New Vision, Uganda
Friday, 20th July,
2007
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has unleashed thousands of policemen on
the business
community to enforce price controls. Desperate to contain
rising inflation,
the highest in the world at 4,500%, Mugabe ordered a
freeze on prices of
bread, milk, cooking oil and other consumer
items.
This is ridiculous because every nation has gone for
market-economy, and
Mugabe is unable to provide incentives to producers and
businesses.
Already shops and food stores are empty and there is no ray
of hope for
supplies.
Zimbabwe has more problems. There is no respect
for human rights and freedom
of expression. Newspapers critical of the
government, such as The Daily
News, were forced to close in violent
circumstances.
The BBC and CNN have also been banned from filming or
reporting from
Zimbabwe. And the public broadcaster (ZBC) is used as a state
propaganda
tool.
The problems started with Zimbabwe's involvement in
the DRC war
(1998-2002)which drained the treasury. Mugabe had no justifiable
cause to
intervene given that Zimbabwe does not share a border with the
DRC.
And land reform is not a problem per se, but Mugabe's wish to cling
to
power. Otherwise why has South Africa, with similar land problems, not
collapsed economically?
Unlike South Africa, Mugabe rushed land
reforms because he had no other way
to win elections, having lost popularity
tremendously. Still, elections have
become a joke, and the latest one in
2002 was characterised by vote-rigging,
intimidation and fraud.
Yet
Mugabe is currently trying to amend the constitution in an attempt to
bypass
the 2008 scheduled elections and stay in power until 2010.
Zimbabweans are
angry, hungry and in desperate need of help. May the African
brothers and
sisters help.
Leader
Saturday July 21, 2007
The
Guardian
It was presented as medicine, but the shock therapy being
applied to
Zimbabwe is poison. Three weeks ago President Robert Mugabe
ordered that
prices be cut by at least half. It was a panic response to
galloping
inflation, which had reached the point where the price of some
goods was
rising threefold each week. But Mugabe's decree is crucifying
retailers -
filling stations are being forced to sell petrol for less than
half what
they have to pay for it. In the ensuing summer sale, widescreen
TVs,
clothes, coffee, meat - almost everything except staple foodstuffs -
have
disappeared from the shelves.
While some Zanu-PF loyalists made
a killing, thousands of shopkeepers were
arrested for profiteering.
Restocking has become near-impossible. Oil, soap
and salt have run out in
rural areas. On Thursday buying petrol with foreign
currency coupons was
barred, removing one of the last ways of filling up the
tank. With arbitrary
prices already set for basics from milk to cement
(anything from 20% to 50%
of the cost of production), the next step,
according to the opposition MP
David Coltart, is to militarise the economy.
Zanu-PF are doing to businesses
what they did to the white farms, and the
effect will be just as grim. The
price cuts were ordered by a committee of
army, intelligence and police
officers chaired by Mr Mugabe and gangs of
thugs are implementing them by
force.
None of this makes sense for those members of Zanu-PF with any stake
in the
future. The rationale behind the South African-sponsored talks with
members
of the opposition was that Zanu-PF stalwarts had more to lose from a
collapse of the existing order than did those outside the party. Better to
talk now and manage transition than lose all, the optimists argued. Since
then the talks in Pretoria have gone nowhere, and last week one side failed
to turn up. The whole operation appears to have been a delaying tactic, with
South Africa's Thabo Mbeki outfoxed by Mr Mugabe. What then is the party's
grand strategy? Zanu-PF bosses own many businesses that are losing billions
of Zimbabwean dollars in the chaos, so why did they allow fellow party
members to drive what was left of the country's economy off a
cliff?
There are no clear answers. Even if Zanu-PF becomes a military
regime, it
will not be able to feed the people. Thousands of Zimbabweans are
fleeing to
South Africa, and there will be more as basic foods run out. The
last thing
South Africa needs is millions of starving refugees, and yet that
prospect
is still not concentrating minds in Pretoria. The US ambassador to
Harare
may be right when he claims that Zanu-PF is committing regime change
on
itself. But Zimbabwe may have further to fall before it finally slams
into
the ground.
Zim Online
Saturday 21 July 2007
By Ntando Ncube
PRETORIA - The British High Commission in Pretoria
on Friday warned
President Robert Mugabe that he could not use a South
African-led initiative
to resolve Zimbabwe's crisis as a "smokescreen" to
buy time for his
embattled government.
