Zim Online
Thu 16
February 2006
MUTARE - A state-appointed commission running
Zimbabwe's fifth largest
city of Mutare has ordered property owners in the
city to repaint and
renovate buildings because the city must look beautiful
when it hosts
President Robert Mugabe's 82nd birthday celebrations next
week.
Although Mugabe's birthday is not a formal state occasion, it
is
however celebrated nationwide by both the government and the veteran
President's ruling ZANU PF party.
The 21st February Movement,
named after Mugabe's date of birth - 21
February, 1924 - holds a public
music and entertainment gala every year to
mark the President's birthday.
And Mugabe's speech to the country's youths,
which is the highlight of the
celebrations, is broadcast live to the nation
on state
television.
The birthday galas are rotated from
province to province and this
year's gala will be held in the city of Mutare
in the eastern province of
Manicaland.
In a notice published in
local newspapers this week, town clerk,
Morgan Chawawa, ordered residents to
spruce up their properties at their own
expense to ensure Mugabe - the only
ruler Zimbabweans have ever known since
independence 25 years ago - will
find the city in a pleasant state.
Chawawa said: "Notice is hereby
given in terms of Section 31 of the
operative, Mutare Town Planning Scheme
number one that all owners of
buildings in a state of neglect in the city
are required to either repaint
or renovate their buildings to improve
external appearance of the buildings
at their own expenses.
"The city of Mutare is expected to be in a pleasant state in
preparation for
hosting the 21st February Movement event."
The town clerk did not
say what punishment will befall those who fail
to make the city of more than
500 000 beautiful ahead of Mugabe's visit.
Both Chawawa and
chairman of the commission running Mutare, Kenneth
Saruchera, could not be
reached on Wednesday for further clarifications on
the matter.
Saruchera's commission is running Mutare after the government fired
the
elected but opposition-led council.
Business leaders from Mutare
who spoke to ZimOnline were however
unhappy that they will have to incur
huge and unbudgeted costs renovating
their properties simply because Mugabe
will be visiting the city for a few
hours and this after having been
arm-twisted by the local ZANU PF leadership
to contribute a total Z$10
billion to cover the costs of hosting the
President's birthday.
"They must just tell businesses to improve their premises not because
the
city is hosting Mugabe's birthday celebrations but as normal practice to
have a good image of the city," said Garikayi Mawoko, a businessman based in
Mutare.
ZANU PF provincial youth chairman Enock Porusingazi has
in the past
few weeks sent circulars to business owners requesting them to
donate cash
to fund Mugabe's birthday party.
Business people
have learnt to quietly comply with such requests as
failure to do so will
result in one being labelled a supporter of the main
opposition Movement for
Democratic Change party and therefore liable to
retribution by ZANU PF
militias.
Mugabe, who founded Zimbabwe from the ashes of the
British colony of
Rhodesia in 1980, has maintained an iron grip on the
nation since then.
But his rule has come under increasing pressure
in recent years as the
country grapples its worst ever economic and food
crisis, critics blame on
repression and wrong policies by Mugabe. He denies
the charges.
Mugabe looks physically fit and foreign diplomats
based in Harare who
have met him recently testify that his intellect and
grip on facts remains
sharp. But doubts about the President's health have
remained since he
collapsed in November 2000 at a public function in
Malaysia. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 16 February 2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe's
inflation rate, already one of the highest in the
world, could breach the
900 percent mark in the next three months unless
Harare urgently moves to
bridle non-performing parastatals and adopts
tougher measures to boost
foreign currency inflows, analysts have warned.
The country's
annualised rate of inflation rocketed to 613.2 in
January, up from the 585.5
percent recorded the previous month. This was
about nine percentage points
shy of the all-time record of 622.8 percent
reached in January
2004.
Warning that the actual rate of inflation may be even higher
since the
official figures do not take into account prices on the black
market - the
source of basic commodities for most consumers - economic
experts said
Zimbabweans should expect more hardships in coming months as
prices
skyrocket.
"The official rate of inflation is likely to
surge above 900 percent
in two to three months' time as long as there is no
firm foundation on which
to build (Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor
Gideon) Gono's recovery
programme," said an analyst with a Harare-based
stockbroking firm, who did
not want to be named for professional
reasons.
Gono has conceded that inflation would continue to rise
until March
this year when it could hit 800 percent before relenting to end
2006 at
between 220 and 230 percent.
The RBZ chief, tasked by
President Robert Mugabe to curb inflation and
inspire revival of Zimbabwe's
comatose economy, also projects the inflation
rate to decline further to
double digit levels by mid-2007.
The analysts, however, said the
RBZ would have a difficult time
attaining its inflation target, particularly
if it continued to resort to
the ineffective monetary targeting and high
accommodation rates for
financial institutions.
"Monetary
targeting will be ineffective for as long as the RBZ
continues with its
quasi-fiscal activities. In fact, hidden in these
quasi-fiscal activities
are high budget over-runs whose financing is
continuously exerting
inflationary pressures," financial services group,
Zimbabwe Financial
Holdings (FINHOLD), said in a commentary.
The central bank doled
out about Z$6 trillion to farmers last year
under its Agricultural Sector
Productivity Enhancement Facility (ASPEF),
funds that ended up being abused
by the recipients.
But the analysts said the RBZ was largely to
blame for the rise in
prices of goods and services.
"The
quasi-fiscal activities of the RBZ have been largely responsible
for the
growth in money supply and this has had the effect of nudging on
inflation,"
said the stockbroker.
RBZ quasi-fiscal operations pushed money
supply growth from 178
percent in January 2005 to 412 percent in November of
the same year.
The analysts said the effects of money supply growth
have a lag, which
means that the impact of the monetary expansion
experienced late last year
would only be felt from February.
The fuel industry was also expected to exert more pressure on
inflation.
Besides Zimbabwe's increased vulnerability due to rising
international oil
prices, sustained upward pressure is seen coming from
increases in the price
of the commodity on both the official market and the
black
market.
A litre of fuel now sells for between Z$170 000 and Z$180
000 at
filling stations, and between Z$200 000 and Z$260 000 on the
street.
Such increases, and expected price hikes for other goods
and services,
would nudge inflation beyond the 900 percent mark by the end
of March, the
analysts said.
Economist James Jowah noted that
confidence-building was the only
solution to the problem of rising
inflation.
"Confidence has been severely eroded over time due to
lack of a clear
policy direction in the economy, especially in agriculture,"
he said. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 16 February 2006
MASVINGO - Masvingo provincial
governor Willard Chiwewe is being
probed after the police impounded 40
tonnes of fertilizer believed to belong
to the governor and which police
suspect was earmarked for sale on the
illegal black-market.
Chiwewe is the highest ranking government official in Masvingo and is
the
official representative of President Robert Mugabe in the province.
Authoritative sources told ZimOnline that police bust an illegal
fertilizer-trading racket when they raided a warehouse in Masvingo city's
heavy industrial area and discovered 800 standard 50 kg bags of Ammonium
Nitrate fertilizer worth about Z$4 billion.
Ammonium Nitrate
fertilizer, in high demand in the country during this
time of the year, is
however in critical short supply but is readily
available on the
black-market, though at more than double the official
price.
Masvingo police spokesman Charles Munhungei confirmed that one man had
been
arrested while a local businessman and a politician were still being
probed
by the police over the matter although he said he was not in a
position to
confirm to ZimOnline whether the politician involved was
Chiwewe.
He said: "I can confirm the arrest of one man while a
businessman and
a local politician are under investigations following the
discovery of 800
bags of fertilizer in the industrial area (but) I cannot
confirm or deny
that the politician is our local Resident
Minister
Chiwewe's other official title is Resident Minister of
Masvingo
province.
The governor refused to take questions on
the matter saying: "Let the
police do their job because I can not comment on
an issue in which I am
suspected of being an interested party."
But our sources said senior police officers in the province were
developing
cold feet on the matter and were leaning on their juniors to
abort the probe
despite clear evidence linking Chiwewe to the fertilizer.
"Our
bosses are trying to block the whole case despite us having
evidence linking
the governor to the case because we have receipts (from the
fertilizer
supplier) which were issued in his name," said a junior
policeman, among
officers who discovered the fertilizer.
High profile ruling ZANU PF
party and government politicians have used
their influential positions to
access basic commodities including
agricultural inputs that are scarce in
the country for resale to ordinary
citizens at exorbitant
prices.
Mugabe has on several occasions publicly spoken against his
top
officials fuelling the black-market and even set up an Anti-Corruption
Ministry that was among other things expected to curb the illegal parallel
market. But little has changed on the ground. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 16
February 2006
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe police yesterday arrested 21
students from the
country's National University of Science and Technology
(NUST) who were
protesting against the government's decision to hike fees at
all state
universities.
NUST is owned by the
government.
The arrested students, who were part of a larger group
that was
demonstrating at the university grounds, were still locked up at
Bulawayo
Central police station by late last night. But a police spokesman,
Andrew
Phiri, said the students might appear in court today to face charges
of
malicious injury to property because they allegedly vandalised buildings
during their protests.
The government this year more than
doubled fees at its universities
saying the costs of maintaining the
institutions had skyrocketed due to the
country's inflation.
Meanwhile, the police in Harare were by last night still detaining the
192
women they arrested on Valentine's Day for protesting against the
government.
The women were arrested outside the Parliament
building where they
were demonstrating against worsening economic hardships
in the country.
One of the lawyers representing the women, Otto
Saki, said: "The women
are still in detention but the police are charging
them under the
Miscellaneous Ofences Act which has an option of a fine." -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 16
February 2006
JOHANNESBURG - The Media Institute of Southern Africa
(MISA) on
Wednesday criticised Zimbabwe's ambassador to South Africa, Simon
Khaya
Moyo, after he accused the South African Broadcasting Corporation
(SABC) of
unfairness in its coverage of Zimbabwe.
MISA director
in Zimbabwe, Rashweat Mukundu said Moyo's remarks
amounted to unwarranted
interference in editorial matters insisting the
ambassador had no right to
determine the kind of coverage the SABC should
accord
Zimbabwe.
Mukundu said the remarks were also surprising because
Zimbabwe was
receiving a lot of positive coverage on SABC.
In a
letter to the SABC, Moyo accused the public broadcaster of being
driven by a
hidden agenda to portray Zimbabwe negatively.
Earlier this month,
Zimbabwe finance minister Herbert Murerwa kicked
out an SABC crew from a
news conference in Harare where he was briefing the
media on the country's
talks with the International Monetary Fund.
Murerwa accused the
SABC of being hostile to Zimbabwe. He however
later called the SABC team and
briefed them separately.
The Zimbabwe government has often accused
foreign media of seeking to
demonise President Robert Mugabe's
administration over the seizure of
white-owned farms for redistribution to
landless blacks six years ago and
other human rights issues.
The Zimbabwe government has had an acrimonious relationship with both
local
and foreign-owned media. Four newspapers including the country's
biggest
daily, The Daily News, have been banned over the past three years
with more
than a hundred journalists arrested for flouting the country's
tough media
laws. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu
16 February 2006
KAROI - A Karoi town magistrate on Wednesday
deferred sentence on a
ruling ZANU PF party senator who was last week
convicted of inciting
political violence that claimed one man during last
March's parliamentary
election.
The magistrate, Samuel
Muyemeki, last week remanded the senator, Phone
Madiro in custody for
sentencing after he was convicted of inciting
political violence against his
rival.
But yesterday, the magistrate deferred sentencing after
Madiro's
lawyer, Chawaona Kanoti, made a fresh application for
bail.
Kanoti told the magistrate: "The accused is appealing to the
honourable court so that he can be granted bail pending sentence as he has
been in custody for five days."
The magistrate deferred the
sentencing to today saying he needed time
to reconsider the submission made
by the defence.
The court heard that in December 2004, Madiro,
leading a group of 18
youths attacked supporters of his rival Cecilia
Gwachiwa who was vying to
represent ZANU PF in last March's parliamentary
election.
Tichaona Manyembere, who belonged to a faction aligned to
Gwachiwa,
was seriously injured during the attack by Madiro's supporters and
died two
weeks later from the injuries.
Zimbabwe's main
opposition Movement for Democratic Change party has
long accused Mugabe's
supporters of unleashing violence on political
opponents to stay in power.
Mugabe denies the charge. - ZimOnline
IOL
February 15
2006 at 04:48PM
Harare - More than 180 women arrested during a
protest march this week
in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo were released
on Wednesday but 250
others remained in custody in Harare, a lawyer
said.
The marchers from the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) group
were
demanding "roses and dignity" during the marches held in Bulawayo on
Monday
and Harare on Tuesday.
"Some 141 people including 14
children who were arrested... were
released on Wednesday in Bulawayo after
being charged with engaging in a
march without police clearance and
obstructing traffic," said lawyer Sarah
Chishiri.
"About 252
arrested in Harare on Tuesday are still in police cells. We
are still
negotiating to secure their release," Chishiri of Zimbabwe's
Lawyers for
Human Rights (ZLHR) told AFP.
A lawyer who was
arrested together with the protesters in Harare was
released hours later,
she said.
Hundreds of women, some with children strapped to their
backs, took
part in the Valentine's Day marches and were arrested and
charged under
Zimbabwe's tough Public Order and Security Act (POSA) which
prohibits
demonstrations and political gatherings without police
clearance.
