro-senate
lobby is
real battle fatigue and a politics of accommodation. They would
rather rest
sooner than continue with the painful struggle to realize the
highest
possible moral and political standards in Zimbabwe. I do believe
that those
who seem to think that the break up of the MDC at this stage is
the darkest
hour of democracy are rather too squeamish. Zapu went through
this, and Zanu
was born. Zanu Pf still struggles with factionalism, but it
does not stop it
from ruling, whether you agree with how it rules or not.
Why should being in
the MDC be so romantic, rosy and
buddy-buddy?
History has its own ways of correcting, and even repeating
its own
anomalies. The break up should be welcome as an early-warning
system, even a
cleansing process, well before another presidential election.
It could have
been worse if Zimbabweans had suddenly found themselves ruled
by a bunch of
people who brandish the constitution, however immoral it might
be, as if it
is all there is to life and politics. Whichever MDC faction
will come on top
of the situation, will now have the opportunity to refine
and redefine its
mandate and politics, and come to the common market begging
for votes. Only
in this regard is it pertinent to ask whether Tsvangirai has
finally become
his own man.
Chikoko Muponde is a researcher based in
Johannesburg
Business Day
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Dumisani
Muleya
Harare Correspondent
ZIMBABWE's main opposition
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader
Morgan Tsvangirai has given
candidates who registered to contest the
forthcoming senate election a week
to withdraw from the poll or risk
expulsion.
Tsvangirai's
ultimatum comes as analysts fear the split in the MDC is
irreparable,
leaving the two camps in the party fighting for control.
The MDC's
infighting has over the past month diverted attention from
President Robert
Mugabe's ruling Zanu (PF) power struggle and the worsening
economic problems
in the country.
However, US ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell
last week shifted the
spotlight back onto the regime by unleashing a
ferocious attack on Mugabe's
government. He said Mugabe had ruined the
economy through "gross
mismanagement and corrupt rule".
Dell, who
was recently briefly detained in Harare for allegedly trespassing
into a
security zone in a public garden near Mugabe's home, said the
president
should "lay to rest his threadbare pretexts that drought and
targeted
sanctions has caused economic decline because they don't hold under
scrutiny".
Government-owned newspaper the Herald on Saturday began a
smear campaign in
retaliation to Dell's comments by claiming that the
American ambassador was
a sexual pervert visiting "unseemly" areas, and
threatened his diplomatic
immunity. Mugabe has said he would call Dell for
an explanation.
Tsvangirai said MDC candidates who would not have
withdrawn from the
controversial election scheduled for November 26 by
Saturday would be
dismissed.
"I am giving all the MDC members who
chose to go against my will and contest
the (senate) elections seven days to
withdraw or be fired from the party,"
Tsvangirai told a rally at the
weekend.
The MDC leader tried and failed two weeks ago to block 22
candidates from
registering with the electoral commission to participate in
the election.
The opposition only fielded 22 instead of 50 candidates due to
the
infighting.
For the first time in public, Tsvangirai admitted
that his party is divided
down the middle over the senate election between
factions led his deputy
Gibson Sibanda and himself.
In a move
to assert his authority over the party, he said he would use the
continuing
wrangling to eliminate dissenters. "This has created an
opportunity for me
to weed out members who have gone against my will," he
said.
"(Sibanda) and secretary-general Welshman Ncube and their
supporters should
know that I hold the keys of the party. As long as I am
still the leader,
they have to do what I want since they are my
juniors."
"I have worked with Gibson for over 20 years but can't let him
have his way.
I can't be found negotiating with him and the
secretary-general since they
are my juniors," he said.
The
two MDC factions clashed after Tsvangirai overruled the party's national
council decision to participate in the election. The MDC leader convened a
council meeting on Saturday to rescind the decision to fight the
election.
However, the Ncube camp said the meeting was unlawful because
it was not
held in terms of the party constitution. They said its decision
was
"fraudulent and thus null and void". The faction has accused Tsvangirai
of
violating the MDC constitution "willy-nilly" and of being a "dictator in
the
making".
On Saturday Tsvangirai said in Harare: "The council
rescinds the decision to
participate in the senatorial election. For the
avoidance of doubt this
council resolves that the MDC will not participate
in the senatorial
election set for November 26 and shall accordingly
campaign against this
election."
