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Labour leaders arrested as police thwart protests

Zim Online

Thu 14 September 2006

      HARARE - Zimbabwean police on Wednesday swooped on top leaders of the
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), arresting union secretary general
Wellington Chibebe and vice-president Lucia Matibenga, as they prepared to
lead lunchtime protests by workers against worsening economic hardships.

      Main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party senior
leaders Grace Kwinje, Ian Makone and prominent teacher trade unionist
Raymond Majongwe were also among those arrested, with ZCTU spokesman
Mlamuleli Sibanda saying about 15 senior union officials were arrested in
the capital by as police thwarted the protests.

      In the second largest city of Bulawayo baton-wielding and gun-totting
police forcibly dispersed crowds of workers who had gathered for the
protests and went on to arrest about 20 ZCTU officials who tried to re-group
and re-organise the workers.

      "This is the start of a protracted process," Chibebe told journalists,
as plainclothes policemen led him away from Construction House in Harare's
central business district (CBD) and from where workers were to gather before
marching to present petitions to the Ministries of Labour and Finance
demanding more pay and better living conditions.

      Sibanda later told ZimOnline that the ZCTU would not be deterred but
would now be going back to the drawing board to formulate new strategies.

      He said: "We are going to re-strategise because they (police)
prevented the workers from meeting at the agreed points. If it means staging
impromptu protests (in future) then workers will do it ..today was the first
step in a series of protests."

      By about 3 o'clock, one hour after the protests were scheduled to have
started, all was across Harare as the police maintained a tight grip on the
city and its environs to once again successfully smother dissension against
President Robert Mugabe's rule.

      It had been clear from the earliest hour on Wednesday that the
government would not allow the ZCTU protests as armed police poured out onto
the streets in most major cities across the country in a massive show of
force.

      In Harare, armed police in the morning blocked roads leading to
Mugabe's offices and residence, while more police took positions on major
streets leading into the capital's central business district.

      Several state security agents also patrolled the capital's central
business district urging people through loud hailers to ignore the ZCTU call
to protest.

      There was also a large presence of youth militia of Mugabe's ruling
ZANU PF party clad in their party regalia and loitering around street
corners in the capital, while government agents distributed fliers in
residential areas and in the city centre, purportedly written by some
affiliates of the ZCTU and urging workers to protests.

      Some of the fliers read: "Whilst it is appreciated that the people of
Zimbabwe and workers included are currently facing socio-economic problems,
we as ZCTU concerned affiliates strongly believe that such problems can only
be solved through genuine engagements by all stakeholders at fora like the
Tripartite Negotiating Forum (of labour, government and business)."

      The ZCTU, the largest umbrella union for Zimbabwe's workers, had
called the protests to force the government and business to accept linking
wages and salaries to the poverty datum line (breadline), which at Z$96 000
per month is many times above the average take home pay of the ordinary
worker.

      The union, that has vowed to intensify job strikes until the
government and business acceded to its demands, says workers earning below
the breadline should be exempted from paying tax and also wants the
government to ensure ready availability of anti-retroviral drugs to combat a
burgeoning HIV/AIDS pandemic, killing at least 3 000 Zimbabweans every
week. - ZimOnline


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Harare deports SA youth delegation

Zim Online

Thu 14 September 2006

      JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe immigration authorities on Wednesday deported
a delegation of the South African Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) that was
visiting to show support for worker protests thwarted by the police on the
same day.

      The PYA draws its members from youth wings of key South African
organisations such as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party,
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African
Communist Party (SACP).

      SACP youth secretary Buti Manamela led the youth delegation that was
deported on arrival at Harare International airport.

      "We strongly believe that nothing warranted the Zimbabwean government
to take this irrational decision because the delegation was not a threat to
the Zimbabwean government and its people," Castro Ngobese, spokesman of the
SACP youth league, told ZimOnline.

      Zimbabwean police arrested more than 15 top leaders of the Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to thwart the protests that the union had
called for yesterday afternoon.

      Main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party senior
leaders Grace Kwinje, Ian Makone and prominent teacher trade unionist
Raymond Majongwe were also among those arrested, with ZCTU spokesman
Mlamuleli Sibanda saying about 15 senior union officials were arrested in
the capital as police thwarted the protests.

      The ZCTU, the largest umbrella union for Zimbabwe's workers, had
called the protests to press for more pay and better living conditions for
its long-suffering members. It also said the protests were meant to nudge
the government to do more to provide anti-retroviral drugs to combat a
burgeoning HIV/AIDS pandemic, killing at least 3 000 Zimbabweans every week.

      The government accused the ZCTU of manipulating genuine worker
grievances to push a political agenda aimed at toppling it from power.

      The deportation of the youth delegation is not the first time the
Zimbabwe government has barred such missions from South Africa. The Harare
administration has in the past barred COSTAU officials from entering
Zimbabwe to probe allegations of human rights abuses and political
repression.

      The SACP and COSATU, which are both members of South Africa's ruling
tripartite ruling alliance led by President Thabo Mbeki's African National
Congress party, have been very critical of Harare's controversial
policies. - ZimOnline


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Police still detaining women protesters

Zim Online

Thu 14 September 2006

      HARARE - At least 100 women who were arrested on Monday for protesting
over the deteriorating services in Harare were still in police custody last
night despite the expiry of the two-day period during which suspects should
be taken to court or get released.

      A lawyer representing the protesters from the Women of Zimbabwe Arise
(WOZA) group, Tafadzwa Mugabe, said they were still battling to have the
women who are detained at various police stations around Harare released.

      "My clients are supposed to be released or charged today (Wednesday)
but the police seem to be pre-occupied with the ZCTU (Zimbabwe Congress of
Trade Unions) demonstrations.

      "I am not even sure where exactly all the people are as they are still
scattered. But the police had indicated in the morning that they had
finished their paperwork," said Mugabe.

      Under Zimbabwean law, suspects must be brought before the courts
within 48 hours of their arrest or be set free. But the police have often
ignored the law leading to suspects being detained beyond the 48 hours.

      Jenni Williams, the chairperson of WOZA said her organisation was
"deeply worried" over the continued detention of her members.

      "There is no progress regarding the release of our members who are
still in detention. We wonder what the police are up to," said Williams.

      Demonstrations by WOZA over worsening economic hardships are routine
in Zimbabwe which is in its seventh year of a bitter economic recession most
critics blame on President Robert Mugabe's mismanagement. - ZimOnline


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Zimbabwe defence forces chief grilled over wife's supply contracts

Zim Online

Thu 14 September 2006

      HARARE - A special parliamentary committee this week grilled Zimbabwe
Defence Forces (ZDF) commander General Constantine Chiwenga over supply
contracts to the ZDF but the general flatly denied his wife was getting the
lion's share of army supply tenders.

      Parliament's portfolio committee on defence and home affairs summoned
Chiwenga on Tuesday to give oral evidence on procurement procedures in the
ZDF following recent media reports of conflict of interests among the army
top brass over lucrative contracts, especially for food and army materials.

      Lucrative contracts to supply the requirements of the security forces,
most of which are a closely guarded secret, have long been the subject of
intense speculation with claims a company owned by Chiwenga's wife, Jocelyn,
was among many owned by or linked to top army officials that were grabbing
most of the contracts.

      Chiwenga admitted that his wife's company known as Zim-Safe had won
some ZDF contracts but said these were few and had in any case been won on
merit.

      "I wonder where the media is getting these allegations but to set the
record straight, my spouse is not getting any favours as far as the army
contracts are concerned," said Chiwenga before the committee that is chaired
by ruling ZANU PF party legislator Claudius Makova and once Chiwenga's
junior in the army.

      The ZDF commander, a President Robert Mugabe loyalist who at one time
threatened to fire soldiers for not supporting ZANU PF, denied senior
officers were corruptly supplying contracts to their companies and said in
his case he did not need the contracts as he was making enough money from
farming.

      "There is no money there (army contracts), we have other means of
making money such as farming at our farm where there is serious business not
these cheap things," he said.

      Chiwenga and his wife grabbed one of the most lucrative horticulture
farms just outside Harare from its white owner at the height of
government-sanctioned farm seizures. - ZimOnline


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Zimbabwe Swiftly Crushes Wide Labor Protest

New York Times

  By MICHAEL WINES
Published: September 13, 2006
JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 13 - A planned nationwide protest by Zimbabwe's labor
movement against harsh economic and political conditions ended before it
began today, crushed by riot police and militia and government threats to
retaliate against anyone who joined in.

Leaders of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, which had organized the
demonstration, were arrested and in some cases beaten as they left their
Harare office to lead more than a thousand marchers to the planned starting
point for a downtown protest. The march never materialized as the police
sealed off all routes into the city.

The congress's call for union members and shopkeepers to walk off their jobs
also fell flat after President Robert G. Mugabe's government ruled that a
strike would be illegal and that those who participated could be fired.

The trade unions cancelled the protest after the arrests, and it was not
clear whether it would be rescheduled. A spokesman for the congress, Last
Tarabuku, said in a telephone interview today that at least 180 people had
been arrested in some of the 34 towns and cities nationwide that were to
join the protest.

"In Harare, the place was cordoned off from eight o'clock on, so it wasn't
possible for people to march at all," he said. "However, a few people
gathered around one o'clock, and when they tried to march they were
arrested.

"When they were forcing them into the trucks, they were beating people,''
Mr. Tarabuku added, "and there were also militia wearing ZANU-PF tee shirts
who were moving around intimidating people."

ZANU-PF is the acronym for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic
Front, which has ruled Zimbabwe under Mr. Mugabe's leadership since the
nation became independent in 1980.

Today's failed protest echoed several years of fruitless efforts to rally
ordinary citizens against Mr. Mugabe's autocratic rule. Although the nation's
economy has collapsed, with widespread hunger, inflation near 1,000 percent
a year and four of five workers jobless, the country has not seen a
significant political protest since June 2003, when a five-day strike called
by opposition leaders fell apart after a wave of arrests.

That opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change, split into two factions
this year in a dispute over strategy and the leadership of Morgan
Tsvangarai, its president at the time. Mr. Tsvangarai, who now heads the
larger of those factions, has several times proposed mass demonstrations
against Mr. Mugabe's government under the banner of "the winter of
discontent," but has yet to act on that pledge.

Mr. Tsvangarai endorsed today's protest by the trade unions, but did not
join it, one sign of the stresses that continue to fracture Zimbabwe's
democratic opposition.

"It takes more committed leadership, more courageous leadership that
organizes every day, leadership that doesn't get discouraged," said Lovemore
Madhuku, who heads Zimbabwe's largest civil-society group, the National
Constitutional Assembly, during a telephone interview from Harare. "There
are some in the opposition, and some in civil society. But it takes time."