"To coincide with Valentine's Day we were making a
statement demanding
roses and the dignity they stand for and bread in the
form of affordable
food for everyone," WOZA spokesperson Jenni Williams told
AFP on Tuesday.
Grocery stores across Zimbabwe have run out of the
staple cornmeal as
the country continues to reel under chronic food
shortages and near record
highs in inflation of 613 percent.
At
least four million of the country's population of 13 million will
require
food aid until the next harvest in May, according to aid agencies.
President Robert Mugabe's government blames the food deficit on
drought
which affected parts of southern Africa while his critics say
shortages were
caused by the the land reform programme which saw the seizure
of white-owned
commercial farms. - Sapa-AFP
www.fidh.org
14th/02/2006
Arbitrary
arrest and detention / Judicial proceedings - ZWE 002 / 0206 / OBS
015
The Observatory for the Protection of Human
Rights Defenders, a joint
programme of the International Federation for
Human Rights (FIDH) and the
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
requests your urgent intervention
in the following situation in
Zimbabwe.
Brief description of the situation :
The Observatory has
been informed by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
(ZLHR) about the
arbitrary arrest of nearly 300 demonstrators, including
members of the NGO
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), in Bulawayo and Harare.
According to the
information received, on February 13, 2006, approximately
181 persons,
mainly women, who were demonstrating under the banner of the
NGO Women of
Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), along with 14 children, were arrested in
central
Bulawayo, as they were dispersing from a peaceful protest against
human
rights violations. Among those arrested were four WOZA leaders, Mrs.
Jennifer Williams[1], Mrs. Magodonga Mahlangu, Mrs. Emily Mpofu and Mrs.
Maria Moyo, who were finger-printed and ordered to make statements. The
detainees were charged with "organising an unlawful gathering" (Section 24
of the Public Order and Security Act). Their lawyers, who were prevented
from seeing them, were told that they could see them on February 15,
2006.
Those arrested were allegedly exposed to heavy rains as they were
detained
in the open police courtyard at Bulawayo Central police station for
several
hours, before being moved to cells at around 10:30
pm.
Moreover, on February 14, 2006, over twenty uniformed police, armed
with
baton sticks, and some sporting full riot gear, arrested between 60 and
100
women from WOZA in Harare at lunchtime, as they gathered in the city
centre
as part of a peaceful protest against social and economic
inequalities faced
by women in Zimbabwe. The women were rounded up and
callously loaded into
trucks marked "City of Harare Municipal Police" to be
taken to the Law and
Order section at Harare Central police station. Mr.
Tafadzwa Mugabe, a
lawyer from the Rapid Reaction Unit of ZLHR, was
harassed, verbally abused
and finally arrested and bundled into the truck
with his clients. Amongst
the detainees are a considerable number of elderly
women, as well as at
least one young child of around four years of
age.
These demonstrations are conducted every year in association with
Valentine's
Day.
The Observatory expresses its deepest concern about
these events, and urges
the Zimbabwean authorities to conform with article
12.2 of the Declaration
on Human Rights Defenders, adopted by the United
Nations General Assembly on
December 9, 1998, which states that "The State
shall take all necessary
measures to ensure the protection by the competent
authorities of everyone,
individually and in association with others,
against any violence, threats,
retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse
discrimination, pressure or any
other arbitrary action as a consequence of
his or her legitimate exercise of
the rights referred to in the present
Declaration".
More generally, the Observatory reiterates its concern
about the situation
of human rights defenders in Zimbabwe, who face serious
risks to their
security as well as infringements of their freedoms of
expression and
association.
Action requested :
Please write to
the Zimbabwean authorities, urging them to :
i. Guarantee, in all
circumstances, the physical and psychological integrity
of all persons
detained, including Mrs. Jennifer Williams, Mrs. Magodonga
Mahlangu, Mrs.
Emily Mpofu, Mrs. Maria Moyo, Mr. Tafadzwa Mugabe, all WOZA
members, as well
as of all human rights defenders in Zimbabwe;
ii. Ensure that those
arrested be immediately released and granted a fair
and impartial trial so
that all charges against them be dropped, as they are
arbitrary;
iii.
Put an end to all acts of harassment against WOZA members and all human
rights defenders in Zimbabwe;
iv. Conform with the provisions of the
Declaration on Human Rights
Defenders, in particular its article 1 which
states that "Everyone has the
right, individually and in association with
others, to promote and to strive
for the protection and realisation of human
rights and fundamental freedoms
at the national and international levels",
and article 12(2)
above-mentioned;
v. Ensure in all circumstances
respect for human rights and fundamental
freedoms in accordance with
international human rights standards and
international instruments ratified
by Zimbabwe.
Addresses :
President of Zimbabwe, Mr. Robert G.
Mugabe, Office of the President,
Private Bag 7700, Causeway, Harare,
Zimbabwe, Fax : +263 4 708 211
- Mr. Khembo Mohadi, Minister of Home
Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs,
11th Floor Mukwati Building, Private Bag
7703, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe,
Fax : +263 4 726 716
Mr. Patrick
Chinamasa, Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary
Affairs, Ministry of
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Fax: + 263 4
77 29 99
Mr.
Augustine Chihuri, Police Commissioner, Police Headquarters, P.O. Box
8807,
Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe, Fax : +263 4 253 212 / 728 768 / 726 084
Mr. Sobuza Gula Ndebele, Attorney-General, Office of the Attorney, PO Box
7714, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe, Fax: + 263 4 77 32 47
Mrs.
Chanetsa, Office of the Ombudsman Fax: + 263 4 70 41 19
Ambassador Mr.
Chitsaka Chipaziwa, Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe to the
United Nations in
Geneva, Chemin William Barbey 27, 1292 Chambésy,
Switzerland, Fax: + 41 22
758 30 44, Email: mission.zimbabwe@ties.itu.net
Please
also write to the embassies of Zimbabwe in your respective
country.
***
Geneva - Paris, February 14, 2006
Kindly
inform us of any action undertaken quoting the code of this appeal in
your
reply.
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[1] The Observatory recalls that Mrs. Jennifer Williams
is nominated for the
2006 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
(MEA), See Observatory
Press Release, February 13, 2006.
By Violet Gonda
15 February 2006
The Zimbabwe Action
Support Group in South Africa (ZASG) has expressed
concern over the number
of Zimbabweans being refused asylum in neighbouring
South Africa. ZASG
spokesman Rogers Mudarikwa said at least 1 000
Zimbabweans are risking their
lives to get into the country daily. He claims
South African authorities
believe these are mostly economic immigrants, and
have therefore started
fast tracking asylum applications in order to force
the Zimbabweans to go
back home.
The process, which usually takes more than 6 months, is
now reported
to be taking two weeks.
Mudarikwa said the ZASG
has had more than 200 appeals from people who
had their asylum cases
rejected since October last year. He said this is
only in Pretoria and
Johannesburg. There are many Zimbabweans in other areas
such as Cape Town,
Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein.
Human Rights lawyers, who are
helping some of the immigrants, are said
to have appealed to the South
Africa Legal Aid body for help.
Zimbabweans are fleeing economic
and political hardships in droves and
making the expensive and sometimes
very dangerous journey to neighbouring
countries.
It's
estimated that there are at least two million Zimbabweans in
South
Africa.
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news
By
Tichaona Sibanda
15 February 2006
There are plans by the
South African based Zimbabwe Diaspora Forum to
host the first ever global
international conference for Zimbabweans living
outside the
country.
According to Daniel Molokela, a leading activist in
Johannesburg, it
is anticipated that the historic event will be held in
South Africa in April
2007.
'We expect representatives from
every corner of this globe to attend
the conference. A top political figure
will be our guest at the conference.
We will also invite representatives of
all political parties from Zimbabwe
as well as top civic and church
leaders,' said Molokela from Johannesburg on
Wednesday.
The
diaspora conference will seek to create a global platform that
will discuss
both the short and long term roles of the millions of
Zimbabweans now living
outside the country.
Molokela said some of the major outcomes
expected from the conference
include the setting up of a global forum and
leadership for all Zimbabwean
institutions and organisations that are based
in the diaspora.
He added that the conference will also look at the
adoption of a
visionary policy document that will help to define the role of
the diaspora
in the political and socio-economic development of the country
from both a
long term and short term perspective.
SW Radio
Africa Zimbabwe news
[ This report
does not necessarily reflect the views of the United
Nations]
JOHANNESBURG, 15 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's opposition
Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC), already wracked by internal division,
is finding
itself more isolated in the region and at home.
The
party's disputed leader Morgan Tsvangirai has lost yet another round in
his
battle to overturn the results of the 2002 presidential election, which
President Robert Mugabe maintains he won fairly.
At the time of the
2002 poll the MDC was in its ascendancy, but when the
votes were finally
tallied, Mugabe had scored 56.2 percent to Tsvangirai's
41.9, with his
strongest showing predictably in the rural areas, a
traditional support
base. Western and local election observers condemned the
ballot as neither
free nor fair.
On Tuesday the Supreme Court dismissed an application by
Tsvangirai that it
hear his appeal for nullification of the 2002 results.
This followed a High
Court ruling in 2005 against Tsvangirai's bid to
overturn the poll verdict,
for which the presiding judge gave no reasons
until months after his ruling.
This effectively hamstrung Tsvangirai from
filing an appeal, as appeals have
to be filed within 15 days of a judgement
being handed down, his spokesman
William Bango told IRIN. A second part of
Tsvangirai's challenge to the
election results was yet to be concluded,
Bango added.
The court ruling was yet another blow for the beleaguered
Tsvangirai,
currently fighting a leadership battle with a 'rebel' MDC
faction, led by
vice-president Gibson Sibanda. The labour-backed MDC's
bitter wrangle over
participation in last year's senate election split the
party in two, with
each faction trying to expel or suspend its
opponents.
They will hold two separate congresses this year, which
analysts say is
likely to lead to a finalisation of the split. Meanwhile,
smaller parties
have emerged, further confusing the opposition political
landscape, say
analysts.
Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network chairman
Reginald Machaba-Hove told IRIN
that "the people of Zimbabwe deserve to have
viable political parties,
including strong opposition parties, to help solve
the dire problems in the
country, and not a plethora of smaller opposition
parties".
"We don't think that that is providing real choice to the
people of
Zimbabwe, it tends to weaken the opposition and confuse the
electorate," he
added.
Analyst Brian Raftopoulos noted that many of
the new political parties were
formed by "ex [ruling party] ZANU-PF
dissenters, people like [former
information minister] Jonathan Moyo, who
have no place to go within the MDC
and still have links with the ruling
party - many are an extension of
ZANU-PF".
"They have little
credibility, they are splinter groups that are likely to
remain marginal,"
he concluded.
The MDC, meanwhile, appears to have divided along
geographical and ethnic
lines. "Although the reasons for the split were not
fundamentally about
ethnic tensions, the reconfiguration of the factions
definitely has an
ethnic dimension," Raftopoulos noted.
The split
would "debilitate both factions of the MDC, as the strength of the
party was
in its unity, at present neither faction has a strategy to
confront Mugabe
and on their own they lack a national reach in terms of
support, as one is
based mainly in Matabeleland [in the south] and the other
has support in
other parts of the country".
To add to Tsvangirai's woes, the MDC appears
to be increasingly isolated
within the region.
Recent comments by
South African President Thabo Mbeki indicated that he had
grown increasingly
weary of trying to resolve Zimbabwe's political crisis.
He told the South
African Broadcast Corporation last week that in 2004 his
'quiet diplomacy'
policy towards Zimbabwe had almost resulted in a deal
between ZANU-PF and
the MDC on a new constitution.
"They were actually involved in
negotiating a new constitution for Zimbabwe,
and they did and they completed
it ... they gave me a copy initialled by
everybody, done. So we thought the
next step then must be to say where do we
take this process. But then ...
new problems arose among themselves. So we
watch the situation and to the
extent that we can help in future, we will,"
Mbeki said.
"They asked
us to assist, to mend relations among themselves. It didn't
work. We tried
to intervene but I think the rupture had gone too far," he
added.
To
this, Tsvangirai's spokesman Bango replied that outside assistance was
secondary to internal Zimbabwean initiatives to end the crisis. "Whatever
African countries may try to do should be complimentary to efforts here at
home," he said.
Raftopoulos, however, said Mbeki's comments indicated
"a sense of growing
frustration that his quiet diplomacy policy has produced
no fruits, the new
wait and see approach [adopted by South Africa] is a
result of the failure
of his [quiet diplomacy] efforts".
Last week
Tsvangirai and several MDC leaders were deported from Zambia when
they met
in Livingstone, a tourist town on the border with Zimbabwe.
Raftopoulos
said the deportation was "confirmation of the fact that since
the crisis
began in 2000, the region has been behind Mugabe".
The travails of the
MDC - the current leadership battle and split in the
party, coupled with the
emergence of smaller opposition parties, a lack of
democratic space in
Zimbabwe and eroding regional support for efforts to
find a solution to the
country's political crisis - could see a changed
political landscape,
Raftopoulos said.
"I think opposition politics is going into a hiatus
now, it will be a very
dark and slow period in terms of opposition politics.
I think civic
movements are also in the process of reorganising right now,
they are very
much pushed on the defensive. On the whole, even though Mugabe
has problems
internationally, at home the opposition presents him with few
difficulties,"
Raftopoulos concluded.
zimbabwejournalists.com
By Forward Maisokwadzo
SANDRA Nyaira,
secretary of the Association of Zimbabwe Journalists in
UK and Channel 4
News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum, were keynote
speakers at the
launch of the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual press
freedom survey
attacks on the press on Tuesday at Frontline Club in London.
