http://www.monstersandcritics.com
Nov 28, 2010, 13:30
GMT
Harare - For the first time, a Zimbabwean high court judge has been
challenged to admit that he occupies former white-owned land seized in
President Robert Mugabe's campaign to drive off white farmers, a lawyer
confirmed Sunday.
Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said that high court judge
Chinembiri Bhunu had been
asked to confirm if he had been allocated one or
more farms under Mugabe's
revolutionary land reform programme, and to supply
details of how long he
had been in occupation.
He had been also asked
to disclose if the former white owner had been
compensated, Mtetwa
said.
About 4,000 white farmers have been driven off their land since
Mugabe
launched the seizures in 2008, setting off the collapse of the
formerly
vigorous agricultural economy.
National law demands that
they be compensated, but farm union officials say
perhaps only 20 have
received any money.
Mtetwa is representing dispossessed white farmer Roy
Bennett, also a leading
member of pro-democracy Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai's party in the
country's strife-ridden coalition
government.
Bennett, constantly targeted by Mugabes security agents,
underwent a
harrowing six month trial on charges of terrorism which carry
the death
sentence with Bhunu as the judge.
Immediately before the
judge was due to pronounce his verdict in May,
Bennett was reported as
saying that he was certain he would be convicted
because Bhunu had been
given a farm and could not be expected to deliver an
independent
judgement.
Bhunu acquitted him, and is now suing Bennett for one million
US dollars for
defamation.
Farmer Bruce Campbell confirmed to the
German Press Agency dpa that Bhunu
had taken over his farm in the Marondera
district east of Harare, from which
he was forced in 2002.
Also this
weekend, the supreme court dismissed an appeal by the
predominantly-white
Commercial Farmers Union to impose a moratorium on land
seizures that are
continuing against the last estimated 300 white farmers.
The union had
argued that the government had long since achieved its aims of
providing
blacks with land, and that continued evictions amounted to racist
persecution.
Chief justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, deputy chief justice
Paddington Garwe and
justice Luke Malaba, all on the country's five-member
supreme court, have
been identified as having received substantial
white-owned properties.
They have continued to make rulings on challenges
to the constitutionality
of the seizures.
http://www.dailynews.co.zw
By Staff Reporter
Sunday, 28 November 2010
12:07
HARARE - South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday met
Zimbabwean
political leaders and read the riot act putting pressure on them
to
implement outstanding issues from the Global Political Agreement
(GPA).
As revealed by the Daily News last week, Zuma discussed the
road map for
elections in Zimbabwe in which he impressed upon President
Robert Mugabe,
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his deputy Arthur
Mutambara to ensure
free and fair elections.
Zuma is pushing for
credible elections in Zimbabwe next year and does not
want a repeat of the
2008 bloody elections which left at least 200 people
dead and was
discredited by the whole world including the Southern African
Development
Community (SADC) and the African Union.
The South African President, who
is the SADC appointed facilitator in the
country’s political crisis, also
managed to persuade Mugabe and Tsvangirai
to resume their Monday meetings.
Tsvangirai was no longer attending the
meetings since October accusing
Mugabe of being a “crook” and “dishonest”
man.
Zuma first met with
the leaders separately before holding a joint meeting
later in the evening
and described his meetings as successful.
“We had good consultations and
they were very successful,” Zuma told
reporters as he emerged from the
meeting with the leaders.
“There were some small issues. There had been a
breakdown of communication
between the leadership of the government here and
that has been resolved.”
He said he was happy that he had conducted
consultations with the leaders
and left them speaking to each
other.
Zuma would not give much detail on the outcome of the meeting
saying he
needed to brief the SADC Troika first. He returned back to South
Africa
Friday evening.
Neither Tsvangirai nor Mugabe could comment on
the outcome of the meeting.
Zuma’s visit comes barely a week after a
scheduled SADC Troika meeting to
discuss in detail the problems bedeviling
the country’s coalition government
failed to take place in Botswana last
Friday.
The meeting was called off after Zambian President Rupiah Banda,
chairman of
the SADC Troika on Politics, Defence and Security and Mozambique
President
Armando Guebuza failed to turn up.
Mugabe and Tsvangirai
are haggling over a few outstanding issues and others
which are cropping up
in between as a result of Mugabe’s unilateral approach
to issues of
governance.
Mugabe recently unilaterally appointed provincial governors
and ambassadors,
a move which did not go down well with Tsvangirai who wrote
to European and
Western country’s asking them not to recognise the appointed
envoys. He has
also since approached the High Court to annul the
appointments of the ten
provincial governors.
A meeting of regional
leaders held in Namibia two months ago agreed that the
Zimbabwe leaders
should fulfill the outstanding issues, complete the
constitution making
process, agree on a roadmap for elections and hold an
election next year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk
South African president,
Jacob Zuma, said 'there was a breakdown of
communication amongst them, and
we have resolved that'
* Associated press
* guardian.co.uk,
Sunday 28 November 2010 17.01 GMT
President Robert Mugabe and prime
minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe
have resolved their standoff and are
speaking to one another again. South
African president, Jacob Zuma, said on
Friday.
"They've agreed that there was a breakdown of communication
amongst them,
and we have resolved that, and so they have agreed to continue
meeting." The
statement followed more than four hours of private discussions
by the three
leaders aimed at easing the political tension within Zimbabwe's
coalition
government.
Afterward, the atmosphere at the news
conference was relaxed, with Zuma,
Mugabe and Tsvangirai smiling and shaking
hands.
Zuma, who arrived in Zimbabwe on Friday afternoon, met separately
with
Mugabe and Tsvangirai, then the three leaders met
together.
Zimbabwe's government was formed with a political power-sharing
agreement
after disputed, violent elections in 2008. But the coalition
remains deeply
divided, undermining its job of ushering in a new
constitution and preparing
for general elections in Zimbabwe.
http://www.radiovop.com
28/11/2010
14:34:00
HARARE, NOVEMBER 28, 2010 - Bulawayo based visual artist
Owen Maseko who
grabbed headlines early this year for his controversial
exhibition of post
independence massacres of thousands of ZAPU supporters by
Zimbabwe
government,s infamous Gukurahundi troops was on Saturday named one
of this
year’s winners of the international Freedom to Create
Prize.
