Financial Times
By Tony
Hawkins
Published: June 28 2006 03:00 | Last updated: June 28 2006
03:00
In the tiny village of Dotito, near Zimbabwe's border with
Mozambique, Joyce
Mujuru, the vice-president who many see as President
Robert Mugabe's most
likely successor, sought recently to convince a
sceptical audience that
loans and investment from China would soon alleviate
their hardship.
But the unsophisticated, poor people of Dotito were
having none of it.
"We cannot afford cooking oil," said an elderly woman,
"and have to crush
and press dried pumpkin seeds in its place." Others said
they extracted sap
from the roots to use instead of the soap they could not
afford.
According to one of those at the meeting, Mrs Mujuru was sent off
with a
flea in her ear: 'Don't tell us what the Chinese are going to do, the
vice-president was told, what is the government doing?'
The simple
answer is not very much.
According to Harare's central statistical office
last year China became
Zimbabwe's second largest supplier of imported
goods.
Its growing involvement in Zimbabwe has coincided with the
country's
international isolation. In 1998 China ranked only 11th in
Harare's roll
call of importers. Now it accounts for 6 per cent of
Zimbabwe's imports
worth an estimated $125m although observers believe it
could well be closer
to $200m.
But even if the recently promised
$1.3bn Chinese investment in Zimbabwe does
come through - and there is
little yet to show for previous such claims of
Chinese assistance - the main
beneficiaries are unlikely to be the poor and
unemployed but rather the
associates of Mr Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party:
politicians, senior civil
servants, leading business people and a growing
number of serving or retired
military personnel who are increasingly
prominent in government and
business, along with a few whites, unkindly
described by their peers as
collaborators.
The mooted Chinese investment is actually contractor or
trade finance,
negotiated on a government-to-government basis between
state-owned Chinese
enterprises on the one side and Zimbabwe government
companies on the other.
Details are scant.
Scepticism is everywhere.
Dr Eric Bloch, a leading economic commentator and
adviser to the central
bank says: "Trade deals with China should be put into
reality - we need
investment from China but it should be genuine."
When asked whether
China's investment in Africa could be less than reported
or encountering
delays, foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu said on
Tuesday: "We have
participated in economic co-operation with Africa on the
principles of
equality and mutual benefit. We are trying to expand imports
of goods from
Africa."
Zimbabwe state radio said that during her visit to China last
week Mrs
Mujuru signed a memorandum of understanding with the China National
Machinery and Equipment Importand Export Corporationcovering the supply
ofplant and equipment for three new thermal power stations.
Zimbabwe
is to finance the loans by supplying chrome.
In a separate $60m deal,
also a barter arrangement for chrome, Star
Communications of China is to
provide transmission equipment which will
enable all parts of the country to
receive Zimbabwe state radio and
television.
One informed estimate is
that there are at least 15 to 20 sizeable
Zimbabwe-China business deals,
mostly involving state enterprises.
However, the more details that leak
out the more problematic such
arrangements sound.
The communications
deal involves a Zimbabwe parastatal that produces
virtually nothing and
relies on subsidies from a government currently
running a public sector
deficit exceeding 50 per cent of gross domestic
product.
How
Zimbabwe, which has no spare transport capacity because most of the
locomotives operated by the state-owned railways are off the rails, will be
able to export thousands of tonnes of bulky low-value chrome ore is
unclear.
Equally questionable is how a country plagued by daily power
outages and
producing at best half its electricity needs will find the
capacity to
process chrome into much more valuable ferrochrome, a highly
electricity-intensive process.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Is political change imminent, and if so are opposition groups up to
the task
of making it happen?
By Hativagone Mushonga in Harare (AR
No. 69, 27-Jun-06)
As Zimbabweans struggle to survive in a country with
the highest inflation
rate in the world, high unemployment and chronic food
shortages, there is no
clear solution in sight to the ever-deepening
political and economic crisis.
For the past six years, most Zimbabweans
have assumed that something would
happen to rein in their country's
precipitous decline. Instead, they have
watched as everything gets worse and
President Robert Mugabe's regime
entrenches itself even deeper.
Each
successive election since 2000 has given rise to hopes of political
change
and economic revival, but Mugabe has dashed these hopes by using the
machinery of state to manipulate election results in favour of himself and
his ruling ZANU-PF party.
The economic decline has seen inflation
soar to an annual rate of nearly
1,200 per cent at the latest count, far
higher than the next worst
performer, Iraq, with 40 per cent inflation.
Gross domestic product,
employment levels and real wages have
plummeted.
The situation has led United States ambassador Christopher
Dell to assert
that both economically and politically, the country "has
already passed the
point of no return".
Despite the economic
hardships suffered by all except the ruling elite and
their associates,
opposition politicians and political observers believe the
fundamental
problem is not economic, but political - and can only be solved
if there is
a sea-change in political thinking.
Many analysts and observers, both
local and international, have prophesised
the collapse of government and the
end of Mugabe's rule by the end of this
year. Others, including some senior
opposition politicians, say that change
is not as imminent as this, but that
there could be a major shift following
the next presidential
election.
The vote will take place in either 2008 or 2010, depending on a
government
plan to amend the constitution to allow Mugabe to rule beyond
2008, when the
current rules say the election should take place.
A
recent report published in Harvard University's Africa Policy Journal, and
entitled "After Mugabe: Applying post conflict recovery lessons to
Zimbabwe", warned that Zimbabwe was in a perilous state of decline and the
transition could come at any time.
A briefing paper on "Zimbabwe's
Continued Self-Destruction", issued in June
by the Brussels-based think-tank
International Crisis Group, ICG, asserted
that the end of the Mugabe
presidency looms, as the government was
"increasingly desperate and
dangerous" and had no clear plan for resolving
the country's multiple
crises. ICG said Zimbabwe was hurtling towards the
status of a failed state
amid chaos and lack of security.
This view is shared by John Makumbe, a
political scientist at the University
of Zimbabwe, who told IWPR he strongly
believed that Mugabe could not last
beyond the end of the year. No feasible
solution to the crisis was apparent
from either international or local
players, but he said, "I believe
something is bound to give".
He
explained, "This could be through civil strife. Without protests, Mugabe
will not agree to go to the negotiating table, and it is only when he thinks
an overthrow is imminent that he will agree to talk. I don't see this
stalemate continuing beyond December. I don't see the MDC [Movement for
Democratic Change] on the verge of pushing for protests - but there will be
a spontaneous uprising."
However, others, including senior figures in
the two rival factions of the
opposition MDC, said it was more likely that
Mugabe would serve until at
least 2008.
Tendai Biti,
secretary-general of the MDC faction led by Morgan Tsvangirai,
said that
although government was paralysed and public services were
collapsing,
anyone who predicted an early end to Mugabe's rule was
over-optimistic and
unaware of the dynamics of Zimbabwean politics.
"People making those
predictions don't know Zimbabwe, they don't understand
the Zimbabwean
situation," he said. "Mugabe has no intention of
relinquishing power. He has
power in his veins.. He will never give it up.
He will not leave
office."
Biti said the presidential election was most likely to take
place in 2010
given the planned constitutional amendment. He said as power
struggles for
the succession strengthen inside ZANU PF, those opposed to
Vice President
Joice Mujuru ascending to become head of state and government
would push for
Mugabe to remain in power until 2010 to give them more time
to market
themselves.
Biti said the mass protests which the
Tsvangirai faction of the MDC is
planning are intended not to remove Mugabe
from power but to force him to
the negotiating table to discuss an overhaul
of the constitution that would
guarantee free and fair elections.
The
Tsvangirai faction promised in April to launch mass anti-government
street
protests - the biggest in the 26 years since Zimbabwe became
independent -
before the end of July. Tsvangirai said he would lead from the
front, and
added, "I am prepared to die in order to liberate the people of
Zimbabwe
from ZANU-PF's misrule."
Mugabe responded by warning Tsvangirai he would
be "dicing with death" if he
tried to take power through public protests.
"If a person wants to invite
his own death, let him go ahead. If you want an
excuse for being killed, be
my guest and go into the streets and
demonstrate," said the president.
Tsvangirai and his MDC allies have
since modified their position and now
argue that demonstrations, for which
no date has been announced and for
which no obvious mobilisation efforts
have begun, are now aimed only at
pressuring the authorities into discussing
constitutional change. Tsvangirai
has not repeated his pledge that he would
be being willing to die to end
ZANU-PF rule.
David Coltart, a member
of parliament the other MDC faction, agrees that
change will not be
immediate, and he cast doubt on the planned
demonstrations, saying the
situation lacked "the pressure cooker build-up"
that was needed to make them
happen.
"There is not enough tension in the country because of the safety
valves
provided by the diasporans. There are million of Zimbabweans in the
diaspora
who are [remitting money home and] enabling many families to
survive," he
said.
Joseph Kurebwa, a political scientist at the
University of Zimbabwe in
Harare, said he did not foresee any eruption of
anti-government protests
even though many of the conditions were ripe, with
the political situation
in flux and public anger bubbling beneath the
surface
Like Coltart, Kurebwa thinks the public are not ready to take to
the streets
despite the dire economic situation.
"People have
adapted, which is a natural phenomenon. When it gets harder,
people adjust,"
he said. "I would be surprised if people marched onto the
streets. We have
to understand the political culture, and the older
generation has gone
through a lot of hardships in the past and this will
influence the course of
events. The political situation is unlikely to
change any time
soon."