The meeting was attended by 52
of the 66 council members, although boycotted
by four of the party's top six
leaders, who are pushing for participation in
the poll. The Ncube faction
said the council meeting was largely attended by
people who are not
members.
Tsvangirai said he noted President Thabo Mbeki's efforts
to mediate in the
MDC crisis, but it was "not necessary because we have
internal mechanisms
and capacity to deal with such issues".
He
said the four senior MDC officials who met Mbeki on October 21 over the
issue were not "authorised to make that trip and I wasn't aware of
it".
Tsvangirai has formed a four-member team headed by party
chairman Isaac
Matongo to mediate in the MDC squabbles. Mediation efforts by
Professor
Brian Raftopoulos, which started two weeks ago, collapsed last
week.
JUSTICE FOR AGRICULTURE CLASSIFIEDS - November 7,
2005
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GERMAN
SHEPHERD MISSING FROM HIGHLANDS on 29 October 2005 Chaka went
missing on
Saturday night and was last seen at about 23h00 on Kensington
Road. If anyone
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grateful if you would
call him ASAP. Reward offered for her safe return.
Please call KEVIN on 011
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1.1
Household Goods (Ad inserted 25/10/05)
1 X IMPERIAL 8 CUBIC FT
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1 X IMPERIAL FRIDGE
1 X 8 CUBIC FT GAS DEEP-FREEZE
1 X
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1 X
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1
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CHILDRENS' PINE
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1 X CRASTER SWIMMING POOL PUMP, MOTOR & FILTER
1 X TELEFUNKEN
STEREO WITH 3CD DISC CHANGER & DOUBLE TAPE DECK (AS NEW)
1 X NIKKO RADIO
CONTROL CAR
1 X HIGH LEVEL JACK
1 X COMMET PUMP (FOR AGRICULTURAL SPRAY
BOOM)
1 X COMPRESSOR
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Car For Sale (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
A Ford Ranchero for sale. Good
condition. 4.1 Litres, strait 6. $250 000
000-00.
Please contact Carmen
on 091 615 656 or Ron on 775
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Motor car for sale (Ad inserted 01/11/05
BMW 2800 for sale; rebuild
incl.new tyres and respray.
For details,contact
Paul:09-64727
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For Sale (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
"THE WEAVERY."
Phone your orders
to--Anne--011212424 or 332851.
Email joannew@zol.co.zw
Fax--332851.
SUPER
GIFT IDEAS FOR LOCAL OR OVERSEAS FRIENDS AND FAMILY. LIGHT,EASY TO
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Prices:
Small
crocheted bags--$108,000 each.
Small woven bags--$110,000 each.
Large
crocheted bags.--$175,000 each.
Large woven bags.--$225,000
each.
Table Runners.--$165,000.
Set of 4 Fringed Table mats +
serviettes--$460,000.
Fringed mats only(4)---$335,000.
Set of 6 Fringed
mats+ serviettes--$690,000.
Set of 4 Bordered table mats+
serviettes---$550,000.
Bordered mats only(4)--$425,000.
Set of 6 Bordered
mats + serviettes--$825,000.
Set of 8 Bordered mats +
serviettes---$1,100,000.
2m
Throws--$600,000.each.
Traycloths--$80,000.
Jug
covers--$45,000.
Tea cosy(L)--$80,000.
Tea cosy(m)--$75,000
Tea
cosy(s)--$70,000.
Crocheted oven gloves(pair)--$220,000.
Oven
gloves(pair)--$125,000.
Oven
gloves(single)--$60,000.
Aprons--$225,000.
Decorated cushion
covers--$225,000.
Plain cushion covers---$155,000.
Round crocheted
cushions--$185,000.
Scarves--$220,000. each.
Hats--$122,000
each.
Ladies jerseys(med.)--$985,000 each.
Woven
waistcoats--$520,000.
Large plain cotton rug--$500,000.
Med. plain
cotton rug---$325,000.
Small plain cotton rug.---$205,000.
Cotton Rag
Rug--$205,000.
Med. plain mohair rug--$375,000.
Med.patterned mohair
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X Large plain mohair rug.--$1,500,000.