The artist who is currently based in Spain was the second runner
up behind
Sudan’s Ali Mahdi Nouri who founded a theater company that stages
mobile
performances to bring their message of peace and reconciliation in
the North
African country.
A theatre group from the Democratic Republic
of Congo was the first runner
up. The prizes were presented in Cairo, Egypt
and the organisers said the
winners will share US$125 000.
Maseko who was
arrested in March after mounting a solo exhibition of the
massacres said
the prize was a morale booster and will motivate him to
tackle the highly
emotional and sensitive issue.
“I have given the sensitive and raw issue
of the Gukurahundi massacres a
face and a voice and I am prepared to take a
bullet for it,” Maseko was
quoted in a statement by the organisers of the
Freedom to Create Prize
awards.
“The support and recognition of winning
the Freedom to Create Prize will
allow me continued freedom to create and to
express the ideas, hopes, dreams
and aspirations of my countrymen, laying
the foundations for a reconciled,
vibrant and flourishing Zimbabwe.”
Two
months ago Maseko,s works were officially banned by the government
saying
they would cause disharmony among the country’s tribes different
ethnic
groups.His case has since been moved to the Supreme Court after he
challenged the constitutionality of the charges that were laid against
him.
Maseko was charged under a section of the now infamous Criminal Law
Codification Act for undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe
and for insulting the Shona ethnic group of which the President
belongs.
In 1983, Mugabe as Prime Minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe
allegedly sanctioned the slaughter of thousands of predominantly Ndebele
speaking supporters of his political rival, Joshua Nkomo.Human rights groups
put the figure of those who perished at the hands of the North Korean
trained army unit at 20 000.The operations of the Five Brigade disrupted
life in rural Matabeleland and forced thousands to flee across the border
into Botswana.
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/
27 November, 2010 10:36:00 By HENDRICKS
CHIZHANJE
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono has defended
the central
bank's accumulation of a huge $1.131-billion debt during his
tenure, saying
it was meant to meet critical government
requirements.
Gono's defence is exposed in letters sent to Finance
Minister Tendai Biti
after the launch of the coalition government of Prime
Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe.
Gono and his
adviser, Munyaradzi Kereke, wrote the letters, which were seen
by Sunday
Times this week, to Biti and his adviser, Conrad Nyamurova, when
the finance
minister demanded a detailed account of the central bank's
outstanding
obligations.
Gono and Kereke claimed that the $1.131-billion debt
incurred by the central
bank at the height of Zimbabwe's agonising economic
crisis was directed
towards meeting strategic payments such as agricultural
inputs and power
imports.
"As you will notice from the report, the
entire $1.131-billion was on
account of direct government-critical payments
such as grain, fuel,
electricity, agrochemicals, fertilisers as well as
embassy payments," reads
a letter dated April 8 last year. The central bank
boss said subdued export
performance since 2003 owing to a hard-hit
agriculture sector resulted in
Mugabe's previous administration relying on
external borrowing supplemented
by foreign exchange borrowing from domestic
sources.
"So dire has been the foreign exchange situation that at times
government
had to direct the Reserve Bank to 'do everything possible' to
meet pressing
requirements at short notice, which inevitably led to the
usage of FCA
resources belonging to various depositors," Gono wrote in the
letter.
He said he also annexed funds belonging to gold and platinum
producers and
other exporters to meet government requirements.
In the
letter to Biti, Gono went all out to defend himself against
allegations of
embezzling funds in "mischievous" media reports.
In his letter to
Nyamurova, Kereke tried to defend the bank's exploitation
of depositors and
exporters' funds.
"These borrowings, which were done by the RBZ under the
authority and in
some case directives from government, were used for
strategic payments on
behalf of government. This essential fact is known to
the ministry of
finance," says the letter of April 20 2009.
Kereke
accused Judith Madzorera, accountant-general in Biti's office, of
dishonesty
when she professed ignorance of the accumulation of the $1.131-
billion
debt.
"We have exhaustive documentary evidence on the origins and make-up
of the
liabilities, complete with every TT (telegraphic transfer) showing
how the
money was used. Mrs Madzorera's denial is, therefore, the height of
intellectual and professional dishonesty as she presided at most of the
meetings from which the borrowings arose or utilisation levels were
discussed. As officials let us not misdirect ministers/principals through
inaccurate briefs," Kereke said.
He said ministries and parastatals
owed the central bank $1.131- billion
extended to them during Gono's reign.
He warned that litigation mounted
against the RBZ by creditors would ruin
Zimbabwe's "chances of securing new
loans as a country" and recommended
"amicable dialogue" with the creditors.
The language and tone of the letters
shows how the two once powerful men at
the central bank have been humbled
since Biti took over at the finance
ministry, previously presided over by an
appointee of Mugabe's Zanu-PF.
Gono was accused of pumping resources into
financing Mugabe's populist
activities through the central bank's
quasi-fiscal activities. A flood of
litigation recently forced the
government to take over the bank's debt after
creditors owed millions of
dollars started auctioning its property.
At the height of the Gono-Biti
clash in 2008, Biti made no secret of his
desire to oust Gono from the bank,
accusing him of ruining the
economy. -Times Live
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/
28 November, 2010 11:51:00
ZimDiaspora
ZAPU remains a rock founded by our forefathers requiring
all members to
remain calm in times of trouble so as to continue with the
activities of the
party, ZAPU-Europe’s Secretary for Information, Publicity
and Marketing, Mr
Artwel Ndlovu, said in Britain yesterday.
He said
this in a Press Statement in reaction to current problems afflicting
the
province also punctuated by a bogus Press Statement containing atrocious
allegations reportedly being circulated by an anonymous writer who used a
pseudo name.
Many believe the bogus Press statement also fowarded to
us was penned by an
unidentified member within ZAPU-Europe whose intentions,
they said, are yet
to be known. As such, Ndlovu dismissed the controversial
and unreferenced
statement as a freak.
The editor also declined to
give credence to the fake statement and spiked
it away.
However,
yesterday the province met in Leicester to try and rescue the fast
deteriorating political situation in the province following accusations
against the Arthur Molife led executive which is said to have crumbled into
two antagonistic factions.
