http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk
Written by Vusimuzi Bhebhe
Sunday, 03 October
2010 05:31
HARARE -Zanu (PF) is reactivating its terror machinery
spearheaded by war
veterans, traditional chiefs and state security agents,
in a chilling
reminder to Zimbabweans that the forces of darkness that
stalked the run-up
to the June 2008 presidential run-off are still intact
and raring to roll
out once orders are given.
The revival of the Zanu
(PF) violence structure is chronicled in a
21-page report published by the
MDC-T last week which listed at least
50 incidents of violence and
intimidation perpetrated by war veterans,
police officers, soldiers, Central
Intelligence Organisation (CIO)
operatives, chiefs and youth militias during
the past three months.
According to the report Zanu (PF) has reactivated
militia training camps in
some parts of the country. Zanu (PF) youths are
known for using such traning
camps as torture basis where perceived
opponents of President Robert Mugabe
and his party are assaulted, raped,
tortured or even murdered.
"Zanu PF has established youth militia
training camps at five schools in
Maramba Pfungwe in Mashonaland East
province, disrupting normal learning at
the schools ahead of the
Constitution-making process," the report said.
"The bases are at Museka
primary school in Ward 3, Potsikayi primary
school, Ward 2, Dindi primary
school, Ward 4 Chipokoteke primary school,
Ward 4 and
Mungari primary
school, Ward 4," it added.
Zanu (PF) spokesman Rugare Gumbo could not be
reached for comment on the MDC
report.
But he former sole ruling
party has in the past denied its supporters and
allies in the military and
war veterans commit violence and human rights
abuses against its
opponents.
The MDC report said that war veterans were again taking a
leading role in
the terror
campaign, with their 39-year-old leader
Jabulani Sibanda said to be
targeting villagers in Masvingo province which
Zanu (PF) lost to the
MDC-T during parliamentary elections held in March
2008.
(Xhead) Burning houses
Sibanda -- whose date of birth is
listed on the list of persons subject to
Western targeted sanctions against
senior Zanu (PF) officials as 31 December
1970 which would make him too
young to have fought in the liberation war --
is accused of engaging in at
least five terror cases since the end of June.
In one of the incidents,
the war veterans leader incited Zanu (PF)
supporters to burn down the house
of MDC-T Bikita West youth chairperson
David Hollman in August.
No
arrests have been made for the arson attack on Hollman's house.
Sibanda
allegedly warned MDC-T supporters during a rally in the area
that war
veterans would repeat what they did in June 2008 when more
than 200 former
opposition members were murdered and thousands others
were
displaced.
The former liberation fighters unleashed an orgy of violence
after Mugabe
lost the first round of the presidential elections in March to
MDC-T leader
Morgan Tsvangirai.
Tsvangirai -who is now Prime Minister
in a coalition government formed
last year - was forced to withdraw from the
run-off poll on 27 June
2008, leaving Mugabe to run alone.
Chief
Chitanga of Mwenezi in Masvingo province has also allegedly
destroyed a
400-hectare winter maize crop at Makume Ranch, accusing
the owners of being
staunch MDC-T supporters.
The crop was destroyed after Chief Chitanga,
who is also a Senator,
drove cattle into the fields claiming that the 49
owners of the maize
crop were Tsvangirai's supporters.
"The chief's
actions have left the local community in shock as the
maize crop, which was
reaching maturity stage was boosting the
country's food security. The chief
was assisted by his aides and
police special constabularies in destroying the
maize crop," the MDC
said.
(Xhead) AK47 rifle
Soldiers have
also taken a lead in the harassment of perceived Mugabe
opponents, often
threatening villagers with death for not supporting
Zanu (PF).
The
MDC-T cited an incident in which two serving members of the
Zimbabwe National
Army - a Colonel Hungwe and Major Neshuro of Ngundu
Halt - threatened
villagers in Chingamhi Ward 5 in Mwenezi with death
if they did not support
the Kariba draft during the just-ended
Constitution-making
process.
Hungwe was allegedly armed with an AK47 rifle when he addressed
the
meeting, which was also attended by Justice Sithole, the Zanu
(PF)
chairperson of Mwenezi District Coordinating Committee.