The protest today was to be capped by the delivery of a petition to
government ministers demanding the indexing of salaries to the poverty line,
an income tax cut, free drugs for AIDS patients, the restoration of
democratic freedoms and an end to the harassment of street vendors.

The president of the trade union congress, Lovemore Matombo, and the general
secretary, Wellington Chibebe, were arrested as they carried the petition to
the start of the planned march and were taken to the Harare Central Police
Station. Reached by telephone in the station, Mr. Matombo told the British
Broadcasting Corporation that he and Mr. Chibebe had been beaten with rifle
butts and batons en route to the station.


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Zimbabweans on the streets

Zimbabwe protests
Zimbabwean police surround suspected demonstrators in Harare. Photograph: Desmond Kwande/AFP/Getty Images
A nationwide day of strikes and demonstrations called by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has ended in several arrests.

The day of mass action was held to protest against low wages and poor access to heathcare. However, inside Zimbabwe, opinions on the value of the demonstration have been varied.

In the lead-up to the protests, as police trucks and a water cannon patrolled the streets, the Zimpundit blog described the atmosphere in Masvingo Town.

"They used loud hailers to instruct businesses not to close on the Wednesday and for workers to ignore the call by the ZCTU to march to the Town Centre on Wednesday at midday. Tension was palpable in the Town as a result."

This is Zimbabwe on Sokwanele.com called on everyone to join in the demonstrations, while sokwanele.com itself wondered what, if any, contribution to the movement the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai, would make.

The country's independent paper, the Zimbabwe Independent, provided the answers.

"When questioned on why the two groups could not join hands and stage a combined demonstration, [an MDC spokesman] said the workers had a right to express themselves without being influenced by politicians.

"We respect the response taken by the workers but the planned stayaway by the workers is not the same programme that the MDC would embark on."

Once the protest got under way, The Daily Mirror reported workers in Harare were "indifferent" to the union's call to march.

The paper quoted a Harare worker, who only identified himself as Moses, as saying: "The ZCTU is just driving people onto the streets and they are going to lose their jobs. What is also not clear is whether this strike is against employers or the government."

But the strongest condemnation of the action came from the government-affiliated Zimbabwe Herald.

Calling the action "a ploy to tarnish Zimbabwe's image", the paper employed Shakespeare to convey just how despicable it considered the unions to be.

"The ZCTU 'is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, (yet) signifying nothing'.

"This line from his main character Macbeth aptly sums up the ZCTU -- a poor player; its planned mass action -- which is mere sound and fury; and its significance to the lives of Zimbabwean workers -- nothing."


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Zimbabwe police beat and arrest journalist covering demo



      By Violet Gonda
      13 September 2006

      A Reuters cameraman Mike Sabure was beaten and arrested in Harare
while covering the protest marches organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of
Trade Unions, Wednesday.

      Freelance journalist Gift Phiri told us Sabure was filming the police
beating people when police officers wielding metre long baton sticks started
beating him up. Phiri said the Reuters cameraman tried to show them his
accreditation card but they kept assaulting him and bundled him into the
police defender truck. He was arrested at the same time as civic leader
Raymond Majongwe from the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, Grace
Kwinjeh from the Tsvangirai MDC and several others.

      The group is being held together with the Women of Zimbabwe Arise
(WOZA) activists arrested on Monday.
      The 107 WOZA women were arrested whilst trying to protest at Town
House at the shocking service delivery experienced in the capital. One of
the women arrested was rushed to Parirenyatwa hospital Tuesday to give birth
after she went into labour in police custody.

      Six more WOZA were arrested alongside ZCTU protesters in Bulawayo on
Wednesday.

      SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news


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ZCTU & MDC leadership beaten and arrested in Harare



      By Violet Gonda
      13 September 2006

      Those arrested Wednesday were still in police custody as we went to
air. But we had managed to speak to two of them earlier in the day via
mobile phone.

      Speaking from custody at Harare Central police Station Grace Kwinjeh,
the MDC Deputy Secretary for International Affairs, said riot police broke
up the gathering before it had even started at Construction House in Harare
and assaulted people.

      She was in custody with Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe
Secretary General Raymond Majongwe and at least 11 others. Kwinjeh said; "We
have been arrested. I was beaten up with Kerry Kay, Raymond Majongwe and
others." Kwinjeh said Reuters journalist Mike Sabure was also in custody
with them.

      She said the police rounded up the leadership as protesters were
gathering and some were assaulted in front of the people to humiliate them.

      Also speaking by mobile Majongwe said; "It's not the beatings that
matter it's the commitment that we have shown in the face of such brutality
and such violence."

      ZCTU President Lovemore Matombo and Secretary General Wellington
Chibhebhe have also been arrested and are being held at Matapi Police
station in Mbare.

      Armed police and soldiers have maintained a high presence in the major
cities across the country and roads were barricaded, making it difficult for
protesters to march.

      Several protests against the government and its policies that have
destroyed the country had been organised for this week as the situation in
Zimbabwe worsens. Organisations planning to demonstrate said their members
have been forced to take some form of action however risky to improve their
lives in the face of poverty, hunger, oppression and corruption.

      SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news


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Riot police use force to block ZCTU protests



      By Tererai Karimakwenda
      13 September 2006

      On Wednesday many labour leaders and opposition officials were
arrested and some brutally assaulted by riot police, as people around the
country attempted to gather for demonstrations organised by the Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). Saying workers cannot survive with
extremely low salaries and a lack of anti-retroviral drugs, the umbrella
labour body had called for countrywide protests which were supported by many
other civic organisations, students and political parties. The turnout
varied from one area to another but a very heavy presence of armed riot
police was reported in most major towns as the government attempted to
prevent large groups from gathering. Top officials of the ZCTU and some MDC
officials who had said they would lead from the front were arrested and
assaulted.
      ZCTU spokesman Mlamleli Sibanda told us that the police campaign to
derail their protests started Tuesday with many labour officials being
arrested and some being interrogated. He said the police also sealed off
major roads leading to assembly points and descended on any groups that had
gathered before they became too large. Sibanda said the police presence was
heaviest in Harare where ZCTU officials were assaulted while many who had
gathered were watching. Two people were seriously injured. He believes this
intimidated people and caused them to disperse.

      The state media reported Wednesday that Mugabe left Harare Tuesday
night headed for the 14th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Havana, Cuba.
Before he left there were reports that government was ready to talk with the
unions under the auspices of the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF). But the
ZCTU leaders dismissed the TNF, which is comprised of representatives from
government, industry and labour, as just a talking shop with no chance of
yielding results.

      While Mugabe feasts in Havana, an estimated 158 Zimbabweans are in
police custody and there are armed riot police on the streets in most major
towns. There were numerous assaults on innocent civilians on the streets and
many youths were rounded up, just for being outside.

      SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news


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Nineteen parishioners banned for disrupting Kunonga wedding party

From SW Radio Africa, 11 September

By Lance Guma

Nineteen Anglican Church wardens and members of the choir have been banned
by a Harare court from attending services at the cathedral in the city. This
follows an application by Harare Bishop Nolbert Kunonga who accused them of
trying to disrupt his wedding anniversary at the weekend. Kunonga shot
himself in the foot by ordering the closure of over 45 Anglican churches in
Harare. The directive, which also saw the closure of St Mary's cathedral in
the city-centre, was meant to facilitate the celebration of his 33rd wedding
anniversary at the city sports centre. The decision however proved ill
advised as hordes of parishioners boycotted the prayer meeting that had been
lined up as an alternative to normal services in church. Some of those who
attended made attempts to disrupt the celebrations as a show of disapproval
for the Bishop whom they feel is trying to develop a cult status in the
church. Harare based journalist Gift Phiri told Newsreel that Kunonga
asserted in court papers that the group did not follow the laid out sermon
and procession and that those in the choir refused to provide choral music.
The court order states that those banned cannot attend services at the
cathedral with effect from next Sunday. But the banned parishioners have
said they will challenge the order.

Despite strong resistance from councillors at the cathedral, doors to the
main church were closed for the first time ever on a Sunday since
independence as Kunonga tried to draw the crowds to his wedding anniversary.
Dubbed as a prayer meeting that would also raise money for a training
college for clerics in the city, only school children and choirboys made up
the numbers in the half empty arena. Although the Bishop tried to entice
fellow church leaders by saying he would donate any presents to charity,
most of them still stayed away. Kunonga and his wife Agatha have been
together for 33 years but even that failed to sway members of the church to
join him in celebration. Media reports say individual parishes were asked to
contribute US$2,000 while members of the congregation US$20 each. An insider
told Newsreel Kunonga put in a request to the Mothers Union for 150 kgs of
beef, 50 kgs of chickens plus a golden dress with matching shoes for wife
Agatha, but the women's leadership turned this down. The Archbishop of
Central Africa Bernard Malango, long accused of siding with Kunonga in his
trial, once again backed his colleague by saying he gave his blessing to the
celebrations. In a Herald article this week Malango accused the head of the
Anglican Church Archbishop Rowan Williams of trying to interfere in his
Central African province and that the Kunonga crisis was part of that plot.

Security at the weekend event was tight, given recent demonstrations against
the unpopular Bishop. Phiri told us plain-clothes policemen and state
security details in dark classes patrolled the perimeter of the sports
centre, showing the support Kunonga enjoyed from the Mugabe regime. The
Bishop rose to infamy after coming out in support of Mugabe's violent land
grab policy. He also got a farm from the regime as a thank you gesture. In
August last year he faced an ecclesiastical trial for charges ranging from
incitement to murder, victimising critics within the church and also
misusing church funds, but legal technicalities forced the abandonment of
the case. Malawi Judge James Kalaile withdrew from hearing the case citing
constant bickering between the prosecution and defence. The complainants are
still fighting for a retrial which the church leader in central Africa,
Archbishop Malango, seems unwilling to grant.


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Fuel Shortages Resurface As Dispute Over Price Rages On



The Herald (Harare)

September 13, 2006
Posted to the web September 13, 2006

Jeffrey Gogo
Harare

FUEL shortages have resurfaced in Harare as the price dispute between the
Government and private fuel dealers rages on.

Independent importers are holding on to their stocks, resisting the new fuel
prices citing high input costs.

The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim)'s new supply line has not been
adequate to satisfy the nation's aggregate demand. Private dealers argue
that the import cost component is way too high to sell both petrol and
diesel at the reduced prices of $335 and $320 per litre respectively.

Previously, both a litre of diesel and petrol sold at between $650 and $800.

