Reuters
Wed 24 Oct 2007,
15:07 GMT
By Nelson Banya
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's central
bank chief said on Wednesday that the
country should not return to the chaos
triggered by a government price
freeze that caused a shopping frenzy and
emptied store shelves.
Food shortages have worsened in the southern
African nation since President
Robert Mugabe's government ordered businesses
to roll back prices to
mid-June levels in a desperate bid to rein in the
world's fastest-rising
consumer prices.
Reserve Bank Governor
Gideon Gono, who at times has criticised the
government's economic policies,
said further price control moves would
backfire.
"We are aware that
we will have a temporary upsurge in inflation as we ramp
up our engines, but
we must not be tempted to go back to the anarchy of the
past three months,"
Gono told journalists at a weekly briefing on
preparations for the 2007/8
farming season.
"Prices must be decontrolled and there must never be any
expectation by
consumers that prices can be held at levels of three months
ago ... there's
an animal called inflation."
The freeze led to a
slowdown in inflation in August. But the figure shot to
a record 7,900
percent last month in what political analysts said was a
clear sign the
government was losing the inflation battle.
Prices have started climbing
again after the freeze was eased for some
goods. Many businesses had slashed
or halted production fearing losses at
government stipulated
prices.
On Tuesday, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe said the monthly
average cost
of living for a family of six had risen 30 percent to Z$ 21.7
million, which
is worth $723 on the official market and $25 on a thriving
black market.
An average government worker earns a monthly gross salary
of Z$17 million.
Shortages of food, fuel and foreign currency and rising
unemployment have
underpinned Zimbabwe's economic crisis, which critics
blame on Mugabe's
policies, such as the seizure of white-owned farms to
resettle landless
blacks.
Although the crisis has fanned tensions,
political analysts say a fractured
opposition poses little challenge to
Mugabe, who has ruled the country since
1980.
But analysts say the
economic meltdown could threaten Mugabe's grip on
power. Mugabe accuses his
Western enemies of seeking to topple him by
funding the opposition and
inciting businesses to hike prices.
On Wednesday, Agriculture Minister
Rugare Gumbo said the government aimed to
produce 3 million tonnes of the
staple maize crop in the 2007/8 farming
season.
But critics doubt
output could rise sharply after years of decline. Official
statistics show
that only 500,000 tonnes of maize were delivered to the
state grain agency
this year, against annual requirements of almost 2
million tonnes.
Reuters
Wed 24 Oct
2007, 12:07 GMT
HARARE, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government expects
the country to
produce 3 million tonnes of the staple maize crop in the
2007/8 farming
season, and to stop importing maize, the agruculture minister
said on
Wednesday.
"We have targeted to put 2 million hectares under
maize and expect to get
about 3 million metric tonnes of maize at an average
expected yield of about
1.55 tonnes per hectare," Agriculture minister
Rugare Gumbo told journalists
in Harare
"Once we have a normal
rainfall season, we will have a bumper harvest," he
added.
The
southern African country -- once a regional bread basket -- has failed
to
feed itself since 2000 when President Robert Mugabe's government seized
white-held farms to resettle landless blacks who often lack expertise and
funding.
Yahoo News
By
MacDonald Dzirutwe Wed Oct 24, 10:47 AM ET
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe
will investigate accusations of political
violence against opposition
activists by security forces and ruling party
supporters, the main
opposition party said on Wednesday.
Zimbabwean Home Affairs Minister
Kembo Mohadi met opposition officials who
chronicled cases of alleged
politically motivated violence by the police,
army, intelligence services
and supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
"He assured us that once the
investigation is over he will call us again to
give us a full answer as to
what he has discovered," Sam Nkomo, a senior
official of the main opposition
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), told
reporters.
There was no
immediate comment on Wednesday's meeting from the government.
The MDC
said last week that the government was escalating a violent
crackdown
against its members, but would not walk away from talks with the
ruling
ZANU-PF.
Mugabe, who denies allegations of widespread human rights
abuses, accuses
the opposition of carrying out and fomenting violence and
working with
Western powers to oust him.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF and the MDC
are holding talks mediated by South African
President Thabo Mbeki as part of
regional efforts to end Zimbabwe's
deepening economic crisis and promote
political reconciliation.
The negotiations have yielded a compromise
constitutional amendment allowing
Mugabe to pick a successor if he retires
mid-term while the president's
powers to choose members of parliament have
been curbed.
MDC officials said Mohadi indicated that the government
wanted the talks to
be "fruitful for the country and anything that will
jeopardize (the talks)
is not encouraged."
Opposition officials have
said they recorded more than 4,122 alleged cases
of political violence since
January.
The MDC said it informed Mohadi of what it said was a ZANU-PF
plot to burn
its campaign vehicle fleet ahead of next year's presidential
and
parliamentary elections.
Mohadi said he was not aware of the plot
but promised to investigate, Nkomo
said.
The opposition has alleged
that Zimbabwe's tough security laws, which
require political parties to
notify the police when holding political
gatherings, were applied
selectively and that police often ban MDC meetings
without
reason.
Mohadi said he was not aware that MDC meetings were banned. The
opposition
would notify police of a planned demonstration to test the
minister's
sincerity, said Nkomo.
IOL
October
24 2007 at 02:11AM
Harare - Zimbabwe's crisis has now reached
tipping point, a
spokesperson for the main opposition Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC)
warned on Tuesday as a local consumer watchdog said
the cost of living had
climbed 30 percent in a month.
"It is
now clear that Zimbabwe's crisis has reached the tipping
point," said the
MDC's Nelson Chamisa who said bread was now "as scarce as
gold".
Food shortages have worsened since July following
President Robert
Mugabe's controversial order that all prices be slashed by
at least 50
percent.
Most basics are now only available on the
expensive black market. Many
Zimbabweans say they are surviving on
vegetables.
Chamisa whose party is currently
involved in delicate South
African-brokered talks with Mugabe's ruling
Zanu-PF also pointed to
widespread power outages which have crippled
hospitals, schools,
universities and industry.
"They (the
ruling party) are not worried about our suffering," the
spokesperson
said.
His comments came as the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ)
reported a
30 percent surge in the cost of living for a family of six, up to
ZIM$21.7-million in September.
Senior teachers report that
their take-home pay that month was just
four million dollars.
The CCZ said there had been a 222 percent rise in the cost of the
staple
maize meal, while rentals have surged by an average of 34 percent. -
Sapa-dpa
Zimbabwe Election
Watch
Issue 9 : 23 October
2007
Executive Summary
"True democracy can only be restored in Zimbabwe if we restore genuine, democratic elections and restore an electoral environment that will allow free and fair elections to take place."
This concept is central to RESTORE 2, a document compiled by The Zimbabwe Institute (ZI) to provide a blueprint for the restoration of democracy in Zimbabwe.
Its precursor, RESTORE, was launched in 2004 following the signing of the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections by heads of state in Mauritius.
The ZI document, signed by Brian Raftopoulos, chairman, and Isaac Maposa, director, defines elections as a process, not as an event. It stipulates that, to ensure free and fair elections, Zimbabwe has to:
The events highlighted in this issue of Zimbabwe Election Watch - and in all the preceding issues - demonstrate that a free and fair election cannot take place in the existing electoral environment.
In fact the political violence perpetrated by the ruling Zanu PF party has now become so serious and blatant that the Movement for Democratic (MT) has written to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to "register concern over the violent crackdown against its supporters…"
The letter notes that a total of 103 rallies and marches have been crushed, while seven murders, 18 rapes, 69 abductions, 459 cases of torture, 2 323 cases of interference or intimidation, 1 141 cases of assault and 152 cases of unlawful detention have been recorded.
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), an apolitical social justice movement, presented a damning report in South Africa and said the Mugabe regime was behaving like "a militia or a warlord". The group said there was no possibility of free and fair elections next year.
The political climate has become so hostile and chaotic that armed riot police stormed a hotel in Masvingo and arrested a group of MDC women while they were having lunch. The group was accused of holding an illegal meeting.
Yet again police have severely assaulted and injured members of the National Constitutional Assembly for attempting a protest march to Parliament.
There has been a fresh wave of violence reportedly ignited by Zanu PF councillors in the southeastern district of Chipinge, while in the MDC stronghold of KweKwe, homes were destroyed by heavily armed police using sledgehammers.
A Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) plan outlining Zanu PF's vote rigging strategy has been exposed. It includes mechanisms for maintaining control of rural areas, vote buying and targeting journalists, opposition members and civil society leaders that are under surveillance.
A leading member of the independent Zimbabwe Liberators' Platform has dismissed the ongoing pro Mugabe marches by war veterans as "scare tactics to ward off opposition."
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Tuesday said it had written to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to register concern over a violent crackdown against its supporters by government agents and activists of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF party.
Nelson Chamisa, who is spokesman of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party led by Morgan Tsvangirai, told journalists in Harare that his party had recorded more than 4 000 cases of politically motivated human rights violations against its supporters between January and June this year.
Reporting on the presentation, zimbabwejournalists.com wrote:
In the letter, the MDC detailed a series of attacks that had occurred since the talks began in April.
A total of 103 rallies and marches had been crushed, while seven murders, 18 rapes, 69 abductions, 459 cases of torture, 2 323 cases of interference or intimidation, 1 141 cases of assault and 152 cases of unlawful detention had been recorded.
"While the MDC and Zanu PF are engaged in dialogue in Pretoria, the regime has continued to hound our supporters, brutally assaulting and attacking them against the spirit of the dialogue process," the MDC said.
"There's no use being in talks in Pretoria and at war here at home."
Source: Zim Online
(ZW)
Link to source: http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=2175
SADC standards breached
No
chance of fair election in Zim
Source Date: 10-10-2007
Robert Mugabe's regime is behaving like "a militia or a warlord", and there is no possibility of free and fair elections next year.
This is according to Zimbabwean women who have been repeatedly arrested and tortured by Mugabe's security force.
"There is sustained repression in Zimbabwe. Free and fair elections cannot be held," said Jenni Williams, co-founder of Women of Zimbabwe Arise or WOZA (an apolitical social justice movement) at a press briefing yesterday in Johannesburg.
Williams - who has been arrested 25 times - added: "WOZA has often been the target of unprovoked violence."