Ndlovu fired his first salvo after the
meeting and warned that the party
would not tolerate “infiltrators”. He
warned that ZAPU-Europe has been tried
and tested before making reference to
the attempt by Paul Siwela and Agripa
Madlela to block the party’s 9th
Congress in Bulawayo which ended as an
embarrassment for them.
In the
end ZAPU prevailed, he said.
He said, as such, “ZAPU Europe has been
tried and tested – there have been
divisions before and we have emerged
stronger. I am proud that the current
national Secretary General and a pool
of NPC members products of ZAPU
Europe”.
Ndlovu dug in and warned
those trying to infiltrate the party with hidden
agendas, saying: “They can
infiltrate us or sabotage our work, nonetheless,
people of Zimbabwe have
realised that the only party with permanent
solutions to problems we face is
ZAPU through its principle of devolution of
power plus
Technology”.
He said contrary to the bogus, statement making rounds “ZAPU
office-bearers
in all our structures are elected by the people - not
appointed by
individuals. As a democratic institution, there are protocols
to be
observed, one cannot decide to channel his or her grievances through
media
under pseudo names. What is happening within the structures of ZAPU
are test
of times, the true cadres will remain unshaken”.
“They say
you can only move a stone but not a rock, ZAPU is a rock founded
by our
forefathers, and therefore, no-one will be able to resist the winds
of
devolution of power,” he said.
Ndlovu said ZAPU dismisses with contempt
suggestions that the vice
chairperson submitted a resignation letter. He
said the party also reject
the insinuations that the senior party officials
are plotting against
Secretary General Ralf Mguni.
“The writing is on
the wall, the cynics are working tirelessly to
destabilise ZAPU Europe
province. It is so, because they are aware that
members of ZAPU in Europe
have contributed enormously towards the progress
of the party at home,” he
said. - ZimDiaspora
http://www.radiovop.com
28/11/2010 14:36:00
MASVINGO,November
28, 2010 – Hundreds of families who were displaced by the
government,s
controversial clean up operation code named ‘Operation
Murambatsvina’more
than five years ago are living in fear of Cholera and
related diseases
outbreak as the local authority has come out clear that
they will not
construct toilets for them.
The affected people are currently
accommodated in houses which were
constructed by the government under the
reconstruction programme ‘Operation
Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle’ which was meant
to counter the international rage
that followed Murambatsvina. Most families
live in unfinished houses which
have no floors, windows, water or toilets –
raising high Cholera outbreak
fears as we enter the rainy season. Moreso,
the population of the people
staying in these areas has since
ballooned.
“We have been staying here for years but we use bush toilets. The
city
council is not interested in constructing toilets for us. Now that it’s
raining, we are afraid that we might have cholera outbreak here. Everyday we
think of disease outbreak, due to nature, our population is increasing on
daily basis and thus more chances of disease outbreaks,” said Aron
Munodawafa who stays near Runyararo West suburbs.
Masvingo Mayor
Alderman Femias Chakabuda maintained that it is very
difficult to connect
sewer lines in the area where the victims of
Murambatsvina were resettled.
Chakabuda said their resettlement was not part
of the town plans.
“As
council, we never planned to resettle those people. In fact our city
engineer informed us that its impossible to connect sewer in that area. If
we feel for them, then we have to make sure they are displaced and put in a
suitable area,” said Chakabuda.
However most families who are sharing
two-roomed houses said they only want
blair toilets and running water to
make sure that chances of having cholera
outbreak are reduced.Currently,
some areas in Masvingo have been hit by
Cholera but no deaths have been
recorded so far.
http://www.guardian.co.uk
US embassy
cables reveal Washington's view of world's leading statesmen in
colourful,
distinctly undiplomatic language
* Robert Booth
*
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 28 November 2010 19.06 GMT
* Article
history
Washington's view of the world's leading statesmen
emerges from the cables
in a carnival of colourful and distinctly
undiplomatic language.
In late 2008 the Moscow embassy wired back about
the relationship between
Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev and the prime
minister, Vladimir Putin,
remarking that Medvedev, officially the senior
partner, "plays Robin to
Putin's Batman".
Kim Jong-il, the ailing
dictator of North Korea fared no better, with
diplomats quoting sources who
described him variously as a "flabby old chap"
and someone who had suffered
"physical and psychological trauma" as a result
of his stroke.
The
Paris embassy remarked on the "thin-skinned and authoritarian personal
style" of French President Nicholas Sarkozy after it reported his tendency
to repeatedly rebuke his team and the French prime minister.
Italian
prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was "feckless, vain, and
ineffective as a
modern European leader", according to Elizabeth Dibble, US
charge d'affaires
in Rome. Another report from Rome recorded the view that
he was a
"physically and politically weak" leader whose "frequent late
nights and
penchant for partying hard mean he does not get sufficient rest".
Key
allies in the war on terror are not spared either. A dispatch from Kabul
reports the view that the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, is "an extremely
weak man who did not listen to facts but was instead easily swayed by anyone
who came to report even the most bizarre stories or plots against
him".
In Yemen, the power base of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula,
President Ali
Abdullah Saleh was "dismissive, bored and impatient", during a
meeting with
John Brennan, Barack Obama's deputy national security
adviser.
Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, is simply branded "the
crazy old
man" by Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's international
relations and
cooperation minister, according to a cable from Pretoria,
while Muammar
Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is "just strange" according to an
adviser to
Sultan Qaboos of Oman.
Israel's prime minister Binyamin
Netanyahu is "elegant and charming" but
never keeps his promises, according
to a cable from Cairo recounting a
meeting with President Hosni Mubarak, who
added: "I have told him so
personally".
http://www.timeslive.co.za/
Nov 28, 2010 12:00
AM | By THEMBA SIBANDA
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party is
expected to blow about $500, 000
at its annual national conference set for
Mutare in a fortnight.
Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo says about
4, 000 delegates are expected
at the conference.
Delegates would be
drawn from the country's 10 provinces, Gumbo said, and
delegates from the
party's South African and London branches were also
expected to
attend.
"We are not expecting to have other delegates that we normally
have when we
hold our congress. This conference is specifically for
Zimbabwe-based party
members. We are likely to have some of our members from
our South Africa
branch, as well as that of London. They shall be coming in
as members and
not as branches," he said.
Gumbo would not tie himself
to discussing the conference's budget.
