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HARARE,
22 Jun 2006 (IRIN) - Just when it seems life could not conceivably
get any
tougher for Zimbabweans, it invariably does.
The country has been in
economic decline for the past eight years, and real
crisis for at least the
last four. Fuel, electricity and water are now being
rationed in the
capital, Harare, and most basic household items are in short
supply or
extortionately priced.
The statistics cataloguing the despair -
unemployment at over 80 percent,
inflation at close to 1,200 percent,
manufacturing levels at their lowest
since 1971 - have become
numbing.
But one simple calculation goes to the heart of the difficulties
ordinary
Zimbabweans face. According to the watchdog the Consumer Council of
Zimbabwe, an average Zimbabwean family requires the equivalent of US$524 a
month to just cover the basics. The average worker earns about
US$200.
How do people cope?
Janet Ncube is a book-keeper in a
printing company in downtown Harare. Each
working day at noon, one of her
unemployed sons comes to the office carrying
two huge bags packed with food
containers.
Because most workers cannot afford to buy lunch, she hit on
the idea of
allowing her colleagues to eat cooked meals on credit until the
end of each
month. She makes some money, but acknowledges she always has
problems when
it comes time to collect.
"Everybody is going through
hardships and collecting payments can be a
nightmare because colleagues will
just tell you they have no money to pay
for the food they ate," said
Ncube.
Tariro Moyo, a secretary with a Harare-based law firm, goes
without lunch
altogether. She instead sits in Harare Gardens park, in the
centre of the
city, with a book over her break time. "I just cannot afford
to buy food and
the best way of forgetting the pangs of hunger is to immerse
myself in an
exciting romance novel."
Brian Chipanga, an office
messenger, lives in the dormitory town of
Chitungwiza, 35-km southeast of
Harare. He earns just US$140 a month. He
spends US$50 on rent for a room and
US$40 on transport. One meal a day adds
up to US$50 a month, exhausting his
budget before he's even bought groceries
and toiletries.
Chipanga's
secret? "In the evenings I sell cigarettes and sweets outside a
nightclub in
my neighbourhood for several hours before I go to bed."
Chipanga and
Ncube may have found a way to cope, but Steve Nhamo regularly
comes face to
face with those who don't. He's the director of Easy Money,
providing "soft
loans" to those who need quick finance. Nhamo's business has
been doing
well, but he's now encountering an alarming number of defaulters.
"In most
cases we have to seize clients' furniture to settle the debts," he
explained.
Skipping meals, walking to work, selling home-grown
vegetables away from the
gaze of the police, are all survival skills
ordinary Zimbabweans are
honing - in marked contrast to an ostentatious,
well-connected elite. An
additional lifeline for many families has been a
dutiful relative working
abroad remitting money home.
"Close to four
million Zimbabweans out of a total of 12 million have
migrated to
neighbouring South Africa, Botswana and overseas countries like
the United
Kingdom, the USA and Canada," said James Jowa, a Harare-based
economist.
"Those who migrated have not forgotten their relatives because
they continue
to send back remittances which one way or the other also
benefits the
government."
But the structural problems confronting the country -
starved of foreign
financial aid, investment, and an agro-export sector in
the doldrums - are
staggering. To pay its bills, keep a cap on official
prices, and buy foreign
currency, the government has resorted to printing
money, which has fueled
the surging inflation rate.
In an interview
with a UK-based radio station, economist John Robertson
said: "There is
every prospect that we will see prices double again in the
next three months
and double yet again in the following three months. That
will take prices to
four times what they are today by the end of the year."
Zimbabwe's
economy has so far resisted government recovery measures, but in
April a new
plan was hatched. The National Economic Development Priority
Programme
(NEDPP) aims to raise US$2.5 billion in cash and investment in
mining,
manufacturing and agriculture.
China has reportedly signed up to NEDPP
with a US$1.3bn finance deal -
equivalent to Zimbabwe's total exports - to
build coal mines and three
thermal power stations in exchange for chrome and
other raw materials.
"It's a very murky area [the details of the deal].
If the Chinese money is
actually there, it could sustain the government for
a bit longer," said
economist Professor Tony Hawkins. "Things are gradually
grinding down but
you can keep going; [war-torn] Angola and Mozambique kept
going for years."
He expects that "what you'll get is more and more
informality [in the
economy] and more people moving to the rural areas. But
African economies
don't collapse, they just contract."
Zim Online
Fri 23 June 2006
BULAWAYO - The government this week
ordered the spy Central
Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agency to stop
investigating five senior
policemen, among them national criminal
investigations chief, Steven
Mutamba, who are alleged to have shielded some
of Zimbabwe's most dangerous
criminals from arrest in return for
money.
The CIO had since March been investigating Mutamba - whose
rank is
senior assistant commissioner - Midlands province police commander
Charles
Mfandaedza, Bulawayo police assistant commissioners Alexio Paradza,
Crowd
Chirenje and senior criminal investigations officer, Richard
Nyathi.
Authoritative sources however said last night that the
probe was
abandoned on Monday on orders from State Security Minister Didymus
Mutasa
and his Home Affairs counterpart, Kembo Mohadi after Police
Commissioner
Augustine Chihuri told the ministers the probe was dividing and
destabilising the police when the force should be united to thwart mass
protests planned by the opposition.
Chihuri,
who was said to have initially backed the investigation of
his officers, met
Mohadi on Wednesday last week and pressed him to convince
Mutasa, who is in
charge of the CIO, to agree to instruct the spy organ to
call off the probe,
our sources said.
One source, who was part of the team that was
investigating the top
cops, told ZimOnline: "We were ordered to stop the
probe last Monday. It had
reached an advanced stage but our (CIO) superiors
told us that the
investigation was not good for national security and that
it could cause
chaos in the police force.
"They said if the top
cops were all found guilty and jailed, those
remaining in the police force
would panic and feel insecure which they said
would be a very risky
situation given that the police were expected to play
a leading role in
suppressing anti-government protests threatened by the
(opposition) Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC) party."
The MDC has threatened to
instigate a Ukraine-style revolt this winter
to force President Robert
Mugabe to give up power to a transitional
government that will be tasked to
lead the writing of a new constitution and
to organise fresh elections under
international supervision.