Kurebwa said the modified position now adopted by the
Tsvangirai-led MDC
probably made sense, "The election route remains the only
way forward. The
only way forward is if the nation was to work towards the
constitutional
route."
However, others argue that the MDC has failed
to display the unity and
strength of purpose that would galvanise support
for an effective
anti-Mugabe front.
Makumbe said the opposition
movement had missed many golden opportunities to
mount protests and put
pressure on the government. The two MDC factions
appear more intent on
publicly abusing each other than on putting forward
constructive ideas to
lead the country out of crisis, he said.
In a recent paper presented at a
major security conference in Pretoria, Tony
Hawkins, a veteran correspondent
of London's Financial Times and professor
at the Graduate School of
Management at the University of Zimbabwe, said he
believed Tsvangirai and
the MDC had "no willingness to lead, let alone
follow, a campaign of
protest".
Coltart, of the anti-Tsvangarai MDC faction, said change in
Zimbabwe would
not be brought about by any single force, but instead would
come from a
combination of the opposition, some members of ZANU-PF, civil
society groups
and the international community.
"Mugabe is a very
hard man to soften up, and he is shrewd. Mugabe doesn't
want to yield power
- he has a lot more to lose by yielding power," said
Coltart.
All
those interviewed by IWPR agreed that United Secretary General Kofi
Annan's
mooted visit to Zimbabwe to attempt to broker an end to the national
crisis
was unlikely to yield positive results. Annan, who has yet to
announce the
date of the visit, would not be able to force Mugabe to the
negotiating
table, they said.
"Annan is a non-starter," said Makumbe. "He has no
power, no teeth, no armed
forces at his command and no capacity. He must go
home and retire in peace.
Yet the contradiction is that Kofi needs Zimbabwe
as his last notch of
achievement [before he retires at the end of 2006] -
but in order to do so
he needs the United States, the European Union, the
United Kingdom, South
Africa and the African Union."
Kureba agreed,
saying, "I don't see Annan influencing or forcing Mugabe to
the negotiating
table. Why would he [Mugabe]? There is no direct threat to
his rule that
would make him want to surrender his power. I don't see those
initiatives
working."
Hativagone Mushonga is the pseudonym of an IWPR contributor in
Zimbabwe.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
With bus fares spiralling, many people are forced to walk long
distances to
and from work.
By Nonthando Bhebhe in Harare (AR No. 69,
27-Jun-06)
When the eighteenth century satirist Jonathan Swift allegedly
coined the
proverb "It never rains but it pours", he could not have forecast
how aptly
it describes Zimbabwe's worsening situation.
Except that in
Zimbabwe it does not simply pour, it comes down in buckets.
It is how most
urban dwellers feel right now after private commuter
transport fees,
together with most basic commodities, increased
astronomically at the same
time as the introduction by the central bank of a
new 100,000 Zimbabwe
dollar note.
It keeps getting worse for the majority of Zimbabweans who
are finding it
difficult to make ends meet as a result of President Robert
Mugabe's
economic and political policies. As inflation reached a new record
level of
1194 per cent in June - with 2000 per cent forecast by the end of
the year -
fuel prices nearly double to an average of 300,000 dollars a
litre in just
one week.
By late June, fuel was hard to find, and what
was available on the black
market sold for between 500,000 and 700,000
dollars per litre.
These fuel price increases worsen the transport
crisis, which now means that
many people walk long distances to and from
work - if they have work, that
is, because in Zimbabwe's ever-collapsing
economy the unemployment rate
stands at some 80 per cent.
Bus fares
in that single week from the sprawling townships of Harare to the
city
centre were raised to between 70,000 and 100,000 dollars from 40,000
dollars. In Bulawayo, the country's second city, commuter fares have reached
120,000 dollars for a single journey.
What that means in the Monopoly
money world of Zimbabwe - where the
government can no longer print money
fast enough to keep pace with
inflation, and where all prices will have
increased by the time this article
is published - is that your average
blue-collar worker needs at least
340,000 dollars for transport to and from
work each day. This is in addition
to sharp rises in the price of other
basic needs such as bread, which saw
the price of a single loaf going up to
130,000 dollars from 85,000 dollars
in a single week.
And ordinary
people can now forget about travelling by bus the 440
kilometres between
Harare and Bulawayo. It is now a million dollar one-way
ride, and
rising.
Life in Zimbabwe's poverty-stricken urban working class suburbs
is
regressing daily, with people walking between five and 20 km to work and
no
longer able to afford the traditional breakfast of maize
porridge.
Back in the 1970s, the teenage Shorai Mtizwa used to walk
distances of ten
to 20 km to and from school and her rural home. When she
moved to Harare in
1982, two years after independence, she thought the days
of those long rural
treks were over.
IWPR caught up with Shorai, now
45 and a mother of four, as she walked fast
from her workplace in Harare's
Graniteside industrial area to the city
centre, where she was rushing to
catch what has been christened a "freedom
train" by local government
minister Ignatius Chombo.
So-called freedom trains were launched by the
ZANU PF government just before
the last presidential election in 2002, in an
attempt to woo city residents
at a time when transport woes were among the
reasons why people had voted in
earlier parliamentary elections for the
opposition Movement for Democratic
Change, MDC.
Subsidised fares on
the freedom trains are ridiculously low, and follow only
the old
colonial-era National Railways routes. No new lines have been built
and
whole suburbs and industrial areas are way beyond the reach of the
railways.
So, while Shorai, perspiring and fatigued as she spoke to
IWPR, can cover
part of her daily journey by train, she cannot afford the
minibus fares to
cover the other 20 km she has to travel between her home in
Mufakose and her
workplace. Instead, she walks, like tens of thousands of
other impoverished
Zimbabwean workers.
Shorai said it would cost her
a total of nine million dollars a month to use
minibuses between home and
work. "I earn around 10 million dollars a month
and from that I have to buy
food for my family, pay exorbitant water bills,
now averaging 2.5 million
dollars a month which I cannot even afford, and
pay rent," she said. "I have
an outstanding water bill of eight million
dollars right now. My husband is
a security guard and he brings home 5
million dollars. So tell me what
choice do I have other than to walk? It is
better that I have blisters on my
feet than to let my family starve."
To prevent debts accumulating too
drastically, Shorai walks her long
distances on a near-empty stomach as she
can afford only one meal a day.
Before dismissing the IWPR reporter, who
Shorai said was slowing her down,
she added, "It reminds me of the days when
I was at school in my rural home.
We used to walk 15 km to school and I
thought with independence and coming
to Harare, I would never have to walk a
distance of more than a kilometre,
but now 20 years after migrating, I find
myself doing what I ran away from."
Boarding the freedom trains, each
with nine carriages, on their limited
routes is a nightmare. They are so
overcrowded that hundreds of passengers
hang precariously outside on doors
and windows. To get a seat, it is
necessary to rise in the middle of the
night and sit down hours before
departure. Accidents have already happened
and there are fears that a major
tragedy is inevitable along the lines of
those in India where people travel
on carriage rooftops.
Government
ministers are spared the indignities of the freedom trains,
minibuses or
long walks. With the economy in freefall, they travel in top of
the range
Mercedes, the motor brand of choice of Africa's ruling elite. In
May this
year, Mugabe bought more than 100 Mercedes Benzes, Toyota Land
cruisers and
Prados for loyalist parliamentarians.
A month earlier, Mugabe's own new
five-tonne, 7.3 litre Mercedes Benz S600 -
built in Germany at a cost of
more than 600,000 euro and specially armoured
to withstand rocket and
grenade attack - arrived on a truck from the South
African port of
Durban.
The vehicle was ordered before the European Union instituted
sanctions
prohibiting this sort of trade with Mugabe and his
cabinet.
The new Mercedes, with dark tinted windows, features at the
centre of
Mugabe's huge motorcade of trucks and sports utility vehicles
packed with
heavily armed soldiers, ambulances and sedans carrying
plainclothes Central
Intelligence Organisation agents. Because of the sirens
that blare from the
dozens of motorcycle outriders, the motorcade is
colloquially known as "Bob
and the Wailers".
When the convoy sweeps
down a road in Harare or anywhere else in the
country, all other vehicles
are forced to pull to the side and stop. The
regulations state that "the
driver of every vehicle on the road on which a
state motorcade is travelling
shall halt his vehicle". It is a crime to make
rude gestures or comments as
the convoy passes by.
Nonthando Bhebhe is the pseudonym of an IWPR
contributor in Zimbabwe.
http://www.redhillandreigatelife.co.uk/news/overthecounter/display.var.809600.0.my_friend_mugabe_became_a_monster.php
I WAS a keen reporter for the Argus Africa
News Service in December 1974
when my editor suggested I should do a series
of biographies on all the
black nationalist leaders who had just been
released from Rhodesian jails.
These activists had been in detention for as
long as 14 years and their
names and faces had been forgotten.
I was
27 and Robert Mugabe was 50. I drove to his house in the section of
Highfields known as Canaan - a sprawling black township on the outskirts of
what was then Salisbury, now Harare. There was a little square of lawn, but
we sat in the well-swept dirt backyard on dining room chairs beside a
flourishing vegetable garden. Even though we had never met, I recognised him
instantly having seen his photographs when I was a child. He had a firm
handshake and looked younger than his years, fit and lean. But the tell-tale
signs of a poor diet were evident in his dull skin tone, the thin line of
white hair at his temples and the deep grooves beside his lips.