A preliminary report on political violence against WOZA members paints a shocking picture about acts of suppression perpetrated by Zimbabwe police.
Assault, abduction or kidnapping, political threats, rape, forced removal of underwear while in custody, unlawful detention and psychological and physical torture were some of the abuses the WOZA women were subjected to, the report revealed.
*Note: The report showed that 73 percent of an initial sample of 397 members had been arrested more than once, 40 percent were tortured and 50 percent detained longer than the allowed 48 hours. About 26 percent were injured badly enough to receive medical treatment.
Identified victims: Jenni Williams, co-founder of WOZA; Clarah Makoni, WOZA activist
Source: Citizen
Article Link: http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=50045,1,22
SADC standards breached
Zim
women speak of torture camp
Source Date: 10-10-2007
… Among those present at the launch [of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) preliminary report] in South Africa …. was WOZA activist Clarah Makoni.
(She) broke down in tears as she related her ordeal in April when she went to deliver food to friends taking part in a protest over electricity shortages….
"I was beaten, kicked and tortured by the police... After several hours I was told to report at the police station the following day as they could not arrest me due to my age. When I went again I was beaten and tortured again till I fell sick.
I was taken to (the southern city of) Bulawayo where they torture people (Fairbridge torture camp) where the torture continued for hours. I was whipped while lying on my stomach. They then put me in a room full of ice."
The teenager was then ordered to cross an electric fence before having to make her way back home, a journey of more than 400 kilometres….
Identified victims: Jenni Williams, national co-ordinator of WOZA; Clarah Makoni, WOZA activist
Source: AFP
Link to source:
http://africa.iafrica.com/c2cnews/624422.htm
SADC standards breached
At least 20 women from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly holding an illegal meeting at a hotel in the southern town of Masvingo.
Armed riot police stormed the hotel in Masvingo, about 260km south of the capital Harare, and arrested the women from the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC who were having lunch at the hotel.
The police, who accused the women of holding an unsanctioned political gathering at the hotel, later bundled the women into trucks and took them to Masvingo Central police station.
The MDC women, who included Theresa Makone and former legislator Evelyn Masaiti, were however later released after four hours of interrogation….
Identified victims: Theresa Makone, former legislator Evelyn Masaiti
Source: Zim
Online (ZW)
Link to source: http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=2189
SADC standards breached
Police
severely assault protesters in Harare
Source Date:
17-10-2007
Police on Tuesday severely assaulted and injured more than 30 members of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) political pressure group for attempting to march to Parliament to protest against constitutional reforms agreed between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition last month….
The NCA and other civic society groups have opposed the constitutional changes, saying any process to amend the country's governance charter should include all stakeholders and that what is needed are not piecemeal changes but wholesale constitutional reforms to produce a new and democratic constitution for the country.
In a statement, the NCA said its activists were on a peaceful march to Parliament to show their disapproval of Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 18 when the police pounced, beating up and injuring 34 of the marchers.
"We wonder why the regime still believes in bloodshed. We were merely exercising our right to demonstrate against something we abhor," the group said, adding that those injured were taken to a private hospital for treatment.
Source: Zim Online (ZW)
Link to
source: http://www.zimonline.co.za/Article.aspx?ArticleId=2179
SADC standards breached
Several People Hurt in Fresh Chipinge Unrest
Source Date:
10-10-2007
At least 10 Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters have been injured and several had their houses and cars damaged in Chipinge in a fresh wave of violence reportedly ignited by Zanu PF councillors in the southeastern district.
Trouble started when (Mbandure), a local Zanu-PF councillor for Ward One, stormed the Gaza business centre on Saturday and tried to disperse the over 300 MDC supporters attending a rally that had been sanctioned by the police….
Unknown to the opposition supporters, Mbandure is alleged to have rallied his supporters who armed themselves with sticks, stones and bottles and went on a rampage, indiscriminately attacking people in the area. No arrests were made after the attacks….
Every time the MDC organizes a rally now, state security agents are (reportedly) taking over the venue and distributing maize. Known MDC activists are forbidden from getting near these distribution points.
Identified perpetrators: Zanu PF Councillor Mbandure, Ward 1
Source: SW
Radio Africa (ZW)
Link to source: http://www.swradioafrica.com/news101007/chipinge101007.htm
SADC standards breached
MDC
activist hospitalised in Chipinge after torture
Source Date:
12-10-2007
A magistrate in Chipinge on Thursday ordered Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activist Charles Nyathi to be rushed to hospital for treatment after he was badly tortured in police cells. Nyathi is the information secretary for Chipinge.
The 27 year-old self-employed Nyathi, who has a wife and small daughter, was arrested on Monday by the police in Chipinge following political disturbances that saw at least 10 MDC supporters sustaining injuries in violence ignited by Zanu PF councillors.
Nyathi who had visible cuts and abrasions when he appeared in court to answer charges of public violence was later released on Z$500 000 bail. He had some of his front teeth knocked out and is also suspected to have suffered a broken jaw.
Identified victims: Charles Nyathi, MDC information secretary for Chipinge
Source: SW Radio Africa (ZW)
Link to
source: http://www.swradioafrica.com/news121007/chipingeMDC121007.htm
SADC standards breached
Zimbabwe rights groups concerned about abuses ahead of the
elections
Source Date: 08-10-2007
… (According to the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum’s latest report), the country's political environment is "largely defined by torture, intimidation and politically motivated violence" against rights defenders.
The report highlighted other violations including abduction or kidnapping, assaults, restriction of freedom of expression or movement, political discrimination, victimisation, unlawful arrests and detention.
The Forum said that in August, about 30 members of the Zimbabwe National Army circulated in the Harare high-density suburb of Dzivarasekwa beating up women and children who were selling various wares.
In an unrelated incident on August 8, more than 70 uniformed soldiers "ran amok in Esigodini in Matabeleland South, where they assaulted villagers (and) looted the village headman's shop" in what was seen as retaliation for a scuffle involving army officers and local villagers….
The Zimbabwe Peace Project report … (also listed) cases of murder, assault and political intolerance. (In addition, it noted that) agricultural "inputs and food continue to be distributed along partisan lines" excluding those known to oppose the ruling Zanu PF party.
The report also alleged that officials from the Office of the Registrar General carrying out a mobile voter registration exercise that ended in mid-August seemed to be under the control of politicians" as they failed to professionally manage the process."
Zimbabwe Peace Project National Director Jestina Mukoko told … VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that the rights abuse trend suggests trouble ahead as the country prepares for national elections in March 2008.
Source: VOANews (USA)
Link to source:
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/2007-10-08-voa36.cfm
SADC standards breached
New
Murambatsvina wave hits KweKwe
Source Date: 18-09-2007
Thirty eight families from Amaveni in KweKwe were last week left homeless after council officials from the town, accompanied by heavily armed police officers, used sledgehammers to knock down their homes.
The latest crackdown against 'illegal' housing by the Zanu PF led council in the town has met with harsh condemnation from the local MDC MP Blessing Chebundo, who described it as 'heartless' and politically motivated.
The demolitions were carried out last week Tuesday on a plot in Chiwundura B where most of those affected had lived for more than 40 years….
"This is political retribution against MDC supporters. The same people were targeted in 2003 for voting MDC in 2002. In 2005 some homes in the plot were demolished and now they have come back to ensure no one will be around to vote in 2008," Chebundo said….
Source: SW Radio Africa (ZW)
Link to
source: http://www.swradioafrica.com/news181007/kwekwe181007.htm
SADC standards breached
CIO
document outlines Zanu rigging strategy
Source Date:
11-10-2007
As the nation’s focus is fixed upon the talks between Zanu PF and the opposition, plans by the ruling party are already underway to unleash its violent election rigging machinery into the countryside, intelligence information at hand reveals.
The Zimbabwean has gathered information exposing a plan by the Zanu PF machinery, spearheaded by the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) that also includes the other security arms – the police and army – as well as youth militia.
The CIO is planning “to ensure the party keeps its popularity in the rural constituencies and that the opposition finds it difficult to penetrate them.”
The CIO is preparing a dossier outlining the election campaign strategy, reported by our sources to be inclusive of lists of journalists as well as opposition and civil society leaders that are under surveillance.
“Campaigning in the rural constituencies must be based on distributing farming equipment, seeds and fertilizers,” the information states.
“There is progress by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and the relevant ministries on making these available. Army and police have to be involved in the distribution as a way of creating a picture of authority in the eyes of the electorate.
“Youths trained by government are already mobilised and ready for deployment into the constituencies where their roles are clearly defined as that (sic) of ensuring the opposition does not get access to the electorate and identifying trouble causers.”
This paper has exposed a plan by the ruling party to campaign using scotch carts and ox-drawn ploughs, produced at a cost of over Z$3 trillion provided by the RBZ.
…The Zanu PF government is (also reported to be) hoarding grain and other basic commodities for next year’s combined parliamentary and presidential elections.
Source: Zimbabwean, The (ZW)
Link to
source: www.thezimbabwean.co.uk
SADC standards breached
Military base strikes terror among villagers
Source Date:
22-10-2007
For motorists cruising along the Gutu-Chivhu highway, a "No Through Road" sign near the 43 km peg is just like any other road sign that signals the end of the road in the once thriving ranching area….
Less that two kilometres from the sign, along the well-maintained gravel road, lies a small Air Force of Zimbabwe base where about 15 soldiers guard a radar installation mounted there in the late 1990s….
(This) base is dreaded by the villagers who see it as a "torture chamber'….
Two weeks ago, the deputy in command at the base only identified as "Ranga" committed suicide in his house…
Police say he left a note that revealed he took his life in shame after he instructed junior soldiers to beat up farm workers accused of stealing equipment from a farm, Irvin, owned by Finance minister Samuel Mumbengegwi. One of the victims, Fibion Mafukidze (58), died after the beatings….
Another victim, Maxwell Mazambani, (who was the MDC candidate for Ward 5 in Gutu North in last year's council elections), was abducted from his home by the same soldiers, and was lucky to survive the beatings….
