Financial Times
By Tony Hawkins in Harare
Published: November 30 2005 02:00 |
Last updated: November 30 2005 02:00
President Robert Mugabe's ruling
Zanu-PF party claimed a "landslide victory"
at last weekend's Senate
elections but political and business analysts
yesterday were uniformly
downbeat at the outcome.
In the words of one senior banker, who declined
to be named: "The voters
were either apathetic or supported the opposition's
call for a boycott, the
opposition is split down the middle, while the
diplomatic community admits
that it has run out of ideas on what to do
next."
On the face of it, President Mugabe's Zanu-PF won a handsome victory,
taking
19 of the 26 contested seats in the upper chamber. Its candidateswere
returned unopposed in another 24 seats, giving it 43 of the 50 elected
seats. Mr Mugabe will nominate six members and traditional chiefs, who
support the government, will select 10 from their number giving the ruling
party 59 of the 66 seats.
But despite securing so many seats, this
was hardly a a landslide. The voter
turnout was abysmal - an estimated 15
per cent, the lowest since
independence 26 years ago. With the opposition
Movement for Democratic
Change split over whether or not to contest the
election, the Zimbabwe
president must have hoped for a more enthusiastic
turnout by hissupporters.
The opposition faction that rejected MDC leader
Morgan Tsvangirai's boycott
call, also performed dismally, winning just
seven seats - all of them in
Matabeleland where the MDC has always had more
support than the government.
The turnout in Matabeleland was even lower than
elsewhere in the country and
in one constituency with 75,000 registered
voters, the MDC candidate won the
seat by polling fewer than 3,000
votes.
Even as the votes were being counted, the anti-boycott faction
convened a
meeting of MDC officials to suspend Mr Tsvangirai as party leader
pending a
disciplinary inquiry into his decision to overrule the party's
national
council that voted narrowly last month to participate in the
election.
The MDC leader - who arrived at the party headquarters
yesterday defying
those seeking his suspension - appears to have read the
public mood far
better than his rivals. "We have been vindicated. We were
proved right in
our assessment of the national sentiment," he said,
stressing that he would
ignore efforts by his detractors within the MDC to
use the party
constitution or the courts to oust him as leader.
"We
must change gears from discredited election processes that bring pain to
our
people to an era of democratic mass confrontation with the
dictatorship - an
era of non-violent mass resistance," he said. Mr
Tsvangirai, however, has a
serious credibility problem. Several times in the
past he has promised
non-violent mass action, but each time his call to the
people to take to the
streets has flopped.
Given this dismal background, it is hardly
surprising that those anxious to
find a way out of the Zimbabwe maze,
including South Africa's President
Thabo Mbeki, are at their wits end. With
Mr Tsvangirai describing
differences within the MDC as "irreconcilable", any
hope that Mr Mbeki might
once have nurtured of getting Mr Mugabe to set up a
transitional government
of national unity have been dashed. And with the US
and Australian
governments calling the Senate poll "irrelevant" and "a
non-event", there is
no hint of any western initiative to try to break the
logjam. In the Harare
banker's words: "This is the nightmare Myanmar option
- we will become a
non-country."
Washington Times
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
November
30, 2005
Only about 15 percent of registered voters turned out
for Saturday's
parliamentary "elections" in Zimbabwe. The vote was quiet and
orderly, with
Zimbabweans registering their opposition to their leader,
Robert Mugabe, by
staying home. In many districts, electoral officials
outnumbered voters.
This was an election Mr. Mugabe did not have to
steal.
Independent monitors have said the turnout for a new upper chamber
of
parliament was the lowest in Zimbabwe's 25-year history as an independent
country. Morgan Tsvangirai, president of the Movement for Democratic Change
(MDC), called on voters to sit out the vote, but other prominent members of
his party rejected the boycott. The MDC fielded 26 candidates. Mr. Mugabe's
party, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, was virtually
assured a sweeping victory, due to Mr. Tsvangirai's boycott and new
electoral laws that reserve seats for Mugabe loyalists. Zanu-PF won 24 of
the 31 seats that were up for votes, giving it an almost 90 percent majority
in the newly created 66-seat Senate chamber. The MDC won seven seats.
After abolishing the Senate in 1987, Mr. Mugabe and his cronies
re-created
it to dole out new posts to party members. The Senate is composed
of 10
traditional chiefs, six Mugabe appointees and 50 elected seats.
Zimbabweans
overwhelmingly opposed the creation of the new chamber, which
will cost
about $60 million.
Millions of Zimbabweans are starving and inflation has
topped 400
percent. A drought and Mr. Mugabe's policy of racial retaliation
against
white farmers have left severe food shortages. Other essential goods
are
also scarce. Large cities have no fuel to run public transportation and
emergency vehicles and have been forced to suspend essential services. The
national airline, Air Zimbabwe, has been forced to ground all of its
flights.
Mr. Mugabe's deadly grip has turned the former breadbasket
into a
wasteland, and for years it has been an embarrassment to South Africa
and
other free African nations. How bad off does Zimbabwe have to be in
order
for African powerbrokers to act?
Sydney Morning Herald
November 30, 2005 - 1:14PM
The federal government has
added 127 names to a list of people in the
Zimbabwe government barred from
doing business with Australian firms.
The Reserve Bank issued a revised
list of Zimbabwean ministers, headed by
President Robert Mugabe, with whom
Australian firms and individuals are
banned from doing business.
"At
the direction of the Australian government, the Reserve Bank has
expanded
the list of individuals restricted by these financial sanctions to
include
new members of, and persons associated with, the government of
Zimbabwe,"
the bank said.
"All transactions involving the transfer of funds or
payments to, by the
order of, or on behalf of such persons are
prohibited."
Among the new people barred from doing business with
Australia are several
relatives of Mr Mugabe, spouses and children of
ministers, Army general
Constantine Chiwenga, Local Government Minister
Ignatius Chombo, deputy
Trade Minister Kenneth Manyonda and Finance Minister
Herbert Murerwa.
