The Southern African
:: Lance Guma - SW Radio Africa
Thursday, 31 May 2007
LONDON - The Zimbabwe Dollar set a new milestone on Thursday with most
parallel market dealers paying Z$105 000 for one British pound.
What is more startling is the fact that 3 zeroes were removed from the
currency by the Central Bank last year and if these were added back, it's
actually Z$105 million buying one pound.
These rates translate
into skyrocketing prices for ordinary people as
the cost of imported goods
hits the roof. The rate of inflation for April
peaked at 3,200 % and it is
expected to top 4,000 for May.
Economic analyst Bekithemba Mhlanga
told Newsreel the Reserve Bank is
busy mopping up foreign currency from
dealers to help pay for fuel and
energy bills. This he says explains the
plummeting value of the Zimbabwe
dollar this month.
Despite
government not acknowledging black market rates and sticking
to the official
exchange rates in their dealings they are secretly buying
forex on the black
market.
"There is nothing called a shortage of foreign currency,
what is in
short supply is a creative means of mopping it up," Mhlanga said,
explaining
how the government sources its forex.
Several banks
and fuel dealers who are allowed to sell in foreign
currency are at the
centre of the collection system. A large population of
Zimbabweans working
or living in the Diaspora have also enabled Mugabe's
regime to tap into the
forex that they repatriate home.
Mhlanga said Zimbabwe's entire
production base had collapsed and most
companies were operating at below 10
percent capacity.
This has in turn led to an over reliance on
imported goods, again
increasing the demand for forex. He said the problems
were made worse by the
excessive printing of money, which has created an
over-supply of Zimbabwe
dollars that are not backed up by goods and
services.
The hyper-inflationary environment has also meant people
are buying
forex just as a means of storing value and selling it later when
they need
to make purchases. This is because the local currency plummets in
value
everyday.
The country's economy is on its knees with
experts blaming violent
farm grabs for killing the agriculture sector, which
was the mainstay of the
economy. Corruption and mismanagement in government
have added the final
nail to the coffin lid - with SW Radio Africa.
Zim Online
Friday 01 June 2007
By Thulani
Munda
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe's government has begun
compensating white
farmers whose land it confiscated under a controversial
farm redistribution
programme over the past seven years.
In a notice
published in the state controlled Herald newspaper on Thursday,
Ministry of
Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement permanent secretary Ngoni
Masoka advised
the former white farmers to approach the ministry for
compensation for
improvements on farms such as buildings, dams roads and
other
structures.
The Harare administration has said it will not pay white
farmers for the
actual land saying whites stole the land from blacks in the
first place.
The Lands Ministry's compensation committee will fix the
amount of cash due
to each farmer although it is unclear what method the
committee will use to
evaluate the immovable properties on farms.
The
government notice read in part: "The compensation committee has fixed
the
compensation payable for immovable improvements on acquired farms in
terms
of Section 29B of the Land Acquisition Act (Chapter 20:10).
"The former
owners or representatives should contact the Ministry of Lands,
Land Reform,
and Resettlement as a matter of urgency in connection with
their
compensation. The list of farmers whose compensation has been
determined are
available at the offices of the Chief Lands Officer in the
provinces."
Efforts to get further clarification on the matter from
Masoka or Lands,
Land Reform and Resettlement Minister, Didymus Mutasa were
fruitless as both
were not reachable on their phones.
However,
because the valuation of movable property on farms was carried out
by
government land inspectors some months ago, there are fears that any
attached values may not reflect the true value because of Zimbabwe's runaway
inflation which at more than 3 700 percent is the highest in the
world.
Mugabe's government seized white-owned commercial farms starting
in 2000, in
a bloody and ruthless campaign, with government initially
refusing to
compensate the dispossessed farmers.
Approximately 4 000
formerly white-owned farms were seized, and the white
farmers ended up
settling in neighbouring countries after being hounded out
of
Zimbabwe.
But the land reform programme, condemned internationally
plunged Zimbabwe
into acute food shortages because the cash-strapped
government failed to
provide black peasants resettled on former white farms
with skills support,
inputs and financial back-up to maintain
production.
Food production plummeted by about 60 percent to leave
Zimbabwe - once a
regional breadbasket - dependent on handouts from
international food relief
agencies.
The southern African country's
once vibrant manufacturing sector also took a
severe knock with most of the
industries that depended on the key farming
sector for orders and inputs
forced to operate below 50 percent of capacity
as agriculture collapsed. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Friday 01 June 2007
By Regerai
Marwezu
MASVINGO - At least 5 000 police officers among them inspectors
and
superintendents tendered resignation letters last month alone in protest
over poor pay and working conditions, ZimOnline has learnt.
Police
Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has since written to all commanders in
the
provinces ordering them not to accept further resignations until after
next
year's presidential and parliamentary elections.
"Please do not allow
anyone to retire from the force until (after) the
elections next year," said
Chihuri in the confidential memo that was
addressed to police commanders
around the country.
"We have received about 5 000 letters from police
officers intending to
leave the force since the beginning of May and if we
allow them to go we
will be short of manpower during elections next year,"
added Chihuri.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has battled with
massive resignations
over the past few years as mostly disgruntled junior
police officers quit in
droves to seek better paying jobs across the
country's borders.
Chihuri's memo comes hardly a week after the
Zimbabwean government announced
plans to go on a massive recruitment drive
that would see the number of
police officers increased from the current 29
000 to 50 000.
President Robert Mugabe's government said it was boosting
the police
manpower in preparation for next year's
elections.
Zimbabwe's police force has been severely weakened because of
massive
desertions and resignations by junior officers who are disgruntled
over poor
pay and working conditions.
Sources within the police said
Chihuri had refused to accept the
resignations fearing that doing so would
open floodgates for more junior
officers to leave the force.
Home
Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi confirmed the exodus within the police
adding
that his ministry was currently looking for about 1 000 officers who
had
simply absconded from duty without permission.
"We are currently hunting
about 1 000 officers who just left the force
without tendering their
resignations. However, we are going to recruit more
officers to reach our
target of 50 000 officers by the end of year," said
Mohadi.
A senior
police superintendent who spoke to ZimOnline yesterday said there
was a lot
of disgruntlement within the force with most junior officers
feeling "used"
by the government.
"We are just being used by the government. If the
government fails to
approve our resignations, we will simply leave because
we are working for
nothing," said the superintendent, who refused to be
named.
