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Zimbabwe PM aide arrested; called Mugabe a 'liar'

Associated Press

By ANGUS SHAW – 3 hours ago

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Police arrested a senior minister Friday after he
called President Robert Mugabe a liar, the party of Zimbabwe's prime
minister said.

Hard-liners in Mugabe's party accused Jameson Timba of insulting Mugabe, an
offense under sweeping security laws, when he said Mugabe lied over the
outcome of a recent regional summit on Zimbabwe's political and economic
crisis.

The former opposition party of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said in a
statement police accused Timba of "undermining the authority of the
president."

Earlier, police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said he had no information on
possible charges.

Timba, minister of state in Tsvangirai's office, was being held late Friday
at the main Harare police station, said party official Nelson Chamisa.

Timba attended the summit and contradicted Mugabe's account that regional
leaders withdrew a damning report on the slow pace of reforms and continuing
political violence blamed on Mugabe's party.

Mugabe insisted the Southern African Development Community, a regional
economic and political bloc, cleared his party's name over allegations
reported to the grouping by the chief Zimbabwe mediator, President Jacob
Zuma of South Africa.

Timba gave his account of the summit at the same time as Tsvangirai, who
told a rally in central Zimbabwe that Mugabe and his party leaders lied over
the summit findings.

Tsvangirai was expected to return to Harare on Friday from a meeting of
international jurists in Spain.

Mugabe's party has also called for his arrest for insulting Mugabe,
accusations usually applied to remarks made by political hecklers or those
who curse Mugabe in bars or on buses. Those convicted have been fined or
briefly jailed.

Tsvangirai's party described as "strange" that Timba was arrested before the
weekend — a reference to a common police practice of jailing suspects over
the weekend in filthy, overcrowded cells in frigid winter conditions until
courts and judicial offices reopen on Monday.

His arrest signaled another rift in the 28-month coalition formed by
regional mediators after violent, disputed elections in 2008.

Tsvangirai's party said late Friday it "demands that the minister is treated
with the respect he deserves" in accordance with the laws of the country.


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Kimberley grants Zimbabwe conditional diamond sale



By Godfrey Marawanyika (AFP) – 20 hours ago

HARARE — The Kimberley Process against "blood diamonds" will allow Zimbabwe
to sell some diamonds from its controversial Marange fields, in a decision
that left the watchdog sharply divided Friday.

Right groups walked out of the Kimberley meeting Thursday in Kinshasa, where
African countries, China and India supported the decision that was opposed
by Western nations, rights groups and industry.

"We have made a breakthrough," Zimbabwe mines minister Obert Mpofu told the
state-run Herald newspaper in Harare.

He said the Kimberley Process had endorsed exports from the two mines
operated by Marange Resources and Mbada Diamonds "with immediate effect
without supervision".

The decision taken by Mathieu Yamba of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who
holds Kimberley's rotating chair, appears to allow sales from the two firms
in Marange once a team of two monitors have signed off on the deal.

Currently five licenced firms operate in Marange, but only three are mining
at full throttle, while the other two say they have only found minimal
reserves after exploration.

US-based diamond group Rapaport Trade quickly advised members not to trade
in the Marange gems.

"Marange goods (are) expected to be released shortly," Rapaport said in an
advisory to members. "Responsible buyers should require supplier guarantee
that they are not selling these diamonds to them."

Western companies fear the bad press that comes with "blood diamonds", gems
whose sale is used to finance armed conflicts.

Western nations and rights groups have pushed for the Kimberley Process
(KP), originally meant to cut off financing for brutal rebellions in Liberia
and Sierre Leone, to bar trade in any diamonds tainted by violence and
abuses.

Companies in China, India and the Middle East do not face the same public
pressure from their customers and have proved more eager to tap into what
has been touted as Africa's biggest diamond find of the decade.

Other African nations have been reluctant to apply the same standard to a
sitting government as to armed rebellions.

Outrage at the Kimberley decision prompted civil society members of the
organisations, including resources watchdogs Global Witness and Partnership
Africa Canada, to walk out of the meeting arguing that the ruling undermines
the scheme's credibility.

Kimberley decisions are supposed to be consensus based.

In a joint statement, the civil society groups said Kimberley's decision
failed to protect civilians living and working in Marange.

"Civil society organisations... are deeply concerned that the scheme is not
meeting its most basic commitments," they said. "It does not prevent
diamonds from fuelling violence and human rights violations."

The Marange fields have been at the centre of a years-long controversy over
abuses by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's military.

Monitors say the military seized control of the fields in late 2008,
violently evicting tens of thousands of small miners and then beating and
raping civilians to force them to mine the gems.

Zimbabwe conducted a KP monitored sale last year, although move was opposed
by other countries such as Canada and United States.

That sale raised $100 million dollars according to government figures, after
selling 400,000 carats.


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Confusion remains over Zim diamond trade status

http://www.swradioafrica.com

By Alex Bell
24 June 2011

There is still confusion over Zimbabwe’s diamond trade status, amid reports
that an ongoing stalemate within the trade watchdog, the Kimberley Process
(KP), has not prevented the lifting of Zimbabwe’s trade ban.

KP members met in the DRC this week, where Zimbabwe was top of the agenda.
The meeting reportedly ended Thursday with no consensus from KP members on
Zimbabwe’s future, with mainly western nations still concerned about
conditions at the Chiadzwa diamond fields.

But the DRC’s Mathieu Yamba, the current chairperson of the watchdog group,
late on Thursday said sales would be allowed from two mines at the Chiadzwa
alluvial fields, where gross human rights abuses have been reported since
2009. He said a team of two monitors must still visit the mines to sign off
on the sale.

Yamba earlier this year made a shock unilateral decision to allow Zimbabwe
to resume trading, a move that has been strongly resisted by other KP
members. KP decisions are meant to be made and implemented only after
consensus among members of the monitoring body. But it’s understood that
Yamba’s latest announcement has also been done without consensus.

Civil society groups in the KP walked out of the negotiations with Zimbabwe
on Thursday, saying human rights abuses have not been addressed.

“We represent communities that have suffered from diamond-fuelled violence,
and communities that hope to benefit from diamond wealth,” said Aminata
Kelly-Lamin from the Network Movement for Justice and Development in Sierra
Leone.

”We can no longer go back to these people, look them in the eye and tell
them that the scheme is working to protect their interests, when it is not,”
she added.

In a joint statement the organisations said the KP’s dealings with Zimbabwe
fell short of what is needed to protect civilians living and working in
Chiadzwa.

”(Chiadzwa) has been the scene of very serious human rights violations over
the past three years. Yet the deal tabled did not credibly address the
question of how to protect local NGOs monitoring and reporting to the KP on
conditions in the area,” said Alfred Brownell from Green Advocates, Liberia.

”Any new agreement that the KP signs up to regarding Marange diamonds must
address directly key issues such as the involvement of soldiers in diamond
mining, rampant smuggling and beatings by security forces,” he said.

Political commentator Clifford Mashiri told SW Radio Africa on Friday that
the civil society position is a sign that the KP has lost all credibility.

“Unfortunately we see a situation where KP members are giving in to ZANU PF.
Even the chairman (of the KP) is said to be a friend and ally of Robert
Mugabe’s,” Mashiri said.

Meanwhile, US based diamond trading network Rapaport has issued a trade
alert to its members, warning that Chiadzwa diamonds will be on the market.
The alert reads: “The Rapaport Group urges responsible buyers to require
supplier guarantees that they are not buying (Chiadzwa) goods.”


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Develop A Clear Diamond Policy: AfDB Urges Zimbabwe

http://www.radiovop.com

11 hours 19 minutes ago

Harare, June 24, 2011- THE African Development Bank (AfDB) says Zimbabwe
should come up with a proper and clear policy on the prospecting,
processing, and sale of diamonds as they have the potential of spurring the
country’s economy to greater heights.

Speaking at the launch of a new economic forecast report in Harare
yesterday, AfDB resident representative to Zimbabwe, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
said the failure by government and other stakeholders in the diamond sector
to come up with a clear policy could see Zimbabwe miss out on maximizing
gains realized from diamonds.

“We have seen countries squander the boom realised from minerals they
discover in their countries,” said Bawumia.

“The whole issue has to be dealt with in such a manner that there are clear
policies on the table for all.

The problem that we have realised is that Zimbabwe is not able to export all
the diamonds that it has been producing. This has had an effect where the
earnings of the country do not reflect in the balance of payment support,
clearance of debts with international financiers and many other areas,”
Bawumia said.

He added: “If there is a clear policy on how to deal with these diamonds
from prospecting, processing, and sale, I am sure Zimbabwe might realise a
significant chunk of money from the diamonds and this can actually spur the
country’s economy to higher levels.”

According to the new AfDB report released Wednesday and entitled African
Economic Outlook: - “Africa and Its Emerging Partners,” Zimbabwe is expected
to realise a 7.8% economic growth.

The growth is expected to be spurred by a stable macro-economic environment.

The report also revealed that China had emerged as the biggest trade partner
for Africa, trading volumes to the tune of US$93 billion.