(However, he) is fighting for his life at the Avenues Clinic (in Harare) where he is on a dialysis machine. Doctors say his kidneys are badly damaged…
(His) sister says he was punished for his involvement in opposition MDC politics…
Source: Zimbabwe Standard, The (ZW)
Link to
source: http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com/viewinfo.cfm?linkid=11&id=7629&siteID=1
SADC standards breached
Govt
equips thousands of farmers
Source Date: 11-10-2007
…Under (President Mugabe’s) “mechanism programme”, launched on Monday, small-scale farmers received 50 000 animal-drawn ploughs, 70 000 animal-drawn harrows, 70 000 knap-sack sprayers, 45 000 scotch carts, 20 000 animal drawn cultivators and 1 000 animal-drawn planters.
Farmers under the commercial A2 farm model will share a total of 1 200 tractors, 50 combine harvesters, 800 ploughs, 800 disc harrows, 300 planters, 200 boom sprayers, 200 fertilizer spreaders and 200 hay balers….
Note: Commentators point out that similar vote buying strategies have been used in the past. During the 2005 elections, Zanu PF used maize and fertilizers to buy votes in the rural areas.
Source: Financial Gazette, The (ZW)
Link to
source:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200710110700.html
SADC standards breached
The ongoing pro Mugabe marches by war veterans are scare tactics aimed at warding off opposition from the ageing despot's closest critics, a former fighter of the liberation struggle has said.
Many observers also accuse Mugabe of assembling youths and supporters of the ruling party, who never fought in the 1970s liberation struggle, to masquerade as war veterans.
On Monday a leading member of the independent Zimbabwe Liberation Platform, Muchapera Muhondo, said Mugabe is using the violent reputation of war veterans to strike fear into potential rivals, ahead of the ruling party's special congress in December.
He added that Mugabe will use "both the stick and the carrot" to get the much needed votes from Zanu PF's provincial governors to secure the ticket to stand for yet another term in office…
…Muhondo dismissed Jabulani Sibanda, chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association as a pawn on Mugabe's chessboard.
He said: "… Mugabe is using these war vets to scare off some challenge already, and then he will also buy out some with perks and favours. He is not going anywhere that easily." …
Source: SW Radio Africa (ZW)
Link to
source: http://www.swradioafrica.com/news221007/warvets221007.htm
SADC standards breached
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EUbusiness
24 October 2007, 20:42 CET
(STRASBOURG) - Zimbabwean President
Robert Mugabe cannot be excluded from
the upcoming EU-Africa summit just
because he is a dictator, or others must
be barred too, EU Development
Commissioner Louis Michel said Wednesday.
"If we were to judge each of
the dictators or personalities whom we consider
unsuitable we wouldn't just
have problems with Mugabe, there would be
others," Michel told the European
parliament in Strasbourg,
The possibility that Mugabe could attend the EU
summit in Lisbon in December
has been a focus of Brussels' attention for
weeks, not least because he is
formally banned from entering the European
Union due to human rights
violations.
British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown has already warned his EU partners that
if Mugabe attend the summit
then neither he nor any of his cabinet ministers
will be there.
The
same issue resulted in the EU-Africa summit being cancelled in 2003.
"I
have heard the incantatory calls to denounce Mugabe, I can also say that
that changes nothing," said Michel.
"We don't... have the right to
say to our African friends 'you can invite
anyone you like except him'," he
added.
The EU commissioner stressed that South Africa was "making
considerable
efforts" to solve the problem in everyone's
interests.
Michel said the summit should be used as an opportunity to put
the question
of human rights in Zimbabwe on the table.
Earlier this
month the EU's Portuguese presidency said that the summit
invitations would
not be sent out until after an EU-Africa ministerial
meeting in Accra on
October 30.
While Europe is increasingly in competition with China over
African ties,
trade, investment and influence there has so far been just one
EU-Africa
summit, in Cairo in 2000.
Women of Zimbabwe Arise
(Bulawayo)
PRESS RELEASE
24 October 2007
Posted to the web 24
October 2007
HUNDREDS of members of WOZA and MOZA marched peacefully
through the streets
of Mutare today to protest against the huge increases in
water tariffs that
have recently been introduced by the Zimbabwe Water
Authority (ZINWA). There
have been no reports of arrests so
far.
Nearly 300 women and men marched for several blocks through the
eastern city
to the civic centre demanding access to affordable water and a
more reliable
service. Several bystanders rushed to join in the procession,
some
abandoning their selling, agreeing with the demands. The protestors
also
called for an end to violence against human rights
defenders.
As they processed the group sang, "mvura yadhura ndomudana
mwari yangu"
(water is expensive, oh my god) and handed out flyers calling
for an end to
violence against women.
Police arrived at the civic
centre after the group had dispersed. No arrests
have been reported so far
but known intelligence officers were seen
monitoring events. After the last
demonstration in Mutare in August, several
members had their homes visited
by police and illegally searched. It is
expected that similar harassment of
activists will occur in the coming
weeks.
This is the fourth WOZA
demonstration in Mutare and the third peaceful
street action this month (the
other two being in Bulawayo and Harare) to
call for an end to violence
against human rights defenders in Zimbabwe. WOZA
has recently released a
report documenting incidences of political violence
against its members, the
full copy of which can be found at our website,
www.wozazimbabwe.org.
The Zimbabwean
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:05
No grain since July in Umguza
district
UMGUZA - Children are staying away from school as hunger takes
its
toll in rural Matabaleland North Province.
Villagers are going
for weeks without their staple maize meal and
blame the lack of food on the
state-run Grain Marketing Board (GMB). In the
Buda resettlement area in
Umguza district, people complain they last
received maize from the GMB in
July.
"It was not even enough for all of us as some were left out. The
GMB
has totally failed to supply us with grain, while local shops are also
always empty. As a result, we have had to rely on wild fruits and hand-outs
from relatives, who buy grain or mealie-meal in town," said villager Sihle
Nkomo.
However, the villagers said they were risking their lives in
accepting
the staple food from their relatives in the cities, as they were
sometimes
accused by war veterans of getting the food from the opposition
Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC).
"If they learn that that is
how you are surviving, the war veterans
storm your home and take away
everything and there is nothing you can do
about it, as they are literally
ruling this place. If they see you carrying
either maize grain or maize
meal, they also confiscate it for their own
consumption," said another
villager.
"Very few children are still going to school due to this
situation and
that has really affected their future. Most of those are
secondary school
pupils, who should stay at school, about 35 km away from
their homes, yet
they will be having no food whilst there. Others have even
given themselves
away in marriages to better resourced families to escape
this hunger," said
a local headman, who requested not to be named.
Some of the villagers said they were not getting food from
humanitarian
organisations, as staff at these non-governmental organisations
were being
harassed by the war veterans and some traditional leaders.
Industry and
international Trade Minister Obert Mpofu, who is also MP
for the area,
confirmed the hunger, but said government was trying to get
food assistance
to the villagers to improve the situation.
"We know that some areas in
the district have been affected by hunger
due to very low rainfall in the
past agricultural season and we are doing a
lot in trying to help the
villagers. We are currently speaking to some NGOs
so that they will move in
with assistance to those affected by this hunger,"
said Mpofu.
President Robert Mugabe's government has also accused NGOs of trying
to
effect illegal regime change in Zimbabwe, alongside the MDC, Britain and
America. - Bayethe Zitha
The Zimbabwean
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:42
BY CHIEF
REPORTER
'Mugabe forgot about the 1.2 million blacks living on
white-owned
farms when he launched his land grab in 2002'
MASVINGO
- A highly productive dairy farm producing yoghurt and sour
milk, Lacto, has
fallen victim to President Robert Mugabe's land grab, with
the white farmer
kicked out and the farm given to the daughter of Masvingo
provincial
governor Willard Chiwewe.
The Alfords, who owned the farm for
generations, were evicted last
week from their home by Chiwewe's daughter,
who was accompanied by a
brigadier in the Zimbabwean army. Chiwewe owns five
farms in Masvingo.
The Alfords left the 40-hectare property in
Chiredzi, about 460 km
south east of Harare, last week Friday. They were
mulling returning to
Britain with a heavy heart this week.
The farm
used to produce 1,000 litres of milk monthly and a crop of
oranges,
vegetable seed and high quality sugar cane. The tractors on the
property
have been seized along with ploughs, planters and tools that were
stacked
into the store room by Chiwewe's daughter.
"We made a big mistake,"
said Nicky Phiri, 48, who has worked on the
farm for many years with his
nine children and two wives. The mistake is the
"package" which thousands of
retrenched farm workers demanded from their
former employers.
Mugabe forgot about the 1.2 million blacks living on white-owned farms
when
he launched his land grab in 2002. They are losing their jobs and homes
under the renewed land seizures, which saw 11 farmers subpoenaed to court a
fortnight ago for resisting eviction.
In panic, the government has
passed laws compelling dispossessed
farmers to pay terminal benefits to
their workers. In a country where
unemployment exceeds 80 per cent, the
former farm labourers know that they
will never work again. At the grabbed
farms, workers once enjoyed free
housing, schools, food and medical care.
They are now out in the cold.
Mugabe claims that drought has put 6.7
million people, more than half
the population, at risk of starvation. Yet
rains were normal in Mashonaland
West, Zimbabwe's most fertile province,
which has fed the nation for 60
years.
Further north from Chiredzi
lies the heartland of sugar production. In
Hippo Valley and Triangle, where
"settler farmers" used to produce high
quality sugar cane for milling, mile
after mile of empty land now stretches
from horizon to horizon after the
grab of productive farms. There are
abandoned farmyards every few miles
along the dusty Chiredzi/Triangle Road.
The sugar cane planting season
should be on right now. Instead of a
green landscape of young sugar cane
there is nothing but bare earth or dry
stalks from past seasons.
John Worswick of Justice for Agriculture said the ongoing evictions
were
defective because the new owners were using offer letters issued by the
Ministry of Agriculture, which lacks the locus standi to issue such
letters.
Worswick said the "new farmers" settling on formerly
white-owned land
will barely succeed in growing enough for their families.
There will be
nothing left over to feed the nation, he said.
After
years of vilification from Mugabe, the British Government is
helping to pick
up the pieces. A fortnight ago Britain donated £8 million to
feed starving
masses in Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwean
Wednesday,
24 October 2007 15:29
PETER FREEMAN, the first British
development agency representative to
Zimbabwe in 1980, gives an insider's
view into the workings of the early
stages of the British-funded land reform
programme.
THE BRITISH ROLE IN LAND REFORM
AN INSIDER'S
STORY
For over a century, in colonial Rhodesia and post-colonial
Zimbabwe,
the right to own and occupy land has driven political struggle and
dominated
the economy.