The Southern African
Development Community (SADC) last March tasked
South Africa's President
Thabo Mbeki to lead efforts to resolve Zimbabwe's
eight-year political and
economic crisis by facilitating dialogue between
Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF
party and the main opposition Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC)
party.
The talks that have been postponed in the past after ZANU PF
failed to
turn up for scheduled meetings hit a fresh snag this week, with
reports that
Mugabe's party had refused to discuss constitutional reforms
with the
opposition.
High Commission media and public affairs
officer Apsara McNaught
described ZANU PF's attitude towards talks as
discouraging, adding that
Mugabe should not see talks as an opportunity to
ease pressure on his
government while planning to rig next year's joint
parliamentary and
presidential elections.
She said: "The fact
that ZANU PF representatives have repeatedly
failed to turn up for talks is
not encouraging. Mugabe must not think that
the SADC initiative can be used
as a smokescreen to distract the opposition
and his neighbours while he
prepares the ground in Zimbabwe for another set
of crooked
elections."
McNaught called on regional governments to step in and
assist Mbeki's
mediation effort that, according to political analysts, could
become an
irrelevant sideshow if the issue of a new constitution that could
guarantee
free and fair polls next was removed from the agenda.
The British diplomat said a solution to Zimbabwe's crisis was in the
interests of that country and the entire region, which was suffering
contagion effects from the unprecedented meltdown of what was once its
second biggest economy.
"Zimbabwe 's neighbours are already
feeling the negative economic and
social consequences of the exodus of
Zimbabweans which is putting added
strain on their social and welfare
structures," said McNaught.
Britain, Zimbabwe's former colonial
master, has led international
criticism against Mugabe's controversial rule,
mobilising its Western allies
to impose targeted sanctions on the Zimbabwean
leader and his top officials
to punish them for failing to uphold human
rights, the rule of law and for
stealing elections.
The
Zimbabwean leader denies violating human rights or stealing
elections and
accuses Britain of plotting to bring down his government and
replace it with
the MDC he claims is a puppet of London.
Zimbabwe is suffering a
debilitating economic crisis that is
highlighted by the world's highest
inflation rate of nearly 5 000 percent, a
rapidly contracting GDP, the
fastest for a country not at war according to
the World Bank and shortages
of foreign currency, food and fuel.
Critics blame the crisis on
repression and wrong policies by Mugabe,
in power since Zimbabwe's 1980
independence from Britain. He denies the
charge. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Saturday 21 July 2007
By
Nqobizitha Khumalo
BULAWAYO - A Zimbabwe government minister on Friday
accused the British and
former United States (US) ambassadors of inciting
the business sector to
hike prices in a bid to foment rebellion against the
Harare authorities.
Industry and International Trade Minister Obert Mpofu
made the startling
claims when he addressed business leaders in the second
city of Bulawayo
yesterday over the government's ongoing crackdown on price
increases.
Mpofu said government had gathered "evidence" showing that
Andrew Pocock and
his US counterpart, Christopher Dell, were trying to use
the business sector
as a conduit for regime change.
"Dell and Pocock
were always in Bulawayo and the reason they were always
here was to effect a
regime change through inciting people and they were
working with local
business people. We know all that and we have the
evidence.
"Our
detractors have been making visits to Bulawayo to influence the regime
change agenda. But it will fail. Zimbabwe will not collapse and we will win
against the detractors," Mpofu told stunned business delegates.
No
comment on the matter was immediately available from the British and the
US
embassies in Harare.
The Zimbabwean government last month froze prices of
all commodities
following a spate of price increases that had seen prices of
basic goods
rising by more than 500 percent in a spate of three
weeks.
President Robert Mugabe's government accused the business sector
of working
with his western enemies to hike prices so as to foment rebellion
against
the government, a charge business has denied.
The Harare
authorities also ordered companies to roll back prices to
mid-June levels
with at least 2 000 company executives and managers having
been arrested so
far for defying the government directive.
Mpofu yesterday repeated
government threats to take over companies that
resist the directive to slash
prices adding that the government is
re-equipping the defunct state company,
the Zimbabwe Development Corporation
(ZDC) to take over firms that defy the
order.
"We will take over the companies. The government has given my
ministry money
to help take over companies that stop production and we will
do just that,"
said Mpofu.