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Wholesale prices available for orders(over 6 of an article) or
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1 x Standard double bed -
5M
2 x single beds/ solid base - 3M each
1 x Mukwa dining room suite round
table 1,5mts dia plus 8 green draylon
chairs with side board, three drawers -
30M
2 x Parker -Knoll chairs - 5M each
1 x winged back lounge suite - 3
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Assorted lampshades - all items in good
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Digital Gram Scale measures up to 200grams
used for gold etc - brand new -
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English made 17" Fan - $4
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Plastic Sealing machine (foot operated ) hardly used -
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White wooden baby cot - $4 million
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1 x Hostess Trolley
1 x
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1 x 2 drawer Dressing Table with Mirror
(Saligna)
1 x medium fridge (Ocean)
1 x Monarch 390 3 plate stove
1 x
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Various Burma Teak furniture (this
wood is now extinct I am told).
Chest of drawers
Breakfast
table
Side Table
Many beautiful solid wood bookshelves -
(The new
year is coming and then everyone will be looking for a bookshelf
which will
be out of stock in Jan 2006).
Several solid wood good bedroom chairs.
2 x
OLD OAK Bookshelves.
2 x Dark Oak Dining Room Chairs.
1 x OAK drop leaf
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1 x Oak Chest of Drawers (4 x drawers).
1 x Oval oak table - medium
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2 x Panga Panga Dining Room Chairs.
1 x Nursing Chair.
2 x Office
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attention.
1 x
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sewing
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Various strong large tables (dining and kitchen)
One
veneer table large for a Site office/back verandah -old and
reasonably
priced.
1 x round Mahogany (1.25) - dining table.
1 x
Humungous Heavy Dining Room table (Cottage style - very heavy).
In fact -
tables for Africa!! (these tables do not have chairs.
Tables with chairs
:
1 x Old shaped Table (very good wood - not sure of type) - with 6
Oak
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1 x Antique round dining room table
with 5 chairs (large).
1 x Burmese teak table with 4 chairs - a beauty and
very beautifully
covered.
1 x Petrol lawnmower FROM GERMANY.
1 x
electric lawnmower (field flight).
Set of (metal) garden table with 4
chairs.
2 x garden chairs metal with 2x small side tables.
9 Plastic
garden chairs excellent condition.
3 Garden benches (rustic type).
1 x
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Steel Lounger - A true beauty ! (No
cushions).
1 x Single Bed - base and mattress (mint condition) plus headboard
covered
in draylon.
1 x double mattress.
2 x 3/4 beds in really good
condition.
Bunk beds with mattresses. Can be used as a unit or the 2
beds
side-by-side PRISTINE CONDITION.
Some computer desks without
drawers - great size enough space for
printer, scanner etc.
Computer
trolley for top of desk or to be used on the side.
Various smalls: too many
to list.
Lots of Kenwood parts - come and scrounge.
2 x watercolour
paintings.
Cups and saucers 2/3 sets.
2 x sets coffee cups small and
beautiful.
Glasses galore.
Oldish Dinner service - not the full
set.
CASH CRUSADER TEL : 302 081
86 EAST ROAD
AVONDALE
(Just
down the road from Reps Theatre, and the same road as the
Trauma
Centre)
Wilma 091 237
216
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1.10
For Sale (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
GAS STOVE FOR SALE, PARKINGSON COWAN
PRINCE TWO, WITH 3 GAS BOTTLES : 2 X
14KGS AND 1 X 4.5KGS.
$25 000
000.00 O.N.C.O.
Please call Shelley on 490684 or 091
264361
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1.11
(Ad inserted 01/11/05)
Located at Haddow House 10 east Road Belgravia are
the following shops.
· Gallop Gear, has clothes and accessories for all
ages.
· Stable Mates, is stocked with Crazy Cutlery and Laura's
Linen.
Haddow House is a wonderful place for Christmas Shopping.
kilbride@zol.co.zw
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1.12
For Sale (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
1) Full sized pin pong tables and trestles.
Z$ 12, 000,000 delivered
Harare.