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Cracks Emerge in Kimberly Process

http://online.wsj.com/

    JUNE 24, 2011, 1:10 P.M. ET

By DEVON MAYLIE

JOHANNESBURG—The Kimberley Process appears in disarray after the president
of the global diamond monitoring group, at a key meeting, overrode
objections from the U.S. and others to allow exports of precious stones from
a controversial field in Zimbabwe.

After a weeklong meeting in Kinshasa, Congo, Mathieu Yamba said he endorsed
a decision to allow exports from two mining operations in the Zimbabwean
Marange diamond field with immediate effect.

The Process had blocked exports from the region since 2009 over concerns
about violence taking place in the military-controlled zone, with the
exception of two exports allowed in 2010 as a one-off.

Mr. Yamba didn't provide any justification for the decision.

The move has called into question the future of the group, which is designed
on consensus, as it came despite a rejection from both nonprofit groups and
some participating nations who are concerned about human-rights abuses in
the Zimbabwean diamond fields.

"This could rapidly lose its meaning," says Global Witness representative
Annie Dunnebacke. "What we could see is a number of countries refuse Marange
diamonds because there isn't consensus."

Zimbabwe officials praised the decision.

"Kinshasa has been a victory over the U.S. and its evil partners who for
years have denied us the right to sell our diamonds and improve the welfare
of our people," said Zimbabwe Minister of Mines Obert Mpofu.

The president of the World Diamond Council Eli Izhakoff said that the future
of the Process was at risk, and said he still hopes the differences will be
resolved to reach a "fair and credible deal."

The U.S. State Department said exports shouldn't be allowed until consensus
is reached.

Whether to allow Zimbabwe to export diamonds from the area has opened up the
divisions in the system. Countries such as South Africa have publicly
supported Zimbabwe, saying it has complied with the rules of the Kimberley
Process, mainly that the diamond industry isn't funding war. Other countries
have wanted more focus placed on human rights concerns.

Zimbabwe has responded to resistance to its exports from countries such as
the U.S., Canada and European Union representatives by calling them
colonialists, and it threatened to ship Marange diamonds outside the
regulator. At one point during the Kinshasa meeting, requests to speak by
the representatives from those three regions were ignored by the chair.

"The United States believes that progress with respect to exports from the
Marange area of Zimbabwe can occur solely through a mechanism agreed to by
consensus among KP participants," the State Department said.

The two mines that Yamba said will be allowed to export with immediate
effect are Marange Resources, which is wholly owned by the Zimbabwe
government, and Mbada Diamonds, a joint venture between the Zimbabwe
government and Grandwell Holdings of South Africa.

Exports from operations run by the other miners in the region, including
Chinese firm Anhui Foreign Economic Construction (Group) Co., or Anjin, will
be subject to a team of monitors, the statement said.

The Kimberley Process was established in 2003 to prevent the diamond mining
industry from funding war. How it is being applied today is creating sharp
division amongst the 45 member nations. A number of countries want the
broader issue of human rights to be a factor in whether or a not a country
can export its diamonds, while Zimbabwe has opposed this saying it purpose
was to prevent the diamond trade from fueling war.

"Marange has been the scene of very serious human rights violations over the
past three years. Yet the deal tabled didn't credibly address the question
of how to protect local NGOs monitoring and reporting to the Kimberley
Process on conditions in the area," said Alfred Brownell from Green
Advocates, a nonprofit group from Liberia.

The Kimberley Process did agree in a meeting in Moscow last year to allow
two shipments of diamonds from that field that took place in August and
September of 2010. It was a special one-off deal brokered with the consent
of the civil-society groups that still wanted wider conditions negotiated
for a general lifting of the export ban. This most recent deal doesn't
restrict the number of shipments from the fields that have received the
green light.
—Farai Mutsaka in Harare, Zimbabwe, contributed to this article.


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Diamond watchdog divided over Zimbabwe diamonds

http://af.reuters.com

Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:24am GMT

By Jonny Hogg

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has been given the green light to sell
diamonds from its Marange diamond fields by the industry's leading
certification system, but the decision did not have the backing of all
members.

Participants of the Kimberley Process, which aims to stop "conflict
diamonds" entering the market, met this week in Democratic Republic of Congo
to discuss the Marange diamond fields but remained divided over a final
statement.

Rights groups say abuses have taken place against illegal miners, smuggling
is rife and some mines in Marange remain in the hands of Zimbabwe's
military, charges denied by Harare.

An inspection team from Congo, current chair of the Kimberley Process, found
that Zimbabwe met the minimum necessary standards and a statement on
Thursday said Zimbabwe could start selling diamonds from there again, albeit
with some monitoring.

Zimbabwean Minister of Mines Obert Mpofu said he had been seeking
unsupervised exports. "(But) we have no choice but to accept. We want to be
treated like any other country, I'm going to sell our diamonds now," he told
Reuters.

Last year, Zimbabwe was allowed by the Kimberley Process to sell a small
amount of diamonds. But some, including the United States, Canada and the
European Union, say human rights issues remain.

Daniel Baer, deputy assistant secretary for human rights and labour at the
U.S. State Department, said the statement did not have the full backing of
Kimberley Process members.

"It was not a consensus (decision), we've made that clear privately. We're
looking for a way that Zimbabwean people can benefit from their natural
resources and we can maintain the credibility of the Kimberley Process," he
said.

Representatives from civil society groups walked out of the meeting before
the final statement, saying the values of the organisation were being
undermined.

"KP has refused to uphold any human rights standards, has not respected the
role of civil society and is allowing participants who break the rules to go
free," said Alfred Lahai Brownell from Green Advocates in Liberia.


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SADC judges slam illegal closure of Tribunal

http://www.swradioafrica.com

By Alex Bell
24 June 2011

The top legal minds from the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
have all demanded compensation over the closure of the region’s human rights
Tribunal, a move the judges have said was ‘illegal’.

In the strongest criticism yet of the shock move by SADC leaders in May,
four former Tribunal Judges have written a scathing letter to the regional
bloc, blasting its decision to suspend the court. The Judges, drawn from
across the region to head up the Tribunal, have all effectively been forced
out of their positions by SADC’s unprecedented decision to close the court.

The four judges, whose five-year term expired in August 2010, had remained
in office, despite SADC last year deciding to review the role of the court.
This was the result of SADC’s apparent unwillingness to hold Zimbabwe to
account for refusing to honour the Tribunal’s 2008 rulings that Robert
Mugabe’s land grab was unlawful. A review was ordered instead, but the
Judges said they stayed put, due to the “legitimate and reasonable
expectation that, at the end of the initial independent review commissioned
by the SADC Heads of State, their terms of office would be renewed.”

This expectation was then justified when that independent review confirmed
that the Tribunal was properly established, and that its rulings had
jurisdiction across the region, and that its protocol was in accordance with
international law.

But instead of upholding the review findings, a SADC Summit in May took the
decision to dissolve the Tribunal for a further 12 months, dealing a
devastating blow to the rule of law in the region. The move has been
described as ‘regressive’ because it denies individual people access to
justice when they have no legal recourse in their own countries.

The four judges seeking compensation are Justice Ariranga G Pillay
(Mauritius) former president and member; Justice Rigoberto Kambovo (Angola)
former member; Justice Onkemetse B Tshosa (Botswana) former member; and
Justice Frederick Chomba (Zambia) former member.

Their letter reads; “We consider, therefore, that Council and Summit should
face up to the consequences of their action in the circumstances and pay
fair and adequate compensation for the prejudice, both material and moral,
caused to the President and members of the Tribunal whose term of office was
not renewed.”

In their letter they say the decision to dissolve the court is “clearly
illegal and ultra vires (invalid) because the Summit has no power to
restrict the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, not the least because it is
itself subject to the Tribunal’s jurisdiction.”

The judges also questioned why the SADC council of Justice Ministers
expressed concern about the role and jurisdiction of the Tribunal, instead
of deciding the appropriate action to take against Zimbabwe for
non-compliance of the Tribunal’s judgments.

“We did not expect or foresee…the new drastic action taken on political
grounds which at a stroke does away with the intractable problem of taking
action against Zimbabwe,” the letter reads.

The judges add; “So this extraordinary deed was done at the expense of the
Tribunal and its judges who are both easily expendable, in breach of the
principles of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.”

The SADC Tribunal Rights Watch group has since endorsed the judges’
statement, echoing their concerns that the move sends “the worst possible
signal not only to the SADC region but also to potential investors, donors
and the international community at large: that the highest authorities of
SADC at best pay only lip service to the principles of human rights,
democracy and the rule of law and do not scrupulously adhere to them.”


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Three illegal and arbitrary decisions taken in bad faith by the SADC Council of Ministers and Summit of Heads of State and Government

http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/6846
 

June 23rd, 2011

SADC letterClick here to download the letter

This is a letter written by the (now former) President of the SADC  Tribunal and three other (now former) members of the SADC Tribunal to the SADC Secretariat.