Political analysts say there is enough
anger among Zimbabweans to make
opposition mass protests a success but they
are quick to point out that
Mugabe - as in the past - is banking on the
loyal police and army to crush
street protests against his
rule.
Mutasa last night refused to discuss the aborted probe,
saying either
Mohadi or Chihuri were better qualified to comment on the
matter. "Go to
Chihuri and Mohadi, I cannot talk to you on that," was all
Mutasa would say,
when asked to confirm whether he had ordered the CIO,
which falls under his
portfolio, to stop investigating the police
officers.
Chihuri was not immediately available for comment while
Mohadi
confirmed meeting the Police Commissioner last week to discuss "some
issues
that needed to be corrected within the police". But he would not say
what
these issues were although he insisted that the government did not
condone
"bad behaviour" by police officers.
The CIO began
probing the top cops after three of some of the
country's most dangerous
carjackers and armed robbers, who had been on the
police's most wanted list
for the past two years, phoned the secret service
headquarters in Harare
complaining that they were "tired" of being extorted
millions of dollars in
protection money by Mutamba and other rogue police
officers.
The senior policemen, all of whom have always insisted they are not
guilty
and that they are victims of professional jealousy by colleagues,
were also
accused of victimising junior police officers who dared arrest
criminals
under their protection.
As the probe widened, more evidence of
illegal activities by some of
the top policemen was unearthed including
allegations that some of them were
stealing and selling for personal gain
fuel and basic commodities seized
from illegal black market
traders.
The 10-men probe team had already interrogated Mfandaedza
and
Chirenje. It was expected to question Mutamba, Nyathi and Paradza next
week,
with the whole investigation expected to have been completed by the
end of
next month.
According to sources privy to the probe,
enough evidence had been
gathered to successfully prosecute some of the top
policemen although many
of those involved in the investigation said they had
always doubted whether
the government would go ahead and prosecute some of
its most senior cops.
Corruption has over the past six years risen
sharply within Zimbabwe's
police and other uniformed forces as worsening
economic hardships in the
country push both ordinary citizens and law
enforcement agents to bend the
rules in order to survive.
Several policemen and soldiers have over the last couple of years
appeared
before the courts to answer to charges of theft, taking bribes or
even armed
robbery. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Fri 23 June
2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU PF party has dismissed as
untrue
reports that President Robert Mugabe had been taken ill with the
party's
spokesman Nathan Shamuyarira saying the veteran leader was alive and
well.
"He is quite alright and working as usual. He is fit and
there is no
illness of any kind," Shamuyarira told ZimOnline last
night.
Rumours about Mugabe's alleged ill-health were rife in
Harare this
week suggesting that the veteran Zimbabwean leader who turned 82
last
February, had collapsed last Tuesday during a Cabinet
meeting.
But Shamuyarira dismissed the rumours as unfounded saying
Mugabe was
in good health and was diligently executing his duties in
office.
Mugabe's spokesman, George Charamba, could not be reached
for comment
on the matter last night but has in the past sought to allay any
fears over
the President's health.
Mugabe's health, which has
been kept a closely guarded secret within
the corridors of power in Harare,
has been the subject of rumour over the
past few years.
But
Mugabe has boasted that he is in good health saying during his
birthday
celebrations earlier this year that he was as "fit as a 28-year
old". -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Fri 23 June 2006
SHURUGWI - With mud spattered over a
dress that looks like a selection
from the cheap imports from China so
readily available in Zimbabwe today,
Griffin Chawatama, 32, bends over a
home-made metal bowl, sifting through
the crushed matte for gold
flakes.
His wife Elina sits pounding with pestle, pieces of rock
selected from
a pile next to a collapsible dwelling structure, at the
nameless but fast
spreading shantytown a few kilometres outside the
chrome-mining town of
Shurugwi about 290km south-east of
Harare.
Chawatama is one of hundreds of illegal gold panners
engaged in a
cat-and-mouse battle with the police since descending here last
May after
their homes and informal business kiosks were razed down by
government
bulldozers in a controversial urban clean-up campaign last
year.
The clean-up exercise, codenamed Operation Murambatsvina, and
which
was condemned by the United Nations as a violation of human rights, is
said
to have left at least 700 000 people without shelter or means of
livelihood.
But Chawatama says Murambatsvina in fact opened up new
opportunities
for him panning gold.
"I have never looked back
since I arrived here a year ago," he says, a
wide grin of satisfaction
deeply etched on his sun-burnt face.
"Police hunt us but staying
put has been worth the effort," he adds.
And this is what he means
when he says the frequent arrests and
detention by police for panning gold
have been worthwhile.
In less than six months after he began
panning gold along the valleys
and ravines that enhance the exquisite views
fanning out of Boterekwa Gorge
here, Chawatama was able to raise enough
money to pay off the bride price
for his wife - a feat he had failed to
achieve in the 10 years he was an
informal trader in Shurugwi
town.
"In the cities there are no jobs but all what one needs to
start
working for themselves as a gold panner is a pickaxe, a shovel and a
pan -
it almost sounds unbelievable!" he says, showing unbelievable
ignorance or
lack of concern about the damage his illegal activities are
wrecking on the
Boterekwa Gorge - one of the most scenic views in
Zimbabwe.
From where we are standing talking to Chawatama, the
plaques built by
Zimbabwe's former white colonial rulers decades ago still
stand announcing
to visitors the breath-taking views lying ahead in the
Gorge, made famous in
song by the late local musical great Simon
Chimbetu.
"Welcome to scenic Shurugwi," one of the plaques declares
somewhat
defiantly. But soon this could become an unbefitting epithet as
hordes of
desperate villagers and jobless youths from the cities continue
gnawing with
their pickaxes at the huge swathes of spectacular views that is
Boterekwa in
search of gold.
The gold panners have deformed the
surrounding hills and valleys with
hazardous pits in search of the precious
metal, they all believe is the only
means to cushion themselves and their
families from an economic crisis
described by the World Bank as the worst in
the world outside a war zone.
Initially, the diggers raked the hill
slopes and the ravines for
abandoned gold mines that had become uneconomic
for big mining firms to
continue operating.