Zimbabwean police are among the lowest paid civil servants with a
junior
police officer, for example, taking home just about Z$412 000 a
month, a
figure way below the breadline that is more than $1.5
million.
An acute economic recession, described by the World Bank as
unprecedented
for a country not at war, has seen most workers scrounging to
make ends meet
as rampant inflation erodes real wages.
Zimbabwe, once
seen as a model economy in Africa, is also grappling with the
world's
highest inflation rate at over 3 700 percent, massive joblessness
and
poverty.
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party and
major Western
governments blame the economic crisis on Mugabe's
mismanagement of the
economy, charges the veteran leader denies. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Friday 01 June 2007
By Thabani
Mlilo
HARARE - High Court Judge Ben Hlatshwayo on Thursday postponed to
June 6 the
hearing of a bail application by 30 opposition Movement for
Democratic
Change (MDC) party activists who are accused of bombing police
stations last
March.
The opposition activists have been in police
custody since their arrest on
March 28 but the High Court earlier this week
released on bail MDC elections
director Ian Makone, who the state claims was
the mastermind behind the
bombing campaign that the state says was part of a
Western-backed plan to
oust President Robert Mugabe.
Justice
Hlatshwayo blocked attempts by state prosecutors to further delay
the bail
hearing by an additional two weeks to allow the police time to
submit
findings on their investigations in South Africa where the MDC
activists
were allegedly were being trained as saboteurs.
MDC lawyer Alec
Muchadehama told the court that the state was buying time at
the expense of
the freedom of his clients who are continuously being denied
their freedom
and "denied the benefit of being presumed innocent until
proven
guilty".
The MDC denies it or its members were behind the bombing of
police stations,
a public train and properties belonging to various
government supporters.
The opposition party says it is committed to
removing Mugabe from power
through non-violent and democratic means, adding
the bomb attacks were
orchestrated by state agents in a bid to justify a
crackdown on the
resurgent party that has seen scores of its activists and
leaders arrested
and jailed over the past three months.
The MDC,
which is pushing for constitutional reforms to ensure free and fair
elections next year, poses the most dangerous threat yet to Mugabe and his
ruling ZANU PF party's decades old grip on power. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Friday 01
June 2007
By Patricia Mpofu
HARARE - President
Robert Mugabe's government angrily rejected charges by
Tony Blair that it
was a bad government, calling the British leader "crazy"
for lumping
Zimbabwe with Sudan, where militias have butchered thousands of
innocent
civilians.
Information Minister and chief government spokesman Sikhanyiso
Ndlovu told
ZimOnline it was "good riddance" that Blair was leaving office
on June 27,
adding Harare hoped for better relations with Gordon Brown,
expected to take
over at Number 10 Downing Street.
"We no longer care
what he (Blair) says," said Ndlovu. "We are saying it is
good riddance that
he is going. He is crazy and we are not losing any sleep
about his
utterances in South Africa today."
Blair has been one of the most
outspoken critics of the 83-year-old Mugabe's
controversial rule and worked
hard to mobilise his 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.
Mugabe, who
has ruled Zimbabwe since the former British colony's
independence in 1980,
accuses Blair of seeking to oust and replace him with
a puppet government
answerable to London and says targeted sanctions are
hurting the economy and
ordinary citizens the most.
On his farewell tour to Africa, Blair said
both the West and Africa faced
two possible paths. "One is chosen by
countries like South Africa, Ghana,
Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana and many
others, reinforcing economic growth
with good governance and the stamping
out of violence and corruption," he
said.
"The other, the path of
Zimbabwe or Sudan, where bad government and violent
oppression send the
country's economy spiralling down. Our choice is to
support the good.
Africa's challenge is to eliminate the bad."
Blair voiced Britain's
support for efforts by South African President Thabo
Mbeki to mediate
between the Mugabe government and the opposition in Harare,
saying a change
in the political climate was essential ahead of next year's
elections.
Mbeki was last March asked by SADC heads of state and
government to lead
efforts to resolve Zimbabwe's eight-year political and
economic crisis by
facilitating dialogue between Mugabe's government and the
main opposition
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party.
Earlier
this month, Mbeki said preliminary talks between Mugabe and the MDC
were
going on very well but refused to divulge further details saying doing
so
would prejudice the negotiations that were still at a delicate
stage.
Zimbabwe has since 1999 been grappling with an agonising political
and
economic meltdown, critics blame on repression and mismanagement by
Mugabe,
a charge the veteran leader denies.
The crisis has seen
inflation shooting to more than 3 700 percent while the
southern African
country is short of food, essential medicines, fuel,
electricity,hard cash
and just about every basic survival commodity. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Friday 01 June
2007
HARARE - A comedy of errors is how one friend
recently described this once
lovely country of ours.
After waiting
forever for the education ministry to announce examination
fees for our high
school children, we were shocked to hear on the radio that
the fees would be
exactly the same as the ones charged last year for both A
and O
Level.
Good heavens! The amount cannot buy even half a loaf of bread. How
does
anyone explain this mathematical or economic madness?
Yes the
minister gave us the explanation that by the time exam fees are set
the
papers or material used for exams will have been long produced?
Oh
yeh?
Be that as it may, what about the perennial problem of teachers
refusing to
mark papers because they are being paid a measley amount for
their pain?
Yes we all want this great country to work and we all want
our economy to be
something that we should not be ashamed of but face it, it
is bad enough
being unable to afford a loaf of bread but it is even worse if
we are going
to pretend that an amount that cannot buy a sweet can be
demanded as exam
fees.
Hell we used to have the best education this
side of the equator. Our
university graduates were highly sought
after.
We need to realise the fact that education costs money and if we
want to
maintain high standards we have to pay for it. Yes sure everyone is
struggling to make ends meet but we really have to retain the standards that
we set for ourselves in the early eighties.
While we are all trying
to side-step this hysteria, we have to come up with
survival strategies.
Transport costs keep on increasing, most hospital staff
have decided to
withdraw their labour because the money they earn is not
worth the pain of
getting up in the morning anymore.
Teachers spend most of their time
knitting jerseys or selling sweets and
oranges to our children as a way of
supplementing their meagre salaries.
At this rate you have no choice but
to wonder who is going to survive 2007.
We are all grappling with trying
to make money and this has torn apart
families. Nobody cares about the
extended family anymore. Everyone is
looking at ways of ripping off the next
person.
Those with a little bit more are expected to share with other
less
privileged members of the family but the uncertainty of what tomorrow
will
bring has made most people prudent accountants.