For over 20 years, working for
successive British governments, it was
part of my life too. As millions of
people now go hungry and agricultural
production plummets what happened to
frustrate the hopes we had at
independence and to bring about our worst
fears? This is what I saw.
In the early 1980's I was the British
government's representative on
the committee in Harare that approved
resettlement projects that both
governments financed. The cost of land
purchase and of the necessary
infrastructure - water, roads, power, clinics
and schools - was shared
equally between the two governments. Each scheme
was identified and
developed by Zimbabwean officials and the land price was
negotiated with the
commercial farmer. They were appraised for economic
viability by British
advisers and we visited most of them. Other donors,
including the EU and the
African Development Bank, helped to finance
infrastructure (though not land
purchase) in other schemes. Independent
evaluations showed subsequently that
the great majority of them worked well,
enabling thousands of small-scale
farmers and their families to make a
productive living. Over 2 million
hectares changed hands in this
way.
This programme stemmed from the much-criticised compromises made
at
Lancaster House in 1979. ZANU(PF) and ZAPU argued that buying out the
white
farmers was something for Britain alone to do, and many farmers would
certainly have welcomed being paid in sterling with a British government
guarantee rather than in Zimbabwean dollars. For a government in London that
was cutting back heavily on public spending at home such largesse to people
who had supported a rebel government, who were often not British citizens
and mostly had no wish to live here, was never a starter. Watching the
negotiations in 1979 from the Zimbabwe desk in the British aid ministry I
remember being surprised at how easily Mugabe and Nkomo settled for pledges
of future assistance for land reform, not even insisting on a figure for the
amount of money.
More fundamental realities also favoured land
reform in 1980. The
Muzorewa regime had bought substantial tracts of
farmland at cheap rates in
areas where war (the cost of security) during the
independence struggle hit
commercial profits, and immediately after
independence there were few
alternative purchasers in the market. The
planning bureaucracy in the
Agriculture and Rural Development Authority
(ARDA) and other government
departments, and the availability of people and
machinery to implement the
plans, was also comparatively strong.
However from the start there was a serious problem. President Mugabe
showed
no interest, then or later, in solving the complex and sensitive
political
issue of land ownership via this negotiated route. In 1981 a
target of
180,000 settler families in three years suddenly appeared, many
times higher
than the capacity of the programme that British and Zimbabwean
Ministers had
signed up to. To do it would probably have produced the same
dreadful
results that we have seen 25 years later. But the announcement had
a
political impact. The initial enthusiasm for the joint programme of Mr
Movern Mahachi and Dr Sydney Sekeremayi, the first of many Ministers
responsible for land reform, cooled as they failed to get support from State
House. During the years that followed the flow of new proposals slowed down
and the Zimbabwean capacity to implement them was dismantled.
When
we reviewed the programme in 1989 we found that the British aid
funds that
had been pledged after independence, which Zimbabwe ministers had
criticised
as hopelessly inadequate, had not been fully claimed. The
Ministries of Land
and of Finance had not asked for aid money due for work
on approved projects
and new proposals were not coming forward. Lynda
Chalker, then Minister for
Overseas Development, wrote to Zimbabwean
ministers reminding them of the
debts that Britain owed and promising new
money when the post-independence
pledges had been used. There was no
response.
This depressing lack
of activity continued into the 1990's while the
political pressure built up.
Amendments to the constitutional provisions for
land purchase changed
nothing on the ground. The practical proposals of the
commission on land
tenure, which might over time have revolutionised farming
practices
throughout rural Zimbabwe and given renewed impetus for land
reform on a
sustainable basis, were brushed aside. And the British side,
finding little
pressure from Harare, buried its head and hoped the issue had
gone
away.
Shortly after I became responsible for British aid to Africa in
June
1996 the Ministers for Land and for Local Government, Kumbirai Kangai
and
John Nkomo, arrived unexpectedly in London. They told Lynda Chalker they
had
come to reopen the Lancaster House settlement on land. Mugabe had, as
usual,
fought the recent election with grandiose promises of land transfer
to be
financed by Britain. They wanted the money, would stay as long as it
took,
and would be reporting back each evening to their President at his
London
hotel.
Three days of discussion followed, during which they
were embarrassed
to be given copies of the 1989 letter and surprised to
discover that the UK
Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind had researched the
colonial Land
Apportionment Acts while at law school in Salisbury in the
1960's. He knew
more than them about the historic wrongs that needed to be
put right through
land reform. A memorandum signed by both sides promised a
fresh pledge of
British aid for a renewed joint programme. It offered
technical help to
develop it. Back in Harare, once again, nothing
happened.
The following year Mugabe tried again. He hoped the arrival
of a
Labour government would enable him to tear up the compromises he had
made,
but never acknowledged, eighteen years before. He wrote to Tony Blair
asking
for a fresh start based on the British government accepting full
responsibility for buying out the white farmers and handing the land to his
government to distribute as he thought fit, the position he had consistently
taken. He claimed, wrongly, that a previous Labour government had offered
such a deal twenty years earlier when David Owen and Andrew Young had
proposed a "Zimbabwe Development Fund".
Clare Short wrote a letter
in reply that became famous when Mugabe
read an extract to his party
congress. The reference to her Irish background
that he held up for scorn
was intended to acknowledge that Zimbabwe is not
the only place where land
expropriation by the colonial power had had a
negative impact on local
people. Her encouragement to look forward, to work
together to design a land
reform programme that would meet Zimbabwe's needs
in the 21st century rather
than to focus wholly on the past, was either
beyond his understanding or did
not suit his political aims.
The part of her letter he did not read out
offered a fresh start,
though not the free hand and unlimited budget that he
wanted. She offered
financial and technical assistance for an organised,
Zimbabwe-led, programme
of land purchase and resettlement in partnership
with other donors and
within the context of a British development effort now
being focussed
world-wide on eliminating poverty. This was not what Mugabe
wanted his
people to hear.
Further efforts by Britain, the UN and
the World Bank over the next
two years to negotiate a sustainable rural
development programme that would
meet justifiable political expectations
were brushed aside. In September
1999 the Bank Board in Washington approved
a US$5 million credit that had
been negotiated with Zimbabwean Ministers. It
was meant to jump-start the
planning process and to start up a land
acquisition fund for groups of
communal area farmers to draw on. I don't
know whether anyone in Harare had
dared to tell Mugabe before the
announcement. As ever he refused to endorse
it and it was never implemented.
Turning his back on the outside world he
acted alone with the tragic results
that The Zimbabwean continues to report.
So where did it all go wrong?
25 years ago many of us recognised that
the pace of change, beneficial
though it was, could not meet the political
demands in Harare. But over many
years attempts by politicians and civil
servants in Harare to reduce the
bottlenecks in planning and implementation,
to allocate government funds for
sustainable resettlement and to negotiate
foreign aid to support them,
gained little or no support in ZANU(PF), in the
Cabinet or in State
House
Did Mugabe and his circle all along want to allocate land as a
means
of patronage, not as a route to development? Did they see land as
simply a
symbolic issue and simply fail to understand its economic
importance? Could
a more active British policy in the early 1990's have
produced a response in
Harare that might have got a programme going again
before frustrations
boiled over? Could the commercial farmers, rather than
hoping to stay
forever, have acknowledged their fate and negotiated a phased
handover to
productive successors?
These questions and others are
unfortunately academic. The gap between
what Britain and other donors were
prepared to offer and what Mugabe
demanded proved unbridgeable. Rather than
compromise he has produced a
famine.
zimbabwejournalists.com
24th Oct 2007 09:24 GMT
By a Correspondent
LONDON - A
documentary on Zimbabwe, A Bit Of Truth - Denied, which has some
interviews
with leading figures from both the government and opposition, was
launched
Monday night at the London School of Economics.
'Denied - this bit of
truth', is a new documentary by LSE alumnus Shrenik
Rao who gained access to
Zimbabwe's two deputy presidents Joice Mujuru and
Joseph Msika, Reserve Bank
Governor Gideon Gono, Archbishop Pius Ncube and
the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change's Arthur Mutambara.
Rao said he failed to get an
interview with MDC founding president Morgan
Tsvangirai despite countless
attempts to do so.
In the documentary the Mujuru and Msika talk about
Zimbabwe's land grab
policy which they say they never wanted to embark on
but had no choice
following Britain's refusal to honour the Lancaster House
Agreement that saw
Zimbabwe becoming independent in 1980.
Mujuru said
the chaotic reforms were the reason Zimbabwe was suffering
today, especially
as the British government went out of its way to punish
Harare for a
programme she says was not authored by her government but by
the landless
peasants who were tired of waiting for land.
She said Zimbabweans were
now suffering because the British government has
been leading efforts to
punish its leaders for embarking on land reforms
that have dispossed
thousands of white commercial farmers. Mujuru says the
British are the ones
who want to protect their "kith and kin" hence
continued efforts to
ostracize her government.
The Zanu PF leaders also blame the targeted
sanctions for worsening the
plight of the ordinary Zimbabwean while Gono
said he was partly to blame for
the crisis since he prioritised making
payments to the IMF and the World
Bank at the expense of buying either food
or fuel that could have served the
country for up to nine
months.
Ncube talked about the Matebeleland Massacres, the suffering of
the people
of Zimbabwe at the hands of the Zanu PF government, adding he was
willing to
lead the people in a programme to defy and remove the Zanu PF
government
from power.
He said the current sitution in the country
cannot continue.
Mutambara acknowledges the land imbalances that existed
in Zimbabwe before
2000. He, however, says the way the Zanu PF government
went about wantonly
destroying farming in their desire to give farms to
President Robert Mugabe's
cronies was unacceptable.
Mutambara said
the suffering of the populace today should fall squarely on
Mugabe's hands
raising the need for the opposition to unite and "remove the
dictatorship
from office".
He said the patronage system in Zimbabwe had to come to an
end. Tsvangirai
appears in the documentary addressing a Save Zimbabwe
Campaign meeting with
Mutambara, the National Constitutional Assembly's
Lovemore Madhuku and other
political activists.
The documentary
presents juxtaposing "truths" - igniting a debate about the
most burning
issues haunting present day Zimbabwe.
