SABC
July 21, 2006,
08:15
Zimbabwe has resumed land allocations after they were halted by a
corruption
audit of the process, Harare's Herald newspaper reported today.
Its website
said Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, announced this at
the opening
the 2006 Annual Chiefs' Conference in Kariba
yesterday.
He said there was still plenty of land for resettlement and
invited all
those who were in need to apply urgently. "We had stopped to
audit the
programme. We are now beginning to give offer letters. This means
people who
want to benefit should bring up their names. There is a lot of
land that was
not taken," he said.
Mugabe said the audit had revealed
that only 40% of the allocated land had
been taken up, adding that under the
new allocations, consideration would be
given to future
generations.
Mugabe said in the past, some people were given land on the
basis of their
ambition but ambition alone was not good enough. "You need
capability, money
and labour. Not everyone can be a farmer," he said. -
Sapa
From The Daily Mirror, 20 July
Daily Mirror Reporter
People in Harare have urged
Zesa Holdings to provide services that match its
electricity tariffs, which
were yesterday hiked by close to 100 percent. The
Zimbabwe Electricity
Distribution Company (ZEDC), a subsidiary of Zesa
Holdings, increased
tariffs, with immediate effect, for the second time this
month. Most of the
people interviewed by The Daily Mirror yesterday said the
increase would put
the rates beyond their reach, with economic analyst Luxon
Zembe urging the
power utility to give ratepayers value for their money. "It
is important for
Zesa to be viable. Some of the rates they were charging
were ridiculously
below the cost price. We are now paying the price for
that. On a cost
recovery level, we cannot run away from the increase. It is
just a case of
chickens coming to roost. But the increase should be matched
with service
delivery and efficiency in Zesa," Zembe said. The former
Zimbabwe National
Chamber of Commerce president applauded Zesa for its
recent restructuring
exercise and hoped it would bear fruit with ratepayers
receiving efficient
services.
Jerome Karomo, a resident of the city's Avenues area, said
the tariff hikes
were predictable although they worsened the consumer's
plight, coming
shortly after a 95 percent increase last month. "This is the
second time the
tariffs have gone up within a short space of time. Obviously
that makes life
difficult, but there is nothing one can do. Everything is
going up.
Otherwise we would be using the power for free. Another Avenues
resident,
Ignatius Mazura, said the increases were unjustifiable given the
power-cuts
experienced by residents at various intervals due to Zesa's
loadshedding
programme. Mazura said: "Sometimes the power goes out for days.
I cannot be
expected to pay for something I am not getting. We should, as a
nation,
rearrange our priorities and channel resources towards generating
and
transmitting more electricity." Moreblessing Mabara of Warren Park said
the
new rates coupled with high water tariffs, would hit tenants the worst
as
property-owners were going to factor in these costs on their
accommodation
charges.
In revising its tariffs, ZEDC said this
was in response to the movements in
the Consumer Price Index (CPI), exchange
rate and coal price increases since
March this year. The electricity company
pegged the fixed monthly charge at
$783 100, up from $505 200 for domestic
metered customers using the
conventional meter. Energy charges per
kilowatt-hour (kWh) for the first 250
kWh would now cost $400, up from $200,
while consumers would pay $2 200, up
from $1 400 for energy consumption
between 251 and 500 kWh. Domestic metered
consumers using the prepayment
meter would be paying $2 200, up from $1 400
for energy consumption up to
500kWh. The public lighting fixed monthly
charge has been increased from
$637 800 to $988 600, while the energy charge
per kWh is now $2 800 up from
$1 800. Supply for light industries using low
voltage has been set at $1, 2
million from $774 100 for the fixed charge,
with energy charges going up
from $1 400 to $2 200 per kWh while heavy
industries will fork out $2 800
per kWh during peak hours. The industries
would be charged a fixed charge of
$3,3 million, standard charge of $1 000
per kilowatt-hour and $700 during
the off peak period, up from $400.
The government had allowed Zesa
Holdings to stagger electricity charges up
to September, having denied the
electricity supplier's demand to increase
tariffs by 2 000 percent.
Officials at the power utility have however said
that the staggered increase
had not made any impact as they failed to meet
expectations as a result of
ever-rising input costs. Zesa has in the past
said low tariffs have resulted
in the electricity provider failing to
maintain, upgrade and expand its
network. Zembe also called on the business
community not to profiteer and
indulge in other unethical business practices
on the pretext of the tariff
hikes. As a result of aged equipment, only 1
020 megawatts are being
generated out of the possible 1 680. Due to failure
to generate enough
power, the electricity provider has been failing to meet
demand, leading to
the introduction of load shedding, a move that has
affected industry and
domestic power consumers. Zesa Holdings is however
putting in place
strategies to generate more power in the wake of an
anticipated power
shortage in Southern Africa next year. Zimbabwe imports
about 35 percent of
its electricity requirements from Snel of the Democratic
Republic of Congo,
Eskom (South Africa) Hydro Cabbora Bassa (Mozambique) and
ZESCO of
Zambia.
zimbabwejournalists.com
By a Correspondent
LONDON - THE women's wing of
the opposition MDC will meet Saturday in
London to demonstrate against the
continued rule of President Robert Mugabe
and his Zanu PF
party.