Chaired by CPJ deputy director Joel Simon, the event, attended by
journalists and press freedom campaigners, marked the official launch of the
report, which also highlighted that "a regime of repressive laws and
regulations has kept a stranglehold on the independent press in
Zimbabwe."
CPJ publishes "Attacks on the Press" both on-line and in
book form
each year. In the report, CPJ Africa program staff report that
civil
conflict continued to threaten press freedom in Ivory Coast,
Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), and Somalia, while a regime of
repressive laws and
regulations has kept a stranglehold on the independent
press in Zimbabwe.
Ms Nyaira lambasted the Zimbabwe government's
reluctance to repeal the
draconian pieces of legislation such as the Access
to Information and
Protection of Privacy Act. She applauds CPJ for its
effort in helping and
highlighting the need for the protection of
journalists facing threats.
"CPJ work deserves praise and support. As
Zimbabwean journalists we
are humbled by your support," said
Nyaira.
According to the report the murder rate for journalists in
sub-Saharan
Africa doubled in 2005; four were killed for their work in
Somalia, Sierra
Leone and DRC, compared to two the previous year. The number
of journalists
behind bars jumped sharply in 2005, spurred by Ethiopia,
where over a dozen
editors and publishers have been jailed following
anti-government protests
in November. In addition, journalists across the
continent suffer daily
harassment, violent attack, and threats. These
attacks continue despite the
apparent spread of democracy, with over a dozen
elections held in 2005.
In an analysis focusing on Zimbabwe and
Burundi, CPJ's Africa Program
Coordinator Julia Crawford looks at the links
between democracy and a free
media: http://www.cpj.org/attacks05/africa05/africa05.html
Cricinfo staff
February 15,
2006
Dion Ebrahim, Zimbabwe's former vice-captain, was
arrested this morning for
using a ZC-sponsored car two weeks after the board
decided not to offer him
a new contract. Ebrahim was held at Highlands
Police Station in Harare for
several hours. Beatrice Mtetwa, his lawyer,
told journalists that the arrest
was illegal as ZC had not paid Ebrahim his
outstanding match fees.
"They had him arrested because he was using their
car," Mtetwa said. "They
are still holding him. I wrote their lawyers
telling them that we will not
release the car until he is paid his dues.
They can only take the car with a
court order. This case has nothing to do
with the police. This is a civil
case. It is an abuse of the police, and ZC
have always done that."
A spokesman for the board told Cricinfo: "Ebrahim
no longer has a contract
with ZC and so there are no grounds for him to
continue using ZC property.
Because of the continued unlawful use of the ZC
vehicle, ZC approached the
police to retrieve from a former employee what
belongs to it."
It later emerged that Tatenda Taibu, the former captain
who quit
international cricket, had also been contacted by the police. He
told
Associated Press: "I am not handing over the car until I have been paid
all
the money I am owed in several months' salary and Test match fees
amounting
to a large sum of money." Ebrahim said on his release: "Like
Tatenda said,
they are not getting the car until they pay me all the money I
am due, which
is a lot."
Ebrahim and Taibu are among a number of
players who are still owed around
$200,000 in backpay. ZC has repeatedly
avoided settling, and even though
they were supposed to be paid in US
dollars, the players claim that ZC has
only offered to settle in Zimbabwe
dollars at a derisory exchange rate.
"The issue of Ebrahim's payment is
separate from his continued use of the ZC
vehicle," the spokesman said.
"However, for the record, Ebrahim collected
part of his payment from us and
rejected the other cheque saying it was not
in the form he wanted, possibly
foreign currency. As we have said before, we
are under advice to pay in
local currency. Thus, the payment that Ebrahim
says is outstanding to him is
only so because he has made it that."
Although the strike by leading
players ended last week when almost all of
them signed new contracts, the
issue of backpay remains unresolved. Critics
of the board claim that it has
no money, and it is also reported that ZC has
approached the ICC and asked
for an advance of the money it will receive
from the 2007 World Cup to help
it meet its running costs.
© Cricinfo
African News Dimension
continues
Wednesday, 15 February 2006,
10 hours, 43 minutes and 57 seconds ago.
By George
Nyathi
Zimbabwe(A.N.D)THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management
Authority
(ZPWMA)and the Zimbabwe Conservation and Development Taskforce
standoff has
turned personal after the authority banished the latter's
chairman from any
of its parks in the wildlife rich Matabeleland North
province.
Johnnie Rodrigues, the chairman of the taskforce said
that although
the authority wanted to accept the donation, it was not happy
with him being
at the forefront of the delivery of the donation. Rodrigues
has been
virtually turned enemy number one by the authority after a series
of
statements it felt were in bad taste over the state of affairs at the
giant
Hwange National Park.
Last year alone, a total of 26
elephants died at the park due to
shortage of water, forcing the taskforce
to send an S.O.S for assistance
from wildlife-friendly
organisations.
According to Rodrigues, the statements that he has
made over the years
with regards to the administration of parks business
have created animosity
between himself and the authority to an extent that
the authority no longer
wants to entertain any organization intending to do
business with it (the
parks authority).
Rodrigues told andnetwork:
"This is all about personalities and not
the real business at hand. This
whole war has turned personal and they have
made sure that they barred me
from entering the park. "They believe that
should I enter the park, I am
bound to see a lot of things they have not
been doing well. They also fear
that should I see those things, I am bound
to alert the international
community and that will exert a lot of pressure
on them."
Rodrigues said that he had every reason to believe that the parks
authority
was concerned about the hand-over of the equipment by himself as
this was
evidenced by recent developments with regards to the equipment.
"As I
said, they do not want me to be involved. Its specifically me.
We took part
of that equipment there and the next thing is that we see some
of the cars
being fixed using spare parts that we handed over to them. Their
vehicles in
Robins Camp and Sinamatella have been sorted out using those
parts,"
Rodrigues added. He also disclosed that he had sought audience with
the
Environment and Tourism Minister, Francis Nhema on the matter, saying
that
he had expressed displeasure at the way the parks authority was
conducting
its business.
Nhema was not available for comment.
A.N.D.Africa
African News Dimension
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 12 hours, 48 minutes and 20
seconds ago.
By Elias Wilson
ABOUT 100 bodies are in
an advanced state of decomposition at Gweru
Provincial Hospital mortuary as
the hospital's cooling system has broken
down.
The situation
has been worsened by overcrowding as the mortuary, which
currently has over
100 bodies, has a carrying capacity of 24.
At a meeting with
stakeholders on Tuesday, Midlands Governor Cde
Cephas Msipa described the
situation as critical and called for an urgent
need to repair the facility.
A contractor hired by the institution to repair
the mortuary allegedly
failed to do the work, resulting in the cooling
system blowing hot air. "Our
mortuary is overcrowded and the heat has
actually made the situation worse
as bodies are being cooked. It is
unhealthy and unfair to people who work
there," he said. "There is also a
general reluctance by some families to
give their departed relatives a
decent burial, yet our culture dictates that
the dead should receive a
decent burial."
Midlands Provincial
Medical Director, Dr Anderson Chimusoro, said some
of the bodies at the
mortuary were "now bones only", "We arranged with the
contractor to come on
a regular basis, but with the bodies in such a
decomposing state, it has
become difficult for anyone to work there," he
said. "He is actually failing
to repair the cooling system and the hot air
has caused some of the flesh on
the bodies to peel off.
The state of the mortuary has made it
difficult for repairs to go on."
To address the situation the Government has
since offered to give pauper's
burial to 90 bodies. Cde Msipa appealed to
members of the public to collect
the bodies of their relatives on time to
reduce congestion at the mortuary.
"Some bodies go for six months without
being collected," he said.
African News Dimension
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 12 hours, 25 minutes and 22 seconds
ago.
By Oscar Nkala www.andnetwork.com
The
government of Zimbabwe has once again warned non-governmental
organisations
operating in the country to stick with the humanitarian relief
agenda and
desist from intefering in the country's internal affairs.
Addressing guests at a function in Bulawayo on Monday, Sithokozile
Mathuthu,
the governor of Matabeleland North province said Zimbabwe welcomed
international NGOs but warned that they would not be allowed to interfere in
the country's internal affairs.
"We do not fight NGOs, but it
should be made clear that we will not
allow them to interefere in the
internal affairs of the country," Mathuthu
said.
In the last
three years, the government has banned the operations of
three NGOs in
Matabeleland North after accusing them of colluding with the
opposition.
It has also banned political and human rights civic
education
campaigns on allegations that NGOs were hiding behind such
campaigns to turn
the people towards the opposition and against the
government.
The governor's remarks came as ruling party
parliamentarians and
government controlled newspapers renewed calls for a
bill to regulate the
NGO sector. Kumbirai Kangai, the deputy speaker of
parliament was quoted in
the media as calling for mechanisms to monitor the
NGOs.
Last year, the ZANU PF dominated parliament approved a harsh
draft NGO
Bill which was only frozen when President Robert Mugabe refused to
sign into
law. NGOs have long complained of curtailment and harassment by
the secret
state security agents and the police.
A. N. D
Africa
Zim Daily
Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 09:05 AM GMT
Contributed by: correspondent
The family of the murdered
Strover Mutonhori, the alleged lover
of Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi's
wife, have said they are eagerly
awaiting a cabinet reshuffle that could
move the Home Affairs chief to
another portfolio to enable the opening of
investigations into their
relative's murder.
The family
spoke as Mohadi was hauled before a Bulawayo High
Court yesterday facing
charges of threatening former Zanu PF Matabeleland
South provincial chairman
Lloyd Siyoka at gunpoint. Zimdaily heard that
progress on the high profile
murder case has been thwarted since 2002 when
Mohadi was appointed Home
Affairs minister. Mohadi was one of the suspects
in the 1999 murder of
Mutonhori, alleged to have been having an
extra-marital affair with Mohadi's
wife. Mohadi's wife and Mutonhori were
both employed by a non governmental
organisation in Bulawayo when the
incident occurred.
Mutonhori disappeared in mysterious circumstances from Omadu
Hotel in
Maphisa, Kezi, where he was said to had been seen in the company of
Mohadi's
wife. His remains were later found at a remote spot in Mzingwane
District,
outside Bulawayo. Mohadi was interviewed by the police in
connection with
the murder. A spokesman for the Mutonhori family, who
declined to be named
for security reasons told Zimdaily yesterday that
police last contacted them
in connection with the investigations into the
murder in
2002.
They told the family they had interviewed Mohadi. "Ever
since
his appointment to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the case just
disappeared,"
said the family spokesperson. "We have reason to believe he
murdered our
son. Now he is standing trial for threatening (Zanu PF
Matabeleland South
chairman Lloyd) Siyoka at gunpoint. This man is a
murderer. Jusice delayed
is justice denied," quipped the family
spokesman.
The spokesperson claimed some members of the
family were
harassed by unidentified people shortly after Mutonhori's
murder. Zimdaily
understands that following the appointment of Mohadi to the
Home Affairs
portfolio, the matter was transferred from Matabeleland South
to the Special
Investigating Branch at the Police General Headquarters
(PGHQ) in Harare.
The officer investigating the case, Chief Superintendent C
R Gora, yesterday
switched off his cellphone when contacted for comment on
the progress of
investigations into the case.
The police
department falls under the Minister of Home Affairs,
which Mohadi is in
charge of. Reached for comment Mohadi said yesterday: "I
do not understand
what these people want from me. The Mutonhori family is
free to contact me
or my lawyers, instead of communicating with me through
the Press." He
denied that he had interfered with investigations into the
murder case.
Mohadi was elevated from Deputy Minister of Local Government,
Public Works
and National Housing to the post previously held by the ruling
Zanu PF party
national chairman, John Nkomo in 2002 when President Mugabe
announced what
he termed a "war cabinet."
Sources at the PGHQ told Zimdaily
that the Mutonhori docket had
disappeared and that the evidence had been
seriously tampered with. Mohadi
is a former member of Zipra, the armed wing
of PF Zapu during the war, led
by Joshua Nkomo, the late former
Vice-President.
Zim Daily
Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 09:04 AM
GMT
Contributed by: correspondent
By Willian
Bango
Over the past six years and even beyond, Mr. Morgan
Tsvangirai
has watched The Herald take a special interest in him as leader
of the MDC.
That is understandable. Mr. Tsvangirai, as the President of the
largest
political party in Zimbabwe today, is holding the ball; he carries a
message
which resonates with millions of people at home and
abroad.
Commentators rarely lose sight of the ball or leave
the field of
play to check on the player's family welfare or the performance
of the
player's children at school while the game is on. As soon as a player
drops
the ball, all public or spectator attention shifts to the next player
in
possession of that ball. Should a commentator ignore the player's role
and
fixes attention on the person, then the commentary ceases to be about
the
game. It becomes something else.
For this reason, Mr.
Tsvangirai seeks to exercise his right of
reply to the commentary published
in The Herald from one Caesar Zvayi on
Tuesday 7 February 2006, headlined:
Tsvangirai cursed? This man is a
liability, even to himself, no serious
group, faction, or whatever can
afford to have him and continue to claim
legitimacy. The article bases
itself on a number of contested points: Where
was Mr. Tsvangirai's father,
Chibwe, quoted as having uttered the said
disparaging statements, and by
whom? Who was old Chibwe talking to? What has
that to do with Mr. Tsvangirai
(54) and his political career as an
individual? And, in particular, his
recent trip to
Zambia?
