http://www.newzimbabwe.com/
12/09/2010 00:00:00
by Staff
Reporter
AIR ZIMBABWE has told its striking pilots to consider
themselves sacked
after they ignored a 24-hour deadline to return to
work.
The airline's chairman, Jonathan Kadzura, insisted the company was
not going
to entertain the pilots' demands adding the board of directors
would meet on
Tuesday to discuss the way forward.
Air Zimbabwe pilots
and cabin crew walked out on Wednesday over US$ 3million
in unpaid
allowances and were subsequently ordered to return to work by
Friday.
Chief Executive Peter Chigumba told the pilots they had made
their point and
pleaded with them to return to work.
However his plea
was ignored in a job action that is proving costly for the
cash-strapped
carrier and inconveniencing hundreds of passengers.
Meanwhile Kadzura
said the job action was unprocedural and accused the
pilots of
greed.
"They were striking because they want their salaries paid up, but
sadly what
we do not seem to appreciate is that in our country at the
moment, the
average salary is around US$260 and US$300.
"Our pilots
are earning between US$1 300 and US$1 500 at the end of every
month and they
accrue the rest as a debt that we promised to pay and has
since accumulated
to US$3 million," he said.
He insisted that by refusing to return to work
the pilots had in fact "fired
themselves".
With talks between the
workers and management failing to breach their
differences the labour
dispute is now expected to land in the courts.
Air Zimbabwe has been
forced to cancel several flights leaving up to 1000
passengers
stranded.
The airline is said to have hired planes from South Africa to
ply some of
its regional and domestic routes.
http://www.zimeye.org/?p=22002
By Gerald Chateta
Published:
September 12, 2010
Harare - The Zimbabwe Republic Police on
Saturday failed to take the six
arrested American doctors to court citing
in-completion of investigations.
Police on Thursday arrested six American
HIV/AIDS doctors for allegedly
operating an unlicensed clinic in Belvedere,
Harare, and dispensing
medicines without a pharmacist's supervision and were
expected to appear in
court on Saturday.
Jonathan Samukange of
Venturas and Samukange Legal practitioners
representing the arrested doctors
told journalists Saturday evening that he
spent the whole day waiting for
the police to complete their papers that
they were supposed to file to the
courts.
"Superintendent Njodzi who is the chief investigating officer in
this case
wasted the rest of the day saying he was finalising documentation.
We are
worried because the offence our clients are facing has an option of a
fine.
There is no reason why they should continue to be in custody. We are
challenging their incarceration " he said.
Samkange said his clients
who were 'unfairly' treated are expected to appear
before the court on
Monday adding that their detention was going to affect
patients the doctors
were attending to.police
"Our main worry is on the over 1000 HIV and AIDS
patients they have been
attending to. Their further incarceration means loss
of life to some the
patients," he pleaded.
American Ambassador to
Zimbabwe Charles Ray said he was closely monitoring
the outcome of the
arrested six American doctors by the police for allegedly
operating without
license.
The doctors comprising five males and a female doctor had been
working in
Zimbabwe for many years and were even given a farm to operate
from in Mutoko
at a place now known as Mother Faith Mission.
"The
doctors have been working in Zimbabwe for a long time now on HIV/AIDS
projects and have a lot of patients most of whom are AIDS orphans. They are
in police custody at Harare Central Police Station."
The American
doctors also operate an AIDS clinic in Hatfield Harare.
http://news.radiovop.com
12/09/2010 15:36:00
Johannesburg,
September 12, 2010 - A California church wants to get back to
helping Aids
orphans in Africa, once it resolves questions over licensing
that led to the
arrests of six of its workers in Zimbabwe, a minister said
on
Sunday.
The six - five Americans and a Zimbabwean - were arrested on
Friday and have
been held at Harare Central police station. They will appear
in court on
Monday on charges of operating without proper medical licenses,
according to
their lawyer in Zimbabwe.
Theophous Reagans, a minister at
the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland,
California, said by telephone on
Sunday the church has been working in
Zimbabwe for more than a decade and
that this is the first time questions
over licensing have been
raised.
He said one of the Americans lives in Zimbabwe, while the others
are among
church members who visit three or four times a year, paying their
own way to
help at a home for Aids orphans the congregation has
adopted.