I was
struck by the keenness of his gaze, his sharp, incisive mind and his
beautiful use of the English language. The interview was conducted in
English and he spoke eloquently of his vision for a future Zimbabwe - free
from colonial oppression and racial prejudice.
One of the things
that immediately made him stand out was the absence of
bitterness. This
attracted me to him because he had suffered. His only son
had died in
infancy while he was in jail and he had not been allowed out to
bury him. I
interviewed many others before and after him. They all wanted
revenge. But
not Robert Mugabe. His answer to racism was non-racism. He
believed utterly
that a non-racial society was the only answer to the evils
of racial
segregation.
Days later, we had tea together in my office and he charmed
my (white)
colleagues. He put me in touch with all the other nationalists
and I invited
him round to my house. We were all much younger than Mugabe
and he seemed to
relish being surrounded by lively young minds. My
gramophone resounded with
Elvis Presley, Pat Boone and Jim Reeves and I was
amazed to learn that he
knew the words and loved the music too. The talk was
all of politics. The
young crowd became more and more boisterous as the
evening wore on. But
Mugabe stuck to Fanta. He's always been
teetotal.
After that, I used to pop in on him unannounced. We talked
about
everything - life, the future, religion, music, and politics, of
course.
Years later, I followed Mugabe everywhere as I reported on Zanu's
(Zimbabwe
African National Union) election campaign. We renewed our
friendship - but
he was more dignified now.
The elections went off
smoothly - a landslide victory for Zanu - and Mugabe
became the first Prime
Minister of Zimbabwe. In 1981 I was asked to start a
national news agency -
ZIANA. Now head of state, Mugabe came to open it and
was understandably more
aloof, but still warm and friendly. He was true to
his non-racial
principles. His independence speech - turning swords into
ploughshares - was
internationally acclaimed as a model of reconciliation.
"If yesterday you
were my enemy, today you are my friend," he declared to
white Rhodesians. He
became the world's beloved African statesman - long
before Nelson
Mandela.
Zimbabwe prospered. There was massive expansion in the health
and education
sectors. Boreholes were dug, roads built. The country was on
the move.
But then the rumours began. Massacres in Matabeleland. I
couldn't believe
it. One of my reporters filed a story alleging a massacre.
I telephoned for
the government response. Immediately, a private meeting was
arranged between
myself, Mugabe, and Emmerson Mnangagwa, then minister of
state for security.
Mugabe looked at me with his piercing gaze, leaned
earnestly across his desk
and gave me a thorough briefing. Matabeleland was
in chaos, he said. Nkomo's
dissidents were running amok - killing people
with huge caches of arms
hidden during the liberation struggle. He had
deployed the army there to
save lives and protect property. He was very
convincing. I trusted him. I
killed the story.
Mugabe became more
remote after that. I saw him less and less. The 1995
elections were
characterised by widespread violence. Corruption was rife.
More repressive
laws were passed.
In 1998, I formed Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe and
began to publish a
number of regional weekly newspapers before launching The
Daily News a year
later. Soon afterwards, Zimbabwe saw the emergence of the
opposition MDC
(Movement for Democratic Change) and the blatant Zanu (PF)
rigging of the
2000 and 2002 elections. I realised my friend had become a
monster.
At a news conference after the referendum in 2000 he declared
the white man
was the enemy. I was sitting in the front row. He would not
look at me. I
could feel the hostility. We never spoke
again.
Determined to eliminate all vestiges of opposition, Mugabe and his
party
instigated a massive land grab, characterised by state-sponsored
invasions
of white commercial farmland by black peasants, who were later
kicked off
the land to make way for the ruling and military elite, who now
occupy the
majority of those lands.
Journalism became a dangerous
business. In the past three years, the
government has banned five newspapers
and arrested more than 100
journalists, some of them several times. Media
houses and journalists have
to be licenced by a government-appointed body.
Foreign journalists are
barred from entering the country. Foreign radio
stations are jammed and the
Internet and email are monitored. Zimbabwe's
nine million inhabitants are
constantly subjected to blatant lies and party
jingles and slogans,
disguised as 'news' and 'culture'.
I was
arrested on a trumped up charge for fraud and jailed before my case
was
thrown out by the courts and I was released. In August 2003, I left the
country of my birth after a vicious smear campaign against The Daily News. I
was given a year in a City of Refuge in the Netherlands where I wrote a
cutting, satirical weekly column tracing the ageing Mugabe's descent into
tyrannical megalomania. This caught the attention of the Zimbabwean
authorities in Brussels who sent a formal letter of protest saying that
"people who write things like this are considered enemies of the people of
Zimbabwe". I was advised not to return home as my life would be in jeopardy.
My wife and I settled in the south-east of England. Time away from my
country has been hard. Last month my mother died. I was unable to go home to
her funeral which, as the eldest son, hurt terribly. We were very
close.
In February last year, I began to produce and distribute
internationally a
serious weekly independent newspaper - The Zimbabwean -
aimed at the four
million Zimbabweans in exile as well as those at home who
are denied access
to any news except the crude state media. My wife and I
produce the entire
paper ourselves on two computers in our living
room.
Today, 17,000 copies a week of the Zimbabwean are shipped into the
country
from Johannesburg and distributed by a courageous local
entrepreneur. So
far, despite constant personal vilification and threats,
the newspaper has
been neither banned, burned nor bombed by the authorities.
(All three
happened to The Daily News.) It continues to expose the human
rights abuses
of the Zanu (PF) government and to give a voice to the
opposition. As I have
learned, it is true that power corrupts.
* To
sponsor a weekly subscription for The Zimbabwean, at a cost of £2.50 a
month
so it can be sent to a college, library, women's group etc inside the
country, visit www.zimbabwean.co.uk.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Children quit school in large numbers because they cannot afford rising
tuition costs.
By Saul Dambaza in Harare (AR No. 69,
27-Jun-06)
The recent massive hike in school fees in Zimbabwe have led to
more children
than ever dropping out of school, as parents find the higher
payments beyond
their means amid the continuing economic
collapse.
After fees were hiked tenfold at most state schools for the
second term,
which began last month, many students had no option but to drop
out as their
parents no longer had the money to keep up the monthly
payments.
From May, the parents of children at state primary schools in
urban areas
had to pay at least 2.5 million Zimbabwean dollars (25 US
dollars) a term -
ten times the amount they paid previously. Secondary
schools are now
charging ten million Zimbabwean dollars a term.
When
the price hikes were announced, child rights organisations predicted
that
more pupils would drop out of school and many would resort to begging,
prostitution or child labour just to survive.
"Inasmuch as people
struggle to send their children to school even in these
difficult
circumstances, we have come to a point where people just want to
give up,"
Leonard Nkala, former president of the Zimbabwe Teachers
Association, said
at the time.
In Harare's working class suburbs of Hatcliffe, Mbare,
Kuwadzana,
Dzivarasekwa, Kambuzuma and Epworth, schools are now losing
pupils on a
daily basis.
Linnia is an 11-year-old girl who was
recently kicked out of school because
her parents could no longer pay her
fees. Dressed in a flimsy pink outfit
that barely covered her in the short
but harsh southern African winter, she
told IWPR, "I would like to go back
to school soon and join my classmates. I
hope my parents will get the fees
or someone can help pay."
Police and soldiers destroyed her family's only
source of income, a tiny
carpentry shop in Mbare, in the ZANU-PF
government's Operation Murambatsvina
(Drive out the rubbish). The operation,
which began in May last year and is
still continuing, was presented as a
renewal scheme to clean up urban areas.
However, critics say Murambatsvina
had little to do with regeneration, but
was instead a giant social
engineering project to force troublesome urban
communities of potential
opposition supporters to relocate to the
countryside, where Mugabe's ZANU-PF
party has near-total control.
According to UNICEF programme assistant
Joshua Mahachi, the United Nations
agency has so far paid the fees of about
200 children who would otherwise
have had to drop out of school. He said
applications for fee support were
pouring in and UNICEF's local office had
insufficient funds to help
everyone. So countless children like Linnia are
seeing their dreams of an
education evaporate.
Economic crisis,
coupled with the departure of teachers to work abroad and
an HIV/AIDS
epidemic that has killed thousands of school staff, is steadily
eroding what
was once reckoned the best education system in Africa. These
days the
majority of schools have no textbooks, stationery or chalk, let
alone
computers.
As recently as 2000, when the country's precipitous slide into
penury began,
school enrolment stood at 93 per cent, but the figure is now
well below 50
per cent.
"Our job as teachers is like bricklayers
expected to construct a house
without being given the bricks," said
Magdalene Ngwenyama, a teacher in a
working class suburb of Bulawayo, whose
school has just two textbooks per
class for each subject.
When
contacted for comment, Education Minister Aeneas Chigwedere admitted
that
the dropout rate was increasing, but he accused some schools of
increasing
their fees without government approval.
"We were working on ways to
ensure that no child is sent home due to
non-payment of fees," said the
minister. "We also have names of schools
which have since
the beginning
of the year been increasing school fees to levels that are
unrealistic
without the approval of the government. I can assure you that
such schools
will be penalised heavily."
About a quarter of children who complete
primary school education cannot
afford to go on to secondary school, and
many end up begging on urban
streets, according to UNICEF data. Children
orphaned by HIV/AIDS,
particularly in rural communities, are worst placed
when it comes to access
to schooling.