As a result, most service stations in Harare were yesterday dry. The few
stations with fuel were quoting prices as high as $1 000. A top Noczim
official yesterday indicated that the parastatal was feeding at least 100
000 litres of either product into the market daily.

But this was greatly insufficient to meet daily requirements of at least two
million litres of petrol and about 2,5 million litres of diesel. Current
stocks at Noczim may not last for a further week with a substantial amount
being directed to providers of essential services such as hospitals, farmers
and the Government, among others.

"The major issue that has seen the return of fuel shortages is the price
issue," said the Noczim official, who refused to be named.

"As Noczim, our supplies into the retail sector are certainly inadequate.
One would expect that when we started pumping in fuel following the recent
fuel deal by the Reserve Bank, supplies would have greatly improved.

"However, the sticky issue of price distortions has to be urgently
addressed, or else our systems would have to be backed by strong and
reliable supply lines if we are to beat off the private dealer."

In June, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe concluded a revolving US$50 million
fuel deal with a French bank. Already, over 25 million litres of fuel worth
US$15 million have been shipped into the country.

Energy and Power Development Minister Retired Lieutenant General Mike
Nyambuya was not immediately available for comment last night. But earlier
warnings by analysts indicated that the recent fuel price cut needed a solid
back-up system for the constant supply of the product lest the market was
starved, as that would create massive black marketing again.

Analysts said dealers selling fuel at above gazetted prices may be
sustaining the illegal trade of foreign currency on the black market.

"Forex demand on the parallel market has remained high, partly as a result
of the need to import fuel by some independent fuel players," noted one
Harare economic commentator.

Government has previously also warned it would ruthlessly deal with players
selling fuel at above gazetted prices.

Over the last few years, the country has faced critical fuel shortages owing
to lack of foreign currency needed for the importation of the product.

Soaring international oil prices have also come in with their own share of
problems, as costs have risen steeply from US$12 a barrel at the beginning
of 1999 to over US$70 in recent months.

Zimbabwe requires 900 million litres of diesel and 730 million litres of
petrol a year to operate at full capacity.


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Fertilizer Prices Soar



The Herald (Harare)

September 13, 2006
Posted to the web September 13, 2006

Martin Kazdere
Harare

FERTILIZER prices have gone up by almost 100 percent triggered by a rise in
the cost of transporting ammonium, which last week shot up by over 300
percent.

Officials from major fertilizer-producing firms -- the Zimbabwe Fertilizer
Company and Windmill -- confirmed to The Herald Business yesterday that they
had increased prices in response to a surge in railage costs.

A 50 kilogramme bag of ammonium nitrate now costs $4 400, up from

$2 200 while farmers must fork out $5 200 for a 50 kilogramme of Compound D.
The new prices were effected on Monday, they said.

This means the price of the critical agriculture input would further rise as
companies had already applied for an upward price adjustment ahead of the
summer cropping season.

Government is currently studying the application.

An official with the Zimbabwe Fertilizer Company yesterday said the cost of
transporting ammonium from Sable Chemicals in Kwekwe to its plant in Harare
had gone up from $4 200 to $14 000 a tonne.

"We are still waiting for approval from the Government and the recent
increase is a result of the increase in the railage costs," the official
added.

However, the official refused to disclose figures when asked how much the
company was asking for in its application to the Government.

"We cannot talk about that now because the Government now handles everything
(pertaining to fertilizer prices).

"But we proposed a price that will allow us to operate viably and to at
least break even."

Efforts to obtain a comment from the Ministry of Industry and International
Trade were fruitless.

Zimbabwe has been facing fertilizer shortages over the last five years due
to shortage of foreign currency to import critical raw materials and
uneconomic prices.


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Zimbabwe mining affected by skills shortage

Resource Investor

      By Karl Heilman
      13 Sep 2006 at 10:42 AM

      Zimbabwe's key mining industry faces a critical skills shortage as
workers seek better paying jobs abroad, threatening the recovery of a vital
foreign currency earning sector, the mining chamber said on Tuesday.

      Mining has overtaken agriculture as the biggest foreign exchange
earner following a plunge in farming production, which analysts blame on
President Robert Mugabe's government's seizure of commercial farms from
whites to resettle blacks.

      The Chamber of Mines said some companies were being forced to employ
new graduates without sufficient training in key positions to replace
experienced staff.


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Agricultural Experts See Disappointment In Zimbabwe's Wheat Harvest

VOA

By Carole Gombakomba
      Washington
      12 September 2006

Agricultural experts are predicting that Zimbabwe's winter wheat harvest,
currently in progress, is likely to be disappointing due to electrical power
cuts that have crippled or limited irrigation, fuel shortages and
destructive crop raiding by quelea birds.

The state-run Herald newspaper said Tuesday that irrigation systems and
other farm machinery are unable to operate effectively amidst constant
interruptions of electricity across the country. Quelea birds have caused
serious crop failure in some areas.

The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee has forecast an increase of
13% in the winter wheat harvest over last year's production level - but even
then that will cover only 34% of Zimbabwe's annual national requirement for
the grain. Further assessments will be made in October and in the February
hunger period.

But independent experts question whether this year's harvest will be bigger.

Agronomist Roger Mpande told reporter Carole Gombakomba of VOA's Studio 7
for Zimbabwe that problems are too widespread to expect an upside harvest
suprise.


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MISA Press Release

 
      MISA annual meeting highlights ongoing media freedom and free
expression violations in region

  Date: 13 September 2006
  Source: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)
  (MISA/IFEX) - The following is a MISA communiqué:

MISA AGM highlights ongoing media freedom and free expression violations in
SADC region

The 2006 Annual General Meeting of the Media Institute of Southern Africa
(MISA), which concluded at the Indaba Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa on
September 5, 2006, expressed grave concern about the ongoing violations of
media freedom and freedom of expression perpetuated in the Southern Africa
Development Community (SADC).

MISA delegates, drawn from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia,
South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, noted the following:

The withdrawal of the Draft Broadcasting Policy by the Minister of
Communications, Science and Technology in Botswana, has brought about
questions as to whether a conservative parliament is holding democracy at
ransom. The major concern of parliamentarians, that community radio will
bring untold divisions to the country, is unfounded and unacceptable.

Currently Botswana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe are the only SADC countries without
community broadcasting services. This does not auger well for the democratic
credentials that have been credited to these countries.

MISA calls on SADC governments to relinquish control of the national
broadcasters and transform them into public service broadcasters in the
service of the citizenry.

Whilst Zambia has shown much progress in terms of enacting positive
legislation in the public broadcasting sector, a lack of political will has
largely hampered the implementation of such legislation. We call upon the
government of Zambia to honour the decision of the High Court and to proceed
with the implementation of the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation
(ZNBC) Amendment Act and Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Act, as is
the will of the people.

Similarly in 2002, the Zambian government withdrew the Freedom of
Information Bill. We strongly appeal to the government to recall this bill,
enact it, and ensure that Zambian citizens can freely access information
held by public authorities.

Attempts in other SADC countries to enact similar legislation on access to
information are being hampered by a lack of political will. This is the case
in Lesotho, Malawi and Namibia.

South Africa's Minister of Home Affairs' recent proposal to amend the Film
and Publications Act is an obvious attempt to exercise pre-censorship of the
media. A delegation consisting of MISA South Africa, the Freedom of
Expression Institute (FXI) and the South African National Editors' Forum
(Sanef), last week made a presentation to the Home Affairs ministry to
underscore that the media in South Africa is already regulated by the Press
Ombudsman, the Independent Communications Authority of Southern Africa
(Icasa) and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission, which hold the media
accountable for ethical and other breaches of their codes of conduct.

In addition, MISA South Africa last week strongly condemned the destruction
of pictures of President Thabo Mbeki taken by Beeld newspaper photographers
as he was entering a cardiac clinic. This is the second time that bodyguards
have acted in a highhanded manner despite assurances by the cabinet that
there is no intention to muzzle the press.

The operating environment for the media in Swaziland continues to be
adversely affected by the restrictive laws and political pressure which
engenders a climate of fear for media practitioners and their subsequent
self censorship to the detriment of Swazi society. The government of
Swaziland is called upon to immediately commence upon a consultative process
of law reform to enact media-related legislation in a manner that promotes
freedom of expression and the press, particularly as this freedom is
recognised in Section 24 of the new Swaziland constitution.

The Interception of Communications Bill, currently being reviewed by
Zimbabwe's Parliamentary Legal Committee, is a highly intrusive form of
legislation that is vague, lacks sound justification, is unconstitutional
and should never be allowed to pass in Zimbabwe. MISA urges the parliament
of Zimbabwe not to pass this legislation.

On the broadcasting front, the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) is
in contempt of parliament, as it continues to ignore calls for issuing of
broadcasting licences. Since its inception through the Broadcasting Services
Act five years ago, the BAZ to date has not issued a single licence.

MORE INFORMATION:

For further information, contact Zoé Titus, Programme Specialist, Media
Freedom Monitoring, MISA, Private Bag 13386 Windhoek, Namibia, tel: +264 61
232 975, fax: +264 61 248 016, e-mail: research@misa.org, Internet:
http://www.misa.org


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Zimbabwean travails

OpenDemocracy

             Conor O'Loughlin
            13 - 9 - 2006

            The people of Robert Mugabe's fiefdom are staggering under a
weight of poverty, repression and social collapse. But they keep hope alive,
reports Conor O'Loughlin.

           Zimbabwe's long-term economic decline is becoming precipitous. A
currency reform has been introduced to address an inflation rate of over
1,100%; 70%-80% of working-age people are unemployed; everywhere you go,
groups of men and women of all ages loiter in car parks, public spaces and
on streets with nothing to do.

            In this beautiful country, the endemic economic crisis is the
talk of the middle-class minority and the poverty-stricken majority alike,
albeit for different reasons. The middle classes - the few whites who
remained after President Mugabe began his offensive against white land
ownership in 2000, and a growing number of upwardly mobile blacks - chat
interminably about the "kilodollar" bricks they were obliged to carry before
the currency makeover, and the latest black-market exchange-rates.

            The not-so-lucky poor are rural black labourers and subsistence
farmers with no access to unofficial sources of cash, as well as the urban
unemployed and families decimated by one of southern Africa's worst HIV/Aids
epidemics.

            Zimbabwe's economic near-collapse pervades every aspect of this
society. It can be measured in many ways, but the two most evident to even
the most casual observer are money and land.