"Our prayer and our hope is that they will be released," (after
Monday's
hearing), Reagans told The Associated Press.
The church's work
in Zimbabwe was started in 2000 by Robert C Scott, an
Allen Temple member,
Aids activist and doctor. Scott died last year.
"Dr Scott worked diligently
for 10 years to build that ministry and serve,"
Reagans said. "We want to
continue."
Reagans said most of Allen Temple Baptist Church members are
black and feel
a strong connection to Africa.
In 2008, at the height of a
political crisis in Zimbabwe, the government
accused independent aid groups
of supporting opposition activists and barred
them from distributing aid for
three months.
Reagans said his church had not been affected by previous
problems
encountered by international aid workers in Zimbabwe.
"We really
believe that for the last nine-10 years, we have been working in
consort
with the authorities in Zimbabwe," he said.
Police say the church workers
were being questioned about operating an
unlicensed clinic and dispensing
medicine without a pharmacist's
supervision.
"It is our duty to ensure
that all clinics and medical institutions are
registered for easy
monitoring," police spokesperson Augustine Zimbili told
The Herald. "There
is a risk of dispensation of expired drugs. When premises
are not licensed,
it is difficult to check if (the law) is being complied
with."
Jonathan
Samukange, the lawyer in Zimbabwe representing the detained church
workers,
said they have proper licenses and were only supervising a pharmacy
that
mainly gave out Aids medications. - AP
http://www.dailynews.co.zw
By Silas Nkala
Sunday, 12 September 2010
17:54
HARARE - The organ on National Healing, Integration and
Reconciliation is an
illegal institution which has no Act of Parliament
constitutionalising its
existence, a human rights lawyer has
said.
Speaking during the official launch of the Zimbabwe Victims of
Organised
Violence (ZIVOV), a newly formed civic organization, Human Rights
lawyers
Matshobana Ncube said there were no legal backing to the organ on
national
healing, hence that meant it remained a mere agreement by the
parties in the
Government of National Unity (GNU), which was totally illegal
in terms of
the laws of the land.
The Minister of State for the Organ
of National Healing, Integration and
Reconciliation, Sekai Holland was
present at the launch.
Ncube said the fact that the organ had no Act of
Parliament that
constitutionalised its existence, meant that it could not
bring about
significant healing, justice and reconciliation as it was bound
to have
partners in the organ disagreeing with some issues.
"In our
view, the organ on national healing was a good initiative or
undertaking by
the political parties, but lack of legal connotations or
backing by an Act
of Parliament makes it lose its value," Ncube said.
"There should have
been an Act of Parliament with set chapters and articles
which may be used
as points of argument if any member s of the organ decides
to deviate from
the proper set rules.
"As of now, it is just a mere agreement by
politicians and its findings and
its efforts are subject to being thrown out
on the grounds that it was just
a mere agreement which is not legalised
legislatively," he said.
He said Zimbabwe had gone through various forms
of violence acts which
needed addressing for the nation to have proper
healing. He said even the
political parties knew that, hence the formation
of the organ.
"The government has to show its seriousness by enacting an
Act of Parliament
which will set parameters which the organ of national
healing should follow.
"This law will give credibility to the organ so
that even as it does its
work, people do not see it as a waste of time,"
Ncube said.
He also called for the establishment of a Truth and Justice
Commission "so
as to allow for proper national healing".
"This
commission will be a point of confidence for the victims where they
will be
free to confide their experiences," he said. "As long as the
environment
does not allow victims to open up and disclose their experiences
and
feelings, the national healing and reconciliation will remain a
dream."
Ncube said the perspectives of the victims were the major aspects
to be
considered if national healing had to be attained. The identification
of
perpetrators was the justice and truthful process of national
healing.
He said when the truth and justice were done, offenders had to
be
prosecuted.
"Those who fit to have amnesty will be freed, while
those who do not qualify
for amnesty must be sent to jail for crimes against
humanity," he said.
"ZIVOV is also adamant that since the organ on
national healing's
formation, almost two years ago, it has done nothing
significantly in
connection with the national healing process, except going
around making
promises which have never been fulfilled."