Similar
cases of violence are cited in another report on the
constitution outreach
programme jointly published last week by the
Zimbabwe Election Support
Network, Zimbabwe Peace Project and Zimbabwe
Lawyers for Human
Rights.
The three organisations, operating under the banner of the
Independent
Constitution Monitoring Project (ZZZICOMP), said a total of
307
outreach violations were recorded in Harare alone between June
and
last month.
These included 78 cases of coaching, 77 of political
interference, 72
of harassment and eight of violence.
"While
constitution outreach consultations in Bulawayo went ahead as
planned under
relatively peaceful and inclusive circumstances though
with a few isolated
chaotic incidents, those in Harare had to be
abandoned midstream as
deep-seated inter-party violence reared its
disgusting face," ZZZICOMP
said.
Although constitutional outreach consultations in Harare
were
scheduled for three days running from 18 September to 20
September
with 84 meetings lined up, ZZZICOMP noted that experiences from
day
one "cast a caricature, a farce and indeed, a trivialization of
the
essence of constitution making processes".
"It was in essence, a
telling case of unbridled inter-party
intolerance and a chilling reminder to
the nation-that the forces of
darkness that stalked the run up to the 2008
June run off are still
intact and raring to roll out at the slightest
provocation," the group
warned.
One MDC-T activist died from injuries
sustained during the Harare
skirmishes.
(Xhead) CIO spies
Zanu
(PF) has been accused of deploying CIO spies to speak on behalf
of ordinary
participants in rural Zimbabwe during the outreach
meetings.
Mugabe's
party is pushing for the adoption of a draft constitution
agreed by
negotiators from the three main political parties in the
resort town of
Kariba in September 2007.
Zanu (PF) and the two MDC formations secretly
authored the Kariba
draft in 2007 but critics say the document should be
discarded because
it leaves untouched the immense presidential powers that
analysts say
Mugabe has used to stifle opposition to his rule for the past
three
decades.
The coalition government is expected to call fresh
elections after
enactment of a new constitution although the administration
can choose
to wait until expiry of its term in 2013 to call
elections.
Zimbabweans hope a new constitution will strengthen the role
of
Parliament and curtail the president's powers, as well as
guarantee
basic civil, political and media freedoms.
http://www.dailynews.co.zw
By Pindai Dube
Sunday, 03 October
2010 17:46
BULAWAYO - Energy and Power Development minister, Elton
Mangoma, has ordered
power utility ZESA to stop billing consumers during
load-shedding periods.
Of late most residents of Bulawayo and Harare
have been receiving exorbitant
bills despite going for hours without
electricity at their homes. Last
year, residents associations in the two
cities wrote letters to ZESA
demanding the electricity company to stop
billing its members for the
periods they go without
electricity.
Mangoma on Saturday said it would not be fair for ZESA to
charge its
consumers for services they did not provide, as this was
tantamount to
fraud.
"Due to load-shedding, it would only be fair for
ZESA to be paid for no more
than the services rendered," Mangoma
said.
"I don't see why people should be made to pay for electricity that
they don't
use. Half the day there is no electricity, so people should pay
for what is
available."
ZESA claims it is owed close to US$350
million by domestic and industrial
consumers, with more than 100 000
domestic customers in Harare and Bulawayo
not having paid their bills since
February last year.
The electricity company is also threatening to take
legal action against all
consumers failing to settle its bills.
To
adequately fund power generation, ZESA needs more than US$380 million
capital injection. Zimbabwe has been experiencing excessive power cuts in
the last decade due to obsolete equipment, ageing infrastructure, skills
flight and massive vandalism of power cables.
Most households and
industries in Zimbabwe are limited to less than 12 hours
of electricity
supply daily because of lack of investment in power
generation.
Despite the power shortages, the country is exporting 150
megawatts to
Namibia under a US$40 million deal where Namibia power utility
NamPower
provided capital for the refurbishment of power units at Hwange
Thermal
Power Station in exchange for electricity.
http://www.iol.co.za/
October 3 2010 at 06:13pm
SA will
on Monday give a progress report to the UN's High Commissioner for
Refugees
on progress documenting illegal Zimbabweans, the home affairs
department
said.
Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma would brief the UNHCR in Geneva,
Switzerland, spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said in a statement on
Sunday.
"The process of documenting Zimbabweans living in South Africa
began on 20
September and includes the extension of amnesty to those
Zimbabweans who
return South African identity documents and permits acquired
fraudulently.