The screening of the documentary
was followed by a panel discussion on media
and human rights in Zimbabwe
with former Daily News Political Editor Sandra
Nyaira and George Shire, who
has been linked with Zanu PF but denies this
saying his roots are anchored
in the liberation struggle that brought
independence to Zimbabwe, and
Brilliant Mhlanga, a top Zimbabwean activist
currently studying at the
Westminster University.
In this guest blog, Shrenik Rao sets the scene
for the documentary:
"Once upon a time, in Africa, in a land called
Rhodesia, there was a man. He
was a humble teacher. He seemed to be full of
ideas and ideals. He seemed to
have dedicated to his life for a cause - a
cause larger than his own - that
of liberation, freedom and Independence
from an oppressive regime which
denied them their denied them their basic
dignity, freedom and rights. And
so, he was respected and revered by one and
many as an able, honest leader
who would liberate them from oppression, and
restore their dignity and
rights. The man was none other than Robert Gabriel
Mugabe.
Twenty-seven years after independence, we hear a similar story.
But, this
time, the stories of oppression and humiliation are about the same
person -Robert Mugabe. Perceptions had changed considerably. Robert Gabriel
Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, was once the darling of the world is now
being considered a despot. A man who was once called a 'Liberator' is now
being called a 'Dictator'. A man who is the 'President' of a country is
being called a 'Tyrant'. He who claims to be the 'sovereign' is being
called a 'surrogate' and has emerged to be one of the most controversial
African leaders in the world.
The enigmatic French philosopher Michel
Foucault once famously articulated
that 'Power produces resistance to
itself'. In Robert Mugabe's case, has
Power produced resistance to itself?
I wondered.
As a filmmaker and an academic who spent time researching and
teaching about
'Information and Politics', I was intrigued by the way in
which power
manifests itself. From what I had read and from what I had
heard from the
people I met - both good and bad, Zimbabwe seemed to me to be
the right
place to test Michel Foucault's hypothesis. And so, I embarked on
this long
journey of seeking to know the real story.
This story has
been said many a times earlier. But still, I wanted to say it
again. And do
I said it again - not like the way I saw it, but rather, the
way I heard it
from many who were apparently the ones who were at the helm
of affairs. And
so, this is a story, which attempts to present the
multifaceted truth as it
'Denied' itself in its journey through time,
especially in the realm of
power and politics.
Don't ask me what motivated me or what inspired me.
That is a question,
which haunts me with a menacing consistency and so, it
is perhaps something
that I cannot answer with coherent eloquence. And also
what motivated me is
of far less importance than what sustained my
motivation. May be I draw my
inspiration from the life and from people who
carry on with life despite all
odds. May be it's the fascination with the
way power manifested itself. May
be it was just one of destiny's decisions.
May be! May be?
But here it is 'DENIED-This Bit of Truth', as it has
denied itself in the
realm of power and politics."
SW Radio Africa (London)
24 October
2007
Posted to the web 24 October 2007
Tererai
Karimakwenda
The secretary general of the Great Zimbabwe University
Students Executive
Council (SEC), Edison Hlatshwayo, was finally released on
bail by police in
Masvingo on Wednesday. The student leader has been in
remand prison since
September 27 facing charges of malicious injury to
property and it was
feared his health was failing due to poor conditions in
prison and severe
assaults by police.
The prosecution insist that
Hlatshwayo damaged a telephone booth during
disturbances at the university
earlier in September, and have opposed bail
on numerous occasions claiming
he would abscond. But fellow students and
others believe the lengthy
sentence is unjustified and that the Zimbabwean
authorities are 'making an
example of him' in order to deter other students
from engaging in political
activity.
His lawyer Dumisani Hwacha spoke to Gugulethu Moyo about
the case on the
programme 'In the Balance' on Wednesday. Hwacha said the
student leader had
previously been granted Z$5 million bail by the
magistrate, and ordered to
leave his passport with the court. But the
prosecution opposed bail and said
they would appeal to a higher court,
effectively undermining the authority
of the magistrate. Suddenly on
Wednesday the prosecution decided not to
contest the magistrate's bail
decision, and Hlatshwayo was subsequently
released Wednesday
afternoon.
Meanwhile 3 other students from Great Zimbabwe University
remain in custody
in Masvingo, facing contempt of court charges over
demonstrations that took
place in court last week. They are
George
Makamure, Brenda Mupfurutsa and Ogylive Makova. The 3 appeared in
court
Saturday and were remanded in custody. Their bail hearing was
scheduled for
Tuesday then postponed to Thursday, October 25.
SW Radio Africa
(London)
24 October 2007
Posted to the web 24 October
2007
Tichaona Sibanda
A chief with strong Zanu-PF links has
banned the MDC from holding a rally at
Rukweza business centre in Makoni
East, Manicaland province on Friday.
The MDC has however said it would
defy Chief John Rukweza's ban and go ahead
with its planned rally because he
does not have the powers to ban or stop a
political rally.
Pishai
Muchauraya, the MDC spokesman for Manicaland province said the many
MDC
posters have reportedly annoyed Chief Rukweza and fliers posted in his
area
and has vowed to stop all campaign activities by the opposition
party.
Chief Rukweza ordered Loveness Makaure, the local MDC chairperson
for Makoni
East to appear before his court, but Makaure has defied the
chief's order
and has instead gone underground to continue
campaigning.
'The chief attempted to read the riot act to Makaure but she
refused to
attend his kangaroo court. He has sent his messengers to tell the
MDC that
all campaign activities have been banned starting with Friday's
rally,'
Muchauraya said.
This is not the first time that a chief has
tried to ban a rally in
Manicaland. On several past occasions, the MDC's
secretary for Legal and
Parliamentary affairs, Innocent Gonese has had to
issue statements to his
party structures to ignore such orders from
traditional chiefs.
'This is why we say Mugabe rigs the elections,
because he uses chiefs to
force their subjects to vote Zanu-PF. All chiefs
in Zimbabwe are now paid
handsomely and move around with top of the range
4x4's. It's all part of the
game by Zanu-PF,' Muchauraya said.
The Zimbabwean
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:06
BULAWAYO - Grain millers in Bulawayo have accused the
state-run Grain
Marketing Board (GMB) of bias towards millers with links to
the ruling Zanu
(PF) party.
Millers who spoke to The Zimbabwean in
Bulawayo complained they had been
blacklisted from receiving the staple
maize grain from the GMB, which has a
monopoly on food distribution, because
management suspected them of being
members of the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC).
"Some of us have gone for more than two months
without getting maize from
the GMB and our businesses have literally
collapsed. We understand that
there is very little maize in the country, but
how do you explain a
situation whereby some millers who produce party cards
get open favours and
receive deliveries every week?" said one miller, who
requested not to be
named.
Some millers accused the GMB management in the
city of passing false
information about them to the grain taskforce, which
in turn led to them
being banned from receiving grain, ostensibly because
they were
profiteering.
"All this was a lie against us because we are
perceived to be MDC
supporters. The government, with these
politically-aligned policies, is
worsening the food crisis in the city
because those who get grain only
supply markets they are told to. Most of
those who refused to supply such
markets and also refused to toe political
lines were also banned from
receiving and milling grain," said another
miller, based at Tshabalala.
Eddie Cross, a senior member of the bigger
faction of the MDC (Tsvangirai)
said he had been also barred from buying
anything from the food distributor.
"I am also not allowed by the GMB
management from buying anything there. I
have to use other people to buy on
my behalf and that is only because I am a
well-known MDC party member," said
Cross.
However, the GMB's acting Chief Executive Officer Samuel Muvuti denied
the
reports.
"That is really untrue. We serve people who deserve to be
served with maize
and any other commodity that we have. Those millers who
were banned are in
that position because they did things in the wrong way
and they are now
looking for excuses," he said. - Bayethe Zitha
The Zimbabwean
HARARE - Fifteen neighbours
of Robert Mugabe have been told to leave their
homes, despite filing a legal
challenge with the Supreme Court.
The challenge, mounted last year by 15
Borrowdale residents against eviction
orders, has been gathering dust in the
Supreme Court, more than a year after
filing it through Harare law firm,
Atherstone and Cook.
Getting rid of the residents would allow Mugabe to
create a security cordon
around his retirement home.
Sources told The
Zimbabwean that the residents were seeking to prove that
the eviction was
irregular as the properties were urban rather than
agricultural
land.
Among Mugabe's neighbours who face eviction are pensioners, widows and
older
couples.
Although government claimed it was going to compensate the
evicted families,
estate agents said the homes had been seriously
undervalued. - Chief
Reporter
News24
24/10/2007 11:27 -
(SA)
Harare - Zimbabweans could soon become a nation of newspaper
collectors. Not
that Zimbos love reading newspapers or have a sentimental
thing for news.
A newspaper has many other uses especially in the toilet.
This is because
Zimbabwean shops have run out toilet paper.
A survey
in city shops revealed that tissues are in short supply in most
retail
outlets while many Zimbabweans have resorted to importing the
sanitary paper
from as far as South Africa and other countries for personal
use and
resale.
A listed group which manufacturers tissues and toiletry is said
to be
failing to lift production to initial levels after President Robert
Mugabe's
price controls ruined the company's raw material
base.
Mugabe ordered prices of goods be slashed by 50% in June accusing
businesses
of attempting to remove him from power through a wave of
"unjustified" price
increases.
This comes a few months after the
Zimbabwe All Media Products Survey (Zamps)
revealed in April this year that
Zimbabweans are foregoing personal care
products, such as soap and
toothpaste, as they focus on paying for basic
foodstuffs.
The use of
previously standard personal care products such as toilet soap,
deodorants,
lotions and dental products declined steeply , according to the
survey.
Deodorant usage declined to 19% in the last quarter of 2006
from 37% in the
third quarter of the same year, while the use of soap
plummeted to 29% from
56%.
Only the use of petroleum jellies
increased from 76% to 77%.
The survey also revealed that usage of toilet
paper dropped from 62% to 29%
in the same quarter as more people resorted to
using newspapers and used
exercise books, the survey noted.
Zimbabwe
is facing its worst economic crisis in history charecterised by
high
inflation now close to 8 000%.
Critics blame Mugabe for running down the
country's once thriving economy
through a a series of disastrous economic
policies.