Dell, who left Zimbabwe about a fortnight
ago after finishing his tour of
duty, was a fierce critic of
Mugabe.
Last month, Dell said a debilitating economic crisis that had
seen inflation
zooming past 4 500 percent would push Mugabe out of power
over the next six
months.
The US ambassador said historically, no
government has survived an economic
crisis of Zimbabwe's
magnitude.
Meanwhile, the government on Friday rescinded a ban on the
importation of
foodstuffs into the country as well as the use of fuel
coupons around the
country in a clear sign of confusion gripping the
government.
Mpofu said the government had recalled Statutory Instrument
137 and 138 of
2007 that would have seen people banned from importing
foodstuffs into the
country.
"Government has recalled the statutory
instrument that would have seen
people not being allowed to bring foodstuffs
into the country . . . after
receiving inputs from members of the public we
have decided to review the
statute because it has caused a lot of stress in
the country," said Mpofu.
On the fuel coupon issue, Mpofu said the
government had been misquoted
adding that oil companies using the fuel
coupon system will be expected to
buy their supplies from the National Oil
Company of Zimbabwe. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Saturday 21 July 2007
By
Tsungai Murandu
HARARE - Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon
Gono will not be
welcome in the United Kingdom following his role in
President Robert Mugabe's
failed economic policies that have wrecked the
lives of millions of
Zimbabweans, the British government said on
Thursday.
Contributing to debate on Zimbabwe in the UK's House of
Commons, the country's
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
Affairs Meg Munn said
although Gono is not on the official European Union
(EU) travel ban imposed
on Mugabe and his henchmen, the central bank
governor would not be allowed
to set foot in the UK.
"Gideon Gono is
not welcome in the UK. He does not intend to travel here,
and we do not
intend to let him come," Munn told the UK House of Commons
during debate on
Zimbabwe.
The RBZ chief has so far been the only senior member of the
Mugabe
administration to escape the EU's targeted sanctions against
Zimbabwe's top
officials.
Munn disclosed that there is resistance
from other EU countries on the
inclusion of Gono, the chief architect of
some of the country's disastrous
economic policies. One of Mugabe's close
allies, Gono controls Zimbabwe's
economic levers, with oversight over key
economic ministries.
He has been accused of fueling the country's
inflation rate - now estimated
to be approaching 10 000 percent - through
his unbudgeted and budget
expenditures.
Gono has openly admitted to
printing money since coming into office in
December 2003 to finance
government handouts to farmers resettled on land
seized from
whites.
The governor is already among the 130 senior ZANU PF and Zimbabwe
government
officials on the travel ban lists for Australia, New Zealand and
the United
States.
Describing the RBZ chief as a "craven lickspittle
of Mugabe", UK legislators
had questioned why Gono remained outside the EU
travel bank list given his
role in the ongoing economic meltdown in
Zimbabwe.
Munn disclosed that the UK would push for his name to be added
on the EU
list. "We are working, through the EU, on a common position and
making our
views clear," she said.
Conservative Member of Parliament
and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
Keith Simpson urged the British
government to widen the travel ban and asset
freeze imposed on Zimbabwe's
ruling elite to include families of Zimbabwean
government and ruling party
officials resident in the EU.
Proposed measures included the revoking of
EU residence permits of family
and relatives of Zimbabwean
officials.
"It is well known that many family members of Zimbabwean
Government
officials on the EU travel ban list reside in EU countries. It
would
significantly strengthen the EU common position if we revoked those
rights
of residence," said Simpson.
The British legislators also want
the travel ban and asset freeze extended
to heads of Zimbabwean institutions
considered instrumental to the continued
existence of the Mugabe
regime.
On Mugabe's participation at the forthcoming EU-Africa Summit in
Portugal,
Munn said the UK's position remained the Zimbabwe must not be
invited.
She noted that Mugabe's presence would overshadow real issues of
mutual
benefit to both Europe and Africa that the summit is supposed to
address. -ZimOnline
By Violet Gonda
20 July 2007
All systems in
Zimbabwe are collapsing. It's becoming increasingly difficult
to get through
on the phone, there are extensive electricity and water cuts,
supermarkets
are empty of basic commodities, long queues for fuel have
resurfaced and
businesses are near collapse. The economic meltdown has
resulted in
thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing the country daily.
