The ZIMBABWE Situation

May 2010 ARCHIVE


NEWS and Other Articles
  1. Posted 30/6/10
    • Diamond group denies giving Zim green light to sell diamonds
    • Jailed diamond researcher back in court Wednesday
    • Abducted MDC activists found detained in Marondera
    • COPAC convene crisis meeting to review outreach program
    • SW Radio Africa - Diaspora Diaries, Callback ...
    • HOT SEAT: Global Witness on Kimberley Process & Zimbabwe diamonds
    • Constitution Outreach: News Round-Up, 25 June - 29 June
    • Stand and deliver: News from Kubatana - 29 June, 2010
    • BILL WATCH 25/2010
  2. Posted 29/6/10
    • Diamonds: Does the Kimberley Process work?
    • Fired Zimbabwe Ministers Demand Severance Packages from Strapped Government
    • Zimbabwe Mines Minister Says Human Rights Groups Tried to Bribe Him
    • Zimbabwe set for EU talks
    • Reader's Opinion : TSVANGIRAI CABINET REFOCUS
  3. Posted 28/6/10
    • Zimbabwe Vigil Diary 26/06/2010
    • 87 illegals deported from Zimbabwe
    • US considers Zimbabwe debt cancelations
    • Zimbabwe does not have "blood diamonds": DeBeers
    • Zimbabwe Set To Beneft From The Use Of Rand
    • John Howard's bid for ICC office in jeopardy after snub by South Africa
    • Howard's visit to an 'unsafe country'
    • Zimbabwe’s Leopard changing its spots
  4. Posted 27/6/10
    • The Farai Maguwu story so far: Lawyer’s Diary
    • Gono shocked by death rumours
    • RBZ governor Gideon Gono in car accident
    • Zimbabwe police arrest World Cup terror plotters
    • Highly vulnerable
    • Constitution Outreach: News Round-Up, 21 June 25 June
    • Soccer is a life saver for HIV Positive Ladies
    • Coal in vogue in Zimbabwe?
    • No World Cup windfall for Zimbabwe's tourism industry
    • Zimbabwe's streetchildren challenge the illusion of change
    • KP complicit in rights abuses
    • How Biti escaped cabinet dismissal
    • State takes over RBZ debts
    • Farm abuses documentary steals show at ILO
    • Zimbabwe's million-dollar question
    • Whereto after multi-currency?
  5. Posted 26/6/10
    • JOC sends soldiers to enforce ZANU PF views in outreach programme
    • Zim delegation set for Brussels talks next week
    • MDC activists abducted in Marondera during outreach exercise
    • JOC sends soldiers to enforce ZANU PF views in outreach program
    • Plaudits and criticism for Tsvangirai’s cabinet reshuffle
    • SW Radio Africa
    • Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga on BTH
    • Ending Political Tensions: What Africa Could Learn from Latin America
    • Ambassador Mr Marchal at the opening of the stakeholder conference on Coffee in Mutare.
  6. Posted 25/6/10
    • Former MP’s aide spends week behind bars
    • MDC Ministers sworn in after cabinet reshuffle
    • Over 200 soldiers disrupt constitutional outreach in Karoi
    • ZANU PF unleashes violence to thwart outreach program
    • Zimbabwe’s diamonds remain banned
    • Heart of the Matter -SW Radio Africa
    • ZCTF Report 2 - June 2010
    • Zimbabwe's President Mugabe Swears in Ministers Following MDC Cabinet Shuffle
    • Zimbabwe Constitutional Outreach Off to Halting Start Amid Confusion, Disruptions
    • Zimbabwe tops failed states index
  7. Posted 24/6/10
    • Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Reorganizes Cabinet
    • HOT SEAT: Analyst Tony Reeler on what will resolve the Zim crisis
    • JAG COMPENSATION/RESTITUTION COMMUNIQUE - OPEN DEBATE dated 23 JUNE 2010
    • Bill Watch 24/2010 - 23rd June [MDC-T Ministerial Reshuffle]
    • No compromise reached on indigenization law between Zimbabwean gov't and mining sector
    • Zimbabwe Minister Backs Down on Business Takeovers
    • Zimbabwe Soccer Fans Disappointed at African Team Showings in World Cup
    • Zimbabwe Constitutional Outreach Program Delayed Further Amid Disorganization
    • John Howard - met with Zimbabwe cricket bosses
  8. Posted 23/6/10
    • Zimbabwe:Stop the Murder in Diamond Fields
    • Deliberate Chaos: Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe
    • 'Blood diamond' activist kept in Zimbabwe jail
    • MDC offers news by phone
    • Christian students protest over collapse of education in Zimbabwe
    • Zimbabwe threatens to pull out of Kimberley Process
    • Zim cancels North Korean animal shipment amid condemnation
    • Zuma’s office to appeal court order to release hidden Zim report
    • Econet threatened over MDC audio news service
    • Chaotic start to constitutional outreach program
    • Diaspora Diaries
    • Minister sues paper for his 27 property super-purchase story
    • Zimbabwe Inclusive Government Watch: Issue 16
    • The worst dictators named by US organisation
    • The shadow proves the sunshine: News from Kubatana -22 June, 2010
    • Letter RE : Ms Letty Chiwara appointed as Chief of Unifem’s Africa section in New York
    • Ghana tops list of less hungry countries - what about Zimbabwe?