- Fin24
The Herald (Harare)
Published by the government of Zimbabwe
24 October 2007
Posted to the
web 24 October 2007
Harare
AIR Zimbabwe is seeking approval to
charge fares for regional and
international routes in foreign
currency.
The national airline has since submitted proposals to Reserve
Bank of
Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono and other relevant authorities on
the
matter, Parliament heard on Monday. Air Zimbabwe is facing an acute
shortage
of foreign currency to buy spare parts and service external debts
running up
to US$20 million.
The proposal has sparked debate in
Harare with some sections of society
shooting down the proposal as unfair
while business leaders are fully behind
the idea. Those opposed to the
proposal say it would be unfair to travellers
without access to foreign
currency because it means they would not be able
to fly with the national
airline.
Giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio
Committee on
Transport and Communications, Air Zimbabwe Board chairman Mr
Mike Bimha said
the move, if approved, would help address problems facing
the airline.
"We cannot continue to ask the RBZ to give us foreign
currency. Most
passengers travelling to Dubai have foreign currency yet they
pay in local
currency," said Mr Bimha. He said South African Airways and
British Airways
quote fares in foreign currency while Air Zimbabwe continues
to charge fares
in local currency on the same routes. Mr Bimha said an
arrangement could be
made for vulnerable groups to pay in local currency. In
a bid to generate
foreign currency, Air Zimbabwe is negotiating with a
number of other
airlines to enter into strategic alliances.
These
include Zambian Airlines, Malawian Airlines and Ethiopian Airways. Air
Zimbabwe group chief executive Dr Peter Chikumba said a number of meetings
have been held with Dr Gono over the proposal to charge fares in foreign
currency. "We have had meetings with Dr Gono. He does sympathise with us.
What we are telling you has been reported elsewhere," Dr Chikumba
said.
In an interview yesterday, Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce
president
Mrs Marah Hativagone supported the proposal, saying it was good
for the
airline and the nation as a whole. "It is long overdue. We have been
talking
about this issue for a long time now. They buy fuel and spare parts
in
foreign currency and they should be allowed to charge fares in foreign
currency for them to be viable. As it stands now, Air Zimbabwe is just
subsidising us," she said.
Mrs Hativagone dismissed assertions from
some sections that Zimbabweans do
not have foreign currency. "Right now
foreign currency is awash in Zimbabwe
but it is being suppressed. We pay in
foreign currency when using other
airlines, but we are starving our own
airline. If people can pay other
airlines in foreign currency, why can't
they pay Air Zimbabwe?" she added.
Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries
president Mr Callisto Jokonya concurred
with Mrs Hativagone while Delta
general manager (corporate affairs) Mr
George Mutendadzamera described the
proposal as unfair. "I do not have an
objection to that proposal as long as
it will enable them to be viable.
Anybody in Zimbabwe must be allowed to
charge in foreign currency. We import
raw materials in foreign currency and
that is the best that can be done. Why
should Air Zimbabwe be stopped?" Mr
Jokonya said.
Mr Mutendadzamera argued that Zimbabweans did not have
foreign currency to
pay Air Zimbabwe when travelling abroad. "We have never
used other airlines
except Air Zimbabwe because we do not have foreign
currency to pay those
other airlines. We do not generate foreign currency.
Asking Zimbabweans to
pay for anything in foreign currency is not fair.
Where is one going to get
that foreign currency? There is no foreign
currency in the bank and in
suggesting that one is asking people to go to
the black market. As citizens
of this country we should pay in local
currency," Mr Mutendadzamera said.
Dr Chikumba told the committee that
Air Zimbabwe has accelerated discussions
with other airlines following an
announcement by British Airways to stop
flying into Zimbabwe. He said Air
Zimbabwe has communicated with seven
airlines, including Ethiopian Airways
and Kenyan Airways, aimed at signing
strategic alliances.
Locally,
Air Zimbabwe has opened discussions with the ZABG and the CBZ Bank
centred
on how the two banks could assist with funding. Dr Chikumba cited
the
unavailability of Jet A1 fuel, shortage of foreign currency, and
inadequate
funding among the problems dogging the airline. "On the
availability and
cost of Jet A1 fuel, Noczim has failed. We are now relying
on Direct Fuel
Imports," said Dr Chikumba.
He recommended increased funding from
Government and the need for viable
fares and proposed talks for strategic
alliances to be at Government level.
Chitungwiza Senator Cde Forbes Magadu
(Zanu-PF) supported the Air Zimbabwe
proposal to charge fares in foreign
currency, but stressed the need for the
airline to enter into strategic
deals with reputable airlines. "On the
foreign currency issue, I support
what you are saying. You need to put
pressure on the Minister (of Transport
and Communications), engage the
Ministry of Finance, meet Dr Gono," said
Senator Magadu.
Meanwhile, Air Zimbabwe has cleared the air on the fate
of former acting
chief executive officer and long-serving pilot Captain
Oscar Madombwe with
Mr Bimha saying he is on leave.
"Captain Madombwe
is on leave, not because he has been forced. It was an
amicable
arrangement," he said. Mr Bimha said they would discuss with Capt
Madombwe
how to accommodate him when he returns from leave. Makonde MP Cde
Leo
Mugabe, who chairs the committee, had demanded clarification on the
matter.
The committee also raised concern on the ability of Air
Zimbabwe to fill in
the gap left by British Airways.
The Zimbabwean
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 10:11
'We are very angry because we were not
consulted when Sibanda was
re-instated' BULAWAYO - Ruling Zanu (PF) party
senior members in Bulawayo
province are planning to "surprise" President
Robert Mugabe in his bid to
win the party's candidature for next year's
Presidential election, party
sources revealed this week.
Mugabe, who
has ruled Zimbabwe since it gained its independence from Britain
in 1980, is
making endeavours to stand in next year's watershed elections as
his party's
Presidential candidate and has already begun to purge the party
of his
perceived stumbling blocks.
The 83-year-old leader, whose bad governance
policies, politics of patronage
and intolerance for dissenting voices even
within his own party, have been
blamed for the country's current economic
and political crises, has even
dipped his hand in the party's recycle bin
for previously discarded material
to prop up his chances.
One such is
former Zanu (PF) Bulawayo Province Chairman, Jabulani Sibanda,
who has
re-emerged with much vigour and organised war veterans to hold
solidarity
marches in all provinces to mobilise support for the embattled
Mugabe.
Sibanda was expelled from the party in 2004, after being accused
of
assisting in organising the infamous Dinyane Declaration, together with
disgraced former information minister, Jonathan Moyo, which sought to
install Emmerson Mnangagwa as President.
Party bigwigs celebrated the
fall of Sibanda and labelled him an
"ill-disciplined young man" lacking
respect for the party's old horses. But
he has broken into the Zanu (PF)
campaign hall and seized the pulpit to sing
praises to Mugabe, who he claims
has re-instated him.
However, senior party leaders - including Vice President
Joseph Msika,
national Chairman John Nkomo, Information Minister, Sikhanyiso
Ndlovu and
fellow politburo member, Dumiso Dabengwa, have opposed Sibanda's
re-instatement, which they say is in total disregard of the party's
provincial authorities' reservations.
"We are very angry because we
were not consulted when Sibanda was
re-instated and thus, as far as we are
concerned, he remains expelled from
the party. The President should have
consulted us before secretly
re-instating him single-handedly. This shows
how desperate he is to get this
candidature, but we were not opposed to
this. What he has done has made us
think twice," a senior member told The
Zimbabwean this week.
The source revealed that party cracks have further
widened in the province,
with some members now aligning themselves with the
Mnangagwa faction, while
others, mostly the Provincial leaders, are fighting
alongside the Mujuru
faction.
"The party leaders are planning to
oppose the President's candidature at the
congress to be held in December,
unless he comes to them to apologise on the
Sibanda issue. They want him to
show them respect," said another source.
Bulawayo province spokesman,
Effort Nkomo, downplayed the rift when he told
The Zimbabwean that the
party's division was not as bad as it has been
reported in the
press.
"We have our differences but they are not as bad as you guys have
portrayed
them. All we are saying is that as the provincial leaders, we know
better
what is happening in the party and should be at the forefront or be
consulted in every decision that concerns the party, not be surprised by
certain decisions," said Nkomo.
On who they would vouch for to emerge as
the party's Presidential candidate,
Nkomo put a veil.
"I cannot say
because the party has its procedures of selecting candidates
for each
election and that will come from congress in December. Whoever will
be the
winner will get our support. For now that candidate remains anyone,"
he
added.
However, Sibanda maintains that he was re-instated by Mugabe and
is now the
party's provincial chairman.
"I was re-instated by the
President and that stands. Mugabe is also our
Presidential candidate because
he is the most qualified man to lead us, not
anyone else. Those who think
otherwise are just daydreaming. Congress will
only confirm him, just wait
and see," he said.
However, the split within the party's leadership
widened on Thursday as the
provincial executive are said to have frantically
tried to stop state media
journalists from covering a march staged by war
veterans in support of the
candidacy of Mugabe.
As the 5 000 war
veterans, led by Sibanda, marched through the city from
Stanley Square in
Makokoba suburb and back, chanting revolutionary songs,
the executive
hastily deployed youths to guard the party's provincial
headquarters at
Davis Hall, thereby managing to repel the war veterans from
congregating at
the party offices.
Sibanda and his deputy, Joseph Chinotimba, then led the
war veterans through
the city and avoided Davis Hall.
Sources in the
government-controlled media said Nkomo, who is the Zanu (PF)
provincial
secretary for information and publicity, telephoned all newsrooms
trying to
order editors to ignore the march.
The Zimbabwean
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 10:11
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwean civil servants are
complaining that the new salary
hike they were given by the government last
week remains insignificant
because of the country' current
hyper-inflationary environment.
Zimbabwe's runaway inflation figure, the
worst in the world, officially
stands at around 6 500 per cent, while
analysts say it could be around 20
000 per cent when considering the
parallel market, where most people get
most basic
commodities.
President Robert Mugabe's government, which is largely
blamed for this
economic rot, two weeks ago agreed to award all its workers
a 422 per cent
increment on their basic salaries, 300 per cent on housing
allowance and 250
per cent on transport allowance.
This was after a
crippling strike by teachers had brought education at most
government
schools to a standstill for more than three days.