The Organ
comprises three ministers from the three political parties in the
GNU, who
are Holland of the MDC-T, vice President John Nkomo of Zanu PF and
the late
Gibson Sibanda of MDC-M.
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/
12 September, 2010 01:14:00
By ZOLI MANGENA and STAN GAMA
A war of words has broken out between
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor
Gideon Gono and deputy board chairman
Charles Kuwaza over how to run the
central bank.
Tension between the
two has been mounting in recent months. Kuwaza warned
Gono in a memo to
avoid turning the bank "into a red-light district" and a
place for looting.
Kuwaza said printing money caused hyperinflation.
Zimbabwe has a
multi-currency regime and can no longer print money. In 2008,
hyperinflation
scaled 500 billion percent due to printing money.
In his memo, Kuwaza
said as a former senior secretary in the Ministry of
Finance before 2000 he
needed to warn Gono about the challenges of running a
central bank and how
to avoid repeating the problems of the past.
Kuwaza, who is also chairman
of the bank's audit and oversight committee,
said he did not want to see the
Reserve Bank under Gono turned into what it
became under former governor
Leonard Tsumba.
He said that in the Tsumba era, when government was
pursuing economic
reforms, the Reserve Bank was unhelpful and spent
wastefully.
"We observed that the Reserve Bank was not tightening its
belt like
everybody else. Instead, it was building a sports club in
Mabelreign,
procuring expensive cars, carving out mansions from Harare's
hills and
generally living large.
"A senior officer reportedly
collapsed after a drinking binge at a birthday
party. We heard that the
corridors of the Reserve Bank resembled red-light
districts, and with the
incidence of HIV/Aids a lot of officers perished. A
Sodom and Gomorrah of
sorts indeed! This was happening when hospitals had
virtually no drugs,
schools were without textbooks and roads collapsing
etc."
Documents
show that Gono and his adviser, Dr Munyaradzi Kereke, reacted
angrily to
Kuwaza's "trivial" but "outrageous" claims.
Kuwaza said the Reserve Bank
should not become a "gravy train" as that would
"explode the fiscus". He
said finance ministers who came after the late
Bernard Chidzero lacked
"fiscal discipline" and compounded the situation.
Kuwaza said the central
bank had a long history of printing money, and that
should be avoided in
future as it had proved wasteful. "Instead of passing
the profits of
printing money to Treasury, the Reserve Bank spent this money
on white
elephants. I ended up briefing President (Robert) Mugabe on this
source of
revenue in the past, and he said I was the first person to ever
advise him
on this matter."
He complained about the building of the bank's HQ,
saying it was a "white
elephant". The building is one of the tallest and
most modern in Zimbabwe.
Gono's offices are on the top floor.
Kuwaza
said he had tried to get tender documents for the building without
success.
He said he suspected irregularities because he had checked
records and
failed to find ministerial approval for the building. - Sunday
Times
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk
Written by The Zimbabwean
Sunday, 12 September
2010 09:29
HARARE - A leading Zimbabwean social commentator has called on
Harare's
coalition regime to aid the national healing process by erecting a
monument
in Bulawayo in remembrance of victims of the 1980s atrocities
allegedly
committed by the army in Matabeleland and Midlands.
In a
blog posted on the website for pressure group Kubatana last Friday,
Rejoice
Ngwenya said Zanu (PF) should erect the monument in Bulawayo's
Entumbane
suburb as a way of showing remorse for the massacre of more than
20 000
civilians by members of the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade in the
early
1980s.
"I would therefore like to propose that Zanu (PF) show their
remorse by
acknowledging that they were wrong, and instead of concentrating
on further
violating the liberties of white commercial farmers and black
human rights
defenders, invest money and time in financing a monument at
Entumbane,
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe so we can forever remember those whose lives
they
needlessly took," the commentator said.
At least 20 000 innocent
civilians form the Ndebele ethnic minority were
reportedly killed in the
early 1980s during a bloody counter-insurgency
drive by the army in
Matabeleland and Midlands.
Mugabe - who some say personally ordered
deployment of the army's North
Korean-trained 5th Brigade in Matabeleland
and Midlands ostensibly to stop
an armed insurrection against his rule - has
called the killings an "act of
madness".
