The Zimbabwe Situation

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20/03/2010 21:23:00

Harare, March 21, 2010 - The Zimbabwe government is within the next few days
expected to make radical changes to the controversial indigenisation
regulations announced by the Minister of Indigenisation and Empowerment,
Saviour Kasukuwere in January.

This will be a major climbdown by President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF
party, who have insisted that there is no going back on the regulations.

Inside sources confirmed that Kasukuwere was forced to drop his initial
regulations which were widely viewed as elitist. The amended version is said
to be structured along the lines of South Africa's Broad Based Black
Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), which was enacted in 2007 following complaints
that its predecessor the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Act benefited only
a small black elite.

"The changes have already been through a number of channels and if all goes
according to plan they should be presented the Council of Ministers on
Thursday, March 25," said a source close to the changes.

According to the source, close to ten changes have been made touching
timeframes for the implementation of thresholds for different sectors.

"The regulations will not be presented in a blanket manner as was the case,"
added the source.

"Each sector will come up with its own thresholds and time frames for
implementation, and there will be strict mechanisms to ensure that those who
have already benefited from previous empowerment schemes like Philip
Chiyangwa and Kasukuwere himself do not benefit alone at the expense of
ordinary Zimbabweans," said the source.

Instead of only considering blacks as indigenous, the revised law will also
accommodate those whites who have known only Zimbabwe as their own home.

Kasukuwere could not be reached for comment, but the source said he had
already completed the changes. Once they are presented to the Council of
Ministers, which comprises all members of Cabinet except President Robert
Mugabe, the provisions will be further discussed at a Cabinet meeting on
March 29, before being taken to Cabinet for rubber stamping the following
day.

There was a chorus of complaints from all corners after Kasukuwere
unilaterally gazetted the regulations. It was widely feared that the
regulations would repel potential foreign investors who were beginning to
gain some confidence in the country following the success of the inclusive
government.

Zimbabwe's power utility debts surge to $100m

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AFP

Sun Mar 21, 7:26 am ET

HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's state-run power utility firm owes other regional
electricity suppliers 100 million dollars (74 million euros) as it struggles
to recover debts from local customers, a report said on Sunday.

Ben Rafemoyo, chief executive of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority,
said low tariffs and failure by customers to settle their bills was stalling
recovery prospects.

"As of last month, we were nearing 100 million" in debts, Rafemoyo told the
state-run Sunday Mail.

"If we restore capacity, we would like to pay for the current bill and a
portion to cover part of our debt so that we continuously chew into it."

While ZESA bills its customers 38 million dollars per month, it is failing
to collect as much, he added.

"Currently, we are recovering between 65 and 70 percent of our billing
average. But we have accumulated bills that we are still dealing with in
terms of debt management."

Much of Zimbabwe endures daily power outages which can last 10 to 15 hours.
Some areas can go without electricity for months, as the power utility
struggles to maintain its grid.

A decade of economic collapse has left power stations in disrepair, with
generators operating at about one-third of their capacity.

ZESA has inked an agreement with counterparts in Botswana and Namibia to
revive a thermal power station in Bulawayo city and to fix a thermal plant
at Hwange in a bid to ease blackouts.

Fresh outbreak of cholera affects 100 people in Zimbabwe, says WHO

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APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) A resurgent cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has so far
infected about 100 people and claimed three lives since it was detected last
November, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports here Sunday.

The UN agency also reports that more than 30 others have been infected by a
typhoid outbreak that has hit a poor suburb of the Zimbabwean capital
Harare.

About 99 cholera cases have been reported in seven of Zimbabwe's 62
districts over the past four months, according to WHO.

The figure is however significantly lower than the more than 90,000 cases
that had been recorded around the same time at the height of another
outbreak that ended in July last year.

An outbreak of typhoid fever has been reported by the Harare City Health
Department in the suburb of Mabvuku in the eastern part of the city.

"A total of 32 cases and 5 deaths were reported by 7 March, 6 samples were
laboratory confirmed to be Salmonella typhi," WHO said.

The typhoid outbreak is blamed on the perennial water shortages in Mabvuku.

JN/daj/APA
2010-03-21

Zanu PF Sets Up Liberation War Zones

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21/03/2010 15:23:00

Mwenezi, March 21, 2010 - The Zanu PF youth militia under the command of
newly appointed politburo member, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, has turned back the
clock of time, setting up liberation war style''liberated zones'' in the
whole of Mwenezi in a desperate attempt to totally eliminate the opposition
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the event of elections next year.