Zvayi states that Mr. Tsvangirai's wife, Susan,
"sealed his fate
when she baked him a birthday cake in the mould of State
House. Morgan ate
his cake and can't have it anymore." How does The Herald,
a mass circulation
daily newspaper, expect Mr. Tsvangirai to exercise his
right of reply on
statements like these? Should he pry into Zvayi's
household to find an
appropriate counter in the shapes or moulds of cakes
Zvayi enjoys from his
loved one? You allow St. Mary's MP, Job Sikhala to use
The Herald to label
Mr. Tsvangirai a moron without giving your readers any
evidence from
Sikhala. You further allow, Sikhala to state that Mr.
Tsvangirai failed his
studies in Form Two, when a casual check at Silveira
Mission in Bikita could
have easily dismissed that
falsehood.
You further claim, quoting Sikhala, that "the
people of Zimbabwe
are now tired of being fronted by a moron." Sikhala is
not the people of
Zimbabwe. And, more importantly, if Mr. Tsvangirai wants
to defend himself
against this vitriol, to whom should he direct attention:
Caesar Zvayi, the
person, The Herald, the newspaper, or Job Sikhala, the MP?
Would you publish
Mr. Tsvangirai's side, in those circumstances? Zvayi
claims to have reached
"several conclusions from Tsvangirai's deportation."
In the first place, Mr.
Tsvangirai and others did not meet with anyone
representing "subversive
organization known to have destabilized several
African countries".
Further, it is untrue that "Morgan had
visited Zambian President
Levi Mwanawasa a few days earlier and held
discussions him but did not tell
him that he would be proceeding to hold
meetings with fiercest rival,
Anderson Mazoka." Mr. Tsvangirai last visited
Zambia in 2004, in the company
of suspended MDC treasurer Fletcher
Dulini-Ncube. His visit and discussions
with Zambian officials, including
President Mwanawasa were widely
publicized. During his stay in Lusaka, he
never met with Anderson Mazoka.
While in Livingstone last week, Mr.
Tsvangirai never held a meeting with Mr.
Mazoka nor any of his
officials.
Mr. Tsvangirai and others were not "force-marched
for 8km in the
dead of night to the Zimbabwean border." We drove to the
border. Zvayi
states that "it is also quite revealing that Tsvangirai
registered under a
false name at Zambezi Sun International Hotel." Again
this is untrue. A day
after Mr. Tsvangirai arrived in Zambia, members of the
secret service
visited him at the same hotel, took his passport and
photocopied the entire
document. How was this possible if he had traveled
into Zambia and
registered his stay at the hotel
incognito?
Your readers can never be misled by a sensational
assertion that
Mr. Tsvangirai can manage to enter a public place, a country
or a hotel
under a false physical identity and a false name. When he passed
through
Zimbabwe immigration at Victoria Falls, officials and members of the
public
were able to recognize him. Would it have been possible to fake his
own
identity when his passport stated his name and details? Mind you, Mr.
Tsvangirai was in Zambia for two days before being deported on Thursday, six
hours before he was scheduled to leave that country.
Mr.
Tsvangirai seeks an explanation as to why The Herald lets
Zvayi get away
with unsupported statements which he calls evidence to
portray Mr.
Tsvangirai as a man who "does not believe his infamy has spread
far and
wide.." Mr. Tsvangirai wants to know why The Herald allows Zvayi to
base his
so-called analysis on erroneous facts and concludes that "the
greatest
tragedy here is the fact that Tsvangirai continued to show that he
is an
enemy of the people by conniving with organizations known to have
destabilized African governments, and which have been implicated in the
assassination of various African leaders in recent
times.".
Can statements like these be substantiated? Which
African
leaders were assassinated in recent times? Who were the assassins?
How is
Mr. Tsvangirai conniving with the said assassins? Which foreign
organisation
did Mr. Tsvangirai meet in Livingstone? None. The meetings in
Livingstone
were MDC meetings, to discuss MDC affairs with MDC officials.
There is
nothing amiss or untoward about such meetings. We have them all the
time, in
Zimbabwe and elsewhere. Right now, Mr. Tsvangirai concluded a
series of
consultative meetings with our structures in Manicaland (Friday,
Saturday
and Sunday). Yesterday, he was in Masvingo on a similar business
before
proceeding to Gweru and the Midlands.
The National
Chairman, Mr. Isaac Matongo, party spokesman Hon.
Nelson Chamisa and our
transport portfolio secretary, Thoko Khupe are
overseas for a series of
consultative meetings with our structures and
members. Other senior
officials are in Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa
on similar missions.
Elsewhere in Zimbabwe, our executives at all levels are
in constant
consultation on the state of the party and the state of the
struggle for
democracy. There is nothing unusual about this kind of
political
activity.
Zvayi says Mr. Tsvangirai "showed a willingness to
continue with
his puppetry even though it has brought him nothing but misery
over the past
six years." This is an empty statement. Obviously, Zvayi is in
a state of
denial. He refuses to see the widespread national misery all
around him,
arising from misgovernance, corruption and the crisis of
legitimacy in our
midst. Zvayi must read the latest monetary policy
statement from Reserve
Bank governor Gideon Gono to understand the source
and state of Zimbabwe's
economic collapse, grinding poverty and general
national malaise. He does
not need to suck in Mr. Tsvangirai in a crisis
whose roots, the majority can
clearly see for themselves.
Zvayi concludes by firing a broadside at everybody in the MDC
for being led
by Mr. Tsvangirai. That is an opinion I believe he is entitled
to peddle as
a known activist for a particular party or cause. But he must
be reminded,
even as he concludes his analysis, that it is unfair to drag
old Chibwe
Tsvangirai into a debate that has nothing to do with him. Let us
avoid the
temptation to satisfy garish curiosity.
Mr. Tsvangirai
believes the rights of individuals must be
respected, together with the
right of the public to be fully informed about
events and the circumstances
surrounding them. He is therefore challenging
The Herald to publish this
letter to enable your readers to reach their own
conclusions, independently
of Caesar Zvayi's politically contaminated
emotions and contested
ideas.
William Bango is MDC leader Morgan
Tsvangirai's spokesman
MDC Press Statement
15 February 2006
The hike in fees at tertiary colleges is yet
another blow to an already
battered education system that has failed to
address the nation's needs.
Colleges increased their fees by over 100
percent this term against a
backdrop of low incomes and inadequate student
payouts. The MDC believes the
right to education is a right for every child.
What the state-owned tertiary
colleges are simply doing is to commercialize
our children's basic right to
access quality education which should help
enhance national development.
The MDC believes the right to tertiary
education should not be a preserve of
relatives and children of tycoons and
dealers---the nouveau riche---but
should be accessible to everyone
regardless of their social standing. It
shows this government has a
Rhodesian hangover, in which education was a
preserve of the elite. It makes
a mockery of the liberation struggle if our
children have to suffer the
ignominy of playing second fiddle to the rich
and powerful when it comes to
accessing tertiary education.
But the government's creation of
bottlenecks to make sure that the
economically challenged students do not
access tertiary education does not
come as a surprise. The children of
Cabinet ministers and senior government
and Zanu PF officials are in
colleges in Europe, the Americas and other
continents around the world and
these charlatans do not care a hoot if our
children fail are unable to go to
our own local colleges and universities.
We also note with dismay that
the new fee structure was only announced last
week and some students have
been asked to pay the fees before month-end,
well before their pittance that
serves as their payouts has been disbursed.
This is a recipe for disaster
and is likely to spark student unrests, which
have been the hallmark of our
colleges ever since this regime lost touch
with the students in the late
1980s. This regime's gripe with the students
is understandable. In 1988, the
students rallied the nation in thwarting
this regime's desire to establish a
one-party state in Zimbabwe.
The new fee structure is just one area
characterizing the rot in the entire
education system. The rot manifests
itself in the shortage of textbooks in
our schools and colleges, the low
morale among our teachers and lecturers
over inadequate salaries and poor
working conditions, as well as the chaos
and corruption at ZIMSEC. Our
national universities and colleges have become
a collective source of
national shame, again characterized by dilapidated
buildings and halls of
residence, dysfunctional ablution and sewer systems,
poor libraries and low
staff and student morale.
What this government is doing is against the
spirit of global and
continental initiatives such as NEPAD, the Millennium
Development Goals and
the United Nations Charter, which acknowledge the
right to education as a
basic and fundamental right.
The MDC believes
in academic freedom as well as quality education that is
affordable to our
children regardless of their social background. We believe
that our
children's basic rights such as education should never be
compromised for
political expediency. We believe in people power to pressure
this regime to
pave way for a new Zimbabwe and a new beginning.
Fidelis Mhashu,
MP
Shadow minister for Education
Zim Daily
Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 09:03 AM GMT
Contributed by:
correspondent
A new political party has been formed in the second
city of
Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. The Patriotic Union of Matabeleland, (PUMA) is
expected
to formally announce its agenda early in March. At the moment,
officials
remain tight-lipped over their political intentions citing
security
concerns. The new political outfit, fronted by a group of civic
leaders and
political activists from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, is
set to
represent the interests of the provinces which have remained largely
undeveloped. Ndebele speaking people are the majority of the inhabitants of
the region.
President Robert Mugabe, a Zezuru heads a
cabinet dominated by
ministers from his tribe, fuelling disgruntlement from
politicians from
other tribes. Among a host of nagging problems in
Matabeleland, water
remains critically short and plans by the Zanu PF
government to undertake
the Zambezi Matabeleland Water project have not
succeeded.
Former Zimbabwe Teachers Association Leader
(Zimta) leader,
Leonard Nkala, is reported to have set up a 45-member
executive committee,
which will spearhead the launch of PUMA. Former Zanu-PF
Bulawayo
spokesperson, Sikhumbuzo Ndiweni, who is the party's interim
secretary
general, said they were also working on the establishment of
external wings,
one focusing on Southern Africa, and another on the rest of
the world. "We
are currently working on setting up our structures, but
everything would be
complete on time for the official
launch.
Some of our members are drawn from the ruling party,
as well as
both factions of the MDC. The interest from the diaspora is also
very
overwhelming," said Ndiweni. A source in the party said PUMA's
promoters
felt that they could capitalise on the fact that people in the
area still
had fresh memories of an 80's crack military operation code named
Gukurahundi.
The operation conducted by the Zimbabwe's
North Korean trained
Fifth Brigade, left an estimated 20 000 civilians dead
as soldiers sniff out
a few dissidents who operated in the area. Up to now
survivors of the
operation have not been compensated and this remains a
major source of
disgruntlement. Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the
Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) draws the bulwark of its support from
this region.
Officials of PUMA have in the past few weeks held meetings with
students at
universities and teachers colleges. The new party joins the fray
at a a time
when MDC is threatened with a split.
Zim Daily
Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 09:03 AM GMT
Contributed by:
correspondent
The crisis torn airliner Air Zimbabwe, which last
week cancelled
its Friday flight to London due to an acute shortage of fuel,
has cobbled up
a contingency plan to buy Jet A1 direct from the
corruption-ridden National
Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) in a last ditch
effort to save its fleet
from grinding to halt due to perennial fuel and
technical problems.
Hardly a day after cancelling its London
flight, the airliner
was forced to ground its Lusaka-bound MA60 aircraft,
donated from China
recently, after it developed a technical fault. Air
Zimbabwe's fortunes have
been flagging in recent years because of critical
shortages of fuel and
spares and allegations of maladministration including
plying non-profitable
routes. The airline has lost nearly $980 billion to
the Dubai and China
route since they were introduced early last
year.
Early this year the airline flew one passenger from
Harare to
Dubai on a plane that carries 200 passengers. In July last year,
it
cancelled some of its domestic and international flights because of fuel
shortages and lack of spares for its Boeing planes. Zimbabwe has been
experiencing fuel shortages in the last six years blamed on shortages of
hard currency. Air Zimbabwe officials said spares for some of its planes had
been phased out by the manufacturer, Boeing.
Following
the imposition of targeted sanctions and isolation by
western countries over
the political crisis in the country, Zimbabwe has
adopted the "Look East"
policy, fostering close relations with Asian
countries, particularly China,
Malaysia and Singapore. In April, Air
Zimbabwe took delivery of five MA60
passenger planes from China's
state-owned AVIC aircraft
manufacturer.
Zimbabwe's national carrier last year grounded
its entire fleet
and suspended the airline's boss after running out of fuel.
All flights were
cancelled until further notice owing to the shortage of Jet
A1 fuel,
inconveniencing hundreds of passengers. Air Zimbabwe board then
suspended
chief executive Tendai Mahachi and company secretary Tendai Mujuru
"pending
investigations into serious disruptions of the national airliner's
operations and services," Stranded and frustrated passengers were milling
around the Harare International Airport departure lounges after Air Zimbabwe
cancelled all its. Among those affected were passengers travelling to
Johannesburg, Kampala, Singapore, Malawi, Zambia and the tourist resort of
Victoria Falls.
Daily Mirror, Zimbabwe
Takunda Maodza
issue
date :2006-Feb-15
HOUSE of Assembly Representatives are getting peanuts
in salaries and
allowances that are far below the poverty datum line, with
each lawmakers'
gross salary pegged at about $12 million.