            The paper chase

            It wasn't the most sophisticated financial reform in history,
but desperate times call for desperate measures. A pint of milk was costing
200,000 Zimbabwean dollars (around sixty-five US cents at the official
rate), and supermarket cash-registers were having trouble calculating the
millions required for a simple weekly shop. The government's computer were
said to be crumbling under the trillions of dollars' worth of calculations
being made. So, on 21 August 2006, the governor of Zimbabwe's reserve bank,
Gideon Gono, slashed three zeros from the country's currency.

            The liberal press lambasted both the idea and Gono himself, an
ambitious, gruff populist rumoured to be considering a run for the
presidency in 2007 when - if - Robert Mugabe finally retires. Gono's
printing-press approach to the currency problem has helped fuel the rampant
inflation, and reinforced his reputation for economic illiteracy.

            The bank introduced a new series of notes over a three-week
period, rendered old notes obsolete on the changeover date, and banned
individuals from exchanging more than 100 million dollars (around $350)
without receipts. In a country where most people have no access (or trust
in) banks, many responded by rushing to spend their surplus cash before the
deadline.

            The authorities responded with intense security to prevent
illegal transfers - my car was searched fourteen times in one day alone -
and to confiscate money from people in possession of amounts over the limit.
The sums involved were enormous: the Herald newspaper claimed that $453.3
billion Zimbabwean dollars (around $38m) had been taken from what the
government called "economic saboteurs". Yet international agencies estimate
that 90% of Zimbabweans are living below the poverty line.

            A dying land

            The second key to Zimbabwe's collapse is land. The real crisis
of Zimbabwe is sometimes more vividly registered outside the main urban
centres of Harare and Bulawayo. Here, the social landscape equally feels the
effect of policies imposed without attention to the circumstances and
context of people's lives.

            Robert Mugabe, the champion of the white farmers' cause (it is
hard to recall now) when his Zanu-PF party came to power in 1980, changed
course abruptly in 2000 when his political star was waning in face of the
challenge of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change. In pursuing
a policy of forced removal of white farmers from their land - justified by
indiscriminate use of the phrase "land reform" - Mugabe unleashed a
devastating cycle of expropriation whose effects are still being felt by all
Zimbabweans.

            Around the traditional tobacco-growing centre of Karoi in
northern Zimbabwe, huge tracts of former commercial farmland lies dying and
wasted in the searing southern African sun. Brown and rusted eucalyptus
trees cower above withering yellow scrub. The distinctive concrete barns of
tobacco-curing plants, once this region's major employers, stand sad and
crumbling by the roadside.

            Along with the colonial legacy they embodied, the white farmers
took with them generations of agricultural (and job-creating) expertise, as
well as - in some cases at least - a philanthropic regard for their
communities.

            On a baked hillside outside Karoi, I encountered a simple low
building with small windows and a tin roof. It is home to twenty destitute
elderly men, most former employees on local farms. Its superintendent,
Hoffman Banda, told me that it had begun as a retirement home built on land
donated by the town and run with money given by local commercial farmers.

            When "land reform" closed the farms, most workers lost their
livelihoods. HIV/Aids has decimated the population in this area, and the
traditional family networks that would once have supported these men in
their old age have all but disappeared. The residents, aged between 65 and
93 (four of whom are blind), occupy a dark, dusty dormitory where the stench
of urine is overpowering. They have tried to become self-sufficient but
there is not enough water to grow vegetables and their chickens are
constantly being stolen.

            A development NGO is at work in the area, providing these men
with three daily meals of corn-soya blend: a highly-nutritious porridge that
tastes vaguely of peanuts. It also runs emergency food distributions and
other emergency programmes; its headquarters are the abandoned warehouse of
Zimbabwe's national foods company.

            A race for life

            Zimbabweans are not bowing down to power. In May 2005, Mugabe's
security forces implemented operation murambatsvina - "drive out the trash",
the organised demolition of urban slum areas and the forced removal of their
residents - which left an estimated 700,000 people homeless and without
livelihoods.

            The slums are now, slowly, being rebuilt, although many people
have yet to return. In the Harare suburb of Hatcliffe, people are struggling
to make a permanent home amongst the sun-baked rubble of the past. It is a
race against time: the government has again threatened eviction if permanent
brick homes are not in place by the end of September. Residents tell me they
have no idea if the threat will be carried out: in Zimbabwe the government
can, ultimately, do what it likes.

            It is the middle of the dry season now and the rains are months
away. Times are hard, as hard as they've been for decades. But people still
mock the currency reform as "drive out the cash"; they still tell each other
"count your blessings - the temperature might be thirty degrees, but on the
black market it could go as high as forty". The true Zimbabwe spirit lives.


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Hot Seat teleconference: Zimbabwe women activist (FINAL Segment)



SW Radio Africa Transcript

Zimbabwean women activists speak out on 'Hot Seat'

Broadcast on 12 September 2006

Violet: Welcome to the final segment of the teleconference discussion with
Sekai Holland from the Tsvangirai MDC; Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga from
the Mutambara MDC; WOZA coordinator Jenni Williams and women activist Thoko
Matshe.

Last week we ended the discussion on the issue of whether the
feminists/intellectual agenda is relevant to the daily existence of people
in Zimbabwe at present. Jenni Williams said the suffering is so great that
Zimbabweans, mostly women, aren't really interested in great intellectual
discourse and they don't really want to know what a feminist is. She said
they just want to demand a socially just Zimbabwe.

I then asked Thoko Matshe to comment

Thoko Matshe: I do agree with that statement that says unless and until some
intellectuals and feminists come and rub shoulders with people.  I am a
feminist and I rub shoulders with people on the ground all the time and I
struggle all the time.  Brian Raftopoulos is an intellectual, and he has
worked tirelessly up to a point that he has had to leave the country and
choose to live elsewhere because for him to continue to struggle and do
certain things with his family, it's not happening.  So, it's not about what
the different naming because as people in this society we are different
people doing different things.  And also, for me, I don't want to be defined
by the outside and what they think the reality in Zimbabwe should be,
because, people tell you 'they did this in Congo, they did this there'.  The
Zimbabwean situation has got certain things that are peculiar to this
country as much as there are things that are common for other struggles.
The re-defining of mass action, we might have to tell people what, in our
context, is what we mean by mass action, kind of thing.  And, I do agree
when people are saying that people are doing things in their various ways
and it's not everybody who will be visible, that does not mean that they are
not doing things, and, it's different things that have got to be done at
different times, OK?  Some of us were there on the 1st April 2000; that
demonstration, the last demonstration that we did in this country with a
certain level of organisation and doing, when we had those people coming
with pangas at us. And, that has informed also what then people are saying
about mass action, about resistance, because our resistance and our courage
has got to be strategic to the enemy that is coming.

Violet:  So Thoko, is unity an absolute pre-condition for mass action or
civil disobedience?

Thoko: Unity with a commonality.  I don't believe in unity where people talk
about unity in words and, as Sekai said, there are initiatives and there are
co-ordinations that are starting that are building up and I'm sure those
coming together are on certain principles and values and shared strategies,
OK.  That is what will work.  The unity cannot be in a vacuum.  There should
be certain shared values, shared visions, shared focus that will push.  And,
I do agree, the opposition forces in their broad spectrum and those that are
within the struggle to push for change, they are a big number and chunk to
have unity of purpose.

Violet: Mai Holland?

Sekai: I think we need to understand that as well, and I have to keep going
back to the great debate.  In Zimbabwe, who is an intellectual, what is an
intellectual is very greatly misunderstood.  Intellectuals reflect what's
going on in their society and intellectuals who are really intellectuals do
reflect this reality in its diversity and depth and it is from that event
which takes place with people whose practice produces that intellectual
focus.  Where the unity in that produces political, social unity, which then
produces the answers that we need to get our economic theme right.  I'm just
saying that I'm sorry to hear that Brian Raftopoulos has had to leave
Zimbabwe, but as he leaves there are others who are coming up in Zimbabwe to
carry the theme forward.  Zimbabwe is a very rich country with every sector
of what is going elsewhere in the world with a very sophisticated public.
We are going through a historical period where we are organising ourselves
to get things right, and, I think that I appreciate this programme today
because foundations are being set up for people to really start debating
together, and, it's through that debate that ideas that are out there get
drawn in for people to see the actions they are doing in a more focused way
which takes us forward.

Violet: Ok and I want to go back to Priscilla. Are you there Priscilla? I
always have to check on you because of your phone.

Priscilla: I am here.

Violet: Ok, sorry to go back to this issue because I just need some
clarification and it's important what Amai Holland has said that it's good
to have this kind of debate so people can work on finding ways of resolving
this crisis. But do you agree that there needs to be a united force and that
force is no longer there in Zimbabwe right now?  You know people are looking
for role models but all groups are split, in their homes, in the newsrooms,
in the communities, in the opposition, in civic society.  Is there a uniting
force that can say let's do this right now?

Priscilla: Well certainly, and perhaps some of us do not want to harp on
negativity.  You know the split within the MDC, one cannot underplay it, one
cannot underplay that it has had an impact in terms of the things that the
progressive forces would be doing or should be doing or what was expected of
them.  But, I think what is important is that we should get to a stage where
people understand that it's not just about people being under the same roof,
it's about strategy and it's about admitting and saying at this particular
point in time we may want to do that strategy or that strategy.  You do not
necessarily; all of you have to be called Karamba or Thokozani: you can be
called in your different names; I can be Priscilla, I can be Thoko, I can be
Sekai, but still work around a united process and a united front.  We saw it
happening in South Africa when they had the UDF, all these different
institutions did not necessarily need to be in one particular place.  The
ANC did something else, PAC did something else, the other groups were doing
other things, the Churches were involved, the Desmond Tutus were doing
different things but they had a kind of consensus and agreement and I think
it is important to acknowledge that particular discussion and debate is
indeed taking place and that there is an agreement that we need to have an
organised strategy, an agreed strategy, but still remain in our spaces doing
the kind of things that we are supposed to do. So even unity needs to be
understood; it's not unity about people being under the same roof - it's
unity around principles, around values, around strategies.  So, that we are
not just being united for the sake of being united; we are united for
purpose, for values, for a particular vision.  We want to see a different
kind of Zimbabwe and I think that is what we are working towards and I think
that is what is actually going on.   Like I said, agreed, we have gone
through a crisis, where some of the differences that have taken place in the
progressive movement have had an impact in terms of the energy and images
that we should apply.

Violet: And Thoko, you know, some say there is a need for a new coalition or
a new broad alliance.  What kind of a new coalition do you think needs to
emerge right now in Zimbabwe?