Information gleaned from the former ruling party functionaries in the
area,recently showed that the overzealous Bhasikiti has of late been
commandeering Zanu PF youths trained at the infamous Border Gezi Youth
Indoctrination centres, to create no go areas for the opposition in
preparation of polls that might be held next year.

Zanu PF's President Robert Mugabe and MDC's Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai, the key rivals in Zimbabwe's seemingly unending political
stand-off have recently been urging their supporters to prepare for fresh
polls in the event that the Global Political Agreement (GPA) which gave rise
to the unity government in the country fails. The two leaders, who met with
President Jacob Zuma recently, agreed to a package of measures aimed at
fully implementing the stalled GPA.

It emerged this week that Bhasikiti, who is also the House of Assembly
representative for Mwenezi East, has already started to prepare for next
elections in the district by setting up secretive torture camps in remote
conservancies that were forcibly grabbed from whites in Mwenezi.

Bhasikiti, who was this year rewarded for ensuring Zanu PF hegemony in
Mwenezi with a deputy secretary for economic affairs post in the ex-ruling
party's Soviet style political bureau, in short, politburo, has been
reportedly running around to pay back his masters by creating no go areas
for the opposition in secretive and remote conservancies that were
expropriated from former white farmers.

''They have set up no go areas for the opposition in areas such as Maranda,
Neshuro and Dinhe where they are eliminating all suspected MDC sympathisers.
Members of the youth wing under the instructions of the local MP Bhasikiti
are behind the project as they are moving around telling villagers to be
wary of the enemy(MDC) ahead of elections next year,,''said an MDC supporter
who preffered not to be named for fear of reprisals.

He added,'' We are now afraid even to put on our MDC regalia because if the
youths discover it it means the end of us as they have set up torture camps
and zones in this district where it is virtually not allowed according to
them to be a supporter of the opposition.''

The MDC supporter added that the liberated zones were being controlled by
war veterans who were terrorising villagers and teaching them Zanu PF
propaganda to raise emotions in anticipation of elections that will be held
next year.

Contacted for comment Bhasikiti said: ''There is no such thing as liberated
zones because Mwenezi is already a known Zanu PF stronghold, the opposition
has no room and will never have it. What is wriong by frequently urging our
people to be vigilant.''

MDC-T provicial secretary for Masvingo Tongai Matutu lashed out Zanu PF for
trying to live in the past saying old tacts were not going to work in an
area that was now ripe for change.

''Zimbabweans know what they want and that is a departure from Mugabe's
kleptocracy and that is not going to change whether they create so called
liberated zones or not the the truth of the matter is that the atmosphere is
pregnant for change and it is the MDC that will deliver that change no
matter what,''said Matutu.

Mwenezi is one of the poorest districts in Masvingo and most families in the
area are dependent on South Africa where thousands of their children have
sought refuge in search of jobs and occassionally remit funds back home to
their families.

Meanwhile in Masvingo, the Zanu PF provincial executive has fired three of
its councilors in Chivi including the Rural District Council (RDC) vice
chairman Owen Mudzivo who are being accused of having a cordial relationship
with Tsvangirai's MDC leadership in their area.

Masvingo Provincial Chairman Lovemore Matuke refused to give light
concerning the issue. However RadioVOP was reliably informed that there was
drama in a Zanu PF dominated Chivi Rural District's full Council meeting on
Friday when other Zanu PF councilors booed and heckled at the fired
councilors.

"Umnn.they were not fired as such but umnn..Who told you this issue," said
Matuke before he blamed poor network connection and switched off his mobile.

Owen Mudzivo (Ward 3) confirmed that the three were called to a disciplinary
meeting for allegedly hanging with MDC-T officials. The
issue came to light when Mudzivo and his other councilors for ward six and
15 attended Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's rallies in the area last
week.

"I really do not know why we are being crucified. I heard that we are now
dining with MDC-T officials but the only day I got closer to MDC-T is when I
attended Prime Minister's rally last week.

"We are yet to take our issue up because we think it was not fair to dismiss
us from the party just because of that. Surprisingly, just
because I was fired, the next day, I was demoted from the position of vice
chairperson in the council," said Mudzivo.