They then turned to
burrowing into hill slopes and when that option
was exhausted, they shifted
to digging their own pits into the ground in
search of gold. Pits dug to
dizzying depths to enter a maze of tunnels
scatter hazardously about in
formerly lush indigenous forests that
surrounded Boterekwa itself and
Shurugwi town.
"It's sheer hard work," says Wallace Masimba, 40,
who came to the site
two years ago. "Often, success depends on luck. If you
hit a rich vein you
can go retire to your home," he adds.
Yet
Masimba readily admits that none ever go back once they have
enjoyed the
touch of the yellow metal dug from these pits.
Acute food shortages
and economic hardships critics blame on
repression and wrong polices by
President Robert Mugabe's government appear
to have forever transformed
these villagers and youths into daredevils who
will never leave the pits
where every day they risk life and limb in search
of a means of
survival.
International food agencies estimate that three quarters
of the 12
million Zimbabweans will require food aid this year, while
conservative
estimates put unemployment in the southern African country at
more than 70
percent.
Of the about 30 percent Zimbabweans lucky
to hold a formal job, more
than half say their salaries are not enough to
feed their families because
of runaway inflation which in May surged to 1
193.5 percent, the highest in
the world.
But 40-year old Joseph
Muyambo, who says he migrated from his home in
Chipinge several hundred
kilometers in the east of Zimbabwe to come and dig
for gold here in
Shurugwi, says besides the economic hardships the
irresistible lure of the
yellow metal was also much to blame for the growing
number of panners here
and elsewhere in the country.
Muyambo explained: "Once you start
this panning business, you can
never go back. The urge to make one more last
dig from where you hope to
uncover all the wealth of the earth is what keeps
you going."
The government has at best been lethargic in its
dealing with illegal
gold panners although the authorities seem very much
aware of the
environmental degradation caused by uncontrolled digging of
pits and tunnels
by the panners.
A recent report by a special
parliamentary committee noted how the
rudimentary mining methods of panners,
lack of shelter and sanitary
facilities at the panning site near Boterekwa
were both a serious health and
environmental hazard.
But the
forex-starved Harare administration has really been more
concerned in trying
to lure gold panners from selling the mineral to black
market traders and
instead channel it to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)
which could sell it
and earn desperately needed hard cash for the country.
The central
bank even imported a processing plant from China with the
hope that the
illegal gold panners could take their mineral to the plant for
processing
before it is sold to the government.
The plant however broke down
after a few months to provide a perfect
excuse for gold diggers to turn
their backs on state buyers.
"Even when the plant was operating,
there was unnecessary bureaucracy
involved in getting paid," said Chawatama,
explaining why he and his
colleagues have resorted to selling gold to
unregistered buyers.
So in the end it is back to square one: the
illegal panners continue
damaging the environment digging for gold which
they sell on the black
market depriving the country of badly needed foreign
currency. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Fri 23 June
2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe's three major milling companies have switched off
their
milling plants because of a serious shortage of grain in the country,
ZimOnline has learnt.
Sources within the milling industry said the
state-owned Grain Marketing
Board (GMB), which predicted a bumper harvest
last season, had failed to
deliver grain to millers forcing most firms to
switch off their plants.
"There is nothing at major millers. We have not been
milling for two weeks
now. The major millers are without grain and we are
not getting any
explanation from the GMB," said an official at one of the
milling companies
in Harare.
Another official with one of the biggest
milling companies in Zimbabwe who
refused to be named for professional
reasons, said small millers were the
only ones sustaining retail shops with
supplies because they are sourcing
grain from the parallel market.
"We
last received grain in early June by rail from Mutare and we suspect it
was
imported from Beira," said the official.
The Zimbabwe government, which has
been battling to portray its chaotic land
reforms as a success, has said the
country will harvest 1.8 million tonnes
of grain, enough to feed its 12
million people this year.
But international food aid agencies have disputed
the figures saying
Zimbabwe will harvest at most between 800 000 and 1.1
million tonnes of
grain, leaving the country with a serious grain
deficit.
The Harare authorities two weeks ago began seizing maize from
farmers with
the GMB chief executive officer, Samuel Muvuti, saying the
seizures were
necessary to prevent the grain from falling into the hands of
"unscrupulous
dealers." - ZimOnline
VOA
By
Peta Thornycroft
Harare
22 June 2006
The head
of the Roman Catholic church in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo is
calling
for a boycott of the country's day of prayer. Some analysts say Mr.
Mugabe
is splitting Christian churches, pitting pastor against pastor.
Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe is due to take part in a national day of
prayer
Sunday that is to include several clerics who previously opposed the
ruling
Zanu PF's policies.
The initiative for the prayer meeting began on May
24, when Mr. Mugabe asked
a number of pastors, mainly from the evangelical
churches, to meet with him.
Since then a new umbrella organization, the
Ecumenical Peace Initiative, has
been formed and it says it represents the
majority of churches and church
groups in Zimbabwe, including the Zimbabwe
Council of Churches.
One of the group's leaders, Bishop Trevor Manhango,
from the eastern city of
Mutare, says many churches have asked him to
represent them in a dialogue
with the government to see if a solution to
Zimbabwe's political and
economic crisis can be found.
A
long-standing critic of government policies, Manhango says he is simply
looking for solutions to Zimbabwe's woes.
But Zimbabwe's most
outspoken priest, Archbishop Pius Ncube, head of the
Catholic church in
second city Bulawayo, said Christians should boycott the
prayer day. He says
churchmen who had been critical of government policies
and are now praying
with Mr. Mugabe are hypocrites.
University of Zimbabwe political
scientist John Makumbe says Mr. Mugabe had
succeeded in driving a wedge
between Christian churches.
He said Mr. Mugabe is working hard for
Zimbabwe's acceptance into the
Western international community so that he
can secure foreign loans to help
finance the bankrupt economy. He says he
and other analysts believe part of
this strategy is for the government to
appear to have the support of the
majority of Zimbabwe's Christian
churches.
SABC
June 22,
2006, 19:30
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, could be meeting
Kofi Annan, the
United Nations secretary-general, on the sidelines of the
Gambia African
Union (AU) summit next week. The sticking point is what are
both parties
putting on the table, considering three previous attempts to
resolve the
political crisis in Zimbabwe have hit a brick wall.