"South Africa has been inspired by the huge turnout of
Zimbabweans living in
South Africa who wish to regularise their stay in
South Africa by applying
for valid study, work or business
permits."
Dlamini-Zuma would also brief the UNHCR on South Africa's
efforts to review
its immigration policy to separate economic migrants from
asylum seekers. -
Sapa
http://www.apanews.net/
APA-Harare
(Zimbabwe) A United States-funded famine early warning system
said Sunday
that close to a million Zimbabweans will require food aid until
the end of
the year and the number could rise by more than 40 percent before
the next
harvest in March 2011.
According to the Famine Early Warning System
Network (FEWSNET), the
food-insecure population in Zimbabwe's countryside is
estimated at 904,463
between October and December, up from about 536,000
during the third quarter
of 2010.
It was estimated that at the peak,
1.3 million people would be food insecure
during the 2010/11 consumption
year which ends in March next year.
"The highest prevalence of food
insecurity was projected to be in the
provinces of Matabeleland North,
Matabeleland South, Masvingo, and the
northern parts of the country, all of
which experienced dry spells in the
second half of the 2009/10 cropping
season," said FEWSNET.
It said the worst affected areas are Binga, Kariba
and Hwange districts
which are close to the border with Zambia and the
Beitbridge, Chiredzi,
Gwanda and Matobo districts in the south of the
country.
The early warning system however noted that food availability
was generally
stable this year throughout Zimbabwe compared to the same
period in 2009.
Zimbabwe's Meteorological Services Department has
predicted a favourable
2010/11 farming season, with increased chances of
normal to above-normal
rainfall across the whole country during the rainfall
season that runs from
October to March next
year.
JN/daj/APA
2010-10-03
http://www.apanews.net
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Hundreds of Zimbabweans living with HIV
and AIDS are
being forced to travel to Zambia to undergo CD4 count testing
due to the
non-availability of equipment to carry out the tests in the
northern border
town of Kariba, state media report Sunday.
The Sunday
Mail said health institutions in the resort town do not have CD4
count-testing machines and equipment to test for biochemistry liver
functions and urea.
The nearest testing centre on the Zimbabwean side
is in Chinhoyi, about
260km from the town while the nearest health
institution in Zambia is only
10km away.
The CD4 count is a measure
of the level of anti-bodies in a person, which is
essentially their level of
resistance to infection.
People living with HIV and AIDS are supposed to
be tested before being
placed on anti-retroviral
treatment.
JN/daj/APA
2010-10-03
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com
03 October, 2010 02:52:00
MORE than US$35
million owed to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) in
taxes has
"disappeared" from the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim)
under
unclear circumstances.
Forensic experts have since been called in to
investigate the suspected
fraud. Sources revealed last week that the
auditors swooped on Noczim's head
office in Harare on Wednesday to carry out
preliminary checks.
The details gathered so far could not be immediately
ascertained, but
sources said the probe - led by foreign auditors - would be
conducted over
two months.
"The auditors moved in on Wednesday
morning and are already carrying out
investigations," said a source.
According to information at hand, Noczim is
supposed to periodically remit
taxes to Zimra but failed to do so for almost
a year. Preliminary checks are
said to have set the outstanding payments at
a cumulative US$35
million.
However, it is alleged, the money, which had been set-aside,
could now not
be accounted for. The alleged fraud was discovered early this
year.
It is understood the Ministry of Energy and Power Development
immediately
ordered an investigation with former minister Engineer Elias
Mudzuri being
the first to "demand explanations".
His successor, Mr
Elton Mangoma and Finance Minister Mr Tendai Biti later
proposed a
full-scale forensic audit and commissioned the Comptroller and
Auditor-General's Department to handle the task.
However, the
department had to rope in a private auditing firm with the
requisite
expertise. Foreign forensic experts are believed to be part of the
auditing
team. Minister Mangoma yesterday said there was suspicion that
Noczim could
have diverted the money on question to other purposes. He said
the audit
would cover the period between February last year and March this
year.
"It is true that some money was used up at the parastatal. The
money
belonged to Zimra but disappeared; it went missing," he said.
"When
questions were asked, no one could give satisfactory responses. I am
not
really sure about the specifics (of the audit).