UNICEF is spearheading the
Harare Taskforce on Street Children, a joint
venture between non-government
organisations and government departments,
which conducted a survey in 2004
revealing that a high percentage of the
children on the streets of the
capital were virtually illiterate, although
they had a strong desire for
education.
"Most of the children left home to look for ways to earn an
income or
because of poverty at home," said the survey report. "Most
children
indicated that they would like to return to
school."
According to another UN report from the same year, more than
50,000 children
of informal traders and city squatter families in Zimbabwe
had dropped out
of school. The number has increased enormously since
then.
Retired educationist William Mupita, who was a teacher for 40
years, said he
had never seen such large numbers of children dropping out of
school. "This
is probably the first time since the days of the liberation
war [of the
Seventies] that such high numbers of children have dropped out
of school in
such a short period of time," he said. "The figures should
alarm anyone
serious about this country's human
development."
Worsening conditions also make schoolchildren more
vulnerable to sexual
abuse, according to a child rights
group.
"Because of the hike in school fees, many children are visiting
schools
trying to negotiate fee payments. It makes them more vulnerable at
the hand
of teachers who exploit them," said Witness Chikoko, acting
director of the
African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against
Child Abuse and
Neglect.
Staff at a boarding school near Marondera,
southeast of Harare, were
recently charged with sexually abusing 52 girls,
and similar cases have been
seen in many other parts of the
country.
Even President Mugabe's alma mater, the elite St Xavier College
at Kutama,
80 kilometres southwest of Harare, has announced that one-third
of its 1,000
pupils have left because parents can no longer afford the fees.
Textbooks
are not being replaced and classrooms are falling
apart.
The teachers at the college are, however, grateful for the free
eggs and
chickens that arrive intermittently from a nearby farm estate
confiscated
from its former owner and now in the hands of Mugabe family
members.
Saul Dambaza is the pseudonym of an IWPR contributor in
Zimbabwe.
zimbabwejournalists.com
By Admire Muziro
HARARE - THE Reserve
Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is to get a directive to
print more money to finance
the country's spy agency, the Central
Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which
is reported to be in financial dire
straits.
According to a
reliable source who cannot be named for safety reasons,
employees of the
dreaded spy agency were - probably for the first time
ever - excluded from
the hefty salary increases of up to 300 percent awarded
to other civil
servants two months ago.
This, says our source within the CIO,
angered junior operatives
struggling like everyone else to make ends meet in
a country whose economy
is continuously spiralling downwards. The situation
within the organisation
is so bad that some of them are said to be resorting
to crude ways to scare
their bosses into submission. Some are making
anonymous calls from public
telephones, threatening to kill their superiors
if their salaries are not
reviewed immediately.
The threats
prompted the CIO bosses to ask the RBZ to print more money
to enable them to
award their juniors a salary increase. The move is set to
worsen inflation,
which is already galloping at 1193 percent.
According to our
source, the RBZ is under instructions from the
President's Office to
prioritise the CIO if money is needed for its many
activities, that include
undermining the opposition or civic groups.
Well-placed sources
within the CIO say with the opposition and the
labour movement having
threatened to stage street demonstrations this winter
to force President
Robert Mugabe out of office, the organisation has strong
ammunition to twist
the RBZ into printing more money for them.
The budget for the
President's Office under which the CIO falls is no
longer being made public,
another source said.
According to the source, the CIO is in a
financial crisis as a result
of running too many special projects which need
huge capital injections.
Corruption is also said to contribute significantly
to the unhealthy
financial situation.
The special projects
include a large farm in each of the country's
provinces, as the CIO tries to
help portray the land reform exercise as a
success.
The source
said by the time the CIO took over those farms, equipment
and infrastructure
had already been looted or vandalised and billions of
dollars are needed to
allow the farms to produce to capacity.
"They need to buy tractors,
lorries and other farm equipment needed to
undertake successful farming
operations. They also have to repair or replace
irrigation systems,
boreholes, water and fuel tanks," the source said,
adding that despite the
massive injection of funds, the ventures were
unlikely to succeed due to
lack of expertise.
Another project draining large sums of money is
that of newspapers
such as the Mirror and The Voice which the agency has
taken over. "The
newspapers are not attracting advertising, and are not
selling, yet senior
staffers at the newspapers are on very high salaries and
huge perks which
include housing, expensive cars and have their children
sent to schools of
their choice."
Another project requiring
massive funding is that of Chinese equipment
for jamming radio waves, which
was installed in most provinces. Groups of
CIO operatives are sent to China
every three months for training in the use
and maintenance of the
equipment.
At present, according to the source, there are five
teams of Chinese
engineers who maintain and repair the machinery, and stay
in five houses in
Harare, all paid for by the CIO. Their salaries are also
paid by the agency.
In March this year, four deputy divisional
directors were arrested for
fraud involving special projects funds. They are
still to be
court-martialled.
According to our source, the
agency has too many Divisional
Intelligence Officers (DIO), a rank which
goes with a car and other perks
such as insurance to cover disability,
funeral assurance and executive
medical aid. One automatically attains the
position of DIO if he or she
serves the agency for more than seven years,
regardless of how irresponsible
one may be, the source said.
"In the past only the minister could appoint an officer to the
position of
DIO on the grounds of merit, and normally the officer would have
served for
at least 12 years," the source said.
"As I speak, more than 100
Toyota Corollas have been bought for
officers who have just become DIOs, and
I think this is a waste of funds as
some of them are incompetent and
irresponsible," the source said, adding
that this money would have been put
to better use.
Abuse of vehicles is rampant, leading to many
crashes, sometimes of
vehicles only a few days old, the officer said, adding
that more than 100
accident damaged vehicles are currently parked at the
agency's training
school in Hatfield suburb, Harare. He said most of the
accidents are a
result of drunken driving and officers driving without
licences.
Due to the lack of funds, the agency's research unit,
known as the
Dynamic Global Analysis Unit, which is tasked with briefing the
president
about the situation in the country on a daily basis is unable to
carry out
its duties effectively. It is unable to sponsor its sources of
information.
Surveillance by the Counter Intelligence Unit which
spies on top
officials of NGOs, private companies, prominent businessmen,
top opposition
politicians and unfriendly embassies has almost ground to a
halt due to lack
of funds.
Scores of officers are said to be
resigning from the agency due to
frustration as they are unable to
effectively carry out their duties
anymore. Those who resign are not being
replaced because the organisation
does not have money to recruit new
staff.
"The situation is so bad that officers going on assignments
outside
their work stations, are no longer paid travel and subsistence
allowances,
and are expected to pay for food and other expenses from their
own pockets.
They also no longer sleep in hotels or lodges, but in cars,"
said the
source.
"Imagine this sometimes happens while the
officers are guarding a
government minister sleeping in a five-star hotel,"
remarked the source.
Disciplinary action, including demotion or
dismissal, has been taken
against officers who have dared to complain about
the continuously
deteriorating working conditions.
According to
our source, corruption is so rampant within the ranks of
the organisation's
top brass that a sizeable fraction of the organisation's
budget goes towards
financing personal projects of the top brass, who enjoy
a lavish lifestyle,
while most of those in the junior ranks can hardly make
ends
meet.
Four senior officers from the Finance and Administration
Department
were fired last year for fraud involving tens of billions of
Zimbabwe
dollars.
However, none of them was taken to court for
public hearings. "Their
cases were presided over by a board chaired by CIO
boss Happyton Bonyongwe
and several of his assistant directors.
Our
source does not know what transpired at the hearing, but no one
has been
sent to jail.
As the agency's rank and file continues to work under
difficult
conditions, it is luxury as usual for the agency's top brass. The
top guys
continue to enjoy free housing, top of the range vehicles, security
guards
at their homes, domestic workers and generous entertainment
allowances.
In December last year, the top brass and their families
spend billions
of dollars on an end of year party held on house boats on
Lake Kariba.
"But the truth is that the top brass is no longer
working for the
agency as they spend most of their time at their farms," our
source said. He
said each person, from the rank of divisional director
upwards, has been
bought at least four motor bikes from China, to help them
in their
agricultural activities as well as patrol their farms which are
said to be
too big for foot patrol.
Senior CIO agents are among
the top government officials who grabbed
the best commercial farms from
white commercial farmers, but unfortunately
very little production is taking
place at most of the farms.
Bonyongwe is said to keep about 10 of
the agency's cars, including two
lorries, at his Harare home and farm in
Manicaland for personal use, while
his deputy, Mernard Muzariri is said to
keep at least six. As a result,
junior officers are often unable to get
transport for moving their
belongings when they change
accommodation.
Tenders for the supply of goods and services to the
spy agency are
given to companies secretly owned by senior CIO officers, or
those owned by
their close relatives or friends, from who they later get a
share of the
profits, our source said.
People's Daily
The Chamber of Chinese Enterprises in Zimbabwe was
founded in Harare
on Tuesday in a bid to promote trade, economic and
technical cooperation
between China and Zimbabwe.
Addressing
the inauguration of the chamber, Zhang Xianyi, Chinese
ambassador to
Zimbabwe, said the founding of the chamber is of great
significance for all
the Chinese enterprises and Chinese nationals in
Zimbabwe and for the
relations between the two countries.
Most of the members of the
chamber are very strong companies at home
and well-known firms in Zimbabwe,
he said, adding some of them are
name-brand companies who have made more
than 95 percent of the total trade
between the two countries.