© 2005 AAP
When Robert Mugabe embarked on his disastrous land
distribution little did he know that “it does not rain mealies.” The average
yield for maize is now one tonne per hectare. Achieving yields of 6 tonne per
hectare was the norm for an average commercial farmer prior to the land
invasions in Zimbabwe. I was forcibly removed from my farm and exiled for
opposing the government and running for parliament, before that I had belonged
to the exclusive 10 Tonne Club. This is a body of commercial farmers who had
achieved yields of 10 tonnes or greater under normal agronomic farm practices
using local maize varieties.
Now that 95% of all fertile land is the hands
of Mugabe’s cronies Zimbabwe’s economy and standard of living has now regressed
to pre 1950’s levels according to the UNDP. This continuous decline in the
quality of life and slide into abject poverty and misery is a result of gross
mismanagement, corruption and the forced removal of competent commercial farmers
from their land. All of which are reversible factors with the immediate removal
of Robert Mugabe from power either democratically or otherwise.
Once
productive white farmers have been replaced by inept political imbeciles (new
farmers) whose knowledge of agriculture is equivalent to Chinotimba’s (the
self-proclaimed lord of farm invasions) knowledge of nuclear physics, the
current economic meltdown and food shortages should be no surprise.
Mugabe’s
wicked plan all along has been to entrench Zimbabwe into a feudal society in
which he is lord and the masses owe him for providing land.
A feudal system
is best described as follows:
“For safety and for defense, people in the
Middle Ages formed small communities around a central lord or master. Most
people lived on a manor, which consisted of the castle, the church, the village,
and the surrounding farm land. These manors were isolated, with occasional
visits from peddlers, pilgrims on their way to the Crusades, or soldiers from
other fiefdoms.
Zanu(PF) War veterans, youth brigade and party zealots have
destroyed all farming communities with the exception of churches, a village and
the old farm house (manor) where the new Zanu(PF) functionary resides.
The
feudal system has indeed been thrust upon Zimbabwean society under the guise of
the so called agrarian reform, land distribution, a new senate and the chiefs’
council. Zimbabwe is now cast into the middle ages with Robert Mugabe as its
Lord and Master, his cabinet ministers as nobles, senators and MP’s as barons
and chiefs as bishops.
In this "feudal" system, the king awarded land grants
or "fiefs" to his most important nobles, his barons, and his bishops, in return
for their contribution of soldiers for the king's armies. At the lowest echelon
of society were the peasants, also called "serfs." In exchange for living and
working on his land, known as the "demesne," the lord offered his peasants
protection.
The lord foremost was obligated to grant a fief or its revenues
to the vassal; the fief is the primary reason the vassal chose to enter into the
relationship. In addition, the lord sometimes had to fulfill other obligations
to the vassal and fief. One of those obligations was its maintenance. Since the
lord had not given the land away, only loaned it, it was still the lord's
responsibility to maintain the land, while the vassal had the right to collect
revenues generated from it. Note the similarity to the current Lord Gabriel’s 99
year lease. Another obligation that the lord had to fulfill was to protect the
land and the vassal from harm.
The vassal, in turn, had two obligations to
the lord. First and most importantly, he had to provide "aid", or military
service. Using whatever equipment the vassal could obtain by virtue of the
revenues from the fief, the vassal was responsible to answer to calls to
military service on behalf of the lord. This security of military help was, in
fact, the primary reason the lord entered into the feudal relationship. The
vassal also had to provide the lord with "counsel". If the lord faced a major
decision, such as whether or not to go to war, he would summon all his vassals
and hold a council. In Zimbabwe all receipients of land are now obligated to
finance the ruling party, fund its activities like the upcoming congress and to
kill and maim innocent citizens that the regime percierves to be a threat to its
existence.
The land-holding relationships of feudalism revolved around the
fief. Depending on the power of the granting lord, grants could range in size
from a small farm to a much larger area of land.” Model A1 and A2 under the
current Mugabe feudal regime.
I am thus amazed by Gono, Governor of the
Reserve Bank who 4 years later realises that the chaotic land seizures embarked
on by his collegues are detremental to the economy. He is either a hypocrite or
a severely retarded economist. On one hand Gono finances and encourages those
that stole the land and on the other hand he wants the land owners back.
It
is wrong to forcibly remove another person from their property then stripping
them off their rights as a citizen then expelling them from their country of
birth. Everyone in the Zanu(PF) party and in the Zanu(PF) government has
violated international humanitarian law and is guilty of crimes against
humanity. All shall be answerable for crimes against peace and a thorough,
transparent land audit shall be instituted in order to prosecute all those who
stole other people’s property.
White people have the same rights as any other
black person in Zimbabwe. What is amazing though, is to find that Mozambicans,
Zambians, Malawians and Libyans and even the Chinese are now receipients of the
very same land that was stolen from me and my fellow Zimbabweans. When Mugabe
dies whoever I find on my land shall have to answer to me without the protection
of the tyrant.
To Robert Mugabe I say, agriculture is a science not an
antediluvian peasant practice based on witchcraft and village beer drinking
thinktank indabas. So unless you have a hands on experience in agriculture you
shall always attain abundant yields at political rallies and in your party
manifestos however, poor harvests on the farms shall be your legacy. There is
more to farming than merely owning the land. Let the farmers back on their land
and within a year Zimbabwe will have food, fuel and the foreign currency
required for oiling the vital cogs of our economy.
In my lifetime every man
and woman in Zimbabwe shall account for the land on which they live on and how
they acquired its ownership.
“Vana vembwa havasvinure musi mumwechete”
Phil Matibe - exiled Zimbabwean farmer ,entrepreneur and politician.