The SADC Tribunal was established in 1992 by Article 9 of the SADC Treaty as one of the institutions of SADC.  The Summit of Heads of State or Government which is the Supreme Policy Institution of SADC pursuant to Article 4 (4) of the Protocol on Tribunal appointed the Members of the Tribunal during its Summit of Heads of State or Government held in Gaborone, Botswana on 18th August 2005. The inauguration of the Tribunal and the swearing in of the Members took place on 18th November 2005 in Windhoek, Namibia.

The letter addresses the issue of the SADC Summit’s illegal, arbitrary and mala fide (with or in bad faith) termination of the Tribunal and the terms of office of its justices instead of giving effect to its judgments against Zimbabwe.  Indeed, the decision taken to effectively dissolve the SADC Tribunal bodes ill for the future of any legally and independently constituted regional judges, courts or tribunals.

The letter is a powerful denunciation of the Summit’s conduct and an important contemporary piece in the rule-of-law jigsaw puzzle of southern Africa.

Further information:


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SADC Tribunal Rights Watch supports Tribunal judges’ call for compensation

SADC TRIBUNAL RIGHTS WATCH

Media release:  24 June 2011

SADC Tribunal Rights Watch supports Tribunal judges’ call for compensation

SADC Tribunal Rights Watch supports the action taken by four SADC Tribunal
judges to demand compensation following the illegal and arbitrary decisions
taken by the SADC Council of Ministers and Summit Heads of State and
Government on 20 May 2011 not to reappoint them or allow them to remain in
office pending a further review in August 2012.

    The four judges, whose five-year term expired in August 2010, remained
in office due to the “legitimate and reasonable expectation that, at the end
of the initial independent review commissioned by the SADC Heads of State,
their terms of office would be renewed.”

    This expectation was justifiable given that the consultants, WTI
Advisors Ltd, Geneva, an affiliate of the World Trade Institute, confirmed
in their review report of February 2011 that the Tribunal was properly
established and that its protocol entered into force in accordance with
international law.

    Instead of upholding the review findings however, the SADC Summit took
the decision on May 20 to dissolve the Tribunal, dealing a devastating blow
to the rule of law in the region because it denies individual people access
to justice when they have no legal recourse in their own countries.

    The four judges seeking compensation are Justice Ariranga G Pillay
(Mauritius), former president and member, Justice Rigoberto Kambovo
(Angola), former member, Justice Onkemetse B Tshosa (Botswana), former
member, and Justice Frederick Chomba (Zambia), former member.

    As they point out in their letter to Dr Topaz Augusto Salamao, executive
secretary of the SADC Secretariat, the wording of the communiqué issued
after the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of SADC
demonstrates that the Tribunal has not only been suspended but dissolved
altogether.

    This decision, they note, is “clearly illegal and ultra vires (invalid)
because the Summit has no power to restrict the jurisdiction of the
Tribunal, not the least because it is itself subject to the Tribunal’s
jurisdiction.”

    While the judges recognise that the Summit does ultimately have the
power to amend the SADC Treaty and Protocol with respect to the Tribunal,
they stress that the proper procedures have not yet been followed.

    In their letter, the judges find it inappropriate that the SADC
Ministers of Justice / Attorneys Generals should express serious concern
regarding the scope and jurisdiction of, and the law applied by the Tribunal
instead of deciding about the appropriate action to take against Zimbabwe
for non-compliance of the judgments of the Tribunal in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

    The judgments referred to are Campbell and Another v Republic of
Zimbabwe and Fick and Another v Republic of Zimbabwe.

    The first case was lodged with the Tribunal by William Michael Campbell
of Mount Carmel Farm in the Chegutu district of Zimbabwe.  Subsequently 77
additional white commercial farmers were authorised by the Tribunal to be
joined to this landmark case.
    In the second case, the four applicants were Louis Fick, vice president
of the Commercial Farmers’ Union of Zimbabwe, Mike Campbell, Richard
Etheredge, the Commercial Farmers’ Union and the Southern African Commercial
Farmers’ Alliance – Zimbabwe.
    The Tribunal judges point out that the SADC Ministers of
Justice/Attorneys General have “ducked and postponed a decision to take
action against the Zimbabwe government – for reasons best known to
themselves.”
    The Tribunal judges also express their frustration at being unable,
since August 2010, to hear any of the pending cases “since (the Tribunal)
was starved of funds and its requests for extra funding to the SADC
Secretariat fell on deaf ears.”
    SADC Tribunal Rights Watch endorses the judges’ statement that the
drastic action taken at the expense of the Tribunal and its judges is “in
breach of the principles of human rights, democracy and the rule of law”
enshrined in the SADC Treaty.
    Ironically, the SADC Council and Summit’s disregard for the SADC Treaty
and Protocol mirrors the actions of Ian Smith’s post-UDI Rhodesian
Government regarding the case of Stella Madzimbamuto v Lardner Burke (1966),
an important and high profile human rights-based challenge.
    Mrs Madzimbamuto’s husband had been incarcerated under emergency powers
for three months and was then kept behind bars while the constitution was
changed to allow him to be held longer in custody.  It was the same
legislation that had been used to detain Robert Mugabe without trial.
    When Mrs Madzimbamuto’s appeal failed in the Rhodesian courts, the case
was led in the Privy Council of Britain, which declared the Rhodesian
Constitution illegal.
    The Summit of the Heads of State or Government of SADC, the presidents
of the 15 countries, including President Mugabe, the Council of Ministers of
SADC and the Zimbabwe Government face a further legal challenge.
    In April, Jeremy Gauntlett, SC, a leading South African advocate, filed
an urgent application asking for an order that ensures “the (SADC) Tribunal
continues to function in all aspects as established by Article 16 of the
SADC Treaty.”
    The applicants were two elderly, dispossessed Zimbabwean commercial
farmers, both of whom ran highly successful farming enterprises and were
model employers, William Michael Campbell of Mount Carmel farm, and Luke
Tembani of Minverwag farm in the Nyazura district.  Shortly after signing
the application, Mr Campbell passed away due to the severe injuries
sustained during his abduction on 29 June 2008, where the Mugabe militia
tried to get him to withdraw the case.  Despite this, Mr Tembani’s resolve
has not wavered.
    SADC Tribunal Rights Watch endorses the view of the Tribunal judges that
the decisions taken by the SADC Council and Summit “send the worst possible
signal not only to the SADC region but also to potential investors, donors
and the international community at large: that the highest authorities of
SADC at best pay only lip service to the principles of human rights,
democracy and the rule of law and do not scrupulously adhere to them.”
ENDS
Submitted by / For further information:

Ben Freeth - SADC Tribunal Rights Watch, Zimbabwe
Cell:  +263 773 929 138   E-mail:  freeth@bsatt.com


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WOZA say police in plot to kill them with poison

http://www.swradioafrica.com/

By Tichaona sibanda
24 June 2011

Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) have said police in Bulawayo tried to
eliminate some of its members by using a deadly chemical to poison them.

WOZA coordinator Jenni Williams told SW Radio Africa that eight of their
members were taken ill this week after being exposed to a ‘noxious substance’
believed to have been intentionally placed in a property they own.

‘We are counting our lucky stars and are certainly happy to be alive
following this attempt to kill us using chemical warfare,’ Williams said,
adding the attempt was intended to cause ‘collateral damage’ to the pressure
group.

She revealed WOZA knows the identity of the culprit who placed the poison
and hope one day he will stand trial for his actions. There are suspicions
the poison was placed inside the chimney, as there were traces of black ash
inside the lounge of the house.

The property in question had been under police occupation for two weeks
after police raided it looking for ‘subversive’ material. When the
authorities failed to find anything significant to nail WOZA with, they went
about the property planting bullets and subversive stuff in and outside the
house.

‘They planted bullets in the car that I normally use and a document titled
main agenda. They planted material which would have left me facing treason
charges,’ she said.

She added; ‘These are desperate attempts by a desperate regime. We are not
in any way a violent group seeking regime change but a pressure group
fighting for the rights of Zimbabweans.’

Williams said they have been left in a state of shock following the
poisoning incident. After the police were ordered off the property by a High
Court Judge, WOZA believe the last one to leave closed all the windows,
leaving the poison to accumulate inside.

‘When we entered the house after they had left we were overcome by a strong
smell which caused most of us to feel nauseous,’ Williams said.

She added that one WOZA member was admitted to hospital and put on a drip,
while seven others were treated and discharged. They all displayed symptoms
of headache, dizziness, disorientation, weak limbs and nausea.


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WOZA: Police leave bullets

http://www.swradioafrica.com

Press statement Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)

HIGH Court Judge Nicholas Mathonsi ruled on 20 June 2011 that Zimbabwe
Republic Police (ZRP) officers who had forcefully occupied the Suburbs WOZA
property should vacate and restore its full use to the organisation. WOZA
monitored the situation and observed the police leave after 5:30pm on the
21st June. A cream double came and dropped off a short young officer known
to WOZA members and after sometime came back to collect this detective in
plain clothes and 2 uniformed details. They left the keys with the tenant
stating that police officers were no longer allowed in the property.

