Zim Online
Thu 20 July
2006
HARARE - The United States (US) yesterday said it would
welcome
efforts by former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa to mediate in
Zimbabwe's crisis only if he was able to convince President Robert Mugabe to
accept responsibility for his country's crisis.
The Tanzanian
would also have to persuade Mugabe to accept sweeping
political and economic
reforms necessary to rescue Zimbabwe from its
problems, the US embassy in
Harare said in statement on Wednesday.
"If former president Mkapa
is able to convince the government of
Zimbabwe to acknowledge its
responsibility for the crisis and to embrace the
need for reforms and
national dialogue focused on Zimbabwe's present and
future rather its past,
this initiative could make a meaningful
contribution," the statement read in
part.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called off a
visit to
Harare after Mugabe told him on the sidelines of an African Union
meeting
held in Gambia last month that Mkapa had been appointed to mediate
between
Zimbabwe and its former colonial power
Britain.
Mugabe claims Zimbabwe's economic and
political problems are a result
of the southern African country's dispute
with Britain, which he accuses of
using its clout on the international
platform to punish his country and
sabotage its economy. London denies the
charge.
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party
and civic
groups in Zimbabwe also reject Mugabe's claims that Zimbabwe's
problems are
caused by Britain and instead blame the 82-year old leader of
ruining what
was once one of Africa's most vibrant economies through
repression and wrong
policies.
Annan had been expected to use
the visit to Zimbabwe to persuade
Mugabe to leave power, a development most
political analysts say is vital
for any plan to rescue the southern African
nation to succeed.
In return for Mugabe agreeing to step down, the
UN chief would have
offered substantial international aid for Zimbabwe and
guarantees that
Mugabe would not be prosecuted for crimes committed while in
office.
The US said it saw no evidence to suggest that Zimbabwe's
"real and
growing problems" could be resolved through bilateral talks
between the
country and Britain, warning Mkapa that his mission would
achieve little if
it mistakenly focused on diversionary claims by Mugabe
that his country's
problems were authored in London.
Failure to
uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law,
misguided economic
policies and high level corruption were the root causes
of Zimbabwe's
political and economic crisis, the US said.
The US said: "As a
sovereign and independent nation, it is up to the
government and the people
of Zimbabwe to recognise that the roots of the
country's current crisis lie
within Zimbabwe, and equally to assume their
responsibility for devising
viable solutions internally."
Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs Minister
Simbarashe Mumbengegwi was not
available for comment on the
matter.
Zimbabwe is in the grip of a severe economic crisis
characterised by
shortages of fuel, food, essential medicines, electricity,
hard cash and
just about every basic survival commodity, while inflation is
beyond 1 000
percent.
Mugabe has in the past spurned attempts
to mediate a solution to
Zimbabwe's crisis by Presidents Thabo Mbeki of
South Africa and Olusegun
Obasanjo of Nigerian as well as by former
Mozambican president Joacquim
Chissano. But he seems to have warmed up to
Mkapa. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 20 July
2006
HARARE - Most families in Zimbabwe's rural areas will require
food
assistance after poor harvests again this year, aid agencies said in a
report, dispelling claims by President Robert Mugabe's government of a
bumper harvest this year.
The report by the Consortium for
Southern Africa Food Security
Emergency (C-SAFE) that was released last week
but made available to
ZimOnline this week was compiled from data collated in
April when most
households would have finished harvesting.
The
consortium brings together non-governmental organisations (NGO)
involved in
relief work and among its members are World Vision, CARE,
Catholic Relief
Services and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency.
Describing the food situation in Zimbabwe's countryside as "grave",
the NGO
consortium said because of extremely high unemployment levels in
rural areas
many households there were resorting to brewing illicit beer
which they sell
to raise money to buy food.
The report reads in part: "Most of the
households reported cereal
stocks below 51 kg. Households usually require an
average of 78.7 kg of
cereals per month. The worst districts are Kadoma,
Murehwa, Matobo and
Chirumhanzu where all the respondents reported stocks
below 51kg.
This comes soon after harvests and shows that harvests
for households
were poor. This coupled with cereal shortages gives a grave
picture of the
food security situation in the surveyed
districts."
The survey to establish the food situation in rural
areas was carried
out in a selected eight districts across the country. It
is the first
independent survey on Zimbabwe's harvests this year after the
government
blocked similar attempts by NGOs to establish the food situation
in the
country.
Agricultural Minister Joseph Made was not
immediately available for
comment on the matter on Wednesday.
Both Made and Mugabe have however insisted in recent months that
Zimbabwe
would not need food aid this year because it would harvest about
1.8 million
tonnes of the staple maize this year, which is enough for
national annual
consumption.
Mugabe, who is eager to show that his controversial
land reforms
blamed for food shortages are succeeding after all, has made
similar claims
of food sufficiency but which later turned out to be
false.
Independent food experts and international relief agencies
have
insisted that shortages of seeds and fertilizer at the beginning of the
last
farming season meant Zimbabwe would still fail to produce enough food
despite receiving good rains.
Zimbabwe, which was once a
regional breadbasket, has faced acute food
shortages since Mugabe began
seizing productive farms from whites for
redistribution to landless blacks
six years ago. But the black
villagers resettled on former white
farms failed to maintain production
because the government did not give them
inputs support or skills
training. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 20 July
2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
is today
scheduled to meet Southern African Development Community (SADC)
chairman and
Botswana President Festus Mogae in Gaborone for talks over his
country's
escalating political crisis.
Tsvangirai, who is the
president of the main faction of the splintered
Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) party and is being accompanied by his
deputy Thokozani Khupe
and other top party officials.
"The President will leave with a
delegation of three other executive
members to hold discussions with Mogae
who is the current SADC chairman,"
said Nelson Chamisa, the MDC
spokesman.
Chamisa said the Gaborone talks will focus on the
worsening economic
and political crisis in Zimbabwe, the MDC's proposed
roadmap as well as the
initiative by former Tanzanian president Benjamin
Mkapa to unlock the
six-year old political crisis in Zimbabwe.
"We are galvanising regional support for the resolution of the crisis
in
Zimbabwe," Chamisa added.
Tsvangirai is expected back home later
today.
The meeting with Mogae comes about a month before SADC
leaders meet in
Maseru, Lesotho for their annual summit where President
Robert Mugabe is
expected to unveil the Mkapa initiative.
Meanwhile, the MDC says Tsvangirai will this weekend address star
rallies in
the Midlands town of Kwekwe and rural Nkayi in the southern
Matabeleland
province.
The opposition leader has been meeting supporters
countrywide to
galvanise them for street protests he has promised to call
this winter to
force Mugabe to accept sweeping political reforms. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 20 July
2006
HARARE - Armed Zimbabwean police on Wednesday arrested 19
members of
the Combined Harare Residents Association civic group for
demonstrating
against a 1 000 percent hike in water charges by the Harare
City Council.
Two journalists, Ndamu Sandu of The Standard private
newspaper and
Godwin Mangudya, a freelance journalist, were also arrested
during the
crackdown by the police.
They were all still
detained at Harare Central Police Station last
night.
The
demonstrators wanted the Harare commission headed by Sekesai
Makwavarara to
address the deteriorating service delivery which has seen the
council
failing to collect refuse and deal with burst sewer pipes over the
past few
years.
Sarah Chishiri of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, who
is
representing the arrested demonstrators, said the police were blocking
them
from talking to their clients in a bid to have them spend the night in
police cells.
"We are still to talk to our clients but we have
established that they
have arrested 19 people. The police have not yet told
us the charges they
will prefer against our clients. Unfortunately, they are
likely to sleep in
custody because we are not making any progress," said
Chishiri.
The Harare civic group, which was set up to fight for the
rights of
residents, wants the government to conduct council elections in
the city to
elect a new mayor and council after the Harare authorities
dismissed former
opposition mayor Elias Mudzuri and his council about three
years ago. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 20 July
2006
HARARE - Zimbabwean companies and domestic consumers will have
to fork
out more for electricity following another hike in tariffs by the
Zimbabwe
Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA).
The latest tariff
increase - which was effective on Tuesday - will see
domestic electricity
users paying a fixed monthly charge of Z$783 100 up
from $103 053
previously. This represents an increase of about 660 percent
in just one
month.
The fixed monthly charge for industrial users has been hiked
to $3.3
million with effect from 18 July, according to the schedule of
tariffs
released by the Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Company (ZEDC), a
copy of
which was obtained by ZimOnline. ZEDC is the arm of ZESA responsible
for
power distribution.
According to the schedule, domestic
households will be levied at $400
per kilowatt hour (kWh) for the first 250
kWh. It was previously $103.53 a
kWh.
The tariff increases to
$2 200 a kWh for the next 250 kWh and $3 000
for usage above 500 kWh. This
was previously $1 000 and $2 000 per kWh
respectively.
Non-domestic users - who include mines and industrial firms - will
attract a
$2 800 per kWh on-peak charge, up from $1 500 in June. The
off-peak tariff
rises from $400 per kWh to $700 a kWh.
The tariff hike comes at a
time ZESA has been inconveniencing most of
its customers through incessant
power cuts that have disrupted production in
industry.
The
cash-strapped power utility has been failing to generate enough
electricity
to meet domestic needs. It was recently bailed out by the
Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe (RBZ) after failing to purchase coal to fire its
three thermal
power stations at Harare, Munyati and Bulawayo.
The latest tariff
hike is sure to trigger an increase in prices and
services across the board,
a development that will push inflation which is
the highest in the world at
1 184.6 percent. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 20 July
2006
JOHANNESBURG - The South African Lawyers for Human Rights has
called
on the government to release hundreds of mostly Zimbabwean asylum
seekers
who were arrested last week in a major crackdown against crime in
Johannesburg.
The lawyers' call comes a day after they
successfully fought to have
Washington Mtukumira, a Zimbabwean national,
released from Norwood police
station in Johannesburg where he was being held
since last Friday.
Mtukumira and about 2 000 other foreigners were
being accused by the
South African police of being in possession of fake
refugee status papers.
Jacob Vangarderne, of the South African
Lawyers for Human Rights, told
ZimOnline yesterday that his organisation is
pushing for the release of all
asylum seekers who are still in
detention.
"I can confirm that Mtukumira was released on Tuesday
but right now I
am busy working flat out to see that several thousands
others who were
arrested and were detained on flimsy grounds are also
released.
"As South African Lawyers for Human Rights, we will make
sure that
people's rights are not tampered with," said
Vangarderne.
There has been growing concern among South Africans
that foreign
immigrants could be behind an upsurge of violent crime in the
country. But
diplomats from neighbouring countries whose nationals make the
bulk of
immigrants in Johannesburg deny that their compatriots are fuelling
crime in
South Africa. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thu 20 July 2006
Transcript of SW Radio Africa
programme 'Hot Seat' in which Violet
Gonda talks with Tendai Biti and
Professor Welshman Ncube and Dr Lovemore
Madhuku. Broadcast on 18th July
2006
Violet: We continue our discussion with the two Secretary
General's of
the MDC factions. Tendai Biti from the Tsvangirai MDC and
Professor
Welshman Ncube from the Mutambara MDC and NCA Chairperson
Lovemore Madhuku.
This week we are going to talk about the split in the
MDC.
So much has been said about this split, but there is still
the
contentious issue of the name and party assets. Many have asked where
this
conflict is going or when it is going to end. So, I first asked
Professor
Ncube to update us on where the situation stands right
now.
Prof. Ncube: Well, of course I can't say about this split
where it is
going or when it is going to end. What I can tell you are the
things which
divide us and to some of us, those things which divide us are
very, very
fundamental. The things which divide us, as far as we are
concerned, are
threefold.
There is the issue of violence that
we have spoken about, and that is
issue number one which has been a problem
in the party for most of 2005 and
as Tendai has given all examples the
assaults on Dr Mudzingwa in Gwanda, the
assaults on some staff members in
Bulawayo, the attempted murder of the
Director of Security at Harvest
House, the torture for a week of many
political leaders during May and June
2005.
It is a question of how we deal with it, as far as we are
concerned
young people will always resort to violence in frustration. It is
how we
deal with that violence as leaders and if we deal with it in a
committed
manner where it is clear that none of us are sponsoring violence
or
condoning it for our own political ends, we would not be divided at
all.
It is when it is apparent or it appears that some of us in
the
leadership, and senior leaders, are actually using violence as a tool
to
organise the party, to organise their own colleagues. And, that is where
we
have a problem.
The second issue where we have a problem, is
that as a democratic
movement founded on the values of collective
democratic decision making
where we have created institutions and structures
in our party which must
make decisions.
And those structures
make decisions, those decisions might even be
wrong, that is not the point.
The fact is that once those decisions have
been made collectively in those
structures, they must bind us at all times.
Otherwise what stops
Mugabe, in an election, to say 'the people who
have voted they are wrong, I
overrule them', as he has been saying over the
years. Because once any
person in a position of leadership superimposes
himself or herself over the
people to say I can now decide which decision
is in the interest of the
nation or which decision is not taken by the
people, then you have a
problem.
You are introducing some form of individual meritocracy,
that there
are those who have the wisdom to overrule the people. And this
is where we
have a problem. Where you have people in leadership positions
asserting
this right, to say this thing can go this way. If the vote goes
the opposite
way it is not valid. In other words, to say democracy is valid
only to the
extent where it is consistent with my view and that is not
democracy and in
fact it is very, very dangerous, extremely
dangerous.
Because what stops that person from doing that when they
are
president, when they are prime minister and when they are running the
state. The third and final thing which has divided us is the disrespect
which is accorded to the elected organs of the party.
Once you
disrespect these organs by establishing and instigating
kitchen cabinets
when these substitute themselves for elected organs you
are negating
democracy again. It basically means if you are a government you
will be
basically ignoring government, ignoring cabinet and basically
making
decisions in collaboration with some other body not known by the
constituents and the law.
And this is where we have a problem
and these are the things that
divide us and we have said if there was a
recommitment not just in word,
but also in deed, to these principles then
there would be no problems and
you probably would have a united MC one
day.
Violet: And Tendai, what is your permanent solution to the
split?