Thoko:  I think if I were to buy in that I would say that coalition should
take the different struggling points and focuses into that coalition.  I
would say it would be the opposition political parties, it will be the
different movements; the women's movement, the constitutional movement -
which will be the NCA, it will be the legal guys and things like that.  So,
if I were to summarise it I would say it would be civil society as defined
without the political parties in it, and the Churches, sorry, the Churches
is a big chunk.

Violet:  Did you say without the political parties in it?

Thoko: I mean if I were to say civil society because sometimes people define
civil society and say political parties are not in civil society, and then I
would say civil society in its entirety including Churches and the
opposition political parties.  That's the coalition that involves everyone
who is struggling.

Violet:  Do you agree Amai Holland?

Sekai: Well, I wanted to respond to Priscilla and now Thoko is raising that
point.  I really find the word 'split' in our media language very worrisome.
In a family, in a political party when certain people in a group say now 'we
want to go and do something else', I think people should really learn that
democracy is about accepting diversity, about accepting difference, about
people really growing up to set themselves in new ways and new growths
reflecting the same desire for positive change for society.   So, the thing
which has happened in MDC, myself, personally, is something that has
happened in the male domain, in patriarchy, because I still don't know what
is the wider division occurring, and, I see it as very healthy because
people have gone their separate ways and people are moving in their separate
ways with their programmes and there is nobody who is worrying about 'why
did so-and-so go there'; except the men.  So for me the word 'split' I find
very, very worrisome because growth taking place is positive growth in the
quest for democracy in Zimbabwe.

The second point I wanted to make is this; that the unity that comes cannot
be discussed on this programme or among leaders, it's something that really
in Zimbabwe comes from people going through processes of consultation,
consensus, consensus-building, and I think that process has been taking
place now in the past six years when people finally responded to the crisis
by agreeing that they need to come together.  So I think it's a nation wide
thing that will happen and it is happening, and I think we need to really
appreciate the importance of us talking together and seeing where we are
doing our things and allowing each other the space to do those things, so
that, in front, up there in time, we are going to come together with one
concrete thing.  Zimbabweans have every element of what we need to build
something much better than what we went to fight for in the war.  Much, much
better than anything happening elsewhere in Africa.  This is not a theory,
this is something that Zimbabweans have done which they are capable of
doing, which I believe, in our different places and situations, we are
working towards.

Priscilla: I need to respond to what Amai Holland has just said.  I think it's
important to acknowledge the fact that there has been a split in the MDC,
there has been a division on issues of principles and of values and the more
we can accept that fact, the better we can move forward.  I think it is
unfortunate to say that division is within the male domain.

Sekai: For me it is!

Priscilla: We may have political differences that are largely patriarchal
but it's actually about principles and about values, and some of us still
believe we are women, unless something has changed along the way.  I think
there are a majority of women both, in the grassroots, both in the
leadership where that split has taken place.  I don't think the debate
should be about who is wrong who is right -I think we may have another
debate about that but it's important to acknowledge the fact that there has
been a split in the MDC and that that split has had an impact in terms of
the democratic movement in this country, it is important, that split
actually happened.

Sekai:  Well, I want to differ with that, very much!

Jenni Williams:  But you see, for me, the issue here is there is too much
pre-occupation with power and positions, and too little time taken to speak
to people and their problems and motivate them to demand a better Zimbabwe.
And, therein lies the problem.  If we look at the last second or two minutes
of this discussion here, it's about the split in the MDC when it actually
should be about people and mobilising them to take their power.

Sekai:  People are still mobilising and they are not talking about the
split, they never did, it's in the media.

Someone laughs

Violet:  But isn't this what Priscilla is actually saying that it is
important to talk about the split because it did actually happen.

Sekai: But we need a different programme for that, the programme today was
about mass action and women.   We can have another programme on the split.

Violet: Yes I think it's very important

Thoko:  can I just say something.?

Violet: Before you do Thoko, I think it's very important that we actually
have another programme to talk about this split.  I can see that we will not
move on until and unless we have dealt with this problem, so hopefully.

Jenni: Please excuse me from that programme because I think I am not
interested in factions. I'm interested in people and their problems and
mobilising them for a new Zimbabwe and somewhere along the way we'll find
how to make that political change a reality.

Priscilla: I think everybody is interested in the problems of the country.

Thoko?   I think that when the MDC was formed in 1999 it changed with other
things that were happening there.  It changed drastically the politics of
this country, and it gave courage to people who for twenty, was it twenty,
or twenty-five years had been suffering silently. When the split happened it
affected the energies of the opposition forces in this country, and that
split did not just happen within the opposition political party.  It has
caused all sorts of splintering within civil society.

Priscilla (in the background): Oh yes!

Thoko: And that's why in everything that we are doing we have what Sekai
says - we are moving towards coordinating. So I am hoping that in that
moving towards doing things together and unity, we have re-covered, we have
picked up ourselves, we have picked up the energies that are there.  The
split in a way - politics is politics and people differ - is healthy, we don't
want a one party state.

Sekai (in the background): Thank you! Thank you.

Thoko: And why we are struggling is that we don't want a one party state.

Sekai: Exactly!

Thoko: . and what I would say personally to my friends in the different
factions is let's get on with it. OK.

Sekai: We are getting on with it.

Thoko: We organise, mobilise.

Sekai (in the background): We are mobilising we are moving and I don't think
it's a problem.

Thoko: .we co-ordinate until we see Morgan and Mutambara holding hands
saying we have got a unity of purpose. Let's then work towards that and have
it as a lived reality, OK?

Sekai (in the background): I am saying I am moving, we are moving.

Thoko: There are things that caused that split, maybe they are for another
programme, it had an impact but lets MOVE ON.

Priscilla (in the background): Precisely and we acknowledge what has
happened.

Violet: OK. Thank you very much ladies.

All:  Ok, thank you Violet, bye

Violet: There remains much to talk about, but unfortunately we have to bring
this particular discussion to an end. Perhaps the biggest question for the
future is; can the different parties come together and find a common cause
for change?

Comments and feedback can be emailed to: violet@swradioafrica.com


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Policy Inconsistencies Rile Us - Doctors



The Herald (Harare)

September 13, 2006
Posted to the web September 13, 2006

Harare

ZIMBABWEAN doctors want to stay and work in their country but are leaving
for neighbouring countries and abroad not only because of poor salaries, but
also because of policy inconsistencies that make it difficult for them to
plan ahead.

This was said by representatives of junior doctors when they gave oral
evidence to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child
Welfare on their conditions of service and rural attachment.

Dr Justin Shenje, a spokesperson for the doctors, said the Government was
trying its best under the circumstances to improve doctors' welfare but fell
short of their expectations.

"A lot of our predecessors have left the country. However, most of us want
to work here, home is best but there have been inconsistent policies which
makes it difficult to plan," said Dr Shenje.

He said doctors preferred working at mission hospitals to district hospitals
because the mission hospitals offered better incentives.

He said while Government had offered doctors vehicle loans of $2 million
through CMED, the firm has cut the limit to $800 000.

"There is no clarity on the loans and it's of great concern to us. It's also
not clear on where the ministry stands with regards to letters of good
standing. We have been denied these letters," he alleged.

Dr Shenje said the Government should also set aside some residential stands
in urban areas for doctors for them to have houses of their own in the long
term.

Members of the committee said while they agreed that doctors needed to have
their conditions of service improved, they must serve their own country
first before deciding to leave.

Guruve South Member of the House of Assembly Cde Edward Chindori-Chininga
(Zanu-PF) said in his opinion, it was wrong for doctors to go wherever they
felt they could go and work.

"Let's deal with the situation in our own country before we look to other
countries," he said.

Marondera-Seke Senator Cde Tracy Mutinhiri (Zanu-PF) said the Government was
spending a lot of money on hiring foreign doctors while local doctors were
leaving the country to look for greener pastures.

She said doctors must work in their country, especially in the rural areas
first, to get experience.

Makoni-Nyanga Senator Dr Stanley Sakupwanya (Zanu-PF) said doctors should
not forsake their ethics as they were doctors primarily to serve the nation.

Government on Monday this week said it was doing its best to improve working
conditions for doctors to avert further brain drain.

Recently, there had been a stalemate between the Government and doctors
after the State issued a directive that doctors who had just completed their
two-year housemanship be deployed to district hospitals for a year.

The doctors, however, refused to do so, citing unfavourable working
conditions, among them poor accommodation, broken down equipment and
facilities as well as transport problems.

The serious shortage of doctors in the country, especially in the districts,
has seen Zimbabwe turning to countries like Cuba, North Korea and the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to beef up the numbers.

Kwekwe legislator Mr Blessing Chebundo (MDC), who chairs the 15-member
parliamentary health committee, said communication between doctors and the
Ministry of Health and Child Welfare need to be improved.

He requested the doctors to draft and present to the committee a list of all
their demands.

"We are trying to get as much information as possible so that we can
identify possible solutions," he said.

He said the committee was not taking sides but just wanted to see things
done as expected.


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Zimbabwe unveils $653.7m loan injection

news.com.au

From correspondents in Harare

September 14, 2006 04:42am

ZIMBABWE unveiled $653.73 million worth of mainly foreign loans today which
the central bank said would help rescue the country's struggling economy,
including a $US200 million ($266.83 million) facility from China.

"In unveiling these initiatives, all in all amounting to $US490 million
($653.73 million), it is the Reserve Bank's minimum expectation that all
economic players can now take up the challenge and get on with progressive
economic enterprise," central bank governor Gideon Gono told reporters.

Most of the loans would be directed at the country's agricultural sector,
which has been hit hard by drought and President Robert Mugabe's backing for
the seizure of white-owned commercial farms for landless blacks.

The Chinese facility announced yesterday would be the first major foreign
loan extended to the southern African country after six years of recession,
during which the economy contracted by a third and inflation soared to more
than 1000 per cent.


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Senior Immigration Officers Arrested



The Herald (Harare)

September 13, 2006
Posted to the web September 13, 2006

Harare

THREE senior immigration officers in Victoria Falls have been arrested on
allegations of fraud and externalising foreign currency.

Police recovered foreign currency, immigration declaration forms and receipt
books at the trio's homes.

Police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka said police would
widen their investigations to as far as Zambia and Botswana where they
believe the three exported some of the foreign currency.

"We confirm the arrest of three immigration officers stationed at Victoria
Falls Border Post. Following a tip-off on corrupt activities at the
immigration department in Victoria Falls, a team of senior police detectives
was sent out to investigate," he said.

The three are Innocent Tawanda Hamandishe (36), a principal immigration
officer, Sarudzai Harutsanye (39) and Titus Tashaya (38), both senior
immigration officers.

Hamandishe was arrested on allegations of externalising foreign currency.