WOZA leaders decided to enter the property and verify the state it had been
left it and to remove the Ford pick-up that had been in the yard since the
raid. A group of six entered the property through the kitchen door and were
overcome by a strong smell in the kitchen which caused them to start
gagging. The house was quickly closed and the vehicle was driven to a place
of safety for the night. Three members immediately began to feel ill with
dizziness; vomiting and diahorrea.
The next morning the vehicle was offloaded and two bullets (38 mm
pistol) were discovered with a metal object that looks like a bearing.

All six members then returned to the house and in the company of Human
Rights lawyers and journalists determined that the smell was still present
and further investigation throughout the house revealed more 'planted'
material.

Inexplicably WOZA solidarity cards received from Amnesty members worldwide
were removed out of their envelopes and replaced with condoms, both male and
female.

A one page document entitled 'Main Agenda' had been planted with other WOZA
material such as democracy, constitution books that members conduct civic
education around. Several copies of this publication were also placed in the
document folders of members who had been in the house at the time of the
raid.

The state of the house was clearly consistent with information previously
obtained on the first day that 20 to 30 plain clothes officers had searched
the house.

The fireplace in the lounge shows that something was put up the chimney as
there was black ash all over the lounge floor.

At first count many documents and two mobile phones, all food in the house
is missing in defiance of the High court order that nothing must be removed.

By 11am, members started to feel very ill and one member fainted and had to
be rushed to hospital so the house was closed up once again.

One member spent the day admitted and on a drip and seven other members were
treated and discharged. When attending the private hospital, one journalist
was also being attended with the same symptoms. Headache; dizziness and
disorientation, weak limbs, nausea and diahorrea. The doctors prescribed
antibiotics and anti-histamines for all those who attended.

It should be noted that police officers chased away a lawyer who attended
the scene of the raid within 15minutes and that our court application was
taken on the basis that no legitimate search could be conducted days after
the invasion and it was stated that there was real fear that materials would
be 'planted'. Our worst fears were realised by the bullets and other metal
objects, documents and condoms planted at the scene. A letter of complaint
has been sent to the police and court.

We also note that had our national coordinator Jenni Williams who is the
official organisation representative had attended the house as was
constantly demanded over the 12 day invasion period, she would be facing
fabricated 'Treason' charges. It was not out of guilt that Williams and
others left through the back door on the day of the raid but out of knowing
the track record of the police officers at the gate and years of members
being harassed, threatened, abducted by Law and Order police officers namely
George Levison Ngwenya, Lindani Mpofu, Zenzo Moyo and female officer S. G.
Ndlovu, known as MaNdlo other whose surnames are Chikango, Nkomo, Chuchu.

Despite knowing their track record, they have stooped even lower than we
imagined by poisoning us which is chemical warfare and by fabricating a
document.

However, their words ring true in the words they wrote - "People of Zimbabwe
we have been oppressed for a long time because we did not know about our
right and international obligations. We have lost ubuntu. Dignity and
respect because of the type of leadership we have.
They are corrupt. They are stealing from people to make themselves rich. ..
We are tired of President Mugabe and he must go by all means. He is full of
abuse of power with his ministers. He has no respect of law. (His own laws
and International Laws).

They go on to confirm their deepest desires by saying, "Everyone wants him
out. Let's all rise and remove him now. When the date is fixed you will be
told. We will do it. Others have done it in Libya, Sudan, Tunisia and
Egypt."

WOZA members stand firmly behind their founder and national coordinator
Jenni Williams and 'praise the lord' for saving her from these fabricated
charges. Williams and WOZA members are committed to a nonviolent struggle
and do not believe that bullets can deliver dignity and true independence
for all Zimbabweans to enjoy equally. We think that if anyone should be
facing Treason charges it is the police officers named above who wrote the
'main agenda' document. But as mothers of the nation and through mothers'
eyes we understand that they are finally speaking the truth - we send them
our love and say keep speaking out. We will expect their active support when
Zimbabweans do what they have suggested in their Zimbabwe Republic Police
'main agenda'.

Supporting documents are available on the website www.wozazimbabwe.org

 


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No bail judgement for 20 in Glen View case

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By Tererai Karimakwenda
24 June, 2011

The group of 20 MDC-T members, facing trumped up charges in the murder case
of a Glen View policeman, will remain in police custody another weekend
after a High Court judge issued no judgment on bail Friday.

Last week High Court Judge Tendai Uchena reserved judgment on their bail
application, saying he needed more time to go through the arguments. Defence
lawyer Charles Kwaramba told SW Radio Africa on Friday that he has checked
with the court everyday since and there has been no communication from the
judge.

“A bail application by anyone, whether it’s MDC or ZANU PF or whoever,
should be treated on an urgent basis because it deals with the freedom of
people,” Kwaramba said, adding that he was “not happy”.

The 20 activists were arrested in the aftermath of a violent brawl that
killed policeman Petros Mutedza last month. The police claim he was murdered
by MDC-T members who held a meeting at the local pub, a charge denied by the
party. The police then descended on Glen View and randomly arrested a total
of 24 MDC-T members.

This week lawyer Kwaramba insisted there is proof that 19 out of the
remaining 20 accused were nowhere near the scene of the incident. Their
families are being allowed access to bring in food and clothing, and those
in need of medical assistance are being treated once a week.

The mother of Cynthia Manjoro, a young woman among the arrested MDC-T
members, broke down when asked what she would like to say to Theresa Makone
and Kembo Mohadi, the two co-Home Affairs Ministers. Speaking on SW Radio
Africa’s Question Time program she simply said: “I want my daughter home.”
Mai Manjoro insisted Cynthia was not in Glen View when the violence broke
out. She is also asthmatic and has a young daughter that needs to be cared
for.

Senior police officials have reportedly admitted to the family that they
know Cynthia is innocent. It is believed her detention is being used as bait
in a police search for her boyfriend.

In another case of false arrest, Washington Tirivangani, an MDC-T councilor
from Makonde district in Mashonaland West, is still detained without charge
one week after being picked up. Tirivangani was distributing copies of MDC-T
newsletters at Chipfuwamiti Business Centre when police detained him last
Friday.

The councilor is detained at Chemagamba Police Station in Chinhoyi and was
due to appear in court on Thursday to hear the charges against him. We were
unable to contact the MDC-T for an update on his case.

Meanwhile the whereabouts of Tendai Chinyama, the MDC-T organising secretary
for Kambuzuma district, remain unknown after he was abducted by three armed
men on Wednesday afternoon. Chinyama was abducted at the Harare City Council
Bishop Gaul Depot, and driven away in a Mitsubishi L200 cream twin-cab. On
Friday the MDC-T said he had still not been found.

The number of MDC-T officials and members in police detention has continued
to rise, along with reports of abductions and harassment, at the hands of
ZANU PF thugs and politicized security agents.

The continued abuses by ZANU PF are a slap in the face of regional leaders
who have called on the political parties to abide by the peaceful spirit of
the GPA. And the MDC-T has also been criticized for continuing to conduct
business as usual, while its officials and members are under siege.


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Army under fire 

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By Thelma Chikwanha, Staff Writer
Friday, 24 June 2011 13:39

HARARE - Outraged Zimbabweans said yesterday that controversial army general
Douglas Nyikayaramba’s consistently discordant utterances served to confirm
that the country was now effectively run by a military junta.

Nyikayaramba, whose latest anti-democratic vitriol included describing Prime
Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as “a national security threat”, confirmed what
Sadc, civil society, the international community, the MDCs and Tsvangirai
himself  have said over the past few months – that the military, and not
President Robert Mugabe, was in charge of the country.

Nyikayaramba, who was booted out of Copac this week, was quoted in  state
media yesterday saying that the country’s partisan securocrats, the real
power behind Mugabe and Zanu PF, would leave no stone unturned to ensure
that Zimbabwe’s frail octogenarian leader remained in power.

The Daily News’s switchboard was inundated with calls from Zimbabweans from
all walks of life yesterday who were shocked by Nyikayaramba’s utterances,
with many of the callers saying the “treasonous” remarks were an attempt to
subvert the will of the people in the event that Mugabe lost another Army
comes under fire for political meddling election as happened in March 2008.

Then, Mugabe, backed by the military, refused to hand over power to his
conqueror after being trounced by Tsvangirai in polls in which Nyikayaramba
was a senior electoral official. After a month of holding on to results, the
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced that Tsvangirai had won but
did not garner enough votes to take over presidency.

In his belligerent utterances yesterday, Nyikayaramba said security forces
would not serve under Tsvangirai, describing the MDC leader as a threat to
national security because he was allegedly a stooge of the West.

“We will die for him (Mugabe) to make sure he remains in power. We are
prepared to stand by our commander-in-chief. Soldiers are not going to sit
back and watch while foreign forces want to attack us,” Nyikayaramba said.

People who spoke to the Daily News last night said it was clear that if the
wishes of the military were to prevail that there would not be any need for
elections in the country as the military had once again “declared the
 winner”.

Leader of the smaller faction of the MDC, Welshman Ncube said Nyikayaramba’s
utterances were a clear sign that there was no democracy in the country.

“It’s a mockery of democracy. This is exactly what Ian Smith was saying that
black people could only vote if they were educated enough to know that they
must vote for a white man. People should be given the right to vote for
candidates of their choice even if it is the wrong choice. That is
democracy,” he said.