The new salary hike,
which was accepted whole-heartedly by Zimta and
grudgingly by the PTUZ,
would see the lowest paid civil servants earning
close to Z$13 million and
getting $4,8 million and Z$900 000 in housing and
transport allowance
respectively, with effect from September 1 this year.
However, civil
servants, who received "the remainder" of their September
salaries between
Tuesday and Friday last week, complained to The Zimbabwean
that the
government had in fact given them less than the agreed amount.
"The
government is just not serious. The new salary together will allowances
should give one at least Z$18 million. If you subtract the round figure of
Z$3 million from that you are left with around Z$15 million and we got half
of that. I personally had $7 million deposited into my bank account," said a
junior policeman on Tuesday afternoon in the country's second biggest city
of Bulawayo. No payslips accompanied the shortfall.
Afrique en Ligne
Harare, Zimbabwe - As more and more Zimbabweans fan out into
southern
Africa to escape a biting economic crisis at home, a state-run
transport
company said Wednesday it had introduced bus services to
Mozambique and
Namibia.
The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company
(ZUPCO) already runs bus
services to Botswana, Malawi, South Africa and
Zambia.
A service to Tanzania was discontinued.
The
company said the new routes to Mozambique and Namibia were in
response to
demand, especially from small cross-border traders.
It said
services to Mozambique would be daily to the port city of
Beira, while the
Nambia route would be serviced twice monthly.
Scores of
Zimbabweans, struggling to survive at home after more than
seven years of
recession, are flooding neighbouring countries in search of
jobs and
essential products such as food.
Most are cross-border traders who
buy goods from other countries in
the region for re-sale back
home.
Meanwhile, state carrier Air Zimbabwe - also struggling to
navigate
turbulent economic times - said it planned to charge fares in
foreign
currency on regional and international routes to
survive.
Airline officials said the move was intended to raise
foreign
currency, which is acutely scarce in Zimbabwe, for essential
payments and
spare parts.
"We cannot continue to ask the RBZ
(Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe) to give
us foreign currency. Most passengers
travelling to Dubai have foreign
currency yet they pay in local currency,"
Airline Chairman Mike Bimha said.
Harare - 24/10/2007
Panapress
Epicos.com
(2007-10-24)
By: Lindsey Shanson , CTO Data Services
Co.
A South African company owned by a Cameroonian
businessman will
supply Zimbabwe's Delta Beverages with 800,000 litres of
diesel for its
fleet and factories. Delta will pay with an undisclosed
quantity of beer...
As
a JAG member or JAG Associate member, please send any classified adverts
for
publication in this newsletter to:
JAG Classifieds: jagma@mango.zw - JAG Job Opportunities: jag@mango.zw
Rules for
Advertising:
Send all adverts in word document as short as possible (no
tables, spread
sheets, pictures, etc.) and quote your subscription receipt
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for a
longer period please notify the JAG office, by resending via email the
entire advert asking for the advert to be re-inserted.
Please send
your adverts by Tuesdays 11.00am (Adverts will not appear until
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1.
For Sale Items
2. Wanted Items
3. Accommodation
4. Recreation
5.
Specialist Services
6. Pets Corner
7. Social
Gatherings
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1.
OFFERED FOR SALE
1.1 Generators & Inverters for Sale
The JAG
office is now an official agent for GSC Generator Service (Pvt) Ltd
and
receives a generous commission on sales of all Kipor generators
and
equipment. Generators are on view at the JAG office. Please could
all
those JAG subscribes who deal directly with GSC, rather than through the
JAG
office, clearly stipulate that they commission if for JAG.
The one
stop shop for ALL your Generator Requirements SALES:
We are the official
suppliers, repairs and maintenance team of KIPOR
Equipment here in Zimbabwe.
We have in stock KIPOR Generators from 1 KVA to
55 KVA. If we don't have
what you want we will get it for you. We also
sell Inverters (1500w),
complete with batteries and rechargeable lamps. Our
prices are very
competitive, if not the lowest in town.
SERVICING & REPAIRS: We have
a qualified team with many years of experience
in the Generator field. We
have been to Kipor, China for training. We
carry out services and minor
repairs on your premises. We service and
repair most makes and models of
Generators - both petrol and diesel.
INSTALLATIONS: We have qualified
electricians that carry out installations
in a professional
way.
SPARES: As we are the official suppliers and maintainers of KIPOR
Equipment,
we carry a full range of KIPOR spares.
Don't forget, advice
is free, so give us a call and see us at: Bay 3,
Borgward Road, Msasa.
Sales: 884022, 480272 or admin@adas.co.zw
Service: 480272, 480154
or gsc@adas.co.zw
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1.2
For Sale
So Far and No further! Rhodesia's Bid for Independence during
the Retreat
from Empire 1959-1965 by J.R.T. Wood
533 pages; quality
trade paperback; pub. Trafford ISBN 1-4120-4952-0
Southern African edition,
pub. 30 Degrees South : ISBN 0-9584890-2-5
This definitive account traces
Rhodesia's attempt to secure independence
during the retreat from Empire
after 1959. Based on unique research, it
reveals why Rhodesia defied the
world from 1965.
Representing Volume One of three volumes, Two and Three
are in preparation
and will take us to Tiger and thence to 1980;
To
purchase:
Zimbabwean buyers contact Trish Broderick: pbroderick@mango.zw
RSA buyers: WWW. 30
degreessouth.co.za or Exclusives Books
Overseas buyers see: http://www.jrtwood.com
and a link to
Trafford Publishing http://www.trafford.com/04-2760
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1.3
For Sale
Road motorcycle for sale. YAMAHA - Model YZF 600cc - Thundercat
- in
immaculate condition.
Highest cash offer secures. For further
details contact Dave on 011 600 770
or 091 22 55 653 or email dapayne@zol.co.zw
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1.4
For sale.
Tracer MR959 radio base set plus two vehicle mobiles and arial,
at present
operative on the Bromley / Ruwa / Goromonzi network. Offers. Phone
Carter
04-701940 or 011
649310
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1.5
For Sale (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Nissan CWA 45. 15 tonne Lorry with 10
Tonne trailer. 176000 kilmetres.
Immaculate condition. Phone 747777 mornings
or
011606595
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1.6
ITEMS FOR SALE:
1. GENERATORS AND INVERTERS
Following units ex
stock:
Generators -
5 Kva Silenced, 15 Kva Silenced, , 40 Kva Silenced,
John Deere 60 Kva Open
Frame, John Deere 100 Kva open frame.
Units
arriving in next two months in Bond SA
100 Kva John Deere, 150 Kva John
Deere, 180 Kva John Deere, 200 Kva John
Deere,
250 Kva John Deere -
available on first pay first served basis
Inverters -
1500 Watt
complete with 1 x 100 Amp Hr battery and charger in cabinet
5000 Watt
complete with 4 x 100 Amp Hr Batteries and charger in cabinet
Large Range
of Generators available from 5 - 2200 Kva ex import (some in
Bond South
Africa)
Please phone:-
Radium Africa
Tel + 263 4 335848 /
307740
E-mail : radiumkeith@junglecomms.com
2.
HARROW DISCS
We now have imported Harrow discs (24", 26" and 28")
available :
Please phone:-
Radium Africa
Tel + 263 4 335848
/ 307740
E-mail : radiumkeith@junglecomms.com
3.
FORAGE HARVESTER
Single Row forage harvesters available ex
stock
Please phone:-
Radium Africa
Tel + 263 4 335848 /
307740
E-mail : radiumkeith@junglecomms.com
4.
AGRICULTURAL SPRAYERS
Tractor Mounted 12 Metre / 600 Litre tank Boom
sprayers and Canon sprayers
in stock.
Please phone:-
Radium
Africa
Tel + 263 4 335848 / 307740
E-mail: radiumkeith@junglecomms.com
5.
D1SC HARROWS
Imported Offset disc harrows suitable for 80 Hp Tractors
currently on order
and will be available August / September,
2007.
Please phone:-
Radium Africa
Tel + 263 4 335848 /
307740
Sean Bell: + 263 11 600389
Keith Lowe + 263 11
800859
E-mail: radiumkeith@junglecomms.com
6.
AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT.
If you require any agricultural equipment we can
arrange supply and import
for you:
Disc Harrows, Ploughs, Fertiliser
Spreaders, Mowers, Trailers of all types,
Forage Harvesters, Dairy Equipment,
Generators, Planters and Drills, Chisel
Ploughs, Rippers, Full Range of
Equipment for Sugar Cane including,
Planters, Harvesters, Root eradication
unit etc etc - if you have any Ag
equipment requirement please contact
us.
Please phone:-
Radium Africa
Tel + 263 4 335848 /
307740
E-mail: radiumkeith@junglecomms.com
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1.7
THE WEAVERY.(The African Craft Market)
Going Overseas or down South? Why
not take hand woven gifts for your friends
or family? These super articles
which are light,easy to pack, take or send,
and fully washable.Some of our
articles are to be discontinued(**); so don't
miss out! Christmas is not far
off!
Contact Anne on 332851 or 011212424.Or email joannew@zol.co.zw
Prices will be
increase on the 28th, by 20%.
Crocheted oven gloves--$810,000.
Cotton oven
gloves--$765,000.(**)
Small woven bags--$665,000.(**)
Large woven
bags--$810,000.(**)
Crocheted bags--$945,000.
Single Duvet
cushions(open into a duvet)--$4,080,000.(**)
Double Duvet
cushions--$4,720,000.(**)
Queen bedcovers--$6,070,000.(**)
Single
bedcovers--$3,550,000.(**)
3 piece toilet
set--$1,610,000.(**)
Toilet roll holder--$550,000.(**)
Bath
mat--$1,140,000.(small rug).
Cushion covers--$810,000.(**)
Table
runner--$473,000.(**)
Set(4)Bordered table mats +
serviettes--$1,610,000.(**)
Set(6)Bordered table mats +
serviettes--$2,420,000.(**)
Set(4) crocheted table mats
only--$1,280,000.(**)
Set(6)fringed table mats +
serviettes--$2,420,000.(**)
The table mat range is to be discontinued once
present stocks are sold.
Small(approx.105x52cms) plain cotton
rug--$1,140,000.
Medium(approx.120x65cms) plain cotton
rug--$1,610,000
Large(approx.150x75cms) plain cotton
rug--$2,420,000.