People spend if
they really have to and only on their nearest and dearest.
How many
people have bought their grandparents jerseys this winter? NONE I
am sure
because, things such as jerseys and tennis shoes have become a
luxury.
The least expensive pair of tennis shoes is selling at Z$80
000 which is
around US$1 and a few cents on the parallel market!
In
the late 90s when things started getting tough I remember those who had a
little to spare shared with their relatives.
Today it is almost
impossible. Everyone is trying to ensure that they will
have a drop of water
and a morsel of food to see them through to the next
day.
People were
trust-worthy. Your maid would not steal from you because she was
hungry and
your gardener did not sell your garden tools to feed his family.
We have
a new breed of highly corrupt people - people who see nothing bad in
stealing or mooching off complete strangers.
Today our streets are
run by dirty, rude young men who expect you to give
them money just because
they are there.
We have people who have never known an honest day of work
but their bodies
look well fed. We have a new breed of social outcasts who
think the world
owes them so they lurk around public transport, marshal
people into vehicles
and think they should be paid for it.
I look at
all those louts who make our lives miserable on the streets and
ask why we
have allowed ourselves to become slaves to every Jack and Jill.
We are
indeed a resilient people for how else can you explain the madness of
having
to pay $100 000 (actually $100 million) for toilet paper? Some
domestic
workers are earning less than that.
That amount buys you 10 loaves of
bread.
The corruption that now pervades every strata of our lives is
incredible. We
have all sorts of little warlords running the sugar market,
cooking oil,
identity cards and passports and almost anything you can think
of.
You have to know somebody to get anything these days.
A friend
who has spent endless days queuing just to get passport forms told
me
someone offered to help her with the whole passport process for
US$25.
This is a country that has no foreign currency reserves but you
have people
quoting you stuff in forex. How the hell is one expected to come
up with the
money?
If we say no to corruption in high places we
should say no to corruption
anywhere else too. What legacy are we going to
leave our children and
grandchildren?
We have to find a way of
surviving this madness, side-stepping hysteria. For
our own sake we have to
redeem ourselves. Be blessed.
Zim Online
Friday 01 June 2007
Own
Correspondent
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe-born South African businessman
Mutumwa Mawere is
suing British Prime Minister Tony Blair over what he
claims is the British
government's enforcement of "confiscatory legislation"
enacted by the Harare
authorities about three years ago.
An
application lodged last week in the High Court of England and Wales by
Mawere cites Blair, who is currently visiting South Africa, and President
Robert Mugabe as co-defendants in a matter involving what Mawere describes
as the expropriation of the assets of two of his former companies registered
in England, SMM Holdings Limited (SMMH) and THZ Holdings Limited
(THZH).
Mawere, once an ally of Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party, claims his
case
against Blair relates to the "enforcement and recognition of the
confiscatory legislation" enacted by the Zimbabwe government in September
2004.
The legislation allowed Mugabe's government to "expropriate"
the
shareholdings of all companies owned and controlled by Mawere in the
English
jurisdiction and elsewhere.
Mawere says through a nominee
company, AMG Global Nominees (Private) Limited
(AMG), the Zimbabwe
government, is now before the English courts seeking to
be registered as a
shareholder of "my English companies pursuant to the
operation of Mugabe's
expropriatory decrees and laws".
In his application, Mawere asks the
British High Court whether "the
Zimbabwean expropriatory decrees and laws"
should be recognised by English
courts and "whether actions constituting
indirect enforcement of these laws
in England should be
entertained".
Mawere cites Blair as a defendant because he accuses the
British Prime
Minister of complicity in the seizure of his companies by
allowing the
Zimbabwean government to "invade British territory" and use
British courts
to enforce "illegal seizures" of his properties there despite
European Union
sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Mawere last month filed an
application in the Johannesburg High Court suing
President Mbeki for
allowing Mugabe to use the South African judiciary to
enforce his draconian
laws in foreign lands.
Mawere's lawsuit against Mbeki was prompted by the
Zimbabwe government's
court applications in Johannesburg seeking to take
over assets owned by
Mawere in South Africa.
The net effect of
Mawere's lawsuits against Mbeki and Blair is that he wants
any foreign
government to stop allowing Mugabe from seeking to enforce
his draconian
laws in foreign lands.
Earlier this year, the Zimbabwe government,
through a company called AMG,
filed a court application in London in which
it is claiming ownership of
shares owned by Mawere in the UK incorporated
Africa Resources Limited
(ARL).
ARL was the vehicle through which
Mawere acquired ownership of SMMH and THZH
from Turner and Newall (T &
N) in 1996.
AMG claims that it has already paid US$2 million for the ARL
shares to the
administrators of T & N after the implementation of
legislation through
which Mawere's companies were seized.
Mawere
claims the shares have an underlying value of US$300 million.
AMG
contends that the administrators of T & N sold the shares in their
capacities as "mortgagees of the shares in terms of the power of sale
outlined in the document of security signed between Mawere and T & N in
1996".
As an organ of the state of Zimbabwe, Mawere argues that AMG
should not be
entitled to seek any relief in England "by reason of the fact
that its
English proceedings are an attempt to enforce a Zimbabwean law in
England
which law is patently penal or which otherwise ought not to be
enforced as
law at all by English courts".
He argues that Zimbabwean
draconian laws should not allowed to operate
extraterritorially.
Mawere argues that there is a principle in
English law that forbids English
Courts from recognizing laws of foreign
states that seeks to confiscate
property of a particular individual or class
of individuals.
Mawere claims that his application "exposes the
complicity of the Blair
government in allowing the Mugabe regime to invade
British territory, albeit
dressed as a private company, notwithstanding the
sanctions regime, to seek
the assistance of the English justice system in
completing its expropriation
exploits".
Mawere says the Blair
government has made no effort to investigate the bona
fides of
AMG.
Mawere claims that the Mugabe government has presented AMG as its
nominee
without disclosing its principals and has funded the latter without
any
disclosure of such financing in the Parliament of Zimbabwe.
This,
he claims, suggests the involvement of individuals to benefit from his
assets.
"One cannot rule out the possibility that Mugabe himself may
be personally
involved in all this . . . Why would a government be reluctant
to disclose
the principals of a private company that is funded with public
funds?" he
asked.
Mawere says as a director of his English companies,
he has been unable to
comply with UK statutory obligations by reason of the
2004 expropriation of
their Zimbabwean subsidiaries by the Zimbabwe
government.