He said that the military had a constitutional responsibility to serve
government and their loyalty should lie with Zimbabwe and not with certain
political parties — adding that the problem was that the country did not
have a professional military.

“We have a military which is a military wing of a political party. Inviting
the army to a political contestation will not help us,” Ncube said.

Ncube went on to say Nyikayaramba’s utterances showed that the military was
now so desperate that they were going directly to the media to air their
concerns.

“The military itself no longer trusts Zanu PF anymore. Issues like the
roadmap on security sector reforms should no longer be dealt with by Zanu PF
but by the securocrats themselves. They should come back to us and say these
are our fears,” Ncube said.

South Africa-based analyst Shepherd Mntungwa said: “While Nyikayaramba’s
latest utterances are shocking by any standard, they are also entirely
predictable as service chiefs have been calling the shots in Zimbabwe for
the past 10 years. These guys can’t stand democracy as they know that would
be it for Zanu PF, Mugabe and ultimately them too.

“There is now no doubt that Mugabe, who is plagued by illness, advanced age
and possibly dementia, is failing to control rogue elements within the top
echelons of the security forces”.

Zimbabwe’s service chiefs comprise Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General
Constantine Chiwenga, Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri,
Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant General Philip Sibanda,
Commissioner of Prisons Retired Major-General Paradzai Zimondi and Air Force
Commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri.

University of Zimbabwe political scientist John Makumbe said the statement
by Nyikayaramba was meant to cause alarm and despondency. He said the
general’s utterances confirmed what Tsvangirai had said to Sadc that the
country was no longer under civilian control.

“The utterances show that Mugabe is no longer in control and he has become a
puppet of the military. They are simply sending a message that Mugabe and
Zanu PF are finished and have to depend on soldiers to keep them in power,”
Makumbe said.

He dismissed the statement that Tsvangirai was a threat to national security
as utter rubbish because the MDC leader had been a victim of state-sponsored
violence on many occasions.

“How can Tsvangirai be a threat to national security when he has been
threatened and beaten up. He has never threatened to overthrow the
government of Zimbabwe. The only national security threat we witnessed was
in 2008 where soldiers and CIO agents went about beating up innocent people,
forcing them to vote for Mugabe,” Makumbe said.
However, Makumbe added, top security officials were unpopular among junior
officers to the extent that they would never get support on these kinds of
matters.

“They (top military brass) are only a handful of them. The rest of the army
is not against the MDC. They will not win a war against the people of the
country, Sadc, AU and the international community,” he said.
He added that if such utterances had come from someone other than the army
general, it would have been treated as treason.

Another political analyst Eldred Masunungure said Nyikayaramba’s utterances
were not new but were the latest instalment of what was first said by
security chiefs in 2002.

He said that the only difference this time around was that it was being said
more forcefully, a measure of the desperation in those circles.

“Unfortunately, when the Brigadier said Tsvangirai was a threat, he made a
political statement. It’s important to stress that this school of thought
backdates to the armed struggle. What we are seeing is a reincarnation of
the relationship between the military and politics. We are talking about a
political military organisation whose model was taken from the Chinese,”
Masunungure said.

He said the message was that Zanu PF and security forces were inseparable.

“The Brigadier should have been questioned whether the next elections will
exclude presidential elections because it is (by his logic) a preserve of
the incumbent forever.

“And this roadmap, is it only for local government or parliamentary
elections?” Masunungure questioned.

A war veteran who preferred anonymity said he had been disgusted by the
general’s utterances, adding that the remarks were so “primitive and a
mockery of the struggle for independence”.

He said some elements within the military were desperate to remain in
control to continue looting and needed to realise that no amount of
intimidation and coercion could stop the people’s will — as had been
demonstrated during white minority rule.

“The utterances by this poor fellow have exposed how bankrupt and desperate
some of our leaders in Zanu PF have become. This is not what we fought for,”
he said.

Besides benefitting from violent programmes such as the ongoing land grabs,
service chiefs also enjoy many executive perks — such as top-of-the-range
vehicles as well as huge allowances running into thousands of dollars —
while the rank and file of the security forces earn an average of $150 per
month.

Many service chiefs have also ventured into dealing in gold and diamonds.

Responding to the claims by Nyikayaramba, the main MDC formation said the
only threat to national security was the general and those who had chosen
him as their spokesperson.

In a statement released last night, the party which has been at the
receiving end of state-sponsored violence since its formation over a decade
ago, said it was convinced that the Brigadier spoke for himself and a few
rogue elements and not the majority in the security sector.

“Zimbabweans no doubt remember that the same state apparatus arrested,
unlawfully detained and subjected President Tsvangirai to an embarrassingly
poorly stage-managed treason trial in 2003.

“It is these same people that initiated an orgy of violence that forced
President Tsvangirai out of the Presidential election run-off in 2008 to
avert further bloodshed. Yet Nyikayaramba has the audacity of labelling our
President a national security threat!” the MDC-T said.

In an interview with the Daily News, MDC secretary for defence Giles
Mutsekwa said his party enjoyed the support of many army and police
officers.

“During my time as the Home Affairs Minister, I toured the country’s police
stations and camps which gave me the impression that the junior police
officers do support us and believe in democracy. They openly told me that
they wanted to see the top service chiefs retiring as they no longer had
confidence in them,” Mutsekwa said.

As expected, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said Nyikayaramba’s
statements were his personal views.


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US ambassador decries military's stranglehold on Zim

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RAY NDLOVU Jun 24 2011 09:42

United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray -- loathed by President
Robert Mugabe and his party as an agent of imperialism -- has expressed deep
concerns about reports that the Zimbabwe military could seize power after
the death of the octogenarian.

"The army generals are entitled to their own political views, just like
everyone else, but once they start dabbling in politics it becomes a recipe
for disorder. Their role is to defend a nation and not a political party. If
anyone wants to become a politician, the honorable thing to do is to take
off their uniform and become a politician."

Ray was reacting to a report earlier this month in the weekly Independent
newspaper that army commander Constantine Chiwenga was likely to succeed
Mugabe because infighting between Zanu-PF's factions had fuelled the party's
instability and could lead to the military's top brass usurping power.

The Mail & Guardian spoke to the ambassador at the large Bulawayo Club
building, seen as the last bastion of the city's white elite, after he had
addressed about 200 youths at the Young Leader's Forum.

The youths evidently did not share Zanu-PF's antagonism towards the
ambassador; many scurried for quick photo shoots with him and warm
handshakes were exchanged.

The 66-year-old Ray, a former major in the US Army, voiced concern over
recent media reports that pointed out the military's deep involvement in the
country's political system, which had led to the stonewalling of democratic
reforms.

A recent report by the Crisis Coalition of Zimbabwe, titled "The Military
Factor in Zimbabwe's Political and Electoral Affairs", highlighted the
military's complex political dealings in Zimbabwe, including its control of
key economic resources and parastatals.

Ray pointed out that this involvement further complicated Zimbabwe's
protracted political ­crisis and made it more ­difficult to bring to an end.

"I don't think simply removing an individual -- Mugabe -- is going to change
and solve all the country's problems. Building a country is not just one
man's job," he said. "There is a diverse relationship of different
sectors -- the army, business community and private sector must all be
considered too."

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Asked whether he foresaw the possibility of North African-style democracy
protests led by youths weary of Zimbabwe's continued political stalemate,
Ray said it "could not be ruled out".

"The Arab Spring is an indicator to governments of what can happen when they
lose contact with their people and ignore the discontent coming from the
young. Having been among Zimbabwe's youth, I have sensed a disconnect with
the government.

"The youth here are bright, energetic and have a broad world view. They also
share concerns with the youth in North Africa, such as unemployment. There
is definitely a risk of some form of discontent should youths continue to be
marginalised."

The United Nations estimates that 90% of Zimbabweans are formally
unemployed, with hundreds of thousands crossing into neighbouring Botswana
and South Africa in search of jobs.

Ray also commented on the increasingly tough stance on political violence in
Zimbabwe that has been taken by the Southern African Development Community.

"SADC is now taking a stand for a credible process rather than against an
individual. They have set out the parameters for such a process and now all
the parties in Zimbabwe must play by the rules. The election road map that
SADC is drawing will ensure that the people's vote is respected."

At a troika summit in Livingstone, Zambia, in March, SADC leaders called for
an end to violence and Zanu-PF-led crackdowns on members of opposition
parties.


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Zimbabwe teachers ignore call for wage strike

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Despite calls for a strike this week by the Progressive Teachers’ Union of
Zimbabwe, to force the government to award a 150% salary increase to public
servants, many teachers yesterday went to work — exposing the deep divisions
among unions.
RAY NDLOVU
Published: 2011/06/24 08:34:09 AM

BULAWAYO — Despite calls for a strike this week by the Progressive Teachers’
Union of Zimbabwe, to force the government to award a 150% salary increase
to public servants, many teachers yesterday went to work — exposing the deep
divisions among unions.

Rival Zimbabwe Teachers’ Union (Zimta) has opted to give salary negotiations
with the government a chance. "Zimta is opposed to the use of industrial
action as a resolution mechanism to the salary campaign," its CEO, Sifiso
Ndlovu, said yesterday.