Tendai Biti: Well I think a number of things. I think that,
with the
greatest respect to the Professor, personally, as an individual, I
am not
going to to enter into a discourse that tires me; that fatigues me,
and I'm
not going to enter into a discourse that to me does not positively
contribute towards the vision that I have for a new Zimbabwe and that to
me, does not resonate with my understanding of the requirements and the
demands from the ordinary average Zimbabwean who is in Dotito, who is in
Nkayi, who is in Murehwa and who is in Dulibadzimu in
Bietbridge.
As far as I'm concerned, that individual is tired of
ZANU PF. That
individual is tired of inflation that is over 2000 %. That
individual is
tired of going on one meal in two days. That individual is
tired of going
into hospital where there are no drugs. That individual is
tired of sending
children to school who will be sent back a week later
because they can't
afford the school fees.
The bottom line:
that individual is tired of Robert Mugabe and is
tired of the system of
corruption and patronage that he represents. That
individual is tired of
the national security state and the securocrats that
are abusing and
mis-abusing us. And that individual wants organisations,
political parties
that these same people have set up.
The MDC was not set up by the
genius of individuals, its was set up
as a result of collective effort by
the working class of these people and
what they want is a democratic
confrontation of this regime so that we have
democratic change in Zimbabwe.
In that process, yes, you've got rules that
bind you; your constitution;
you're own internal constitution; but the
bigger picture still remains. The
one fundamental process of completing the
change.
The one
fundamental process of saving our country. The one
fundamental process of
turning the dream of a new Zimbabwe into a reality.
And, to me that must be
the starting point, and to me, that must be the
vision that binds us. If we
are not united in respect of that vision then
we have no business in the
democratic trenches.
Then we have no business in the battlefields
against ZANU PF and we
should remain where we are. But if the vision is to
see the democratic
change that this country long needs; that is long
overdue; that we owe to
future generations, then surely surely, surely we
must appreciate the
stability of a united or of a popular front but not one
based on suspicion,
not one based on a patchwork, because as I said,
before, you are not doing
anything about this.
I will not enter
into discourses about this and that after all before
October 12th, I was
just an ordinary member of this party. I've got my
strong views, you know,
about what happened on 12th October and what led to
the split, but I will
not follow into the ZANU PF foot-balling pitch or
cricket field and fire
salvos that will make Robert Mugabe and Chombo
smile. I will not do that.
And, I want to remind ZANU PF, and I know they
are listening or will read
the transcripts, I want to remind ZANU PF that as
far as I'm concerned and
as far as the movement that I represent is
concerned, they are the focus
and they are the focus of the people of
Zimbabwe, but that doesn't mean
that to say housekeeping issues of
transparency are irrelevant. They are
not.
Some of us are democrats to the bone, to the bone marrow, and
I make
no apologies for that and I don't think I would be where I am if the
structure was fundamentally flawed, what is fundamentally flawed is Robert
Mugabe and the entire system that he represents.
Violet: But,
Tendai, do you agree that the issue of having the same
name is not
practical, and, therefore, when are you going to deal with this
problem,
with this particular problem?
Tendai Biti: That's different from
the causes of the split and why the
split will continue, that is a different
issue. I think the issue of the
name, the issues of identity are not a
problem in the immediate short term
because each one of us is carving his
or her own identity. But I think the
more fundamental issue is that if you
two bodies pretend to be fighting
ZANU PF and you purport to be saying the
same thing then surely, at the very
minimum, you must have some
understanding, some co-existence, some non
aggression position and you
mustn't be tearing each other to pieces and
that should be a minimum
starting point.
I know that people are not impervious or opaque to
the inevitability
of discussions around that and in the long term as
Madhuku has said, wounds
are still fresh and for people like Professor
Welshman Ncube, they were in
the cauldron. I don't know what they did to
each other in they so called Top
Six, which in my view was in fact the
Kitchen Cabinet because it was not a
formal structure of this party so I
don't know what they did to each other
in the Kitchen Cabinet of the Top
Six. Some of us were outsiders.
But the duty on some of us is not
to let 12th October take this
struggle 25 years back and it is the duty of
all of us to rebuild the morale
of the pro-democracy movement to the
commanding heights that it was in 2000
and in 2001 and confront this
dictatorship.
We should not allow the dictatorship to continue
having the honeymoon
that it's been enjoying quite comfortably since
October 12th 2005 and that
is fundamental.
Violet: Are you
saying that basically the problem was with the Top Six
and not with the
general membership because you seem to imply that you
don't know what the
real issues were?
Tendai Biti: Look,the 12th of October was merely
the culmination of a
dis-functionality that had arisen in the top
leadership. So the top
leadership, the so called Top Six, must take full
responsibility for what
happened on the 12th October. There was clear
evidence of dis-functionality
in this party. You don't have to be a rocket
scientist to understand that
there was no chemistry in the top leadership
of this movement. That
paralysed the party, we did nothing after the 31st
October, after the theft
of the election on March 31st 2005.
We
did nothing; not even issue a statement when we had Murambatsvina
in May of
2005. So clearly, clearly the was a process of slow death to the
party that
I would argue probably commenced after the heavily stolen
election of March
2002, but that is a long debate. That is a separate
debate, and as I said,
I personally do not have the energy of doing a
discourse into the causes
around the split.
In my private time, I am actually writing and
chronicling my own view
of events in the same manner as Brian Raftopolous
has done in his article.
But, that's my private position, and I am not going
to allow that to exhaust
me and I need all my energies to confront Robert
Mugabe and the sycophants
that are at Government Building in Samora Machel
Street.
Violet: Now, Dr Madhuku, sorry, I'm going to come back to
you but I
just need to do a follow up question with Professor Ncube on what
Biti has
said and which has reminded me of some of the reports that are
coming up.
Now, Professor Ncube, is it true that your faction is
negotiating with
people like Tendai Biti for rapprochement and if so, do you
not find it
unsatisfactory and contradictory that you seem to be fighting
each other on
the streets and negotiating behind closed doors?
Professor Ncube: Well, I'm not sure what you mean by negotiations,
there is
no where we have done any formal negotiations. What we do is talk
to each
other all the time; at least talk to those who are willing to be
spoken to
in the other group and I can assure you, there are not many. And,
when we
talk we talk about exactly the things that Tendai has referred to.
Which is
to say if we are all genuine, then we are democrats, if we are all
genuine
then we are in the business of confronting the Mugabe regime.
Then
surely we have no business of fighting each other. We should
agree to
disagree that we disagreed on 12th October, there are things on
which we
disagreed which resulted in the split and it's time to move on.
Even as
separate entities there's no need, for instance, to be beating up
each
other.
There's no need to be making accusations day in day out
about a whole
range of things; accusing people of collaborating with ZANU
PF, accusing
people of being bought and so forth and so on. And if we are
all genuine in
that we are fighting ZANU PF and so some of us are concerned
and have been
committed to dialogue between the two parties so that you
could, for
instance, end up with some understanding of co-existence and so
each party
is left to wage the struggle against ZANU PF the best way it
sees how
rather than be derailed by the struggles against each other.
I
respect Tendai when he says he doesn't want to have his
energies
sapped by a fruitless struggle within the opposition itself and
which will
leave of course Mugabe and ZANU PF smiling all the way to the
bank. That is
true. But, for some of us, when we struggle against ZANU PF,
we want to
hold ourselves to the highest standards.
We want to
hold ourselves to those ideals for which we say that the
Mugabe regime must
go, and therefore, we will not turn a blind eye, even if
it is exhausting,
to actually make sure that we fix ourselves before we get
to State House.
Let us fix ourselves.
We owe it to the people of Zimbabwe that we
do not give them a false
revolution, a false beginning. It happened in
Zambia for ten years, they
went backwards to worse times then they were
when they were under Kenneth
Kaunda, and it can happen in Zimbabwe. This is
what we are saying and we
insist that this must not happen. People may feel
disillusioned, might feel
disappointment and some people might say that the
bigger struggle, the
bigger enemy is ZANU PF.
But we must be
careful that in the process of fighting the bigger
enemy we do not end up
internalising the values and principles of ZANU PF
and by the time we get
to State House we are in fact no better than the
dictator we have
removed.
Violet: But, could you explain further, a little bit more
about who
you are talking to and what you are trying to achieve? I mean are
you
trying to join forces again or are you talking about the issue of the
assets; dividing the assets?
Professor Ncube: No, we have not
talked. We have said or agreed in
principle there is a need to talk about,
for instance, a code of conduct
between the parties; how we can behave and
things that are not allowed. So,
that, for instance, the violence which
occurred last Saturday does not
occur and the attacks on each other do not
occur. It is that sort of
discussion which we are saying is
necessary.
It hasn't commenced, it hasn't started. We don't know
whether it will
start. There are those in the two parties who are saying it
is necessary for
us at least to have some understanding that the enemy is
not the other
side, the enemy is ZANU PF and therefore why not have some
sort of code of
conduct in respect of which we behave towards each other;
we relate to each
other.
Whether or not that small beginning
can contribute to some greater
co-operation in future is another thing but
we are saying at the very least
there is need to talk about that. If we
can't we cant, but if we can, all
the better. Violet And Dr Madhuku on the
issue of the two parties moving
on, how do you think these two groups should
resolve the issue of the name,
because it is said that as long as there are
two MDC groups not only does
this confuse the grassroots but it also fuels
violence.
Dr Madhuku: Well, I think that it would be a mistake to
think that you
can simply resolve the issue of the name without creating an
atmosphere
that allows them to debate and to be able to believe that they
can resolve
their differences.
When they reach an agreement on
the name that will presuppose an
understanding of respecting each other,
respecting their different roles,
their different perspectives etc. It will
be impossible to resolve the issue
of the name without going through the
important process of recognising the
two different groups that exist and
also recognising that each of the
groups has a right to exist and to
propagate its ideas.
So I would suggest that they wait and then
engage in processes that
they seemingly, from myself listening to Tendai
and to Professor Ncube, that
they all believe ultimately they have to focus
on confronting Mugabe, and I
think if they prioritise on confrontation with
Mugabe in the process the
chemistry that Tendai wants to see coming out, I
think it will come out and
then perhaps in that process they will get the
name. But, they can't just
rush into resolving the issue of the name, it is
impossible and it will
really waste energies and time.
Violet:
And join us next Tuesday when the three panellists will
discuss another
difficult issue; that of the constitution. Has Dr. Lovemore
Madhuku created
a crisis in the democracy movement by the controversial
amendment of the
NCA constitution?
What agreement was reached between ZANU PF's
Patrick Chinamasa and
MDC's Welshman Ncube on the issue of a new
constitution, and, is the draft
constitution that was written by the two
political parties a starting point
for negotiations? Audio interview can be
heard on SW Radio Africa's Hot
Seat programme Tues 18 July 2006 - archives.
www.swradioafrica.com ENDS
[ This report
does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
HARARE,
19 Jul 2006 (IRIN) - Hopes that Zimbabwe could resume beef exports
to the
lucrative European Union (EU) market before the end of this year have
been
dashed by a widespread outbreak of highly contagious diseases the
veterinary
services are struggling to contain.
Harare's beef exports to the EU were
suspended in August 2001 following
repeated outbreaks of foot-and-mouth. The
principal director in the
department of veterinary services, Stuart
Hargreaves, said chronic foreign
currency shortages had defeated the
department's efforts to control the
resurgence of foot-and-mouth, anthrax
and various other tick-borne ailments.
"We need about US$2 million to run
control programmes for the rest of this
year," he noted. Lumpy skin disease,
for example, was affecting each
province, but Zimbabwe was competing with
better-off neighbours to import
vaccines form a single South African
supplier.
Despite the crumbling of services, the department has not given
up on its
disease control efforts. Hargreaves said the fencing off two
national parks
had just been completed to prevent the mingling of wildlife -
especially
buffaloes that carry foot-and-mouth - with domestic
animals.
The chairperson of the Cattle Producers Association, Maryna
Erasmus, told
IRIN the current disease explosion was a result of illegal
cattle movements
that characterised the chaotic government-backed commercial
farm invasions
that began in 2000. He said diseases were introduced into new
areas or
reinfected previously cleansed zones.
"There is a
countrywide outbreak of tick-borne diseases such as heart-water,
red water,
gall sickness, lumpy skin disease, three-day-stiff sickness and
anthrax.
Some farmers can handle these ailments, but they do not have the
vaccines.
It is worse in the communal areas because dip-tanks have not been
working
for two years in some areas. Farmers who can afford basic vaccines
cannot
find them. Government blames all this on foreign currency shortages,"
said
Erasmus.
Before the suspension of the EU beef quota, Zimbabwe earned
US$38 million
annually from its beef exports, representing 4 percent of the
country's
total foreign currency earnings. Repeated efforts to revive EU
sales have
failed although trade deals in other beef products remains
operational.
Cold Storage Commission marketing board member Lovegot
Tendengu told IRIN
that the loss of the beef export agreement was a major
blow to the country.
He added that it would be impossible to revive the
industry until the
epidemics were brought under control.
Reuters
Wed Jul 19,
2006 4:56 PM BST
By MacDonald Dzirutwe
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe
government hospitals were turning away patients
on Wednesday as doctors
defied calls to return to work until their demands
for higher salaries and
improved working conditions were met.
At Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare,
the country's largest health centre,
patients with non-life-threatening
illnesses were turned away because there
were no doctors to attend to
them.
"They refused to admit me ... they are saying my condition is not
serious,
so what am I supposed to do if I go back home," Emilia Kabayadondo,
a
64-year-old grandmother of six with a swollen leg and high blood pressure,
said.
Kabayadondo said she had been at the hospital at 0400 GMT.
She was still
waiting for treatment more than seven hours later.
The
majority of Zimbabweans use state hospitals because they are cheaper
than
private facilities and allow patients to settle their bills months
after
being discharged.
Public health workers have staged a series of strikes
and walkouts in recent
years to press for higher salaries that they say have
failed to keep pace
with living costs, amid an economic crisis widely blamed
on President Robert
Mugabe's 26-year rule.
Unhappy over a basic
salary of $563 (306 pounds) and new rules compelling
them to serve an extra
year-long internship at poorly-equipped rural
hospitals, some 270 state
doctors have refused to work since last Thursday
in the country's four main
hospitals, Zimbabwe's Hospital Doctors
Association said.
"Why can't
they give them the money they want so that they can go back to
work? Where
do they think I can get the money to see a (private doctor)?"