"However, what I can say
is that we are waiting for the audit results."
Noczim acting chief
executive officer Mrs Tendai Mangezi could not be
reached for comment by
late yesterday afternoon.
However, insiders hit out at the minister,
saying the investigation was a
"witch-hunt".
They said the
parastatal's operations were above board.
"This is nothing more than a
witch-hunt," said an insider.
"We are in fact aware that they are
spending a huge some of money on the
audit and interestingly, the Ministry
of Finance is footing the bill.
"Noczim normally conducts internal audits
which are up-to-date by any
standards.
"For one to then go out of
their way to hire auditors shows a clear motive.
Whichever way one looks at
it, this 'probe' is linked to what happened in
May."
In May this
year, Noczim was again accused of failing to remit about US$150
million to
Zimra after collecting tax from oil companies.
It was accused of using the
money to settle some of its debts.
Two senior managers were suspended
"for failing to advise the Noczim
leadership" on its debt-settlement
programme.
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com
02 October, 2010
11:05:00
DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has backed calls to
include the
Chinese Renminbi among the country's basket of
currencies.
Professor Mutambara made the suggestion during a visit to
China where he
attended the World Economic Forum, the Shangahi World Expo as
well as
meetings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAG)
Forum.
He also held meetings with the Chinese Deputy
President Xi Jinping and Prime
Minister Wen Jia Bao.
Professor
Mutambara backed recent calls by other leaders of the coalition
government
to include the Chinese Renminbi among the foreign currencies
being used in
the country.
Vice President Joyce Mujur recently said use of the Chinese
currency could
help ease Zimbabwe's liquidity constraints.
Trade
between Zimbabwe and China has increased over the years as the country
actively pursued the so-called Look East policy after falling out with the
West.
The coalition government abandoned the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009,
replacing it
with more stable currencies such as the Botswana Pula, the
South African
Rand and the US dollar.
However, the country continues
to battle liquidity constraints as the
economy's export sectors take longer
to recover from a decade-long decline
while international support remains
limited.
Meanwhile, Professor Mutambara also urged Chinese investors to
give Zimbabwe
a look-in saying the coalition government had managed to bring
about
economic and political stability since assuming office.
"(We)
take our challenges as opportunities and not insurmountable problems,"
he
said.
He said attractive "win-win" opportunities existed in the country's
mining,
infrastructure, agriculture, financial services as well as
manufacturing
sectors.
Professor Mutambara urged Chinese investors to
look beyond resources and
consider "diversification . into professional
services, financial services
and beneficiation".
He said developing
countries such as Zimbabwe could learn important lessons
from China's
economic success.
These included the importance of growing domestic
demand and driving
indigenous entrepreneurship.
The Chinese economic
model showed the significance of "focus, discipline,
self-respect, national
cohesion, self belief, history of achievements", he
added.
"(There is
no need for) regrets (over the) past, without Mao there will be
no Deng
Xioping (Chinese reformist leader who led the country to a market
economy)!"
http://www.newzimbabwe.com
03/10/2010 00:00:00
by Staff
Reporter
DEPUTY Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has said Zimbabweans
are more
interested in jobs rather than ownership of companies and inisted
the
government's indeginisation programme was a death knell for the
country's
largely comatose productive sectors.
Khupe, who is
the deputy leader of the MDC-T told the party's supporters in
the United
States that the government's controversial indigenisation laws
would impede
economic recovery by scaring away much-needed foreign
investment.
"Our people are not crying for ownership of
industry. They need jobs to be
able to feed their families," she
said.
Under the country's empowerment laws, foreign-owned
companies are required
to ensure at least 51 percent of their shareholding
is controlled by locals.
But Khupe said the legislation was a
threat to economic recovery.
"This is not the time to implement
the indigenisation program in the form
and shape defined by ZANU
PF.
With 90 percent of Zimbabweans unemployed and whole
industries closing down,
it is very futile for the ZANU PF leadership to be
calling for wholesale
indigenisation of the few remaining industries," she
said.
The coaltion government is split along party lines over the
legislation.
Khupe said Zimbabweans did not have the resources to
acquire the 51 percent
shareholding in the targeted companies adding that
the programme was not
aimed at empowring ordinary
people.
"Who has the money to buy the 51 percent of the shares
they want off loaded?