Councilor Cleopas Magwizi (Ward 8) who is also Zanu PF central committee
member and national youth legal affairs chairman is accused
of having masterminded the downfall of the three councilors.

Magwizi is a Zanu PF hardliner who has been for long reported of victimizing
MDC-T supporters in Chivi.

However, Magwizi denied having a hand in the expulsion of anyone but was
quick to say that no one in the party is immune to disciplinary
action. "How can I report them, it was clear that they are willing to go to
MDC. There is no one immune to disciplinary action in the party."

Senator for Chivi-Mwenezi and former governor for Masvingo who is also Zanu
PF politburo member Josiah Hungwe accepted that the three were called for a
disciplinary hearing but declined to give the outcome of the meeting.

"Yes they were called but for now I can't say they were fired or not," said
Hungwe.

War Vets Turn Swords On Charamba

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21/03/2010 15:19:00

Harare- March 21, 2010 - Disgruntled members of the Zimbabwe National
Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) in the Joseph Chinotimba led
faction have turned their sharp swords against the permanent secretary in
ministry of Media, Information and Publicity George, Charamba whom they are
accusing of supporting and advising their bitter rival Jabulani Sibanda.

Former ZNLWVA national secretary Retired Major Alex Mudavanhu who had since
disputed and nullified Sibanda's Saturday victory labeled Charamba an enemy
of the war veterans.

"We did not expect Charamba to act like that, he is now our enemy. We are
aware that he is the one who is ill-advising Sibanda. In as far as we know,
there is no election which was held, it's just Charamba who is trying to
play cheap politics.

"Our position will remain that Sibanda is not our Chairman, unless there are
democratic elections, this man (Sibanda) will remain suspended. Our Chairman
is Cde Chinotimba full stop," said Mudavanhu.

"We do not know why Charamba, a mere civil servant get involved in our
issues, he is not a war veteran after all," added Mudavanhu.

Jabulani Sibanda who was once fired from Zanu PF was elected to become
ZNLWVA's chairman for the next five years at a congress held at Chaminuka
Training Center in Bindura on Saturday.

However, Chinotimba's led faction was busy spreading information that the
congress had been cancelled when Sibanda faction was having elections for
the members who are supposed to lead war veterans in the next five years.

Chinotimba said his faction will have an urgent meeting to come up with a
solution on Monday at a venue which he denied to disclose in Harare.

Chinotimba accused Sibanda of being sponsored by donors from Europe to
destroy the association.

"We are aware that he was dishing out money to his puppets. Where did he get
the money to hire those buses to Bindura. Sibanda is being sponsored by
Europe to destroy this association. We will never allow him.

"Charamba is also in this messy, he is the one who just came with a write-up
and gave it to the public media for publishing," said Chinotimba.

Mugabe snatches land from Chiyangwa

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By John Chimunhu

Published: March 21, 2010

HARARE - Government has issued notice that it will compulsorily acquire
land belonging to property tycoon Phillip Chiyangwa for undisclosed urban
developments.

Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement Herbert Murerwa on Friday published
a notice confirming that President Robert Mugabe wants Chiyangwa's land in
Stoneridge area of Harare.

"Notice is hereby given.that the President intends to acquire compulsorily
the land described in the schedule for urban development," Murerwa's
statement said.

The notice then listed three properties, one of them belonging to Chiyangwa's
flagship Pinnacle Property Holdings, "being Remainder A of Stoneridge,
measuring 586,89 hectares".

The other two properties listed are also in the capital and belong to the
Zimbabwe Tobacco Association and Jetmaster Properties.

The move has thrown jitters into the property market as Chiyangwa has been
doing brisk business selling off prime land especially to Zimbabweans in the
diaspora.

Recently, Harare Mayor Muchadei Masunda announced that the City Council was
probing how Chiyangwa acquired land in Harare, making him possibly the
largest private property owner in the city.

Flaboyant Chiyangwa was flighted by Zimbabwe's minister of Indigenisation
and Empowerment Savour Kasukuwere as a shining example of empowerment in a
recent BBC documentary.

Comment was not immediately available from either Murerwa or Chiyangwa.
However, speculation was rife in Zimbabwe that the flamboyant Chiyangwa
might be targeted again by his enemies in Zanu (PF), of which he was once
Provincial Chairman and MP in Mugabe's home province of Mashonaland West. He
was removed after he joined a faction calling for Mugabe's removal.