Just
after the 2002 presidential election, President Thabo Mbeki dispatched
a
team to have opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the
ruling
Zanu(PF) party resolve their political differences. Nothing came out
of that
and thereafter came Olusegun Obasanjo, the Nigerian president, and
Mbeki a
year later - again, no progress.
Now Mbeki is believed to have
facilitated a meeting between Mugabe and Annan
in the next AU summit. The
government was unavailable for comment the past
four days, but political
analysts believe still a solution could be hammered
out.
International sanctions may be on the table
Sources within
the government have told the SABC that should Mugabe agree to
meet Annan, he
will put on the table the issue of international sanctions as
a condition
before any talks can resume. But others within the government
want to play
ball.
Mugabe has admitted international sanctions are hurting his
economy.
Inflation has stormed into the four digit zone, surging to 1 200%
last
month. Fuel prices have gone up, pushing through the roof prices of
basic
food commodities. Analysts say outside help is still required.
SABC
June 22, 2006, 18:30
If
you have a tooth for sweet things, Zimbabwe is not the place you want to
be
in at the moment. A sugar shortage has hit the country despite more than
adequate production from its lowveld sugar fields. This follows after more
than 200 bakers are being arrested for selling bread above gazetted
prices.
With the local currency now trading at $400 000 to US$1,
retailers are
hiking their prices while those with cash hoarding commodities
like sugar,
for speculative purposes, and some bakeries have more than
doubled the
gazetted price of bread of R1.80 a loaf.
Police are
clamping down on them under an operation code-named Chingwa. "We
have
arrested 262 bakers and they have been paying their fines and for the
repeat
offenders, we are compiling dockets of which we will take them to
court,"
police confirmed.
National sugar shortage
Oliver Chidawu, the chairman
of the country's largest sugar refinery, admits
there is a national sugar
shortage. "We produced 445 000 tonnes where we
could have produced 580 000,
so basically there was a shortage, and again
you can attribute that to many
factors, one of them being drought, not
having enough water." He also
attributes the shortage to export obligations.
For local manufacturers,
it is also attractive anyway to export and earn
hard currency than sell
locally.
By Tererai Karimakwenda
22 June
2006
The minister for Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Patrick
Chinamasa
made a blistering attack on Zimbabwe's civil society at the
inauguration of
the new United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva
Wednesday. He also
misled the Council about Zimbabwe's appalling human
rights record. In a
speech that portrayed the government as a victim of
non-governmental (NGO)
activity, Chinamasa accused developed countries of
interfering with internal
affairs and supporting regime change through
opposition parties.
Chinamasa said he hoped the Council will make
it its business to
depoliticise the pursuit of human rights issues. He
claimed civic groups
operating in Zimbabwe are set up and financed by
developed countries as
instruments of their foreign policy." He went on to
say: "Their objectives
include destabilisation and interference with the
evolution of our political
processes, undermining our sovereignty, creating
and sustaining opposition
groups that have no local support base, and
promoting disaffection and
hostility among the local population against
their popularly elected
government."
Chinamasa also urged the
new council to come up with a framework
"..which prohibits direct funding of
local NGOs operating in the field of
human rights and governance issues by
developed countries and their
agencies."
Fambai Ngirande,
spokesman for the National Association of
Non-Governmental Organisations
(NANGO), which represents NGOs in Zimbabwe,
told us Chinamasa had made
unsubstantiated claims. He said Zimbabweans had
become heavily dependant on
assistance from NGOs because the government has
failed to provide the basic
needs of its citizens. He added that NGOs were
under no duress from the west
or the international community to interfere in
political
affairs.
Ngirande said there is no money in Zimbabwe and
unemployment is over
80% with extremely high inflation rates. He said the
private sector has no
money and neither does the government.
For
this reason, he said, NGOs have had to partner with international
organisations to bring food aid, medical assistance, education and other
services. It is widely accepted that without NGO assistance, Zimbabwe and
most of Africa would be in dire straits.
The justice minister
concluded his speech by assuring the council that
Zimbabwe would respect the
human rights of all its people as provided for in
the Charter of The United
Nations and of our Constitution. The Council did
not know that at the time
Chinamasa was giving this assurance, police were
disrupting the funeral of
MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai's father in Buhera
using the repressive
Public Order and Security Act. And WOZA women arrested
in Harare on World
Refugee Day on Tuesday for demonstrating peacefully
against unaffordable
school fees were forced to pay admission of guilt fines
in order to buy
their freedom from police custody.
The new UN Human Rights Council
was created to replace the old Human
Rights Commission which had come under
increasing criticism for its failure
to act on many violations of human
rights law. The Commission's voting
procedures allowed countries like China
and others to block action against
consistent violators like the Mugabe
regime and the Sudanese government. It
is hoped the new Human Rights Council
will be much more effective, but
Chinamasa's speech is not a good
start.
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe
news
By
Lance Guma
22 June 2006
The Interception of Communications
Bill is still in draft form but
already there are complaints that e-mails
containing political content are
being blocked by some Internet Service
Providers (ISP's) in Zimbabwe. The
news will not go down well with most
e-mail users who have turned to this
mode of communication to try and either
access or pass on information about
events in the country. Service providers
in Zimbabwe include Telconet,
Africa Online, Mango, Mweb and Zimbabwe
Online.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for example has installed a
mail content
manager that blocks its employees from receiving any e-mails
with words that
are deemed political. An e-mail with text like 'Morgan
Tsvangirai' or 'MDC'
in its body will not reach the intended receipient at
the bank.
Investigations by Newsreel show that the Central Bank's mail
system runs
through Tel One (Pvt) Ltd, a government owned company that
provides an
internet hub through its Com-One subsidiary for all the other
ISP's. Its not
clear if the mail content manager is being run for all e-mail
users or just
the Reserve Bank system. United States based NetIQ, a provider
of security
management solutions, supplied the software that is being
used.
Shadreck Nkala the Chairman of the Zimbabwe Internet
Service Providers
Association (ZISPA) denied any knowledge of ISP's blocking
political
e-mails. Responding to questions Nkala says he is not aware of any
of their
members who are engaging in this practice. Asked why the Reserve
Bank e-mail
server was blocking e-mails to its employees he promised to
investigate the
matter and give us feedback. Nkala remained adamant the
complaints were not
justified insisting that Telconet, a company he is Chief
Executive of, was
actually carrying out the servicing and maintenance of the
RBZ platform. He
says he would know if blocking was happening.