"While Mr Blair would like President Mbeki to be more
aggressive on the
Zimbabwean question, it now emerges that the British
government has been
unwilling to take a stand against Mugabe's actions (in
England).," says
Mawere.
"It is evident that Mugabe's actions are
affecting British companies and yet
Blair's government is doing nothing. He
would like the world to believe that
he cares about the situation in
Zimbabwe when my case demonstrates
otherwise," says Mawere.
He adds:
"The lack of action on the part of the British government lends
credence to
Mugabe's accusations that the regime change agenda pursued by
Blair is
premised on an attempt to protect only white interests in Zimbabwe
and has
nothing to do with justice."
"If Mawere was a white British citizen,
would the Blair government have been
silent?" asked Mawere. - ZimOnline
VOA
By Jonga Kandemiiri
Washington
31 May
2007
The fate of 30 members of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for
Democratic
Change, detained since March, remained uncertain Thursday, after
high court
judge, Ben Hlatshwayo, postponed their bail application hearing,
to next
Wednesday.
The 30 MDC members, are charged with various
offenses, including sabotage
and training bombers in South
Africa.
The state asked the judge to postpone Thursday's bail hearing,
because it
wanted to consolidate all the eight cases the members faced, so
that they
could be heard concurrently.
The state also said it was
awaiting the return of some detectives sent to
South Africa, to investigate
the allegations that the activists had received
military training
there.
Pedzisayi Ruhanya, senior programs manager for Crisis in Zimbabwe
Coalition,
told VOA, that the state purposely delayed the cases, because it
knew the
activists were innocent, but wanted to break their
spirit.
The lawyer representing the detained MDC members, Alec
Muchadehama, told
reporter Jonga Kandemiiri of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe,
that he opposed
the continued postponement of his clients' cases, but did
not want to delay
the process further by challenging it.
Washington 31 May 2007 |
Zimbabwe's health sector has been dealt another serious blow, following the decision by junior and senior residents, working in the capital's state hospitals, to go on strike Thursday, prompted, they claimed, by the government's failure to address their grievances over pay and other allowances.
The residents' actions come less than six months after their December strike, which lasted three months, when they again downed their tools, and demanded that the government give them better salaries and wages.
The residents, totaling about 200 in number, said they would not return to work in Harare state hospitals, until the government raised their salaries to $Z70 million a month, and also gave them car loans worth $US3,000.
Residents at Bulawayo state hospitals, say they will join in the strike Friday.
Studio seven was unable to reach health minister David Parirenyatwa, or any other health ministry official, for comment on the concerns raised by the residents, two weeks ago.
Critics say the latest job action, is likely to worsen the situation at government hospitals, which have been hit by a severe shortage of nurses, who have not been going to work regularly for some time now, citing lack of adequate transport funds.
Amon Siveregi, president of the Hospital Doctors Association, told reporter Carole Gombakomba of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe, that Harare Hospital and Parirenyatwa Hospital, have been badly affected by the job action.
VOA
By Delia Robertson
Johannesburg
31 May
2007
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged African
governments to hold
Zimbabwe to account and to do so urgently. VOA's Delia
Robertson reports
from Johannesburg that Mr Blair was speaking in
Johannesburg on the final
leg of his official farewell tour of the African
continent.
Mr. Blair said that decades of repression in Zimbabwe have
forced as many as
one-third of Zimbabweans to leave their country for
opportunities elsewhere.
While he expressed support for the effort of South
African President Thabo
Mbeki regarding Zimbabwe, he reminded his host that
time is fast running
out.
"Now I welcome the determination of the
countries of southern Africa to
tackle Zimbabwe's problems through the SADC
[Southern African Development
Community] and President Mbeki's leadership to
bring the two countries
leadership together. The world is waiting, wanting
to engage with a
reforming Zimbabwe government," he said. "We support
therefore SADC's
efforts to develop a clear plan but for the people of
Zimbabwe this is
urgent and change before the 2008 elections
essential."
Mr. Blair had strong words for Sudanese President Omar
el-Bashir over the
crisis in Darfur, where some 200,000 people have been
killed and millions
are now dependent on food aid.
"I believe it is
wrong that President Bashir, intent, I'm afraid, on bombing
his way to a
solution, is determined to obstruct any effort made to
reinforce the Africa
Union's inability to improve security and stability,"
he added.
Under
Mr. Blair's leadership, the British government has expanded its
programs in
Africa, and the British leader has excellent relations with many
African
leaders. He urged other western governments to do more for Africa,
saying
that the time has past for international politics to be defined by
narrow,
traditional national interests.
"I believe that now, today, our self
interest is in substantial part defined
by the well being of others," he
said. "The consequence of globalization is
that our best chance of security
and prosperity lies in advancing freedom,
opportunity and justice for
all."
"It follows that where oppression, poverty and injustice exist, it
is not
only our duty but also in our self interest to do what we can to
bring about
change for the better," continued Mr. Blair. "And I believe
that nowhere is
that clearer than here in Africa."
But Mr. Blair said
African countries must respond equally, and meet their
own commitments to
strengthen their democracies, deliver essential services
to their people,
and work harder to eradicate corruption.
After his speech, Mr. Blair met
with South African elder statesman Nelson
Mandela, who welcomed the British
leader warmly and described him a true
friend of Africa. On Friday, Mr.
Blair will meet with President Mbeki,
before leaving the continent.
BULAWAYO, 31 May 2007 (IRIN) -
The Zimbabwean government has acknowledged it
is facing a severe food crisis
and has welcomed food aid - so long as no
"political strings" are
attached.
A joint Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and World Food
Programme
(WFP) team was invited to asses the food security situation in
Zimbabwe late
last month after President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government
declared 2007
a drought year.
"I have received a preliminary report
from [WFP/FAO] which confirms our
earlier fears of food shortages. In their
report they are saying the country
will this year harvest between 600,000
and 800,000 metric tonnes of grain,
which falls far short of the national
requirement of about 2 million metric
tonnes. In my view, I think this is a
fair assessment," agricultural
minister, Rugare Gumbo, told
IRIN.
Admitting international assistance was required, he reiterated the
government's position that Zimbabwe would not accept "aid with political
strings attached".
Cees Wittebrood, head of the European Commission's
Humanitarian Aid Office
(ECHO) for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, who
visited Zimbabwe last week,
said the authorities needed to acknowledge the
need for aid stemmed from
"man-made" causes. "Zimbabwe is facing a situation
where the agricultural
policy is failing [and] overall governance is not
effective."