Party leader Mugabe normally
delivers the main address at the Zanu-PF
conference where most policies
which his government would promulgate in the
future are
announced.
The conference is also used as a platform where the party
attacks its
opponents, mainly the West and America, and with calls for the
lifting of
what the party describes as illegal sanctions, taking centre
stage at most
of these conferences.
Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),
which is a partner to the
shaky coalition government before the signing of
the coalition pact, would
also get a bashing from such conferences.
In the interview, Gumbo said
traditional leaders and chiefs from the
country's 10 provinces were also
expected to attend the conference.
The MDC has previously condemned the
presence of traditional leaders at the
former ruling party's conferences and
congresses. This, the MDC says, could
lead to the abuse of the traditional
leaders, whose positions in society, it
says, call for
impartiality.
Other party functionaries, such as the controversial
Zimbabwe Federation of
Trade Unions (ZFTU), and other organisations with
allegiance towards
Zanu-PF, were expected.
Gumbo said the conference
would get time to chart the way forward regarding
issues such as sanctions.
The Western bloc responsible for the sanctions on
Mugabe's inner cabal, has
on countless occasions denied the sanctions hurt
the general Zimbabwean
population.
"We will discuss a lot of issues. The sanctions issue is one
that we will
not avoid, because we have to chart a way forward on how to
address them.
"They have hurt our people and we believe the time is now
to have them
lifted," Gumbo said.
The recently presented budget is
also expected to be one of the main talking
points at the
conference.
According to Gumbo, the party felt Finance Minister Tendai
Biti had failed
to ensure there was economic growth in the country. The
party was of the
opinion Biti had concentrated much of his budgetary
allocations to the
social sectors, such as health and
education.
Zanu-PF "feels let down" by Biti, Gumbo said. "The economy
would not grow,
as he allocated very little to the manufacturing sector and
agriculture,
which we believe are the basis for economic growth," he
said.
With a $500, 000 budget and with some donations still said to be on
their
way, the conference is expected to be a feast for many Zanu-PF
activists.
At recent past conferences and congresses some have been
accused of helping
themselves to freebies and goodies that have been
donated.
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com
27 November, 2010 10:31:00 By SUNDAY
TIMES CORRESPONDENT
Robert Mugabe's desire to run for elections next
year has left analysts,
politicians and the general public baffled as to
what his motive is, given
that the 86-year-old leader has lost support over
the years.
Political analysts have rushed to conclude that Mugabe, who is
part of a
large group of liberation war veterans who helped fight for
Zimbabwe's
independence, is either grandstanding due to his own insecurity
or to gauge
the readiness of his rivals, especially Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai and
his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Reports also
indicate that members of his own Zanu-PF party, including some
hardliners,
are not interested in the elections and are equally stunned why
Mugabe seems
desperate to have elections in 2011 given that his party
structures have
virtually crumbled. Loyal Zanu-PF supporters believe the
only way they can
remain in power is through the current arrangement in the
country where
Mugabe is still president despite losing elections.
Mugabe's calls for
elections have left opinion divided with other
commentators arguing that at
the age of 87 next year, the Zimbabwean
strongman cannot wait one more year
to run for elections and with reports of
ill-health continuing to dog his
presidency, he wants to show that he can
still lead.
Some in Zanu-PF
have suggested that Mugabe wants a dignified exit in which
he will lose
elections and decide to embrace the winner and in the process
leave his
already divided Zanu-PF party to disintegrate.
Civic society groups,
however, believe that if Mugabe is indeed going ahead
with elections next
year, he will use all instruments of cohesion at his
disposal which include
the army, police, intelligence and militia with fears
that he will unleash
violence on the people to force them to vote for him.
With memories of
the post-March 2008 elections still fresh in the minds of
the people, civic
society groups are opposing elections next year until the
playing field is
levelled and instruments of repression removed.
Political analyst
Pedzisayi Ruhanya believes that Mugabe is not interested
in elections but is
just grandstanding to appear as if he is still strong.
He doubts if Mugabe
is ready for an election. "He is certain to lose if it
is free and fair,"
says Ruhanya.
"There is the question of age. Mugabe will turn 87 next
year and time is
obviously not on his side. If he prolongs, it will be
disastrous for him
because he does not know what will
happen.
"Secondly, he is grandstanding; he is a guy who does not want to
be seen as
weak politically. He is sending a message to Tsvangirai that he
can beat him
in the elections. His ego forces him to keep announcing that he
wants
elections.
"Thirdly, Mugabe is a man under self-inflicted
pressure. Remember Tsvangirai
started the election mantra some months ago
when he addressed huge crowds in
Gokwe and other areas," says
Ruhanya.
Another political commentator, Takura Zhangazha, said it was
probably a
gimmick by Mugabe to divert attention from the pressure he faces
from the
international community on the failure to implement the Global
Political
Agreement (GPA).
"Mr Mugabe initially committed himself to
elections next year out of clear
exasperation at his inability to do
anything in government without the MDC-T
raising issues and refusing to
accept his decisions. He now insists on the
same primarily because he does
think it is a way of trying to get the MDC-T
out of government.
"The
only problem is that he has to work very hard to persuade his party
that it
can win an election that the SADC will be monitoring very closely.
"He
probably feels that there is too much pressure on him and Zanu-PF
regarding
outstanding issues by the international community and he feels
that the
MDC-T is not being put under pressure to address the issue of
sanctions.
Essentially he wants more pressure placed by SADC on the MDC,"
argued
Zhangazha.
Last month Zanu-PF secretary for administration, Didymus
Mutasa, admitted to
the Sunday Times that Mugabe had not yet officially
informed his party
structures that he wanted elections next year. He
confessed that the party
structures had indeed collapsed but they would use
other means to ensure
they win the elections, a point which raised fears
that Zanu-PF wants to use
violence.
Mutasa did not rule out the use
of violence, saying they would react if
provoked.
Mugabe's call for
elections has also raised fears of intra-party violence
given the war of
words that has erupted between senior officials from the
MDC and
Zanu-PF.
Two weeks ago Tsvangirai described Mugabe as a "crook" and
"dishonest"
person.
Zanu-PF politburo member, Saviour Kasukuwere,
insisted that they would win
the elections next year and will reduce the
"puppet" MDC to size.