Kabayadondo,
visibly in pain and unable to walk, said in the local Shona
language.
A few metres away, four people hovered over a woman who lay
on the pavement
writhing with abdominal cramps. She was not admitted to the
hospital
although her family hoped she would at least see a
doctor.
Mugabe's government has singled out health workers among state
employees
prevented from boycotting work because they offer essential
services.
But Kuda Nyamutukwa, president of Zimbabwe's Hospital Doctors
Association,
vowed on Wednesday that doctors would press on with their
boycott until a
committee set up to mediate managed to broker a
solution.
Zimbabwe has had a heavy exodus of doctors and nurses in recent
years, with
most moving to neighbouring countries in search of better
working conditions
after completing training.
VOA
By
Blessing Zulu
Washington
19 July
2006
Founding President Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe's
opposition Movement for
Democratic Change said Tuesday that President Robert
Mugabe must choose
between opening negotiations with a broad range of
political and civic
groups about a democratic transition process, or face
sustained
Ukraine-style civil unrest.
Tsvangirai said in an interview
that his faction of the divided MDC has
finalized plans to establish a broad
alliance with other opposition parties
and civil society groups to confront
the Mugabe government on the streets of
the country. The past week has seen
demonstrations in several cities by
groups such as the National
Constitutional Assembly, demanding a new
constitution, and displaced street
merchants.
Mugabe, 82, in power since 1980, has so far ignored such
demands for change
other than to warn that protests will be met with a tough
response from
authorities.
The president meanwhile has met pressure
from international critics with the
position that Zimbabwe's economic crisis
was caused by sanctions imposed by
Great Britain, the United States and
Europe. He has named former Tanzanian
president Benjamin Mkapa as mediator
with Britain, seeking to reopen issues
related to post-colonial land reform
which Britain says were closed long ago
and will not be reopened.
The
British Foreign Office says the real crisis is between Mr. Mugabe and
Zimbabwe's people - an analysis with which Tsvangirai declared himself in
agreement.
The Mkapa diplomatic initiative has the backing of the
African National
Congress, the political core of South Africa's ruling
coalition, and
regional diplomatic sources said it is likely to receive the
endorsement of
the Southern African Development Community.
Tsvangirai
said he intends to follow his party's road map for resolution of
Zimbabwe's
crisis through negotiations Mr. mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF
party.
Reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe asked
Tsvangirai about
the road map, the Mkapa initiative, and ongoing protests by
civil society
groups.
Mail and Guardian
Harare, Zimbabwe
19 July 2006
11:05
Namibia's justice minister has praised Zimbabwe's
controversial
programme of farm seizures, saying newspapers that run
negative stories
about the country are taken over by forces opposed to the
success of
Africanism, it was reported on Wednesday.
Speaking during a tour of three Zimbabwe farms allocated to
black farmers,
Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana said there was too much propaganda
against the
country, the government's Herald newspaper reported.
"When I
came to Zimbabwe I was looking for chaos, disorder,
lawlessness and rampant
human rights abuse. I was surprised to see people
working, some of them on
their farms," the minister said.
Namibia has recently
embarked on its own programme of land
reforms, and says it sees Zimbabwe as
a role model for the way land reform
can be carried out.
President Robert Mugabe launched his programme of white land
seizures in
2000. Only a few hundred white farmers are now left on the land,
out of more
than 4 000 six years ago.
The programme has been wracked with
controversy, following
allegations that well-connected members of the ruling
party cherry-picked
the best farms, often for use as weekend
retreats.
Agricultural production has taken a nosedive,
turning a country
once known as the breadbasket of Southern African into a
struggling food
importer.
Mugabe blames the drop in
production upon repeated drought, but
some senior government officials --
including vice-president Joseph Msika --
have dared to suggest that land
wasn't always given to people with an
interest in
farming.
Namibia's justice minister told the Herald she was
very pleased
to have been brought to see the farms.
"There is too much propaganda against Zimbabwe. I keep on
repeating, our
media from all over Namibia, South Africa are all taken by
forces opposed to
the success of Africanism," Iivula-Ithana said.
The
authorities in Zimbabwe also regularly allege that they are
the victim of a
hostile Western media plot, and there are strict media laws
in place to try
to control which reporters are allowed to work there. -
Sapa-DPA
By Tererai
Karimakwenda
19 July 2006
The latest suspect arrested in
connection with the assault on five
officials from the Mutambara MDC which
took place on July 2 has been denied
bail by a Harare magistrate. Lawyer
Douglas Mwonzora told us Wednesday that
his client, 31 year old Francisco
Zhuwau, was arrested by police at Matopos
National Park in Bulawayo where he
had gone to enquire about a job. Mwonzora
said it is hard to tell why Zhuwau
was arrested because he was not in the
Mabvuku area when the violent attack
took place and there is no evidence
linking him to it. Additionally none of
the victims have named him as a
suspect. Despite the lack of evidence Zhuwau
becomes the ninth person
arrested as a suspect for the attack on Harare
North MP Trudy Stevenson and
four other MDC officials who were assaulted and
robbed by a group of thugs
as they left a meeting in Mabvuku two weeks ago.
He appeared before Harare
magistrate Faith Mushure on Tuesday and was
remanded in custody.
Mwonzora told us the prosecution's case rests
fully on informants they
have refused to name. He said this particular
aspect of the case is very
disturbing because the prosecution cannot keep
the identity of informants
secret from the court and from the defence. The
anonymous informants are the
only evidence the state has presented against
Zhuwau. Mwonzora is also
representing 3 other suspects in the case who were
granted bail by Justice
Garwe at the High Court. But Magistrate Mushure
threw out Mwonzora's
application for bail. The lawyer said he will approach
the high court on
Thursday to grant bail for Zhuwau, as was done in the case
of the other 3
suspects.
The state controlled Herald newspaper
reported Wednesday that the
Mutambara MDC faction has said it will not
co-operate with the committee
appointed by the Tsvangirai MDC to investigate
this violent incident. A
statement by deputy president of the Mutambara MDC,
Gibson Sibanda, said
they found no need to co-operate with a committee whose
composition they
were not party to. The statement said: "In the event of
independent groups
such as civic society setting up a commission, the party
will welcome such
an initiative and will encourage our members to co-operate
with it."
The Tsvangirai faction have insisted the committee led by
Advocate
Happious Zhou is an independent body. The committee includes
lawyers Irene
Petras of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Kay Ncube of
Gill Godlonton
and Gerrans and Kudakwashe Matibiri is the
secretary.
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news
zimbabwejournalists.com
By
Dr. Norman Reynolds
THE situation in Zimbabwe has been critical
for some time without any
sign of a resolution to its myriad of human,
community and economic crisis.
How can the international community,
including African nations, best
help to restore that beautiful and
productive country to peace, citizen
wellbeing and prosperity?
The proposal below involves neither peacekeeping troops nor loans for
macroeconomic stabilization. Only certain limited functions of the Ministry
of Finance would be placed under Trusteeship.
It is innovative,
perhaps even radical, in its reliance on a limited
strategic intervention
that builds citizen social and economic rights, and
rewards business
investment whilst ensuring the working of local economies.
Zimbabwe
is suffering an economic, governance, health and social
implosion. After
three fraudulent elections, a chaotic land redistribution
program, the
"cleansing" of small informal businesses selling daily
essential needs on
the black market and the bulldozing of informal homes,
President Mugabe has
lost any chance of engaging civil society or of turning
the situation
around.
People feel defeated and powerless. As they undertake the
grinding
daily search for the means to survive, citizens have to deal with
an army of
spies and oppressive agents of government. That Government has
been at war
with its citizens for at least three years. Almost a third of
the population
have fled to other countries taking about half the skills
with them.
Zimbabweans have also to accommodate the longest-running
genocide in
fifty years created by the monumental incompetence and
malfeasance of the
national government. Zimbabwe has an HIV-AIDS pandemic
that is comprised of
a 35% + infection rate amongst adults compounded by 80%
unemployment, mass
poverty and food scarcity, and a government that is
unable, perhaps is
unwilling, to put people before its survival. The result
is that, in
Zimbabwe, HIV infection turns quickly to AIDS and AIDS to
death.
No international authority has yet named this genocide, and
no agency
has yet taken responsibility to stop it! By not naming the
genocide,
international law, that requires foreign intervention, is not
applicable.
This has suited South Africa's "quiet diplomacy".
In 2003, I estimated with colleagues in Zimbabwe that some 400,000
extra
deaths took place that year because of official venality; none of
these
should have died but rather have lived productive lives under care for
many
more years.
Political Paralysis
The current danger is
that, with Mugabe weak and old, the field is
ripe for new demagogues to take
over.
We must forget about any first requirement for a government of
'national unity'. That is not on, not because the MDC so distrusts ZANU-PF,
as South Africa should after the many broken promises to President Mbeki,
but because that presumes such a venture will lead to ordered elections.
ZANU-PF has not won the last four elections and will not win any other. It,
therefore, is the party that does not want a national unity government.
Most of its leaders would end up before Human Rights hearings and almost all
would be placed behind bars for corruption. They cannot afford a normal
election.
Zimbabweans do not see, and thus do not agree, on
what to do next. The
Mugabe government does not have the ideas or the
integrity to persuade the
international community to rescue the country it
governs. False statements
by the Mugabe government have led to even the
World Food Program having no
legal mandate to rescue millions of Zimbabweans
from imminent starvation.
The main opposition party, the MDC, has
yet to fashion a recovery
program that can attract both local and
international support. It would
easily win an open election as the
democratic opposition, it would work with
the IMF to create macro-economic
stability, but, at present, it has no plans
that appeal to all citizens by
telling what they will be able to do tomorrow
to secure themselves and their
families.
Now, at last, a senior member of South Africa's ANC
party, Cyril
Ramaphosa, has stated that South Africa should intervene in
Zimbabwe. He,
however, did not say how.
The Terms of any Loan
to Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwe comes begging, as it has recently, and
often blowing hot
and cold, to the UN, South Africa, China, Malaysia and
other possible
'friends', having broken all the rules of international
membership and
having turned against its people, for the means to keep its
economy going
and to feed its people, what does one do?
The
first point is to distinguish between that government and the
plight of its
people, almost all of whom are innocent victims of its
incompetence,
criminality and fascism. This means that help must be given
fast and in ways
that help citizens first: not later after some hoped for
'trickle down' of
activity.
Now, Early November 2005, South Africa has announced a
relatively tiny
grant (US22 million) for food and, rather late, support for
farming for many
southern African countries including Zimbabwe. In addition,
the UN is trying
to raise US$30 million for relief in Zimbabwe, notably to
those who lost
homes and business in the state assault on the poor. Neither
attempt at help
has cleared a pathway to reach the poor rather than simply
bolster Mugabe
and his party.
Given the depth of poverty, there
is no 'demand' in the national
market for more goods and services. Demand in
the hands of citizens is the
urgent need and the basis of any economic
recovery. The terms of the grants
and any loans become the only lever
available to help restore that beautiful
country to democracy and wealth.
How to do it?
So far, the countries other than South Africa to whom
Mugabe is
appealing for funds have not promised much. However, their style
is to
demand large parts of that country's farmland, minerals and future
exports
in upfront payment; measures that help Mugabe to pawn the country
cheaply to
stay in power. His desperation could drive him to 'sell'
Zimbabwe more and
more cheaply.
Zimbabwe's financial games are
just that. In early September it stole
$120 million in scarce hard currency
held legally in exporter's accounts to
stave off the likely loss of IMF
membership by deposited those funds into
the IMF account. . This move is
unacceptable. Worse, while it might allow
the regime to live on for a while
longer, that money, and much more, is
needed immediately to keep those
exporters in business and to find the
wherewithal to purchase fuel, food,
and essential inputs for agriculture and
manufacturing.
The
Role of the International Community
It is a certainty that, over
the next ten years, the international
community will have to pour large
amounts of money into Zimbabwe, certainly
as humanitarian aid but also,
hopefully soon, for its reconstruction.
Immediately, Zimbabwe requires at
least US$818 million for the urgent
importation of grains and cereals that
it does not have. Over the next five
years or so, the total cost of "relief
and recovery" for Zimbabwe will
likely come to at least $15
billion.
What terms should the international community, including
South Africa
and the African Union, set for the use of this money? How can
aid be
provided so that it will not be drained away by corruption and simply
act to
prop up an illegitimate regime?
This is the key question
and opportunity regarding Zimbabwe's recovery
and the return of human rights
and citizen economic security. South Africa
can play a lead role in this
effort, and in so doing can restore the promise
of NEPAD and the African
Union. Zimbabwe represents a unique opportunity to
create a "failed state"
programme based on international trusteeship of a
particular and limited,
but vital form. That would also represent the best
method to reform the
tired and largely ineffectual international AID
business and rebuild rich
country citizen support for it.
Apart from Zimbabwe, such a plan
would fit the needs of Afghans, for
example, to wrest citizen competence
away from warlords, ideologues and
reliance on the opium trade. It has
lessons for South Africa's long
marginalized township and rural areas whose
non-working local economies
still hold the majority of citizens as economic
prisoners.
The Aims and Methods of International
Intervention
To be successful, a recovery program must be built
upon the quick
realization of economic and social rights and effect
humanitarian relief.
People must be treated as competent immediately, not
after prolonged
"relief", "training" or "management" or "trickle down". The
plan must give
them the financial means and the right to make their own
economic decisions,
to look after themselves and their families, to
contribute to their
communities and to build working local
economies.
Finally, the management of foreign exchange in any such
plan is
critical: it must not be diverted into the pockets of corrupt
officials or
be used to pay off the debts of the Mugabe government. Rather,
it must be
highly strategic. It must pass directly from the trusteeship to
be set up to
import key national requirements and to support economically
productive
industry and businesses.