The WFP/FAO needs assessment is due to be formally released
next week.
Zimbabwe has experienced severe food shortages over the past
seven years due
partly to recurrent droughts, but mainly because of the
government's chaotic
land reforms that have slashed foreign
earnings.
"Zimbabwe has faced droughts before but was very much capable
of dealing
with a drought thanks to effective governance. They had the
systems, water
reservoirs, irrigation, inputs, knowledge and technology to
survive a period
without rain. But they don't have that any longer - because
the agricultural
policy and their policy in general is failing - the drought
can give them
[farmers] that last push over the edge," Wittebrood
warned.
Addressing the aid issue with the authorities was extremely
sensitive: "The
government does not like to discuss humanitarian assistance
because they
recognise it could be a testimony of a failing policy," he
added.
In addressing Zimbabwe's needs, Wittebrood said humanitarian
agencies faced
tough challenges, including an inflation rate topping 3,700
percent and
government plans for strict registering of NGOs - the local
parners of the
humanitarian community. Critics widely regard registration as
intended to
dissuade NGOs from meddling in
politics.
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views
of the United Nations]
By Tererai
Karimakwenda
31 May, 2007
The leaders of the two factions of the
Movement For Democratic Change
travelled quietly to South Africa on Tuesday
for talks with the SADC
appointed mediator on the Zimbabwe crisis, President
Thabo Mbeki. MDC
Presidents Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara left the
country for
Pretoria together and have said they will present one candidate
for the
presidential elections, a sign that they are united. Outgoing
British Prime
Minister Tony Blair is also holding talks on Zimbabwe with
Mbeki as part of
his farewell tour of Africa.
It appears that finally
there is some movement in the mediation efforts
being brokered by Mbeki. But
as always there has been no disclosure of any
progress so far as Mbeki
continues his policy of "quiet diplomacy."
The South African leader is under
pressure from SADC heads of state who
selected him, and he is due to report
any progress by the end of June. But
this week Robert Mugabe rejected
opposition demands for a new constitution
ahead of the elections scheduled
for March 2008. He said the MDC have no
mandate since they are a minority
party. The MDC insist they will not
participate unless there are wholesale
constitutional reforms and a level
playing field.
Geoff Hill, author
and South Africa correspondent for the Washington Times
said there has been
progress as far as the MDC becoming more united, but no
progress as far as
bringing ZANU-PF and the MDC to the same table to
negotiate. He believes
that although Tsvangirai and Mutambara have said they
will present one
candidate (Tsvangirai) for the presidential elections, they
have not yet
chosen one person to put to Mbeki as the opposition
representative for the
talks. Hill added: "In a sense they are still seen as
a monster with two
heads." Hill also found it strange that Mugabe is not
being involved in
these negotiations so far, and in the end he might tell
them all to "go
hang."
Regarding reports that Mbeki placed three conditions for talks on
the MDC
and no conditions on ZANU-PF, Hill said: "You've got to start
somewhere. And
the MDC being the more logical and the more reasonable of the
two, you get
them to agree and then take that and hang it over Mugabe and
apply it with
equal vigour."
As for Blair, Hill believes the British
prime minister will not put much
pressure on Mbeki to act on Zimbabwe. He
explained that Blair has been "all
rhetoric and little substance" on
Zimbabwe during the last few years of his
tenure. "Blair is on a PR mission
to say goodbye and develop bonds that go
beyond his tenure," said
Hill.
Back in Zimbabwe many civic, religious and student organisations
are
insisting they be included in any talks aimed at finding a solution to
the
political and economic crisis.
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe
news
By Lance
Guma
31 May 2007
The Zimbabwe Dollar set a new milestone on Thursday
with most parallel
market dealers paying Z$105 000 for one British pound.
What is more
startling is the fact that 3 zeroes were removed from the
currency by the
Central Bank last year and if these were added back, it's
actually Z$105
million buying one pound. These rates translate into
skyrocketing prices for
ordinary people as the cost of imported goods hits
the roof. Economic
analyst Bekithemba Mhlanga told Newsreel the Reserve Bank
is busy mopping up
foreign currency from dealers to help pay for fuel and
energy bills. This he
says explains the plummeting value of the Zimbabwe
dollar this month.
Despite government not acknowledging black market
rates and sticking to the
official exchange rates in their dealings they are
secretly buying forex on
the black market. 'There is nothing called a
shortage of foreign currency,
what is in short supply is a creative means of
mopping it up' Mhlanga said,
explaining how the government sources its
forex. Several banks and fuel
dealers who are allowed to sell in foreign
currency are at the centre of the
collection system. A large population of
Zimbabweans working or living in
the diaspora have also enabled Mugabe's
regime to tap into the forex that
they repatriate home.
Mhlanga said
Zimbabwe's entire production base had collapsed and most
companies were
operating at below 10 percent capacity. This has in turn led
to an over
reliance on imported goods, again increasing the demand for
forex. He said
the problems were made worse by the excessive printing of
money, which has
created an over-supply of Zimbabwe dollars that are not
backed up by goods
and services. The hyper-inflationary environment has also
meant people are
buying forex just as a means of storing value and selling
it later when they
need to make purchases. This is because the local
currency plummets in value
everyday.
The country's economy is on its knees with experts blaming
violent farm
grabs for killing the agriculture sector, which was the
mainstay of the
economy. Corruption and mismanagement in government have
added the final
nail to the coffin lid.
SW Radio
Africa Zimbabwe news
MUREWA
, 31 May 2007 (IRIN) - Ruling ZANU-PF militia, comprising youths and
veterans of Zimbabwe's war of independence, are intimidating church members
in rural areas in a bid to stop the distribution of a pastoral letter
denouncing President Robert Mugabe's government, human rights groups
claim.
Catholic bishops published the protest letter, 'God Hears the Cry
of the
Oppressed', - which compares the plight of Zimbabweans to the
biblical
oppression suffered by Jewish slaves under the Egyptian pharaohs -
on Easter
Sunday. Since the religious festival the letter has been
translated from
English into the main vernacular languages of Shona and
Ndebele and
disseminated among the country's rural communities, areas which
are regarded
as bastions of support for the ZANU-PF government.
In
the letter Zimbabwe's political and economic woes are blamed on poor
leadership and bad governance and it exhorts: "In order to avoid further
bloodshed and avert a mass uprising, the nation needs a new people-driven
constitution that will guide a democratic leadership chosen in free and fair
elections."