Excerpt
State Dept. Daily Press Briefing November 28 2005
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 12:59 pm
Press Release: US State
Department
QUESTION: I was wondering if you can comment on the
outcome of the senate
election in Zimbabwe and if perhaps you can comment on
the sanctions, the
widening of sanctions to 128 people in Zimbabwe. What is
it that you hope to
achieve?
MR. MCCORMACK: Well, a couple of things.
Let me take the first part of your
question first.
Let's also --
let's first discuss kind of what this election was all about.
This was an
election that was designed to elect people to an institution
that has truly
little legal significance. It was created by Mr. Mugabe a few
months ago as,
in our view, a source of patronage for ruling party
politicians. So in terms
of democracy, and we talk about elections as being
part of democracy, this
was really a non-event.
So I guess I can't really offer too much comment
about these elections
beyond that, other than to say the Zimbabwean people
seemed to view them
largely in the same way in the turnout, at least as best
as we were able to
measure, was about at the 30 percent level. So it doesn't
seem as though the
Zimbabwean people took these elections very seriously as
well as a real
exercise in democracy.
In terms of sanctions, we have
for some time, as well as along with other
countries around the world and
the EU, spoken out very clearly about the
need for Zimbabwe to really make a
turnaround in terms of its support for
democracy, democratic institutions,
as well as to stop what has been a
marked deterioration in their economic
situation.
Part of our attempts to do this has been through rhetoric.
Part of it has
been through diplomacy. Mr. Mugabe does not seem to have
gotten the message
from us as well as the rest of the world. So we and
others use the
diplomatic leverage at our disposal, and the sanctions to
which you refer
are part of those, to try to convince those who are
currently leading
Zimbabwe that they are on the wrong path.
New Zimbabwe
By Lebo
Nkatazo
Last updated: 11/30/2005 04:59:31
FORMER Home Affairs Minister and
Zipra supremo, Dumiso Dabengwa, has been
left out in the cold after
President Robert Mugabe ommited him from the six
Senators he is entitled to
appoint.
Dabengwa who slipped into political wilderness after losing in
the 2000
parliamentary elections had pinned his hopes of bouncing back into
mainstream politics through the Senate, running in weekend senate elections
in Nkulumane but lost.
His position as the chairman of the Zambezi
Water Project did not give him
any political clout mainly because of its
legacy of failure.
Zanu PF has 59 members in the 66-member senate which
was created by
controversial new legislation.
Mugabe appointed Zanu
PF's deputy secretary for finance, Kantibal Patel,
fellow party members
Joshua Malinga, Tazvitya Mapfumo, businessman Aguy
Georgias and Peter
Haritotis as Senators.
Samuel Mumbengegwi was appointed Minister for
Indeginasation, replacing the
late Josiah Tungamirai.
Sithembiso
Nyoni also bounced back as the Small Medium Enterprises Minister
after being
appointed a non-constituency MP.
On Monday, Zanu PF announced that Edna
Madzongwe would be the President of
the Senate. She would be deputised by
another old horse, Callistus Ndlovu
who famously said Zapu was "a dead
donkey".
In last weekend's polls, the MDC's Rita Ndlovu defeated Dabengwa
in the
Bulawayo - Nkulumane constituency.
In the 2000 general
elections, the MDC vice president Gibson Sibanda also
defeated Dabengwa in
Nkulumane, prompting the former Home Affairs Minister
to say even if the MDC
had fielded a donkey, it would still have won.
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JAG
Trust correction: The two press articles below relating to the tragic
murder
of Mr Donald Stewart both contain non-factual information relating
to the
ancestry of both Donald and his wife, Margaret. Both Donald and
Margaret
were in fact born and raised here in Zimbabwe. The family have
specifically
requested that this correction be made.
1.
>From The Daily
Telegraph (UK), 28 November
Farmer set on fire in
Zimbabwe
Ingwerati Ranch, Norton
One of Zimbabwe's last remaining
white farmers was strangled and burned to
death in an attack inside his home
yesterday. Don Stewart, 68, was set upon
shortly before dawn in the bedroom
of his tightly-guarded homestead near
Norton, 25 miles west of Harare. He was
one of the last 300 white farmers
left in Zimbabwe. There were 4,000 five
years ago. Police insisted that Mr
Stewart's murder was the work of common
criminals and had no political
motive. His assailants were unable to
penetrate the barred windows and
reinforced doors of his homestead on
Ingwerati dairy ranch. Instead, they
entered through the roof and strangled
Mr Stewart in his bed. Then they
covered him with a mattress, doused it in
petrol and set him alight.
Several of Mr Stewart's workers tried to rescue
him. But when they got
inside the house, also through the roof, he was
already dead. Nothing was
stolen but a hunting rifle. Mr Stewart, who was
born in Britain, lived
alone. After the strain of five years of continuous
violence against white
farmers, his wife, Margaret, had returned to Britain.
His son, David,
worked alongside him on Ingwerati Ranch and lived a mile away
in a cottage.
He was too distraught to speak yesterday. John
Worsley-Worswick, the chief
executive of Justice for Agriculture Trust, a
pressure group, said: "We are
appalled at the cold-blooded murder of yet
another of Zimbabwe's few
remaining productive commercial farmers. It was
particularly abhorrent at
this time of Zimbabwe's acute food crisis."
Zimbabwe's summer rains started
last week but few crops have been planted.
Commercial agriculture has
collapsed following President Robert Mugabe's
purge of white farmers. Mr
Stewart's murder came as the self-destruction of
Zimbabwe's opposition
allowed President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party to
sweep to an easy victory
in elections for a newly-created
senate.
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2.
>From
The Times (UK), 29 November
Farmer's murder a political
hit
>From Jan Raath in Norton
A white farmer was beaten and
strangled by intruders before being burnt in
a pile of petrol-soaked
mattresses. Don Stewart's murder bore "all the
hallmarks of a political
attack" to force his few remaining colleagues off
their land, Justice for
Agriculture, a Zimbabwean pressure group, said. The
intruders took only a
.303 rifle when they left the home of 68-year-old Mr
Stewart, the group
added. After Mr Stewart came under severe pressure from
squatters, his
British-born wife, Margaret, 67, left Zimbabwe for Britain.