Who will buy those shares?
"Is it the
people in my constituency of Makokoba, or Dotito or Muzarabani?
No. (It)
will be the same connected individuals that continue to feed on the
economic
and corruption trough," Khupe said.
Zimbabwe's coalition government
appears split along party lines over the
indeginisation programme which has
also triggered gitters among foreign
investors.
A review
targeted at coming up with sector-specific thresholds is underway
and
companies, particularly in the mining sector are also hoping that
consideration will be given to social spend in communities as well as
infrastructure development.
http://news.radiovop.com
03/10/2010 11:38:00
BULAWAYO,
October 03, 2010---Heavily armed police officers on Saturday
raided a
company owned by a man who once said President Mugabe must go to
hell and
re-arrested him on new charges.
Gareth Fury managing director of Fisher
Motor Engineering Company was
initial arrested last week and appeared in
court for saying President Robert
Mugabe "should go to hell" after
clashes with his co-company director
Nkululeko Tshuma a known Zanu PF
activist.He was released on bail.
However in a move suspected to have a
political hand, heavily armed police
officers raided Fury's company and
arrested him on new charges of violence
and of calling President Mugabe a
dictator.
According to the state outline, the new charges arise from incident
on
Friday where Fury is alleged to have gone to Tshuma's office and shouted:
"Leave my office and go and practice your dictatorship in President Mugabe's
office and if you keep coming here your life will be in danger."
Fury
re-appeared before Sibongile Msipa and was again charged with
contravening
Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act).He was granted
US$100 and
ordered to surrender his passport to the Clerk of the Criminal
Court and to
report to Hillside police station every Friday until his case
has been
completed.Khucaca Phulu of Phulu and Ncube Legal Practioners
represented
Fury in court.
http://www.dailynews.co.zw/
By Oscar Nkala
Sunday, 03 October 2010
17:49
BULAWAYO - The fight for a Gwanda council house has taken a
turn for the
worst with Town Clerk George Mlilo now being the victim of
death threats
allegedly at the instigation of former foreign affairs deputy
minister
Abednico Ncube.
Mlilo is reportedly living in fear
following the death threats from people
allegedly linked to Ncube who is
also a ZANU PF Politburo member, in an ugly
turn of the dispute over a
council owned house which the former minister
previously rented but has
refused to vacate following the expiry of the
lease.
Council sources
said the municipality rented out house number 82 Senondo
Township to Ncube
on a gratuitous basis. This was after Ncube had won his
first parliamentary
seat in 1995, but because he had no house in town,
council made the overture
to enable him to be where his new role as Member
of Parliament required him
to reside.
Ncube and his son Leslie, also a senior ZANU PF Youth League
office holder,
are reported to have invaded the Town Clerk's office several
times
threatening him with death for leading council efforts to reclaim the
property.
"Last month, Ncube and his son invaded the Town Clerk's
office and told him
he would meet with terrible consequences if he pushes
ahead with
repossessing the house and refusing to sell it to them," said a
source who
preferred anonymity for fear of retribution.
"Since then
he has received many telephone calls from people who just tell
him he is
going to die, some even tell him they are leaving Harare and
coming to
Gwanda to kill him. He is living in fear,"
Mlilo confirmed that he has
"very serious" problems with the former minister
and his son over the
council house but declined further comment saying the
matter between the
council and Ncube was now before the Civil Court.
Court sources told the
Daily News that the matter, which deals only with the
issue of the house and
not the death threats, has been heard once and
adjourned because the
Municipality is yet to provide the court with copies
of the original lease
agreement in terms of which the former minister became
its
tenant.
Contacted for comment, Ncube threatened the Daily News against
publishing
the story.
"That is a private matter between myself and
the council," Ncube said. "It
is no business of yours and I can assure you I
will take legal action
against you personally and the Daily News as an
organisation should you
publish this rubbish you are trying to stick to
me.
"I have visited Mlilo in his office to talk about this issue but I
never
threatened him with death or anything, and I am not linked in any way
with
those who call to him to make death threats on my behalf, if they exist
at
all," he said.
The council source said the fight between Ncube and
council was the
"culmination of a long-running dispute".
"In the
recent past this dispute led to the assault of a senior council
housing
officer by a group of ZANU PF thugs allegedly hired from Bulawayo to
cow the
council into handing the house over to the Ncube family," said the
source
who requested anonymity.