Catholicism is the country's dominant religion and
Mugabe, a practising
Catholic, has accused the bishops of meddling in
politics. He said in an
interview with the New African, a British-based
current affairs journal,
"once they [bishops] turn political, we regard them
as no longer being
spiritual and our relations with them would be conducted
as if we are
dealing with political entities, and this is quite a dangerous
path they
have chosen for themselves."
Pedzisayi Ruhanya, a
representative of the umbrella organisation for
Zimbabwean nongovernmental
organisations, The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
(CZC) and one of many human
rights and church organisations condemning the
harassment of Catholic
parishioners, told IRIN: "The militias are responding
to their leader's
[Mugabe] tirade against the bishops. But then, this is
typical of ZANU-PF,
especially ahead of crucial elections, whereby they do
whatever they can to
make sure that the people are not informed of its
excesses."
"The
situation is particularly disturbing when you take cognisance of the
fact
that the church is supposed to play a vital role as a watchdog against
political and social repression, yet there are brutal attempts to undermine
that," he said
Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube, a long
time critic of Mugabe's
government, told IRIN the attacks by the militias
were part of a strategy of
intimidation ahead of next year's presidential
and parliamentary elections.
"The Green Bombers [militias from youth
training centres] are being used to
go around to strike fear in voters so
that, come next year, they will be
forced to vote ZANU-PF," Ncube
said.
Ncube said members of his church were being harassed throughout the
country
and recounted a recent incident in the southwestern border town of
Plumtree
where he had prevented ZANU-PF militias from gatecrashing a meeting
he was
holding with priests in the area. He said a priest was subsequently
arrested
in Wedza, Mashonaland Central, for distributing the pastoral letter
while
members of his congregation were also detained for questioning by
state
security agents.
In Mashonaland East province, traditionally a
ruling party stronghold,
parishioners are opting to stay at home rather than
attend church after
militias threatened them for distributing the pastoral
letter.
"They [militias] are accusing us of being members of the MDC
[Movement for
Democratic Change] and working to topple the government. It's
no longer safe
to worship because the militias treat you as enemies," said
55-year-old
Father Tirivafi Haka, who declined to use his real name, a
church leader in
Murewa, about 90km east of the capital,
Harare.
After a recent church service, the youths, led by a well-known
war veteran,
raided his home, Haka said, and attempted to set it on fire
because he had
distributed letters among his congregation. Haka fled and
after two days in
hiding sought medical treatment for a badly sprained ankle
incurred during
his escape at the nearby Murewa hospital. Militias descended
on the clinic
and threatened medical staff with violence if they provided
Haka with
treatment.
"As if that was not enough, they forced me to
address my congregation
denouncing the pastoral letter and the MDC while
chanting ZANU-PF slogans;
it is unbelievable and painful," he
said.
The militia's have threatened to shut down Haka's butchery business
if he
does not write a formal letter of apology to the local ZANU-PF branch
within
seven days and demonstrate his "loyalty" by buying a party membership
card.
"At the end of the day I don't have a choice, for the safety of my
family
and the church members," he said.
In Mutoko, about 80km
northeast of Murewa, Sheila Mukurazhizha, a
26-year-old youth leader, told
IRIN about a similar pattern of intimidation.
"Before the attacks on our
members began, our church would record more than
200 people per service but
now, hardly 50 people are turning up on Sundays."
She said each Sunday
"marauding" militias camped on the steps of the church,
armed with
knobkerries (fighting sticks) and knives, threatening the
parishioners and
their children who came to worship and turning the
religious service into a
ZANU-PF rally, singing songs and chanting
pro-government slogans.
One
of the youth militia, who identified himself only as Hammer, told IRIN,
"We
know no other political party [outside the ruling party] in this area
and we
won't hesitate to flush out our enemies. Zimbabwe will not be a
colony
again. Once we get an order from our superiors, we execute it."
The
church has responded to the tactics of the militias by issuing a
statement:
"We encourage every Zimbabwean to read the pastoral letter as a
guide to
understanding the source of our suffering and let it inspire our
prayers and
actions. We call upon every Christian individual and
organisation to commit
themselves to the truth of God's word about the
situation and it is only the
truth that will set us free."
Faith-based organisations, including the
Catholic Commission for Justice and
Peace, the Student Christian Movement of
Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe National Pastors
Conference and the Christian Alliance,
have called for public prayer
meetings similar to those held in Harare
earlier this year, which led to the
mass arrests of the
participants.
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views
of the United Nations]
Catholic online
5/31/2007
Our Sunday Visitor
(www.osv.com)
The people of Zimbabwe are
suffering through the last stages of a wicked and
dying regime. Starvation,
oppression, corruption and violence are the daily
lot of those doomed to
reside in Zimbabwe, at one time one of the wealthiest
and most naturally
blessed countries in Africa.
Its ruler, President Robert Mugabe, was
once a Marxist revolutionary bent on
overthrowing the white rulers of the
country formerly known as Rhodesia.
Today, the 83-year-old dictator has
launched a brutal campaign against the
urban poor called "Drive Out the
Rubbish."
His police assault opposition leaders, and his cronies plunder
what little
remains of value in the country. The health-care system is in a
state of
collapse, unemployment is at 80 percent and hyperinflation is
destroying all
but the wealthiest individuals in power.
Is it any
wonder that Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo - the clarion voice
of
resistance in this benighted land - has said that Mugabe has "lost his
mind," and that the government's actions are evil and a desperate attempt to
retain power.
Archbishop Ncube has appealed for U.N. intervention and
for religious
leaders to speak out. The world is distracted by other
disasters, however,
and religious figures in his country live in
fear.
In March, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference issued a short
but
eloquent statement "on the current crisis of our country." It lambasted
"bad
governance and corruption," and described the grave injustices its
people
are enduring.
The bishops observe that despite the
revolutionary past of the government,
it has kept, and indeed reinforced,
the most repressive legislation of the
previous white government.
The
bishops warned that the confrontation "had now reached a flashpoint"
between
the haves and the have nots, the oppressor and the oppressed. "As
the
suffering population becomes more insistent, generating more and more
pressure through boycotts, strikes, demonstrations and uprisings, the state
responds with ever harsher oppression through arrests, detentions, banning
orders, beatings and torture."
In their statement, the bishops
describe the biblical prayers against those
who oppressed the Israelites,
and remind everyone that God hears the cries
of the oppressed. And they
quote from the "Magnificat": The Lord "has pulled
down princes from their
thrones and raised high the lowly."