    • AFRICA: Straight talk with MSF medical coordinator Dr Eric Goemaere
  9. Posted 22/6/10
    • Zimbabwean diamond rights researcher denied bail by High Court
    • Zimbabweans still top global asylum seeker list despite GNU
    • No sewage system at Harare Central police station
    • Outreach program begins as soldiers set up bases in rural areas
    • Senator Obert Gutu on Rules for our Rulers & Callback SW Radio
    • Zanu PF blocks MDC’s Voice of Real Change
    • Constitution Watch 10/2010 - 20th June [Masvingo & MidlandsOutreach Venues 23rd -30th June]
    • Constitution Watch 9/2010 - 20th June [Harare Met (Chitungwiza) &Manicaland Outreach Venues 23rd -30th June]
    • Constitution Watch 8/2010 - 20th June [Byo,Mat S and Mat N Outreach Venues 23rd -30th June]
    • Constitution Watch 7/2010 - 19th June [Mashonaland Outreach Venues23rd -30th June]
  10. Posted 21/6/10
    • Zimbabwe Vigil Diary – 19th June 2010
    • Should there be national elections before a national healing process has taken place?”
    • Zimbabwe stops seizure of central bank assets
    • Air Zimbabwe Pilots Threaten Strike
    • For one woman, a different kind of World Cup dream
  11. Posted 20/6/10
    • ZANU-PF Youths seize Bulawayo buildings
    • GPA implementation delaying EU-Zimbabwe engagement
    • German-Zimbabwean Relations Troubled by Farm Seizures Despite Investment Pact
    • JAG OPEN LETTER FORUM - No. 701- Dated 18 June 2010
    • Chinese fall in love with Zimbabwe stone sculpture at Shanghai Expo
    • Zimbabwe Rural Dwellers Poorly Informed on Constitutional Revision – Lawmaker
    • Zimbabwe Rights Defenders Accuse AG of Abuse of Powers in Case Against Gays
    • Most Zimbabwe State Enterprises Slated for Privatization Are Heavily Indebted
    • US Congress mulls new approach on Zimbabwe
    • New TTD planned after SA rejects Zim document
    • Alien
    • Zimbabwe’s GNU will survive: Mbeki
    • Makoni blasts ZBC over banned interview
    • Zanu PF plot to scrap PM’s post
    • All set for outreach
    • Zimbabwe: Government Ditches Wildlife Trade Deal
    • Canada condemn harassment of rights defenders
    • Ban violence or shut up Mr President
    • SundayView:Colonialism no longer an excuse for Africa’s failure
  12. Posted 19/6/10
    • AfriForum to take legal steps against SA gov over Zim land attacks
    • Campaigners demand release of jailed diamond activist
    • Five student leaders remain locked up
    • Finance Minister Tendai Biti storms out of cabinet meeting
    • Civil society organization to monitor constitutional outreach
    • Callback SW Radio Africa
    • International Relations Advisor to South African President Jacob Zuma - Lindiwe Zulu on BTH
    • OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
    • Zimbabwe, Zambia plunge into darkness
  13. Posted 18/6/10
    • Zim tops asylum seekers chart
    • Mugabe, Tsvangirai barely talking?