The MPs rank
among the worst remunerated in the southern African region and
other parts
of the continent.
A random research by The Daily Mirror indicated that MPs in
Tanzania and
Kenya, for example, were getting US$1 000 and US$5 000 a month
while a
junior legislator in South Africa earned R370 000 per annum last
year-equating to a monthly salary of slightly above R30 800.
MPs in
Nigeria were earning as much as US$2 000, five years ago.
A number of
legislators in Zimbabwe are unemployed and solely depend on the
low salaries
for survival.
The poverty datum line for January was put at $21,8 million for
a family of
six, according to the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ), and is
expected to
increase by month-end because of the ever-rising
inflation.
The annual rate of inflation crept from 585,2 percent in December
to 613,2
last month.
A payslip for one lawmaker shows a gross salary of
$14 249 544.00, minus
allowances, and a net salary slightly above $12
million, which translates to
around US$120 a month only.
Like civil
servants, the lawmakers' pay slips have also been inscribed with
the words:
"Live within your means: Shun Corruption."
In an interview with The Daily
Mirror yesterday, one legislator said
lawmakers were now being forced to use
their own resources to tour
constituencies and do other "pressing"
duties.
He insisted that what they were getting were salaries rather than
allowances.
"People think that we earn a lot of money when in fact we are
reeling in
poverty like anyone else as our salaries fall far below the
poverty datum
line.
"We are using our own resources in touring our
constituencies and our
salaries are not even enough to buy monthly
groceries," said the lawmaker.
The legislator said they always incur
additional expenses especially when
some people in their constituencies
suffer tragedies like death or fail to
raise school fees.
"They come to
our houses asking for help. They ask for assistance because
they believe we
earn a lot of money by virtue of being members of the
House," added the
lawmakers.
As a result, they have to find means of raising the money to
assist their
constituents.
Another legislator likened being in the House
of Assembly to doing community
service.
"With the current salary, nothing
balances up. We are just doing community
service. In fact, the majority of
legislators are using their own resources
in touring their constituencies
and doing other duties," the lawmaker said.
The legislator joked: "Maybe it
is because lawmakers do not have a workers'
committee; otherwise it's a
voluntary exercise."
Yesterday, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly,
Kumbirai Kangai said
the issue was being looked into and urged members of
the House to carry on
with their duties as usual.
Kangai said: "They
should come to the House. There is no one who gets what
he or she needs;
they are at least getting something. Theirs are not
salaries but allowances
and we know that they cannot cover everything. We
also know that in other
countries the allowances are much higher and the
issue is being looked
into."
Kangai justified the "allowances" the lawmakers were getting, saying
the
legislators were not full time employees of the House of
Assembly.
"Being a parliamentarian (House of Assembly Representative) is not
a full
time job and they (lawmakers) must have other jobs besides being
legislators," added Kangai.
The veteran politician said legislators were
getting allowances not salaries
because "parliamentarian work" was a part
time with the House normally
sitting at 2.15 pm and adjourning between 5pm
-7pm. "The rest of the time
they would be free," he said.
"They are only
employed from 2.15pm to between 5pm and 7pm," he said.
Kangai also stressed
that people should not be legislators simply because of
the financial aspect
of it but because of the willingness to represent those
who voted them into
the House.
He said lawmakers living out of Harare were getting benefits in
the form of
hotel allowances amounting to $6 million per day each and were
"well catered
for."
"Those living in Harare and within a 40 km radius are
not given the
allowanaces," Kangai said.
Daily Mirror, Zimbabwe
The Daily Mirror Reporter
issue date :2006-Feb-15
"THE
mansion was built for the mayor," Sekesai Makwavarara, the chairperson
of
the government-appointed commission administering the Harare City Council
was recently quoted saying.
She was very right - because the Gunhill
mansion which sits on acres of land
in one of Harare's leafy suburbs is the
official home of the executive mayor
of the country's capital.
It is not
disputable that the stately home is the mayor's. Neither is it
disputable
that mayors in Zimbabwe get into the coveted offices through the
ballot.
But judging by her recent press remarks, what is disputable about
the
chairperson's credentials is that rather than steady the rocky Town
House,
Makwavarara is fast becoming an expert at stirring
controversy.
Maybe this is so because she is filling in for a mayor through
an
appointment. Apologies to madame chairlady!
Makwavarara's true colours
are beginning to show. Many thought she was a
chameleon when she dumped the
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on whose
ticket she was elected as a
councillor and deputy mayor to rejoin Zanu PF.
Yet, events on the ground seem
to suggest otherwise. They depict Makwavarara
being more concerned about her
lifestyle rather than the welfare of the city
she is meant to
represent.
Perceived in political circles as a turncoat, she has shown her
recklessness
in public office by not hiding her desire for material
goodies.
Her demands for about $35 billion to furnish the Gunhill mansion in
which
she has a mandate to stay, increasingly shows the visions or lack of
it, of
somebody whose priorities are not in order.
For goodness sake,
chairperson of the Harare Commission, the capital is
running down and all
you can think about are curtains furnishing the mayoral
mansion.
Now that
the government has intervened and stopped Makwavarara in her tracks
by
declaring that the material needs of the capital's interim leader are not
a
priority for now, we hope she now sees the light.
Musavaya Reza, the senior
government official did well to clip her wings.
Reza works for the Ministry
of Local Government, Public Works and Urban
Development
The inquisitive
have noted that Makwavarara's good fortune has become too
much of a mere
coincidence. They believe that the woman is either a shrewd
and cunning
plotter or that she has a strong political backing, or at least
she thinks
so.
Makwavarara took many by surprise when she boldly declared she would be
moving from the guesthouse into the mayoral mansion, which has evaded men of
sterner stuff - like the late national hero Solomon Tawengwa.
History has
shown that living in the mansion comes at a price. Tawengwa was
found on the
wrong side of the law before he could enjoy one night's sleep
in the
seemingly haunted villa.
MDC's Elias Mudzuri, the former executive mayor,
never enjoyed its comfort
for long either, after Local Government Minister
Ignatius Chombo fired him
on charges of poor service delivery.
"I am
moving into the mansion with or without the curtains and furniture.
The
mansion was built for the mayor. (Nomutsa) Chideya has failed to buy the
curtains and furniture, so I am moving in," Makwavarara declared
recently.
She even went further by boasting that she would use her own money
to buy
the property she required if council did not have money.
By
demanding in excess of $35 billion just for her luxury, Makwavarara
actually
broke one of the cardinal rules of the Urban Councils Act which
stipulates
that local authorities can only buy goods and services not
exceeding $300
million without going to tender.
Reports say, $10 billion was needed for the
purchase of curtains, $8 billion
for furniture, the net sum would amount to
$35 billion as it was to be
borrowed from other departments at an interest
rate of 70 percent per annum
over five years.
A soothsayer would surely
not earn his stripes by foretelling why
Makwavarara has laid strong emphasis
on curtains. What does she want to hide
in a public house? This has
heightened speculation that she might have a lot
of fish to fry in the house
that Solomon built.
Worsening matters are that Makwavarara says she is not
bothered who provides
the curtains and furniture as long as it done
immediately.
To that, the former MDC councillor reportedly quipped:
"Everybody was
invited. I do not care whether it is my sister or my friend.
All I want is
to see the house furnished."
However, Reza said council had
to go through tender procedures to buy the
property.
The squabbling over
Makwavarara's furniture comes hard on the heels of power
struggles between
town clerk Nomutsa Chideya and strategist Chester Mhende.
Both incidents have
occurred against the background of poor service delivery
by the city
authority, which has dogged the capital for endless times.
Residents have
been hard done by the local authorities' failure to collect
refuse and to
repair roads and street lights among other issues.
The hullabaloo at Town
House is unprecedented and makes the cases of
suspended mayor Misheck
Kagurabadza and Misheck Shoko of Mutare and
Chitungwiza respectively, a drop
in the ocean in comparison with the
goings-on at the Harare
municipality.
The two Mishecks, at least were known to be working towards
meeting set
deadlines, which they allegedly failed to meet.
Makwavarara
has never had an ultimatum issued on her despite the glaring
shortcomings of
her regime.
Instead of thanking the heavens for that she has the temerity to
demand
benefits, which by any standards, is pushing her luck too
far.
Makwavarara's behaviour puts paid to fears that she is at Town House for
the
residents.
Last year, she embarked on a controversial trip to Russia,
which blew
billions of dollars when Harare was struggling to meet some of
the basic
requirements of a capital city. Something has to be done about
this
extravagant behaviour before things go out of
hand.
Daily Mirror, Zimbabwe
The Daily Mirror Reporter
issue date :2006-Feb-15
THE
National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has assured passengers of cheap and
reliable transport in the face of incessant hikes in commuter fares.
NRZ
spokesperson, Fanuel Masikati, said the parastatal had recently
increased
the sitting capacities of wagons to ensure that passengers
commuted safely
to and from work.
"We remain dedicated and committed to transporting workers
and other members
of the public to and from work in all areas where there
are commuter trains.
Recently, we increased the carrying capacities of our
trains from 100 to
150. We want to assure the public that commuter trains
will always be
there," Masikati said.
The NRZ also increased the number
of trips last year for its commuter trains
from a single trip to two-in the
morning and evening.
The availability of the urban commuter trains in
Bulawayo and Harare, where
there are two locomotives for commuters whose
residential areas are close to
the railway network, has seen hundreds of
people thronging the stations to
avoid expensive road trips.
Masikati
said the national railway transporter would also work on improving
the
lighting within the train wagons.
Rail remains the cheapest mode of transport
for commuters, with trains
charging a quarter of the fares charged by
commuter omnibus operators.
A trip by an urban commuter trip is $10 000 while
by road it is on average
$40 000.
Commuters in some areas, however, feel
hard done by the unavailability of
the same service, as there are no rail
networks in their areas.
Plans to establish a railway line between Harare and
Chitungwiza have to
date not borne fruit for years because of what
authorities say are
logistical problems.
Daily Mirror, Zimbabwe
The
Daily Mirror Reporter
issue date :2006-Feb-15
AS the squabbles at the
troubled Harare City Council deepened yesterday,
impeccable sources told
this newspaper last night that the municipal's chief
strategist Chester
Mhende has been fired.
The sources said Mhende was sacked following a
full council meeting on
Monday night for alleged insubordination and making
unsanctioned public
statements to the media.
"He has been sent home as we
speak on charges ranging from insubordination,
no respect for authority and
disrupting the day to day running of the
municipality," the sources
said.
Mhende, who was last year appointed by local government minister
Ignatius
Chombo to assist turn around the city's fortunes, is said to have
become the
law unto himself.
The high-ranking official stressed the
decision to fire Mhende had nothing
to do with Chombo as it was a council
decision.
Efforts to get comment from Mhende were fruitless last
night.
However, Chombo last night said he is unaware of that decision.
"I
have not yet heard anything to that effect. Contact me tomorrow," Chombo
said.
Pressed whether it was possible for him not to know about this
latest
development when he was the one who appointed Mhende, the minister
answered:
"I would not know whether it's true or false, but I will be
certainly well
informed tomorrow."
Soon after his appointment, Mhende
declined to hand in his CV and he has
been at loggerheads with Town Clerk
Nomutsa Chideya over operations at the
council.
He even attempted to
cause an investigation into Chideya's conduct-a move
that so irked the Town
Clerk that he in turn threatened to fire any council
employee who dared
listen to Mhende.
Chideya has also had his share of controversy locking horns
with former
council spokesperson Leslie Gwindi over the latter's alleged
refusal
to relocate to his new office following his
appointment as
director for waste management.
Gwindi has since been suspended pending a
hearing into his case. Chideya
then turned his guns against chairperson of
the commission running Harare,
Sekesai Makwavarara over her demand to have
the mayoral mansion furnished
for a whooping $35 billion.
The space between the four
maple trees outside Zimbabwe House has become too
small. We are now
regularly spilling outside our bannered enclosure into
the rest of the small
piazza in front of the Embassy. It makes our presence
even more of a
challenge to people from Charing Cross station passing by on
their way to
the attractions of Covent Garden. To some, no doubt, we were a
small
sideshow to a big demonstration in nearby Trafalgar Square attended by
thousands of Muslims protesting in dignified manner about what they see as
"Islamaphobia" - the rejection of the group as a whole because of certain
elements. Zimbabweans - rejected by so many - will feel the pain. But we
are here every week, not just occasionally, determined to stay until there
are free and fair elections so we can rebuild our country
democratically.
And on a bright winter's day our pin-up was Tinotenda
Vigil Muzuwa who was
celebrating her 2nd birthday with a pink cake and 70
"relatives". She has
been coming to the Vigil since before she was born.
She had other small
ones to share the occasion, among them was baby Tatenda
who, by the end of
the Vigil, was out for the count in his buggy.
We
were glad to welcome Patricia, the daughter of Jairos Jiri, who did so
much
for the disabled in Zimbabwe. The fact that we are becoming a fixture
was
driven home at the end of a typically boisterous day when one of the
notoriously strict parking attendants let us off a parking ticket in
recognition of what we are doing.
Next week the Vigil is to be
preceded by a demonstration at Zimbabwe House
from noon to 2 pm in support
of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) who stage an
annual protest to mark
Valentine's Day. Their theme this year is inspired
by the "Bread and Roses"
strike led and won by American women workers in
1912. For WOZA in 2006,
bread symbolizes their need for affordable food and
roses signify the need
to be dignified and the call for social justice.