The women, irked by the suffering of their womenfolk and
children back
home, have decided to dedicate this Saturday to protest the
way women
continue to pay the price for the worsening economic and political
climate
in the country, lack of sanitary pads, basic products and related
issues.
They argue that Mugabe's continued rule is worsenning the
plight of
the ordinary woman in the cities, the rural areas and the farming
communities. The women say there is a crisis of governance in the country
that needs urgent redress to allow a new government with fresh ideas to
revamp the ailing economy hence the creation of jobs, less street children
and thieves on the streets to harass and rape women and related
issues.
The women will meet outside Zimbabwe House in London for
the Special
Women's Vigil.
"We are urging Zimbabwean women from
all walks of life, from all parts
of the UK to come and join us as we
remember our mothers, sisters and many
others who are suffering," said the
MDC.
"Bring pots, plates and whatever you can get your hands on,
let's bang
and make noise on Saturday. Mugabe must go! Ladies we are feeling
the pain
of how Robert Mugabe is brainwashing our children back home,
turning them
against us, torturing the innocent and starving to death our
children, the
future leaders of tomorrow."
Women in Zimbabwe
have been the worst affected by the on-going crisis
in the country. Some
have turned to prostitution to fend for their families,
others cannot afford
to pay fees for their children resulting in most of
them dropping out due to
high fees.
The MDC says women in Zimbabwe have lost their dignity
in the last six
years, especially with the closure of Johnson and Johnson at
the beginning
of the country's crisis. As a result there has been a massive
shortage of
sanitary products.
The depreciation of the Zimbabwe
dollar on a daily basis has also
meant that the majority cannot even afford
to buy the sanitary products and
food that is available on the
shelves.
zimbabwejournalists.com
By a Correspondent
HARARE - HIGH COURT
Judge, Justice Hungwe, yesterday freed opposition
legislator Timothy Mubawu
by granting him bail for Zd$20 million, ending his
10-day ordeal in
Zimbabwe's remand prison.
Justice Hungwe said the lower courts had
erred in refusing the
legislator and his co-accused, Abraham Kurimakwaramba,
bail. The two had
taken their case to the High Court citing gross
irregularities on the part
of Magistrate Mushure when she refused them bail
at the Magistrates Court
last week.
Justice Hungwe said it was
clear from the application that magistrate
had premised her decision not to
grant bail on wrong facts.
He agreed with the defence there was
nothing tangible before Mushure
at the Magistrates Court to show that the
two would abscond or interfere
with the investigation or the administration
of justice once granted bail.
Mubawu is being charged with
Kurimakwaramba for allegedly sponsoring
youths from Morgan Tsvangirai MDC to
assault former colleague, Trudy
Stevenson, the Harare North MP and four
other colleagues from the Arthur
Mutambara MDC.
They are being
charged under the Criminal Law Codification and Reform
Act for provoking
violence and breach of peace.
Justice Hungwe ordered Mubawu to
reside at his house, 17 Donny Brook
Drive in Greendale. He was told not to
interfere with police investigations.
The MP was also asked to surrender his
travel documents.
Mubawu was also ordered to report to the police
once every week.
Kurimakwaramba was also freed from remand prison
on the same
conditions as Mubawu following the release of some of the youths
said to
have attacked Stevenson Wednesday.
Four of the nine
youths implicated in the attack are still fighting
their case so they can be
granted bail as well. Their second bail
application was dismissed late
yesterday by Harare Magistrate William Bhila.
Their colleagues were,
however, granted bail of Zd$20 million each.
Bhila remanded Charles
Maruma, Wector Zambezi, Pardon Munengani and
Francisco Zhuwawu to August 23
this year for trial.
Speaking after Mubawu's release, Priscilla
Misihairabwi Mushonga, the
Mutambara faction's deputy secretary general said
her party was "dismayed by
the level of hypocrisy that has been shown by
Zanu PF and government over
the recent violent and brutal attacks on our
members in Mabvuku."
"The swiftness at which the perpetrators of
the recent violence on our
members were brought to book clearly shows that
the state security agencies
are able to deal with those who violate the
country's laws," she said.
"We are left in no doubt that those who
have not been brought to book
to answer charges of criminality who include
Joseph Mwale and Kainos Zimunya
"aka" Kitsiyatota are infact-enjoying state
protection."
IOL
Basildon
Peta
July 21 2006 at 05:18AM
Zimbabwe's banking
executives have met to discuss the enormous
disruptions created for banking
software by the many zeros that are now
required in transactions made in
Zimbabwe's currency.
With inflation peaking at nearly 1 200
percent, the Zimbabwean dollar
has rapidly lost value since the economic
crisis in Zimbabwe started in
February 2002.