The Plan
The
following is an outline of the plan that a colleague and I put
together in
2003, at the request and with the agreement of the Zimbabwe
Country Team of
the United Nations. It stands in stark contrast to the usual
IMF
macroeconomic stabilization program, based on controlling deficits and
the
balance of payments. Briefly, here are the main points:
a. All
foreign aid is to go into a special account in the Zimbabwe
Reserve Bank,
without exception. A customized foreign exchange system would
be implemented
under UN supervision.
b. The equivalent in local currency would be
transferred into a
Zimbabwe Economic and Social Rights Trust, controlled by
persons appointed
by the major donors and the UN. The Zimbabwe government,
businesses and
civil society could have seats but no majority.
a. Foreign Exchange
Under the plan, all foreign exchange
("forex") provided by the
international community would be sold for local
currency to business and
industry through a series of forex "windows." The
first window would be
limited to exporters, because export industries like
mining, tourism, and
agriculture generate forex through their international
sales, thus
multiplying the amount of forex available. By giving priority to
exporters,
guarantees for foreign loans would be easier for them to obtain,
further
swelling the pool of forex available.
Any forex surplus
in the first window would be passed to a second
window through which
national essentials like fuels, medicines etc., are
bought. This would act
to keep the cost structure of the economy, and
inflation, down.
Any further forex surplus would go to a third window that would
auction its
available forex for use by domestic business and industry.
The Reserve
Bank of Zimbabwe could amalgamate any forex it might have,
but without the
right to determine the rules or prices of this
internationally supervised
scheme.
b. Child and Investment Rights
The Economic and
Social Rights Trust would receive the Zimbabwe $
equivalence of the inflow
of foreign aid to provide "Child" and "Investment
Rights" to all citizens
who register and act together under Community Trusts
formed at the village,
neighbourhood, and street levels.
"Child Rights" would be set at
US$50 (R330) equivalent per child per
month up to 18 years of age. The
monthly inflow of funds would be used first
to buy locally produced food for
daily child feeding. This 'rule' sets apart
the prices in the local market
from global and other sources, rewarding
local production.
The
payments for the food goes 30% to pay the school fee until paid
off each
term, 10% to the Community Trust, and the balance to the parent /
local
supplier. In this way, the money will circulate locally three to four
times,
activating and rewarding local economic production and building
community
cohesion and common purpose.
Thereafter it will rebuild the economy
of the cities and businesses.
"Investment Rights," worth $300 (R2,000)
per adult per year for five
years, would be paid to each Community Trust per
registered resident adult.
These funds would be used jointly at the local
level to build or restore
community productive capacity such as community
gardens, irrigation systems,
improved grazing and woodland, rental housing
and other infrastructure, and
to finance individual crop production, food
processing etc. For the
reconstruction of Zimbabwean society, such funds
must build both community
organisation and productive capacity, but also
call forth and reward and
support individual businesses.
Both
'rights' programmes avoid the considerable distortions Mugabe has
introduced
into the economy by his mishmash of subsidies.
Impact of the
Plan
By design, each Community Trust converts a politically and
economically dysfunctional village or neighbourhood into democratic property
companies, with modernized rights of access to and ownership of land. They
become asset holding, investing and managing bodies. Women become equal
owners, the most important gain possible in Africa. Each year, the Trusts
will issue equally to all members exchangeable 'Use Rights' that they buy
and sell amongst themselves. This will cause prices to arise, the
fundamental requirement for resource management.
Local equal
member / owner labour contributions will more than match
these "investment"
monies since there is now a community body that can turn
cash and labour
investments into member dividends.
We anticipate that Community
Trusts would join with local government
and business to form regional
periodic market systems, community banks,
production and service companies
and the like and possibly operate in local
currencies to ensure that the
local income multiplier is strong so that the
money does not run away to
central places too quickly.
The total cash infusion per year into a
community of a thousand adults
and a thousand children under 18 would be
$670,000. To this, the adults
would add around $456,000 worth of labour. The
local income multiplier
should rise from around a pathetic 1.3 or so at
present to between 3.0 and
4.0. The total annual local economic activity
generated per year would be
around $2.4 million or $4,900 per family of four
(R14, 000, 000 and R32, 000
respectively). Total investment would be
$760,000 per year, or $1,500 per
family (R4, 790, 000 and R9,450
respectively).
This surge in unlocked local energy and economic
investment would then
drive the national Gross Domestic Product at least 3%
per annum higher. It
would also generate tax revenues equal to 60%+ of its
cost because of the
high total national income multiplier, which will be
around 9. Just as
importantly, when compared to the IMF balance of payments
route, it would
first build local demand to reward the revival of
neighbourhoods and then of
companies, ultimately encouraging all Zimbabweans
to become active
participants, both locally and nationally.
Balancing Localization with Globalization
The use of economic and
social rights programming in this plan,
employing a strong "localization"
model to balance "globalization," would
allow Zimbabwe to come under an
innovative form of UN / AU Economic and
Social Trusteeship. It would provide
the means for all citizens to quickly
become economically active and secure,
it would ensure a better than minimum
level of schooling and health for all,
and it would build communities and
local economies, thus laying the
foundation for national reconciliation,
rapid economic recovery and a
broad-based growth in citizen ownership of
their country's productive base.
We anticipate that this will result in a
rapid restoration of an active and
participatory democracy.
Land Reform from the Bottom Up
Financially and organizationally competent communities would gain the
ability and the means to enter the land market if they wished to expand
their land base or to move into particular crops or to be nearer to markets.
This form of economic rights programming takes the state out of the driver's
seat of what has become a too politically charged matter, land reform, and
creates what amounts to full agrarian reform led by the people from the
bottom up.
Finally, if implemented and fully funded, this recovery
plan would
attract back the three million Zimbabweans who have fled in the
last four
years and who have considerable skills and much needed
experience.
Dr Reynolds was Chief Economist with Zimbabwe's late
Finance Minister,
Bernard Chidzero from 1981-86.
VOA
By Patience Rusere
Washington
18 July
2006
Police raided the Killarney squatter settlement outside
Bulawayo Tuesday
morning and took into custody a number of people who had
returned to the
site after being evicted from their homes in Operation
Murambatsvina one
year ago.
Correspondent Matsautso Banda of VOA's
Studio 7 for Zimbabwe reported.
In Harare, witnesses said police
continued to harass residents of the
populous Mbare district after weekend
raids on street vendors in which
police confiscated goods and levied fines
on informal business people
operating without licenses.
There were
unconfirmed reports some unauthorized structures had been
demolished,
evoking memories of the May-July 2005 Operation Murambatsvina
(Drive Out
Trash), which according to a United Nations report left some
700,000
homeless or without livelihoods or both, and created a humanitarian
crisis
in the country.
Residents of Mbare said police forced them to pay
bribes.
Reporter Patience Rusere of VOA's Studio for Zimbabwe asked
spokesman
Precious Shumba of the Combined Harare Residents Association about
conditions in Mbare.
Diamond Karanda, a spokesman for Mbare's member
of parliament, Gift
Chimanikire of the Movement for Democratic change
faction led by Morgan
Tsvangirai, said the continual police activity has
prevented many residents
from making a living.
New America Media
Special to the New America Media, News Report, Dwight Kirk,
Jul 18, 2006
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe now has a new American
acronym to scorn -
CBTU.
The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
(CBTU) has launched a major campaign
to clip Mugabe of his "liberator" image
in the African American community by
exposing the thuggish actions of his
regime against the Zimbabwean people.
CBTU President William Lucy
announced that CBTU would aggressively reach out
to African American media,
labor websites/blogs and other progressive media
this summer to get
Americans "tuned into the Zimbabwe crisis." Lucy also
said CBTU would join
other organizations in demonstrations at the Zimbabwe
Embassy and other
locations.
It is, indeed, a grim picture in Zimbabwe:
80 percent
of Zimbabwe's workforce is unemployed. 700,000 urban poor and
working class
people were made homeless a year ago, when the Mugabe
government declared
them "rubbish" and destroyed their property.
Fuel and food are scarcer
now than ever, with many families living on one
meal or less a
day.
Over the past the two decades of Mugabe's rule, life expectancy in
Zimbabwe
has plummeted by nearly 20 years - to an almost unimaginable level
of 37
years for men and 34 years for women.
Lucy, who is also
international secretary-treasurer of the 1.4
million-member American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
said,"CBTU will not be
a silent witness to this tragedy unfolding on distant
soil liberated by
heroic freedom fighters. Zimbabwe's people, who are
suffering crushing
poverty, homelessness, hunger and rampant violations of
human and trade
union rights, need to know that their cries for help echo in
our hearts, no
less than those of our sisters and brothers in South Africa
who prevailed
over the racist apartheid regime."
Lucy was one of the founders of the
Free South Africa Movement in the 1980s,
which conducted the most effective
grassroots anti-apartheid campaign in the
U.S. He was also instrumental in
raising union revenue to finance Nelson
Mandela's historic trip to the U.S.
in 1990.
In the 1960s Mugabe became an icon of the Zimbabwe nationalist
movement that
fought white-minority rule and won independence in 1979.
However, his
Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) party has tightened its
autocratic
grip on power as Mugabe's support in urban areas has drastically
waned. In
2002, he was reelected in a vote marked by government intimidation
of the
opposition, a crackdown on the free press, and charges of vote
rigging.
Mugabe's descent from icon to despot is wrenching for many black
Americans.
In the 1960s, a lot of black activists here gave money and
claimed
solidarity with Zimbabwe's liberation fighters. Josh Williams,
president of
the Washington, D.C. central labor council, recently returned
from a visit
to Zimbabwe with a verdict on Mugabe's leadership.
"He
[Mugabe] has lost touch with the people," Williams said. "In the past 10
years Mugabe has become a totally different person." Williams, who
represented the AFL-CIO at the 25th anniversary convention of the Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions in May, said "Workers there [Zimbabwe] find it hard
to accept that many of them are being beaten, arrested and harassed by the
same people that they marched with 25 years ago for [Zimbabwe's]
liberation."
Mugabe's hand of repression greeted Williams when he
arrived at the airport
in Harare. "There were about 20 other labor
organizations that sent
representatives to the ZCTU convention," Williams
said. "But when we arrived
at Zimbabwe's airport, 11 delegates were denied
admission and sent back home
by the government, apparently because they had
been critical of past actions
taken by Mugabe."
To squelch growing
dissent from the displaced urban poor, the trade unions,
and farmers whose
lands have been confiscated by the military, Mugabe has
virtually strangled
democracy in Zimbabwe.
Barely two months ago, police officers raided the
headquarters of the
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. They ransacked the
accounts department
under the pretense of searching for documents relating
to foreign currency
transactions and fraud allegations. Union officials
believe this attack was
designed to remove the current union leadership
ahead of the annual meeting
last month of the International Labor
Organization, which has repeatedly
cited the Mugabe regime for violating ILO
conventions on freedom of
association.
The government's campaign to
destabilize ZCTU also includes mass arrests,
death threats, and bogus
investigations; the threat of imprisonment of
leaders; the use of
provocateurs to disrupt ZCTU meetings; and the creation
of splinter unions
to undermine and weaken ZCTU. Government thugs have even
assaulted leaders
of ZCTU's Women's Advisory Council, injuring one woman so
badly that she had
to be taken to a clinic for x-rays. ZCTU Secretary
General Wellington
Chibebe says he has been detained "many times" by the
government, targeted
for beatings, tortured and received death threats.
Chibebe spoke at CBTU's
35th anniversary convention in Orlando, Florida in
May.
He told the
1,500 delegates, "It is one thing to be independent. It is
another to be
free. We are still fighting for our freedom in Zimbabwe." The
audience
responded with a chorus of "Amen's'" when Chibebe added,
"Oppression is
oppression, whether by a white person or a black person."
Lucy, who sits
on the powerful AFL-CIO Executive Council, said CBTU's
Zimbabwe resolution
and its invitation to Chibebe to speak to thousands of
black workers from
every sector of organized labor in the U.S. "upped the
ante on Zimbabwe." He
added, "It's time we - in the labor movement and in
the African American
community - said 'Enough is enough: Hands off the
workers movement in
Zimbabwe!' Bring back peace and democracy in Zimbabwe."
Williams echoed
Lucy's call to action, saying "We must peel the veil from
Mugabe's regime
and then be prepared to fully support our sisters and
brothers in Zimbabwe,
who, sadly, must liberate their country - again."
Based in Washington,
D.C., Dwight Kirk writes on employment and union
issues.
Zimbabwejournalists.com
By a Correspondent
HARARE - PASSENGERS
travelling with Air Zimbabwe on the London-Harare
route are furious with the
airline for taking them for granted and delaying
their journeys to and from
Harare by 10 to 12 hours, sometimes even more but
without giving any
plausible explanations.
The national carrier is experiencing a
crippling fuel and foreign
currency shortage resulting in major problems
within the corporation. The
airline is having to scout for the precious
JetA1 fuel used to fly
aeroplanes hours before take off.
On
Sunday passengers were stranded at Gatwick Airport after having
checked-in
at least three hours before their flight, which was supposed to
take off at
8 pm. The plane only touched down at Gatwick around 5 am the
next day.
Passengers slouched on the uncomfortable chairs at the airport
overnight as
Air Zimbabwe staff repeatedly told them the plane would be
available in "two
hours".
They only took off at 6 am arriving in Harare around 5 pm.
Apparently
Air Zimbabwe could not afford to put the stranded passengers into
hotels.
They only managed to give them £7 food vouchers for their
trouble.
"What makes me furious is that Air Zimbabwe has been lying
to us -
they lied the whole day through until the following day," said one
angry
Ngoni Funani. "If they told us to check-in and go back home and sleep,
some
of us would have been able to do that because we live in London. It's a
shame, this is supposed to be the pride of the nation and it's going to the
dogs."
The continued delays are costing the airline thousands
of pounds as it
not only disrupts the passengers' plans but also BAA, which
runs Gatwick
Airport and charges them heavy penalties.
Zimbabwejournalists.com has learnt that Sunday's flight was delayed
because
passengers coming from Harare had to pass through Zambia to get fuel
to
reach London.
An insider said: "The situation is so bad and we risk
losing so many
of our loyal customers to BA which does not offer that big
baggage
allowances like we do. The airline is in a crisis and there is need
for
sound management with good viable decisions being taken. As it is, we
have
spent a lot of money on routes that are not lucrative because of the
government's "Look East" policy while neglecting the route giving us more
money."
Passengers were also irked upon arrival in Harare to
find that the
airline had not issued any statements to alert relatives or
friends picking
them up not to go to the airport early morning but later at
the end of the
day.