2) Children's coloured chairs. Z$
250,000 each
Contact: mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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1.13
Plants for Sale (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
FERNATIC NURSERY
Now that the
weather has warmed up and the rains are almost here, it's time
to garden
again! For a variety of FERNS, PINK ARUMS & various other plants
visit
FERNATIC Nursery on Crowhill Road. (1,8km past the Brooke on the left
just
before Hoggerty Hill Drive.) 8-12noon, 3-6pm. Closed
Sundays
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1.14
PIANO FOR SALE (Ad inserted 02/11/05)
J & J HOPKINSON walnut upright
piano for sale. $50 million. Just been
tuned and serviced. Anyone
interested please phone Mandy Gilmour 011
204680 or 069
3878.
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1.15
Fertiliser for Sale (Ad inserted 02/11/05)
Have the following fertiliser
available for sale, please let me know ASAP
if you want it:
compound S
5t
compound C 10t
A/N 20t
Contact Colin Beattie
email colinb@zol.co.zw
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2
WANTED
ITEMS
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2.1
Pets (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
I am looking for 2 jersey dairy cows and 2
children's ponies. Contact
Charlotte Wood phone 091 235 700 or email msitwe@zol.co.zw
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2.2
Pets (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
Wanted - 5/6 year old Labrador for elderly lady
in Dandaro. Pls phone Erin
Maberly on 744825 or 091-406088 or email erin@matmark.co.zw
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2.3
Pets (Ad inserted 02/11/05)
Wanted - one dachshund puppy for a young boy.
Please quote for both male
and
female. Phone evenings Pam Shaw
04-301031.
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2.4
Pets - Home Wanted - (Ad inserted 04/11/05)
Two Jack Russells looking for
kind and loving home. Tiger and Tina both 6
years. House trained, good little
watchdogs. Owner can't keep them as he
has moved into a flat. Tel Michelle on
884294 or e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw
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2.5
Pets - Home Wanted - (Ad inserted 04/11/05)
Home wanted for young dog with
super nature. He is about 18 months and is a
boerbull/Labrador, cream in
colour. Found abandoned, longing to be loved.
Tel Michelle on 884294 or
e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw
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2.6
Car Wanted (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
Motor Vehicle Wanted - Small to medium
sized late model car, Mazda 323 or
similar type. Must be in good condition
Sale could suit someone planning
to emigrate. Please e-mail owen@zol.co.zw or phone (069) 8 441
or
011201797.
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2.7
Houseboat to Buy (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
We have a client who wants to
purchase a houseboat. He wants to use it on
the Gariepdam in South Africa.
If you have any available please send us
the details plus
photo.
Contact H A Coetzee, P O Box 207, BURGERSDORP, 9744
Contact
number 051 6531794 or 082 774
3406
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2.8
Houseboat Wanted to Hire (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
HOUSEBOAT WANTED TO HIRE
for period December 27th - 3rd January for 11 pax.
Contact Pat Townsend 011
208836 townsend@zol.co.zw
I can
supply fuel if
necessary...
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2.9
Fluepipes Wanted (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
33 m of tobacco flue pipes - old
or new
Patrick
Mobile + 263 91 274327
Tel/Fax + 263 4 495
433
email - tpc@mweb.co.zw
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2.10
Generators (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
10 MW Diesel Generators
requirement
Large Diesel Generators - Power Plant with power ratings of 10 MW
x 2 units
each firing HFO fuel for continuous duty to operate in tropical
desert
climate.
Offer package should include accessories, civil works
and connection to the
national grid
Immediate Requirement 10 MW x 2 units
Total 20 MW
Future requirement 10MW x 3 Units Total 30
MW
Total altogether -
50
MW
Supply Chain, Dubai,
UAE
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2.11
Deep Freeze (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
We are looking for an "Engel" camping
deep freeze - medium size - 40 to 50
litre or something similar? If anyone
has one to sell please contact
Bridget Holland at holland@zol.co.zw
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2.12
(Ad inserted 26/10/05)
WANTED TO BUY FOR CASH. Any old editions of
Wisden Cricketers Almanack.
Contact mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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2.13
(Ad inserted 01/11/05)
WANTED. Cattle salt.
Contact mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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3.
ACCOMMODATION WANTED AND
OFFERED
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3.1
House Offered (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
Available from 1st November for rent
.......
Buddlia free standing house in Dandaro Village Borrowdale... Phase
5.