Police believe in April this year he went to Botswana and exchanged US$640
for 3 224 pula at Open Door Bureau de Change in Kansac.

"He also exchanged 40 euros for 202 pula and 510 rand. He did not obtain
foreign currency from any authorised dealer in Zimbabwe as required by the
law," said Chief Supt Mandipaka.

He said Harutsanye was arrested on allegations of fraud. She is alleged to
have received foreign currency from tourists for visa fees but she
understated the fees on the carbon copies of foreign currency receipt book,
thereby prejudicing Government of US$150 which she allegedly converted to
her own use.

"Her residence was searched and she was found in possession of US$540, 530
rand, 20 pula and 13 immigration declaration forms and 13 original and
duplicate foreign currency receipts," said Chief Supt Mandipaka.

Tashaya, over a period of time, allegedly received foreign currency from
tourists for visa fees and understated the foreign currency on the carbon
copies, prejudicing the Government of US$175.

"The arrests come at a time when 11 other immigration officers are facing
similar charges. The Zimbabwe Republic Police is committed to break through
and eradicate corrupt activities more so at border posts as members of the
public continue to supply us with tip-offs. The three will appear in court
soon at Hwange," said Chief Supt Mandipaka.


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Kruger Park hit by TB outbreak

IOL

          September 13 2006 at 07:13AM

      The Kruger National Park is suffering an outbreak of bovine
tuberculosis, SABC news reported on Wednesday.

      Its website said blood samples taken from buffalo near the Limpopo
river confirmed the disease had spread around the entire park.

      Initially, only buffalo were thought to be infected but other animals,
including lions and leopards, were also diagnosed with the disease.

      Hyenas, warthog, kudu, bushbuck and impala were reported to be
infected as well.

      It was believed bovine TB was introduced to the Kruger Park following
contact between domestic cattle and buffalo in 1960.

      The disease was thought to take 30 years to reach the northern areas
of the park, but three years later, it had already spread.

      There is no vaccine or treatment for bovine TB.

      Infected animals waste away and eventually die after years.

      The disease was also threatening the Transfrontier park being
developed by South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

      Peter Buzz, a Sanparks veterinary surgeon, said it was unlikely that
the disease could be treated specifically.

      There are some 33 000 buffalo in the Kruger Park. - Sapa


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JAG Classifieds dated 12 September 2006

As a JAG member or JAG Associate member, please send any classified adverts
for publication in this newsletter to:

JAG Classifieds: jag@mango.zw; justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw

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1.  For Sale Items
2.  Wanted Items
3.  Accommodation
4.  Recreation
5.  Specialist Services
6.  Pets Corner

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1. OFFERED FOR SALE

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1.1 Pet Mince for Sale (Ad inserted 08/08/06)

Please be advised that there will be no more deliveries until further
notice.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Pet Mince for sale 500g for $80 000. Pet mince made from pork offal
including liver and veg only, it is minced and well cooked.
Cat Heart Mince with cooked liver for sale 250g for
$80 000
Delivered on Friday's, collected at Benbar Msasa at 10:30, JAG (17 Philips
Ave, Belgravia) at 11:30, Peace Haven (75 Oxford St off Aberdeen) at 12:30
and Olivine Head Office in car park at 3:00.
Please order by email.   Phone 011221088 or email claassen@zol.co.zw

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1.2 For Sale (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

DIGITAL CAMERA, SONY CYBERSHOT 4,1 MEGA PIXELS .ALL FEATURES. BRAND NEW
BOXED, $220 MILLION. CONTACT 011 402896, NO CHANCERS PLEASE,

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1.3 For Sale (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Isuzu KB250 engine parts including std. crankshaft and pulley, cylinder head
(cw valves,injectors and heater plugs),injector pump and pipes, inlet
manifold, oil pump, sump, dip stick, water pump, pistons and conrods, clutch
assembly (for KB280)

Contact Ryan at MotorServ, Rhodsville Ave. 497725/480997

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1.4 For Sale (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Microlight..Cosmos.. Weight shift with 503 Rotax (100 hr only since o/haul)
c/w GPS, intercom, 60 ltr tank.
Reason for sale is an upgrade. Also Hanger space available at Komani
Microlight Club.

Contact Greame 091 261 751, John 091 631 556 or Alan 091 400 397

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1.5 For Sale (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

NEW SHARP EL-1607, ten digit electronic printing calculator with carry case.
Phone Rob 748939/748940/750635 Mon-Thurs 8am-5pm Fri 8am-4pm

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1.6 For Sale (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Horticulture 4 ft fluorescent lights, +/- 3 ha. Contact Martin 011 603 762
or Lars 011 604398

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1.7 For Sale (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Mercedes C240 Elegance 2002 model. Full house. White. Pristine Condition. 70
000km.  Serious offers only. US$35 000 equiv. Phone 011 808 262 or 067
23112.

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1.8 For Sale (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

PEE WEE MOTORBIKE YAMAHA $ON ENQUIRY
STOVE (1 PLATE NOT WORKING) $25MILLION
OCCASIONAL HALD MOON TABLES $8MILLION EA
TABLE ROUND $10MILLION
2X PARKERNOLL CHAIRS $10MILLION EA
2X ARM CHAIRS & FOOT STOOL $20MILLION EA
OFFICE SWING CHAIR $15 MILLION
CARPET $12MILLION
DININGROOM SUITE ROUND TABLE ETC $35MILLION
SINGLE BED $15MILLION
CANE LOUNGE SUITE WITH TABLES  (NEED RECOVERING) $20 MILLION
CECIL RHODES ANTIQUE 2 SEATER $20MILLION
LIQUER CABINET $10MILLION
VARIOUS ORNAMENTS
VARIOUS PICTURES
VARIOUS CURTAINS/LINEN ETC
VARIOUS CROCKERY
WINDOW FRAMES
ARCHWAY MOLDS
GARDEN SPRAY
CEILING FANS
LAZY SUSAN
BUDGIES MIXED COLOURS $4MILLION EACH

TELEPHONE 251377 091321640 091909244

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1.9 For Sale (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

CARAVAN (MOBILE HOME)  (2 BEDROOMS)
FULLY EQUIPPED WITH COMPLETE ROOF COVER FRONT AND BACK. STOVES, FRIDGES,
DEEP FREEZE, PRESSURE GEYSER, SHOWER, BEDS, TOASTER, IRON, KETTLE, GAS
BRAAI, ROTISERRIE - THE ABSOLUTE WORKS WITHIN NATIONAL ANGLERS UNION SITE.
PHONE JACQUIE 339144, 091 311 503.  OWNER LEAVING.  OFFERS.

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1.10 Business for Sale (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

SMALL RETAIL BUSINESS CENTRALLY SITUATED IN AVONDALE SELLING HANDLES, KNOBS,
LOCKS, AND BATHROOM FITTINGS.  FABULOUS BUSINESS.  OWNER LEAVING.  OFFERS
PHONE JACQUIE 339144, 091 311 503

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1.11 For Sale (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

TOYOTA PRADO 1998 model, white, 3 litre, turbo-intercooled, automatic
gearbox, diesel, electric windows, central locking, air-conditioning, fabric
seats, radio/tape deck, 172 000km (Arriving 6th September available to view
after that date).  Looking for US$20,000 equivalent.
Contact 091-225413 or PM 860909 bowen@zol.co.zw

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1.12 For Sale (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

LEFT HAND DRIVE TOYOTA LAND CRUISER 1999, DIESEL, 105000KM, AIR
CONDITIONING, POWER STEERING, POWER WINDOWS, DOUBLE AIRBAG, RADIO
CASSETTE/CD, SPEAKERS SUN ROOF EU 15000 NEG CONTACT
011614987/487200/497373/498190

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1.13 For Sale (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

EXCAVATOR
Case Poclain 888, 18 tonner without engine in excellent condition.  Good for
spares or to have engine replaced for usage.  Highest offer secures.  Photos
available if interested.

TRACTORS
1 x Ford 6610 - 1 x Ford 5610 - 2 x Mushandi 640 F.W.A. - 1 x John Deere
1850 60hp

MUSHANDI 500 - NEWER MODEL - EXCELLENT CONDITION
Ideal for small farm / plot or as a haulage unit.  ZW$2,2 million re-valued
currency neg.

NEW & USED TRACTOR SPARES
Too many to list to include: - Deutz D60/D68 - 8 speed gearbox in good
condition ZW$150 thousand re-valued currency

Contact Doug Edwards Ph 068-22463 / 011212454 - tracspray@zol.co.zw

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1.14 For Sale (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

New Eurostar Borehole Pump.
0.75 HP. $90,000 o.n.c.o. Phone Michael 091404542.

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1.15 For Sale (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

Coarse Salt.   50 kgs, Z$5,500 collected Ruwa or Z$ 6,000 delivered Harare.
Molasses, Z$ 120 per litre.   Container required for large quantities.
Children's coloured chairs Z$ 3,000.  Apply mnmilbank@zol.co.zw

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1.16 For Sale (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

Various 3m wooden garden shed / workshop / storeroom panels for sale, some
plain, some with windows, some with doors.
Please contact 023 418 781 for further details.

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1.17 For Sale (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

RECIPE BOOKS @ $5 000 (new currency)
The Millennium Collection Of Great Recipes - Produced by Lilfordia School

A collection of tried and tested favourites from parents, grandparents and
friends.  First produced in 2001 this book has proved very popular as it
suits Zimbabwe's ingredients!

All proceeds will go towards re-vamping the Lilfordia School Staff Room as a
farewell gift from the outgoing Grade 7 class.

Contact:  Judy Bruce Tel:  494367 (evenings), 011 217 027, alidy@mweb.co.zw

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1.18 For Sale (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Fuel - Marineland Harbour, Kariba

Dear Customers,

Please be advised that Kingdom Calls Pvt. Ltd t/a Marineland Harbour will be
taking over supply and control of their fuel depot with immediate effect.

Our Management Agreement to supply fuel to the Harbour has expired, and we
have decided against renewing it.

Please revert to contacting Marineland directly for your fuel requirements
on the following numbers:

Main Switchboard: 061 2845 / 3115 / 2331

PLEASE NOTE THAT MOBILE NUMBERS 091 275 714 & 091 269 330 ARE NOW PERSONAL
NUMBERS.