He conceded the proposed new bill giving government the power to spy
on
e-mails and phone calls will cost them financially. Not only will they
require huge financial injections to install monitoring equipment, they also
risk losing customers who are set to flock to secure e-mail providers like
Yahoo, Hotmail and Hushmail. Experts say its highly unlikely government will
be able to snoop on e-mails run on external platforms. In June 2004 ZISPA
issued a statement assuring its customers that none of its members had
signed an agreement with Tel One to facilitate the monitoring of e-mails but
the issue seems to have come back courtesy of governments renewed attempts
at spying on its citizens.
NB: See below a copy a message you will
get if you e-mail anything
'political' to Central bank
employees.
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SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe news
The Herald
(Harare)
June 22, 2006
Posted to the web June 22,
2006
Harare
THERE will be more water cuts in Harare and its
satellite towns following a
seven-hour power cut at the Morton Jaffray
Treatment Plant yesterday. The
Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa)
said in a statement that power was
cut between 1.15am and
8.35am.
"The power outages have resulted in no pumping being made from
Morton
Jaffray to Warren Control Pump Station and the city's strategic
reservoirs
at Lochinvar, Letombo and Alexandra Park.
"This has now
put pressure on the city's reservoirs as they are releasing
water to
residential areas without getting additional water from the
treatment
plant," read the statement.
Zinwa urged consumers to use the available
water sparingly.
From The Mail & Guardian (SA), 21 June
Andrew Meldrum
The offices of Zimbabwe's Voice
of the People (VOP) radio station have been
destroyed by a fire bomb, its
reporters have been beaten and jailed, its
broadcasts jammed and now its
directors face government charges that could
see them jailed. Yet all
involved in this plucky shortwave station remain
committed to continuing
their broadcasts of independent reports into
Zimbabwe. The station's
perseverance against the media repression of
President Robert Mugabe's
government has won VOP the One World Media special
award. "This is a great
recognition of our determination to give a voice to
the voiceless people of
Zimbabwe," said the station's executive director
John Masuku, on receiving
the award in London last week. It is a dangerous
and difficult task, as
Zimbabwe's government has used repressive media laws
to close four
newspapers, expel foreign correspondents and ban all private
radio and
television broadcasts.
The VOP team operates openly in Zimbabwe with
six full-time journalists and
15 freelancers. It gets around the draconian
media regulations by not
broadcasting from Zimbabwe. Instead it sends its
reports to Radio
Netherlands where they are broadcast back into Zimbabwe via
a relay
transmitter in Madagascar. "We use digital technology to send our
reports to
Holland via e-mail," explains journalist Shorayi Kuriwa who has
worked for
the station for five years. In August 2002, Kuriwa narrowly
missed being
killed. He left VOP's Harare offices after midnight, as he had
been
preparing material to be sent to The Netherlands. "About 10 minutes
after I
left work, a huge bomb blast blew the roof off the building and
destroyed
it. Thankfully, no one was injured but the force of the fire
melted all our
equipment," he says. "It was frightening but we decided this
is a mission
and not just a job, and we must carry on." Two years later,
Kuriwa was
beaten by government supporters and suffered a broken nose and an
injured
leg. He has been arrested so many times that he refers to the Harare
police
station as his "second home".
Established in 2000, as
Zimbabwe's political, economic and humanitarian
crisis took hold, VOP
broadcasts an hour-long programme of news, opinion and
debate in Zimbabwe's
three main languages: English, Shona and Ndebele. It
receives funding from
the Dutch group, Hivos, the Soros Foundation's Open
Society Initiative and
the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The station often has
interviews with
government officials. "That is some of our most dangerous
work," says
reporter Davison Mudzingwa. "During the parliamentary elections
in 2005, we
tried to interview candidates from Zanu PF. Some of them were
very hostile
and threatened to arrest us." However, such broadcasts are
important because
the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation has
become such an
instrument of government propaganda. Against the odds, VOP
has won a
listenership that it estimates at about 500 000 people, based on
the letters
it receives. In Zimbabwe, people must tune into the station
secretly because
of possible retribution by the government, such as the
withdrawal of food
aid.
"In the rural areas, people have 'listeners' clubs' where they
listen to our
programmes. It's encouraging to know that we have devoted
listeners," says
Mudzingwa. Two other shortwave stations broadcast into
Zimbabwe, SW Radio
Africa from London and Studio 7 from the Voice of America
in Washington.
Unlike VOP, they operate from their foreign studios and
interview
Zimbabweans over the telephone. The VOP, though, will not have
long to
celebrate its award. The directors of the station, including human
rights
lawyer Arnold Tsunga, appeared in a Zimbabwean court this week on
charges of
operating a radio station without a licence. "We have a passion
for radio,
for getting real news, balanced news on to the airwaves," says
Masuku.
SouthScan
(London)
June 16, 2006
Posted to the web June 22, 2006
The
Zimbabwe government this week gave coal mining rights to a Chinese
company
in exchange for opening two mines and setting up three thermal power
stations in the investment-starved economy. But with previous agreements
still to be fulfilled, questions remain on whether the deals will come to
fruition.
Two Zimbabwean companies, Ele Resources and Hwange
Colliery, have agreed to
jointly establish coalmines and three thermal power
stations with China
Machine Building International Corporation (CMEC) in
deals worth about
US$1.3 billion.
The deals were facilitated by vice
president Joyce Mujuru, who this week
toured China at the invitation of the
Chinese government.
Another, RioZim, this week also said it was in talks
with two consortia from
China and Indonesia about setting up a thermal power
station at its Sengwa
Coal Mine. But those talks have been going on since
2003 and company
officials conceded that it was finding it difficult to
attract investors in
the present economic climate.
Zimbabwe's
President Robert Mugabe has over the last six years been trying
to forge
close alliances with Asian countries. Investment from the West has
dried up
but China, Iran, and India indicated interest in investing in
return for
mining guarantees.