Gao Xuelin, vice-president of China National Tobacco Import and Export
Group
Corp and managing director of Tianze Tobacco Company Limited, was
elected as
chairman of the chamber, which has now a total of 27 members.
Gao
said the chamber will make efforts to promote trade and economic
cooperation
between China and Zimbabwe and safeguard the legal rights and
interests of
the Chinese companies in Zimbabwe.
Source: Xinhua
VOA
By Carole Gombakomba
Washington
27 June
2006
Humanitarian assistance and human rights organizations in
Zimbabwe say they
are concerned about the plight of the country's thousands
of displaced
people now facing the cold of winter, but add that their
capacity to help is
now much reduced.
Some observers noted that the
response by such providers of aid was less
robust this year when Harare
launched Operation Roundup in April and May,
detaining vendors, street
orphans, and other marginalized groups, than they
had been following the
so-called Operation Murambatsvina slum clearance
drive in May-July
2005.
Weeks after the more recent government operation, nongovernmental
organizations have not mobilized to the extent they did in 2005, despite the
establishment of a new holding camp for detainees at Melfort Farm outside
Harare. Civil society groups have been unable to document how many are held
there, or in what conditions.
Reporter Carole Gombakomba of VOA's
Studio 7 for Zimbabwe spoke with
Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace
National Director Alois Chaumba
and spokesman Fambai Ngirande of the
National Association of
Non-Governmental Organizations to examine why the
capacities of civil
society organizations have been reduced.
Sudan Tribune
Wednesday
28 June 2006 00:03.
June 27, 2006 (WASHINGTON) - US President George
W. Bush honored four
National Endowment for Democracy award recipients from
Africa, saying their
efforts proved that "freedom belongs to
everybody."
Bush met in the Oval Office with Immaculee Birhaheka from
Democratic
Republic of the Congo; Zainab Hawa Bangura of Sierra Leone;
Alfred Taban of
Sudan; and Dr Reginald Matchaba-Hove of Zimbabwe.
"My
spirits are enriched by talking to freedom lovers and freedom fighters,"
said the president.
Bush said Taban is an eloquent advocate for a
free press; while
Matchaba-Hove pushed him "on the need for the United
States to make sure we
stay engaged with the democracy movements and help
people who are hungry."
Bihaheka "is very concerned about free elections,
and she wants to make sure
people in the rural part of her country are
represented in free elections,"
said the US president.
Bush said that
Bangura told him of an escape from Liberia in the mid-1990s,
when she "had
to get on a fishing boat to escape the authorities who wanted
to do her harm
because she expressed her desire for people to be free."
"I'm proud to
have you here in the Oval Office. I thank you for being
witness to this
universal fact that liberty is universal in its application,
that people
everywhere desire to be free," said Bush.
zimbabwejournalists.com
By a
Correspondent
LONDON - ZIMBABWEANS living in the United Kingdom
must unite and work
together for their own good and the country, former
Harare mayor, Engineer
Elias Mudzuri has said.
Speaking in an
interview yesterday, Mudzuri, who was in London
en-route to Harare from the
United States said since he arrived in the UK
last week he had been
surprised by the lack of unity amongst Zimbabweans
from all walks of
life.
"I must say that it is disheartening that there is so much
pulling
this way and that way," he said. "Zimbabweans here must unite and
work
together. We should do whatever it takes to make sure that we become a
united people."
Unity, he said, would spur those in the
diaspora to want to deal with
the problems affecting Zimbabwe, even from a
distance, among other things
that can benefit them in their country of
choice.
Mudzuri, the opposition MDC's Organising Secretary, is also
meant to
help the MDC UK province improve its structures and prepare for the
forthcoming elections that are set to replace the Washington Ali-led
executive or re-elect it.
Candidates are already cajoling for
positions with others saying they
fear their structures could be infiltrated
by the ruling Zanu PF machinery
in the UK. Mudzuri is expected back soon to
work with the structures and
eventually set a date for the
elections.
"We have a political problem back home and everyone
knows that the
country is on fire but when I say Zimbabweans must unite, I
do not mean
those in the MDC only," said Mudzuri. "I am talking about
everyone, get
organised if you belong to Zanu PF, NDU, to the MDC or any
grouping for that
matter. For starters no-one knows how many Zimbabweans are
in the UK today
and everywhere we go we are asked that question and because
you are not
united and do not have a register of who is who and where can
you be found,
no-one knows."
He continued: "I have been telling
those in the MDC here as well. They
do not know how many party supporters
are here in the UK and yet you are
crying for voting rights when we do not
even have the figures to go on. It
is important for our own good as
Zimbabweans to unite so that those who want
to help us know where to start
from. It is easier when there are good
structures where we get proper data
and related things."
Mudzuri said the various Zimbabwean
organisations that are already in
existence should work together and shun
petty jealousies so the disapora
community can go a step forward in fighting
for the things Zimbabweans
living here are crying for, it could be
scholarships, immigration matters,
accommodation, health and related
issues.
"The major problem that we also have as Zimbabweans is that
we want to
do things only for ourselves and do not want to work as a team.
Let me tell
the people living in the UK today that the shifts that they
cherish so much
that they do not go out to meet other people at various
meetings, they be
political or social, are only short term - they give you
short term results.
They will give you money yes but will in the future even
affect your health,
your confidence - you lose in the long
run."
"We need to be recognised as serious people and fight for our
cause.
You find more whites than blacks at meetings that concern your
country - you
want other people to fight for you when you are busy hiding
behind shift
work. People need to develop themselves and that happens only
when they are
united and have a sense of purpose as a people."
Mudzuri was elected to a four-year term as Mayor of Harare in March
2002 but
was removed from the position by the ruling Zanu PF government. He
has been
at the Harvard University in the USA and is going back to active
politics
back home where he will work with his party on strategies to
develop and
strengthen the party and up pressure on the Zanu PF government.
zimbabwejournalists.com
By a Correspondent
HARARE
- PAUL Mangwana has been appointed acting Information and
Publicity Minister
as the Zanu PF government grudgingly agreed to accord
Tichaona Jokonya hero
status.
It has taken the Zanu PF supreme decision-making body, the
politburo,
at least four days to confer hero status on Jokonya who died at
the former
Sheraton Hotel at the weekend. Mangwana currently holds the State
Enterprises, Anti-Corruption and Anti-Monopolies portfolio.
Zanu PF spokesperson, Nathan Shamuyarira, told journalists yesterday
the
decision was unanimous though he said it took some time because
politburo
members first had to weigh the "merits and demerits".
Jokonya, who
was widely expected to improve frosty relations between
the government and
the independent media, is expected to be buried Friday.
The
Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) and the Media Institute of
Southern
Africa (Zimbabwe Chapter) said his death was a big loss as the
industry had
been trying to work with his office to have draconian media
laws amended. He
recently lent his support to the industry's efforts to have
a voluntary
media complaints council.
He is survived by his wife Winfrida and
four children.
Independent, UK
By Robert
Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent
Published: 28 June 2006
The Home
Office, has been plunged into further crisis after being condemned
by the
United Nations for its treatment of asylum-seekers in a report which
found
serious flaws in the handling of claims from refugees fleeing
persecution in
Iraq, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe
It warned that the dismissive and
disbelieving attitude of Home Office
officials could lead to hundreds of
refugees being returned to face torture
and execution in their own
countries.
The report will add to the growing sense of crisis at the Home
Office, which
John Reid, the Home Secretary, has described as "not fit for
purpose". Mr
Reid's predecessor, Charles Clarke, was sacked after it emerged
that more
than 1,000 foreign prisoners, including dozens of serious
criminals, had
been released without being considered for
deportation.
The report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which
was published on
the Home Office website yesterday, also raises concerns
about male
immigration officers interviewing victims of rape, sexual
assault, forced
marriage or domestic violence. But its most serious
criticism is directed at
the handling of asylum claims, and includes
accusations of racial
stereotyping and an ignorance of human rights law. The
report says: "UNHCR
also continues to observe frequent use of speculative
arguments which
potentially weaken Reasons for Refusal Letters. Such
arguments demonstrate a
failure to apply the correct methodology in
assessing the facts as set out
in the UNHCR handbook."
The report
concludes: "This could be a reflection of a number of things,
such as flawed
credibility assessments, an application of the wrong standard
of proof, a
failure to apply objective country of origin information, the
adoption of a
narrow UK perspective or a refusal mindset where caseworkers
appear to be
looking to refuse a claim from the outset."
In one case an Iraqi's fear
of persecution was dismissed because the Home
Office told him that if he had
really been threatened by an insurgency
terrorist group he would be dead.
The caseworker wrote: "If this group had
targeted you to be killed, it is
believed that they would have simply done
so, rather than send you a letter
to warn you and give you the opportunity
to leave the area and/or leave the
country. Your claim to have received such
a letter, is not
accepted."
A female asylum-seeker from Zimbabwe was told: "It has been
believed that if
supporters of the Zanu-PF had any real interest in you they
would have
ill-treated you in more of the several raids that you allege they
conducted
on your house, in search of your husband. This lessened the
credibility of
your claim that you would be ill-treated if returned to
Zimbabwe."
The report says that in many cases, the applicant's story is
dismissed on
weak grounds.
It concludes: "UNHCR's continuing audit
suggests misapprehension of key
refugee and human rights law and principles
remains common.