Outspoken political
analyst Dr John Makumbe said this is how Robert Mugabe
has fast-tracked his
own demise but he expressed disappointment in the
pro-democracy movement in
Zimbabwe for failing to capitalize on the crisis.
He said: "In the past
the affected people used to be only sections of the
population, either the
very poor or the students, the progressive forces,
the opposition parties,
the media or the lawyers. This time it's everyone
including the rich
themselves, including ZANU PF members, including the
army, including the
police."
The analyst said the nation is on the verge of total collapse
and people are
literally starving as they can't find food in the shops, but
there is no
opposition to mobilize the masses.
Dr Makumbe said it's
unfortunate that even Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono
is becoming more
vocal than the pro-democracy movement. He urged the
opposition movement to
focus and regroup, to find ways of fighting the
regime.
The
opposition MDC split over differences in strategies in 2005 and have
been
fighting each other ever since. Makumbe said: "I am disappointed in the
MDC
particularly, but also in civil society. Nobody is really fighting
against
this (repression). Nobody is even wanting to speak out against
this."
He urged the groups to remain focused on the national crisis
and refuse to
be distracted from the agenda at hand - and stop the
infighting for the sake
of progress.
Much hope is also being put on
the SADC region to bring the political
parties in Zimbabwe to the
negotiating table, but Robert Mugabe's
intransigence is said to be hampering
the talks. Observers say it is
unacceptable that there is no information
available on the actual progress
of the talks between the MDC and ZANU PF,
despite the massive humanitarian
crisis unfolding in Zimbabwe.
But
commentators like Dr Makumbe say the SADC led talks are merely a
sideshow
and will not yield any results, because Mugabe is not really
interested.
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news
SW Radio Africa
(London)
20 July 2007
Posted to the web 20 July 2007
Violet
Gonda
The crackdown against activists from the National
Constitutional Assembly
(NCA) continues. The group's acting Youth
Chairperson for Manicaland, Manex
Mauya, was arrested together with two
other activists on Friday. The group
said in a statement that no reasons had
yet been given for the latest
arrests.
This comes three days after
the police arrested provincial chairperson
Elisha Makuyana, for allegedly
insulting Robert Mugabe during a discussion
on the controversial price
reductions. This was the third time that Makuyana
had been arrested in two
weeks. He had previously been arrested for
possessing shortwave radios that
were meant for distribution to rural areas.
The police later raided the NCA
offices in Mutare and confiscated 21 radios.
Makuyana was finally released
on Friday after spending three days in police
custody.
The NCA
said in a statement: "Makuyana was given a tough time by the police
who
accused him of undermining the office of the President. He was further
accused of being a white stooge being used by the NCA to further the
interests of colonial masters. He was told in no uncertain times that the
police (were) going to follow him up closely and that if he wants to live a
normal life he should desist from the NCA."
There is no one sector
that has not been affected by bad government
policies. All critics from the
opposition, students, labour, business and
health sector have been targeted
by the regime.
VOA
By Patience Rusere
Washington
20 July
2007
The Canadian government has pledged $3.3 million in food aid to
Zimbabwe,
which according to World Food Program Southern African regional
spokesman
Richard Lee consists of 6,600 metric tonnes of maize that will
start to flow
in September.
The Canadian donation came on the heels
of a U.S. pledge of 47,400 metric
tonnes of grain that will feed an
estimated 500,000 Zimbabweans for the next
six months.
Zimbabwe is
facing serious food shortages: more than a third of its
population faces
hunger between now and the next harvest beginning in March
2008.
Lee
told reporter Patience Rusere of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that
although a
lot more grain is needed, the Canadian pledge will help get the
aid pipeline
flowing.
Mail and Guardian
Duncan Campbell and Mail & Guardian
reporter
20 July 2007 11:59
Zimbabwe has
been placed last for the second year running in a
league table ranking 178
countries by how happy and long-lived their
citizens are. But South Africa
is not far ahead, at 156th.
The European Happy Planet Index
used carbon efficiency, life
satisfaction and life expectancy to rate the
countries.
Zimbabwe received a 16,4 HPI rating and South
Africa 27,8,
compared with the 68,21 of the top-ranked nation, the Pacific
island of
Vanuatu.
The survey, published by the New
Economics Foundation and
Friends of the Earth, makes it clear that wealth
does not necessarily make
people happy.