Please come and support
them.
FOR THE RECORD: 69 signed the register today.
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
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a JAG member or JAG Associate member, please send any classified adverts
for
publication in this newsletter to:
JAG Classifieds:
jag@mango.zw
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1.
For Sale Items
2. Wanted Items
3. Accommodation
4. Recreation
5.
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6. Pets
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OFFERED FOR
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Business For Sale (Ad inserted 12/01/06)
Well established, operating
auto-electrical business for sale in City
centre.
Large client base.
Turn over +-400 million/month. Asking price 5 billion.
Walk in Walk
out.
Enquiries to: 011 414 050, 04 790266 (Work), 04 860054
(Home)
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For
Sale (Ad inserted 04/01/06
Dorper Sheep Flock
144 head including 3 stud
rams
Feeding Troughs
Scales
Medicines on hand
Call 011 403 558 / 091
218 822 / 062 2473
Email:
timjack@zol.co.zw
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For Sale (Ad inserted 04/01/06)
"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
WASH
AND SOMETHING DIFFERENT.VALENTINES DAY AND EASTER ARE JUST AROUND
THE
CORNER!
Prices.
Small woven bags--$400,000 each.
Large
crocheted bags.--$1,000,000 each.
Large woven bags.--$800,000 each.
Table
Runners.--$600,000.
Set of 4 Fringed Table mats +
serviettes--$1,800,000.
Fringed mats only(4)---$1,200,000.
Set of 6
Fringed mats+ serviettes--$2,7000,000.
Set of 4 Bordered table mats+
serviettes---$2,180,000.
Bordered mats only(4)--$1,580,000.
Set of 6
Bordered mats + serviettes--$3,280,000.
2m Throws--$2,220,000.each.
Tea
cosy(L)--$345,000.
Tea cosy(m)--$340,000
Tea
cosy(s)--$335,000.
Crocheted oven
gloves(pair)--$800,000.
Cotton(lined)oven
gloves(pair)--$460,000.
Aprons--$950,000.
Decorated cushion
covers--$800,000.
Plain cushion covers---$560,000.
Round crocheted
cushions--$730,000.
Scarves--$800,000. each.
Hats(Beanies)--$450,000
each.
X Large plain cotton rug--$4,555,000.(Approx-230x130cms.)
Large
plain cotton
rug--$1,785,000.(Approx-143x75cms.)
Med. plain
cotton
rug---$1,155,000.(Approx-120x60cms.)
Small plain
cotton
rug.---$735,000.(Approx-105x52cms.)
Cotton Rag
Rug--$735,000.(Approx-105x52cms)
Small patterned mohair
rug--$1,185,000
Med. plain mohair rug--$1,380,000.
Med.patterned mohair
rug.--$1,725,000.
X Large plain mohair rug.--$5,455,000.
Hall
Runner--$2,600,000. (Approx-200x75cms)
Wholesale prices available for
orders(over 6 of an article)
or large purchases.
Please note that as all
items are individually hand crafted, exact sizes
cannot be guaranteed.
All
items are subject to availability.
Prices are subject to change without
notice.
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Motorbikes for Sale (Ad inserted 16/01/06)
BEAT THE FUEL
CRISIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEW ENDURO
XY 125 - 10 MOTORBIKES FOR
SALE
(Averages 50KM/LT)
PHONE: 790266/ 011
414050
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Items For Sale (Ad inserted 04/01/06)
IMBUIA LOUNGE SUITE 7 SEATER INCL 2
ROCKERS - $100,000,000.00
IMBUIA COFFEE TABLE - $8,000,000.00
IMBUIA ROUND
TABLE WITH GLASS TOP - $6,000,000.00
IMBUIA HALF MOON TABLE -
$8,000,000.00
2 X SMALL COFFEE SIDE TABLES - $5,000,000.00
IMBUIA DINING
ROOM SUITE (COLLECTOR'S ITEM)
$80,000,000.00
OREGON PINE CABINET (LOUVRED
SLIDING DOORS) - $20,000,000.00
WRITING BUREAU - $12,000,000.00
KIAAT
CHEST DRAWERS - $10,000,000.00
TV CABINET (KIAAT) - $8,000,000.00
SOLID
WOOD SEWING CABINET - $8,000,000.00
007 METAL CUPBOARD -
$5,000,000.00
WOODEN BROOM CUPBOARD - $2,000,000.00
WOODEN KITCHEN UNIT (1
DRAWER AND CUPBOARD) - $2,000,000.00
VACUUM CLEANER (HOOVER) -
$1,500,000.00
TEA TROLLEY - $750,000.00
BOOK SHELF IMBUIA -
$750,000.00
UNDERFELT - OFFERS
HEAD BOARD/FOOT BOARD AND SPRINGS -
$1,500,000.00
2 X BRAND NEW KIRSH RAILS - $1,000,000.00
BATHROOM CABINET
- $1,000,000.00
Please contact Irene on 497556 or Cell 091 431
873
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Plants for Sale (Ad inserted 01/01/06)
FERNATIC NURSERY
Now that the
weather has warmed up and the rains are
now 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
after
Hoggerty Hill Drive.)
8-12noon, 3-6pm. Closed
Sundays
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For Sale (Ad inserted 09/01/06)
1X'Quest' calibrated citrus
Applicator
Contact 335499 or 011
603296
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Chemicals for Sale (Ad inserted 10/01/06)
Benlate
Fungicide 2
1
kg
Lennate
Pesticide 4 x 1kg
& 4 x
100g
Sequential
Two
Fertilizer 1 x 10ltrs
Dual
960 EC Magnum 3
x
5ltrs
Ronstar
Herbicide 2
5ltrs
Agil 100EC
Herbicide 1
x
5ltrs
& 1 x 4ltrs
Command
4EC
Herbicide 1 x
5ltrs
Bion
(Tobacco Leaf Spot) 8
60gms
Bravo
500 SE
1
5ltrs
Please phone
499790 or 091308903 if you are interested in any
or all of the
above.
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Car For Sale (Ad inserted 09/01/06)
Mitsubishi RVR Sports Gear 2000,1995
Petrol. Neat, dark green in colour,
lady driven with 110,000 kms. $650
million. Call Kathy 011 602
144
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Seedlings for Sale (Ad inserted 11/01/06)
JATROPHA (Diesel Plant) seedlings
for sale (ready for planting).
Phone: 011 420
777
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Pump for Sale (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
Jacuzzi large capacity, heavy
duty,
brand new, borehole irrigation pump with Franklin 1.5 Kw motor
and
control box. $120,000,000.00 neg.
Phone Mark or Pat 883236 or
011-204-642
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Items for Sale (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
Toyota Landcruiser VX 4.2 Diesel,
Manual, 1996, two owners, excellent
condition 209 000 km,
$26,000.00
Landrover V8i ES Petrol, Full house leather/electric seats etc,
1996,
64 000 km, mint condition $22,000.00
Generator
Brand new
TEK
SA assembled 5.5 KVA Diesel, Electric Start $2000.00
Pressure Geyser
150Litre
Brand new in the box Z$ 90 Million.
Please email
rob@arniston.co.zw
or phone 011
221623
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1.13
Dishwasher for Sale (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
Bosch Dishwasher, hardly
used.
$85,000,000.00.
Phone: 490880 Cell 011
405218
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1.14
Various Items for Sale (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
Whiskey collection consisting
of 102 bottles (all different), intact -
$350 million
swimming pool filter
(without motor)
$20 million
5-track CD player (excellent condition)
-
$10 million
DVD player together with sound system
- $10 million
food
processor with all attachments
- $5 million
coffee maker
- $1.5
million
1 1000 litre Coleman cooler box and one smaller - $6
million
wooden and black leather bar together with four backed chairs
$20
million
set garden table and four chairs
- $4 million
set wooden garden
table (round/collapsible) and three chairs
$6 million
All above prices
negotiable.
Please contact:
rbwatson@mweb.co.zw
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1.15
Car/Yacht For Sale (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
Datsun Bluebird 1982 in immaculate
condition only 80,000 kms
Sharp Yacht on trailer with complete suit of
sails
Please phone 011 719
302
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1.16
Container Space Available (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
Selling space on a
container, which is bound for Brisbane. Packing end
of January 2006. Please
contact Mr R Hinde
091 274 615 or
011 418
046
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1.17
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 18/01/06)
COMPUTER - ($50 Million)
Intel P4, 3
GHz
40GB Hard Drive
512MB Ram
64MB VGA
DVD Rom
CD
Writer
Monitor
Optical Mouse
Keyboard
Speakers
FULL HOUSE DISCO
- ($200 Million)
Technics Amplifier
DA Amplifier
Technics
Graphic
NUMARK Mixer
Sound to light converter 3000W
Smoke
Machine
Strobe Light
Disco lights
UV light and disco stand
2 x
15
450 W wit 10
and tweeter inbox
2 x 15
Subs inbox
2 x CD
Diskman
Microphone
EMPISAL S300 OVER-LOCK MACHINE - ($50 Million)
As
new, still boxed and has original cotton with manual.
Immaculate
condition.
For any Enquiries on the above please contact:
Mrs. Taryn
Knight on 091243374 or after hours
304426
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1.18
Vegetables for Sale (Ad inserted 18/01/06)
Haddow House is now selling fresh
farm veggies.
Please visit the Farm House at Haddow House, 10 East Road,
Belgravia.
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1.19
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 19/01/06)
House alarm, single zone
wireless/cordless system, PIR sensors - $70m.
2.5kVa petrol generator -
$50m.
Vacuum packer - $3m.
Clothes steamer - $1m.
Travel iron -
$1m.
New cordless kettle - $4m.
Ice cream maker, Philips - $10m.
Slow
cooker, tedelex - $10m.
Juice extractor, black & decker -
$15m.
Electric can opener - $2m.
Coffee maker, Braun - $15m.
15 fin oil
heater - $15m.
Hoover upright vacuum cleaner - $15m.
Delonghi wet &
dry carpet shampooer/vacuum cleaner - $20m.
40cm desk fan - $2m.
Slide
projector - $5m.
Extension reel with flex - $5m.
Camping stretchers (2) -
$3m each.
Kitchen scale - $2m.
Floor scale - $3m.
Safe -
$30m.
Garden fertiliser spreader - $10m.
Garden spray - $3m.
Golf
clubs, ladies, c/w bag & caddy cart, complete - $20m
Golf clubs, men's,
c/w bag & caddy cart, complete - $25m.
Tumble dryer, old but works -
$5m
Peugeot 405 sedan car, '99 model, <60000km - $450m.
Steel shelving
(qty = 75), assorted sizes, $725k each or $500k each if
take the
lot.
Further details contact Marc on 304791 or 011 604419; 011
610073.
Email:
mjh@zol.co.zw
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1.20
Chemicals & Fertilisers (Ad inserted 7/2/06)
Chemicals and Fertilisers
for Sale:-
X 1KG MACOZAM 80% WP
60G BION 50WG
2KGS DIPTEREX 95%
SP
5 LITRE DOKA
5 LITRE FENAMIPHOS
5 LITRE NUTRIFOL
10
LITRE
SEQUENTIAL TWO
1 LITRE TAMARON
25 LITRE WEEDKILLER FOR WHEAT
OR BARLEY
2 LITRE ALACHLOR
2 LITRE ATRAZINE
1 LITRE DUAL
1 KG
SODIUM MOLYBNATE]
5 LITRE GRAMOXONE
20 LITRE SUCKERKILL
1 KG
BAYTAN
25 KGS CALCIUM NITRATE
All the above chemicals are still sealed
.
For further details please phone the following numbers:-
Harare 497735
Cell - 011-603-889
Fax/Phone - 481419
E-mail -
charlespat@zol.co.zw
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1.21
Cooking Oil (Bulk) for sale (Ad inserted 7/2/06)
"Cooking oil, bulk, attn
restaurants, takeaways, etc, phone
495897"
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1.22
For Sale (Ad inserted 7/2/06)
Potato Seedlings now available - large or small
quantities.
also we still have full range of submersible pumps, well pumps -
full range
of pumps for all garden needs. Generators, knapsack sprays,
irrigation
systems for gardens and larger. Lawnmowers.
Very competitive
prices.
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1.23
Cattle Farm/Ranch For Sale
(Ad inserted 7/2/06)
PRIME CATTLE FARM/RANCH
FOR SALE IN BOTSWANA
Cattle farm business in Ghanzi District, Northwest of
Botswana for
sale. Comprises of a well developed free hold farm measuring
16000.
hectares,
with large house ( 5 bedrooms, en-suite
bathroom,
bathroom & separate toilet, large lounge with an attached
larpa. Separate
dining room and kitchen with old fashioned coal stove.) The
farm has 3 very
strong boreholes with five watering points and is divided
into 13 camps.
All
farming equipment, lighting plants, gensets and
inverter equipment
included.
walk in - walkout deal
We even are
prepared to sell everything as a package.
The farm,
cattle, the house
with all furniture (cupboards, beds, TV's, tables,
chairs,
fridges,
the works), all our vehicles (merc truck, double cab,
cruiser, grader)
our bank account and company.
Cattle producer prices just
been increased
by 40% for the first time in 10 years.
Owner
retiring.
EVERYTHING TO GO
Nearest cash offer will secure.