"The MDC is finished. They have no ideology so how
are people going to vote
for them. It is clear to the people that the MDC
was created to sort out the
white men's anger."
While the war of
words rages on and the drama of pre-elections continues,
confusion reigns
supreme. -Times Live
http://www.apanews.net
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) US ambassador
in Zimbabwe Charles Ray will on
Wednesday join five Zimbabwean youths in
taking a public HIV test to mark
World AIDS Day in Harare, the American
embassy announced Sunday in a
statement.
Among those to join the US
envoy are Munyaradzi Chidzonga, Zimbabwe’s
representative in continental
television reality show Big Brother Africa.
The HIV tests will take place
at a centre operated by American-funded
Population Services International
(PSI) in Harare.
“The US Ambassador will join six young Zimbabwean
celebrity youth for a HIV
test at the PSI New Start Centre at New Africa
House on the morning of
December 1st," the embassy said.
The United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) will also
host the
annual Auxillia Chimusoro Awards ceremony in Harare which honours
individuals and organisations that excel in the fight against HIV and
AIDS.
The awards will be given to individuals judged to have excelled in
communication, leadership, social investment and any outstanding works that
have made a remarkable impact in Zimbabwean society in mitigating the
effects and impact of HIV and AIDS.
In their 10th year, the awards
are named after Auxillia Chimusoro who was
the first individuals to disclose
her HIV positive status in Zimbabwe.
Chimusoro publicly disclosed her HIV
positive status at age 33 in 1989 and
founded Batanai HIV/AIDS Support Group
in 1992.
The US is engaged with Zimbabwe in the fight against HIV/AIDS
through the US
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR).
In 2010, the number of people receiving ARVs with direct PEPFAR
funding
increased to 59,000, up from 40,000 in 2009.
PEPFAR’s 2011
budget for Zimbabwe is increasing by more than 20 percent over
this current
year to a total of US$57.5 million as part of President Barrack
Obama’s
pledge of assistance to Zimbabwe.
JN/ad/APA
2010-11-28
http://www.apanews.net/
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe)
Zimbabwe has relaxed rules on Money Transfer Agencies
(MTAs), allowing them
to send funds out of the country as part of new
measures to liberalise the
exchange control regime and improve confidence in
the banking sector, APA
learns on Sunday in Harare.
Under the previous regulations, MTAs were
only allowed to act as
intermediaries in remittances from Zimbabweans living
in the Diaspora and
forbidden from facilitating transfers from local
residents wishing to send
money to friends and family abroad.
This is
a welcome move for thousands of Zimbabweans with children studying
abroad
who until now had no means of quickly sending money to their
relatives.
They are currently being forced to transfer money through
the normal banking
channels, a system that is slow and takes up to a week
before the remitted
funds reach the intended beneficiary.
It is also
welcome news for the MTAs most of which were forced to close four
years ago
by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono who accused
the
financial institutions of mismanaging funds sent by Zimbabweans living
in
the Diaspora.
Gono blamed the agencies of channelling remittances from
the Diaspora to the
then illegal but thriving black-market for foreign
currency.
An estimated 3.5 million Zimbabweans meanwhile are living
abroad, mostly in
Southern Africa, the United States and
Britain.
JN/ad/APA
2010-11-28
http://www.newzimbabwe.com
28/11/2010 00:00:00
by Staff
Reporter
THE government has awarded a US$91 million contract for the
redevelopment of
Beitgridge border post, one of Africa’s busiest transit
points which is
however, failing to cope with the increasing volume of
traffic.
Beitbridge handles about 500 commercial trucks each day and
thousands of
travelers transiting between Zimbabwe and South
Africa.
However, congestion has become a major problem with travelers
forced to
spend days at the border post while untold chaos characterise peak
travelling periods such as the Christmas and New Year holidays.
The
congestion reportedly costs US$200 million a year in lost production,
tourism traffic and revenue.
“The congestion at Beitbridge Port has
become a major bottleneck to trade
and tourism, posing major opportunities
for corruption and revenue leakages.
“The infrastructure at the
Beitbridge Border Post needs to be upgraded in
order to handle the increased
traffic and overcome (existing) challenges
related to the following,”
Finance Minister Tendai Biti said recently.
He said the government had
awarded a South African company a US$91 million
contract to redevelop the
transit point.
“The re-development of Beitbridge is being implemented
under a 15-year B.O.T
(Build Operate and Transfer) concession arrangement in
line with government’s
Public-Private Partnership policy.
“Central to
the project master plan is the smooth flow of traffic through
the border
post by creating traffic separation routes for the main
categories of
traffic namely commercial, buses/kombis, private motorists and
pedestrian
traffic,” Biti said.
The project will, among other things, see the
construction of new processing
points, installation of mechanisms to enhance
security, curb traffic
leakage, revenue loss as well as reduce the time
travelers and commercial
traffic have to spend at the border
post.
“The project to re-develop Beitbridge Port will dramatically reduce
the time
spent by both passenger and vehicle freight traffic at the border
post.
Hopefully this will also discourage corruption within the border
post,” Biti
said.
http://www.radiovop.com
28/11/2010
19:41:00
HARARE, November 28,2010- South Africa topped the list of
tourist arrivals
in Zimbabwe this year as the country gears up to restore
its economy through
tourism.
According to Finance Minister Tendai
Biti in his 2011 budget statement, 89%
of tourists' arrival in Zimbabwe this
year were from Africa while Europe
registered 4% and the United States
2.8%.
Although President Robert Mugabe's government took up the Look East
policy,
luring Oriental countries for business and discounted holiday
packages, Asia
only registered 1.8%.
"The leading source of tourist
arrivals remained Africa, at 89.7%, with the
highest arrivals from South
Africa and Botswana," said Biti.
Challenges faced by the tourism industry
have mostly to do with backward
technology.
"Slower adoption of ICT
banking systems and international debit and credit
card facilities by most
of our tourist service providers has had a downward
effect of tourist
flows," Biti said. A tour operator said there was room for
rapid growth as
long as the political situation improved.
"Foreigners get reports that there
is instability here. Worse now that there
is talk of elections next
year.
"People fear that Zimbabwe is known for political violence and their
countries might advise them not to travel to Zimbabwe," said Rodger
Matangure.