    • Inflation surges to 6.1 percent
    • Coltart launches cricket charm offensive
    • Constitutional reforms, Mugabe opponents’ only hope
    • Zim’s squabbling leaders call for peace
    • Anger grows over Kimberley Process failings in Zimbabwe
    • Jailed diamond researcher faces another weekend behind bars
    • Hope & skepticism greet launch of constitutional outreach
    • Muzarabani villagers initiate national healing process
    • The Heart of the Matter & Callback
  14. Posted 17/6/10
    • Achola O Pala writes on the recent African Women's Mission to Zimbabwe
    • Coventry woman fled from life of torture
    • ROHR Zimbabwe statement on the commemoration of the day of the African Child
    • Clinton Says US To Keep Pressure On Zimbabwe's Mugabe & Diamond 'Clique'
    • Search for New Foreign Partner in Ziscosteel Splits Zimbabwe Unity Government
    • Zimbabwe Unity Government Leaders to Call for Peaceful Constitutional Debate
    • Chegutu farmer Ben Freeth receives royal honours
    • SA law group demands probe into Mutasa court snub
    • Public hearings on new constitution officially launched
    • Prominent names added to the MDC roll of shame
    • No agreement from KP monitoring group on Zimbabwe diamonds
    • Hidden Story; Call Back SW Radio
    • WHO IS FUNDING THE ZANU PF BACKED ZIMTA? A Response from ZIMTA.
    • Zimbabwean Entrepreneurs Stream into South Africa for World Cup
    • Yvonne Chaka Chaka Left in Tears
    • In Zimbabwe, one minute you're a farmer, then it's all gone
    • Mugabe and the White African
  15. Posted 16/6/10
    • HOT SEAT: Kimberley Process monitor Chikane defends 'shopping' Zim activist to police
    • IMF Says Zimbabwe Needs to Improve Economic Policies, Data
    • Zimbabwe: Kombi Chaos Returns
    • Zimbabwe's public, private wages pose inflation risk: IMF
    • SA facilitators not coming to Harare: Official
    • Food for work programme brought relief to residents
    • Report exposes Mnangagwa and Mujuru involvement in Marange
    • Evicted farmer plans High Court intervention
    • SA government to appeal court order to release Zim election report
    • SA mediators concerned about misinformation on talks
    • MDC urge Zimbabweans to participate in outreach programme
    • SW Radio Callback and Diaspora Diaries
  16. Posted 15/6/10
    • Chiadzwa Activist 'Snatched' From Jail
    • Zimbabwe: Fans Sing World Cup Blues
    • University of Zimbabwe Students food Poisoned
    • Zimbabwe rulers running diamond trade with 'corruption and violence'
    • Wake up Zimbabwe, wake up
    • Food for work programme brought relief to residents
    • Zimbabwe: Minister to Evict RBZ Over Rent
    • Businessmen in extortionist barter deals with Masvingo villagers
    • Tobacco - Sales continuing in Zimbabwe
    • Ex VP of farm union evicted from his land
    • South African facilitators due in Harare to ‘revive’ talks
    • Police intimidating arrested diamond rights researcher
    • NCA spokesman Madock Chivasa on Rules for our Rulers
    • Mugabe's delegation..... denied entry at the World Cup
    • Mugabe's government selling land to Chinese
    • Opposition accuses Zanu PF of looting
    • Hague: New government to continue policy on Zimbabwe
    • Mo Ibrahim Foundation announces decision not to award 2010 Ibrahim Prize
  17. Posted 14/6/10
    • Zimbabwe Vigil Diary – 12th June 2010
    • Yet another farmer loses his property
    • Bill Watch 23/2010 - 12th June [Diamond Watchdog Still Detained]
    • South African mediators on last-ditch attempt to break Zimbabwe deadlock
    • Football Mania Masks Zimbabwean Crisis
    • Safe haven for children escaping from Zimbabwe to South Africa
    • Aboard the Victoria Falls Express
  18. Posted 13/6/10
    • As football fever grips the nation, terror and famine in Africa go unreported
    • Church makes shipment of love to Zimbabwe
    • Little Progress to Note as Zimbabwe Unity Partners Report to South Africa's Zuma
    • Plot Thickens in Zimbabwe's Marange Diamond Intrigue as Kimberly Details Emerge
    • HR MONITOR OF CHIADZWA DIAMOND FIELDS FARAI MAGUWU ILLEGALLY REMOVED FM REMAND PRISON, TORTURE FEARED
    • Queen's Birthday honours: the full list including B J Freeth MBE (Zimbabwe)
    • Our Zimbabwe – democracy vs dictatorship