Please phone 091602033 or 497095 evenings. Failing that 011608715
email
heathmoore@zol.co.zw
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3.2
House Sit (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
We are looking for a farming couple to
house sit and look after our
seedling nursery in Marondera for a period of
six months. Please contact
Andy - email walton@zol.co.zw
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3.3
FOR RENT (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
DOUBLE STOREY THATCHED COTTAGE ON
MSASA-CLAD HILL TOP IN KAMBANJI. 2
DOUBLE EN-SUITE BEDROOMS, SITTING
ROOM/DINING AREA, EQUIPPED KITCHEN,
SCULLERY, UPSTAIRS LANDING AREA (IDEAL
FOR TV ROOM, STUDIO OR OFFICE
SPACE), WOODEN DECK VERANDAH ON BOTH LEVELS.
COVERED PARKING. ELECTRIC
GATE, FENCE, NIGHT GUARD. FURNISHED OR
UNFURNISHED. AVAILABLE
IMMEDIATELY. MUST BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED! CONTACT
499119 or
091248330.
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3.4
For Rent (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
3 Bedroom house, 1 bathroom, separate
toilet, Lounge,
Separate Dining Room, Kitchen. Close to town. Rent $5
million per month
plus lights, water and rates, $5 million deposit required.
Lease 1 year
with rental review every 4 - 6 months.
Please contact
Denise Wilson on 733442 or email to tanyaw@vision.co.zw
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3.5
For Rent (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
Bromley (55km outside Harare)
Large
airy two bedroomed self contained flat furnished or unfurnished,
attached to
farmhouse. Animal lover essential. Handyman a huge asset.
Available
now.
$1,500,000.
200 Acres grazing partly burnt with green grass.
Fences need attention
after fire. 6 stables in paddock. Rent neg.
Tel
073-3399
011-423
614
333852
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3.6
For Rent (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
Lovely furnished and equipped house to
rent in Ballantyne Park area of
Harare
A must-see fully furnished and
equipped house comprising three large double
bedrooms all with build-in
cupboards and en suite bathrooms, a fully
equipped kitchen, pantry, dining
room, living room with fire place, large
terrace, garage, swimming pool,
satellite dish and borehole. The house is
situated in a quiet close, well
secured and fully alarmed, fully walled and
it has an electric gate. All
furniture and furnishings are provided,
washing machine and tumble dryer,
crockery and cutlery * down to towels and
bed sheets.
The house is a
well-maintained golden oldie with wooden floors and wooden
beams on the
ceiling, lots of original fittings and furnishings, just
breathing old
English style. The garden is huge with sprawling lawns, a
large variety of
trees and lots of flowering plants. Presently, the old
jacaranda trees are
in full bloom and by April the entire garden will smell
of roses.
A
reliable gardener will remain to look after the garden and swimming
pool.
There are three domestic quarters, several storerooms and there is
a
vegetable garden. For the bird lovers, there are plenty of indigenous
birds
that live on or visit the garden.
Sounds enticing? Well, it is.
The house is available for a fixed period
only, short or long term, so ideal
for expatriates. Rental is negotiable.
Ballantyne Park is an upmarket leafy
neighbourhood of Harare, about 20"
drive from the city centre, near to
schools and shopping centres.
For more information or viewing, call + 263
4
882170
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3.7
Accommodation offered (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
Flat with own bathroom and
kitchen. Furnished. Electric gate and fence.
Use of pool. Electricity,
water, cleaning and laundry included. $6m p.m.
Contact Bown 023 316 739
(cell) 702402 (working
hrs).
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3.8
Accommodation offered (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
Cute house in Imbeza Valley,
Mutare for rent. Would suit a person who
wants to grow stuff and chill.
Please make contact through this email
address pollyanna@comeone.co.zw
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3.9
Accommodation offered (Ad inserted 04/11/05)
Free Accommodation offered
to displaced farmers - 16km from Mutare on main
Vumba Rd.
Contact:
Colleen Taylor
c/o Leopard Rock Hotel 020-60115
Home 020-81061
e-mail
lrock@zol.co.zw
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3.10
Wanted (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
SINGLE MATURE LADY LOOKING FOR UNFURNISHED
GARDEN FLAT OR COTTAGE (EITHER
ONE OR TWO BEDROOMS WILL BE SUITABLE) AND
URGENTLY REQUIRED.
