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
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
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
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
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.
05:41pm
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."
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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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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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