The world's
richest nation, the United States, is ranked 150th
and the United Kingdom
108th, while lowly Cuba is ranked sixth. Central
America does particularly
well, with Costa Rica third, Panama fifth,
Honduras seventh and Guatemala
eighth.
Small and modestly well-off Iceland tops the European
stakes at
an overall 58. The highest-placed African countries are Tunisia
(21), Cape
Verde (46) and Ghana (68).
The survey also
reveals that Europe is now worse at creating
wellbeing than it was 40 years
ago.
"Countries like Iceland clearly show that happiness
doesn't have
to cost the earth," said Nic Marks, founder of the foundation's
Centre for
Wellbeing. "Its combination of strong social policies and
extensive use of
renewable energy demonstrates that living within our
environmental means
doesn't mean sacrificing human
wellbeing."
The Scandinavian countries do best in Europe,
with Sweden
second, Norway third and Denmark sixth. Immediately above
Estonia, at the
bottom of the table, are Luxembourg, Bulgaria and
Greece.
Andrew Simms, the foundation's head of climate
change, said
countries with a strong market-led economic model fared least
well. "What is
the point if we burn vast quantities of fossil fuels to make,
buy and
consume ever more stuff, without noticeably benefiting our
wellbeing?" he
asked.
Iceland has its own sustainable
energy source, via the volcanic
geology, and its government commits more
resources to health than any other
country in Europe.
Luxembourg is the worst country for its carbon footprint and the
United
Kingdom comes fourth from the bottom on that rating. Europe as a
whole has
almost three times its "fair" global share of carbon emissions.
The Zimbabwean
(20-07-07)
BY TRUST MATSILELE
MUTARE - VETERAN liberation war hero and
politician, Edgar Tekere says that
Simba Makoni should not be cowed downed
by threats from senior ZANU PF
politicians that are threatening to throw him
out of the party but should
instead be more vocal about the misrule of the
country.
A group of senior ZANU PF members is planning the removal of
Makoni, a
former finance minister after he addressed an international
economic forum
in Cape Town where he predicted President Robert Mugabe's
downfall.
Makoni is also seen as a potential presidential hopeful and if
he is ousted
from the party, he would not be eligible to present himself as
a
presidential candidate at the crucial ZANU PF congress in
December.
"I applaud the stance that has been taken by Makoni. He should
not let the
poor suffer just to please Mugabe and his cronies. People are
suffering
because of ZANU PF's economic policies.
"The country is own
its knees and you get some silly politicians threatening
to suspend Makoni
for calling for economic reforms in Zimbabwe ," said
Tekere.
Tekere,
a former secretary-general of ZANU PF was fired from ZANU PF this
year after
he wrote a book that was critical of Mugabe and also queried his
liberation
war credentials.
Politicians closely aligned to Mugabe such as State
Security Minister and
the party's secretary for administration, Didymus
Mutasa; Labour Minister,
Nicholas Goche and the Minister of Gender and
Employment Creation, Oppah
Muchinguri are said to be behind the scheme of
removing Makoni from the
party.
Other politicians involved in the
plot are Elliot Manyika, a minister
without portfolio and Saviour
Kasukuwere, a deputy youth minister.
Mugabe was also said to be very
upset by Makoni's statements in Cape Town
and is determined to see that he
is punished severely.
Tekere, who is an outspoken politician, said it was
encouraging that there
were still some senior politicians like Makoni within
ZANU PF who were able
to stand-up and fight the leadership in order to save
the country from its
present crisis.
Repeated efforts to get comments
from Manyika, Mutasa or Goche were
unsuccessful.
Makoni told
delegates attending the World Economic Forum on Africa in June
that change
was imminent within ZANU PF and the country as they was now a
consensus
within the ruling party that a rebuilding process had to take
place in
Zimbabwe.
This process would culminate in Mugabe (83) who has been in
power for over
27 years stepping down.
Makoni is seen as one of the
best candidates to take over from the aging but
defiant Mugabe.
The Zimbabwean
(20-07-07)
Ntando Ncube
MORE than 150 Zimbabweans on Friday
demonstrated in Johannesburg before they
presented a petition to the Wits
University Vice-Chancellor Loyiso Nongxa
demanding that the SA government
expels children of senior Zanu-PF and
government official studying in the
country.