But he has never personally
accepted responsibility for the civilian
murders or formally
apologised.
The Zimbabwean strongman has also not yielded to calls by
human rights
groups for his government to compensate the victims of the
brutal army
operation popularly known as the Gukurahundi
massacres.
Mugabe has conveniently avoided raising the issue fearing a
backlash from
disgruntled Ndebele members of his divided Zanu (PF) party -
all in hope of
maintaining a fragile 1987 Unity Accord he signed with the
then PF Zapu led
by the late Joshua Nkomo.
The Ndebele group within
Zanu (PF) has long been disappointed by what they
see as the apparent
sidelining of their region from national development
issues. - VUSIMUZI
BHEBHE
http://news.radiovop.com
12/09/2010 15:28:00
HARARE, September 11, 2010 - The
co-Minister of Home Affairs Theresa Makone
has revealed that a junior
ranking police officer wrote to Prime Minister
Morgan Tsvangirai ordering
him not to attend the Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC-T) 11th
anniversary celebrations at Gokwe Center on Saturday.
Makone who recently
came under fire for claiming that police had reformed,
said she was shocked
by the junior officer's courage. "Some of the police
officers have changed
and I don't know where this one got the power to do
so." she
said.
About 5 000 people attended the celebrations in front of the shops
at Gokwe
center where again Tsvangirai told supporters to prepare for
elections next
year.
He said he had reached an agreement with
President Robert Mugabe that
whoever wins the next elections should be
allowed to rule the country.
This was the second time police have
attempted to stop the Prime Minister
from addressing his supporters in the
last three months.
Tsvangirai had to defy another ban by Matabeleland
North police who wanted
to prevent him from addressing provincial MDC
celebrations in Hwange.
On the new constitution, the Prime Minister
warned that it was guaranteed
that his party would support the draft at the
referendum.
He said if the people's wishes were ignored they will tell
them to reject
the draft as it happened in 2000.
Zimbabweans are
likely to vote in a referendum for a new constitution before
the general
elections are held next year.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Tendai Biti
says Mugabe recently ordered him to
budget US$200 million for the referendum
and the elections.
Despite the insistence by to political parties that
there must be elections
next year, critics say the country's is not ready
for polls anytime soon
because government is yet to deal with the issue of
national healing.
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/
12 September, 2010 01:35:00 By BARNABAS
THONDHLANA
THE country has historically been seen as prime mining
turf. This is the
time to take advantage of Zimbabwe's mining opportunities,
says an
investment banking group.
Zimbabwe has been trailing behind
the rest of the world in terms of mineral
exploration and development and
has lost out on the major "commodity booms"
enjoyed elsewhere, mainly as a
result of the "lost decade" of 1998-2009.
In its Zimbabwe Mining Sector
Review, investment group Imara Capital said
while the country had a lot of
potential, now was the opportune time to take
an in-depth look at the mining
sector in Zimbabwe, which has large deposits
of coal, gold, platinum,
asbestos, base metals and diamonds.
Some of the mining houses which are
operating or have set up shop in
Zimbabwe include Bindura Nickel Company,
Falgold Zimbabwe, Hwange Colliery
Company, New Dawn Mining Corporation,
RioZim, and Zimplats Holdings.
According to Imara Capital, Africa was
known as a mineral-rich continent,
with a close analysis of African
economies revealing that minerals and oil
have been the engines driving
development and a pillar for sustainable
growth.
For example, about
35%-40% of Botswana's GDP consists of mining revenue,
while in Zambia mining
contributes up to 10%-15% of GDP and constitutes 80%
of export
earnings.
"At its peak in 1986, the Zimbabwe mining sector contributed
about 7% to
GDP," said Batanai Matsika, an investment analyst at Imara
Capital.
"It is also worth noting that mineral shipments for 2008
amounted to
US$676-million, which represented about 51% of total export
shipments and
3.8% of GDP. Undoubtedly, there has been a significant change
in the sector,
having evolved through hyperinflation and periods of foreign
currency
shortages."
The dollarised economy had also changed the face
of the mining sector.