Whereas two
Zimbabwe dollars bought a rand as late as 1995, one now
needs at least
ZIM$70 000 (about R4,95) on the black market for foreign
currency, where
most forex transactions are handled.
This means that with R20, one
can become an instant millionaire and
with R100, an instant
multi-millionaire simply by travelling to Zimbabwe.
Most business transactions are done in amounts of billions and
trillions.
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange is worth more than an estimated
ZIM$950-trillion
and will soon have to be counted in a new measure yet to be
designed.
Zimbabweans now joke that the next level will be
called "bobillions"
in honour of President Robert Mugabe.
The
computer software used by most Zimbabwe banks has not been
configured to
handle the high figures.
An official at the Zimbabwe Banking
Association confirmed that
representatives of banks had met recently to
discuss the problems that the
multiple zero transactions had created for
computers.
The most feasible solution was the reconfiguration of
software to
increase the maximum number of digits accommodated so that any
possibility
in the hyper-inflationary environment was catered
for.
However, the biggest concern for bankers was the enormous cost
involved in having this done by international suppliers of
software.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, which has no foreign
currency to import
paper to print the proper currency and has been printing
artificial money
called bearer cheques on low quality paper, will also be
hard-pressed to
fund such upgrades. Other options included doing away with
some decimal
places.
This article was originally published
on page 10 of Pretoria News on
July 21, 2006
Mail and Guardian
Alberto Cremonesi | New York, United
States
21 July 2006 08:05
Thousands of delegates from around the world gather in
Toronto, Canada, next
month for the Sixteenth International Aids Conference,
and a leading human
rights group has urged them to consider the following
cases.
a.. The murder in June of Vivian Kavuma in
Uganda by her
lover after she disclosed that she was infected with
HIV.
b.. The brutal stabbing with a pitchfork of
15-year-old
Isaiah Gakuyo last April in Kenya by his uncle simply because
the orphan was
HIV-positive. There were numerous witnesses to the attack,
but none
intervened.
c.. The murder of in June
2005 human rights activist
Octavio Acuña Rubio in a condom shop he owned in
Mexico.
d.. The arrests in December of five
Zimbabwean Aids
activists commemorating World Aids Day at a public square in
Harare.
e.. The house arrests in March this year of
at least 23
people living with HIV in China's Henan province to keep them
from bringing
petitions to the Chinese congress.
And
the list goes on.
"We have the knowledge to defeat HIV
now, we know what is
effective, and that is recognising that the epidemic is
caused by human
rights abuses, which fuel the epidemic," said Joseph Amon,
director of the
HIV/Aids programme at Human Rights Watch
(HRW).
Since the virus was first identified in the
early 1980s,
HIV/Aids has claimed 22-million lives and infected more than
60-million
people. Last year, five million people were newly infected and
three million
died of Aids.
Between 2003 and 2005,
the number of people living with
HIV in East Asia rose by more than 25% and
the number of people living with
HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia rose
more than one-third.
Controlling the
epidemic
But according to HRW and others, in the 25 years
since
Aids was first discovered, few countries have succeeded in controlling
the
epidemic. Those that have done so have provided comprehensive
information on
HIV transmission to their populations; addressed the
vulnerability of women
and girls to violence and abuses; ensured access to
condoms, clean needles
and methadone; and expanded access to anti-retroviral
drugs.
Experts stress that vulnerability to HIV/Aids is
closely
tied to the social marginalisation of people most affected by the
virus.
They include young girls, injecting drug users, sex workers, men who
have
sex with men, migrants and prisoners -- groups that are frequently
victims
of discrimination and other human rights
abuses.
The connection between abuses of women's rights
and their
vulnerability to the disease is particularly evident in
sub-Saharan Africa,
where 58% of those infected with Aids are women.
According to HRW, in 2003,
half of all governments in sub-Saharan Africa had
yet to adopt laws
specifically banning discrimination against people living
with HIV/Aids,
while only one-third of countries worldwide had adopted legal
measures
specifically outlawing discrimination against populations
vulnerable to the
disease.
"If we attack the
epidemic by attacking human rights
abuses, we can turn the epidemic around.
The way we can do that is to have
comprehensive prevention and information
provided to people. We need to
empower communities to take the step that
they need to recognise the
epidemic and respond to it," Amon
said.
Rights abuses
Documenting
and punishing human rights abuses related to
HIV/Aids is essential in
raising public awareness and fighting the epidemic.
Unless countries adopt
approaches to HIV that are rooted in human rights
principles and informed by
scientific evidence, the epidemic will keep
growing, HRW
says.
The need for global HIV prevention based on sound
scientific evidence is supported by groups like the Caucus for
Evidence-Based Prevention, a coalition of United States-based NGOs and their
international partners whose aim is to implement strategies with proven
success in lowering HIV transmission rates.
In
fact, according to the multidisciplinary group of more
than 30
organisations, for different reasons, too often strategies with no
proven
efficacy have been promoted instead of those that are known to
work.