Zimbabwe’s teachers and public service workers are demanding monthly
salaries of $500, on a par with the poverty datum line, although it is
likely the lowest-paid worker would earn $250 and the highest $400, up from
$150.

Teachers went on strike in January but their demands were rejected by
Finance Minister Tendai Biti, who said Zimbabwe could not sustain salary
rises.

A pledge was then made by the government to review the salaries of public
servants this month.

But the April increases in the salaries and allowances of cabinet ministers
and members of parliament by as much as 200%, ahead of the slated review,
have stoked fresh tension among public servants. Cabinet ministers now earn
at least $2000 a month and the treasury recently secured 140 new luxury
vehicles for them.

The issue has provided fresh fodder for politicking in the unity government.
President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu (PF) party have cashed in on the row
and accused the Movement for Democratic Change’s Mr Biti of personally
blocking salary hikes.

Mr Biti replied: "The problem is this issue has been politicised, but the
truth is I don’t have the money to increase the salaries. The economy is
just not performing well."

An International Monetary Fund delegation in Harare last week said the
country could not afford salary increases as it was weighed down by a
bloated wage bill full of ghost workers .


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Working for Chinese is 'hell on earth'

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JASON MOYO HARARE, ZIMBABWE - Jun 24 2011 10:03

On the northern verges of Harare the ­massive new military ­college is
taking shape, a monument to China's tightening hold on Zimbabwe.

The complex is also a symbol of growing hostility from Zimbabwe's labour
force towards Chinese employers. It is being built using a controversial
Chinese loan and its workers have gone on strike to protest against beatings
by their bosses and low pay.

Zimbabwe will receive $98-­million for the college's construction, which is
being undertaken by a Chinese contractor. The loan will be repaid over 20
years through earnings from the controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields that
are being mined by Anjin Investments, another Chinese firm.

The college is a sprawling, heavily guarded complex with high security walls
that run for a kilometre through what used to be farmland. Two weeks ago
workers at the site went on strike, alleging that the Chinese managers of
Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Company were guilty of assaulting them
and demanding an increase on their $4 daily wage.

Chinese businessmen are targeting Zimbabwe's minerals, but many more are
arriving to run businesses in the construction, manufacturing and retail
sectors. In Harare, Chinese restaurants are all the rage, packing in
customers drawn to their exotic health foods and herbal teas.

China Garden, a suburban Chinese restaurant with brightly coloured golden
dragons at the entrance, is hugely popular with the middle classes and
diplomats.

But last month cook Patrick Makaza quit his job at the restaurant, saying he
had been beaten by his bosses. "Working for these men from the East is hell
on earth," he told the independent daily newspaper NewsDay. "Most of us are
suffering in silence, but I have decided I can only go so far and will go no
further."

The restaurant has declined to comment.

The hostility of local workers and traders -- even among Zanu-PF
supporters -- is mounting as the number of Chinese businessmen in the
country grows. In Chiadzwa, the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions, a
Zanu-PF ally, has taken Anjin investments to court to recover allowances it
said are owed to workers.

David Chapfika, a Zanu-PF member who heads the government board responsible
for implementing controversial empowerment laws, has also complained about
Chinese nationals' involvement in small businesses.

"I know the Chinese are our friends, but I'm sorry to say that when we talk
of the indigenisation programme we can't ignore the fact that they have
ventured into business activities that can easily be done by locals."

The trade unions are pushing for action. The Zimbabwe Construction and
Allied Trade Workers' Union, for example, has petitioned the labour ministry
to end the abuses. "Workers continue to endure various forms of physical
torture at the hands of these Chinese employers right under the noses of the
authorities," a union spokesperson said.

"One of the most disturbing developments is that most of the Chinese
employers openly boast that they have government protection and so nothing
can be done to them. This clearly indicates that the issue has more serious
political connotations than we can imagine."

National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary Cotten Ndlovu told the
Mail & Guardian that workers at Chinese mines were often forced to work long
hours for low pay and with inadequate protective clothing.

"We have been to Chinese-owned mines in the Midlands province. The
conditions we found there are unimaginable. The safety of workers is at
stake and this is a great concern to us," Ndlovu said.

He added that the union had often been denied entry to the premises of
Chinese mines.

The authorities appear willing to turn a blind eye -- in part, to protect
their economic interests. Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has said
Zimbabwe cannot afford to ignore the Asian economic powerhouse.

Yet the Chinese themselves seem increasingly concerned. Last week, the
Chinese Communist Party sent a delegation led by the chair of the party's
overseas Chinese affairs committee, Yu Linxiang, to investigate how Chinese
nationals are relating to locals.

"Our delegation came to Zimbabwe to meet the Chinese people in Zimbabwe and
particularly [to] learn how they live and how they deal with the Zimbabwean
people," Yu said after meeting MPs.

Festus Dumbu, a Movement for Democratic Change MP who opposed the loan for
the military college in Parliament, said abuses were being ignored to
appease China. "Have the Chinese become immune to the Zimbabwe law to the
extent that we have never had any Chinese who have been arrested for assault
or abuse of workers?" he said.

Trade between the two countries stood at $550-million last year, according
to the Chinese consulate. Reports suggest China plans up to $10-billion in
investments over the next five years, more than the amounts pledged by any
other state.


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Sibanda intimidation campaign backfires in Masvingo

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By Lance Guma
24 June 2011

For nearly a year notorious war vets leader Jabulani Sibanda has been camped
in the Masvingo province, rounding up and terrorizing civil servants,
traditional leaders and villagers. His endless rallies and meetings
disguised as history lessons, had one clear message, vote for ZANU PF or
face violent retribution.

But his campaign dubbed, “Operation Kubudirana Pachena," has backfired
spectacularly, with Sibanda only succeeding in making ZANU PF even more
unpopular. People from all walks of life in the province have been unanimous
in condemning his activities. So worried are ZANU PF by this negative
reaction, the Masvingo Province of the party resolved to expel him from the
area.

Confirmation of this came from the state media of all places. They quoted
the provincial executive as saying Sibanda was now “dabbling in political
activities that were now compromising the party.” ZANU PF provincial
chairman Lovemore Matuke, is quoted saying the party's provincial
co-coordinating committee had passed a resolution ordering the war vets
leader stop his campaigns.

Matuke is adamant Sibanda has over-stayed his welcome in the province and
suggested he should “stop all his activities and go to other provinces.” He
went on to say; "We felt that he had overstayed in Masvingo judging by what
he was doing and considering that he was in Masvingo since October last year
and wanted to be here until August this year, it means that he wanted to
spend a year here and ZANU PF has ten political provinces so it means that
for him to cover all the other provinces he would need ten years, so we felt
that it will be better if he goes to other provinces.”

A defiant Sibanda meanwhile is reported to have told the state owned Herald
newspaper; “I have not been aware of that and am still not aware. Anyway who
is Matuke? Who is he?” In another report Sibanda has vowed that he will not
be removed by resolutions being passed by his perceived enemies.

"Leaving Masvingo, going where? Unless they kill me and put me in a coffin,
I will not leave this beautiful province," he is reported as saying.

Meantime Sibanda has instructed chiefs in the province to compile a list of
all MDC-T supporters in Masvingo. He has issued threats that ZANU PF will
deal with them at the appropriate time.


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Bulawayo death row inmates denied appeals since 2005

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24/06/2011 00:00:00
    by Staff Reporter

AS MANY as 20 Bulawayo death row prisoners have been unable to benefit from
their automatic right to appeal since 2005 – because the courts have a
shortage of transcribers.

Transcribers record all court proceedings in written form to be used as
references by judges and lawyers. Without a record of proceedings, lawyers
cannot mount appeals.
Charles Nyatanga, the registrar of the High Court, described the development
as a “crisis” on Friday.

“At some stage, I had to request that the records be brought to Harare so
that they are transcribed before being sent back to Bulawayo for
 processing,” Nyatanga said, speaking by telephone from Harare.
“In some instances, we have to rely on transcribers attached to the
magistrates’ courts.”

The Deputy Registrar of the High Court in Bulawayo, Njabulo Mabuya, said no
Supreme Court appeals by death row inmates had been heard since 2005.
The Supreme Court comes to Bulawayo thrice a year and also deals with cases
from the Gweru and Hwange Circuit Courts.

Transcribers are a special category of judicial officers who transcribe
court records from tapes. Usually, they require legal knowledge and a high
degree of command of the English language.

Mabuya said: “I personally took 13 records to Harare on June 8 this year,
where they were transcribed. I brought them back so that the lawyers could
inspect the records and satisfy themselves that they are a true reflection
of what transpired during the trials.

“After being bound and certified by the lawyers, the records will be sent
back to Harare so that they can be allocated dates for hearings. It’s a
time-consuming process.”

Mabuya said the Justice Ministry had promised to recruit new transcribers,
but for the time being almost two dozen prisoners sentenced to death
continue to be denied a chance to prove their innocence.