Mugabe's relative Chiyangwa, a moderate who backs Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu
(PF) Karanga faction against Herbert Murerwa's Zezuru faction headed by
Retired General Solomon Mujuru was jailed for five months in 2004 on
suspicion of spying for South Africa. Several of his associates were jailed
but charges against the businessman were dropped.

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A NEW low-cost airline has declared a ticket price war on Air Zimbabwe and South African Airways.

Fly Kumba - Zimbabwe's first low-cost airline - made its maiden flight from Johannesburg to Bulawayo last Thursday.

The flight costs less than HALF what Air Zimbabwe charges, and FOUR TIMES less than travelling on South African Airways.

Fly Kumba, operated by two South Africa-based Zimbabwean businessmen, Patrick Chapwanya and Lloyd Muchaka, will service the Bulawayo-Johannesburg route with three return flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

At just R800 for a one-way flight between the two cities in economy class, Fly Kumba has thrown down the pricing gauntlet at its competitors. For the same ticket, Air Zimbabwe charges R1,620 while a ticket on SAA is a cool R3,500.

Fly Kumba is operating a Boeing 737-500 leased from Air Namibia. The plane, with a capacity of 108 passengers, flew 50 people into Bulawayo on its maiden voyage and returned to Jo'burg with 80.

Chapwanya said a low-cost airline was long overdue in the SADC region.

"It was a hard road to this maiden flight but we are now glad to safely say we have taken off. This will be our primary route for now but we are geared to become the first low cost regional airline in due course," he said.

"We view the low cost or budget airline concept as a niche market for us, more so because consumers are now bargain hunters who need the best service at less cost. We are thus geared to deliver the cheapest air fares with the highest consumer value while offering world-class service."

With the cheap tickets, passengers on the flight will however have to forgo meals on the hour-long flight.

The airline says it has placed safety at the heart of its operation, and sees the 2010 FIFA World Cup being hosted by South Africa between June 11-July 11 as an opportunity to cash in.

Ticket Price Comparison

ECONOMY

BUSINESS

South African Airways

R3,500

Air Zimbabwe

R1,620

R2,260

Fly Kumba

R800

R1,200

Rhino poaching surge in S.Africa linked to organised crime

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KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, March 21 (AFP)

The rhinoceros walking down the road at South Africa's largest game reserve
had no horns, one of the few to survive a surge in poaching that has sent
killings to a 15-year high.

A startled tourist alerted game rangers to the animal, the first time a
poached rhino had been found still alive at Kruger National Park.

"That was really the first case that I know of where we found a rhino which
the horn was removed and it was struggling on the road," said Kruger
spokesman William Mabasa.

His theory is that poachers used a tranquiliser to let them remove the
rhino's horns silently.

Although the animal survived the amputation, veterinarians were unable to
save its life.

"They eventually had to destroy it because the wound was rather too big,"
Mabasa said.

Two rhinos at a nature reserve near Pretoria suffered a similar fate earlier
this month after poachers overdosed them with tranquilisers.

Their fate is emblematic of an insidious turn in the poaching trade, a top
agenda item at the general assembly of the 175-nation wildlife treaty CITES
(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) underway in Doha.

Black-market demand for rhino horn has soared in the past several years,
largely due to the economic boom in east and southeast Asia, where the horn
is used for medicinal purposes.

That surge in demand has combined with endemic poverty in many rhino
habitats to push rhino poaching worldwide to the highest levels seen in 15
years, according to the wildlife monitoring group Traffic.

South Africa and neighbouring Zimbabwe are responsible for 95 percent of the
poaching, Traffic said.

Now conservation experts and South African parks officials say international
crime syndicates have entered the trade.

The syndicates sponsor organised hunts and, increasingly, use helicopters,
military-grade guns and prescription tranquilisers to pursue their prey.

"Current rhino poaching trends indicate a high level of organisation and
crime syndication at the local, national, regional and international
levels," Reynold Thakhuli, spokesman for South Africa National Parks, told
AFP.

"Rhino poaching activity has escalated dramatically throughout South
Africa," he said.

South Africa's national parks say they lost 36 rhinos to poaching in 2008
and 50 in 2009.

The country has already lost 31 rhinos to poaching so far this year,
according to the International Rhino Foundation.

Mabasa said the escalation has hit Kruger Park particularly hard.