Meanwhile South African companies have taken control
of the most profitable
mines in the country. Implats, the world's second
largest platinum producer,
and Aquarius Platinum control Zimplats and Mimosa
Mines while Anglo Platinum
holds mining rights to Unki Platinum Mine near
Gweru. SA tycoon Mzi
Khumalo's Metallon Gold owns five of the largest
gold-producing mines in the
country. Some of its major banks, Nedbank, ABSA
and Standard, either own or
have controlling stakes in the biggest banks in
Zimbabwe.
Just talk?
Analysts remain sceptical about the Chinese
deals, after previous agreements
failed to bear fruit, mainly as a result of
the Zimbabwe government failing
to meet its obligations.
"The trade
deals with China needs to be put into reality so that we can
practically see
them rather than ending on talks. We still need investment
from China but
that should be genuine," said Eric Bloch, a local commentator
on economic
issues. Oscar Chiwira, of the National University of Science and
Technology,
said it was obvious that the Chinese wanted guarantees that
their ownership
of mines would not be reversed.
"The Chinese know that there are vast
natural resources, mainly platinum,
they can exploit, but they want to avoid
a situation that is in the mining
industry now when the government suddenly
wakes up and wants to nationalise
all mines," he said.
China National
Aero Technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC), which
has been
supplying the Zimbabwe government with passenger and military
planes and
electricity transmission equipment, said it was still owed money
from
previous ventures.
Mujuru has offered CATIC mineral concessions, thought
to be the platinum
reserves released by Zimplats two weeks ago, saying the
Zimbabwe government
had decided to use the country's abundant mineral
resources to start joint
ventures with foreign investors to escape Western
economic sanctions.
CATIC has already been offered coal reserves at
Sinamatela, near Zambia, in
partnership with ZESA, the parastatal
responsible for electricity
generation, while CMEC is expected to help fund
another mine at nearby
Chaba, along with Zesa and Hwange.
CATIC
president Wang Dawei asked the Zimbabwe government to give assurances
that
the mining concession would be legally transferred to the joint venture
company.
Zimbabwe has meanwhile signed a US$60 million deal with
China that will see
state radio and TV transmission improved in return for
chrome supplies.
Under the deal, which was signed in Beijing on Tuesday,
Star Communications
of China will provide new radio and television
transmission equipment to
extend coverage to all parts of the
country.
The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) is to provide
security
for the deal in the form of chrome.
IOL
June 22 2006
at 03:14PM
Harare - Police in Zimbabwe have arrested more than 280
bakers and
shopkeepers for overcharging on bread, reports said
Thursday.
But bakers have hit back, saying they have no choice if
the industry
is to survive.
Police spokesperson Memory Pamire
told the state-controlled Herald
newspaper that 282 defiant bakers and
retailers had been arrested since last
Friday.
"Some have been
fined but repeat offenders will be taken to court,"
she said.
Bakers recently hiked the price of a loaf of bread from around R5 a
loaf to
at least R8.
Some shops are selling a large loaf of white bread for
as much as R13,
heaping pressure on Zimbabweans already reeling under
spiralling costs
fuelled by inflation of close to 1 200
percent.
Bakers say they have no choice but to effect
price hikes because they
are being forced to buy imported wheat because of a
local grain shortage.
But the government says the price hikes are
illegal and have promised
to take action.
In a statement, the
National Bakers Association said the recent price
hikes were necessary to
avoid total collapse and bankruptcy of industry.
It said 20 000
jobs in the industry were at stake.
The association said the prices
of key inputs were going up on a
fortnightly basis, making the government's
set price for a loaf of bread
unsustainable.
Flour for example
has gone up from $500 (about R3 685) a tonne in
March to $800 (about R5 897)
this month, the association said.
"The Bakers Association is a
loyal citizen of Zimbabwe. We have always
and are going to continue working
with the government," the statement
said. - Sapa-dpa
Mail and Guardian
Richard Davies | Shashe River,
Botswana
22 June 2006 04:12
A pact for a
new transfrontier game park straddling the borders
between Botswana, South
Africa and Zimbabwe was signed on Thursday.
The environment
ministers of the three countries endorsed the
agreement in Botswana on the
dry bed of the Shashe River.
Once proclaimed, the
Limpopo-Shashe Transfrontier Conservation
Area (TFCA) will cover 4 872
square kilometres, almost a quarter the size of
the Kruger National
Park.
Centred on the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe
rivers,
where the borders of the three states meet, the area is well known
for its
rich cultural heritage and prolific wildlife.
It
includes South Africa's renowned Mapungubwe archaeological
site, where
excavations in the 1930s uncovered a royal graveyard, including
numerous
golden artefacts.
Chief among these is a one-horned golden
rhinoceros, made of
carved wood covered with gold foil. The sculpture was
produced by a powerful
Iron Age civilisation that established itself on and
around the flat-topped
sandstone hill about a thousand years
ago.
The African people who lived there, from about 1 000AD
to 1
300AD, exchanged ivory and gold with East African traders for glass
beads
from places as far away as India and Egypt.
Thousands of such beads have been found in the ruins and graves
at
Mapungubwe, which was declared a World Heritage Site in 2003.
The transfrontier area also contains a large number of
elephants, as well as
viable populations of lion, leopard and cheetah.
Thursday's
signing ceremony included South Africa's Minister of
Environment Marthinus
van Schalkwyk and his Botswana and Zimbabwean
counterparts Kitso Mokaila and
Francis Nhema.
Van Schalkwyk said the Limpopo-Shashe TFCA was
set to become a
"big five" park.
"We will bring in large
numbers of the big five [elephants,
rhino, lions, buffalo and leopard]. We
will play our role in stocking the
area with what is needed," he
said.
According to a fact sheet handed to journalists at the
ceremony,
there are close to 2 000 elephants within the TFCA, mostly in
Botswana.
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
described
the proposed TFCA -- just over half of which is located in South
Africa --
as a "complex mosaic of landowners".
It
includes, in South Africa, privately owned land as well as
land owned by the
state and the South African National Parks.
On the Botswana
side, the park would include privately owned
land, the northern Tuli Game
Reserve and cattle and game ranches. The
Zimbabwean part would include a mix
of communal lands, privately owned stock
and game farms, and a
government-owned safari area.
Mokaila said the establishment
of the TFCA would enhance
socio-economic development in the
area.