For example, in Uganda, once one of the
continent's
greatest success stories in reducing HIV rates, infections are
now on the
rise again since the government and evangelical groups have
pushed
abstinence-only messages and attacked the effectiveness of
condoms.
In Thailand, another initial bright spot in
the fight
against Aids, condom use is down and infections of sexually
transmitted
diseases are up. HRW says the government has done little to
reduce HIV
infection among drug users or migrant workers, and leading Aids
experts say
that Thailand's success is "history".
In Zimbabwe, about 350 000 people urgently need
anti-retroviral drugs, but
only about 25 000 have access to them. The life
expectancy for women is 34
years -- the lowest in the world.
In the US,
African-American women are 19 times more likely
to be infected with HIV than
white women. The number of new infections has
remained static for a decade,
and HRW says that "programmes that once
vigorously and creatively challenged
communities to confront Aids and learn
how to protect themselves from HIV
are being replaced by proposals to
eliminate individual pre-test counselling
and written consent, and simply
have doctors routinely test everyone they
treat for HIV".
Combat
"One of the
ways to combat the epidemic is by having
greater accountability by
governments, having better cooperation between
civil society and governments
in terms of monitoring the epidemic, having
specific concrete goals and
having periodic reports that include civil
society in terms of tracking
progress," Amon said.
"In Southern Africa, for
instance, there are many policies
which maintain the vulnerability of women
and there is also a lack of
protection and enforcement of property rights
abuses. The traditional
systems often do very little to respond to those
abuses," he noted.
At the just-concluded Group of Eight
summit in St
Petersburg, Russian Federation, leaders of the world's richest
nations
adopted a document pledging to achieve "tangible progress" in the
fight
against HIV/Aids by 2010. However, activists said donors must also
increase
funding or they would miss their own target, set last year at the
summit in
Gleneagles, Scotland, of providing treatment to four million
Africans by
that same deadline.
In order to achieve
universal treatment for HIV/Aids, at
least an additional $10-billion would
be needed, they noted.
Many hopes are now pinned on the
August 13 to 18
conference in Toronto, where HRW has called on government
representatives,
United Nations officials and delegates to recognise that
"only by protecting
the rights of those most vulnerable, and by empowering
those most
marginalised, can the few success stories to date in the fight
against Aids
be expanded and sustained". -- IPS
July
21, 2006
By ANDnetwork .com
Danish Red Cross Society
representative, United Nations and Japanese
Red Cross Society officials on
Thursday 20 July 2006 toured humanitarian
assistance projects in Zvimba
Communal Lands, Zimbabwe.
By Walter Nyamukondiwa
Birgit Wichmann toured home-based care (HBC) projects that were
assisting
people affected by HIV/Aids in Zimbabwe.
The projects were being
coordinated and funded by the Zimbabwe Red
Cross Society through assistance
from international organisations such as
the various arms of the United
Nations and Red Cross Societies from Japan
and Denmark.
Wichmann said she was here to assess some of the projects the local
chapter
of the Red Cross was involved in.
"I can't say much but I am here
to see the projects on the ground,"
she said.
The team visited
child-headed families, which were being assisted by
the Red Cross through
provision of shelter and inputs to assist them to be
self-sufficient.
Most of the children lost parents to the Aids
pandemic.
The team also toured Kumboyedza support group, which is
made up of 13
members who are living positively with the HIV
virus.
Zimbabwe Red Cross Society HIV/Aids co-ordinator Janet
Muteiwa said
the projects were designed to support ailing people through
provision of
psychological social support and food among
others.
This support, she said, would be extended to children by
paying school
fees should their parents die.
The Red Cross is
supporting four projects in the province. Zvimba has
a population of about
209 000 people with about 20 200 home-based people
getting support owing to
the HIV/Aids scourge.
Zimbabwe Herald AM//JB
VOA
By Blessing Zulu
Washington
20 July
2006
The United States has joined Britain and France in saying
Harare should
tackle internal issues like its collapsing economy instead of
seeking
bilateral talks with Great Britain on the premise - disputed by
British
officials - that differences with London over land reform led to the
imposition of sanctions that in turn undermined the economy.
The
statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Harare said Washington would
welcome
mediation in the Zimbabwe crisis by ex-President Benjamin Mkapa of
Tanzania
if such mediation focused on "the real issues affecting Zimbabwe
today."
Including what the U.S. statement described as a "sustained
assault.on
freedom and democracy."
The statement said human rights and the rule of
law in Zimbabwe have been
eroded, and that flawed policies and endemic
corruption have devastated the
economy.
The embassy statement said
the Mugabe administration's proposal to hold
bilateral talks with former
colonial power Britain was a diversion "created
by the government solely to
distract attention from its own responsibility"
for the national
crisis.
The statement concluded that Mkapa might be able to make a
meaningful
contribution if he could "convince the government of Zimbabwe to
acknowledge
its responsibility for the crisis and to embrace the need for
reforms and a
national dialogue."