"We'd never had an amount of poaching that I would refer to as a problem --
not until last year," he said.

"I think the highest we'd ever had before was seven in one year" in 2008, he
said. "Then in 2009 we lost 41."

International police agency Interpol is moving to crack down on the trade.

In February the organisation carried out a month-long sting operation that
led to the seizure of 10 million euros (13.6 million dollars) in illegal
wildlife medicines and a series of arrests worldwide.

But more international efforts will be needed to reduce rhino poaching in
southern Africa, said Oubaas Coetzer, an inspector with the South African
Police Service at Kruger National Park.

Coetzer said local police have had success in making low-level arrests. Last
year, they arrested 47 rhino poachers for 50 poaching incidents.

But poaching only increased.

"We cannot do anything about the black market price," Coetzer told AFP.

"So you catch somebody in the syndicate, he's now out of action. But there
are still lots of others that can fill that space, because of the money.
It's organised crime," he said.

"Arresting people and sending them to jail is not stopping (poaching). The
only thing that can help is to reduce or completely stop the trade in rhino
horn."

Zimbabwe Vigil Diary – 20th March 2010

Vigil supporters were cautiously optimistic about the outcome of President Zuma’s visit to Harare. There was much discussion at the Vigil of the possible implications. We were pleased that we had been able to put our case to President Zuma during his visit to London.

It has been clear to us for some time that our Dear 86-year-old Leader is not exactly ‘well-informed’ and we welcome Mr Zuma’s reportedly more robust approach in dealing with a situation teetering on the brink.

We noted in particular Mr Zuma’s meetings with Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and National Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi. What were they talking about? The Vigil assumes he explained things to them in terms they will misunderstand at their peril.

Now that the castrated Gono has been auctioned off by the Reserve Bank’s creditors, Vigil supporters were pleased that Attorney-General Tomano is apparently being given a free transfer and that the talks on implementing the GPA have been set a clear deadline (with the implication that South African heavies will be stationed at Harare Airport to stop the negotiators sloping off for their usual shopping trips abroad).

The Vigil will discuss with our friends in Brussels how to welcome the Zimbabwean delegation which is going to be sent to discuss sanctions. Of course, everyone knows the EU will not suspend them until there is real evidence of change in Zimbabwe but apparently everyone must go through the motions. For our part we can show the delegation some of the delights of Brussels while they waste their time. The food really is good there.

Vigil supporters, after a particularly tough winter in the UK, really want to go home and want elections as soon as possible, providing peace-keeping forces are in place to prevent intimidation and violence. We also want observers to prevent another stolen election. Surely these are not impossible demands. We don’t see that postponing elections will achieve anything.

Some other points:

· Thanks to Sister Beverley Mutandiro who came and led prayers for the Vigil.

· Vigil supporters were encouraged to see that a big MDC Youth demo took place in Harare on Friday 19^th March without harassment from the authorities. For photos check: http://www.swradioafrica.com/MDC%20protest%2019%20March%202010/slides/Some%20of%20the%20police%2escort.html.

· It was good to have Susan Chechita with us again. She comes about twice a month from Liverpool and catches the coach at 6.30 in the morning to be with us on time. She had difficulties this time because she misunderstood the time available for a cup of tea at a scheduled stop and the coach went off without her!

For latest Vigil pictures check: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/. For the latest ZimVigil TV programme provided by ZBN News, check the link at the top of the home page of our website. For earlier ZimVigil TV programmes check: http://www.zbnnews.com/home/firingline.

FOR THE RECORD: 165 signed the register.

EVENTS AND NOTICES:

· ROHR Thurrock & Basildon launch meeting, Saturday 27^th March from 1.30 – 6 pm. Venue: Grays Parish Hall, West Street, Grays RM17 6LL. Contact: Tobokwa Malikongwa 07533660621, Billy Machekano 07765459538, Paradzai Mapfumo 07932216070 / 07915926323

· ROHR Liverpool Demonstration. Saturday 3^rd April from 2 – 5 pm. Venue: Church Street (Outside Primark) Liverpool City Centre. Contact: Desire Chimuka 07917733711, Anywhere Mungoyo 07939913688, Trywell Migeri 07956083758. Future demonstrations all on Saturdays: 17^th April, 8^th and 22^nd May. Same venue and time.