"The delays are going to be with us for
some time to come," said the
Air Zimbabwe source. "We are having to go all
over Africa to get fuel so we
can service the London-Harare route and in the
process we have the massive
delays but we will get there, things will
improve."
Mike Mutare, another passenger said: "It was really
painful to spend
the whole night at the airport with children who are
supposed to be going
home to have fun. I did not know what to tell them and
yet someone kept on
saying "two hours", "two hours" from 5pm to
6am.
Why do they not communicate with passengers - tell us not to
come to
check-in until later."
Grace Chitiyo, who was taking
her British boyfriend home for the first
time and also for their wedding,
was flabbergasted.
"Can you imagine - Air Zimbabwe is supposed to
be the epitome of
Zimbabwean hospitality - doing this to me on such an
occasion - I do not
even want to know what he is thinking right know. I feel
ashamed to be let
down in such a way."
Other passengers have
endured worse delays in the past few weeks. Anna
Mbambo told
zimbabwejournalists.com that she had to spend 24 hours to get to
Harare on a
flight that normally takes about 10 hours.
"First the flight was
delayed because they had to pass through Kenya
to get some fuel so we
boarded late and unfortunately for us, we went to
pick President Mugabe in
Banjul at the end of the AU Summit. So we were
there on the runway as they
did all the national anthems, the parades and
all. So for 24 hours I was on
the plane from London to Harare. I made my
decision that day, I will stop
using my national airline for now until
things improve."
The
airline is also experiencing problems with its three Chinese-made
MA60
planes which are out of service after developing problems. One burst
its
four main tyres after being forced into an emergency landing at Victoria
Falls Airport after developing engine failure soon after take
off.
This followed the grounding of two other MA60 planes sourced
from
China. The MA60 planes are said to have developed mechanical faults
that the
airline has been struggling to deal with.
New Zimbabwe
By Renson
Gasela
Last updated: 07/19/2006 09:37:20
ONE of the reasons why in Zanu PF
those who aspire to be members of
parliament will invest so much money,
materials, time etc campaigning, is
the hope of appointment as a
minister.
Once you become a minister, you don't have to work; you don't
have to know
anything at all. You continue to be rewarded for malfeasance,
misfeasance or
even nonfeasance. You are assured of a permanent career as
minister and also
a place at heroes acre when God, in His divine
impartiality, decides to call
you above.
How does President Mugabe
justify keeping ministers who fail and are corrupt
and he admits they are
but keeps them? My friend the Minister of Agriculture
Hon Made has
perennially misled the country for the past six years. I say
misled the
country because Zanu Pf knows the truth and approve of the
misleading.
In a statement I gave on the 9th of March 2006 concerning
maize production,
I said that at best, maize production this year was going
to be 800 000
tonnes. I gave reasons why it was going to be so. I need not
repeat reasons.
In May, 2006, Minister Made announced that the crop
forecast was that
1.8million tonnes of maize would be produced this year. He
strangely went on
to say that although this was sufficient for the country,
imports of maize
would continue. Of that production, GMB was likely to get
900 000 tonnes, as
farmers normally retain 50% for their own use.
A
production of 1.8m tonnes would be enough for the country without the
strategic reserve. But we know that other experts were refused to
participate in the crop assessment exercise so that the country can be
properly misled.
GMB's financial year is April to March. This means
that maize delivered
within that period is accounted for as intake for that
year. However,
farmers deliver their maize from May to early October,
depending on the
lateness of the season. The peak delivery is July to early
August.
The Acting CEO of GMB, Col Muvuti, is quoted in the Herald of
10th July,
2006 that 80 000 tonnes of maize had been delivered, naturally,
this figure
includes the first week of July.
The Sunday Mirror of
16th July says "Earlier during Saturday's meeting,
Agriculture minister
Joseph Made had revealed that to date there are 100 000
metric tonnes of
maize that have been brought into the silos, with the GMB
receiving 20 000
metric tonnes of maize from farmers every week. Made
pointed out that there
is also a fair supply of crops such as millet,
sorghum and groundnuts, a
sign that there was a good harvest last season"
(am sure meaning this
season). This was a report to the Zanu PF consultative
assembly.
Minister Made naturally got latest figures from GMB for the
meeting. If by
15th July a paltry 100 000 metric tonnes of maize had been
bought by GMB,
how much more will be bought by GMB before end of deliveries?
For all
intents and purposes, all maize that farmers want to sell will be
delivered
by end of September, whatever comes after that is inconsequential,
quantity
wise.
There is 10 weeks between now and end of September.
Even if we were to be
generous and say that weekly deliveries will continue
at the current peak of
20 000 tonnes up to the end of September, that will
only bring in 200 000
tonnes, making a total of 300 000 tonnes. This means a
huge shortage of
maize. The delivery trend so far should make a caring
government worried. It
should trigger food appeal to avert another disaster
in the midst of a good
rainfall season!
Because my estimate of 20 000
tonnes per week is for the whole period of 10
weeks, in reality, the intake
will be much less.
What this means is that there is no production of 1.8
million tonnes of
maize. That is why the government is mum on the Financial
Gazette article
that Z$15 trillion is required for grain imports (Fingaz 13
- 19 July 2006).
The MDC appeals to the government to have mercy and
feeling for the people
by approaching the donors in time. I know that there
are continued food
imports but US$35m is too much in addition to the current
imports, hence my
appeal to the government to act now. Why wait until the
crisis hits the
country and then panic when the signs are so
clear?
Equally, we are asking the donors to start sensitizing their
governments.
Why can't it be done right for once?
Renson Gasela is
the MDC Secretary for Lands and Agriculture
Zimbabwejournalists.com
By Bill Saidi
HARARE - President Robert
Mugabe seems to have perfected what is
turning out to be a ritual of
self-flagellation.
In condemning the hierarchy of his ruling Zanu
PF as - to call a spade
a spade - a bunch of crooks, he is engaging in a
form of self-flagellation.
Who is Zanu PF? Who has been the
personification of Zanu PF since
Ndabaningi Sithole - may his soul rest in
peace - was consigned to the
political wilderness after that jailhouse
putsch in 1975?
Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who at the recent Central
Committee meeting of
his party in Harare again scolded the members for being
such crooks.
He even made one accusation in SiNdebele - Ungubani
wena? (Who are
you?). To many neutral observers this raised an intriguing
question: did he
want the alleged culprit to know that he (Mugabe) knew what
shenanigans he
was up to, even if he (the culprit) thought nobody had
spotted him so far?
Amazingly, Mugabe managed to infuse a bit of
humour into his
accusations. The man even laughed, at one point, reducing
the serious tone
of his condemnation into another political
charade.
As far as many observers can remember, he has always
managed to
lighten the heavy atmosphere of Judgment Day with this light
touch. In the
end, nobody seems to have taken him seriously.
It
would help if, after making such accusations, he owned up: he, as
the leader
of the party, must accept responsibility for the decadence into
which his
party is now wallowing.
Earlier, at the Heroes Acre burial of
Josiah Tungamirai, he extolled
the late freedom fighter's virtues by
declaring that when he was
impecunious, Tungamirai came to Mugabe and sought
help, openly.
Others, Mugabe said, slouched into their holes of
iniquity and cooked
up schemes to deal illicitly in gold.
At
the Central Committee meeting, he referred to some officials
setting up
their own "amakoroza" to do the dirty work for them.
A stranger might
have come away with the impression that this party
had so many rotten eggs
it was beyond redemption.
There would surely be demonstrations in
the streets the next morning,
with placards shouting to the skies: RESIGN
NOW! or THE BELL TOLLS FOR ALL
YOU CROOKS!
Yet, on the morrow,
life continued at its customary, sedate, merry
pace all over Zimbabwe, with
the urchins of the streets accosting passers-by
for anything from a hundred
thousand to one million dollars - they too know
how worthless our currency
has become.
How could you be taken seriously if you said to a
stranger "Please,
Sir, spare a dollar for a poor man?" You would be laughed
off the street.
There was not one demonstration calling on Mugabe
and the men and
women he had called such dirty names to quit, call fresh
elections and let
the people pick a new, squeaky clean
government.
If Benjamin Mkapa, Mugabe's Good Samaritan-in-waiting,
took all this
in and didn't squirm at the prospect of defending this man on
the
international arena of good governance, then we must all wonder: should
Kofi
Annan not have insisted that he be included as a guarantor of some sort
of
"fair play"?
It has long been accepted that, even though he
has a record of
ruthlessness in adversity, Mugabe has no stomach for
sticking the knife in
when a political misfit richly deserves to be
bloodied.
Others have a different theory: it would be a case of the
pot calling
the kettle black.
Does Mugabe himself have so many
skeletons in his cupboard he dare not
hurl specific accusations against
colleagues who might hit back by citing
his own past misdeeds in the
morality stakes?
In reality, the only people who have been victims
of Mugabe's wrath
have not been openly associated with dipping their fingers
in the big cookie
jar of government funds.
Two of them, Simba
Makoni and the late Eddison Zvobgo, were apparently
perceived as heavyweight
challengers to Mugabe's mantle as party leader.
Makoni, young and possessing
the requisite freedom fighter baggage, was
publicly humiliated over the
devaluation fiasco.
Today, Makoni could be justified to remind
Mugabe that if, all those
many years ago, the government had taken his and
former Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Leonared Tsumba's advice on
devaluation, Zimbabwe
would not be turning into a zhing zhong economy that
it has become today.
Zvobgo, he of the falsetto voice which
captivated political audiences
the way Maria Callas wowed opera lovers, had
the political acumen and even
the charisma to match Mugabe's any
day.
Mugabe probably didn't fear the two men, politically, because
he is
possessed of the sort of political vanity that blurs his every
weakness.
Which, ironically, might explain why he has not acted
decisively
against corruption in the government and his party. Loyalty is a
political
commodity Mugabe values above many other qualities.
The only way he could have survived this far, in spite of blunders
over
which other political leaders - Kenneth Kaunda and Hastings Kamuzu
Banda
come to mind - would have been sacrificed, was to create a loyalty
base
built entirely in patronage.
It is no exaggeration to say that, at
this time of economic crisis,
the hierarchy of both the party and the
government is peopled by citizens
out to feather, not only their nests, but
those of their relatives,
girlfriends and mistresses.
Hence,
perhaps, his decision to go public with his concerns.
For most of us
this must mean that the government is rotten to the
core. It is no wonder
that not many governments who set great store for
rectitude in public
affairs, but particularly the custody of public funds,
will not touch this
government with a barge pole.
This has brought many observers to
wonder what the late Minister of
Information and Publicity, Tichaone
Jokonya, had planned for the public
broadcasting system.
At his
burial, Mugabe said Jokonya had planned to get rid of the
entire board of
directors of ZBH. Mugabe said he had persuaded the former
diplomat to keep
half the board members in their jobs.
Why? Were these Mugabe's
favourites, the men and women who believe the
sickeningly propagandist
National Agenda is probably the best thing that has
ever happened to
Zimbabwean television since one of its stars, Godfrey
Majonga, was so
tragically disabled?
Incidentally, when will Masimba Musarira
devote an entire Face The
Nation episode to one interview with Didymus
Mutasa and another with
Emmerson Mnangangwa, on what Mugabe said of the
corruption in Zanu PF?
Both men are eminently suited to ventilate
their views on this weighty
subject. Mutasa has been mentioned in the
newspapers in connection with some
legal matter to do with the politics of
his turf, Manicaland.
He is also in charge of the land reform
programme, which is so riddled
with corruption Mutasa must have the inside
lane on who has stolen what farm
from whom?
Mnangagwa has been
mentioned in the newspapers in connection with the
old Zanu PF company he
used to run, presumably on behalf of the party.
He has denied
suggestions he is guilty of any wrong-doing in
connection with his handling
of the zillions of dollars controlled by this
conglomerate.
In
the 1980s, M & S Syndicate was featured in a number of stories
which
created the impression, among readers and would-be investors alike,
that its
business methods were, at the very least, not entirely kosher.
Mnangagwa's supporters scoff at the suggestion that he salted away
billions
from M & S, insisting that the allegations are politically
motivated,
that they are being cooked up by his rivals for Mugabe's mantle.
All this, to a stranger on his first visit to political Zimbabwe,
might
create the impression that this is one of the causes of the economic
crisis
in the country - the leaders are so preoccupied with their political
survival, they don't care tuppence for the economic stability of the
country.
Which some people might say raises another question:
is the Zimdollar
really worth less than the old two pennies?
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:13 AM
Subject: Is it safe to return failed
Zimbabwean asylum seekers?
Behind the Headlines
Lance Guma hosts a
teleconference debate between Harris Nyatsanza of the
United Network of
Detained Zimbabweans in the UK and Jan De Wilde the Head
of Mission at the
International Office for Migration (IOM) in London. Is it
safe to return
failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers? What is the role of the IOM
in shaping the
UK Home Office policy? This two part debate attempts to bring
out all the
issues that concern most Zimbabweans in the UK and also give the
IOM a
chance to explain their Assisted Voluntary Returns programme.
Reporters
Forum
Human rights activist Julius Mutyambizi and documentary producer
Everette
Ndlovu join the forum to discuss the week's top stories with Lance
Guma. The
impounding of Elias Mudzuri's passport took centre stage during
the week.
Does the left hand really know what the right hand is doing?
Jocelyn
Chiwenga the wife of General Constantine Chiwenga travelled to
France to
receive 'a little-known award' on behalf of her company Zim-Safe
despite
being on a list of banned officials. Surely the smart sanctions are
a joke?
What does the forum think?
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By Tichaona
Sibanda
19 July 2006
The secretary for International
Affairs in the Tsvangira led MDC has
expressed deep surprise and amazement
over comments made by former Namibian
President Sam Nujoma that he will
intervene militarily if anyone tried to
remove Robert Mugabe from
power.
Professor Elphas Mukonoweshuro said fortunately the future
of Zimbabwe
will not be determined by views of the likes of Nujoma. In a
diplomatic
gaffe Nujoma surprised all and sundry when he threatened to
instruct Swapo
forces to go into Zimbabwe to defend the regime from foreign
aggression.
'Not very many politicians regionally and
internationally have taken
Nujoma as a leader or statesman who is schooled
in diplomacy or the arts of
handling a crisis situation,' Mukonoweshuro
said.