    • Zimbabwe to return to Test cricket in 2011
  19. Posted 12/6/10
    • Commuters duck for cover as police open fire on omnibus
    • Police block ZCTU commemoration of mine disaster
    • 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa
    • Biti and Mpofu clash over plunder of Chiadzwa diamonds
    • SW Radio Africa talkback
    • HOT SEAT:Co-Home Affairs Minister Giles Mutsekwa denies banning demos during World Cup
    • Declaration by Friends of Zimbabwe Group
    • Residents run for cover... as police open fire on commuter omnibus
    • White farmers in Zimbabwe struggle against increasing violence
    • Zimbabwe Food Security Outlook Update May 2010
    • Zimbabwe: Hwange Fully Operational By Year-End - Gwasira
    • Zimbabwe: $1,000 bounty on poachers
    • Japs held by Zimbabwe to a goalless draw
  20. Posted 11/6/10
    • More divisions in government as Mugabe undermines Tsvangirai
    • MP’s demands threaten to delay constitutional outreach
    • No Zim load shedding during FIFA World Cup in South Africa
    • Principals declare deadlock; refer stalemate to Zuma
    • Diamond researcher denied bail
    • Zimbabwe Europe Network coordinator Tor Olsen on BTH - SW Radio Africa
    • Ongoing disruption and eviction of Zim commercial farmers
    • Zimbabwe Ambassador to Australia Jacqueline Zwambila on BTH
    • Call for the immediate release of FARAI MAGUWU
    • Zimbabwe Weekly update – Number 21 - 1 June 2010
    • Zimbabwe Weekly update – Number 22 - 8 June 2010
    • Mining: Mugabe really wants foreigners’ bucks
    • Let’s be honest about elections in 2011
    • Zimbabwe bottom of Global Peace Index heap
    • Zimbabwe debt to hit US$8,6b
    • Zimbabwe prove they are on the right track
    • Ministers fight over diamonds
    • SA govt ordered to release Zim report
    • Muckraker:Zanu PF sabotages PM in power plot
    • MDC spurned chance for judicial reform
    • Eric Bloch:None so deaf as Kasukuwere
    • Australia seeks robust relations with Africa
    • CMED fails to account for vehicles
    • Zanu PF ‘illegally occupying Zapu properties’
    • Editor's memo:Zimbabweans prisoners of Zanu PF
  21. Posted 10/6/10
    • Magistrate Deliberates Future of Zimbabwean Activist Undone by Kimberly Monitor
    • Fresh farm raids in Zimbabwe: union
    • Hard road to South Africa for fans for Zimbabwe's refugees
    • Zim ODI Tri Series Final Preview: Zimbabwe Need to Step Up; SL Needs to Hold off Hosts
    • Sri Lanka overwhelm Zimbabwe in series final
    • Zimbabwe: National Dress Debate Still Open
    • Cup dream dashed for S.Africa's neighbors
    • Zimbabwe says no power cuts during WC
    • Zimbabwe wheat production seen at record low
    • Statement by the commercial farmers union of zimbabwe regarding ongoing disruption and eviction of commercial farmers
    • Zanu PF’s mercenary MPs disrupt Constitution-making process
    • Sanctions ineffective
    • Mineral exports top US$1 billion
  22. Posted 9/6/10
    • SA government ordered to release hidden Zim election report
    • Constitutional outreach to clash with World Cup
    • Analysts say sticky issues unlikely to be resolved soon
    • Diamond watchdog charged, plus two MDC MPs in custody
    • Historical Perspective on Zimbabwe’s Economic Performance - A Tale of Five Lost Decades
    • PEACE WATCH 6/2010
    • BILL WATCH SPECIAL House of Assembly Portfolio Committees and Senate Thematic Committees: Open Meetings 7th to 11th June
    • State drops reference to KP monitor in diamond researcher’s charge
    • MDC MPs released on bail
    • Government trio finally meet, but no details available
    • New daily paper up and running
    • Minister Shamu blocks building of clinic in Chegutu East
    • Church leaders urge SADC to ensure there is a Zim election in 2011
    • ZCTF Report - June 2010
    • HOT SEAT: Arrested Zimbabwean diamond researcher 'set up' by Kimberley Process Monitor
    • Elections Yes, but not over citizens’ dead bodies
    • Zimbabwe Vigil Diary 05/06/2010
    • Zimbabwe Measles Immunization and Child Health Days campaign 2010 - Campaign diary day 10: 2 June 2010
    • Stuttering and excuses


    News break 5-8 June 2010

  23. Posted 4/6/10
    • CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BY ZIMBABWE POLICE CONTINUES AT NYAMANDHLOVU