If you are
interested please contact The Advertiser Farm--email:
shell@it.bw
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1.24
Generators for Sale (Ad inserted 7/6/06)
Beat the ZESA power cuts by powering
up your house and bore holes with
one of the following KIPOR Generators which
we have on hand.
KDE5000E Single Phase 4.2 KVA Diesel, open
frame type.
US$1 100
KDE5000T Single Phase 4.2 KVA Diesel, Sound proof type US$1
260
KDE6000T3
Three Phase 5 KVA Diesel, sound proof type US$1
320
KDE6500T3 Three Phase 5.5 KVA Diesel, sound proof type US$1
380
KDE12STA3 Three Phase 9.5 KVA Diesel, Super silent type US$4
450
KDE16STA3 Three Phase 13.5 KVA Diesel, Super silent type US$6 580
For
all enquiries contact the following :-
Graham 011 617 999
Rusty 091 278
460
Office 884022
Fax 850195
E mail graham@adas.co.zw
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1.25
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 7/2/06)
For Sale
Teak pick nick bench and
table 40mil
Big front door with frame 24mil
Chest of drawers
18mil
Large dining room suite with side table 35mil
Double bed plus
headboard mattress and bench 18mil
Queen size bed solid pine lime washed with
bench 18mil
Queen size therapeutic mattress 25mil
Biggie best lounge suite
(1x3seater, 2x 1seater) 30mil
Oregon pine Morris chairs (1x2seater,
2x1seater) 45mil
Oregon pine coffee table 25mil
Oregon pine side table x4
20mil
Old computers and monitors offers
Curtains
Pram offers
Play
station 1 offers
Kitchen table with 4 chairs plus shelve 15mil
Old Golf
club set offers
Teak lounge table plus 4 side tables 25mil
Teak CD corner
stand 5mil
2-pine lime washed single beds 6.5mil
6-side tables lime washed
600.000
2 large cupboards blue brand new 60mil
Oak kitchen cupboard doors
with hinges and handles 40mil
Full bedroom suite
pine lime washed
including:
Corner TV cupboard 15 mil
Two side tables 6mil each
Large
chest of drawers 18
Large desk with chair 20mil
Large speakers with
amplifier
Peugeot 405 very good condition available only in mid march
(54.000km)
1998 VW Golf
Lots of piping (black pvc) was used for solar
heated pool
Trays
Cd player works fine for radio or connecting to
TV
cds don
t work
1 side table lamp
children 1.5mil
1 side table
lamp 1.5mil
2 wrought iron wine racks 2, 3mil
There are lots of other
little pieces for sale as well
Please contact Christina on 011 606 074 if you
are interested in any of
the
above
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1.26
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 07/02/06)
Originally imported from UK, music and
comedy videos, music biography
books and CD's, a small P.A. system, musical
instruments, some
lighting equipment, smoke machine, a black 10m backdrop
& materials,
a music recording studio for sale. If you're interested
please email me
brogue@mweb.co.zw
and I'll send
you
the catalogues with prices.
Full household for sale, numerous various items,
accessories and
furniture. Please email me at
brogue@mweb.co.zw
for complete
catalogues and
prices.
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2
WANTED
ITEMS
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Wanted
(Ad inserted 07/02/06)
WANTED:
Heavy Duty Tumble Drier in good working
order.
Please call 091 237 772 or 04
495862
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Wanted
(Ad inserted 04/01/06)
Looking for a humidifier (second hand or new) for
steaming child's bedroom.
Please contact Carol on 091 264160 or
carol@powerspeed.co.zw
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2.3
Wanted (Ad inserted 07/01/06)
Old guitars wanted for cash, any condition,
call Gordon
023894597
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2.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 07/01/06)
Non-running/accident damaged, cars, trucks,
tractors, wanted urgently for
breaking, please call Mr Wallis
023894597.
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 09/01/06)
Adult and child's life jackets.
Oars for
canoes and rowing boat. Fishing rods, reels and tackle.
Contact:
savuli@mweb.co.zw
or John Tayler 091 631
556.
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2.6
Goats Wanted (Ad inserted 09/01/06)
WANTED:
Many, young ready for
breeding
female goats for breeding programme, will collect.
Contact:
ranch@africaonline.co.zw
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2.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 09/01/06)
A farm close to Harare to
rent. Call
Patience on 091 312 560 or Kurai on 091 212
304
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2.9
Books Wanted (Ad inserted 12/01/06)
WANTED: GCSE STUDY GUIDES AND REVISION
BOOKS.
PLEASE PHONE 055 20213 OR 011
407747
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2.12
Handset Wanted (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
JAG now has a new phone line in the
office and we are looking for a handset
phone to borrow in order to relieve
congestion on the existing
line.
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2.13
Vegetables Wanted (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
Looking for wholesale suppliers of,
if you can supply yourself or know of
where I can
find:
Potatoes
Onions
Butternut
Carrots
Gem
squash
Apples
Please email
kuipers@zol.co.zw
or phone Kirsty on 011
212493.
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2.14
Lift Wanted (Ad inserted 18/01/06)
I am looking for a lift for my son, to
Grahamstown, Rhodes University,
he is willing to share expenses and driving,
sometime between the 2nd and
the 5th February, 2006.
Please
contact
Colin Cloete on
011 715 46 or
Lynn Cloete on
086
22332
or
23768
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3.
ACCOMMODATION WANTED AND
OFFERED
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3.1
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 6/2/06)
WANTED TO RENT:
Urgently wanted
- a house in the Harare area
starting 1st Feb 2006.
Must have a secure
garden
for dogs.
Please call 091 365 515 or 091 363
970.
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3.2
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 6/2/06)
Looking for House to rent from 1st
April. Northern Suburbs. 4 bedrooms.
Long lease
essential.
Contact:
egravett@zol.co.zw
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3.3
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 6/02/06)
Young couple with 2
young
children desperately looking for a 3+ bed roomed house, flat
cottage in
Borrowdale, Mount Pleasant, Vainona, Gunhill, areas, with
reasonable
rent.
Will be happy to make improvements and will take good care of home
in
place of high rent.
Please call Ben on 091 335060 or Hayley on 011
219864 or
Home 04
884208
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3.4
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 10/01/06)
We are desperately looking for a
house to rent immediately.
Situated on the western suburbs of Harare i.e.
not Borrowdale, Greendale,
Chisipite.
Good security is a must, 4
bedrooms borehole and pool if possible.
Please if you hear of anything
contact us as soon as possible.
Dave & Jan Stewart
091606242
Dave
011606242 Jan
304210
Flat
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3.5
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 12/01/06)
Single young girl with 1 dog
& cat urgently looking for small 2/3 bedroomed
house or flat or cottage
with extremely good security in Greendale/
Chisipite/ Highlands
areas.
Must be unfurnished.
Looking to move end February beginning of
March.
Please respond to
secunltd@ecoweb.co.zw
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3.6
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 16/01/06)
Looking for accommodation in Glen
Lorne area for my maid who is middle
aged and on her own.
Must include
ablutions.
Willing to pay reasonable rent, but we have no domestics quarters
on
property we are renting.
Please contact Carol on 091 264160 or
e-mail
carol@powerspeed.co.zw
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3.7
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 16/01/06)
PLEASE HELP, WE ARE LOOKING FOR A
HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC QUATERS TO RENT. VERY
VERY URGENT, AS OWNER OF THE HOUSE
WE ARE RENTING FROM NEEDS THE HOUSE
FOR HER SON, SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR A
HOUSE A.S.A.P, PREFRENCES: GREENDALE,
NEWLANDS, EASTLEA, MANDARA AND ANYWHERE
ELSE,
PLEASE PHONE PAUL HUNDERMARK ON 091315767 OR ROXY HUNDERMARK ON
011611288
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3.8
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
URGENT
Young married couple
with two kids looking for a 2-bedroomed house.
Must have
servants
quarters and be in Harare.
Please phone Paul 091 315 767 or Roxy
011 611
288
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3.9
House Wanted to Buy (Ad inserted 19/01/06)
We are looking for a house to buy,
preferably in or around the Ballantyne
area towards Borrowdale or in
Borrowdale Brook. (Something near St Johns!!)
Please let us know if you know
of
a house available.
Contact: Shayne Hay
Tel: (263 4) 720138/9
Fax:
(263 4) 706921
cell: (263) 11 201 677
shayne@katun.co.zw
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3.10
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 11/01/06)
2-bedroomed garden flat in
Greendale, walking distance from shops, carport,
phone Mr Wallis
023894597
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3.11
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
AVAILABLE FROM: 4 MARCH TO 20
JUNE 2006
To Rent -Beautiful House Fully Furnished
12 Room House 2 minutes
from St. Johns and Shopping Centres
Double Alarm System in House
Carpets,
Shades, Blinds
4 Bedrooms
toilets
Kitchen: Dishes, Pots and Pans,
Cutlery and Utensils
Stove/ Microwave/ Large Fridge
Scullery: Wash-up
Sinks/ Deep Freeze/ Large Top Load Washer and Dryer
Furnished formal
lounge
Dining Room: Oak table, chairs, pottery, glassware and
silverware
TV Room: DSTV decoder
Library
Large entertainment
veranda
Swimming pool
Developed garden & rockery on 2 acres with
dam
Secure wall and auto-gate outside lights
Under Voltage over voltage
Protection Unit
Month Lease from 4 MARCH to JUNE 21 2006
For Pre-paid
rent, discount
RENT $55,000,000-00
Realtors and Estate Agents Finders
Commission
Contact Mark or Pat Cell 011-204-642 or Tel.
862282
Email:
utmost@mweb.co.zw
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3.12
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
GLENLORNE COTTAGE FOR
RENT
Single-roomed (10mx 3m) cosy
thatched cottage, suitable for up to 2,
ensuite kitchen and bathroom,
partially furnished, in delightful Glen Lorne
Msasa woodland
surrounds. Excellent
security, with 3 other residences,
each with their own privacy, on the 5
acre stand making a
comfortable and
friendly community as back up.
Rent based on US$ 80 pm, converted at blended
inter bank rate, currently
at Z$70,000, i.e. Z$ 5.6m pm, all in.
Contact
Janet on 499060 or 011 614
197
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3.13
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 18/01/06)
Secure granny flat for rent in
Chisipite with separate entrance.
Accommodation consists of one large room,
full size kitchen and bathroom.
Z$6 million plus deposit and
utilities.
Phone Mike Lukas o4/490138 or
011400855
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3.14
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 19/01/06)
House to rent in Northwood
4
Bedroom House
Borehole
Swimming Pool and Jacuzzi
Electric Fence and
gate
Inside alarm, all connected to Gauntlet
Available 01/03/06
Call
011 205
183
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3.15
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 7/2/06)
Spacious furnished accommodation
offered to fit elderly person in
Borrowdale.
Share expenses.
For
further information, please phone Renting Department on telephone
number
885623 (am) or 885571
(pm).
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3.16
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 7/2/06)
""We have a delightfull single
roomed thatched cottage , and separate
flatlet ,
each with lovely
views
onto the garden and surrounding msasa woodlands.
Suitable for singles , or a
tidy couple, available immediate , on a 5 acre
stand with 3
other
residences, providing a friendly small community which is good for
security,
but maintains
individual privacy.
Contact Janet on 499060 or
011 614
197"
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3.17
Looking for House to Sit (Ad inserted 7/02/06)
Mature couple looking to
housesit for any length of time. Loves animals
available immediately. Please
call Lauren or Jason on 091237648 or
091760874.
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3.18
Looking for House to Sit (Ad inserted 11/01/06)
Honest, reliable, mature lady
looking to housesit as from 01 February 2006.
Avondale area preferred.
Please phone Jenny 011 423 614 or
331087.
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4
RECREATION
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4.1
Harare International Festival of the Arts (Ad inserted 7/2/06)
The Harare
International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) is one of Zimbabwe's
premier
artistic events. It gives Zimbabweans the change to meet and
interface with
top local artists, as well as regional and international
artists and
performers.
The Festival's appeal is for all ages and interests and during
HIFA,
Zimbabweans come together in a truly carnival atmosphere
to
experience the sheer joy that is art in whatever form - art as
healer,
art as educator, art as up lifter of the spirit.
HIFA 2006 is
scheduled for 25th to 30th April 2006. All the major
international festivals
offer a "Friends of Festival" scheme and ours is
known as
HifAmigos.
HifAmigos are a highly valued and regarded
component of the
Festival.
HIFA offers a series of comprehensive benefits in several
categories
of HifAmigos to cater for all interests and needs and
subscriptions
are reasonable.
HIFA has been described as "second to
Edinburgh" and "among the top ten
festivals of the world!"
HIFA 2006 now
invites you to become a HifAmigo or to renew your
HifAmigo
membership.
If you do so by 24th February 2006, you will be
listed in the Official
HIFA 2006 Programme and invited to what is becoming
the hottest even
on the Zimbabwean social calendar - the HIFA Opening Party.
Our launch
events are legendary.
Join early & be there!
2006
HifAmigos will enjoy 20% discounts on all shows and workshops.
Procedure for
becoming a hifAmigo
Contact the hifAmigo Manager for an application form
-
Angie Thomas - contactable via HIFA as below.
Harare International
Festival of the Arts
Box A42, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
Phone &
Fax:
+263 (4) 300 119
Email:
amigos@hifa.co.zw
Website:
www.hifa.co.zw
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4.2
HOLIDAYS (Ad inserted 04/01/06)
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. $900,000 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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4.3
Ad inserted 01/01/06
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!