He said since Nujoma was expressing solidarity with an
individual
(Mugabe), his party was not worried by such comments. Despite
Nujoma's
outburst Mukonoweshuro reiterated that the MDC enjoys fairly
cordial
relations with the majority of countries in the SADC
region.
'We compare notes with the SADC leaders on a regular basis,
we brief
them about our perception of the Zimbabwe problem and its impact on
the
population,' he said.
Commenting on an initiative by former
Tanzanian President Benjamin
Mkapa to mediate in the current fall-out
between Mugabe and the British
government, Mukonoweshuro poured scorn on the
idea, labelling it 'mission
impossible.'
He said of Mkapa's
mission; 'Any intervention or mediation in the
Zimbabwe crisis is welcome in
principle. But first it would have to be an
intervention based on a
collective reading of the situation.'
The position of the MDC on
this issue, said Mukonoweshuro is that 'the
correct reading of the situation
would yield a picture of which, any
mediation required would be between the
regime on one hand and the oppressed
people on the
other.'
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news
From Angola Press, 18 July
Harare - Zimbabwe earned US$21.2 million in the first quarter of
this year,
down from US$30.5 million recorded in the same period last year,
according
to the national tourism agency. The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority
(ZTA) said
Monday that tourist arrivals increased a marginal two percent to
495,976 in
the first quarter compared to the same period last year. It
blamed the drop
in earnings on the low spending power of tourists from Asia,
Zimbabwe`s new
tourism market. The industry has declined sharply in the last
five years
after most western countries warned their citizens against
travelling to
Zimbabwe because of perceived security concerns. "Unlike our
traditional
markets (Western Europe) where holidaymakers have huge spending
power, the
situation is quite different with our new markets (Asia) because
of the
sales mix of the spending power," said ZTA chairman, Emmanuel
Fundira. "The
first quarter arrivals were fairly well and these are positive
indicators
that the industry has turned the corner and is now on the
recovery path," he
added. The agency said tourist arrivals from Asia,
particularly China, grew
49 percent in the first quarter of this year from
7,577 to 11,330. To
increase the flow of Asian visitors, Zimbabwe`s
State-owned airline last
year introduced flights to Singapore and China, and
Dubai in the Middle
East.
The Herald (Harare)
July 19,
2006
Posted to the web July 19, 2006
Harare
FIRMING copper
prices on the international market have triggered an upsurge
in thefts of
copper cables countrywide, prompting police to ask Government
to cancel all
copper trading licences.
The thefts are weighing down heavily on Zesa
Holdings, TelOne and the
National Railways of Zimbabwe which use copper
cables.
Zesa Holdings says it is losing about $30 billion worth of cables
to
vandalism and thefts every month, while TelOne is losing up to $18
billion
monthly.
Police spokesperson Inspector Andrew Phiri yesterday
said stringent measures
should be taken to ensure that only deserving people
were accorded the right
to deal in copper.
"The recent spate of
thefts of copper cables recorded throughout the country
are a cause for
concern, not only for the police but also for Zesa, TelOne
and NRZ whose
utility infrastructure has fallen victim to these criminals
due to the
lucrative demand for copper on the local and international
market.
"In light of taming the perturbing incidents of theft of
copper cables, the
police are calling for the immediate cancellation of all
copper licences by
the relevant ministry as a way of destroying the market
of copper loot,
ill-gotten by the criminals.
"At a time when the
country is not mining copper, there is virtually no
reason for one to
justify the issuance of copper licences when there are no
ready sources,"
said Insp Phiri.
Of late, the number of copper licence applicants had
been rising
exponentially against a backdrop of diminishing sources, raising
suspicion
on the anticipated sources of copper by the
applicants.
Investigations by police indicated that some influential
businesspeople were
perpetrating the theft of copper cables through buying
the stolen cables or
organising criminals to go on a rampage, stealing the
cables.
Insp Phiri said the sudden appreciation in the value of copper to
US$7 500
per tonne had increased the demand and temptation among the
criminals to
steal it.
"In most cases the emissaries got caught, like
what happened in Goromonzi
and Harare, while the errant business people
remain free to continue their
illicit but lucrative business practices,"
said Insp Phiri.
Last week, four suspects were arrested in Goromonzi and
police recovered
500kg of copper wire, which was hidden in a
bush.
The four then led police to the arrest of six other suspects in
Harare and
Chitungwiza.
Insp Phiri said preliminary investigations
indicated that this gang was
working in conjunction with other criminals
believed to be outside the
country.
"The arrest of these criminals
comes barely a week after the police had been
inundated with similar cases
of theft of copper cables from heavy vehicles
in transit.
"Most of
such cases were discovered to be disguised incidents of
car-jackings to
camouflage criminal intentions and involve the connivance of
both local and
foreign citizens," he said.
The widespread vandalism and theft of copper
cables was a worrisome
phenomenon as it caused wanton disruptions to rail
transportation, electric
power supply and telecommunications due to the
commonness of copper within
infrastructure of these utilities, Insp Phiri
said.
He said this trend was more disturbing at a time the Government was
trying
to turn around the economy under the National Economic Development
Priority
Programme.
"The disruptions of irrigation cycles under the
winter wheat programme,
power supply to industry and ordinary consumers, all
serve to indicate the
ramifications that theft and vandalism of copper
cables have on the
economy," said Insp Phiri.
He said while consumers
were blaming Zesa for the load-shedding programme,
some of the electricity
interruptions were caused by criminals who drained
oil from transformers and
also stole cables.
He called on the public to help police in curbing
cable thefts since the
resultant effects of power disruptions caused
discomfort to all electricity
consumers.
Vandalism and theft of
aluminium conductors and transformers has been
escalating in the past three
years, apparently due to a sharp increase in
the demand for electrical
equipment.
On the other hand, TelOne has lost more than 40 percent of its
conventional
drawn copper wire to thieves in the past three
years.
This development has left more than 500 subscribers without
telephone
services, seriously compromising the service provider's ability to
fully
meet the country's demand for fixed telephone services.
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
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
VOLVO S60 DIESEL 26000KM 2005
MODEL.
SERIOUS BUYERS ONLY TO PHONE 011 407747 OR 055
20213
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1.2
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
One new "Star" car radio deck (no
speakers). $15 million onco.
Call Karen 011-407-184 or leave message on
495445 and I will call you back
if I am not
there.
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For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Full household goods for sale, numerous
and various items.
Double Bed = $40m
Stove = $80m
Fridge = $60m
And
so much more! Electricals, furniture, kitchen equipment, accessories
and
other bits and bobs.
Please email monique.fachet@gmail.com for complete
catalogue and pricing.
For more details and viewing arrangements please
contact Monique.
Tel: 309274 (w), 091 315 411, Email: as per above
address
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1.4
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
"HORSE BOX"
===========
Back &
front loading: Groom's door: Partition: Rubber mat: Tows very well
with no
rattles. Has extra height.
Contact: PIERCY, James Farm Rd., Ruwa. Tel:
073
2566."
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1.5
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
Horticulture 4 ft fluorescent lights,
approx enough for 3 Ha
Please contact Martin on 011 603 762 or Lars 011 604
398.
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1.6
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
SIRATRO SEED:
Substantial quantity of
very good Siratro legume seed.
Contact 04 745463 or 011211924 for further
details.
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1.7
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
HONDA RIDE ON MOWER FOR SALE
COLOUR RED,
USED
NEEDS NEW BATTERY
BOUGHT 2001
ASKING PRICE US$1 500
TWO
TRAILERS FOR SALE:
FLAT BED SOME BOARDS MISSING. ASKING PRICE
US$800
TOYOTA HILUX 2.4 BUCKIE BACK CONVERTED INTO TRAILER. WITH SPARE
TYRE.
ASKING PRICE US$1500
CONTACT 011 407 149 OR dansar@zol.co.zw
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1.8
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
PIRANAH EXECUTIVE BOAT, 140 EVINRUDE GOOD
CONDITION.
85 YAMAHA WITHOUT TRIM
30LB MOTORGUIDE HAND CONTROL
BASS MOTOR
1 HARROW BMX BIKE MIDDLE SIZE, 1 REDLINE MINI BMX BIKE BOTH
GOOD CONDITION.
70CC MONKEY MOTORBIKE RUNNER NEEDS COSMETIC
ATTENTION.
CONTACT NUMBERS: 011205247 - 091909244 - 251377 EMAIL: danlyn@hms.co.zw
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1.9
For Sale (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
New Discs for sale, suit IMCO or Duly
Disc Harrows 28 inch with 45mm. Hole
Uses Discs suit IMCO or Duly Disc
Harrows, 20 inch to 24 inch with 45mm
Hole, 8mm thick.
Phone 011 803
707
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1.10
For Sale (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
1 X AMMONIA 12 CUBIC FOOT DEEP FREEZE FOR
SALE
1 X ROTISSERIE FOR SALE (ROTAGRIL)
Please contact Carol on 332798 or
011 231 541 if you are
interested.
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1.11
For Sale (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
TOYOTA LANDCRUISER PRADO
1998
Model
Colour: Silver
Engine Type: Diesel
Mileage: 60111
4WD,
Intercooler Diesel Turbo, ABS, Automatic with overdrive,
excellent
condition.
Please contact: 011 213 471 or bkpaint@mweb.co.zw
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1.12
Items for Sale (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
HIWAY TRAILER 6 TONNE FRONT AXLE
WITH SPRING (NO SHACKLE)
FALCON SLASHER
VICON
MOWER
INDUSTRIAL ELECTRIC 30CM HACKSAW
PANASONIC AIR CONDITIONER
CS/CU 903KE (NEVER USED)
TABLETOP ELECTRIC SANDER
150 LITRE
MONARCH ROOF GEYSER
100 LITRE MONARCH ROOF GEYSER
MOTORS - 1 X
7,5KW RPM 1445
1 X 3,1KW RPM 1415 AMPS
6,5
1 X 3KW RPM 1435 AMPS 5,25
1 X
5,5HP 4 KW
1 X 1HP LAWNMOWER MOTOR
ELNA STELLA
SEWING MACHINE
SINGER HAND SEWING MACHINE
DOUBLE BED KNITTING
MACHINE
6sq.m. CARPET TILES
PLEASE TELEPHONE - 091 305
313
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1.13
For Sale (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
CAT 922 FRONT END LOADER:
Good
strong front loader machine in working condition
Powered by CAT 4 cylinder
engine and transmission
Rear turning wheels (i.e.not articulated)
Fitted
with 1 cubic metre bucket
Useful for loading all loose materials (e.g.sand,
gravel, mining materials,
etc., etc.)
PRICE - Z$ 5 billion
o.n.c.o.
MASSEY FERGUSON MF390 TRACTOR
Good working
condition
PRICE - Z$ 2.6 billion o.n.c.o.
TOWED 4 WHEEL BOWSER - 4000
litre CAPACITY
In working condition
PRICE - Z$ 600 million
o.n.c.o.
TOWED VIBRATORY ROLLER (ENGINE DRIVEN VIBRATION
SYSTEM)
In working condition.
Excellent for compaction on gravel
roads
Tractor Towed machine
PRICE - Z$ 2 billion o.n.c.o.
SELECTION
OF BRICK & BLOCK MAKING MACHINES/EQUIPMENT
Ideal for on-site brick
& block making
PRICES on request
SELECTION OF VARIOUS BULK
PLUMBING FITTINGS AND PIPES :- details, list and
prices
available on
request.
Please contact Paul Brown on Hre 755 401/2, 091-754 302, instamac@mweb.co.zw
for further
details.
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1.14
Fuel for Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
PETROL & DIESEL AVAILABLE FROM
HAMCOR FUEL
We have had to revise our payment system over the last week,
and have little
choice but to introduce the following:
1. CASH
PAYMENTS IN HARARE
Cash can be paid at our offices in Harare for fuel in
excess of 300 litres.
Any amount paid into our accout will be held as a
deposit only and deducted
from your final fuel bill. Fuel will be drawn
against your deposit at the
prevailing pump price on the day the fuel is
issued REGARDLESS OF THE DATE
ON WHICH YOU PAID IN HARARE. Please do not pay
for fuel more than 3 days in
advance of your charter/arrival in
Kariba.
Directions to our offices are as follows:
Execulink (this is a
branch of Premier Bank)
5 Beit Avenue
Harare
Telephone: 04
720963
Fax: 04 792717
(Off Josiah Tongogara Avenue, into
Blakiston Avenue. Beit Avenue
is the first road right after Dr.
Fremantle's Rooms, which are
opposite Alex Sports Club tennis
courts.)
See Kim or Natalia. Advise that payment is for HamCor and retain
your
receipt to be presented to us in Kariba on collection of your
fuel.
2. RTGS / ZETSS
As with any cash payment, transfer of funds
by RTGS will be held as a
deposit only, and will now attract a 10%
surcharge. This means that if you
transferred $100 million into our account,
we will automatically deduct 10%
from your deposit. Your fuel will be drawn
against your deposit on the
prevailing pump price on the day your fuel is
issued. Please phone us for
our bank details and instructions. Again,
please do not pay for fuel more
than 3 days in advance of your
charter/arrival in Kariba.
3. PAYMENT BY CHEQUE
We no longer accept
payment by cheque into our account, nor do we accept
payment by cheque at our
offices in Kariba.
4. CASH PAYMENTS IN KARIBA
Cash can be paid
directly to us at our office in Marineland Harbour.
Petrol is currently
critically short and we are only issuing fuel to
Marineland Houseboat Owners
and Marineland Speedboats. We hope to have more
petrol in by the end of next
week.
Current fuel price: $470,000/lt (cash price)
FUEL PRICE IS
VALID FOR 24 HOURS.
HamCor Fuel
Fuel Procurement & Sales
Kiara
Cordy & Guy Hammond
Southern Belle Office
Marineland
Harbour
Kariba
Telephone: 091 275 714 or 091 269 330
Fax: 061
3134
email: kiara@zol.co.zw or guyhammond@zol.co.zw
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1.15
Pet Mince for Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
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 011211088 or email claassen@zol.co.zw
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1.16
For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
Toyota Hilux Surf 2.8 Turbo Diesel, 105
000kms, 1992,4 wheel drive, manual
gear shift, tow hitch, new tyres,
immaculate condition, power steering,
radio tape, many extra's. Phone Richard
336660 Harare, or 091 - 321010 or
Mike 301290 Harare or Russel 091 - 899
949.