    • Zimbabwe's Warriors express pride in testing Brazil
    • India suffer second one-day loss to Zimbabwe
    • Origin of Zimbabwe museum artifact sparks debate
    • Fresh wave of farm invasions hits Zimbabwe
    • Mugabe must regularise judges’ appointments — PM
    • Zimbabwe mining: Mugabe (really) wants your bucks
    • Exiled tycoons face arrest: AG
    • Chanakira fails to finance demerger
    • Indigenisation stalls BIPPA negotiations
    • White farmers living in ‘constant fear’
    • MDC-T MP Madamombe dies
    • Muckraker:‘How Zim won the World Cup’
    • Elections now without delay
    • Despecified Mawere speaks out on future
    • WINNER OF 2010 BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE
  24. Posted 3/6/10
    • ZIMBABWE Measles Immunization and Child Health Days campaign 2010
    • Zimbabwe sugar output falls on low cane yields
    • Zimbabwe: Malaria Drug's Shelf Life Extended - Minister
    • Zimbabwe: Researchers Upbeat On HIV Drugs
    • Cara knocked out of French open
    • BILL WATCH SPECIAL [2nd June 2010] House of Assembly Portfolio Committees and Senate Thematic Committees: Open Meetings 3rd June
    • Tragedy strikes Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage Zimbabwe
    • MDC names and shames more perpetrators of violence
    • Diamond rights campaigners remain in hiding
    • Farmers urge SADC to intervene on farm invasions
    • MDC youth chair appears in court for ‘insulting’ Mugabe
    • All three Principals to the GPA still fail to meet
    • More clashes and arrests as students protest exam fees
    • Tsvangirai congratulates Muzhingi for winning comrades marathon
    • De-specified business tycoon wants his companies back
    • Leaked document behind police hunt for diamond researcher
    • Brazil beat Zimbabwe 3-0 in World Cup warm-up match
    • Zimbabwe taxi van crashes into bus; 16 killed
    • Zimbabwe Parliament Sets Probe of Troubled Shabanie Asbestos Mines
    • Animals die, drown on Zimbabwe's Starvation Island
  25. Posted 2/6/10
    • Zanu (PF) violence uncovered
    • Rio Tinto starts Zimbabwe gem unit expansion
    • Sable Mining acquires Zimbabwe coal assets
    • Zimbabwe diamonds waiting for approval
    • Sadc Tribunal To Hear Application To Refer Zim Government To Sadc Summit
    • MDC condemns power outages
    • Mugabe loses female vote
    • CALL TO ACTION!
    • Police abduct farmer's wife
    • Journalist baffled by decision to subpoena him
    • Female Zanu (PF) youths a terror
    • We demand an end to political violence!
    • RBZ under investigation over imported vehicles
    • Party principals finally meet to consider GPA report
    • New spate of arrests rocks farming community
    • Zimbabwean runner wins Comrades marathon in SA
    • Weekend violence reported ahead of constitutional outreach
    • Tsvangirai spokesman denies PM in a relationship
    • The Lamentations of Professor Jonathan Moyo and George Charamba
    • No need for poll rush: Mutambara
    • Govt holds onto Mawere companies
    • The movement for delayed change
    • Kimberly Process Zimbabwe Monitor Expresses Outrage Over Theft of Documents
    • Chinese Communist Party Delegation Meets With Zimbabwe's Mugabe & Tsvangirai
    • Zimbabwean Government Boycotts Regional Tribunal Hearing on Farm Seizures
  26. Posted 1/6/10
    • Zimbabwe Measles Immunisation and Child Health Days campaign 2010
    • ZIMBABWE MEASLES IMMUNIZATION CAMPAIGN HALF WAY UPDATE
    • Jimmy Carter and Elders Urge Full Implementation of Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Pact
    • Mandela's group says World Cup will help Africa
    • Sought by Police Over Diamond Report, Zimbabwe Researcher Remains in Hiding
    • Strong Turnout Across Zimbabwe in Campaign to Immunize Kids Against Measles
    • Zimbabwe gold miner eyes 100 000 oz output in 2012
    • China, Zimbabwe to cement inter-party ties
    • Zimbabwe Lifts Specification Notice on Mawere Assets, But State Maintains Control
    • Blood Lily : A sweeping tale of naivety, treachery, war and genocide, of love and friendship... and ultimately of hope and regeneration
    • WEEKLY CITY WATCH, 31 May 2010



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