CAN BE IN AVONDALE, MARLBOROUGH, MT PLEASANT AREAS OR
SURROUNDING SUBURBS.
HIGHLANDS OR BORROWDALE AREAS WILL ALSO BE
SUITABLE.
PLEASE CONTACT 091-704-066 REGARDING THIS
MATTER.
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3.11
Wanted (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
Looking for affordable accommodation from
the end of December. A cottage,
small house or garden flat (in good
condition, child friendly environment).
To be occupied by a couple with a
child and four kittens/cats. Please
contact Carmen Van Wyk on 091 615 656 or
(work) 575
431-3.
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3.12
Wanted (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
URGENT!
ACCOMMODATION TO RENT
SINGLE
MOM WITH TWO CHILDREN DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR 3 BEDROOMED
UNFURNISHED GARDEN
FLAT, HOUSE OR COTTAGE. CAN BE IN HIGHLANDS, GREENDALE,
AVONDALE,
MARLBOROUGH, MT PLEASANT AREAS ETC
CONTACT CAROL 091 603847 OR EMAIL vanessas@zol.co.zw
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4
RECREATION
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4.1
HOLIDAYS (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
Savuli Safari, self catering chalets in the
heart of the Save Valley
Conservancy. Game watching, fishing, horse riding,
canoeing, walking trails
and 4x4 hire. Camp fully kitted including cook and
fridges. Just bring
your food, drinks and relax. $500 000 pppn, 1/2 U/12.
Booking at
Off2Africa, phone 498480, or 091-943195 email: emma@off2africa.co.zw
or direct 091
631 556 or savuli@mweb.co.zw
John
Tayler
Singisi Farm
Pvt. Bag
7011
Chiredzi
Zimbabwe
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4.2
Ad inserted 01/11/05
GACHE GACHE LODGE - Kariba
With the weather now nice
and hot, it is time to go up to Kariba! Book for
this ideal family holiday
now, especially if you like to catch a fish!
(Xmas & New Year full,
sorry)
Contact tourleaders@zol.co.zw for more info
today!
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5
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
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5.1
(Ad inserted 26/10/05)
ZEB Water Back-up Systems
Tired of erratic,
unreliable water supplies or low water pressure? Invest
in a reliable water
back-up system. We supply, install and maintain water
back-up systems to all
areas in and around Harare.
WE ARE NOW ABLE TO DELIVER UP TO 7000 LITTERS
PER DROP OFF to fill your
tank if you have been off municipal for some
time!
For more information please contact us on 011-424712 or 011-806525
e-mail
bowen@zol.co.zw
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5.2
Ad inserted 26/10/05
Oxford IT
A leading IT professional recruitment firm,
with specialized staff, are
ready to meet your recruitment needs. Give us a
call today to secure top
calibre personnel for all your IT
requirements.
Don't Hesitate - IniTiate!
Call : Monique Fachet or
Melissa Ricardo on 309274 (Direct) or via
Switchboard on 309800 - 17 (Ext 270
or 272)
Oxford IT
Agriculture House
South East Wing
Cnr Adylinn
Road/Marlborough
Drive
Marlborough,
Harare
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JAG
Hotlines:
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please
don't hesitate to contact us we're here to help!
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The Independent Institute
November 7, 2005
Franklin Cudjoe
Tanzanian
President Benjamin Mkapa will step down this week, complying with
his
constitutional term limits. He will be the third African leader in
recent
times to honorably leave office following the departure of Nelson
Mandela of
South Africa and Jerry Rawlings of my country, Ghana.
At the same time
that Mkapa hands over power as required by the law, he is
urging his
colleagues to discard the political system and warning other
African leaders
to be wary of the present competitive global political and
economic order
because globalization threatens to "exploit, denigrate, and
humiliate
Africa." But one might ask whether Africa's problems are really
caused by
globalization.
This message particularly smacks of a return to the
pre-independence
rhetoric that made the creation of political kingdoms a
greater priority
than development and fed the overwhelming urge of many
leaders to remain in
power long after the colonialists were gone. No wonder
President Yoweri
Museveni of Uganda has cunningly severed all ties with his
country's
constitution since he managed to give himself a de facto third
term.