He also jokingly alluded to his country's massive
elephant
population -- estimated at 151 000 -- saying while South Africa had
most of
the biodiversity in the region, Botswana had the biomass. --
Sapa
The Herald
(Harare)
OPINION
June 22, 2006
Posted to the web June 22,
2006
Harare
JULY could prove to be a defining month for the
Zimbabwean economy as the
Minister of Finance, Dr Herbert Murerwa, and the
Governor of the Reserve
Bank of Zimbabwe, Dr Gideon Gono, are expected to
present to the nation a
cocktail of measures set to arrest the present
economic decline.
We have grown to expect much from the two policy
statements, particularly in
this era when the economy is facing enormous
challenges that have threatened
to force the country into
"curatorship".
Of course, in any economy, the fiscal and monetary policy
statements are
always awaited with keen interest but in Zimbabwe's case they
are more than
that. Everyone pins their hopes on these instruments expecting
they will
contain a pronouncement that will change the economy's
course.
There has not been much joy on the economic front since the
beginning of the
year. Instead the situation has continued to deteriorate
and the challenges
confronting the economy have persisted, particularly on
the inflation front.
Prices of goods and services have continued to rise
astronomically, far
outpacing the rate at which salaries and wages have been
reviewed.
This, to the average Zimbabwean, has meant more suffering,
calling for
further belt tightening.
However, for many the situation
is so bad they no longer have any belt to
tighten while for yet others,
their waists have become so weak they cannot
hold a belt, let alone tighten
it.
A ride to work, or a visit to a supermarket, clinic or medical
drugstore has
remained a nightmare for the majority of the
populace.
It is against this background that we all await, with bated
breath, for Dr
Murerwa and Dr Gono to take to their respective
podiums.
We believe the two are already busy crafting their
presentations, as they
seek to consolidate efforts to turn around the
economy.
Theirs is a big challenge, I must admit, given the challenges
that the
economy is facing. It is no stroll in a rose garden but we remain
confident
that they will come up with something to turn the
tide.
Fiscal and monetary policies play a complementary role in solving
economic
challenges. We hope they will live up to our expectations.
A
factor that could work in their favour is the already rolling National
Economic Development Priority Programme, launched two months ago to come up
with quick-win solutions to the economy.
Much is expected out of this
programme and we understand a lot is happening
behind the scenes to ensure
its success.
This could mean that policy guidelines coming out of the
Ministry of Finance
and the Reserve Bank will have to be dove-tailed into
NEDPP to consolidate
the programme.
Many are pinning their hopes on
its success although it has been labelled as
being "too ambitious" in some
quarters. However, snippets of some of the
achievements under NEDPP are
pointing to a brighter future.
For instance, we have seen levels of
investor interest in Zimbabwe rising of
late. No doubt, more aggressive
marketing will yield more results.
A growing number of deals have been
sealed, giving hope that more investors
could be coming this way.
But
to me the real battle remains on the inflation front.
The scourge has
since the beginning of the year proved to be very stubborn,
threatening to
rise much further.
Presently, at 1 193,5 percent, the annual inflation
rate looks set to rise
further given the growing inflationary pressures in
the economy.
Reversing the trend is proving to be quite some arduous task
that goes
beyond the central bank and the Ministry of Finance.
There
is need for a holistic approach towards this challenge and we all have
a
role to play to tame inflation.
Authorities have remained optimistic that
the second half of the year will
witness a significant chop on the inflation
figure.
This takes nothing short of responsible behaviour by
manufacturers,
retailers, consumers and everyone in the production and
consumption lines in
all sectors of the economy.
We applaud industry
for further demonstrating its commitment to ensuring the
success of NEDPP,
whose objectives will directly and indirectly cause
inflation to come
down.
The Herald (Harare)
June
22, 2006
Posted to the web June 22, 2006
Bulawayo
Bureau
Harare
THE Government has withdrawn a land offer from farmer Mr
Langton Masunda and
has asked him to stop all operations
immediately.
A letter dated 7 June 2006, signed by the Minister of Lands,
Land Reform and
Resettlement in the Office of the President, Cde Didymus
Mutasa, said Mr
Masunda should forthwith cease all, or any operation that he
may have
commenced.
He should also immediately vacate the
land.
"You are, therefore, notified of the immediate withdrawal of the
offer of
Subdivision 1 of Volunteer 47, 48 and 49 measuring 611,79
hectares.
"You are required forthwith to cease all or any operations that
you may have
commenced thereon and immediately vacate the said piece of
land."
The letter further states that if Mr Masunda wishes to make any
representations on the issue, he should do so in writing within seven days
of receipt of the notification and direct his correspondence to Cde
Mutasa.
Mr Masunda is involved in a legal wrangle with the Speaker of the
House of
Assembly, Cde John Nkomo, over farm boundaries and ownership of
lodges in
the Gwayi Conservancy area.
Last week Mr Masunda was
granted a provisional order interdicting Cde Nkomo,
who is also the Zanu-PF
national chairman, from interfering with the
occupation of Jijima Lodge as
well as disturbing the safari-hunting business
on the disputed piece of
land.
Mr Masunda's lawyer, Mr Vonani Majoko, of Majoko and Majoko, said
in view of
the latest developments they would challenge the withdrawal under
the laid
down channels.
He said if there was no joy from the
ministry, then they would be left with
no option but to resort to the
courts.
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AVONDALE MOUNT RD 29.5 BILL
Lovely golden oldie under
tile, 1 acre, lots of outbuildings, well, walled,
commercial
potential.
Ph: Aldona 011-403-183
GREENDALE PG 26BILL
4 beds
(m.e.s), 2 lounges, 11/2 baths, borehole, pool, solar heating. 2
acres
Alison 091-400-637
HATFIELD PG 17.5BILL
Attractive and
secure this spacious property on an acre offers pool and
tennis court.This
fully alarmed home comprises large enclosed verandah,
spacious lounge,
dining-room and 3 sizeable bedrooms. Other features
include lock-up garage,
FIVE carports, single quarters, walled with electric
gate.
Ph: Vanessa
Vos 091-333-548
HATFIELD PG 10BILL
Solid 3 bedroomed house, on an
acre. Some tender loving care needed. Ideal
starter home. A lick of paint
will go a long way.