"Particular concerns include a lack of understanding of
the concept of
persecution, confusion between the Refugee Convention and the
European
Convention on Human Rights, continued reliance on speculative
arguments and
failures to properly consider relevant evidence provided by
the applicant
and/or their representative prior to the initial
decision."
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "The Home Office is committed
to further
improving the quality of asylum decisions and look forward to
working with
the UNHCR to implement the recommendations where appropriate.
We recognise
that making accurate, well considered decisions on asylum
applications is
key to a robust, fair and firm asylum policy. More than 85
per cent of
initial asylum decisions sampled by internal and external
assessors in
2004/05 were found to be fully effective or better and four out
of five new
claims are now decided in two months rather than the 20 months
it took in
1997."
The Home Office, has been plunged into further
crisis after being condemned
by the United Nations for its treatment of
asylum-seekers in a report which
found serious flaws in the handling of
claims from refugees fleeing
persecution in Iraq, Afghanistan and
Zimbabwe
It warned that the dismissive and disbelieving attitude of Home
Office
officials could lead to hundreds of refugees being returned to face
torture
and execution in their own countries.
The report will add to
the growing sense of crisis at the Home Office, which
John Reid, the Home
Secretary, has described as "not fit for purpose". Mr
Reid's predecessor,
Charles Clarke, was sacked after it emerged that more
than 1,000 foreign
prisoners, including dozens of serious criminals, had
been released without
being considered for deportation.
The report by the UN High Commissioner
for Refugees, which was published on
the Home Office website yesterday, also
raises concerns about male
immigration officers interviewing victims of
rape, sexual assault, forced
marriage or domestic violence. But its most
serious criticism is directed at
the handling of asylum claims, and includes
accusations of racial
stereotyping and an ignorance of human rights law. The
report says: "UNHCR
also continues to observe frequent use of speculative
arguments which
potentially weaken Reasons for Refusal Letters. Such
arguments demonstrate a
failure to apply the correct methodology in
assessing the facts as set out
in the UNHCR handbook."
The report
concludes: "This could be a reflection of a number of things,
such as flawed
credibility assessments, an application of the wrong standard
of proof, a
failure to apply objective country of origin information, the
adoption of a
narrow UK perspective or a refusal mindset where caseworkers
appear to be
looking to refuse a claim from the outset."
In one case an Iraqi's fear
of persecution was dismissed because the Home
Office told him that if he had
really been threatened by an insurgency
terrorist group he would be dead.
The caseworker wrote: "If this group had
targeted you to be killed, it is
believed that they would have simply done
so, rather than send you a letter
to warn you and give you the opportunity
to leave the area and/or leave the
country. Your claim to have received such
a letter, is not
accepted."
A female asylum-seeker from Zimbabwe was told: "It has been
believed that if
supporters of the Zanu-PF had any real interest in you they
would have
ill-treated you in more of the several raids that you allege they
conducted
on your house, in search of your husband. This lessened the
credibility of
your claim that you would be ill-treated if returned to
Zimbabwe."
The report says that in many cases, the applicant's story is
dismissed on
weak grounds.
It concludes: "UNHCR's continuing audit
suggests misapprehension of key
refugee and human rights law and principles
remains common.
"Particular concerns include a lack of understanding of
the concept of
persecution, confusion between the Refugee Convention and the
European
Convention on Human Rights, continued reliance on speculative
arguments and
failures to properly consider relevant evidence provided by
the applicant
and/or their representative prior to the initial
decision."
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "The Home Office is committed
to further
improving the quality of asylum decisions and look forward to
working with
the UNHCR to implement the recommendations where appropriate.
We recognise
that making accurate, well considered decisions on asylum
applications is
key to a robust, fair and firm asylum policy. More than 85
per cent of
initial asylum decisions sampled by internal and external
assessors in
2004/05 were found to be fully effective or better and four out
of five new
claims are now decided in two months rather than the 20 months
it took in
1997."
As a JAG member or JAG Associate member, please send any classified
adverts
for publication in this newsletter to:
JAG Classifieds: jag@mango.zw; justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
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1.
For Sale Items
2. Wanted Items
3. Accommodation
4. Recreation
5.
Specialist Services
6. Pets
Corner
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1.
OFFERED FOR
SALE
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1.1
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 30/05/06)
All goods are priced but are
negotiable! Stuff Must go!
Horse Tack For Sale
Bit Kimble Wick
with Curb Chain
Bit Snaffle Jointed
Bit Snaffle Rubber ( Poor Cond
)
Bit Snaffle Straight
Bit Yearling
Blankets Horse
Breast Plate
Leather
Breast Plate Leather Large
Breast Plate Red Webbing
Bridle
Black C/W Caverson Nose Band, Snaffle Bit and L/Reins (Horse)
Good
cond
Bridle Leather Black C/W Caverson Nose Band, Snaffle Bit and
L/Reins (Pony)
Good cond
Bridle Leather Black C/W Drop Nose BAND; snaffle
Bit and L/Reins (Horse)
Good Cond
Bridle Leather C/W Jointed Pelam and
white webbing reins (Av Cond)
Bridle Leather Showing (Pony) Black with
Caverson Nose BAND
Bridle Leather showing (Pony) Brown/ Tan with Caverson
Nose BAND
Bridle Leather C/W snaffle bit, drop noseband and reins
Fly
Fringe Black
Girth Protectors
Halter Leather
Halter Webbing
Black
Halter webbing Blue
Halter webbing blue/ Black Checked
Halter
webbing Brown
Halter ebbing red
Hats Polo Cross White
Hats
Riding
Leg Protectors and tail guard Travelling set Blue
Nose Band
Caverson Leather
Nose Band Drop Leather
Numna Black, Numna Brown, Numna
Green
Numna Light Blue, Numna Red, Numna White
Rein Lead Yellow/
black
Rein Lunging Blue
Saddle Bag Green
Saddle Bag Royal
Blue
Saddle Glen's 2 colours
Saddle Johnson's Brown
Saddle Sagorn
Brother
Saddle Sheepskin
Saddle Tan
Stirrup Irons
Travelling Guards
Long Green Sets
Contact Jenna on 091 357 066 / 490007/ 011 408
213
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1.2
For Sale (Ad inserted 30/05/06)
SEED DESIGNS (based in
Chiredzi)
Beautiful hand embroidered items for sale:
-
Bedspreads/duvet covers $21,500,000
Wall
hangings and throws $16,900,000
Oven
gloves $ 2,400,000
Shoulder
bags $
3,900,000
Wallets $
1,800,000
Large canvas bags $
6,500,000
Webbing bags $
6,500,000
Med size embroidered cushion covers $
3,300,000
Small-embroidered cushion covers $ 2,600,000
Set 6
table mats & serviettes $ 8,800,000
And much more!!!
We will be having a show day at Serendipity's (Golden
Stairs Rd) on 3rd June
2006 from 10 am to 3 p.m. where you can view our
stuff. For further
information, please phone Michelle Ross (Harare rep) on
091 202 138 or
alternatively
883606.
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1.3
Pet Mince for Sale (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
Pet Mince for sale 500g for $80
000. Pet mince made from pork offal
including liver and veg only, it is
minced and well cooked.
Cat Heart Mince with cooked liver for sale 250g
for
$80 000
Delivered on Friday's, collected at Benbar Msasa at 10:30, JAG
(17 Philips
Ave, Belgravia) at 11:30, Peace Haven (75 Oxford St off Aberdeen)
at 12:30
and Olivine Head Office in car park at 2:30.
Please order by
email claassen@zol.co.zw or Phone
011211088
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1.4
For Sale (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
Philips Telefax for sale price 80 million
contact me on 091941171 or email
babsmandva@yahoo.com
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1.5
Property For Sale (Ad inserted
06/06/06)
ZW$15,000,000,000.00
Situated on 15 acres just outside
Harare, but classified as Urban.
Consists of 1 x 3 bed roomed house, 1 x 2
bed roomed cottage, 2 x ensuite
guest rooms, pool and entertainment area,
workshop and offices. Boreholes x
2, water storage tanks, domestic quarters
and storage rooms, walled,
electric fenced and electric gated.
Only
serious buyers with ready cash need respond.
Contact Ashleigh- Tel: 091
890722 or ambient@africaonline.co.zw
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1.6
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
Kelvinator Four plate stove/eye
level grill - old.
Imperial fridge/freezer.
Sharp microwave
oven.
Telefunken video recorder
DSTV decoder and card
Bosh cake
mixer/liquidiser/mincer.
Waffle maker.
Snackwich maker.
4 piece
upholstered lounge suite
2 large hot trays.
2 half moon tables.
1 Defy
Auto Maid washing machine
1 Defy tumble dryer.
1 garden table & 4
chairs (with cushions)
Carpets (2) 9 x 12 with under lays
1 Muhkwa
Kist
1 Bookcase
2 chests of drawers
3 table lamps
Please phone
Cherry: 251150 - 2 (Business) or 304095
(home).
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1.7
For Sale (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
"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. WINTER IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!
Prices.
Small
woven bags--$750,000 each.
Large crocheted bags.--$1,800,000 each.
Large
woven bags.--$1,500,000 each.
Table Runners.--$1,150,000.
Set of 4
Fringed Table mats + serviettes--$3,400,000.
Fringed mats
only(4)---$2,300,000.
Set of 6 Fringed mats+
serviettes--$5,200,000
Set of 4 Bordered table mats+
serviettes---$4,000,000.