The Zimbabwe Youth Movement in South Africa (ZYM), which
organised the
demonstration, accused the Zimbabwean government officials of
paralysing the
education system in Zimbabwe , while sending their children
to South Africa
, Europe and the United States , where there is better
education.
ZYM demanded the South Africa government to immediately expel
and deport
back to Zimbabwe the senior government officials' children who
are attending
various universities in South Africa .
"Our petition is
demanding that the South African government should with
immediate effect
expel all ZANU (PF) and government beneficiaries, sons and
daughters and
relatives studying at their institutions", ZYM spokesperson
Remember Moyo
said.
"They should go back to Zimbabwe where their parents have destroyed
the
country because of massive corruption, bad political and economic
polices
administered by the Harare government.
"They should go and
face it.our brothers and sisters are dying because of
abuses at universities
and hunger in Zimbabwe ", he added.
According to a statement released by
ZYM, the Zimbabwe government and
Zanu-PF officials have over 600 close
relatives and children who are
studying at South African, US, UK, Australian
or Canadian universities.
Their fees are allegedly funded by the
suffering taxpayers' money in
Zimbabwe .
Zimbabwe Political Victims
Association (ZPOVA) secretary general Oliver
Kubikawa said: "We need these
guys to go back to feel the pitch of situation
in Zimbabwe where their
fathers are stealing states funds, destroying the
education system sending
their children abroad. Let them go back and study
at the university of
Zimbabwe and other universities in the country what do
they need here if
their fathers are saying everything is good in Zimbabwe
",irate Kubikwa
said.
Efforts to get a comment and a confirmation from the Chancellor's
offices
were fruitless by the time of going to press.
Recently former
US ambassador to Zimbabwe , Christopher Dell, said his
country had drafted a
Bill to deport all relatives of senior government and
ZANU PF
officials.
The proposed Bill would soon be signed by, George Bush, the US
president.
The British government is also mulling plans to ban ZANU PF
officials'
children from attending educational institutions in the UK
.
According to ZYM's statement, President Robert Mugabe's nephew and MP
for
Makonde, Leo Mugabe has a daughter in South Africa studying on a
presidential scholarship at Fort Hare .
Zanu-PF political commissar
and Minister Without Portfolio Elliot Manyika's
daughter, Mediline Manyika
is also in South Africa at Monash University one
of the most expense private
universities in Johannesburg.
Zimbabwe National Army general,
Major-general Phillip Sibanda's daughter
Laura Sibanda is at Kwazulu Natal
University in Durban . Other students at
the same college are, Simbarashe
Masoka, the son of agriculture permanent
secretary Ngoni Masoka, Jacqueline
and Elinor Kundishora, the twin daughters
of Brigadier Kundishora. Another
nephew of Robert Mugabe, Hillary Mugabe is
also at the
university.
Former army commander Vitalis Zvinavashe's son, Richard is at
Alcorn State
University in the US and his daughter Mundita is also in the
same country.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono's twin
daughters Pride and
Praise, are at Trobe University Melbourne, Australia
doing tourism and
hospitality studies. Passion his son is in Sydney-
Australia's capital
studying music production.
Sylvester Nguni, the
Agriculture minister's daughter Tendai is in Austrilia
while his other
daughter Natalie is in the UK at a university where she is
said to be doing
fashion designing.
Amos Midzi, the Minister of Mines has a son Tendai at
George Washington
University in the US . Minister of Education, Sports and
Culture Aeneas
Chigwedere 's son Pride in the US at Harvard University .
Rural Housing
Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter Chido; is at Midlands
College in
Texas , US.
Harare governor David Karimanzira's son Taona
Karimanzira is in Brisbane
Australia . Senior Zanu-PF and Women's League
official Thenjiwe Lesabe has
child in Massacheseuts , USA .
Defence
minister, Sydeny Sekerayi's two kids are in Canada , one is a
medical
practitioner who was deregistered following sexual harassment
charges.
Olivia Muchen's son Kudzai Steven Muchena, moved from Malaysia to
Australia
while police commissioner Augustine Chihuri's son Sylvester
Chihuri is at a
university in Australia .
Sithembiso Nyoni the Minister of Small and
Medium Scale Enterprises' last
son, Sibonginkosi Nyoni is in the USA at
Falcon College .