Ironically, Mugabe's retort to the
criticism he has received is that the
church is dabbling in politics. The
bishops themselves have called for a new
democratic leadership "chosen in
free and fair elections."
As Catholics, we can be proud of the Zimbabwe
bishops and church leaders who
are the only independent voices in this
nightmare. They are risking
martyrdom on behalf of their flock, and their
courage is awe-inspiring.
While we may feel powerless here to affect the
situation in Zimbabwe, we can
support agencies like Catholic Relief Services
and Cor Unum that can channel
aid to the Zimbabwe people and the church. We
can also communicate with our
own leaders, urging them to join with Western
countries to maintain pressure
on the Mugabe government and on the other
African governments in the region
to assist with the growing refugee crisis
and to press for a return to
democracy.
Finally, we must not forget
the power of our prayers. Showing spiritual
solidarity with the Catholics -
indeed, all the people - of Zimbabwe is
critical as this suffering country
teeters on the edge of absolute chaos.
Reuters
31 May 2007
09:18:39 GMT
HARARE, May 31 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has started
dehorning all of its rhino
in an effort to deter the poaching of one of the
world's endangered species,
official media reported on Thursday.
The
southern African country's rhino population was about 2,000 in 1980, but
rampant poaching in the 1980s saw the number dwindle to 370 before climbing
to the current level of 789, according to conservation group Save the Rhino
International.
The group said a programme undertaken by the
government to put the rhino in
protection zones in national parks and
private conservation areas had helped
save the animals from cross-border
poaching.
Henry Madzikanda, chief ecologist for Zimbabwe's Parks and
Wildlife
Management Authority, told the Herald newspaper that rangers and
other
officials would now spend the next two weeks dehorning
rhinos.
There is a ready market, especially in the Far East, for rhino
horns, which,
like elephant tusks, are used mostly to manufacture jewellery,
figurines and
tourist trinkets.
"We want poachers to know that if
they kill any rhino in Zimbabwe, they will
not find any horns. We are
keeping them all in highly secured places for our
future generations,"
Madzikanda was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Zimbabwe is home to
some of Africa's largest game reserves, but local
conservation activists say
rhino, elephants and other species are at risk
from trophy hunters and
rampant poaching by those who struggling with
poverty.
VOA
By Patience Rusere
Washington
31 May
2007
Churches in the Southern African region, have decided they
too want to be
part of the solution to Zimbabwe's crisis.
A five-day
conference organized by the Christian Alliance, a coalition of
churches,
civil society and opposition groups in Zimbabwe, drew members of
the
Zimbabwe Council of Churches, the Catholic Bishops Conference and the
Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, to Harare, to devise ways to effectively
influence their governments and citizens, to pressure the government to
reform.
President Mugabe has in the past accused some churches of
being too
political, and of backing the opposition.
One of the
Christian Alliance leaders, Pastor Raymond Motsi, told reporter
Patience
Rusere of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe, that the church groups will
release a
statement at the conclusion of their conference Friday, outlining
their
plans.
Please send any job opportunities for publication in this newsletter to:
JAG
Job Opportunities; jag@mango.zw or justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
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Wanted: for six month
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second with experience in row cropping: potatoes,
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Fluency
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Employment
Offered (Ad inserted 10 May 2007)
Vacancy for Farm
Assistant
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Tel: +260 3 225 018
Cell: +260 97 790
209
E-mail: samona@zamtel.zm
The
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directly
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Qualifications required:
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The farming programme for the 2007/2008
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Remuneration package:
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Applicants should apply to Samona Zambia Ltd using the above
e-mail address
attaching their CV for consideration by the
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Employment
Offered (Ad inserted 10 May 2007)
Project Manager in Tanzania
we
have a pretty large Eco-Tourism and residential Beach Plot scheme going
on
for which we are looking for a Project Manager with overall
responsibility
for the whole thing. A farmer background would be ideal.
Please advise
whether there are still farmers willing and able to leave Zim
for a new
horizon. If affirmative we would of course provide you with
further
details.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards - Georges C.
Hess / Amboni Sisal Properties Ltd - Nairobi
Liaison Office
Email: fidos@kenyaweb.com
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Vehicle Sales Administrator :
This position is
in the busy front office of our Vehicle Sales and would
suit a
self-motivated, efficient and pro-active lady. The post combines all
aspects
of Administration, client interaction and sales. Must be able to
work under
pressure.
Building Foreman :
Must have hands-on-experience in all
aspects of building including :
- Setting Out
- Foundation work
- Steel
re-enforcing
- Concrete Work
- Brick laying / Plastering
- Carpentry /
Roofing
- Plumbing / Electrics
- Material Ordering / Quantity
Estimating
- Labour Procurement & Supervision
- Must be able to work
on own initiative.
Forward CV or apply in person with contactable
references to ABC Auctions,
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ABC Auctions
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Telephone 263 4 751904/751906/751343/751498
Fax 263 4
751904/751906/751343/751498
Website: www.abcauctions.co.zw
Email Address:
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Employment
Offered (Ad inserted 10 May 2007)
Job Title: Chief
Executive Officer
Based at: Asamankese, Ghana
Reports
to: Direct reporting to Shareholders
Introduction: Pinora
is the 3rd largest fruit processing plant in sub
Saharan Africa. Completed in
2006, the state of the art facility, and its
dedicated Pineapple orchard,
occupies 610 acres, employs 250 staff and is
capable of processing 320,000mt
of locally procured oranges and pineapples.
Job purpose
summary:
Identify, develop and direct the implementation of business strategy
leading
to growth and profitability
Plan and direct the organisation's
activities to achieve stated and agreed
targets and standards for financial
and trading performance, quality,
culture and legislative
adherence
Evaluate existing staff, and thereafter where necessary, recruit,
select and
develop executive team members
Direct functions and
performance, where necessary, via the executive team
Maintain and develop
organisational culture, values and reputation in its
markets and with all
staff, suppliers, partners and regulatory and official
bodies
Key
responsibilities:
Evaluate existing procurement process and thereafter plan
and implement
procurement strategy, including transportation of fruit to the
plant.
Plan and implement supply(ier) retention, expansion and
development.
Producing an operating budget and thereafter its monitoring,
implementation
and reporting.
Maintain administration and relevant
reporting and planning systems.
Evaluate existing and thereafter select and
manage external agencies, such
as transportation companies, banks, insurance,
quality management standard
bodies and inspection companies etc.