The
squatters' invasions of Mr Stewart's ranch, Ingwerati, west of Harare,
had
forced him to reduce his dairy herd from more than 200 to about 60, and
to
reduce the amount of land he cultivated. An estimated 18 white farmers
have
been murdered since 2000, when President Mugabe began his campaign
of
lawless, violent farm invasions to drive whites from their land.
Mr
Worsley-Worswick, of Justice for Agriculture, recalled a statement
last
month by Didymus Mutasa, the Minister of National Security and Land
Reform,
denouncing farmers as "trash". Mr Worsley-Worswick said: "The
politics on
the ground is heightened by the elections. It's always been the
case that
violence on the farms escalates around elections." On Saturday Mr
Mugabe
held elections for a new Senate, which he had abolished in 1987 on
the
ground that it was "a colonial relic". Mr Worsley-Warwick said that
Mr
Stewart's farm had been heavily protected. He added: "An old man
living
alone out there is very exposed and a soft target. If it were
ordinary
thieves, they would have cleaned the place out, but they didn't . .
. it
has all the hallmarks of a political hit." Mr Stewart was one of a
handful
of white farmers left in a district that in 2000 was an important
district
for producing cattle, tobacco and food. Of about 4,000 white farmers
at
that time, only about 300 are believed to be still on their land.
Vast
areas of land once farmed here by white owners are returning to
natural
bush, and the few white-owned farms along the badly rutted road stand
out
as oases of intensive production.
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Car for Sale (Ad inserted 28/11/05)
For sale Isuzu Double Cab 2.8 1995
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1.2
Car for Sale (Ad inserted 24/11/05)
Ford Ranchero for sale in very good
working condition. It has the sort of
body of a rustler only a little
bigger. Light blue in colour, 4.1 litres,
straight 6, 1972 model. Very
reliable and with touch-ups could look quite
modern. $350million. Please
contact Ron (04) 775212-3 or Carmen Van Wyk
(04) 575431-3, cell 091 615656,
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"THE WEAVERY."
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Table Runners.--$290,000.
Set of 4 Fringed Table mats +
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Set of 6 Fringed
mats+ serviettes--$1,310,000.
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Set of 6
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2m
Throws--$980,000.each.
Traycloths--$145,000.
Jug
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Tea cosy(L)--$170,000.
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Tea
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Crocheted oven gloves(pair)--$400,000.
Oven
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Oven
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Aprons--$440,000.
Decorated cushion
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Round crocheted
cushions--$380,000.
Scarves--$400,000. each.
Hats--$210,000
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Ladies jerseys(med.)--$1,730,000 each.
Woven
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210 litre barrels, metal type ,as new
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phone Mr Wallis
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Digital Gram Scale measures up to
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English made 17"
Fan - $4 million
Plastic Sealing machine (foot operated ) hardly used -
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White wooden baby cot - $4 million
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Goods for Sale (Ad inserted 18/11/05)
GEC 2 door fridge freezer.
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Golf umbrella
250,000
String tennis net - 2 million
Old tent sleeps 4 - l million
9
Illustrated children's Encyclopaedia edited by Arthur Mee - 2 million
4
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1 x Hostess Trolley
1 x
Double Bed (Mattress and Base)
1 x 2 drawer Dressing Table with Mirror
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1 x medium fridge (Ocean)
1 x Monarch 390 3 plate stove
1 x
Belling Mini Stove (oven/warming drawer/Hot plate and Grill)
If
interested please contact linda@gekko.co.zw with realistic
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GOODS FOR SALE (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
Various Burma Teak furniture (this
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Chest of drawers
Breakfast
table
Side Table
Many beautiful solid wood bookshelves -
(The new
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which will
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Several solid wood good bedroom chairs.
2 x
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2 x Dark Oak Dining Room Chairs.
1 x OAK drop leaf
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1 x Oak Chest of Drawers (4 x drawers).
1 x Oval oak table - medium
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2 x Panga Panga Dining Room Chairs.
1 x Nursing Chair.
2 x Office
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attention.
1 x
Mahogany drop leaf table (square - perfect for cards or a
sewing
table).
Various strong large tables (dining and kitchen)
One
veneer table large for a Site office/back verandah -old and
reasonably
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1 x round Mahogany (1.25) - dining table.
1 x
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In fact -
tables for Africa!! (these tables do not have chairs.
Tables with chairs
:
1 x Old shaped Table (very good wood - not sure of type) - with 6
Oak
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1 x Antique round dining room table
with 5 chairs (large).
1 x Burmese teak table with 4 chairs - a beauty and
very beautifully
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1 x Petrol lawnmower FROM GERMANY.
1 x
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Set of (metal) garden table with 4
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2 x garden chairs metal with 2x small side tables.
9 Plastic
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3 Garden benches (rustic type).
1 x
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Steel Lounger - A true beauty ! (No
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1 x Single Bed - base and mattress (mint condition) plus headboard
covered
in draylon.
1 x double mattress.
2 x 3/4 beds in really good
condition.
Bunk beds with mattresses. Can be used as a unit or the 2
beds
side-by-side PRISTINE CONDITION.
Some computer desks without
drawers - great size enough space for
printer, scanner etc.
Computer
trolley for top of desk or to be used on the side.
Various smalls: too many
to list.
Lots of Kenwood parts - come and scrounge.
2 x watercolour
paintings.
Cups and saucers 2/3 sets.
2 x sets coffee cups small and
beautiful.
Glasses galore.
Oldish Dinner service - not the full
set.