Zimbabwe’s court system has been creaking, along with most government
departments, over the last decade after a staff exodus due to an
unprecedented economic crisis which, however, appears at an end following
the formation of a power sharing government in February 2009.


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Reduction of internet costs imminent

http://www.dailynews.co.zw

By Roadwin Chirara, Business Writer
Friday, 24 June 2011 18:11

HARARE - Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ministry is set to
review the cost model of local data provision following the recent
connection of the country to the Seacom cable through Mozambique.

“Very soon internet users are going to see a significant reduction in cost
of using the internet as cost of traffic have also been reduced after
linking with the cable,” ICT minister Nelson Chamisa said.

Chamisa said Zimbabwe had struck a deal with Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique
(TDM) of Maputo to link the country to the 13 700 kilometre long cable
running along Africa's east coast.

As part of the deal, the Mozambique telecoms parastatal will allow Zimbabwe
to use the fibre optic network to move its data through to the cable.

“All the work was finished early this year. What we have not done is the
commissioning but traffic is already passing through that route,” Chamisa
said.

He said the project had cost the government $6, 3 million.

“The project was fully funded by the government as it aims to create a
national backbone and we intend to have the whole country wired by 2015,”the
ICT minister said.

Seacom chief executive Brian Herlihy said the agreement with TDM will also
allow other landlocked countries to benefit while also giving the company
another route to link with South Africa and landlocked Malawi.

"This agreement with TDM demonstrates our commitment to partner with
established players to improve the range of service to customers whilst
continuously expanding the reach of Seacom's low-cost services into
land-locked countries across the region," Brian Herlihy said.

In March this year, PowerTel became the first local telecoms operator to
connect to high speed submarine optic fibre cable through Botswana
Telecommunications Corporation (BTC).

The agreement allows PowerTel to get a direct international undersea
connectivity.

Econet Wireless in partnership with Liquid Telecommunications (Liquid)
Holdings Limited this year also announced its completion of an international
fibre extension, linking its network with the Seacom cable system landing in
South Africa.

Liquid a 49 percent shareholder in Ecoweb provided a more than US$70 million
loan facility part of which was used in the countrywide fibre optic network
installation.

Local data providers are currently charging an average price of $0,15 per
mega bite with surge in users following the launch of mobile broadband.

New undersea cables along both sides of the continent have expanded the
capacity of Africa's fibre optic cable connections almost 300-fold since
2009, when the continent relied mainly on slow satellite connections


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An open letter to Gideon Gono

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Ben Trovato | 19 June, 2011 03:46

DEAR GIDEON,

With the top job at the International Monetary Fund up for grabs - thanks to
the quintessentially Gallic behaviour of Dominique
Strauss-Kahn't-take-no-for-an-answer - I hope you have applied for the
position. I can't think of a better candidate.

Did you know your name means "Destroyer" in Hebrew? Your mother must have
been a visionary, because you have done a magnificent job of destroying
Zimbabwe's economy. Please don't take this as criticism. African economies
function much like fynbos - every few years they have to be razed to the
ground so they may flourish anew.

Your name will go down in history as the man who, in the space of a few
weeks, turned every Zimbabwean into a billionaire. You should have been
hailed as a hero. Instead, people blamed you for everything from food and
fuel shortages to covertly debriefing President Mugabe's enchanting wife,
Grace. Hell, who cares what they think! Let them eat snake. The important
thing is that you weren't shoved up against a wall and shot 13 times in the
head. A very forgiving man, that Mr Mugabe.

When your critics ask you about hyperinflation, tell them it is no more
serious than hypertension. Give them some aspirin and tell them to get lots
of rest. Preferably in a homeless shelter in Joburg.

There's one thing I need to say, though. I think you should bring the Zim
dollar back. What's the point of being governor of the Reserve Bank if
anyone can wander across your border with a bag of Israeli shekels or a
pocketful of Polish zlotys and buy whatever they like? A country without its
own currency is like a Porsche without petrol. It might look good standing
there, but it's not going to get very far.

God-forsaken hellholes like Guam and Kiribati don't have their own currency.
Do you want to be known as the Guam of Africa?

I hear you want to introduce something called a "gold-backed Zimbabwe
dollar". To be honest, I'm not sure it would work. A friend of mine from
Harare, Somnolent Molokele, said he thought the temptation to scrape off the
gold and throw the note away would be too much for most people. Nice idea,
though. Just a bit impractical for a country like yours.

A last word of advice: stop ending your policy statements to parliament with
the words, "In the Lord's hands, I entrust this monetary policy framework
for our economic turnaround." Your country's recent history suggests that
either God doesn't have much of a head for figures or he's on sabbatical.

For now, though, you're doing a splendid job of propping up President
Mugabe. At 107 years old, he needs all the propping up he can get. Without
your help, the country would fall into the hands of the MDC and, before you
know it, everyone would be singing God Save the Queen and whacking off to
pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge.

The IMF job really should be yours. Instead of lending money to developing
countries through the usual bullying, bribery and blackmail, you could
simply give them rolls of paper and cheap printing presses, and tell them to
make as much money as they damned well pleased. That's the solution to world
poverty.

Bugger! I've just heard that a woman by the name of Christine Lagarde has
her beady eyes on the post. Sacré bleu! Can you believe they would give the
job to another French person?

I have an idea. Former Zimbabwean central intelligence agent Phillip "Kim"
Machemedze is living it up in London after being granted asylum. As you
know, Phillip was among your fearless leader's favourite torturers, and I'm
sure he still has his tools with him. Send him across to Paris for a quiet
word with Christine. Once she is able to talk again, it's my bet she will
step down.

Good luck, or, as they say in your country, God help us all.

Ben Trovato


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SPT-Zimbabwe Update No.3. June 2011: Beyond Livingstone

 
 
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SPT-Zimbabwe Update No.3. June 2011: Beyond Livingstone
24 June 2011

By Brian Raftopoulos - Director of Research and Advocacy, Solidarity Peace Trust

SPT - Zimbabwe UpdateThe excitement over the resolutions of the SADC Troika meeting in Livingstone, Zambia, at the end of March 2011, was largely focused on the stronger stance taken by the organ over the abuses of the Mugabe regime, and more particularly the continued obstacles placed by the latter over the implementation of the GPA. In effect however, the Livingstone resolutions brought into effect the major strength of the SADC mediation, which has been to lock the Mugabe regime into structures of accountability. Whatever the weaknesses of the GPA, and there are many, it has forced Zanu PF into closer accountability for its behavior at different levels including cabinet, parliament, JOMIC, the constitutional reform process, SADC, the AU and its relations with the West.

For authoritarian parties like Zanu PF, all these forms of having to answer to various fora are anathema, as they provide varying means of eroding the monopoly of power that the regime has become completely accustomed to. The accumulation of small reforms and the slow dispersal of power provide a major challenge for such structures of authoritarian power, as they provide the possibility of a cumulative momentum of dissent that can be very difficult to control. When combined to the major challenge of the succession problem in Zanu PF, now an very urgent issue in the light of Mugabe's waning health, these factors have pushed Zanu PF into emergency election mode.

The challenge for Zanu PF since the signing of the GPA, and more urgently following the Livingstone meeting, has been to decide on what strategies to deploy in the next election campaign. The party's recidivist impulse to return to violence is clearly very strong, particularly given the increasing control of the party and the state by the securocrats. Moreover the reports of various human rights organization have shown growing evidence of the low level, pre-election intimidation emerging in the country designed to pre-empt any forms of opposition activity in the public sphere, with the specter of North Africa clearly haunting the calculations of the military-political elite. The Zanu PF election campaign message has concentrated on the dual issue of the indigenization and anti-sanctions campaign, with the connection being that both are designed, in the party's view, to confront the continuing threats to national sovereignty.

However whereas in the period between 2000-2008 the message around the land had some purchase both in the country and the region, the recent attempt to reload the message in a different form, has proved much more hollow both nationally and regionally. The stern rebuke of SADC at the Livingstone meeting placed the issue of Zanu PF violence and coercion at the forefront of its resolutions. Moreover the resolution to appoint a team of officials to work with JOMIC to ensure the monitoring, evaluation and implementation of the GPA, was a direct challenge to the Mugabe regime's persistent rhetoric on national sovereignty.

The frantic, angry and strategically stupid attacks by Zanu PF spokespersons to the Livingstone position, SADC, and the South African President, indicates the very real threat that the SADC position holds for Mugabe's party. The once taken- for- granted regional solidarity against the West is no longer so easily available, and at a stroke a key part of the Zanu PF strategy over the last decade has been placed under threat. The vehement lobbying by Zanu PF representatives ahead of the full SADC summit in Sandton on the 11-12 June was another indication of the panic that the recent SADC position has caused in Zanu PF.

Moreover the resolutions of the Sandton meeting, notwithstanding the claims of the state media in Zimbabwe, largely confirmed the resolutions of the Livingstone summit, even if the language of the communiqué was calibrated in more moderate terms. More particularly the SADC summit in South Africa confirmed the Livingstone resolutions through the facilitator's situation report, confirmation of the decision to appoint SADC representatives to join the JOMIC team, and through its commitment to the election roadmap. Both the Livingstone and Sandton meetings thus confirmed the central purpose of the mediation and the GPA, namely the establishment of conditions for generally acceptable elections in order to settle the central problem of state legitimacy in Zimbabwe.