· Southwark Cathedral’s hymn singing in solidarity with worshippers in Harare. Sunday 4^th April (Easter Day). Time tba. Venue: outside the Zimbabwe Embassy. They are singing in solidarity with worshippers who are going to be locked out of the Anglican Cathedral in Harare on Easter Day.

· Swaziland Vigil. Saturdays from 10 am – 1 pm. Venue: Swazi High Commission, 20 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6LB. Please support our Swazi friends. Nearest stations: St James’s Park and Victoria. For more information check: www.swazilandvigil.co.uk.

· Zimbabwe Association’s Women’s Weekly Drop-in Centre. Fridays 10.30 am – 4 pm. Venue: The Fire Station Community and ICT Centre, 84 Mayton Street, London N7 6QT, Tel: 020 7607 9764. Nearest underground: Finsbury Park. For more information contact the Zimbabwe Association 020 7549 0355 (open Tuesdays and Thursdays).

· Strategic Internship for Zimbabweans organised by Citizens for Sanctuary which is trying to secure work placements for qualified Zimbabweans with refugee status or asylum seekers. For information: http://www.citizensforsanctuary.org.uk/pages/Strategic.html or contact: zimbabweinternship@cof.org.uk.

· For Motherland ENT’s videos of the Vigil on 30/01/2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeI4veVo0H0 and the Vigil on 26/12/2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdPsBsief0s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX6sv2T9gwk&feature=related.

Vigil Co-ordinators

The Vigil, outside the Zimbabwe Embassy, 429 Strand, London, takes place every Saturday from 14.00 to 18.00 to protest against gross violations of human rights in Zimbabwe. The Vigil which started in October 2002 will continue until internationally-monitored, free and fair electikikons are held in Zimbabwe: http://www.zimvigil.co.uk.

Bill Watch Special of 21st March 2010 [Parliamentary Committee Meetings 22nd to 26th March]

House of Assembly Portfolio Committees and Senate Thematic Committees: Open Meetings 22nd to 26th March

The meetings listed below are open to members of the public, as observers only, not as participants. [See note at the end of this bulletin on public attendance/participation at different types of committee meetings.]

· Chiadzwa: Following last week’s appearances before the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy of the Permanent Secretary and Minister of Mines and Mining Development, the Mbada and Canadile mining companies are listed to give oral evidence to the Committee on Tuesday 23rd March at 10 am in the Senate Chamber. This meeting is almost certain to be held behind closed doors [as were the Committee’s meetings with the Permanent Secretary and the Minister] – but those wishing to check whether public attendance will be permitted should contact the Committee Clerk [Mr Manhivi – telephone Harare 700181-8 or 252936-50].

· Indigenisation Regulations: The Thematic Committee on Indigenisation and Empowerment will be meeting on Thursday 25th March to consider what questions to discuss with the Minister of Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment. This meeting will not be open to the public but it would be permissible for interested organisations and members of the public to make written submissions to the Committee suggesting questions that should be raised with the Minister. Submissions should be addressed to the Clerk of Parliament, marked for the attention of the Thematic Committee on Indigenisation and Empowerment, and delivered to Parliament [Kwame Nkrumah Avenue entrance] before the 25th March.

Oral evidence from ZINASU; ZCOSU; Zimbabwe University Vice-Chancellors Association

Oral evidence from National AIDS Council, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance on management of AIDS levy

Portfolio Committee: Budget, Finance, Economic Planning and Investment Promotion

Oral evidence from the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Privatisation of Parastatals

Meeting with representatives of Zimbabwe National Association of Housing Co-operatives

Oral evidence from Ministry of Education on its programme for establishment of schools in newly resettled areas

These portfolio and thematic committee meetings are open to the public to attend as observers only. Members of the public wishing to attend a meeting should telephone Parliament first [on Harare 700181], to check with the relevant committee clerk that the meeting has not been cancelled. If you are attending, please use the Kwame Nkrumah Avenue entrance to Parliament. IDs must be produced. Members of the public are only free to participate when committees call public hearings. Veritas will send out separate notices of these public hearings and outline the procedures. Committees also sometimes have meetings where invited stakeholders [and those who notify Parliament that they consider themselves stakeholders and are accepted as such] are able to make representations and ask questions. These meetings will be highlighted in these notices. Portfolio and thematic committees meetings for deliberations are not open to the public, and these are not listed in these notices.

Veritas makes every effort to ensure reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied.

Indigenisation Regulations To Be Amended