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority corporate communications manager
Sugar Changonda
said his association was embarking on a rebranding drive and
hoped that
tourism would grow next year.
"We are working on ways to
increase the numbers of international arrivals
next year. We have a number
of packages lined up that will see more European
visitors coming to
Zimbabwe," he said.
A hotelier said that the move to bring the Chinese to
Zimbabwe on holiday
had not really benefited the sector because they are
budget beaters.
"The Chinese travel in groups and with a communist background
they are
stingy. They don't spend much when on holiday."
-Times Live
A photograph of the Vigil in The Zimbabwean last week showed
supporters displaying our banner ‘Elections in
Two of the Vigil’s friends, Kate Hoey MP, Chair of the All-Party
Parliamentary Committee on
It has become clear that Zanu PF will never agree to changes which
would threaten its dominance, ie reforms of any kind. Mugabe has indicated that
he wants to have elections by next June – apparently so that he can hand over
power to his ‘ever-obedient son’ Defence Minister Emerson Mnangagwa who would
guarantee him a safe retirement.
Preparations are, by all accounts, well under way to secure Mugabe’s
victory by the traditional methods: violence, intimidation and bribery. This is
why the Vigil has collected many thousands of signatures for our petition
calling on the UN to send in observers and a peace-keeping force.
The recent abortive SADC troika meeting shows that Zimbabweans can
place no reliance whatsoever on help from our neighbours – whatever Zuma might
say. Indeed the fact that SADC has suspended its own legal tribunal shows the
depths to which it will go in its support for Mugabe. As for the African Union,
it is of no use since it has simply delegated the whole matter to SADC. So we
must concentrate on embarrassing the UN into action.
The British Ambassador to
The Vigil believes that so long as Zanu PF is in power
Other Points
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who set it up for us. The website will be managed by a team selected by the
Vigil and has space for videos, picture gallery, community area and blog. Most
of the content is still to be uploaded. Dr Tim will be uploading the complete
ZimVigil TV archive.
· Nyasha Mandaza from
· Our attendance was understandably down given that travel in many
parts of the country was disrupted by snow.
· Christmas this year falls on a Saturday so we want to let people know
that we do not plan to meet outside Zimbabwe House on Christmas day because
there will be no public transport and central
For latest Vigil pictures check: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/.
For the latest ZimVigil TV programme check the link at the top of the home page
of our website.
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EVENTS AND NOTICES:
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Zimbabwe (ROHR) is
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·
ROHR
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ROHR
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·
Christmas Virtual Vigil.
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25th December. We will not be
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and central
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receive a copy by post in the UK please email confirmation of your order and
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send a cheque for £10 payable to “Budiriro Trust” to Emily Chadburn, 15 Burners
Close, Burgess Hill,
·
Workshops aiming to engage African
men on HIV testing and other sexual health issues. Organised by the Terrence Higgins
Trust (www.tht.org.uk). Please contact
the co-ordinator
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Co-ordinators
The Vigil,
outside the Zimbabwe Embassy, 429
I had just left Parliament after the
presentation of the 2011 budget and
turned on my car radio to listen to the
ZBC. I was shocked by what I heard.
The commentator was asking a young man
what he thought of the budget and the
first thing he said was that Biti had
done nothing to address the problem of
sanctions. It was the “illegal
sanctions against Zimbabwe” that were holding
back economic recovery and
inhibiting Zimbabwe’s industrial and agricultural
sectors. His next comment
was just as ludicrous – the much-vaunted support
from the international
community had once again failed to materialize, even
though Biti was their
“bright eyed boy”.
I attended a meeting at the Party Headquarters
and said that we should
demand a decent and informed debate on the budget on
both ZBC and ZTV. What
I had heard was complete nonsense and did nothing to
enhance the broadcaster’s
already tarnished reputation. The others at the
meeting agreed with me but
said that the two State controlled mass media
institutions would never allow
such a debate.
I will not
dwell on the budget, as that will be the subject of a great deal
of debate
and analysis in the next few weeks as it goes through the House.
But I do
think that a couple of features and the role of the international
community
and the Diaspora need a mention.
The first is the issue of just
how are we doing when it comes to economic
recovery? From 1997 to 2008, ten
years, the national estimate of economic
output in real terms (constant
dollars) declined from US$8,7 billion in 1997
to US$4,2 billion in 2008
(source: the IMF). The decline in the productive
sector was even more
precipitate – agriculture by over 70 per cent, industry
by 80 per cent,
tourism by 80 per cent and mining by about a quarter. This
led in turn to a
40 per cent decline in employment – almost all the losses
in the above
sectors of the economy.
In the financial sector the collapse was
total, the combined value of all
the cash in circulation falling to a
miserable US$6 million in 2008.
Inflation simply consumed the savings of the
whole country and of all
previous generations, millions were plunged into
penury. All banks and
financial institutions without exception were
bankrupted in legal terms. The
economy was left like a City after a neutron
bomb had been exploded above
it – buildings standing but all life
extinguished.
Zanu PF knew what they had done and they knew how
to fix it. When it became
apparent, even to them, that this was the end of
the road economically, the
acting Minister of Finance (Chinamasa) stood up
in Parliament and abandoned
the Zimbabwe dollar and cut the economy adrift
from the Reserve Bank which
had been the main means of plundering the
national economy. I went up to him
after that speech and said that I thought
it had been a courageous and
timely statement. He looked somewhat bemused as
we seldom had anything good
to say about them.
In the
subsequent month we collected US$5 million in revenue from the whole
country. Now, 21 months later, how do stand?
Well firstly,
the overall economy has recovered quite significantly with the
latest IMF
report saying that their estimate of GDP is now US$8 billion for
2011. That
is a huge jump from US$4,2 billion in 2008 (90 per cent in three
years).
This is partly because the Fund has changed the basis on which they
calculate the GDP but it also reflects the recovery in the economy and the
formalisation of many economic activities that were previously unrecorded
because they were in the informal sector.
Industrial capacity
utilisation is now just over 40 per cent compared to 10
per cent in 2008 and
the mining industry has expanded significantly – mainly
gold and platinum,
although diamonds must now be generating a significant
turnover if we can
ever get it under control and out in the open. The
financial sector has
recovered with deposits now standing at US$2,4 billion
and rising by about
$80 million a month. The latest estimates also point to
improved
agricultural output but I think the figures are
questionable.