" The house at the centre of this dispute was
rented out to Ncube by the
council when he had no house of his own. But
since he used his time in
government to build himself a spacious mansion at
Jacaranda Suburb, has
acquired lots of sudden wealth such as gold mines,
council felt he no longer
deserved the gratuity as he is now able to stand
on his own.
"Mlilo is being targeted because he is the Town Clerk and
therefore the man
in charge. Besides, Ncube has never liked the
professionalism of the man and
his refusal to toe any party line," the
source said.
The council has reportedly written several letters asking
Ncube to vacate
the property but he has refused saying instead that he wants
council to
allow him to buy it as he has rented it for a long
time.
The former minister has previously made the headlines for
bully-behaviour,
starting in 1996 when he engaged in a fist-fight with some
Milton High
School boys whom he accused of bullying his son. In 2003, he
made headlines
for threatening the then Mayor of Gwanda and fellow ZANU PF
provincial
leader Rido Mpofu over the council's decision to legal action to
recover
more than Z$230 000 dollars which he owed in rents and rates for the
same
house he is refusing to vacate now.
Next week the Vigil marks its
8th anniversary protesting outside the Zimbabwe Embassy. It will not
be something to celebrate – in fact we will be wearing mourning bands for the
occasion.
The Vigil was started on
The Vigil had to affirm its
independence from the MDC when the
In the early years our attendance –
particularly in bleak winter weather – dipped to a handful. But we always believed that one person and a
banner could make a Vigil. Nowadays we draw an average of more than 150 people
per week and many of them travel long distances to be with us. The Observer
newspaper described the Vigil as the largest regular demonstration in
The Vigil is not party-political and
welcomes anyone who supports its mission statement: ‘The Vigil, outside the
Zimbabwe Embassy,
We have run various petitions –
notably one to the UN calling for an investigation of human rights violations in
·
A petition to the
·
Petition to the UN Security
Council: We call on the Security Council to ensure that the next
elections in
Both petitions have
been signed by thousands of people passing by the Vigil (we do not run online
petitions). From our understanding of the British government’s position we do
not believe it is yet necessary to present the first petition. But we are making
preparations to submit the petition to the Security Council given suggestions by
both Mugabe and Tsvangirai that elections will be held next year.
The Vigil has always
argued that elections are the way forward and have watched with despair the
misconceived preoccupation with a new constitution when what really matters are
preparations for a free and fair election.
Mugabe is nothing if
not consistent: he wins by violence, rigging, bribes, coercion, threats,
propaganda etc. It has always worked so why should he change a winning strategy?
(See: JAG open letter
forum, Ben Freeth - Protecting Communities in
Other
points
·
·
One of
our key activists attended the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
video link with voluntary returnees in
·
This week
has seen Jacob Zuma appealing to the EU to drop targeted sanctions. For reasons
why the sanctions should not be dropped, check: https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/old/sep30_2010.html#Z18
– Opinion: Is the EU about to sacrifice Zim for Mugabe by
·
We
welcomed
For latest Vigil pictures check: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/.
For the latest ZimVigil TV programme check the link at the top of the home page
of our website.
FOR THE RECORD: 156 signed the register.
EVENTS AND NOTICES:
·
The Restoration of Human Rights in
Zimbabwe (ROHR) is
the Vigil’s partner organisation based in
·
·
ROHR
·
ROHR
·
ROHR
·
Vigil Facebook
page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8157345519&ref=ts.
·
Vigil Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/zimbabwevigil.
·
‘Through the Darkness’, Judith
Todd’s acclaimed account of the rise of Mugabe.
To
receive a copy by post in the UK please email confirmation of your order and
postal address to ngwenyasr@yahoo.co.uk
and
send a cheque for £10 payable to “Budiriro Trust” to Emily Chadburn, 15 Burners
Close, Burgess Hill, West Sussex RH15 0QA. All proceeds go to the Budiriro Trust
which provides
bursaries to needy A Level students in
·
Workshops aiming to engage African
men on HIV testing and other sexual health issues. Organised by the Terrence Higgins
Trust (www.tht.org.uk). Please contact
the co-ordinator
Vigil
Co-ordinators
The Vigil,
outside the Zimbabwe Embassy, 429