Notwithstanding the continuities in the objectives of the mediation from the Mbeki to the Zuma administrations, the one major difference between the two, as South African analyst Siphamandla Zondi has noted, has been that while Mbeki's emphasis was placed on building consensus amongst the primary actors in Zimbabwe, Zuma has complemented this by his concentration on building a stronger regional consensus against the obstructive behavior of the Mugabe regime. In particular Zuma has developed closer relations with the Angolan president who always felt slighted and marginalized by former President Mbeki. Zuma's strategy was also determined by Zanu PF's attempts to undermine the ANC in the region in order to ensure the solidarity of the region. There has now been a shift in this regional balance that has also been affected by the more effective lobbying in SADC by both MDCs, and the greater respect they have earned in the region since 2008.

The fact that the West was largely marginalized in the SADC mediation, also allowed Zuma to build a more effective African consensus to take a stronger stand against the abuses of Zanu PF. This factor is one of the key differences with the current situation in North Africa, the Middle East and particularly Libya, where Western intervention, both diplomatic and military, has clouded the issues much more for the opposition. Western intervention in the Middle East is of course dictated by the major issue of oil reserves, its strategic military positions in the region, and the position of Israel, all of which dwarf the West's interests in democratization in this part of the world. The Mugabe message peddlers have not been slow to point out the duplicity of the West on the democratic agenda, but Zanu PF's depravity on this issue has removed the sting from any critique it once offered in this area. Progressive anti-imperialism abroad cannot long outlast vicious repressive practices at home.

SADC and the democratic forces in Zimbabwe must now move to ensure a broad consensus with the West in implementing all key aspects of the GPA, with the regional body leading the construction of such a consensus. Zanu PF must be left with little doubt that any further attempts to forestall the GPA through violence and repression, will be met with a more unified condemnation that will leave little room for continued unilateral actions. Such pressure may also lead to more realistic political discussions between the parties that will deal not only with elections processes but the possibility of transfer of power, in which area both the mediation and the GPA has been very weak. Thus the role of the security sector has to be dealt with by SADC, even if it is unrealistic to expect major security sector reform in the pre-election period. Such reforms are a long-term process, but at the minimum the role of the security sector in the elections process and pre-election violence, must be placed under close enough scrutiny to make it a non-viable election strategy for Zanu PF.

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Persecution of MDC Youth National leadership by the ZANU PF aligned police should stop- MDC USA Youth



THE MDC USA YOUTH ASSEMBLY continues to note the impertinent disregard and
abuse of the rule of law by the forces of darkness within what is supposed
to be a professional Zimbabwe Republic Police in dealing with MDC activists.
Today our entire MDC Youth leadership led by the patriotic Youth Chairman
Solomon Madzore is in hiding despite committing no crime. Their perceived
crime per ZANU PF controlled police modus operandi is that they belong to a
different political dispensation. This is a clear violation of their human
rights and MDC USA Youth demand that the persecution of the MDC National
Youth Leadership and any other innocent Zimbabwean should stop.

While our comrades continue to be hounded, jailed and tortured, we have no
record in recent memory of any Zanu PF activists who have been arrested for
their gross acts of violence against our members, let alone tried and
convicted. Yet evidence is abounds of continued repression of innocent MDC
members 2years after the formation of the inclusive government. Eleven years
after the brutal murder of Talent Mabika and Tichaona Chiminya, CIO agent
Joseph Mwale continues to walk the streets scot free. Hundreds more of Zanu
PF militia who maimed and killed during the 2008 discredited one-man
election runoff continue to strike fear and terrorize our people in the
rural areas.

We also note with disgust the insolence displayed by Brigadier General
Nyikayaramba, whose statements show deliberate attempts by the service
chiefs to subvert the will of the people enshrined in the constitution to
elect the leadership of their choice. It is interesting to note that even
before the election roadmap has been implemented, the self appointed
spokesperson for the security forces is already declaring that “they [army]
will do all in their power to keep President Mugabe in power”. This is a
slap in the face of political chameleon Jonathan Moyo and those Zanu PF
propagandists who shouted and made noise pre Sandton Summit that there was
no need for security sector reform. What is clear from Nyikayaramba’s
statements is that if the status quo is not changed, the security sector,
and not Zimbabweans, has the final say on who will lead the country. This is
June 2008 déjà vu-the only difference being that this time they have come
out in the open and told us beforehand.

The continued harassment, intimidation, wanton arrests, and torture of MDC
leaders and members of the civic society over trumped up charges is
precisely why SADC should be part of the GPA’s Joint Monitoring and
Implementation Committee [JOMIC]. SADC should help put a stop to all these
human rights violations. All the well documented violations by the police
force and the army form the basis why MDC is calling for security sector
reform and depoliticizing of the police and army before national elections
can be held. MDC USA Youth reiterates that demand- ‘THERE SHOULD BE NO
NATIONAL ELECTIONS UNTIL THE LIKES OF BRIGADIER NYIKAYARAMBA ARE PUT BACK IN
THE BARRACKS WHERE THEY BELONG’.

MDC USA Youth also demands that nothing but a full implementation of the
electoral roadmap and new constitution will reign in this madness and the
stupidity that is reigning supreme in our armed forces leadership. We
continue to add our voice to calls for security sector reform and ask SADC
and the facilitator to take serious note of these statements, actions and
continued repression that seeks to deny us the chance to express ourselves
through the ballot.
Together, united, winning, voting for real change!!
MDC USA Youth Assembly
www.mdc-usa.org


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A letter from the diaspora



Friday June 24th 2011-06-24

There must be something about Zanu PF membership that softens the brain;
that’s the conclusion I’ve reached after a week of nonsensical statements
from Zanu PF loyalists. Speaking about the fact that his ‘perfect’ electoral
roll shows 41.119 registered centenarians Tobiwa Mudede reacted to criticism
by asking, “You don’t want these people to attain 100 years. You don’t want
them to be alive?” There was no sensible attempt to answer the criticism or
explain how in a country where life expectancy is under 40 years there could
possibly be that huge number of centenarians on the voters’ roll. Instead,
Mudede replies with the suggestion that anyone who questions his figures
must be some kind of monster who wishes all these supposed centenarians
dead.

Even the man at the helm of the former ruling party is not averse to making
statements that do not bare close logical analysis. Robert Mugabe is hailed
as a great intellect and a man who claims to have several university degrees
but that does not stop him making outrageous claims on the part of Zanu PF.
Speaking on arrival in Malaysia on his latest trip to the Far East, Mugabe
said he could prove that his ‘land reform’ had been a success by the
increase in food production on the invaded farms. I was in Zimbabwe just
four months ago and the one thing that struck me when I went into the local
supermarket was the overwhelming predominance of South African goods. Basic
food stuffs which had once all been produced in Zimbabwe are now imported
from South Africa. The truth is that Zimbabwe is no longer self-sufficient
in food; maize, sugar and flour are all imported, not to mention all the
other products that were once produced locally such as soap powder,
toothpaste and toilet paper. Even the chicken and eggs which are produced
locally are fed with imported feed. So how can the president claim that his
land reform has been such a success if Zimbabwe is importing just about
everything from South Africa? Loyalty to the former ruling party really does
seem to lower one’s capacity for logical thinking.

This week, SW Radio showed the video coverage of meetings held in rural
areas such as Mudzi and what struck me was the fact that there was very
little difference between the nonsense spoken by the so-called political
elite in the towns and the rubbish coming out of the mouths of Zanu
loyalists in the villages. When an MP, Edward Raradza, tells his rural
constituents, “Nothing can stop us doing what we want,” no one questions the
logic or even the legality of what he says. And in Mudzi the Zanu PF speaker
defends the party’s right to use violence on the grounds that Jesus used
violence in the Temple!

The top prize for nonsensical statements this week goes to Brigadier General
Nyikayaramba. Whether he speaks for himself alone or for the clique of
military chiefs who have vowed never to serve under Morgan Tsvangirai is not
clear but the Brigadier’s statements reveal a decided lack of common sense.
Responding to Morgan Tsvangirai’s challenge to the security chiefs to “take
off your uniforms” and join the political sphere, the Brigadier General
replies that the military and Zanu PF are inseparable and the Prime Minister
is a security threat because he takes orders from foreigners who seek to
effect illegal regime change. Nyikayaramba offers no evidence whatsoever for
this claim but says “ We will die for him (Mugabe) to make sure he remains
in power…the current situation requires the generals to remain in uniform”
he maintains. With the fabulous wealth of the diamonds on offer to the
military and political elite, one can’t help wondering if it’s greed rather
than political loyalty that’s really keeping the likes of Nyikayaramba on
the scene. Far from being the means of rescuing Zimbabwe from economic and
political collapse, the Chiadzwa diamonds have prolonged the country’s agony
and brought nothing but further suffering to the ordinary people. No amount
of Zanu PF nonsense can conceal that reality.

Yours in the (continuing) struggle PH

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