Set of 4 Bordered table mats
only---$3,000,000
Set of 6 Bordered mats + serviettes--$6,000,000.
Set of
8 Bordered mats + serviettes---$8,000,000.
2m Throws--$3,800,000.
1m
Throw(Baby blanket)--$1,500,000 NEW.
Tea cosy(L)--$800,000.
Tea
cosy(m)--$600,000
Tea cosy(s)--$400,000.
Crocheted oven
gloves(pair)--$1,500,000.
Cotton(lined)oven
gloves(pair)--$900,000.
Aprons--$1,700,000.
Decorated cushion
covers--$1,300,000.
Plain cushion
covers---$1,100,000.
Scarves(knitted)--$1,600,000. each.
Hand Woven
Scarves--$2,000,000 each
Hats(Beanies)--$650,000 each.
Large plain
cotton rug--$3,500,000.
Med. plain cotton rug---$2,200,000.
Small plain
cotton rug.---$1,400,000.
Cotton Rag Rug--$1,400,000.
Med. plain mohair
rug--$2,700,000.
Med.patterned mohair rug.--$3,300,000.
X Large plain
mohair rug.--$10,500,000.
Bedspreads-- QS/DB/3/4
and
Single--$6,500,000,/$5,700,000/$5,200,000/$3,500,000.
Duvet
Cushions(opens into
a
duvet)--$11,000,000(Single).$13,00,000(Double).$15,000,000(Queen).NEW.
Toilet
sets--$2,500,000. NEW.
Bath mats---$1,100,000 NEW.
Wholesale prices
available for orders(over 6 of an article) or
large
purchases.
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1.8
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
Jungle gym with slide ladder,
aeroplane, boat-swing. $50000000.00.
Pool slide (large fibreglass)
$50000000.00.
Mazda 626 South African assembled 1992 model
Sport boat with
40 hp mariner engine phone Cheryl 308227.
011208619,
011201990
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1.9
For Sale (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
Falcon with a 115 Yamaha motor for sale.
Z$ 1.7 Billion neg contact details
are 04-572136 8am - 6pm Mon -
Fri.
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1.10
For Sale (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
1 x complete water pump with pulley and
base for any 10 Series Ford tractor.
As good as brand new.
1 x water
pump with pulley no base plus new gasket for any 10 Series Ford
tractor. As
good as new.
For further details contact 04 - 745463 or
011211924.
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1.11
For Sale (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
50 kg bags coarse salt @ Z$ 3 million
each collected Ruwa, or Z$ 3.25
million delivered Harare. Limited quantity,
available after June 23rd.
Apply mnmilbank@zol.co
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1.12
Items For Sale (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
1) Branding irons - Numbers 0
through 9; 3 of each, still good condition.
2) Motorolla, Kenwood and Tait
radios; 5 base and 1 hand held.
3) Robust steel trailer suitable for off road
work.
Please phone Wally Herbst, 011 212 264 or 09 244388
E mail Mziki
@mweb.co.zw.
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1.13
For Sale (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
8-chair oak dining room suite with
extendable table, tea trolley and
dresser. Very good condition
Brand new
modern fold up camp cot Pine cot (used but very good
condition)
Pushchair/pram - 2 position - changeable handles - (used twice
only and in
very good condition)
Offers on all above items - please phone
091 310012 or 339509 (afternoons
and evenings
only)
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1.14
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
VOLVO S60 DIESEL 26000KM 2005
MODEL.
SERIOUS BUYERS ONLY TO PHONE 011 407747 OR 055
20213
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1.15
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
One new "Star" car radio deck (no
speakers). $15 million onco.
Call Karen 011-407-184 or leave message on
495445 and I will call you back
if I am not
there.
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1.16
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Quarter-sized Billiard/Pool table with
all accessories. Excellent
condition. Reasonable offer accepted.
Phone:
Neville
091-278-461.
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1.17
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Finesse 12 fin oil heater.
7 heat
settings and
2 different wattage settings
Removable wheels for ease of
transport.
I find it gives out a gentle heat and does not dry out
the air.
Comes with original 15 amp plug.
Cream in colour with black
trim.
Asking : $25 000 000
+263 (04)
884634
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1.18
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Full household goods for sale, numerous
and various items.
Double Bed = $40m
Stove = $80m
Fridge = $60m
And
so much more! Electricals, furniture, kitchen equipment, accessories
and
other bits and bobs.
Please email monique.fachet@gmail.com for complete
catalogue and pricing.
For more details and viewing arrangements
please contact Monique.
Tel: 309274 (w), 091 315 411, Email: as per above
address
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1.19
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
CAT 922 FRONT END LOADER:
Good
strong front loader machine in working condition
Powered by CAT 4 cylinder
engine and transmission
Rear turning wheels (i.e. not articulated)
Fitted
with 1 cubic metre bucket
Useful for loading all loose materials (e.g. sand,
gravel, mining materials,
etc., etc.)
PRICE - Z$ 3 billion
o.n.c.o.
MASSEY FERGUSON MF390 TRACTOR
Good working
condition
PRICE - Z$ 1,9 billion o.n.c.o.
TOWED 2 WHEEL BOWSER - 2500
litre CAPACITY
In working condition
PRICE - Z$ 300 million
o.n.c.o.
TOWED VIBRATORY ROLLER (ENGINE DRIVEN VIBRATION
SYSTEM)
In working condition.
Excellent for compaction on gravel
roads
Tractor Towed machine
PRICE - Z$ 1.85 billion
o.n.c.o.
TRACTOR DRAWN 3 tonne 2 WHEEL FLATBED TRAILER: -
Utility
Trailer in good working condition
PRICE - Z$ 300 million
o.n.c.o.
SELECTION OF BRICK & BLOCK MAKING
MACHINES/EQUIPMENT
Ideal for on-site brick & block making
PRICES
on request
SELECTION OF VARIOUS PLUMBING FITTINGS AND PIPES: - details,
list and
prices, available on request.
Please contact Paul Brown on
Hre 755 401/2, 091-754 302, instamac@mweb.co.zw
for further
details.
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1.20
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
"HORSE BOX"
===========
Back &
front loading: Groom's door: Partition: Rubber mat: Tows very well
with no
rattles. Has extra height.
Contact: PIERCY, James Farm Rd., Ruwa. Tel:
073
2566."
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1.21
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
Horticulture 4 ft fluorescent lights,
approx enough for 3 Ha
Please contact Martin on 011 603 762 or Lars 011 604
398.
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1.22
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
SIRATRO SEED:
Substantial quantity of
very good Siratro legume seed.
Contact 04 745463 or 011211924 for further
details.
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1.23
For Sale (Ad inserted 37/06/06)
HONDA RIDE ON MOWER FOR SALE
COLOUR RED,
USED
NEEDS NEW BATTERY
BOUGHT 2001
ASKING PRICE US$1 500
TWO
TRAILERS FOR SALE:
FLAT BED SOME BOARDS MISSING. ASKING PRICE
US$800
TOYOTA HILUX 2.4 BUCKIE BACK CONVERTED INTO TRAILER. WITH SPARE
TYRE.
ASKING PRICE US$1500
CONTACT 011 407 149 OR dansar@zol.co.zw
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1.24
Fuel for Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
PETROL & DIESEL AVAILABLE FROM
HAMCOR FUEL
MARINELAND HARBOUR, KARIBA
Please phone Kiara on 091
275 714, or Guy on 091 269 330, or send an email
to kiara@zol.co.zw for selling price and payment
details.
Any price quoted will be valid for a maximum of 24 hours only.
(Cash only,
absolutely no
cheques).
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1.25
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
PIRANAH EXECUTIVE BOAT, 140 EVINRUDE GOOD
CONDITION.
85 YAMAHA WITHOUT TRIM
30LB MOTORGUIDE HAND CONTROL
BASS MOTOR
1 HARROW BMX BIKE MIDDLE SIZE, 1 REDLINE MINI BMX BIKE BOTH
GOOD CONDITION.
70CC MONKEY MOTORBIKE RUNNER NEEDS COSMETIC
ATTENTION.
CONTACT NUMBERS: 011205247 - 091909244 - 251377 EMAIL: danlyn@hms.co.zw
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1.26
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
New Discs for sale, suit IMCO or Duly
Disc Harrows 28 inch with 45mm. Hole
Uses Discs suit IMCO or Duly Disc
Harrows, 20 inch to 24 inch with 45mm
Hole, 8mm thick.
Phone 011 803
707
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2
WANTED
ITEMS
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2.1
Wanted (Ad inserted 30/05/06)
Prem baby clothes, mainly baby growers,
vests, booties and waterproofs. My
baby boy "Zane" is a wee 1.8kg and very
difficult to clothe as he mainly
drowns in his clothes. If there is someone
out there please let us know
where I can get such clothing? Cash offered.
Please phone Philip on 091
235579 or 336962 (office) or email dichwe@mweb.co.zw or Delia on 091
201686
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2.2
Wanted (Ad inserted 30/05/06)
1. Packing machine
wanted. Must be able to pack about 0.1
kilos to 5 kilos of granular or powder
product
2. Packing machine to pack small quantities of
liquid 5mls
to 100mls
3. Packing machine to pack powder
and granule products
from 1mls to 1 kilo
Please contact - E mail mcimbi@zol.co.zw
Fax/ Phone 04
851095
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2.3
Wanted (Ad inserted 30/05/06)
We are looking for an experienced cook with
references. Please call us
on
884163.