What is not questionable is the massive increase in
tax revenues now running
at about $200 million a month and still rising. In
fact the total budget for
2009 was only $1 billion, in 2010 it will turn out
at about double that
figure and Biti is estimating $2,7 billion in
2011.
As far as foreign aid is concerned the Minister really
confused people this
year by including an estimate of $500 million in the
budget as a “Vote of
Credit” and this simply failed to materialize. In the
new budget he has
dropped the pretense and not put in any estimate for
foreign aid. This was a
much more sensible thing to do as it reflects the
political realities of the
day and the reluctance of the international donor
community to put their
funds under Ministry of Finance control at
present.
Zanu PF and their lackeys in the service of the State
media interpret this
as the failure of the international community to
support the country and
continually interpret this as being “sanctions”. In
fact, the international
community has been and continues to be incredibly
generous to the country
despite our misbehavior and continued failure to put
our house in order. In
the past three years, foreign aid to Zimbabwe has
hovered about $800 million
a year – 20 per cent of GDP in 2008 when they
provided food aid for over
half the population and 10 per cent of GDP in the
current year.
Total foreign aid to Zimbabwe since 2000 (all of it
in the form of grant
aid) has in fact exceeded the total combined foreign
aid received by
Zimbabwe from independence in 1980 to the year 2000. In 2010
foreign aid has
exceeded $800 million – half of it being disbursed on
humanitarian
assistance in one form or another, in addition they have
started to fund the
provision of social services very substantially - $200
million to health,
over $100 million to education and $50 million to water
and sanitation.
Nearly 90 per cent of this has come from a group of States
that call
themselves the “Friends of Zimbabwe”.
This group
was called into existence in 2007 at the G8 summit chaired by
Tony Blair and
now comprises 17 countries. (China, Russia, India and Japan
are not part of
this grouping. Their combined aid programs are miniscule by
comparison with
the G8 grouping.) Within the Friends group, the leading
States are the USA
with over one third of all aid, the UK with 14 per cent,
Germany and Norway
with about 7 per cent each. The UN Agencies are quite
significant but the
bulk of their efforts are funded by the bilaterals – of
which the Friends
constitute the majority of contributors.
When combined with the
budget at 30 per cent of GDP, the aid flows raise the
total of State
sponsored expenditure to 40 per cent of GDP. Not as high in
many other third
world States but still very significant and making a huge
contribution to
national economic welfare. Add to this the total for
remittances from the
Diaspora of about US$1,2 billion and these three
elements constitute over
half our economy and explain why we can continue to
live beyond our means
even though the Zanu PF government have destroyed our
productive
economy.
Eddie Cross
Bulawayo, 26th November 2010
Dear Family and Friends,
Three months ago a Redheaded
Weaver arrived in my garden and began
building a nest in exactly the same
spot as the last time it had been
here a few years ago. The male is a very
striking individual with a
bright scarlet head, chest and upper back. It’s
impossible not to
notice him when he’s in the garden. There was nothing left
on the
telephone line from his last nest, not a wisp of spiderweb or a
single
strand of vegetation, and yet the little male obviously remembered
its
place and methods and set to work feverishly.
It was the time of
year when the Msasa trees were shedding their
leaves and the Redhead built
the skeleton and entrance tunnel of the
nest exclusively using the midribs of
the falling Msasa leaves. A few
days into the nest building, a female Redhead
appeared. The courting
and cajoling began almost immediately. Flitting from
tree to tree,
fluffing out feathers, tail quivering and body shivering, he
chased
her tirelessly, trying to impress her with his aerial and
physical
displays and stunning good looks.
Calamity came when the
Redhead saw himself in a window and perceived
an enemy in his own
reflection.
The similarity between the behaviour of the little Redhead
and the pre
election fever now stirring in Zimbabwe is striking.
The
Redhead looked at his apparent opponent and went into attack mode.
Sitting on
the window ledge he pecked and tapped at his image in the
glass again and
again and again. You could almost see his headache!
Around the house he went,
window to window, and it was all out war.
Everywhere the Redhead looked there
were apparent enemies threatening
his territory. Car mirrors, solar panels
and even tin lids contained
enemies and so the Redhead went into destroy
mode, defending his
sovereign territory.
Every day the Redhead went to
the skeleton of his nest and added a
strand or two but every day he got
diverted when he saw his own image
in the windows. You could almost see the
Redhead saying to himself:
‘I’ll build tomorrow,” but for now it was more
important to
destroy the perceived invasion. The female Redhead soon tired of
her
mate’s behaviour. For a week or so she sat alongside him on
the
windowsills and pecked at the reflections of themselves but it
wasn’t
long before her instinct to create and produce kicked in and
she left her
mate to his self destructive ways and disappeared from
the garden to look for
greener pastures.
There are scores of reflections in windows and mirrors
across Zimbabwe
that are undoubtedly about to be attacked as we go into pre
election
mode here. There are so many onlookers that could come forward
and
prevent the onslaught against the reflection but they don’t and
they
won’t. SADC, the African Union and our neighbours are all
already
turning their backs. How can they stay quiet when our own Minister
of
Defence spoke in Kwekwe this week and said: “Zanu will rule even if
you
don’t want it. Zimbabwe belongs to Zanu PF.”
Just like my garden belonged
to one single, striking Redhead who
attacked and attacked and attacked,
becoming in the process his own
worst enemy. Until next time, thanks for
reading, love cathy Copyright
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Zimbabwe
:
For over thirty years we have watched Mugabe in his quest to rule
Zimbabwe
his way, his rules, his control.
And some of us have seen
the changing face of Mugabe’s rules from different
standpoints.
I
lived in Zimbabwe for 18 years. I love the country and its people - apart
from the politically motivated...
The early years of Zimbabwe were
good - or so we thought - and then came the
Gukurahundi - and it was
downhill from there…
• murder
• theft
• rape
• robbery
•
election rigging
• political violence
• treason
The list of crimes
that ZANU PF have chalked up against the people of
Zimbabwe is a lot longer
than the above. Hardly a day goes by without at
least one of Mugabe’s
loyalists committing a crime that would see anyone
else in Zimbabwe locked
up for a very long time.