Referring to President Robert
Mugabe's depiction of the crisis as caused by
Western sanctions, the embassy
said that it is "up to the government and
people of Zimbabwe to recognize
that the roots of the country's current
crisis lie within Zimbabwe, and
.assume responsibility for devising viable
solutions
internally."
Responding to the statement, Zimbabwe's Acting Information
Minister Paul
Mangwana said the United States is entitled to its opinion,
but insisted
land reform is the correct subject for bilateral
Zimbabwean-British
discussions to resolve the crisis.
Separately,
opposition Movement for Democratic Change founding President
Morgan
Tsvangirai met with Botswanan President Festus Mogae in Gaborone on
Thursday
to discuss the impact of Zimbabwe's crisis on Botswana and Mkapa's
initiative.
Zimbabwe's problems have spilled over into Botswana,
which has been publicly
critical of Harare's policies in contrast with most
neighboring governments.
With Tsvangirai were faction Vice President
Thokozana Khupe, Secretary for
Foreign Affairs Eliphas Mukonoweshuro and
Deputy Secretary General Lovemore
Moyo.
Mukonoweshuro offered details
on the talks and his analysis of the situation
in an interview with reporter
Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe.
From Johannesburg, South
Africa, political consultant Obri Matshiqi offered
his view on the U.S.
statement and the evolution of diplomacy in the
Zimbabwean crisis.
Please send any job opportunities for publication in this newsletter to: JAG
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years experience in growing tobacco, maize, seed
maize, horticulture, beef
cattle, pigs, chickens. Excellent management,
administration and
communication skills, computer literate, full clean
drivers licence. Was
runner up'Tobacco Grower of the Year' in 1985. Spent
last 2 years
consulting for Imperial Tobacco Group in Madagascar on the
production of
flue-cured tobacco.
AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. CONTACT: 091 439 911/011 602 583
or
heather@karina.co.zw
Can
send CV if
necessary.
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Ad
inserted 6 July 2006
Girl Friday
Mature lady seeks position as a
Person Friday. Typing skills, Clerical
work, some computer experience i.e.
Email.
Reliable, Honest, Available immediately has own
transport.
Prefers not to have to deal with any figure work or
money.
Areas - Workington, Light Industrial Sites, Msasa, Newlands,
Southerton.
Contact Address: Phone Heather Don on 571737 or Email: digger@mango.zw
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Ad
inserted 13 July 2006
Commercial agricultural representative
I am
a former commercial agricultural representative with farming experience
in
Zimbabwe and Mozambique (virginia tobacco, burley tobacco,
commercial/seed-maize, wheat, soyabeans, cotton, citrus and pigs); I have
extensive knowledge on the subjects of agronomy, crop chemicals and
veterinary products. Is there anybody out there with something for me?
Contact Stu Taylor on 0204 -2288 or
091-650997.
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Ad
inserted 13 July 2006
URGENT POSITION REQUIRED -
MANAGERIAL
Divorced, tomboy type female aged 48 seeks urgent position any
where in
Zimbabwe. Due to unforeseen circumstances the position I was to
take up
shortly is no longer available and as a result I am available
immediately.
I have vast experience in all aspects of Management and
Management Training;
Stock Control; Buying; Sales and Sales Training and
administration. My
people skills are excellent and I have no problem
working or managing in
Male environments, so would fit in well in most
companies. I consider
myself to have integrity, loyalty and am not afraid
of putting an honest
days work or overtime. I do not have my own transport,
but have a valid
Drivers License.
Should anyone wish to discuss the
matter, please contact Theresa asap on
(016) 537 any time within the next
week.
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Ad
inserted 13 July 2006
Typing Service
Don't have time to do your
own typing and need someone to take the stress
from you. Well here I am
call on me and I will assist you in any way I
possibly can. I worked for Rio
Tinto, Eiffels Flats in 1991 till 1994 when I
left to get married. I then
started working for Carters Transport in Kadoma
and worked for them for 3
years. I did the creditors and wages side and
used the programs SAGE and
Payrite. I taught myself a lot on the computer.
Then obtained my ICDL in
February 2004. I have done various others projects
on the computer e.g.
(Party Invitations, Menus, Order of Services, Cheque
book labels, Typed up
an assignment for a student at Black Forbe).
I enjoy baking and cooking,
its one of my main interests. I have catered
for weddings, Company
Christmas Parties, Round Table Induction Dinners, 8
years of teas, lunches,
dinners for the Kadoma Golf Club and cheese and wine
parties.
Further
more details contact myself on the following:-
Contact name
: Mrs J J Niehaus
Email address : stealthtec@zol.co.zw
Mobile
number : 011-403718
Home number :
04-300430/433
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Ad
inserted 20 July 2006
Farming Experience
48-year-old farmer with
23 years diverse farming experience, 23 years
tobacco, maize, beef, sheep,
and 10 years floriculture. No dependents. Phone
091233165 / 04499817.