To date, more than 40 different minerals have been
extracted, and mining has
remained an important cog in the Zimbabwean
economy: creating jobs, earning
foreign currency and diversifying the
economic base.
With relative political and economic stability around
1999, mineral exports
accounted for about 45%-51% of Zimbabwe's foreign
currency earnings.
In addition, mining was a direct employer of up to 60
000 people, with
numerous others in support industries.
Mining
activities also stimulated the development of towns such as Hwange
and
Kadoma, and were a catalyst in the development of basic infrastructure,
such
as road, rail and telecoms.
The sector's contribution to GDP has remained
at an average of 7%. The
liberalisation measures introduced in 2009 have
restored confidence in the
mining sector.
Matsika said the total
value of minerals produced in Zimbabwe was poised to
increase in the near
future, and that the main pillars of growth would be
increased investment in
the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI),
improved liquidity in the
financial sector and a reduction in local input
costs.
However, he
said the key constraints within the sector would be: how the
continued
political uncertainty affects the sector's ability to attract
capital (FDI);
government dragging its feet on issues that affect
investment, such as
amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act and
Indigenisation and economic
empowerment regulations; the release of ground
for Exclusive Prospecting
Orders (EPOs), which has been sluggish, inhibiting
progress in mineral
exploration; and electricity supply constraints, which
would take time to
resolve.
Matsika said he has been asked on numerous occasions why one
should invest
in the Zimbabwe mining sector.
"Zimbabwe is a
mineral-rich country with very great potential for further
discoveries
(prospectivity). It offers security of minerals tenure; it has a
well-established mining tradition regulated by an effective Ministry of
Mines and supported by an active Chamber of Mines; it is well served by
road, rail, telecommunications and power; the government is and always has
been pro-mining; and the investment climate has historically been
reasonable," Matsika said.
Around 1996, the mineral industry in
Zimbabwe was a major contributor to the
world supply of chrysotile asbestos,
ferrochromium, and lithium minerals.
Gold production was the leading sector
in 1996 with output exceeding 24
metric tonnes.
Matsika said the
suspension of the granting of EPOs in 2005 crippled
exploration activities,
the effect of which was to slow future mineral
recovery. The upshot of this
suspension was a serious impact on the future
of the industry.
Other
factors that adversely affected the general economy included a lack of
balance of payments support and a rapid depreciation of the local currency
unit.
Gold miners and all other exporters were in a quandary as a
result of
exchange rate misalignments and the government-imposed price
controls. -Sunday Times
In Summary
The Hotspots
North Kivu and South Kivu (Gross human rights violations on
civilians, mainly killings and rape in all the four stages of
war)
Forces involved: Zairean armed forces, rebels faithful
to Laurent Kabila, anti Rwanda and Uganda rebels and Allied forces for the
Liberation of Congo-Zaire comprising Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda soldiers.
Katanga also a hotspot in all the four stages (rape,
killings, maiming and wanton destruction of property)
Forces
involved: Zairean armed forces, anti Rwanda and Uganda rebels and
Allied Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire
Kinshasa hotspot in first, third and fourth stages (killings
and rape)
Forces involved: Congolese armed forces, Allied
Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire,
Orientale Province, Equateur, Maniema and Bas-Congo Hotspot
(Gross human rights violations mainly killing, rape and maiming)
Forces involved: Congolese armed forces, Allied Forces for
the Liberation of Congo-Zaire and Soldiers from Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia.
The Congo war that sucked three East African Community member states had four
conflict stages, all playing a major role in the catalogue of gross human rights
violations.
The stages are summarised below:
First Stage; March 1993-June 1996: Failure by the Mobutu regime to initiate the democratisation processes in Congo and the larger regional crisis.
The first period covers human rights violations committed in the final years of the regime of President Mobutu Sese Seko, as a result of its authoritarian rule and dismal performance in the democratisation process.
During this period, the unstable Central African state also experienced devastating consequences of the Rwandan genocide, particularly in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu.
Second Stage: July 1996-July 1998: First Congo War and the Allied Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) regime.
The second period concerns gross human rights violations committed during the First Congo War and the first year of the regime established by President Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
This period had the greatest number of incidents in the whole of the decade under investigation, with 238 listed incidents.