Contact
tourleaders@zol.co.zw
for more info
today!
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4.4
(Ad inserted 7/2/06)
VALENTINES AT HADDOW HOUSE:
Celebrate a romantic
valentines day at Haddow House.
We will be open in the evening where we will
be serving a three course
meal for $1.5million per person
exclusive of
drinks.
Please feel free to bring your own wine. (no corkage
charged).
For bookings please contact Haddow House on 733405, 724408, 011
403316
or 011 206205.
Haven Rise
57 Argyle
Road
Avondale
Harare
tell/fax: (H) 04-335181
tell: (O)
04-733405
Cell:
091-320192
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4.5
Fun Fund Raiser (Ad inserted 7/2/06)
Tickets for this very worthwhile fund
raising event advertised below are
available from the college or the Jag
office, 17 Philips Ave, Belgravia.
Come along to a great fun day of
entertainment.
St George's Boat Club
Fund Raising Lunch
Venue: Sable
Motor Club (behind Haddon Motors)
Date: Saturday 18 February
12 noon
onwards
Live Music with Bucks and Johnny M!
$ 400 000 per head
Cash Bar
/ Secure Parking
(Ticket serves as a lunch
voucher)
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5
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Auto
Electrics (Ad inserted 12/01/06)
For all your auto electrical work call in at
16 Harare Street or phone 04
790266 or 011 414
050
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Ad
inserted 04/01/06
DO YOU WANT TO PUT YOUR OLD VHS VIDEO TAPES
OR CASSETTES
OR RECORDS ON TO DVD OR VCD. IF SO PLEASE CONTACT WENDELL ON
067 23040 OR 091
743 965 OR 091 386 665 or
wendelljamu@yahoo.com
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5.3
(Ad inserted 16/01/06)
Do you dread the thought of holding your child's
party?
Do you have nowhere to hold a party?
Do you have no time to plan
and hold a party?
Your problems have ended!
Penny and Shelley will
organize everything for your child's party.
Theme parties could
include:
Transport, Space, Animals, Noah's Arc, Barbie, Spider Man,
Barney,
Insects, Winnie the Pooh, Toy Box, The Sky, etc.
We can have it in
a garden, at Safety Sam, etc, provide ponies, jumping
castles, slippery
slides, games, individual eats, group eats, painting or
craft parties where
your children can all create something to take home.
Call Shelley now on
091 264361 or 490684
Or Penny on 091 237434 or
336955
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5.4
(Ad inserted 6/02/06) Care Management Services. Formerly called
"Substitute
Daughter."
Care Management Services. Formerly called Substitute
Daughter.
Have you left Zim? Are worried about a remaining relative? For a
modest fee
our service will monitor the well being - physical, mental and
emotional -
of those who might be in need. The service is run by
qualified,
experienced, registered nurses of "the old school". We ensure that
health
needs are being met and that if your relative needs any other sort of
care
- nursing, financial services, transport, domestic aid, medical
visits
etc., we will arrange for these needs to be met. We visit regularly
and
keep you informed with reliable, accurate reports of all
developments.
24 hour call available.
The service has been working
successfully, without interruption since Sept.
2002.
Want to know more?
e-mail:
brumarlow@mango.zw
Ph.:
00-263-4- 302518 (after hours) or 00-263-91-603621.
References will be
supplied on request.
Margaret Low. SRN.
SCM.
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5.5
(Ad inserted 11/12/05)
Harare SPCA Charity Shop
The Charity Shop is still
operative, but needs stock urgently. As I live
just off Ridgeway North I am
in a position to be able to collect to take
delivery of goods, which can
include virtually anything and everything.
Harare SPCA is under new
management and as a result it has undergone a
considerable change for the
better, and we feel that our service to animal
welfare is now worthy of the
aims of the SPCA.
We would be grateful for any donations of any kind to help
us keep going.
Funding is an eternal problem, as sadly we are all too
aware.
Vicki Campbell (Treasurer)
Phone: 851115 Cell 091
256554
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(Ad inserted 16/01/06)
ZEB Water Back-up Systems
Tired of erratic,
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We supply, install and maintain water back-up systems to all
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For more information please contact us on 011-424712 or 011-806525
e-mail
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Ad inserted 16/01/06
Oxford IT
A leading IT professional recruitment firm,
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Give us
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ROOF LEAKS / RISING DAMP
WE SPECIALISE IN
WATERPROOFING, DAMPPROOFING, WALL AND ROOF COATINGS.
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(Ad inserted 16/01/06)
Please remember we have reliable
services available
in Harare North at a very competitive rate.
*Plumber - toilets, basins,
blocked drains - Gauti c/o MP on 304492
*Electric Gates, Intercoms, House
Alarms, Surveillance Cameras etc Creative
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Pools and
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5.10
(Ad inserted 16/01/06)
WEDDINGS & SPECIAL EVENTS VIDEO
PRODUCTION
Focused Video Productions specialize in weddings & special
events video
production. We use digital equipment to capture your special
moments in the
highest quality.
Call Greer on 744075 / 091 53
047
Email:
fvp@fvp.co.zw
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5.11
Nursery School Vacancies (Ad inserted 04/01/06)
Little Blessings Nursery
School
There are a few vacancies available at a small, up-market,
Christian
preschool in The Grange area of Chisipite. Owner: 15 years
teaching
experience and is a trained nurse. Viewing welcome. Please
telephone for
appointment 499108 or 091 345
079.
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5.12
Nursery School Vacancies (Ad inserted 6/01/06)
Rugrats Nursery School,
conveniently located in a lovely safe and secure
setting in Mount Pleasant,
still has a few places available for 3, 4 and
5 years olds for 2006.
In
addition to the usual painting, colouring, drawing and making of
exciting
crafts, Rugrats also offers additional activities such as gym,
tennis,
ballet, music, computers and baking.
Numbers in classes are kept to a
minimum which means that your child will
benefit from
individual
attention. We cannot stress enough how important the welfare of
your child
is to us, and how blessed we are to be given an opportunity to lay
a secure
foundation for their future. If you would like to know more about
us,
or to be a part of Rugrats Nursery School, please contact Karyn on
091
261 641 or by email -
rugrats@mango.zw
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(Ad
inserted 18/01/06)
Haven Rise Bed and Breakfast is situated in Avondale and
is a wonderful
tranquil place to stay.
For further information please
contact us at
kilbride@zol.co.zw
or visit our
website
www.havenrise.co.zw
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(Ad
inserted 19/01/06)
WEDDING VENUE, CATERING & CO-ORDINATING...
Also an
upmarket BED & BREAKFAST
suitable for Embassy guests.
Chelmsford Rd.
Avondale.
Phone: 091
228563
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(Ad inserted 7/2/06)
"Chemical analysis,tap/borehole water.Phone
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(Ad inserted 7/2/060
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5.17
(Ad inserted 7/2/06)
The Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals
requests that all cases of cruelty or abuse of animals,
both domestic and
livestock, are reported to them.
Recently there has been
an increase of deliberate cruelty to livestock,
but unfortunately many of
these incidents are not reported to ZNSCPA and we
only get to hear about them
through a third party long after the abuse has
taken place.
Cruelty to
animals, including wild life in captivity, is a punishable
offence in
Zimbabwe and we are pleased to report that the Police and the
Courts are
dealing swiftly and decisively with these cases when we present
our dockets
to them.
Whilst ZNSPCA remains totally non-political, we continue to
respond
quickly and professionally to requests for help on farms where the
welfare
of
animals is being compromised in any way.
ZNSPCA HQ:
497885/497574
156 Enterprise Rd Chisipite
Inspectors Cell:Glynis:
091
367 260
Simon: 011 630 430
Jimmy: 011 528 449
Justine: 023 306
456
John:
011 867
099
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Pets
Wanted (Ad inserted 6/2/2006)
I am look for a Jack Russell & a
Labrador or other large dog to go to a
very good home.
Neither has to be
puppies, but would be preferred in order to
avoid conflict.
Please contact
Michelle on
091402559.
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Wanted (Ad inserted 09/01/06)
Am looking for a Golden Labrador female
puppy, will go to a very good home.
Please contact Bridget 011
408044
Email:
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Puppies For Sale (Ad inserted 09/01/06)
Adorable Labrador puppies.
Superb
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A small
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A black dog
A black bitch
Eight
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Mum a champion with papers and Dad a purebred Labrador
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no papers.
tel (04) 496297
(home - evenings)
(04) 480997 or
481735
(office
hours
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Home
Wanted (Ad inserted 10/01/06)
'MANA' smashing white English Bull Terrier
bitch with brindle patch,
found half dead of starvation on Country Club Golf
Course now back to
normal and looking great needs a new home. What a
character! And Toy Pom
bitch called Cindy looking for home. For more
information tel. Michelle
on 884294 or e-mail
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Hamsters
For Sale (Ad inserted 17/01/06)
Homes sought for adorable, well-behaved
Russian hamsters looking for good
homes - Free delivery in Harare
area.
Phone Katie on 091 252 847 or email:
katie@gekko.co.zw
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Misanet / The
Standard, 14 February - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe,
who turns 82
this month, remains determined to shield himself from commoners
who
catapulted him to power even when retirement beckons. Critics say this
shows
increasing paranoia by a leader who behaves in sharp contrast with
other
veterans of Africa's liberation movements who assumed ordinary citizen
statusA once they left office.
When he left office, Tanzania's
founding President, the late Julius Mwalimu
Nyerere moved back to his
childhood home village of Butiama in western
Tanzania, while former South
Africa President Nelson Mandela retreated to
Qunu, his home village when he
left office, more than half a decade ago. He
also has a private residence in
Johannesburg's suburb of Houghton Park,
which is not ring-fenced by any
security zoning.
As he was about to leave his position to the then deputy
President Thabo
Mbeki, a humble Mandela said: "I will count myself as
amongst the aged of
our society; as one of the rural population; as one
concerned for the
children and youth of our country; and as a citizen of the
world, committed,
as long as I have the strength, to work for a better life
for all people
everywhere. The long walk continues."
It is unlikely
this will be the case with Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe for
more than 25
years. Three weeks before he reaches 82, Mugabe is still
keeping people
guessing about his retirement plans and whether these will
define his legacy
and future as one of a growing core group of the
continent's elder
statesmen.
Mugabe's SADC counterparts in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, South
Africa, Tanzania and Zambia, have made the transition from
being heads of
state to senior private citizens of their respective
countries. His
government has already given indications that when Mugabe
does finally leave
office, he won't stay among his much-loved povo - the
common people.
Mugabe's lavish rural home in Zvimba could be a perfect
retirement residence
but the opulent mansion in Borrowdale Brooke, built at
an estimated cost of
over 5 million pounds is most likely to provide
sanctuary to a man who
should be retiring to tranquil surroundings to
reflect on his legacy of the
immense contribution he made to the liberation
of this country, Namibia and
the advent of democracy in South Africa, as
well as be on hand to offer
advice to his successor.
And the
Zimbabwean government seems determined not to take any chances about
his
security after he leaves office. It has already put in place measures to
acquire homes adjacent to the mansion in a manner that has rattled property
owners around the oriental mansion.
More than a dozen property owners
have been served with notices to move out
of the area, which was designated
a security zone last year. The notices
will pave way for the government to
acquire the prime properties. There are
fears Zimbabwe's "aristocratic
village/cantonment" may emerge in Borrowdale,
with top security and
government officials taking up the acquired
properties.
Although many
Zimbabweans had not anticipated this would happen, it appears
Mugabe had
planned the move in advance. In April last, the Harare Ministry
of Home
Affairs issued the order in terms of Section 5 of the Protected
Places and
Areas Act, published in the government gazette.
The order, which did not
attract the attention of many, designated the area
protected. At the time,
residents felt that apart from the occasional
roadblocks, they could only be
inconvenienced if Borrowdale Brooke Road was
closed to motorists during the
night as is the case with roads near the
State House and Dzibahwe - Mugabe's
official residence.
Little did they know that they would become
undesirable elements once the
heavily guarded mansion was completed. One of
several residents, who called
'The Standard' last week, said: "It came as a
shock. We thought he (Mugabe)
would just come and live in that big house
without antagonising us. We now
know we are not wanted here even though we
were the first to settle here."
Lawyers 'The Standard' spoke to, said the
notices are "improper and
illegal". They said if it was a security issue the
notices should have come
from the Ministry of Home Affairs and not that of
Local Government.
The Minister of Local Government, Ignatious Chombo, was
said to be in
meetings when 'The Standard' approached his office for
comment. The Acting
Permanent Secretary for the Ministry told 'The Standard'
that he had not
seen the objections from property owners near the retirement
villa and
referred questions to the minister.
The issue has struck
fear in the hearts of many with a senior official from
the property sector
telling 'The Standard': "That is a very sensitive issue.
To be honest with
you, that is something I don't want to be involved in ..."
But critics
last week said they were not shocked by the move. "Mugabe
committed a lot of
crimes against many people, political opponents, farmers
and others. He is
being haunted by his past crimes and so it is not
surprising that he is
determined to stay away from these people," said
Nelson Chamisa,
spokesperson of the opposition MDC anti-Senate faction.
"When you abuse
power, you will never feel secure."
By Walter Marwizi and
Davison Maruziva
© The Standard / afrol News