Email bobz@zol.co.zw
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For
the latest listings of accommodation available for farmers, contact
justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
(updated 20 July 2006)
The Zimbabwean
Themba Sibunde was
elected the chairperson for Radio Kwelaz while Howard
Masaninga was elected
secretary-general. In Gweru, the residents elected
Stambuli Kim as
chairperson and Munyaradzi Makoni as the vice chairperson.
The community
radio initiatives will enable the respective communities to
discuss
socio-economic and political issues through relevant radio
programmes
designed to address issues of concern. The Broadcasting Services
Act allows
for the setting up of community radio stations in Zimbabwe.
Committees for
the community radios comprise a chairperson, vice
chairperson, secretary
general, finance secretary, gender secretary,
disabilities secretary,
community liaison secretaries and an HIV/AIDS
secretary.
Committee
members will also spearhead the publicity and advocacy campaigns
for the
community radio initiatives and lobby parliament, government and the
Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) to be granted community radio
broadcasting licenses. - MISA
The Zimbabwean
16/07/06 SUBURBAN SUPERMARKET
Z$
2 kg White Sugar 380,000
1 kg Oranges
99,000
1 kg Avocados 82,000
2 kg Self Raising Flour
455,000
2 kg Brown Flour 636,000
Coffee Time 200g
1,150,000
Korn Kurls 150g 525,000
Mazoe Syrup 2 litres
658,000
Red Seal Rice - 2 kg 865,000
Tomato Sauce - 375g
152,500
Milk Powder - 500g 1,045,000
Willards C'flakes 300g
875,000
1 kg Minute Steak 999,000
Scouring Power 500g
185,000
Cold Power 400g 480,000
Scone - One
80,000
The Zimbabwean
A memorandum to the organisation's
deputy secretary, Clifford Foroma reads:
"May those lawyers who are
interested in being appointed curators in the
event of a sole partner in a
law firm dying, absconding or becoming
insolvent lodge their names with the
Society as soon as possible".
There are only four well-known curators, Funga
Kuipa, David Scott, Robert
Mcindore and Terry Matavire.
Since 2004, more
than 15 financial institutions have been placed under
curatorship by the
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. A curator is roped in after a
financial
institution is facing liquidator problems and to protect the
investments of
depositors, curator is sought to look for fresh capital
injection to save
the financial firm.
Sources in the legal and financial sector said there is a
possibility that
many banks would face financial problems in September after
failing to meet
new stringent capital requirements. Commercial banks should
have Z$1
trillion while merchant and building societies should have $750
billion in
their books. - CAJ News
The Zimbabwean
The
monetary policy, which was rumoured to be announced on Thursday, did not
materialise and expectations are that it should be announced either this
Thursday or the next.
The buying patterns that were observed last week
favoured exporters. It is
apparent that there is a an exchange rate
devaluation in the monetary policy
statement. Other measures expected are
the increase in the gold buying price
and an attempt to convert the
short-term Government debt into long term.
The top gain of the week was
agro-exporter ARISTON. The stock put on 109%
to $11500. NICOZ gained 76% to
$1500. ZSR, which is possibly re-rating to a
favoured stock status, put on
72% to $31,000. The stock actually retreated
from an intra-week high of
$36,000. PGI rose 69% to $22,000. BARCLAYS, which
has been on the periphery
of fund managers' interests, put on 67% to $4500.
ZIMRE and CAIRNS each put
on 67% to $10,000 and $15,000 respectively. The
other top gains above 50%
were CBZH, CELSYS, ZIMPLOW, NTS, HUNYANI, COTTCO,
TA and ART.
There were
only two declines recorded in the week and these were led by
penny stock
PELHAMS, which shed a marginal 3% to $300 while M&R shed 2% to
$12,000.
The top gain in the minings was BINDURA, which doubled its share
price to
$40,000. The stock still has some significant upside. RIO gained
70% to
$850,000. The stock is chasing after the psychological $1 million
mark
despite the 2 for 1 bonus issue that occurred less than a month ago.
Embattled stock, FALGOLD gained 50% to $6000. HWANGE and HALOGEN were
unchanged.
question of identity
EDITOR - The Zimbabwean
identity is a genuine, essential, and inherent
characteristic; it is
transmitted from generation to generation. Defined as
an identity that is
renowned for its culture of tolerance, pride and unity.
Never before has this
identity ever been questioned for its integrity
especially by the
international community, until now when the Zimbabwean
Diaspora community is
failing to exempt the basic principals that form the
foundation of our
identity which are tolerance, pride and unity.
With a growing culture of
ignorance, arrogance and selfishness amongst the
Zimbabwean Diaspora
community and misconception of tolerance by turning a
blind eye to the
Zimbabwean situation, failing to take responsibility and
failing to realize
the importance of uniting as a people and realization
that the voice of the
Diaspora could potentially be a major catalyst in the
fight for a new
Zimbabwe.
Ignorance, arrogance and selfishness can easy be justified as self
defence
in minds infiltrated with years of propaganda and Zanu-ism, but
never before
has the question of Identity been of such importance, at a time
when the
nation is subdued to harsh political misconduct and economic
meltdown, of
which it has resulted in gross human rights violations by the
regime in a
bid to clinch onto power and suppress the people from any up
rising.