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1.19 For Sale (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

HONEY JEWELLERY:  Imported from South Africa - a selection of gold-plated,
rhodium plated, antique bronze plated necklaces, bracelets, rings and
earrings, exclusively made up with Swarovski crystals, cubic zirconia,
pearls and a new range of bayong wood beads, coconut heish, brown lip shell
necklaces and bracelets.  Please contact Annette on 011 600 769 or
dapayne@zol.co.zw
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1.20 For Sale (Ad inserted 05/09/06)
22 kva Generator run by 4 cylinder Diesel motor.
In very good condition

Offers welcome. For more information & viewing arrangements
Please contact Craig on 091 418 625

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1.21 For Sale (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

A "family"(mother, father and baby) of exquisitely, carved hippos. You won't
find another like them. View them at "Serendipity"-coffee shop.2a,
Serendipity close (entrance on Golden Stairs Road), Mount Pleasant. Phone
Robyn 011413609 or Janet 091344616.They really are stunning--you need to see
them for yourself.

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1.22 For Sale (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

2x 350l DEFY Fridge /white/

1x DEFY Sove /black/

1x TV SONY PLAZMA 42` LCD /silver/

Just imported. Call: 882384, 091 775544, 011 607045

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1.23 For Sale (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

NEW & USED TRACTOR SPARES

Too many to list to include:-
Deutz D60/D68 - 8 speed gearbox in good condition ZW$150 thousand re-valued
currency

IRRIGATION PUMP - Power driven by 100hp Perkins Diesel engine, mounted on a
well built trailer. Please contact us for any further enquiries.

Contact Doug Edwards Ph 068-22463 / 011212454 - tracspray@zol.co.zw

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1.24 For Sale (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Mein Kampf or My Struggle by Adolf Hitler. Unexpurgated edition.1939.Two
volumes in one. First volume: A Retrospect. Second volume: The National
Socialist Movement. Hurst and Blackett LTD London 1939. In good condition. I
am selling this book as a collector's item of historical interest as I in no
way condone the views contained in the book. Please email zermatt@mweb.co.zw

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1.25 For Sale (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

AUDI A4 - Second owner since new with service record.  Excellent condition.
Leather seats. 160000km Offers.  Phone 339144, 091 311 503

HONDA PRELUDE V TEC - 1994.  Beautiful metallic silver. Immaculate. 155000
km.  Offers.  Phone 339144, 091 311 503

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1.26 For Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

OFFERED FOR SALE

Milk Seperator.

Alfa Lavel hand operated milk separator with all attachments. Also has
fittings to operate by electric motor.

Contact: 04 - 745463  / 011211924.

Wall Mirrors.

1 x 60 cms x 162 cms x 3 mm.
1 x 60 cms x 120 cms x 4 mm.
1 x 100 cms x 100 cms x 3mm.

Contact 04 - 745463 / 011211924.

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1.27 For Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

Piano for sale: C Burlman & Co.  Phone 775691.

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1.28 For Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

2002 Toyota Landcruiser 100series GX Standard 55000km,white,mp3 player plus
many more extras. Equivalent 38000US. 4.2 diesel. Contact 091 261085 Alex
011609709 Mike.  Available for sale 20 September

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1.29 For Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

MP3 Player:  FM/MP3/WMA/DVR/Line-In, 265MB, USB2.0, R480.00
Contact 091314285 Debbie, 091394803 Alisha

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1.30 For Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

Small bar. 1,6 X 0,5metres. Never been used. Considerable lockable storage
space. Ideal for a small entertainment area. $300,000.00 ONCO. Phone 302702
for appointment to view.

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1.31 For Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

"THE WEAVERY."
Phone your orders to--Anne--011212424 or 332851.
Email  joannew@zol.co.zw
Fax--332851.

SUPER GIFT IDEAS FOR LOCAL OR OVERSEAS FRIENDS AND FAMILY. LIGHT,EASY TO
WASH AND SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
CHRISTMAS IS NOT THAT FAR OFF-BUY BEFORE PRICES GO UP AND BEFORE THE
CHRISTMAS "RUSH"!.

 Prices.
Small woven bags--$1,200 each.
Large crocheted bags.--$2,700 each.
Large woven bags.--$2,300 each.

Table Runners.--$1,600

Set of 4 Fringed Table mats + serviettes--$5,100
Set of 6 Fringed mats+ serviettes--$8,000

Set of 4 Bordered table mats+ serviettes---$6,000
Set of 4 Bordered table mats only---$4,500
Set of 6 Bordered mats + serviettes--$9,000
Set of 8 Bordered mats + serviettes---$12,000

Tea cosy(L)--$1,000
Tea cosy(m)--$900
Tea cosy(s)--$800

Cotton(lined)oven gloves(pair)--$1,400
Aprons--$2,600

Decorated cushion covers--$1,900
Plain cushion covers---$1,600
2m Throw--$6,000.

X Large plain cotton rug--$15,000. approx.230x130cms.
Large plain cotton rug--$5,300.approx.150x75cms.
Med. plain cotton rug---$3,700.approx.120x65cms.
Small plain cotton rug.---$2,300.approx.105x52cms.
Cotton Rag Rug--$2,300.approx.105x52cms.
Lots of other rugs to order.Mohair and wool too.

Duvet Cushions(opens into a
duvet)--$16,000(Single).$20,000(Double).$23,000(Queen).
Toilet sets--$3,800
Bath mats---$2,300

  Wholesale prices available for orders (over 6 of an article) or large
purchases.

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1.32 For Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

SEED DESIGNS (based in Chiredzi)

Beautiful hand embroidered items for sale as follows: -

Wall Hangings                    $19,000
Muslin Throws/tablecloths    $13,400
Throw-overs                         $34,000
Bedspread/duvet covers       $45,100
Tea cosy/cloth set               $ 7,000
Toaster covers                     $ 3,500
Tablecloths assorted            $ 8,800
Oven gloves                         $ 4,200
Small bags                          $ 3,500
Binocular bags                     $ 4,500
Shoulder bags                      $ 6,600
Wallets                                $ 3,600
Canvas bags large                $10,920
Webbing bags                      $11,200
Med cushion covers              $  7,600
Small cushion covers            $  4,800
Cushion inners                     $  3,800
6 table mats & serviettes       $15,000
Pillow case                           $ 2,700
Table runner                          $ 7,700
Paintings                              $40,000

And much more!!  For more information please contact Michelle Ross (Harare
rep) on cell phone no: 091 202 138 or 883606 or alternatively e-mail me at
rossi@hms.co.zw

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1.33 For Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

On Sunday 17th SEPTEMBER 2006
AT 17 HAUPT ROAD
GREENDALE
HARARE

STRICTLY FROM 8am TILL 5pm

BEDS; FURNITURE; ELECTRICAL GOODS ; ORNAMENTS ; FARM EQUIPMENT

PLEASE COME IN AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE ON OFFER

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2 WANTED ITEMS

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2.1 Wanted (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

2 x 20 foot refrigerated containers in working order. One coldroom and one
freezer room.

Contact Dux on 091 372 737 or procurement@saflodge.co.zw

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2.2 Wanted (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

8 seater metal verandah dining suite, preferably with cushions, in good
condition.  Will pay cash.

Please phone Clare on 091 233618 or 776494 (evenings)

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2.3 Wanted (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

Phillips of LG Colour Television in good working order min. 21''.Plse call
Andrew on  740233 Hre.

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2.4 Wanted (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

Heavy-duty trailer - Safari operator spec.

Phone 861352 or email richmond@mweb.co.zw

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2.5 Wanted to Lease Urgent (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

Wanted to lease - large small-holding or small farm. We need flat land to do
horses - outbuildings would be essential, as would a house. Stables would be
a bonus. Urgent.
Contact 011 215 197 or e-mail martynandcarole@zol.co.zw

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2.6 Wanted (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

HEIFERS or Weaners wanted to buy. I need 12 to 15 animals from in and around
the following areas Chinhoyi, Banket, Karoi, Tengwe , Hurungwe, Kadoma and
Kwekwe. Prefer Brahman, Africander , Tuli or any other hard mombes . Please
contact Joel on 091 450 928 or Email joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com

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2.7 Wanted (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

WANTED urgently is a Working / Non- Working TV, VCR, DVD, Satellite Dish,
Decoder and/or Hifi. Please contact Joel on 091 450 928 or email
joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com

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2.8 Wanted (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Plastic.  Most kinds of used clean plastic purchased.  Free transport on
commercial quantities.
Please contact:  Reclaim Plastics, Ruwa.  Phone 073-2860 or 073-3350.

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2.9 Wanted (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Alternator only (no engine) single phase 5KVA.  Please contact Rob on
robfynn@mango.zw or phone: 04-499776, 091887864

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2.10         Wanted (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Landini Tractor 68:60 4 wheel drive in good working order.  Please contact
Sean 011 209628

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2.11         Wanted (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

UREGNTLY looking for a Reel-to-Reel Tape recorder.  Power operated.  With or
without microphone.
Variable speed 1 1/4 to 7 1/2 rev's per second.
Please contact Bill Edwards on 091240206 or through Doug Edwards
tracspray@zol.co.zw or 068-22463

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2.12         Wanted (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Wanted are old $100 000.00 bearer cheques, phone 496829

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3 Accommodation Wanted and Offered

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3.1 (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Accommodation Wanted

Sober person looking for immediate accommodation
around the East Rand in Joburg. Phone Graham cell (SA) 076-1359806 (H) (+27)
011-782 9635

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3.2 (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

ACCOMMODATION OFFERED

I have two rooms, which I'd like to rent out.  As I will be alone with my
mother I would prefer to rent these rooms to two gentlemen for security
purposes.  The gentlemen should be decent and of sober habits.  Please
contact Debbie on 091 830 953 or email customercare@hotelguestsupplies.co.zw
for further information

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3.3 Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Responsible middle aged ex farming couple require cottage / small house to
rent as soon as possible.

Area: preferably Avondale / Northwestern suburbs.

Email: nelaine@mango.zw; Ph.: 335621 - evenings

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3.4 Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 22/0806)

Middle aged couple with two teenage kids require 3 or 4 bed roomed house,
Hillside, Greendale, Mandara etc, From November, pref long lease. Please
phone Brian Lethbridge on 091260026.

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3.5 Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

Accommodation is needed for a trainee Diesel Pump Technician. Location
Greendale / Mandara area, preferably close to the Arcturus Road. He works
mid way between Harare and Arcturus.