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1.17
For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
FOR SALE: TOYOTA CONDOR 2002 model,
Silver, 138000km, radio/cd, air
conditioning, immaculate condition, lady
driver, Serious buyers only.
Please phone 011 407747 or 055
20213
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1.18
For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
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.
BULLDOZER
Caterpillar - D6 - 9U - 90% complete. Could be
rebuilt or used for spares.
Offers.
TRACTORS
2 Ford 6610 - 1 Ford
5610 and 2 Mushandi 640 F.W.A.
DEUTZ 4 CYLINDER 60HP AIR COOLED
ENGINE
Fully Reconditioned with 3 month guarantee. Suitable for stationary
use.
i.e. Generator / pump / etc. ZW$1,4 Billion
MUSHANDI 500 - NEWER
MODEL - EXCELLENT CONDITION
Ideal for small farm / plot or as a haulage
unit. ZW$1,8 Billion neg.
NEW & USED TRACTOR SPARES
Too many to
list to include:- Deutz D60/D68 - 8 speed gearbox in good
condition ZW$150
Million.
Contact Doug Edwards Ph 068-22463 / 011212454 - tracspray@zol.co.zw
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1.19
For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
"Vehicle For Sale:
1991 Nissan 2.3
diesel pickup
140 000km, canopy, rubberised back,
towbar.
phone 04
443017."
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1.20
Oil For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
Mobil MX 15W40
Mobil HD
85W140
Mobil HD 80W90
Mobil Agricultural
Mobil Outboard
Plus
Container size 208 lts
Tel 091 261 075 or email jackal@spaceships.co.uk
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1.21
For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
Honda XR 600
16 000km
Immaculate
cond.
Yamaha YZ 125
2002 model, new piston & rings.
Good
condition.
Honda CR 85
2003 model, new piston & rings.
Good
condition.
Kawasaki KX 85
2002 model,
Good condition.
Phone
04
443017.
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1.22
For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
TOOLS for sale.
Centre
Drills
Die nuts
Drill bits (double ended, jobber, mts, ss etc)
End
mills
Holesaws
Reamers
Slot Drills
Taps
For further details
please contact 091428726.
For a detailed price list email thebrats@zol.co.zw
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1.23
For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
As new Superior Duchess stove with 3
plates 150 million
4 plate gas stove with eye level grill and warming
drawer, excellent
condition 85 million
Queen size feather duvet 15
million
Complete Eezi Awn to fit side of a Micro Bus with fitted sides
and front
with door and windows. Ideal for day trips and extended camping
trips 150
million.
Phone 776411 or 091 362
333.
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1.24
For Sale (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
Music equipment.
Guitar Amp - Marshall
80W RMS w Overdrive = $80m
Bass practice amp = $10m
Electric Guitar (Black
& White) = $25m
Electric Guitar (Red) = $15m
Mic Cordless = $2m
Mic
with stand = $5m
CD Rack = $3m
Vinyl Records = $100K ea
For more
details and viewing arrangements please contact Monique.
Tel: 309274 (w), 091
315 411, Email: monique.fachet@gmail.com
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1.25
For Sale (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Suzuki TF 125 good condition $350
million
320m 100sq mm Aluminium overhead cable $250 Million
800mm
mouth freestanding Jet Master width 6m fire $150 million ono
Monarch
French doors, large pane, width 2 side panels $80 million set.
Contact
091 352
567
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1.26
ITEMS FOR SALE (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
TELEPHONE LINDA 091321640 /251377
EVENINGS
HOUSEHOLD
DOUBLE BEDROOM
SUITE-WHITE $40M
Headboard side cupboards
with draw and cupboard, Dressing table and Stool,
other unit of two cupboards
and four draws all with slat louver type doors.
NO BED.
DINNING ROOM
SUITE - ROUND TABLE $25M
LOUNGE SUITE -
Fabulous soft gold colour with regent $280M
Stripes of maroon, dark
green and blue 3 seater Couch +
2 seater couch + 1 arm chair all huge with
scollop back,
piping and big rolling arms.
CARPET EMERAL GREEN/ OLIVE
GREEN $7M/$10M
Bigger than 9 x 12 size
BAR CABINET
TROLLEY OPENS UP $5M
BOOK
SHELVES
$4M/$5M
2 CASUAL CHAIRS IN SOFT FLORAL
$10M each
SMALL CUPBOARD
$4M
CHEST DRAWS X
2
$6M
each
TABLE
$4M
CD & TAPE CABINET UNIT
$3M
WRITING
DESK COME SIDEBOARD UNIT $12M
HI FI - PHILIPS MAKE
WITH CD & TAPE $10M
STOVE - OLD BUT
WORKING $15M
DEEPFREEZE
-
$40M
WASHING MACHINE OLD
$5M
PICTURES - VARIOUS LARGE AND SMALL
FROM $3M/$20M
BOX CHEST LID OPENS
$4M
CANE LOUNGE SUITE WITH
CUSHIONS + TABLES $25M
VIDEO MACHINE NEEDS
SERVICE $8M
VIDEO CAMERA BIG VHS
OLD TYPE $5M
CAMERA PLUS LENSES
$8M
4
LARGE WOODEN ARM CHAIRS $8M SET
JUNGLE GYM
SLIDE, BARREL SWING ETC $20M
CAR SHAPE PLAY
GYM
$5M
SINGLE BEDS
$10M each
BED COVERS + ODD
LINEN
ORNAMENTS
STANDING LAMP
$5M
KIST
$3M
HALF MOON
TABLE
$3M
EXECUTIVE SWING CHAIR
$6M
DINNER SET -FLORAL WITH GOLD
TRIM $20M
Large plates, salad plates, small side
plates, soup plates,
Pudding plates, Cups & saucers & tea set to
match.
FISH TANKS EXTRA LARGE/LARGE/SMALL +KIT
$5/$10/$15M
SUNDRY ITEMS
WELDING MACHINE
LARGE $30M
BRICK MAKING
MACHINE-LARGE CONRETE TYPE $20M
MONO PUMP &
CYLINDER $15M
GRINDER ON
METAL STAND $8M
WINDOW
FRAMES 4 X CHURCH TYPE $3M each
4 x LONG LARGE
TYPE $4M
each 4 X
OTHER
$3M each 2 X EXTRA LONG WIDE
TYPE $3M
each
SWIMMING POOL FENCE
WITH GATE $10M
CEILING FANS FANCY TYPE X
2 $10M each
AVERY PORTABLE 5 SECTIONED
LARGE $10M
METAL SHELVES
VARIOUS $2M / $4M each
OXYGEN BOTTLE &
TROLLEY
$4M
JACK
$2M
BRAAI 200 LITRE DRUM TYPE WITH LID &
ARM $5M
VEE BELTS
VARIOUS $2M
LOT
GAUGES
VARIOUS
$3M
each
PLOUGH DISK
$2M
SET FRENCH DOORS OLD TYPE WITH GLASS
WINDOWS $3M
METAL LOUVERS X
10 $4M
LOT
FLOOR
POLISHER
$1M
BRICK MOULD MAKES 4 SMALL BRICKS AT TIME
$5M
SWITCH BOX
$5M
STARTER
$5M
SADDLE STOCKMAN TYPE & TACK /
BITS $15M LOT
PIPE CHAIN
$4M
THREADER PIPE VICE &
METAL STAND $6M
FENCE PULLERS
$4M
HAND
WOOD DRILLS
$2M
TOILET TOP CYSTEN
$2M
PUMP FILTER
$2M
GOLF
CLUBS & BAG
$3M
BLINDS
$3M each
GATES & GATE FRAMES WITH PIG
MESH WIRE $5M each
PRESSURE TANK
$5M
IRRIGATION
SPRAYS
$3M
each
ARCHWAY
MOULDS
$4M
each
WOODEN HOUSE PARTIONS NO ROOF
$5M
TRUNK FULL RECORDS LP'S
$3M
OTHER VARIOUS BITS AND
BOBS
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1.27
(Ad inserted 18/07/06)
"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.
Prices.
Small woven bags--$1,200,000
each.
Large crocheted bags.--$2,700,000 each.
Large woven
bags.--$2,300,000 each.
Table Runners.--$1,600,000.
Set of 4
Fringed Table mats + serviettes--$5,100,000.
Set of 6 Fringed mats+
serviettes--$8,000,000.
Set of 4 Bordered table mats+
serviettes---$4,000,000.
Set of 4 Bordered table mats
only---$4,500,000
Set of 6 Bordered mats + serviettes--$9,000,000.
Set of
8 Bordered mats + serviettes---$12,000,000.
Tea
cosy(L)--$1,000,000.
Tea cosy(m)--$900,000
Tea
cosy(s)--$800,000.
Cotton(lined)oven
gloves(pair)--$1,400,000.
Aprons--$2,600,000.
Decorated cushion
covers--$1,900,000.
Plain cushion covers---$1,600,000.
Large plain
cotton rug--$5,300,000.
Med. plain cotton rug---$3,700,000.
Small plain
cotton rug.---$2,300,000.
Cotton Rag Rug--$2,300,000.
Lots of other rugs
to order.
Duvet Cushions(opens into
a
duvet)--$16,000,000(Single).$20,00,000(Double).$23,000,000(Queen).
Toilet
sets--$3,800,000.
Bath mats---$2,300,000
Wholesale prices available
for orders (over 6 of an article) or
large
purchases.
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1.28
For Sale (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
HONEY JEWELLERY: Imported from South
Africa - a selection of gold-plated,
rhodium plated, antique bronze plated
necklaces, bracelets, rings and
earrings, exclusively made up with Swarovski
crystals, cubic zirconia,
pearls and many more high quality fashion
accessories. Anyone interested in
hosting a party? Depending on the sales on
that day, the host will get a
percentage discount on jewellery of her
choice.
Please contact Annette on 011 600 769 or dapayne@zol.co.zw
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1.29
For Sale (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
MOLASSES, 750ml. in glass bottle, Z$
100,000. Larger quantities available
on request.
COARSE SALT, 50 kg.
bags @ Z$ 3,750,000.
Apply: mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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1.30
For Sale (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
VW JETTA VR6 EXECUTIVE 1998, LEATHER
INTERIOR, AIRBAGS, ABS, MP3, ALARM /
IMMOBILISER, FULL HOUSE IN PRISTINE
CONDITION, FOR DETAILS PHONE 011402896,
NO CHANCERS PLEASE.
DIGITAL
CAMERA FOR SALE, SONY CYBERSHOT, 4.1 MEGA PIXELS, ALL FEATURES,
BRAND NEW
BOXED, PHONE 011402896.
AMPRO PROFESSIONAL 80 PIECE 1/4" & 1/2"
DR. SOCKET AND BIT SETS,
PHONE
011402896.
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1.31
For Sale (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
EXCAVATOR FOR SALE
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.
BULLDOZER FOR SALE
Caterpillar - D6 - 9U - 90% complete.
Could be rebuilt or used for spares.
Offers.
TRACTORS FOR SALE
1
Ford 6610 - 1 Ford 5610 and 2 Mushandi 640 F.W.A.
LANDINI 6680 EXCELLENT
CONDITION
Front Wheel assit / High clearance / Very Clean / 80HP
DEUTZ
4 CYLINDER 60HP AIR COOLED ENGINE
Fully Reconditioned with 3 month
guarantee. Suitable for stationary use.
i.e. Generator / pump / etc. ZW$1,4
Billion
MUSHANDI 500 - NEWER MODEL - EXCELLENT CONDITION
Ideal for
small farm / plot or as a haulage unit. ZW$1,8 Billion neg.
In addition
to the above we have for sale 1 Same 60 Tractor / 1 Deutz 6806
Tractor &
2 Zambezi 445 Tractors - along with various farming implements -
Plough's /
Harrow's / etc
NEW & USED TRACTOR SPARES
Too many to list to
include:- Deutz D60/D68 - 8 speed gearbox in good
condition ZW$150
Million.
Contact Doug Edwards Ph 068-22463 / 011212454 - tracspray@zol.co.zw
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1.32
For Sale (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Sony HiFis for sale. Excellent condition.
Phone
494395
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1.33
For Sale (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Pro. Pull Winch, 12 volt DC. 6000Lb
Load. Portable or Permanent. Please
contact 011 608
061.
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2
WANTED
ITEMS
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2.1
Wanted PHOTOCOPIER (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
A photocopier needed in good
working order.
Please call Trace Scott
Tel: (263-4) 731 926, 091 310
492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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2.2
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
BOOKCASES, ETC ...
Bookcases,
carpets and various household items.
Please call Trace Scott
Tel:
(263-4) 731 926, 091 310 492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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2.3
Wanted Maid (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
We need a maid who can cook with
recipes and baby mind to help my present
maid. Preferably over 30
yrs.
Please call Trace Scott
Tel: (263-4) 731 926, 091 310
492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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2.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Please if anyone has a Childs first Pony
that they are willing to sell or
lease I am desperately looking for my little
boy. Please contact Thea
on
091282165
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Needed RAM (Hydram Pumps) - please specify
capacity and price.
Any Dexter cattle left in Zimbabwe and at what
price?
Please contact Keith Holland 011 401 691 or 020-64303 (Office);
020-61369
(Home)
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2.6
Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Second hand wooden garden shed -- between
two and a half and three metres
square. We will collect (and repair if
necessary) please contact
Clare
011208568
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2.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
I am looking for 50 kgs + of Methyl
bromide. Please contact Geraldine
McLaughlan 754666 or geraldine@tsl.co.zw
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2.8
Wanted (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
WANTED urgently is a Working / Non- Working
TV, VCR, DVD, Satellite Dish,
Decorder and/or Hifi. Please contact Joel on
091 450 928 or email
joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com
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2.9
Wanted (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
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 mombies. Please
contact Joel on 091 450 928 or email joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com
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2.10
Wanted (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
ALL REJECT PLASTIC
PRODUCTS-
EMPTY(PREFERABLY CLEAN)MILK BOTTLES, PLASTIC COKE/FANTA BOTTLES
ETC
PLASTIC SHEETING
PLASTIC OFFCUTS
SWEEPINGS
GRAIN
BAGS
SHOPPING BAGS
IF IT'S PLASTIC WE WILL PROBABLY BUY
IT.