A time where the nation is in prayer for change but constrained by
various
legislative laws making it virtually impossible to excise freedom of
expression and stand up for the right to good governance, excess affordable
good standard health, education, rule of law, shelter, child care, food and
security.
If the Zimbabwean Diaspora community, an estimated 3 million of
us, took
pride in our Identity and not only practised the basic fundamentals
Tolerance, pride and unity, we will be in a position to regain the dignity
of the Zimbabwean people and be it in solidarity in order to restore our
legitimate rights in Zimbabwe, to re-establish peace and security in our
country, and to enable its people to exercise national sovereignty and
freedom.
United we stand a chance of making history and paving way for
the birth of
democracy and restore rule of law in our
motherland.
WELLINGTON CHIBANGUZA, Free-Zim, South
Africa
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Chari an inspiration
EDITOR - Givemore
Chari is such an inspiration to most of us and his
courageous stance against
Mugabe and oppression at his young age, is surely
a motivation to us
students and youths.
However, it is surprising to note that the prominent
student leader after
all this has to struggle to get education .Where is
ZINASU,MDC,STUDENTS
SOLIDARITY TRUST,CONCERNED ZIMBABWEANS ABROAD,CRISIS
COALITION and the rest
of the civil society? Or maybe they are not
concerned at all - the irony of
it is that most student activists seem to
believe so much into some of these
organisations but this is how they are
treated at the end.
It is disheartening to learn that they are no safety nets
in place to
protect the likes of Chari. The prominent youth leader is
suffering whilst
Morgan Tsvangirayi and other opposition leaders are busy
dining in their
mansions whilst someone fighting for the same goals as them
(probably one
of them) is suffering and cannot finish his
education.
This clearly explains why most ordinary Zimbabweans do not heed
calls made
by these leaders to mass demonstrate because at the end of the
day they will
suffer alone. If these leaders cannot work on this, they risk
future
opposition from these people.
Rregardless of his suffering and
what he has been through, Chari vows that
he will only stop the struggle
when he is dead - such courage and bravery is
what makes a true leader. We
salute you comrade - don't give up the
struggle.
LEARNMORE CHIKONDI,
NUST, Bulawayo
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Chari a true leader
EDITOR - "Even
though I am in exile I did not run away from the struggle but
have only
relocated strategically. I will only stop the struggle when I am
dead."
Such statements incited the revolutionary spirit in me and made me
realise
that I have an important role to play in the struggle to free
Zimbabwe.
Givemore Chari is really an inspiring leader, and now I see why
they chose
him to be the president at Bindura University. He really is
indeed a bright
future leader of Zimbabwe. I thought of myself as a coward
because of my
being in the diaspora and far away from home when others are
fighting back
home, but these revolutionary statements from a true cadre
have helped me
redefine myself and I will fight from this end to help free
Zimbabwe. Isn't
it that Mugabe and others went into exile during the
liberation struggle but
achieved victory far away from home? We are behind
you Chari - one day Zim
will be free and we shall go back
home.
RANGANAIGWATI, Chicago
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Advice for
Mutambara
EDITOR - We advise Aurthur Mutambara to join Tsvangirai. His
intelligence is
very vital for this struggle. He needs patience. We appeal
to him to show us
the power of love not the love of power.
Tsvangirai is
a brave leader who founded this revolution, but if you try to
out-compete
him you end up like Munyaradzi Gwisai who thought he was a hero
in
Highfields - yet the word MDC was his armour. Mutambara's turn will
come to
be a leader, considering his age. Right now he should work for the
success
of the party. Sabotaging the party doesn't help.
HOPE FOR ZIM,
Cape Town
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Truth hurts
EDITOR - I agree with Patti Nyemba
that the Zimbabwe situation today is the
fault of the white race, that's
basically Boers and British. How do I know?
Well we came in and stole
whatever we could and told ourselves it was just
fine and dandy to do so.
Not so much as a by your leave, Sambo.
To facilitate this, we tricked an
illiterate king who nonetheless held sway
over the kingdom, and lied about
our intention with the aid of a Reverend in
the pay of that arch-crook,
Rhodes.
That wouldn't have been so bad, but instead of trying to win hearts
and
minds, we rode roughshod over the indigenous people so that within a
mere
six years they rose up in revolt, as was their right to do, and damned
near
wiped out the white invaders - pity they didn't - until the Imperial
army
had to be called in and with the help of the latest technology we
machine-gunned and dynamited the rightful owners of the country to hell and
back. Then we called it peace, and opened the place up to anyone in search
of a bit of adventure.
The indignities inflicted with gusto on the poor,
ignorant povo continued
unabated for 70 long, weary years, and far
outweighed the benefits of
education and health care - provided largely by
the missionaries. Finally,
the 'uppity niggers' rose in one mighty roar and
after sacrificing many of
their own fine young men, swept the whites
ignominiously aside. About time,
and good riddance say I.