Identify
and manage new business development and further
potential
investments.
Plan, develop and implement strategy for
organisational development
Contact: petermacsporran@iconnect.zm
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(Ad
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Housegirl
Maid needed for Avondale West
area. We are looking for a maid to help with
housework, for a "growing"
family. She needs to have her own accommodation.
Please call 091-2-300 059 or
e-mail mbav@zol.co.zw
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(Ad
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Workshop Manager
Workshop Manager - To run
a fleet of Freightliner/Internationals - Cross
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Contact: Jim Wilson 620131-4
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TEL: +263-(04)-620131-4
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(Ad
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ORIGNATOR/GRAPHIC DESIGNER WANTED
IDEAL
PERSON NEEDS TO BE FULLY COMPUTER LITERATE (CORRELL DRAW
EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL) METHODICAL, PATIENT AND TECHNICALLY MINDED. TO RUN A
NEW DIGITAL
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PLEASE RESPOND WITH CV AND REFERENCES
TO:
hotelgs@mweb.co.zw or tel: 04
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(Ad
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Houseworker required
Gardener OR
houseworker required. Someone who is clean, and hardworking.
Preferably
employer recommended or contactable references. Please phone
011-614-233 or
email : dieselandplant@zol.co.zw
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(Ad
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Looking for Investors:
Looking for serious
investors that want to get involved in the Floricultural
industry of
Zimbabwe. Need secure land close to Harare and access to
finance. Technical
expertise, markets and highly skilled human resources
ready available. For
serious enquires please contact me on: 011 630 696,
0912 782 782, 480 160,
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(Ad
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Housekeeping Team
Looking for an
experienced husband and wife team to cook and housekeep.
Excellent staff
accommodation is available on the property. A very
competitive remuneration
package, with benefits, proportionate with
experience and qualifications is
offered by way of negotiation with
successful applicants. Traceable
references are essential.
Apply on 091 2 238
204
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Secretary
Doctor's secretary required, preferably
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interested should be
mature and able to handle files, correspondence and
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References are essential.
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(Ad
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Employment Offered
OXFORD IT is looking for
cvs. Please send your cv as soon as possible if
you wish to be considered
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Cell: + 263 11 231
917 (Office Hours Only)
Fax: + 263 4 309351
Email: sarah@oxfordit.co.zw
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(Ad
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Partner in Tanzania
Needed an Agricultural
Partner to establish plantations in Tanzania to grow
the following crops;
rise, maize,beans, vegetables, cotton, wheat and many
others.
Contact
details:
Name:Philip Mbunda,
Tel. +255
754262486
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(Ad
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Office Co-ordinator
Office co-ordinator
required for mixed farming enterprise. Office situated
in Harare and mostly
mornings only. Duties would entail general
administration, and procurement.
Computer literacy a must. People skills
important.
Interested persons
to please email boheke@zol.co.zw and send
a brief CV of
working
experience.
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(Ad
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Looking for a cook
Cook wanted with a
Zambian passport or can get a Zambian passport for Zim
couple living in
Lusaka Zambia, must be able to cook every thing from
pancakes to pies
breakfast, lunch and dinner, please phone Pam on this no
+0966291818 or email
Tony at rbzhatchery@iwayafrica.com
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(Ad
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Houseworker required
I am looking for an
excellent cleaner who not only cleans my home but also
takes pride and can
clean his own quarters regularly. A good salary is
offered to the right
person. Please phone
100-614-233.
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(Ad
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Lab Technicians
Oxford IT is looking for Lab
Technicians with experience in testing
Jet/Diesel and MOGAS. This is a new
position which has just come in, there
will be extensive travel; excellent
pay and exposure to International
Organisations.
Please email your cv
as soon as possible to the below email address as this
position is only open
for a couple more days, the cut off is early next
week.
Miss Sarah
Vale
GENERAL MANAGER
Oxford IT Recruitment
(Recruitment Specialists in
IT and General Recruitment)
Agriculture House, 1 Adylinn Road, Off
Marlborough Drive, Marlborough,
Harare
Tel: + 263 4 309274
(Direct)
Tel: + 263 4 309855-60 (Ext. 23)
Fax: + 263 4 309351
Cell: +
263 11 231 917 (Office Hours Only)
Email: sarah@oxfordit.co.zw
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Oxford IT has a number of new positions that have
come up in the
Aviation/Fuel Industry. We are looking for Ground
Crew/Load
Master/Engineering cvs.
There is:-
· Extensive
travel
· Excellent pay
· Exposure to International
Organisations.
This has been advertised in the paper, so many cvs have
already been
received. The turnaround time is very short, please act fast
and email your
cv to sarah@oxfordit.co.zw or call Sarah Vale
on 309274 or 309855-60 (Ext.
23)
We are also looking for cvs in:
-
· Construction
· Maintenance
· Camp
Services
· Water/waste/sewage/power
generation
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EMPLOYMENT
REQUIRED
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(Ad inserted 17th May 2007)
Employment Sought -
Secretarial
I am a mature Lady looking for Secretarial / Administration/
Reception with
20 years of experience. Computer literate, good communication
skills with
all segmentas of Zimbabwe society.
I will consider full or
part time engagement in any field
Please contact me on 331116 ( Home )
011 732 497 Cell or e-mail me at :
srakabo@yahoo.co.uk
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(Ad
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Seeking Challenging Management Position:
I
am looking for a good management position where by I can grow with
the
business, I have mainly been involved in Rose exports for the past 15
years
on large scale farms in Zimbabwe. Although this is my main line
of
expertise, I interested in any other industry that is looking for
strong
management, an energetic, ambitious, honest and strong willed person
to join
their organization. Please contact me, Wayne Seiler on the
following
details if you are interested and I will forward you my CV, 011
630 696,
0912 782 782, 480 160, watin@zol.co.zw . Skype name : Wayne
Seiler
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(Ad
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Seeking Top Management Position:
I am
looking for a good management position where by I can grow with the
business,
I have mainly been involved in Rose exports for the past 15 years
on large
scale farms in Zimbabwe. Although this is my main line of
expertise, I will
consider any industry that is looking for an energetic,
ambitious, honest and
strong willed person to join their organization.
Please contact me, Wayne
Seiler on the following details if you are
interested and I will forward you
my CV, 011 630 696, 0912 782 782, 480
160, watin@zol.co.zw . Skype name : Wayne
Seiler
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For
the latest listings of accommodation available for farmers, contact
justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
(updated 31 May 2007)