Contact - Hilda Vushangwe - 091 229
790
Donavans Flats for sale
AVENUES PG
7.25BILL
Spacious lounge, 1 spacious bedroom with enclosed verandah,
bathroom &
kitchen. Very secure block with 24 hour security. Share
transfer.
Ph: Vanessa Vos 091-333-548
MILTON PARK PG
10.5BILL
Spacious two bedroomed flat on ground floor in quiet block with
lounge,
sizeable enclosed verandah, own garage, plenty space for parking.
Block
fully walled with electric gate. Sectional Title.
Ph: Vanessa Vos
091-333-548
UPPER AVENUES PG 31.5BILL - INVESTORS!!!!
Very special and
exceptionally secure 3 bedroomed (m.e.s.) townshouse in
quiet area.
Features lounge, separate dining-room, bar area, back and front
gardens.
Small complex of 8. Share transfer. ALL FURNITURE INCLUDED!!!!
Excellent
tenant who pays substantial rental.
Ph: Vanessa Vos
091-333-548
DONAVANS PLOTS FOR SALE
2*JULIASDALE
PROPERTIES
1. Valley Rd PG 8Bill neg
+20 acres. River, simple
accommodation.
2. Tintangel Rd PG 15Bill
33 hectares. 2 beds home.
Electric fence, private dam.
Nadia 091-789-111
DARWENDALE PG
4.5BILL
Hunyani Estate
7600 square metres. 600m from water
front.
Alison 091-400-637
MAZVIKADEI PG 2BILL
1 acre. Vacant
plot.
Alison 091-400-637
DONAVANS BUSINESS PREMISES FOR
SALE
HATFIELD PG 37BILL
This Prime Property, located conveniently on
the Airport Road (Queensway)
consists of huge shop frontage, equally huge
storage space, offices, strong
room as well as a separate driveway and
loading bay. Currently housing a
hardware store (the only one in a 10km
radius) as well as a video rental
shop.
This gem is offered as a
package deal:
The building as well as the hardware store 37Bill
or
separately
.Building 31Bill
.Hardware Business 6Bill
Hilda 091 229
790 or 091 430 756
DONAVANS HOUSES TO LET
4 bedroomed house,
double lock up garage, pool, borehole, 4 s/quarters on 2
acres, gated,
walled and fenced. Mountbatten drive, Marlborough
Ph: Sean 011-630036 between
9am and 4pm
DONAVANS FLATS WANTED TO LET
Garden flats
in:
Avondale/Newlands
Mt Pleasant
Avenues
Ph: Sean 011-630036
between 9am and 4pm
HOUSE WANTED TO RENT IN:
Milton
Park
Newlands
Belgravia
Alex Park
Borrowdale
Glen Lorne
Ph:
Sean 011-630036 between 9am and 4pm
AVONDALE:
SUPERB GARDEN DUPLEX: $36 Billion:
Stunning 3 bedroom duplex, MES, second
full bathroom, guest loo; Lounge,
dining, bar/2nd lounge, fireplace, dining,
kitchen, staff qtrs, laundry,
lock up garage. Very spacious,private, lovely
garden.
AVONDALE: 2nd St Ext: $18 billion:
Beautiful 2 bedroom duplex,
bathroom, lounge/dining, kitchen, guest loo.
Covered patio leading to nice
garden. Lock up garage. Secure complex with
elec fence, 24 hr security, Very
nice!
CONTACT: VERONICA Tel 091393242
LAWS 705
211
BUSINESS FOR SALE
PROPERTY
WANTED
PROPERTIES TO RENT
3 Bedroomed, 2 Bathroomed Town
House to Rent in Avondale with Double Lock Up
Garage. Immediate Occupation.
Please Phone: Peter or Dawn on (04)
860214
21,28/6af6
Hensvale. House to let August 2006. 3
Bedrooms, large Lounge/Dining room,
Kitchen, Bathroom, Toilet, Laundry room,
2 outside rooms. Attached Flatlet,
2 rooms - 1 large, 1 small and Verandah,
Bathroom/Toilet. Prolific Borehole,
Double Lock-up Garage. Staff Quarters.
Deposit. Tel: Regan Office: (04)
775573-7 or
775598
21
Business Premises to Let
Centrally located close
to Enterprise Road and Samora Michel Avenue
intersection. Excellent
Security. Two Entrances.
Two Options:
Main Offices - 232 sqm.
large
open plan office, board room, two offices off passage, bathroom shower
and
separate toilet, another two offices off passage with bathroom and
kitchenette en suite. Alarmed.
Out Building - 76 sqm.
Large open plan
office, one normal size office, toilet, basin, shower,
kitchenette.
Contact: gavin@tms.co.zw or
252252-5
21,28
Dairy Lease
Farm within peri - urban
city limits. Full dairy facility available for long
term lease: Lease would
include the following:
42m x 38m Shed
Calf feeding unit and stalls
3 x
Silage clamps
350 cow feeding unit - full covered stalls and feeding
troughs
Safe lockable feed shed - 10m x 20m
7 x 7 herring bone automated
milking unit complete with vacuum pumps,
cooling units etc.
5000L
stainless cooler bulk tank.
Full sanitary facilities for
staff
Office
10 Staff facilities
Grazing land
Serious interested
inquiries only - appointments and viewing possible
contact: sweeper@zol.co.zw or 04
852103
ACCOMMODATION WANTED
Careful tenants - family of
four, desperately looking for, 2-4 bedroom
house/flat/townhouse in Harare
for 1 August 2006. Prefer long lease.
Contact Terrie - 011 603
970
PERSONALS
NEW RATES FROM 12TH MAY
2006
Up to 25 Words $300 000.00 Per Week
26 -
50 $600 000.00
51 - 75 $900
000.00
76 - 100 $1200 000.00
101 -
150 $1500 000.00
151 - 200 $1800
000.00
201 - 250 $2100 000.00
251 -
300 $2400 000.00
Please send your adverts to aisdadmin@cfu.co.zw or Fax 309849 by
Tuesdays 12
noon and send prompt payment (no advert will be included until
payment is
made) with a copy of your advert to CFU Classifieds, Agriculture
House, Cnr.
Adylinn/Marlborough Drive, Marlborough. P O Box WGT 390,
Westgate, Harare.
Cheques should be made out to Commercial Farmers'
Union.