CASH CRUSADER TEL : 302 081
86 EAST ROAD
AVONDALE
(Just
down the road from Reps Theatre, and the same road as the
Trauma
Centre)
Wilma 091 237
216
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1.10
For Sale (Ad inserted 14/11/05)
2 Man tent with stretcher
Satellite
dish
Workshop
2 work benches
1 metal shelve (+ 3m long, 2 m high,
1/4 m wide)
1 metal folding table
2nd Hand domestic sewing machines +
spares
1 boot sewing machine
Household
1 Dining room suite wrought
iron with formica top
2 Sets of draws (4 or 5)
1 Linen cupboard
2
Wardrobes different sizes
1 Single bed
1 small office desk with 3
draws
1 Kudu horn lamp and shade
Various sets of shelves, wood covered
with formica
1 Tea set
+15 years of readers digests approx 180 copies in
good condition
Please call Grace or Steve, Ruwa 073 2847/2850 or 023 516
290
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1.11
For Sale (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
GAS STOVE FOR SALE, PARKINGSON COWAN
PRINCE TWO, WITH 3 GAS BOTTLES : 2 X
14KGS AND 1 X 4.5KGS.
$25 000
000.00 O.N.C.O.
Please call Shelley on 490684 or 091
264361
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1.12
(Ad inserted 28/11/05)
Haddow House Coffee Shop and Shopping
Centre
WELCOMES ALL TO JOIN IN THE CHRISTMAS FUN.
· Santa will be visiting
the Rabbits every day this December from 10am to
4pm.
· A jumping castle
will be in the garden every Thurs, Fri, Sat.
· Wonderful Christmas gifts are
available at Stable Mates and Galloping
Gear.
· It's a great outing for
the whole family.
Location: 10 East Road Belgravia, tel: 733405 or
726954.
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1.13
For Sale (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
1) Full sized pin pong tables and
trestles. Z$ 12, 000,000 delivered
Harare.
2) Children's coloured
chairs. Z$ 250,000 each
Contact: mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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1.14
Plants for Sale (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
FERNATIC NURSERY
Now that
the weather has warmed up and the rains are now here, it's time to
garden
again! For a variety of FERNS, PINK ARUMS & various other plants
visit
FERNATIC Nursery on Crowhill Road. (1,8km past the Brooke on the left
just
after Hoggerty Hill Drive.)
8-12noon, 3-6pm. Closed
Sundays
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1.15
PIANO FOR SALE (Ad inserted 02/11/05)
J & J HOPKINSON walnut upright
piano for sale. $50 million. Just been
tuned and serviced. Anyone
interested please phone Mandy Gilmour 011
204680 or 069
3878.
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1.16
BOOKS FOR SALE (Ad inserted 16/11/05)
HARRY POTTER AND HALF BLOOD
PRINCE
FIRST EDITION .............FIRST
EDITION.........................FIRST
EDITION hard cover
Pensioner
wanting to sell the above.
Would like to get as close to shop price
(which is $2.500,000) as you are
willing to offer. Highest offer will secure.
Pse contact Wilma/Hirell on
302081 or Wilma on 091 237216.
We are not
taking commission on this - it is sale is for a retired
person.
THE
BOOK IS BRAND NEW - READ ONCE, AND IN IMMACULATE CONDITION
Perhaps a good
idea for an Xmas present for a special
person?
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1.17
For Sale (Ad inserted 17/11/05)
Farm Chemicals FOR SALE -
GRAMOXIN - 4
x 5ltr (NEW SEALED BOX)
ROUND - UP - 2 x 20 ltrs & 1 x 25ltrs
(NEW)
Please phone 499790 or 091 308903
or email greencroft@zol.co.zw
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1.18
For Sale (Ad inserted 17/11/05)
BRAND NEW
Submersible Pumps (0.25KW -
4KW) $13 million upwards
Booster Pumps (0.37KW - 1.1KW) $6 million
upwards
Water Pumps (Petrol) $30 million upwards
Generators(KIPOR 5.5KVA
petrol or diesel) $140 million, $150 million
Lawn Mower (Petrol) $45
million
Knapsacks $3.5 million
Phone Carrie
Email - tpc@mweb.co.zw
Mobile + 263 91
206558
Tel/Fax + 263 4 495
433
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1.19
For Sale (Ad inserted 21/11/05)
1) 40 ha Valley Centre Pivot, c/w
Fertigation Unit.
2) 1 x Electric Baling Press, c/w Baling Box
3) 1 x
Scrap cleaner / Shaker / Grader - suitable Grass seed, Soyas, Maize,
Wheat
etc.
4) MacAdams Bakery equipment including:-
Model 120 Dough
Mixer
Dough piece Moulder
Bread Slicer
Pan trollies c/w pans (Falcon
3)
Confectionery Trollies and Trays
5) 600 Plastic Bread trays - suitable
Bread or Vegetable display and
Transport
Contact:- zanadu@zim.co.zw - phone
091-231393
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1.20
For Sale (Ad inserted 21/11/05)
Vagabond for sale. Only 500 hours. In
sheds at LLA. 190 OMC Inboard. Only
$200,000,000 ONO
Ph: (07) 4957
2381
Fax: (07) 4951 1167
Email: John_Eden@mky.canegrowers.com.au
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1.21
For Sale (Ad inserted 25/11/05)
Eucalyptus Grandis Seedlings from Seed
Orchard Seed, Chaddesley Forest
Nursery, Ruwa.
Tel: 073-2566 or email:
kamba@zim.co.zw
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1.22
Miscellaneous For Sale (Ad inserted 28/11/05)
§ Plumbers vice
§
Compressor (0,100m³ capacity - working pressure 1034KPA)
§ Sea Glyder boat
(18½ ft)
§ 63.5mm x 127mm x 6mm x 10metre channel iron
§ Swimming pool
filter, pump & motor (.56KW)
§ 16-disk rome harrow
§ Bain mower
machine
§ 10 000 litre plastic diesel tank
§ Telefunken Stereo (3 DISC CD
changer & tape deck)
§ 25 x school desks (all- in-one bench & desk-
would also be
suitable for canteen)
All above goods priced at highest
offer.
IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT
§ 74 lengths Irrigation pipes x 4" (main
line)
§ 30 x irrigation hydrants x 4" (main line)
§ Assortment 4" fittings
for irrigation pipe main line
§ 61 x 3" spray line (plain)
§ 40 x 3" riser
pipes
§ 4 x 9m x 3" plain pipes
§ 7 x 1m x 3" riser pipes
§ Assortment
3" fittings for
§ 90 lengths 6" main line (plain &
hydrants)
Please phone: 091270159 / 04 494556 (evenings)
091353045
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1.23
Fuel for Sale (Ad inserted 29/11/05)
We are looking for 3 people to share
a 200L DRUM of petrol :
(We will buy 60L WHICH LEAVES 140L for 1/2/3
other people to join us.)
We are buying from a REPUTABLE petrol dealer
and they quoted us $90,000
per litre in Zim Dollars. This price will be
confirmed on Thursday of this
week when we can phone him and he will tell us
whether the petrol has come
through the border.
BUT CERTAINLY BY
MONDAY 5/12/05 IT WILL BE IN STOCK.
Please phone Wilma/Hirell if you want
to share with us and we will give
you the details
302081 (W)
091
237216
332459
(H)
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1.24
For Sale (Ad inserted 29/11/05)
BUSINESS FOR SALE IN SOUTH
AFRICA
"Fabric Flaire" very well stocked business selling materials
and
haberdashery, the only one in the town of Paulpietersburg. Situated on
the
main street, very good clientele, loads of parking. 3 hours from
Durban,
1&1/2hrs from Ermalo. Owner wishing to retire. R1,000,000.00
walk in walk
out.
Contact number (034) 9951558 between 8.30am and
4.30pm
daily.
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2
WANTED
ITEMS
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2.1
Car Wanted to Buy (Ad inserted 28/11/05)
Urgently seeking to purchase
reliable low mileage car either Toyota
Corolla/Camry,Mazda Familia or
anything similar.
Please email moolies@mweb.co.zw or phone
091606212
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2.2
Wanted (Ad inserted 28/11/05)
I am looking for a transporter to carry a
20 ft container of about 8 tons
to Tanga Tanzania from Harare. I am also
looking to buy three strong heavy
duty 2.7 M grass slashers (for continual
daily use) and two heavy duty 2.5
M tandem disc harrows for export to
Tanzania.
Contact: pereira@iwayafrica.com
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2.3
Wanted (Ad inserted 21/11/05)
Unattached male companion (not for
marriage). He must be decent, patient,
healthy and good humoured. Someone
who loves Zimbabwe, wildlife and wild
places. I am a 60 something, healthy,
energetic female who enjoys life and
adventures and wants someone to share
this with me occasionally.
Alcoholics, pot-bellied grumpy old skabangas need
not apply. Please
contact JAG
office.
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2.4
Pets (Ad inserted 29/11/05)
Wanted a PERSIAN CROSS KITTEN.. As long as
it is fluffy we'd love to have
him/her.
Contact: 073-2317 Debbie on
091314285 or 011
603762
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2.5
Pets (Ad inserted 11/11/05)
Wanted: a large breed bitch puppy or possibly
a mature bitch, but
preferably not Rottweiler.
Contact Jocelyn Ricquebourg
04-344009 or Cell
011-406611
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2.6
Pets - Home Wanted - (Ad inserted 22/11/05)
We are looking for a home for
our 9 month old dog. He is a blue-heeler
cross staffie and has been
neutered. He is good with children and loves
life to the full but, being an
Australian sheep dog type, he needs a
companion & space (preferably a
farm) to run & be active. If you are
interested in meeting "Blue" please
contact Peta Beattie on 882707 or
091226191 or pjb@zol.co.zw
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2.7
Pets - Home Wanted - (Ad inserted 04/11/05)
Two Jack Russells looking for
kind and loving home. Tiger and Tina both 6
years. House trained, good little
watchdogs. Owner can't keep them as he
has moved into a flat. Tel Michelle on
884294 or e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw
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2.8
Pets - Home Wanted - (Ad inserted 04/11/05)
Home wanted for young dog
with super nature. He is about 18 months and is a
boerbull/Labrador, cream in
colour. Found abandoned, longing to be loved.
Tel Michelle on 884294 or
e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw
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2.9
Pets - Home Wanted - (Ad inserted 21/11/05)
Fox Terrier Lovers. Super
little bitch 'Heidi' looking for good home,
lovely nature. 5 years. Tel
Michelle on 884294 or e-mail
gandami@mweb.co.zw.Owner leaving end
November so
URGENT.
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2.10
Wanted (Ad inserted 14/11/05)
Piranha Fisherman or similar with 85hp
Yamaha. Also looking for a separate
motor.
250mm VJ couplings for ac
pipe
7.5KVA, 4 POLE MOTOR
TESS KAGELER 011 607466 ; 302909; or jtkageler@zol.co.zw
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2.11
Wanted (Ad inserted 15/11/05)
WANTED
Greenhouse plastic, any size,
used, less than 2 years old
Contact
stangers@mweb.co.zw
cell; 011
717975
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2.12
(Ad inserted 01/11/05)
WANTED. Cattle salt.
Contact mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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2.13
(Ad inserted 17/11/05)
Wanted:
Second hand Fax Machine.
Please
phone Richard on 091-239966 / 04 481072 or email richardo@zol.co.zw
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2.14
Wanted to Buy (Ad inserted 24/11/05)
Would like to buy before Xmas: 2
single bed mattresses and 1 kitchen
cupboard/unit for farm
employees.
Phone I. Boye Bulawayo 285330 or 091215879 or vetsboye@netconnect.co.zw
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2.15
Wanted (Ad inserted 29/11/05)
Wanted urgently for the JAG
office:
1 small fridge - to loan or to buy.