Please telephone Mark on 459702 business hours or 459703 after hours, or you
can email me at rwestley@mango.zw

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3.6 Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

We are a young married couple with a two-year-old daughter looking for a
secure home to rent.  Any area considered, need not be fancy but homely.  We
guarantee to look after your home. 1st October or earlier

If you can help please contact Kerry-Anne Mellet 750905-14 or 091-754-226 or
email Kerry Anne.Mellet@zw.ey.com

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3.7 Town House for Sale (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

TOWN HOUSE for sale in Johannesburg, Sibiti Summercon Private Estate.  3
BEDROOM, 3 BATHROOM, FOURWAYS Price ZAR 1 700 000. OWNER FINANCE AVAILABLE -
ONLY 15% DOWN.  Rental will cover monthly instalments.
For more details contact afriglobal@gmail.com or phone rob +26311221623

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3.8 House for Sale (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

House for sale - Borrowdale $160 million (new currency)
Lovely Mediterranean home comprising 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (main en
suite), guest loo, 2 lounges, kitchen, covered verandah with built-in bar,
swimming pool, pretty garden with prolific borehole, alarmed,
satellite, generator, fully walled, electric fence, electric gate.  Set on 1
acre.  Phone 091-601-695.

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3.9 Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

The old Glenlorne farm house, at 27 Arnold Edmunds Drive, available for rent
as from end Sept:

A large master bedroom, ensuite, with own lounge and office; 3 bedrooms
sharing another bathroom; big sitting room, with sun room and dining room
adjoined, looking on to garden; spacious kitchen; Large front garden and
vege garden in rear, good borehole water, Msasa woodland surrounds. Good
security. 2 x Tel One Lines
connected.

This house is part of a small community, being one of 3 main residences and
a cottage on a 5 acre stand, electric fenced with alarm, each with its own
privacy,
sharing common automatic entrance gate , security guard and neighbourhood
watch expenses.

Equiv US$ 225 pm, contact Rob on 091 887 864, 04 499776, or robfynn@mango.zw

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3.10 Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Single house-proud lady with elderly mother and two children looking for a 3
or 4 bedroomed house.  Must be walled and gated.  Loves gardening.  Please
contact Debbie on 091 830 953 or email customercare@hotelguestsupplies.co.zw

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3.11 House-sitter Wanted (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Reliable family/elderly couple to housesit a house on a citrus farm in
Hazyview South Africa from mid November to mid February.
Any queries please contact us at the following email
fourstreams@xtra.co.nz

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3.12 Accommodation Offered (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

On offer is a three bed roomed house in Chisipite in a very secure area.
Rentals Z$100,000 + deposit reviewed every 3 months. Contact Roy on 011
433588 or e-mail me vascozim@yahoo.com. Available 1st October.

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3.13 Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

Accommodation wanted in Harare, preferably around Mount Pleasant, Newlands
or Borrowdale.
Any cottages or small houses would be perfect. Will consider house sitting.
Needs to be a secure surrounding, as, I'm a single female who's very
friendly, neat & tidy.

If anything is available please contact Caroline on 011 214 453

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3.14 Accommodation Available (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

I have a very attractive, newly thatched cottage to let in Bromley, 55 kms
from Harare and 30 kms from Marondera.  It is small, only two bedrooms, and
is in the
garden next to the pool.  It has its own garden, and space to grow
vegetables or whatever.
Rent l8 thousand dollars monthly plus Zesa

Phone Jennifer - 073 3399, or 0ll 4236l4, or 04 333952, 336945 (leave
message)

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3.15 Housesitter Wanted (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

Desperate for a house sitter on my Bromley farm for the months of October
and November while I go to Australia.  No farming necessary, just 3dogs and
2 cats to love, and a lovely home and garden.  No money exchanges either
way.

Please phone Jennifer at 0ll 4236l4

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4 RECREATION

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4.1 Savuli Safari (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Self-catering chalets in the heart of the Save Valley Conservancy. Game
watching, fishing, horse riding, anoeing, walking trails and 4x4 hire. Camp
fully kitted including cook and fridges, just bring your food, drinks and
relax. Best value. 1/2 U/12 U3 free.  Contact John: savuli@mweb.co.zw or
Phone 091 631 556

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4.2 (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

DO WANT TO SPEND A RELAXING WEEKEND AWAY?

WHY NOT VISIT MAZVIKIDAI ? ONLY 80KM FROM HARARE

A SELF CATERING LODGE WHICH CAN SLEEP UP TO 20 PEOPLE FOR ONLY Z$ 5 000
000.00 (NEW CURRENCY Z$ 5 000.00) PER NIGHT AT THE MOMENT

FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT DEBBIE ON 091 830 953

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4.3 Forth-coming events (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Art Exhibition: Saturday 4 November 2006 at 187 CarickCraig Road Helensvale

Theme:  Opertunities

This is an open exhibition all artists who wish to exhibit are welcome,
there will be a nominal admin fee charged and a commission charged on any
works sold on the day.
If you wish to book for a stand, please contact me at this e-mail address
warwick@earth.co.zw or 091346875.  Or at 187 Carick Craig Road (from 1
September 2006)

Gates open from 9 am to late afternoon. There will be refreshments
available.

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4.4 Aintree Road Fair (Lovely Linens Fair) (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Bookings are now open Please contact Sandy directly on e-mail
parvin@zol.co.zw or contact the shop on 490615 or make bookings directly to
Lovely Linens at 14 Aintree Road Highlands.

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4.5 Christmas Craft fair in the Village (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

We are going to try a new concept this year and hold our annual Christmas
fair in the village complex at Sam Levy;s Village . This will be on Saturday
and Sunday 9 and 10 December 2006.

Bookings are now open; we will however reserve the right to choose who can
exhibit, as we will not permit any flea market or commercially made items.

Please make your bookings on this e-mail address warwick@earth.co.zw or
contact 091346875.

Booking forms will also be available from the Tenants association in Sam
Levys Village as from 1 September 2006.

There will be a stand fee charged, this will be to cover overheads and
advertising and other costs.

There will be no entrance fee charged on the days but there will be
charities collecting donations on the day.

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4.6 (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

HEAR YE    HEAR YE

MEDIEVAL DINNER AND DANCE ON FRIDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2006

AT HELLENICS CLUB, EASTLEA NEXT TO CHAPMAN'S  7PM TILL LATE

MUSIC BY ALCHEMY

DRESS : MEDIEVAL ATTIRE PREFERED
BUT SMART CASUAL IS ACCEPTED

TICKETS ON SALE NOW.  TICKETS CAN BE DELIVERED

CONTACT DEBBIE ON 091 830 953

FOR BOOKING OR FURTHER INFORMATION

DINNER CONSISTS OF A 3 COURSE MEAL

LOTS OF PRIZES. FUN TO BE HAD BY EVERYONE.

BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

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4.7 (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

GACHE GACHE LODGE - KARIBA

Accommodation still available for xmas and new year. Book now to save
disappointment.
Contact: Andrea tourleaders@zol.co.zw or 091 208 836

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4.8 (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

Stunning Self Catering Apartments on the beach, Umhlanga and the North
Coast, to let, contact Bonnie 00 27 83 4155650 or beachholiday@telkomsa.net
or Angie 091 402 351

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4.9 (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

WINDY'S PUB

WHERE YOU WILL FIND GOOD MUSIC (By ALCHEMY), GOOD FOOD AND GOOD COMPANY

FREE SNACKS; FOOD ON SALE; CHEAP DRINKS (JUST ABOVE COST PRICE)

14 TERENURE ROAD; MANDARA

PHONE DEBBIE ON 091 830 953 FOR DETAILS

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4.10 (Ad inserted 29/08/06)

INGRIDS LODGES BED & BREAKFAST
'' A home away from home.''

For your stay in Bulawayo!

An Accommodation Establishment of Exceptional Class

Whether you are travelling for business or pleasure our lodges offer you
privacy, comfort and friendly atmosphere.

Each lodge has a kettle, mini bar, TV, en-suite bathroom and shower for your
comfort.

Peaceful surroundings in a secure walled property with a gate and easily
accessible.

Phone: 263 - 9 - 241763
or  240078
E-mail:  ingolod@mweb.co

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4.11 TANDEM SKYDIVES (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

Contact Chris on: 091302357 (every Saturday at Charles prince airport)
Great idea as a gift...

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4.12 (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

ST GEORGE'S COLLEGE ART EXHIBITION AND FORAL ART DISPLAY

Saturday 16th September from 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday 17th September from 10
am to 12 pm in the Beit Hall and Loyola Hall.

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5 SPECIALIST SERVICES

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5.1 (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

SERVICES

Express Tree-Feller, Alexio Kambanje, highly recommended. Capable of
carrying out difficult and unusual challenges. He can be reached on
023-313-016

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5.2 (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

If you have an Apple computer and it needs servicing or repair, I can highly
recommend an excellent specialist service in Tonderayi Matema at ISSHOGAI
ENTERPRISES P/L, Wesley House, 17 Selous Ave, 2nd floor, Cnr Third St /
Selous Ave

Phone:  +263 4 704156, 704192, 704199
mobile: +263 91 410 148, e-mail: fatch@mweb.co.zw

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5.3 Second-hand Junk (Ad inserted 22/08/06)

Do you want to get rid of your second hand junk ?  Your junk is someone
else's treasure.  We will sell it on your behalf.  Please contact Debbie on
091 830 953 or email vicspub@yahoo.com for further information

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5.4 Minor Vehicle Repairs (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Minor vehicle repairs and servicing undertaken by qualified mechanic.
Personalized service and very reasonable rates.

Phone Johnny Rodrigues 336710, 339065, 011 603 213

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5.5 (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

Cooking courses for Domestic workers

Training by qualified chef... Also available for small functions birthday
parties etc.

For more information contact Jacques on 011 214 453

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5.6 (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

G - TECH

Diesel vehicle and plant maintenance.
Site contracting.
Generator and stationary engine instal lation and maintenance.
Tractors.
Hydraulics.

Contact Graham at gtech@zol.co.zw or call 011 406023, 091 286657, 04 741001,
075 2264

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6 PETS CORNER
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6.1 Wanted (Ad inserted 16/08/06)

Budgies. Please contact mshaw@zol.co.zw. Preferably Harare or surrounds.

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6.2 Wanted (Ad inserted 05/09/06)

I'm looking for 2 German shepherd dogs aged round about 3 years old, which
will go to a VERY loving and VERY good home. Please phone 302138, Kathy
Hull.

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6.3 Puppies for Sale (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

3 female and 2 male Blue Australian Heeler pups. Contact Priscilla on
083-2805057.
I can deliver anywhere Bulawayo or Beitbridge area

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6.4 Home Wanted (Ad inserted 12/09/06)

Superb brindle Labrador/staffy dog looking for kind and loving home. Approx
3 years, lovely nature would make an excellent companion and protector. Tel
Michelle (Terrier Rescue) on 884294 or 011602903 or e-mail me on
gandami@mweb.co.zw

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 please don't hesitate to contact us - we're here to help!
+263 (04) 799 410 Office Lines
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