These ideas are as dangerous today as ever. At a time when the
continent
strives to liberate itself from the expansive powers of
postcolonial
governments and the politicization of society brought about by
them, the
real need of the day is economic freedom. Alas, the economic
situation is so
bad in so many African countries that young men are fleeing
their own
governments, trekking through the vast and dangerous Sahara desert
and
struggling over heavily guarded barbed wires to look for better
opportunities in Europe. Unfortunately, many die on this pilgrimage of
freedom.
African countries greatly increased exports to the U.S. in
2004, generating
revenues of over $26 billion in that year. Jeans made in
Lesotho are sold in
U.S. stores. Flowers from Kenya and vegetables from
Senegal are regularly
available in European shops. The use of mobile phones
and the Internet is
growing faster in Africa than anywhere else in the
world, according to the
United Nations.
Globalization can hardly be
blamed for the fact that only 10 percent of
Africa's trade takes place among
African countries themselves. With 750
million people living on the
continent, the potential for the expansion of
trade must be enormous. Very
little trade has been allowed in this poorest
of continents where tariffs
are almost as high as 50 percent and where
highway robbers dressed as
customs officials block free exchange.
What is it that motivates Nigeria,
which calls itself the giant of Africa,
to ban the importation of ninety-six
different products from Ghana when both
countries have duty-free and
quota-free access to the U.S. markets for 6,500
of their products? So what
sort of globalization does Benjamin Mkapa want
Africans to be wary
of?
But the West is also guilty here as there is little incentive to
encourage
trade because foreign aid is piled on the leaders who make these
economic
policies.
It is widely reported that an African child dies
of hunger and malnutrition
every three seconds while in the same period
African leaders steal $14,000
from their people and put it in foreign bank
accounts. In the words of
Milovan Djilas, they squander the nation's wealth
as though it was someone
else's and dip into it as if it were their
own.
Isn't it strange that exactly two weeks after the G8 deal that wrote
off 80
percent of my country's debt, all our parliamentarians, who earn $300
per
month, are to receive $25,000 each in free car loans and $60 a day in
rent
allowance? I call it free car loans because five years ago they each
received $20,000 but have yet to pay it back.
It is insulting that
the bill for this lavish behavior is passed on to the
disrespected poor as
they struggle to pay a 40 percent tax on fuel that is
used to support, among
other things, government entities that consume almost
one-third of the
country's fuel.
One would have thought that African leaders would be
better advised to use
resources to build the infrastructure that will
increase the volume of trade
within the continent and thereby improve
economic activity. But President
Benjamin Mkapa's men are too busy
harvesting where they have not sown.
You might ask why those in Niger go
hungry when Nigeria, its next door
neighbor, has abundant food. And how it
is that Zimbabwe, a country that
used to be the food basket of Southern
Africa, now has thousands of starving
citizens?
Does President
Benjamin Mkapa know that African farmers use less than
one-twentieth as much
fertilizer as those in the West in part because import
duties and red tape
make fertilizer eight times as expensive as in Europe?
For the same reasons,
ordinary Africans pay ten times more for air travel
than those on other
continents.
Every ordinary African faces innumerable government-created
bottlenecks in
any enterprise they attempt. As the government has become the
majority
employer in these countries, the range of employment opportunities
has been
reduced and the government's limitless public borrowing has crowded
out the
private sector's access to capital.
Even the World Bank, one
of the few remaining organizations still doling out
free money to
governments, now confirms that of the twenty countries in the
world where it
is most difficult to do business, seventeen are African.
Capital is a
cowardly bird. It flies to safer places where it expects to
earn better
returns. 40 percent of Africa's private investment takes place
outside of
the continent, while only 3 percent of Asia's investment takes
place
overseas.
If there is to be any hope for long term prosperity in Africa,
Africans must
be given the predictability that comes with the rule of law,
the protection
of private property and free markets, and decentralized
management of
resources. This will harness local knowledge along with the
creativity,
diligence, and thrift that is natural to
Africans.
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Franklin
Cudjoe is head of the Ghanaian think tank Imani: The Center for
Humane
Education in Accra and an Adjunct Fellow at the Independent
Institute.
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This
piece is for the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent
Institute.
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