PACHEDU,
UK
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Scotch or millions?
EDITOR - How about this for a sign
of the times? A poster seen in a
Bulawayo club recently read: The Raffle
draw will be held in the Cocktail
Bar with snacks proved from the ticket
sales. The prizes are as follows:1st
prize - a bottle of BELLS
Whisky;
2nd prize - $5million cash; 3rd prize - $2,5million cash. Anywhere
else in
the world I would have chosen to become a millionaire over a bottle
of
scotch - but not in Zimbabwe.
WHISKEY DRINKER,
Bulawayo
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The way forward?
EDITOR - It is my belief
that people of Zimbabwe are fed up with a
leadership that gives them no
proper respect and has made their lives a
living hell. But what can change
things. Smart sanctions have failed. The
electoral system has failed. Mbeki
does not want to be involved,
international pressure and condemnation has
yielded nothing.
Well there is already a national mood for mass protests and
Zimbabweans
should take to the streets. We have the power in numbers to
stage an
effective mass protests that can unseat the current regime.
However, there
is need for all democratic forces to combine forces, be it
the MDC, ZCTU,
ZINASU, Civic organisations, Churches and all opposition
political parties
to became one powerful force that will stand to face the
current regime.
It is important for them to realise that in pushing for their
demands, the
starting point should be a new constitution, a democratic
people-driven
constitution for the people by the people.
This then should
pave way for free and fair elections under regional and
international
supervision. Of course, Mugabe has a tendency to crush
peaceful protests
using armed forces, soldiers and militia to silence
protestors and we cannot
deny that he will definitely employ one or two of
his terror tactics and
pounce on these protests.
Nevertheless, people have to confront these
security forces - thousands
might loose their lives, but millions will be
saved and this will send a
clear message to any future leader to respect the
wishes of people.
Those in the diaspora should push for political
transformation and lobby for
international intervention in their respective
countries and demonstrate in
solidarity with those at home at various
Zimbabwe embassies.
One day Zimbabwe will be free.
GIVEMORE CHARI, former
SRC president, Bindura University
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Holier than thou
EDITOR -
President Mugabe advised his cronies not to consult witchdoctors
because he
is not stepping down. That is symptomatic of Zanu (PF) leaders
who would
rather go to n'angas to get into power rather that to seek the
popular vote
of the people of Zimbabwe.
As for his advice to party leaders to stick to
one-man-one-wife - he can
talk! He should have led by example and not
fathered children with Grace
while Amai Sally was lying on her death
bed.
M CHAKANYUKA, Mutasa
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The colours of home
For the
people who have stayed in Zimbabwe, either by choice or because they
have no
choice, it is hard to understand what it must be like to live in
exile. From
here, we wish we were somewhere with single, double or even
triple figure
inflation. We dream of being able to afford the most basic
things again
-everyday things once taken for granted and now just
permanently off the
shopping list because they are simply too expensive.
We long for an end to
fear and oppression and ache for the time when we will
again be able to
afford to travel to the beautiful places in our own
country. We long to be
able to speak freely again, to stop whispering and
looking over our
shoulders wondering who is listening, who is a spy, who we
can trust. Mostly
though, we long for our families and friends who have
gone, we miss the
community life, the gatherings and the laughter.
And for the people who have
left, the aches and longings of being strangers
in strange lands are
probably even harder. The longings are for familiarity,
for friends and
family left behind, for the climate and countryside, and for
the laughter in
the wind of the country that will always be home. Recently
someone living in
exile said how much they missed the colours of Zimbabwe
and it made me
realise how we take the richness
and beauty of Zimbabwe for
granted.
Winter is almost over now although we are still waking to blankets
of frost
sprinkled on the ground in the early mornings. The days are mostly
clear,
bright and sunny and the skies are a brilliant blue. The grass is
golden and
yellow in the fields and in the vleis and stream beds the red hot
pokers
have almost finished flowering.
In the bush the lucky bean trees
are just opening their clusters of red
flowers and in our towns the
poinsettias are covered in scarlet. In the
highveld the Msasa trees have
begun shedding their load and the ground is
covered with hard, curly, deep
brown pods, their shiny dark brown seeds
lying in the sand waiting for the
rain when they can start the cycle all
over again. And to end our days are
the sunsets which are filled with
spectacular colour: pink and then lilac,
and at last orange and polished
copper.
These are the true and permanent
colours of Zimbabwe, refreshed and replaced
every day. They are the colours
of home and frankly, for many of us, it is
the simple things like this that
some days prevent total and utter despair
at the horrific situation we are
living in. The other colours that are
temporarily Zimbabwean - brown, purple
and green - they
are just imposters.
They are the colours of our bank
notes which aren't really bank notes and
which have expiry dates. They are
the colours of inflation, oppression and
despair and hard as it is to
believe, we know they will be gone - we pray it
will be soon.
Until next
week, thanks for reading, Ndini shamwari yenyu.