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2.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
Looking for wooden filing cabinets,
preferably lockable and hanging file
inserts
Also a magnet for a
Trojan treadmill I have misplaced mine 'safely' whilst
moving and just cannot
find it at all now - or else a heavy found magnet I
could try - the machine
will not operate without this.
Briarley@zol.co.zw
Or sms 091 201
894
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
Blue glass bottles ie wine bottles,
desperately needed for medicinal
purposes.
Please contact Geoff Long
011 601 316 or Irene Hammond
781452
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2.6
Wanted (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
Space in container (1 -3 M³) to Australia
for personal effects. Destination
Sydney, Newcastle or Brisbane. Around
August 2006!
Phone: Clemens
cell: 011 621 572, LL: 04
494366
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2.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
Looking for a good second-hand monosem
planter, either 4 or 6 row please
phone 883323 Harare or cell
091202924
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2.8
Wanted (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
Desperately looking for a fridge/freezer (2
door) or a small bar fridge.
Wanted immediately.
Caroline 091 250932
or caroline@tulimara.co.zw
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2.9
Wanted PHOTOCOPIER (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
A photocopier needed in good
working order.
Please call Trace Scott
Tel: (263-4) 731 926, 091 310
492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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2.10
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
BOOKCASES, ETC ...
Bookcases,
carpets and various household items.
Please call Trace Scott
Tel:
(263-4) 731 926, 091 310 492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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2.11
Wanted Maid (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
We need a maid who can cook with
recipes and baby mind to help my present
maid. Preferably over 30
yrs.
Please call Trace Scott
Tel: (263-4) 731 926, 091 310
492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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2.12
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Please if anyone has a Childs first Pony
that they are willing to sell or
lease I am desperately looking for my little
boy. Please contact Thea
on
091282165
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2.13
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Needed RAM (Hydram Pumps) - please specify
capacity and price.
Any Dexter cattle left in Zimbabwe and at what
price?
Please contact Keith Holland 011 401 691 or 020-64303 (Office);
020-61369
(Home)
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2.14
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Second hand wooden garden shed -- between
two and a half and three metres
square. We will collect (and repair if
necessary) please contact
Clare
011208568
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2.15
Wanted (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
I am looking for 50 kgs + of Methyl
bromide. Please contact Geraldine
McLaughlan 754666 or geraldine@tsl.co.zw
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2.16
Wanted (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
WANTED urgently is a Working / Non- Working
TV, VCR, DVD, Satellite Dish,
Decorder and/or Hifi. Please contact Joel on
091 450 928 or email
joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com
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2.17
Wanted (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
HEIFERS or Weaners wanted to buy. I need 12
to 15 animals from in and around
the following areas Chinhoyi, Banket, Karoi,
Tengwe, Hurungwe, Kadoma and
Kwekwe. Prefer Brahman, Africander, Tuli or any
other hard mombies. Please
contact Joel on 091 450 928 or email joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com
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3
Accommodation Wanted and
Offered
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3.1
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
RELIABLE EX-FARMER SEEKING
ACCOMMODATION on caretaking basis or reasonable
rent. Single man, non-smoker
and reliable. Wanted from September 2006,
short or long-term.
Contact Rob
Walmisley Tel: 011 731 922 (cell) or 748939 (work) or e-mail
soaz@mweb.co.zw.
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3.2
Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
Looking for a tenant from
1st July to end of January
Town House, No. 44 Bridgeways, Lincoln Road,
Avondale. Three Bedrooms,
fully furnished.
Please contact Valda Rous on
307051 or 091 337
682
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3.3
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
"House proud lady desperately
seeks 3 bed-roomed house or flat for end of
June 2006. Please
help!
Telephone Mrs. Ashley 743121/5 ext 228 bus hrs, 743282 (after 5
pm), e-mail
dashley@skf.co.zw"
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3.4
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
Please will you help by
sending this to as many of your family and friends
or by putting the word
out? We have sadly been given notice to vacate the
cottage we rent in
Kambanji. We are looking for either a house or cottage or
town house, which
has affordable rent, preferably on the Borrowdale/Mt
Pleasant side of town.
We are also possibly looking to look after a house
for the owners who are out
of the country, or similar. For Kay and her 17
year old son. Kay works for
MARS and has vast medical experience, which may
be beneficial to the owners
especially if they are elderly or
have young children. Dion is currently
doing his O levels at St Georges.
Please we urgently need help and would be
most grateful for any contacts.
Contact Kay Kondonis
091219476
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3.5
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
"Two bed roomed garden flat,
Greendale, lock up carport, close to shops,
available July, call Mr Wallis
023894597 or email zermatt@mweb.co.zw
"
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4
RECREATION
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4.1
Houseboat for Hire (Ad inserted 30/05/06)
MTEPATEPA houseboat for hire -
very reasonable rates. Sleeps 12, 2-3 crew,
pontoon tender boat.
Phone
Kate 091 356 981 or 067-23112 or email swany@comone.co.zw
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4.2
Mana Pools (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
4-person lodge (Mubvee/Hipp0) available
between now 6th - 16th June. To
avoid a total waste of booking, take any
time you can between these dates.
Please contact asap
Trudy
Tel:
304492
Cell: 091 247 141
email: trudy@zol.co.zw
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4.3
(Ad inserted 13/06/06)
Wild Heritage, Kariba - Muuyu Lodge
Lodge
in Wild Heritage Complex, 3 double bedrooms, overlooking the
Chirara
Floodplains with wonderful view of passing game from the front deck,
2
bathrooms, fully furnished, plenty of freezer space, serviced by a
maid
capable of basic cooking. Own splash pool on the front deck. Good
birding,
even from the deck. Access to boat launching facilities. Good get
away.
$15,000,000 per night. Contact Wendy: WendyMcD@mcdiarmid.co.zw or phone
091
261
253
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4.4
(Ad inserted 20/06/06)
GACHE GACHE LODGE - Kariba
Open now for
bookings for JULY South African school holidays.
ALSO for our local Zim
August school hols AND for the
HEROES DAY (nice) long weekend of 12-15th
August.
Contact: Andrea tourleaders@zol.co.zw or 091 208
836
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4.5
Savuli Safari (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
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. $3 000,000 pppn, 1/2
U/12
Contact John: savuli@mweb.co.zw
or Phone 091 631
556
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5
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
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5.1
(Ad inserted 06/06/06)
Radium Africa
Montana Boom Sprayers 10m
600l 85litre pump in stock
Harrow discs 24", 26" 28" plain and cutaway in
stock
Silage Machines - manual feed and tractor drawn units in
stock
Generators 15KVA and 60KVA on the water.
Phone : 870264 or
011600389
Email : radiumzw@aficaonline.co.zw
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5.2
FOOTBALL WORLD CUP (Ad inserted 13/06/06)
QUALITY COLOUR TV'S FOR HIRE
PHONE HIRE ELECTRIC ON
741913
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5.3
G - TECH (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Diesel vehicle and plant
maintenance
Site contracting
Generator and stationary engine installation
and maintenance
Tractors
Hydraulics.
Contact Graham at gtech@zol.co.zw or call 011 406023, 091
286657, 04 741001,
075
2264
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5.4
(Ad inserted 20/06/06)
SERVICES: COMPUTER SALES & REPAIR
For
all computer requirements and repairs for both hardware and
software
Please call Lance Scott
Tel: (263-4) 731 926, 738 666, 739
675, 091 310 492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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5.5
(Ad inserted 20/06/06)
It's winter. Now's the time to service your boat,
we do Yamaha, Mercury and
Mariner. Also modifications, transoms, floors and
live wells. Redo
upholstery and conversions.
Contact Russell Hook
305381 331970 331976 091201744
011201744
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5.6
(Ad inserted 27/06/06)
Study in the UK
Get expert advice from
Stephanie Berry.
Catering for a broad range of interests and
abilities
Consulting in Harare July/August
For further details contact:
04 862 197 or 091 402961
Email: slb@bucs.co.uk
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5.7
(Ad inserted 27/06/06)
For all your computer requirements and servicing
contact us
Norton Antivirus 2006 OEM 10m
Windows XP Pro 10m
USD
to Printer Adapter 15m
We repair all computer equipment
Call Sean
+26391954888
computers@workmail.co.za
Harare
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PETS
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6.1
Wanted (Ad inserted 06/06/06)
FOX TERRIER PREFERABLY OR JACK RUSSELL PUP
WANTED (Not necessarily pedigree,
even cross)
or would consider young dog
as companion to our Labrador bitch. Must
tolerate cats.
Phone 882142 or
email maduma@zol.co.zw
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6.2
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
"Dog meal, 20 kg,$1,2 mill,pse order on
023894597,email zermatt@mweb.co.zw
"
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6.3
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
BLUE HEALER BITCH, (Australian Cattle
Dog)!
We are looking for a puppy for our kids Hunter and Ayla, the pup
will come
and live with us in Chegutu and be loved to bits!!
BLUE
HEALER BITCH, (Australian Cattle Dog)!
Please help if you can and contact
CORRALEE GREEFF on 091 208726 or email me
at greeffy@onetel.com
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6.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
Looking for Great Dane's, (pure or cross)
either puppies or a young dog to
go to a loving home on a farm.
Please
contact Bridget on 011
408044
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Hotlines:
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please
don't hesitate to contact us - we're here to help!
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Lines
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