The report says the information available confirmed the significant role of other countries in the First Congo War and their direct implication in the war, which led to the overthrow of the Mobutu regime.
At the start of the second stage period, serious violations were committed against Tutsi and Banyamulenge civilians, 19 principally in South Kivu.
This period was then characterised by the relentless pursuit and mass killing (104 reported incidents) of Hutu refugees, members of the former Armed Forces of Rwanda (later "ex-FAR") and militias implicated in the genocide of 1994 (Interahamwe) by the Alliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo-Zaïre (AFDL) or Allied Forces for the liberation of Congo-Zaire.
The report adds that a proportion of the AFDL's troops, arms and logistics were supplied by the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise or Rwanda Patriotic Army (APR), the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and the Forces armées Burundaises or Burundian Armed Forces (FAB) throughout the Congolese territory.
This period was also marked by serious attacks on other civilian populations in all provinces without exception.
Third stage. August 1998-January 2000: Second Congo War
The third period involves a catalogue of violations committed
between the start of the Second Congo War in August 1998, and the death of
President Kabila.
This period included 200 incidents and was characterised by the intervention on the territory of the DRC of the government armed forces of several countries, fighting alongside the Forces armées Congolaises or Congolese Armed Forces (FAC) or against them.
There was also involvement of multiple militia groups and the creation of a coalition under the banner of a new political and military movement, The Gathering of Congolese for Democracy (RCD), which later split into smaller groups.
Fourth Stage: January 2001-June 2003: Towards transition
This final period lists 139 incidents committed, in spite of the gradual
establishment of a ceasefire and the speeding up of peace negotiations in
preparation for the start of the transition period on June 30, 2003.
During
this period, fighting that had shaken the province of Ituri, in particular the
ethnic conflicts between the Lendu and the Hema, reached an unprecedented peak.
The period was marked by clashes between the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC) and the Mayi-Mayi forces in Katanga province.
Vigil supporters will wear mourning
bands next Saturday to mark the second anniversary of the signing of the
abortive Global Political Agreement. The demonstration will also mark the
failure of the Mugabe regime to meet the 30 day deadline set at the SADC summit
for a settlement of the outstanding issues in the GPA.
The Vigil had hoped to be redundant
by now but this dysfunctional ‘unity’ government has produced nothing but new
life for Mugabe. Vigil supporters will
carry posters to the South African High Commission to underline our demand that
President Zuma should take the gloves off in dealing with Mugabe. If
‘They chopped at my leg as if it was
firewood. I remember seeing my leg where they threw it, the shoe still on it’.
This was the testimony of an MDC activist featured in an exhibition of
photographs in
The first photograph shows: ‘This
young burns victim sits alone in his room. He is a former MDC activist who now
has limited use of his hands and is blind in one eye’.
Another photograph was accompanied
by the caption: ‘He was taken with 4 men and a woman to a Zanu-PF militia base
where the female captive was gutted with a knife in front of their eyes, her
corpse tossed into the cells with the remaining captives. Each was told the day
they were going to die. They were each made to drink 750 mls of liquid glue
every day which caused chronic diarrhoea and poisoning. Another man was stabbed
to death and when one of the remaining captives refused to cut up the dead bodes
so that they could be disposed of, the torturers cut off his
feet’.
Have you got the message President
Zuma? A brochure produced by the Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund, which
organised the exhibition, says: ‘
This is the
One of the people President Zuma
proposes to deport is picture number 042: ‘This crippled man aged 32 stands on
crutches outside his room in Johannesburg . . . ‘ This was his last experience
of Zanu PF: ‘he managed to drag himself off the road despite his two broken
legs, multiple other broken bones and 3 shattered vertebrae.’
This is what the Vigil wants from
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Ministering to the Diaspora: a case
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Protest to mark the second
anniversary of the signing of the Zimbabwean Global Political Agreement.
Saturday
18th September from
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ROHR
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ROHR
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ROHR
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IOM Live Video Conference
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LoveZim International Prayer Day.
Sunday
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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
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Trust (www.tht.org.uk). Please contact
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Vigil
Co-ordinators
The Vigil,
outside the Zimbabwe Embassy, 429