2 cellphone lines
(preferably 011 and 091 contract
lines).
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2.16
Bicycles wanted (Ad inserted 29/11/05)
Wanted for Christmas:
3
mountain bikes for children ranging from ages 11 - 14.
Please contact the
JAG
office.
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3.
ACCOMMODATION WANTED AND
OFFERED
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3.1
Accommodation offered (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
Cute house in Imbeza Valley,
Mutare for rent. Would suit a person who
wants to grow stuff and chill.
Please make contact through this email
address pollyanna@comeone.co.zw
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3.2
Accommodation offered (Ad inserted 04/11/05)
Free Accommodation offered
to displaced farmers - 16km from Mutare on main
Vumba Rd.
Contact:
Colleen Taylor
c/o Leopard Rock Hotel 020-60115
Home 020-81061
e-mail
lrock@zol.co.zw
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3.3
Accommodation offered (Ad inserted 11/11/05)
Two bedroom garden flat,
Greendale, easy walking to shops, with carport,
available end of November.
Please phone Mr Wallis
023894597.
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3.4
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 22/11/05)
Single mom with one child
looking for a secure, affordable two bedroomed
cottage in the
Borrowdale/Ballantyne Park area.
Contact: Anthea 091 261
741
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3.5
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 21/11/05)
Ex-farming family desperately
seeking a house to rent - preferably in the
Chisipite/Ballantyne Park/Mandara
side (near Chisipite Senior School). We
need a 4 bedroomed house, with an
additional office/studio, and preferably
a pool. We have 3 girls, aged 13, 10
and 8 years. We don't have dogs. We
are hoping to lease for at least a
year.
Tel : Home +263-4-498292, Work (Jo) +263-4-490718
Cells :
+263(0)23411377, +263(0)23401822
Fax : +263-4-494375
Email : nesaunders@zol.co.zw
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3.6
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 26/10/05)
Looking for affordable
accommodation from the end of December. A cottage,
small house or garden flat
(in good condition, child friendly environment).
To be occupied by a couple
with a child and four kittens/cats. Please
contact Carmen Van Wyk on 091 615
656 or (work) 575
431-3.
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3.7
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 01/11/05)
URGENT!
ACCOMMODATION TO
RENT
SINGLE MOM WITH TWO CHILDREN DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR 3
BEDROOMED
UNFURNISHED GARDEN FLAT, HOUSE OR COTTAGE. CAN BE IN HIGHLANDS,
GREENDALE,
AVONDALE, MARLBOROUGH, MT PLEASANT AREAS ETC
CONTACT CAROL 091
603847 OR EMAIL vanessas@zol.co.zw
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3.8
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 11/11/05)
Small house or cottage.
Preferably with own entrance and garden & good
security. Suitable for
young married couple with dogs. Areas:
Borrowdale/Greystone park/Glen
Lorne/Helensvale or close. Unfurnished.
Needed from beginning of
January.
CONTACT tourleaders@zol.co.zw or phone 091208836
or
091289345.
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3.9
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 24/11/05)
Single professional male 24
seeks cottage with 1 or 2 rooms for 1 Dec 2005,
own bath and toilet. Stays
with brother 21 who is at UZ. Long lease an
added
advantage. Rent offer up
to 7m neg. Please call/text Bevan on
091882863/Transaction Technologies
309800-19 or Ian
023244409.
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3.10
Accomodation Wanted (Ad inserted 24/11/05)
Mature male seeking one
bedroomed flat in Highlands, Borrowdale, Glen
Lorne, Chisipite, Greendale
etc. Married but family stays out of town. Long
lease. Contact
011433588
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4
RECREATION
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4.1
HOLIDAYS (Ad inserted 28/11/05)
Savuli Safari, self catering chalets in
the heart of the Save Valley
Conservancy. Game watching, fishing, horse
riding, canoeing, walking trails
and 4x4 hire. Camp fully kitted including
cook and fridges. Just bring
your food, drinks and relax. $750 000 pppn,
1/2 U/12. Booking at
Off2Africa, phone 498480, or 091-943195 email: emma@off2africa.co.zw or
direct 091
631 556 or savuli@mweb.co.zw
John
Tayler
Singisi Farm
Pvt. Bag
7011
Chiredzi
Zimbabwe
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4.2
Ad inserted 01/11/05
GACHE GACHE LODGE - Kariba
With the weather now
nice and hot, it is time to go up to Kariba! Book for
this ideal family
holiday now, especially if you like to catch a fish!
(Xmas & New Year
full, sorry)
Contact tourleaders@zol.co.zw for more info
today!
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5
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
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5.1
(Ad inserted 29/11/05)
Do you dread the thought of holding your child's
party?
Do you have nowhere to hold a party?
Do you have no time to plan
and hold a party?
Your problems have ended!
Penny and Shelley will
organize everything for your child's party.
Theme parties could include
:
Transport, Space, Animals, Noah's Arc, Barbie, Spider Man,
Barney,
Insects,Winnie the Pooh, Toy Box, The Sky, etc.
We can have it
in a garden, at Safety Sam, etc, provide ponies, jumping
castles, slippery
slides, games, individual eats, group eats, painting or
craft parties where
your children can all create something to take home.
Call Shelley now on
091 264361 or 490684
Or Penny on 091 237434 or
336955
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5.2
(Ad inserted 23/11/05)
BAG YOURSELF AN ARTIST THIS
CHRISTMAS
Zimbabwe's most sought after Xmas present this year will be a
"shopping"
bag decorated by one of the country's top artists. Daryl Nero,
Sheena
Chadwick, Charles Kamangwana, Kate Raath, Chiko Chazunguza and a host
of
others have agreed to decorate sturdy canvas bags for The Friends of
the
Gallery to raise funds towards adding to the permanent collection of
the
National Gallery and the Spinal Injuries Association.