• the Gukurahundi
• the landgrab
•
Operation Murambatsvina
• the post election violence
But apart from
the basic crimes committed by ZANU PF, there are so many more
almost unseen
and unpunished acts that happen.
• the defiance of court orders
• the
unilateral appointment of pro-Mugabe persons to public office
• the use of
the army, police and prison services to support ZANU PF
• the theft of
foreign currency from personal and business bank accounts
• the treasonous
utterances of senior ZANU PF officials
• the refusal by the ZRP to
investigate any crime against non-ZANU PF
members
• the politicising of
the ZRP in contravention of the constitution
• the defiance of court rulings
by SADC in regard to the landgrab
• the illegal sale of diamonds without KP
certification
• the diversion of public funds to ZANU PF and private
purses
• the mobilisation of the army to take on the population
• the
unpunished theft of State and ministerial assets including fuel,
vehicles
and laptops
• the illegal influence held over the judicial process
• the
obscene amalgamation of personal wealth from national assets
• the illegal
influence on the population by war veterans and youth militia
• political
oppression
• the absence of the freedom of the press
• the absence of the
freedom of expression
• the absence of the freedom to meet
Again, the
list can be much longer. Suffice to say, with the influence
Mugabe has over
SADC, the regional bloc finds itself neutered and without
any power to pull
him in line.
And Mugabe is not shy in using his influence on anyone. SADC
has very
little, if any, control over him, and the former SADC mediator,
Thabo Mbeki,
together with the incumbent mediator, Jacob Zuma, have allied
themselves
with Mugabe and are assisting ZANU PF in their headlong fight for
complete
and utter control over Zimbabwe, its assets and its
people.
Mugabe has an unseen hold over the regional bloc, and uses it to
his best
advantage.
Regardless of who stands in his way, Mugabe is
able to walk on by,
untouched, unpunished and unopposed.
Such is
Zimbabwean politics…
Robb WJ Ellis
The Bearded Man
Read
more:
http://mandebvhu.instablogs.com/entry/mugabes-inexactitudes/#ixzz16Ty73KzU
BILL WATCH SPECIAL
[26th November 2010]
House of Assembly Portfolio Committees: Post-Budget Analysis
Meetings:
28th November to 7th December
All Portfolio Committees will be meeting to discuss the budget.
Please note that for easy reference we have listed the Committees alphabetically
and not in the date order of meetings as we usually do. The Committees will
hear from Ministry officials and invited stakeholders. All the meetings are
open to members of the public as observers only, not as participants. If
attending, please use the Kwame Nkrumah Ave entrance to Parliament. IDs must be
produced.
Agriculture, Water, Lands and Resettlement
Wednesday 1st December, 10 am – 12 noon
Thursday 2nd December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Committee Room No. 3
Chairperson: Hon Jiri Clerk: Ms
Mudavanhu
Budget, Finance and Economic Development
Wednesday 1st December, 10 am – 12 noon
Thursday 2nd December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Committee Room No. 413
Chairperson: Hon Zhanda Clerk: Mr
Ratsakatika
Defence and Home Affairs
Monday 29th November, 2 pm – 5 pm
Tuesday 30th November, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 3
Chairperson: Hon Madzore Clerk: Mr
Daniel
Education, Sport, Arts and Culture
Wednesday 1st December, 10 am – 12 noon
Thursday 2nd December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Committee Room No. 4
Chairperson: Hon Mangami Clerk: Ms
Chikuvire
Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International
Trade
Wednesday 1st December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Thursday 2nd December, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 2
Chairperson: Hon Mukanduri Clerk: Mr
Chiremba
Health and Child Welfare
Friday 3rd December, 10 am – 12 noon
Tuesday 7th December, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 1
Chairperson: Hon Dr Parirenyatwa Clerk: Mrs
Khumalo
Higher Education, Science and Technology
Monday 29th November, 2 pm – 5
pm
Tuesday 30th November, 10 am – 12 noon
Government Caucus Room
Chairperson: Hon S. Ncube Clerk: Ms
Mudavanhu
Industry and Commerce
Wednesday 1st December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Thursday 2nd December, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 311
Chairperson: Hon Mutomba Clerk: Ms
Musara
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
Wednesday 1st December, 10 am – 12 noon
Thursday 2nd December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Committee Room No. 2
Chairperson: Hon Mwonzora Clerk: Miss
Zenda
Local Government
Wednesday 1st December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Thursday 2nd December, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 413
Chairperson: Hon Karenyi Clerk: Mr
Daniel
Media, Information and Communication
Technology
Wednesday 1st December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Thursday 2nd December, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 4
Chairperson: Hon S. Moyo Clerk: Mr
Mutyambizi
Mines and Energy
Monday 29th November, 2 pm – 5 pm
Tuesday 30th November, 10 am – 12 noon
Senate Chamber
Chairperson: Hon. Chindori-Chininga Clerk: Mr Manhivi
Natural Resources, Environment and Tourism
Wednesday 1st December, 10 am – 12 noon
Thursday 2nd December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Committee Room No. 1
Chairperson: Hon M. Dube Clerk: Mr
Munjenge
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare
Monday 29th November, 2 pm – 5 pm
Tuesday 30th November, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 1
Chairperson: Hon Zinyemba Clerk: Ms Mushunje
Public Works and National Housing
Tuesday 30th November, 2 pm – 5 pm
Wednesday 1st November, 10 am – 12 noon
Government Caucus
Chairperson: Hon Mupukuta Clerk: Mr
Mazani
Small and Medium Enterprise
Wednesday 1st December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Thursday 2nd December, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 1
Chairperson: Hon R. Moyo Clerk: Ms
Mushunje
State Enterprises and Parastatals
Monday 29th November, 2 pm – 5 pm
Tuesday 30th November, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 311
Chairperson: Hon Mavima Clerk: Mr
Mutyambizi
Transport and Infrastructural Development
Monday 29th November, 2 pm – 5 pm
Tuesday 30th November, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 2
Chairperson: Hon Chebundo Clerk: Ms
Macheza
Women, Youth, Gender and Community
Development
Wednesday 1st December, 2 pm – 5 pm
Thursday 2nd December, 10 am – 12 noon
Committee Room No. 3
Chairperson: Hon Matienga Clerk: Mrs
Khumalo
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