THIS WILL ALL BE RECYCLED, AND YOU CAN DO YOUR BIT TO SAVE THE
ENVIRONMENT
AND MAKE SOME MONEY AT THE SAME TIME AS WE WILL PAY A FAIR
PRICE.
For further information please contact ANTHONY BUTLER on 884311/
091327743/
302558 or e-mail ingate@zol.co.zw
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2.11
Wanted PEARS CYCLOPAEDIA (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
I am looking for a Pears
Cyclopaedia newer than the 81st edition.
Many thanks
Tracelle
Scott
Tel: (263-4) 731 926, 091 310 492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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2.12
Wanted Items (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
"Hardback novels wanted by collector
for cash."
Ernest Hemingway, William Boyd, George Orwell, John Steinbeck,
Aldous
Huxley, J R.Tolkien, Virginia Woolf,
Grahame Greene, William
Golding, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ian Fleming, Agatha
Christie, Beatrix Potter,
Anna Sewell, Frank Baum, Isaac Asimov,
P.G.Wodehouse, D.H. Lawrence, H
.G.Wells, A.Conan Doyle, Grahame, Lewis
Carroll.
Phone Mr Wallis 496829 or
023894597"
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2.13
Wanted Maid (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
Looking for an honest hardworking maid
to work in the Greendale area.
Someone who can cook would be a huge bonus,
but not essential.
Accommodation provided and good wage. If anyone is
leaving and has a maid
with the above criteria please contact Michelle on 091
402 559 or
661558.
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2.14
Wanted Maid (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
We are desperately looking for a live
in maid who can do some basic cooking
for someone who lives on their own and
needs assistance due to illness,
ideally someone mature with a strong
personality whose family is off their
hands.
Please contact Penny on
776411 or 091
362333
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2.15
Wanted (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
35m 4 cole 16mm almouned cable, 2nd
hand
Contact 091 352
567
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2.16
Wanted (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Looking for swimming pool fence or net for
large swimming pool. Please sms
091 264160 or e-mail carol@powerspeed.co.zw
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2.17
Wanted (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Second hand, boxing bag. Must be in good
condition and at a reasonable
price. Contact 011 231
917.
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3
Accommodation Wanted and
Offered
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3.1
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
"Two bed roomed garden flat,
Greendale, lock up carport, close to shops,
available July, call Mr Wallis
023894597 or email zermatt@mweb.co.zw
"
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3.2
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
Looking for
cottage/flat/small house with at least 2 bedrooms for young
couple just
starting out. Reliable tenants, looking for modest rent in
decent area.
Please phone Raymond or Bronwyn on 771097-9 or 771101 (work
hours
only).
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3.3
House for Rent (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
Milton Park, next to Bridge Club.
Lounge,dining room,3 beds,1 bathroom-sep
toilet, B.I.C's ,lock-up
garage,Sat.Dish,swimming pool,elec.gate,S.Q's. Long
lease. No increases in
rental anticipated.Rental rate on application.
Phone Lisa 091
900024.
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3.4
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Executive middle-aged lady
urgently requires house, cottage or such to
rent. Has own domestic staff and
labbie dog. Please contact Linda 091321640
or 251377 or email danlyn@hms.co.zw
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3.5
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Looking for house. Reliable
tenant, with 2-year-old daughter, looking for
modest rent, in decent area.
Please phone Sharon Strange on
011219015.
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4
RECREATION
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4.1
(Ad inserted 20/06/06)
GACHE GACHE LODGE - Kariba
Open now for
bookings for JULY South African school holidays.
ALSO for our local Zim
August school hols AND for the
HEROES DAY (nice) long weekend of 12-15th
August.
Contact: Andrea tourleaders@zol.co.zw or 091 208
836
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4.2
Savuli Safari (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
Self-catering chalets in the heart
of the Save Valley Conservancy. Game
watching, fishing, horse riding,
canoeing, walking trails and 4x4 hire. Camp
fully kitted including cook and
fridges, just bring your food, drinks and
relax. $4 000,000 pppn, 1/2
U/12
Contact John: savuli@mweb.co.zw
or Phone 091 631
556
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4.3
(Ad inserted 04/07/06)
Imire Safari Ranch and Black Rhino Breeding
Station.
Imire would like to Welcome you to Mike and Sheila Thompson who
are the new
Managers of Sable Lodge.
We are only 1 1/2 hours from
Harare.A unique GamePark...which is centred on
giving you an unforgettable
African Experience amongst Black Rhino and their
calves, Elephant safaris,
Excellent Game Drives and soul satisfying
walks...with aTouch of Home Food
and our undivided attention.
Contact Details. imiregp@zol.co.zw
Tel; [022] 2449
/22257
Mobile:011
911419
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4.4
(Ad inserted 04/07/06)
The Southern Belle luxury Cruise
Ship
Operating on Lake Kariba we carry up to 44 passengers over night in
spacious
air-conditioned cabins. Her many features include comfortable
cabins, large
public areas, conference room, cocktail bar, games deck,
swimming pool etc.
We offer off ship activities such as game viewing and
bird watching from our
fleet of Tender boats, or on foot or by Landover in
the Matusadona National
Park, then there is fishing for that famous fighting
tiger fish.
You can laze by the pool and watch the spectacular Kariba
scenery drift by,
sip a cocktail in the well appointed Schooner Bar, listen
to our 3 piece
resident band in the main saloon, or just relax in you own
spacious air
conditioned cabin. The Southern Belle is the ideal "unique"
product for all
types of group travel, corporate incentives, conferences and
special
celebration events, cruising up and down the lake from Kariba to
Milibizi
and back.
The Southern Belle 'experience' is something that
you will never forget!!
If you would like any more information about this
unique and upmarket
product, please contact our Marketing department in
Kariba on any of the
following numbers.
Po Box 339,Kariba
email kbelle@zol.co.zw
Tele/fax +263 - 061 -
3176
Cell +263 - 011 - 208665
www.southernbellekariba.com
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4.5
(Ad inserted 11/07/06)
KARIBA HALF MARATHON
Sponsored by the Cutty
Sark Hotel
(Under new family ownership)
SUNDAY 13 AUGUST
21.1km
Half Marathon for the serious athletes
21.1km Corporate Relay (4 runners per
company)
10km Fun Run / Walk for the "not so serious" athletes &
kids
Followed by Brunch & Prize Giving
Optional Game Drives and
Sunset Cruises from the hotel
Dinner & Disco in the evening
FUN
FOR ALL THE FAMILY!
For further information email:
kiara@zol.co.zw or guyhammond@zol.co.zw
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4.6
(Ad inserted 11/07/06)
St. GEORGE'S COLLEGE
P.T.A.
Presents
'AFRICAN VOICE' in concert
Theme: "THE JOURNEY"
with
special guests
St George's Senior Choir
St George's Shona
Choir
Acafellaz
St George's Marimba band
kindly sponsored
by:-
AFDIS
Siltek Distribution
Intella Productions
Date: Thursday
20th & Friday 21st July
Time: 7.00pm prompt
Venue: St George's
College, Beit Hall
Cash bar at interval
Tickets: $ 1 000 000.00 per person
(if paid in advance) or $1 500 000 at the
door.
Tickets available from St
George's College phone 091 212 417
from 7.30 - 1.00 Monday to Friday
only
(Proceeds to St. George's College Bus Fund).
'AFRICAN VOICE' is an
all female acapella group, whose vibrant members are
Kundisai Mtero (Founder
and Musical Director), Yvonne Mwete, Lilliossa
Kayinamura, Prudence
Katomene-Mbofana and Faith Mandipira.
Since its inception in 1999, this
quintet which has featured extremely
successfully at HIFA, continues to
explore and perform various musical
styles: Early/Classical Gospel, Jazz,
African Traditional, Rhythm/Blues,
Soul and Reggae. Their repertoire is
solely Acapella(unaccompanied) and the
essence of their music unique in that
each voice is woven into an exquisite
fabric whose fine vocal texture
captivates the spirit and feeds the soul.
This pre-U.K tour Concert entitled
'THE JOURNEY.' is a recital of songs
carrying a special message of
spirituality, love, joys, trials, tribulations
and triumphs of the global
village we live in today.
AFRICAN VOICE INVITES YOU TO JOIN HER ON THIS
JOURNEY OF SONG AND
HARMONY.
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Villa
Musango Kariba (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Executive Accommodation close to
Kariba Breeze Hotel for more information,
contact Emmanuel
Kasaki.
Tel: 04-792508 or
04-742301
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5
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
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5.1
G - TECH (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
Diesel vehicle and plant
maintenance
Site contracting
Generator and stationary engine installation
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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5.2
(Ad inserted 20/06/06)
SERVICES: COMPUTER SALES & REPAIR
For
all computer requirements and repairs for both hardware and
software
Please call Lance Scott
Tel: (263-4) 731 926, 738 666, 739
675, 091 310 492
Email: tracelle@zol.co.zw
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5.3
(Ad inserted 20/06/06)
It's winter. Now's the time to service your boat,
we do Yamaha, Mercury and
Mariner. Also modifications, transoms, floors and
live wells. Redo
upholstery and conversions.
Contact Russell Hook
305381 331970 331976 091201744
011201744
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5.4
(Ad inserted 27/06/06)
Study in the UK
Get expert advice from
Stephanie Berry.
Catering for a broad range of interests and
abilities
Consulting in Harare July/August
For further details contact:
04 862 197 or 091 402961
Email: slb@bucs.co.uk
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5.5
(Ad inserted 27/06/06)
For all your computer requirements and servicing
contact us
Norton Antivirus 2006 OEM 10m
Windows XP Pro 10m
USD
to Printer Adapter 15m
We repair all computer equipment
Call Sean
+26391954888
computers@workmail.co.za
Harare
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5.6
(Ad inserted 11/07/06)
TO: DIABETICS
Liz Small is running a
Diabetic Support Group
On the First Saturday of every
month
>From 9:00-10:00am
At the Albert Zinn Medical Centre, 31
Rhodesville Ave., (corner of Bickleigh
Close Opposite the Rhodesville
shopping Centre)
Discussion about control of diabetes with diet and other
healthy practices,
monitoring and general support - and anything else the
group feels like.
If you want to find out more about the group phone Liz
on 499767 (home) or
e-mail thyme@mweb.co.zw - or just pitch up on
Saturday
morning
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5.7
(Ad inserted 11/07/06)
TO: PEOPLE WANTING TO CONTROL THEIR
WEIGHT
Liz is running a Weight Management Support Group
Every
Saturday morning
At 10:00-11:00am
At the Albert Zinn Medical
Centre, 31 Rhodesville Ave., (corner of Bickleigh
Close) Opposite the
Rhodesville Shopping Centre
Discussion of all aspects of nutrition;
recipes, weekly weigh-in, mutual
support - and anything else the group feels
like.
If you want to find out more about the group phone Liz on 499767
(home) or e
-mail thyme@mweb.co.zw - or
just pitch up on Saturday
morning
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5.8
(Ad inserted 18/07/06)
For all household and garden plumbing, painting,
carpentry, renovations and
general maintainance contact Jonathan on 091
233165 04 499817 or
boz@zol.co.zw
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5.9
TRACTOR STEERING (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
To include reconditioning of all
Tractor steering boxes, Hydraulic rams,
Hydrostatic orbital valves: - All
prices reasonable and work guaranteed.
Contact Doug Edwards Ph 068-22463
/ 011212454 - tracspray@zol.co.zw
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6
PETS
CORNER
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6.1
For Sale (Ad inserted 20/06/06)
"Dog meal, 20 KGS, $1,9 mill, please
order on
023748599"
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6.2
Wanted (Ad inserted 27/06/06)
Looking for Great Dane's, (pure or cross)
either puppies or a young dog to
go to a loving home on a farm.
Please
contact Bridget on 011
408044
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6.3
Home Wanted (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
Staffy Lovers. Rusty a superb
black/brindle male staffy dog, 4 years, has
been sitting in kennels for 3
months now. His mum and sister have both gone
to a new home and he is very
lonely. very affectionate, good temperament,
just wants someone to love him.
tel Michelle on 884294 or 011602903 or
e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw
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6.4
Wanted Blue Heeler (Ad inserted 04/07/06)
Seeking BLUE HEELER
BREEDERS
Please can anyone give me the contact details of any Australian
Cattle Dog
breeders in Zimbabwe.
We are desperately looking for a Blue
Heeler Bitch Pup for our young
children!!
Please Please if anyone can
point us in the direction of a breeder, please
could you send me their
contact details.
CORRALEE GREEFF
greeffy@onetel.com
091
208726
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6.5
Homes Wanted (Ad inserted 11/07/06)
We are looking for a good home or
homes for our 3 dogs.
Toby - 5yr old Jack Russell, full of character,
loves children. Very alert
and good rat/mouse catcher.
Barney - A 6yr
old Maltese Cross - who is most adorable and very loving ,
loves
children.
Snoopy - A 6yr old Border Collie / Besenji Cross. Tends to
keep to himself
but is an excellent watchdog. Good with children.
All
dogs pretty used to being spoilt. Sandly we are leaving Zimbabwe and
the
thought of putting down any of our beloved dogs just doesn't bear
thinking
about.
If interested you can contact me on either email - Attention Fran
Grant
sunshineflowers@zol.co.zw.
Home
Tel: 573942 (after 12pm) Cell: 091 369
539
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6.6
Golden Cocker Spaniel Pups (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Golden cocker spaniel
puppies ready to leave home. Phone
851088.
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6.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Purebred Maltese Poodle puppy/ies or
Maltese/Cross Puppy/ies, needed to fill
'empty nest'.
Please contact
Rochelle at E-mail: bvalley@mweb.co.zw.
Phone: 020-64296 /
091404749
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6.8
Rusty needs a Home (Ad inserted 18/07/06)
Staffy Lovers! Rusty a
magnificent black brindle staffy 4 years is still
sitting in kennels 4 months
later. His mum and sister have gone to a good
home but he is still waiting.
He has a super nature and all he wants to do
is be loved. Please help. Is
there someone out there who can give him the
good home he deserves. Tel
Terrier Rescue Michelle on 884294 or 011602903 or
e-mail me at gandami@mweb.co.zw
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please
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