These
beautiful bags will be auctioned at a reception at the French
Ambassador's
residence on Thursday 1st December at 5:30pm. If you would
like to attend
this prestigious event at a cost of $150 000 per person,
please contact
Patience Shoko at the National Gallery in Harare on 704666/7
Monday - Friday
between 9 and 4 to secure your
ticket.
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5.3
(Ad inserted 14/11/05) Care Management Services. Formerly called
"Substitute
Daughter."
Have you left Zim? Are worried about a remaining relative? For
a modest fee
our service will monitor the well being - physical, mental and
emotional -
of those
who might be in need. The service is run by
qualified, experienced,
registered nurses of "the old school". We ensure that
health needs are
being met and that if your relative needs any other sort of
care -
nursing, financial services, transport, domestic aid, medical
visits
etc... - we will arrange for these needs to be met. We visit regularly
and
keep you informed with reliable, accurate reports of all developments.
24
hour call available.
Want to know more? e-mail: brumarlow@mango.zw
Ph.: 00-263-4- 302518
(after hours) or 00-263-91-603621.
References will be supplied on
request.
Margaret Low. SRN.
SCM.
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5.4
(Ad inserted 11/11/05)
Harare SPCA Boarding Kennels
Harare SPCA is
under new management. Mrs Mary Toet is the Administrator
and Mrs Yvonne Rose
(ex Mutare SPCA) is the Animal Welfare Officer.
We have recently
consolidated our operations, and constructed some new
kennels at the Boarding
Kennels Site. With these now complete, we can now
reoffer a boarding service
for dogs, and will be open for business on 1
December, in time for the
Christmas holidays.
Please phone 576356/7 for details and
bookings.
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5.5
(Ad inserted 11/11/05)
Harare SPCA Charity Shop
The Charity Shop
is still operative, but needs stock urgently. As I live
just off Ridgeway
North I am in a position to be able to collect to take
delivery of goods
which can include virtually anything and everything.
Harare SPCA is under
new management and as a result it has undergone a
considerable change for the
better, and we feel that our service to animal
welfare is now worthy of the
aims of the SPCA.
We would be grateful for any donations of any kind to
help us keep going.
Funding is an eternal problem, as sadly we are all too
aware.
Vicki Campbell (Treasurer)
Phone: 851115 Cell 091
256554
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5.6
(Ad inserted 26/10/05)
ZEB Water Back-up Systems
Tired of erratic,
unreliable water supplies or low water pressure? Invest
in a reliable water
back-up system. We supply, install and maintain water
back-up systems to all
areas in and around Harare.
WE ARE NOW ABLE TO DELIVER UP TO 7000 LITRES
PER DROP OFF to fill your tank
if you have been off municipal for some
time!
For more information please contact us on 011-424712 or 011-806525
e-mail
bowen@zol.co.zw
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5.7
Ad inserted 26/10/05
Oxford IT
A leading IT professional recruitment
firm, with specialized staff, are
ready to meet your recruitment needs. Give
us a call today to secure top
calibre personnel for all your IT
requirements.
Don't Hesitate - IniTiate!
Call : Monique Fachet or
Melissa Ricardo on 309274 (Direct) or via
Switchboard on 309800 - 17 (Ext 270
or 272)
Oxford IT
Agriculture House
South East Wing
Cnr Adylinn
Road/Marlborough
Drive
Marlborough,
Harare
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5.8
(Ad inserted 15/11/05)
ROOF LEAKS / RISING DAMP
WE SPECIALISE IN
WATERPROOFING, DAMPPROOFING, WALL AND ROOF COATINGS.
WE MAY BE LOCAL, BUT
OUR PRODUCTS ARE NOT!!!!
FOR ALL INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTIES.
CONTACT: 882511, 091 261 741 or 011 420
003
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JAG
Hotlines:
+263 (011) 205 374 If you are in trouble or need advice,
please
don't hesitate to contact us - we're here to help!
+263 (04) 799 410 Office
Lines
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To
advertise (JAG Members): Please email classifieds to: jag@mango.zw with
subject "Classifieds".
Steven Price
November 30,
2005
The board of Zimbabwe Cricket should finally meet on Saturday in
Harare to
discuss a number of issues which might culminate in the
appointment of a new
captain and new selection panel.
The board,
headed by beleaguered chairman Peter Chingoka, has not met since
September
12 when it briefly convened in Bulawayo following the annual
general meeting
held earlier in the day. That meeting has since been
declared null and void
as only seven out of the 12 members attended and
therefore did not
constitute a quorum in terms of the organisation's
constitution.
It
is not yet clear whether all the members will turn up this time as a
number
of them have refused to attend meetings called by Chingoka as part of
the
ongoing row blighting the game.
A new captain is expected to be announced
following the retirement of
Tatenda Taibu last week. Allrounder Andy
Blignaut, currently playing
franchise cricket for Highveld Lions in South
Africa, is favourite, although
he blotted his copybook somewhat when he
joined the strike in 2004, and
top-order batsman Hamilton Masakadza is also
in the frame.
A fresh selection panel should also be unveiled. A new
panel was named at
the illegal September 12 meeting, comprising Bruce
Makovah (convener), Ethan
Dube, Macsood Ebrahim and Robin Brown, but they
never assumed their duties
and the old panel, led by Ebrahim with Dube and
Richard Kaschula, selected
the squads for the two Tests against India. As
things stand, the selectors
won't have too much to do as almost all the
country's players have said they
will refuse to play while Chingoka
remains.
The board is also expected to clarify the status of former
national coach
Phil Simmons who was sacked in August following Zimbabwe's
dismal showing in
the two Tests against New Zealand. It subsequently emerged
that Simmons's
dismissal was probably unconstitutional as it was made by
senior board
officials rather than the board as a whole. That led to Simmons
taking ZC to
court for unfair dismissal.
Whatever happens, the
meeting will be overshadowed by the escalating crisis
engulfing the game,
and the ongoing investigations by the Sports and
Recreation Commission and
the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
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