Ex.Large(approx.230x130cms) plain cotton
rug--$5,210,000.
Small patterned cotton rug--$1,610,000.
Small rag
rug--$1,140,000.
Medium rag rug--$1,610,000.
Medium patterned cotton
rug--$2,420,000.
Large patterned cotton rug--$3,230,000
Ex.Large patterned
cotton rug--$6,390,000.
Small patterned mohair rug--$3,180,000.
Medium
patterned mohair rug--$4,010,000
Large patterned mohair
rug--$5,210,000.
Ex. Large patterned mohair rug--$8,810,000.
Lots of
other articles.PLEASE be aware that prices may change without notice
and
orders take some time as they have to be woven and sent from Gweru
to
Harare.
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1.8
FOR SALE.
Are you leaving Zimbabwe and wanting an investment to take with
you? For
sale (Valuation certificate by Sharon Caithness(Graduate Gemologist.
USA)
available):-
Solid silver tray (2.836 gms), Solid silver coffee
set - coffee pot,sugar
bowl and milk jug (1.307gms).
THE
TRAY:-
Silver-English Hallmark-Sheffield(1950). Oval. Handles and
Edges
patterned.(Acanthus leaf). Mass 2.836 gms. Z$
1,363,000,000.00.
COFFEE SET:-
3 piece coffee set,beaded rims,
acanthus leaf swan's neck spout, scrolling
acanthus leaf handles and circular
pedestal foot, comprising coffee pot,
ivory cover finial and handle heatproof
liners, wt. 797.00 gms(Z$
509,000,000.00), 2 handled sugar basin wt.315
gms(Z$ 202,000,000.00), Helmet
cream jug wt. 195 gms(Z$127,000,000.00).
Overall total mass 1.307 gms.
Birmingham c. 1905, Maker W.D., In original,
oak presentation case, hinged
brass side handles, with key, fitted lined
interior of rich cobalt
blue.$838,000,000.00
Total value, by Sharon
Caithness Z$2,201,000.000.00 (two billion, two
hundred and one million
dollars).
NO "chancers".email joannew@zol.co.zw
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1.19
For Sale (Ad inserted 15/08/07)
Various '94 Peugeot 405 body
parts
Windscreen - cracked
Rear window (with heater
lines)
Bonnet
Boot
4 Doors (one bit of a dent)
3 glasses for the
doors
Door panels
Headlights
Grill
Rear tail lights
Back
seats
Rims x3
Front & rear suspension
Boat
motors:
Mercury Blue line 40hp motor, running but needs minor attn,
complete with
controls, plus many spares.
Motorbike for
Sale
Suzuki Bandit 400
Contact Tyron on 091 2 317 961 or 772156
for further
information
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1.10
POWER CUTS (Ad inserted 23/08/2007)
Can't cook your food? Problem
solved.
Get yourself a wood stove or three legged cast iron
pot.
Email dapayne@zol.co.zw
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1.11
For Sale
1) Scandinova Deep Freeze (Frost Free). Upright freezer - gross
volume
1.83 m3. POA
2) 2 Antique Grandfather clocks - lovely
collector's pieces - POA
3) Golf clubs old but hardly used. US
30
4) Set of the "Great World War - a History" published 1916. 18
volumes. US
100
5) Health Walker Plus exercise machine nearly new -
US 170
6) Red Saturn 2 door Sports Car manufactured by General Motors -
immaculate
condition, low mileage, air-conditioning, power steering,
automatic - POA
7) 1949 MGTC - 2 door sports car - red. Fully restored.
Collector's car.
POA
Please contact Martyn on e-mail martynandcarole@zol.co.zw or
landline 721710
or cell 011 215
197
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1.12
BEACH BUGGIE FOR SALE
VW beach buggie with 1100 cc motor for sale, needs
slight TLC and will run.
Offers invited call : Philip on 091 2 235579 or at
office on 336962 or
dichwe@mweb.co.zw
or dichwe@zol.co.zw
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FOR SALE
1 x SINGLE BED (Mattress & Base) - GOOD CONDITION $15
MILLION
Contact - 497735 or 011 611360 e-mail - charlespat@zol.co.zw
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1.14
POOL TABLE EXCELLENT CONDITION.
MUKWA SURROUND, TURNED LEGS, FULL SET OF
POOL BALLS, FOUR CUES, SCORE BOARD,
CUE REST. PRICE
$380,000,000-00
TEL 861825 OR 862295 OR E-MAILjimlyn@mweb.co.zw
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1.15
Rare Books for Sale
"Adolf Hitler,Mein Kampf,Unexpurgated Edition,two
volumes in one,first
volume:A Retrospect,second volume:The National Socialist
Movement,Hurst and
Blackett Ltd,London,1939,1st edition,very good
condition,US$100.00
equivalent,this book is being sold as an item of
historical interest,i in no
way condone the views contained in this
book,email zermatt@mweb.co.zw
"
"Jock of the Bushfeld,early edition with the picture of the dung
beetle
rolling dung with its front legs as opposed to the back legs,a
printing
error later rectified,good condition,$50 equivalent,email zermatt@mweb.co.zw
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ITEMS FOR SALE 15 10 07 -some festive season gift solutions!
Item,
Description/Condition, Price in usd
Upright Piano , Excellent Otto Bach..
1800
Floor polisher/vacuum cleaner combo, Good working
Columbus...50
Bridge table (folding legs), Nearly new, excellent baize..
30
Tennis balls, 2 boxes of 3 balls.20
Ladies golf
clubs/bag/trolley , Suitable beginners..35
Tea Trolley, Needs puppy
bites to be sanded out...15
6 Tea cups/saucers/side plates & large
plate, Excellent condition; china
white with blue pattern...35
Tea
set - early morning, Teapot/cups/saucers/side plates for 2..15
Towel rack
wooden ...15
Warming cabinet, 4 pyrex dishes with lids
excellent...25
Warming tray, Good condition... 10
Artist Easels,
Very strong...15 each
Artist's work table - wood , two drawers, shelf on
castors. .. 20
Punch Set, 1 large glass bowl, 12 glass punch cups, 1
serving ladle .. 35
Low chair/ladder combo, Good,
Casserole
Serving Large, lidless... 20
Casserole Large, With
lid..15
Casserole Medium, With lid...12
Casserole Small, With
lid..10
Ceramic Casserole, Large & Medium pair, with lids..
25
Curry Set, 6 bowls, 2 serving dishes.. 25
French Casserole Set,
Luminarc 3 with lids,..35
Coffee/Tea Glass pot, ..10
Vacuum
Flask,.. 5
Coffee Filter Set, Electric C/w filter papers
working..15
Automatic Jug kettle, working..15
Wok,
Electric..30
Ceramic Chicken Roaster...10
Assorted Mugs &
small Jugs..1 each
Ceramic cups & saucers set, 4
each..10
Ceramic Serving Bowl, Medium..10
Ceramic Bowls Small,
Lidless.. 4 each
Wooden Rolling Pin..5
Enamel Pie Dishes, Set 4
..20
Tin Trays, Set 3 round..15
Double Boiler..15
Glass
Fruit Bowl..10
Place Mats.. 7 each
Kenwood Whisk, Battery
operated..10
RNADO Whisk, Battery Operated..10
Seikosha Printer
SP-2000, Dot Matrix - working order..20
Punch Set, Large Glass Bowl, 12
glass cups, 1 serving ladle ..35
Kitchen stool/steps..15
Wing Back
Chairs, Pink Dralon, sprung, high back..25 each
Carpet , Golden brown
shaggy 3.6 m x 2.7 m..30
Carpet, 3.4 m x 2.7 m Red patterned
..30
The above prices are payable in Zimbabwe dollars at the prevailing
exchange
rate on the day that payment by RTGS or cheques (s) is
made.
Phone Denise or Tim 339592 or 011 201 231 or for more details
e-mail the
above
address.
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FOR SALE:
Can't afford DSTV subs any longer? Buy the Wiztech 223 Super
Satellite TV
Receiver and receive satellite TV FREE by using your existing
DSTV dish!
This is a one-of payment - NO SUBS to pay. No hidden costs. SABC
1,2, 3,
Botswana, e-TV, SA News International, CNBC, France24.com, Press TV,
Trade
and Travel, several religious channels, Radio stations like RSG,
Radio
Pretoria, SAFM, 5 FM, 2000 Fm and many more. Contact Joe Esterhuizen
for
details on Harare 339378 (anytime) or 0912 338414 or e-mail
countryjukebox@hotmail.com
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For Sale.
1 double bed and matress, very good condition.
1
Australian stockman saddle.
1 x Meat band saw.
OFFERS?....phone
04-744298 or
0912-353819
.
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1.19
FOR SALE:
ISOMIL 1 - SOYA BABY FORMULA 15 TINS
PHONE:
JO-ANN 708036/7 (to 12 pm only) 091-2-261 140 or 747
660
(afternoons)
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EXPORT SLEEPER FURNITURE
We have beds, side tables, dining tables, coffee
tables (with or without
glass)
Please phone Simon Silcock 0912-233103
/
04-668843
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FOR SALE:
DUEL VIEW DIGITAL SATELLITE DECODER <AS NEW> (we have
upgraded to a PVR)
CONTACT ANDREA OR WARREN ON 0912-289345/
0912-208836 OR LEAVE A MESSAGE
WITH LADY WHO ANSWERS ON
301889.
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Generator for sale..
15 Kva kipor silent geny, only done 150 Hours. $
5000 ( about $ 7000
New )
Phone Alex, 091 2
261085
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Bed and base:
Immaculate queen size . Make me an offer. Phone 011 614
233
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1.24
Pork products
Desperately needing grazing for 50 cows in
calf.
Wanted cold boxes, Please contact Mrs Claassen on cell number 011
221088 or
claassen@zol.co.zw
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1.25
RUNNERS WORLD
WE HAVE A LOVELY RANGE OF ASICS AND NEW BALANCE TRAINERS
FOR LADIES AND
MEN. WE STOCK RUNNING SHOES, TRAIL, SQUASH AND TENNIS. I
ALSO HAVE LIGHT
WEIGHT RUNNERS FOR TRIATHLETES AND A COUPLE OF PAIRS OF
RUNNING SPIKES.
IF YOU NEED A NEW PAIR OF SHOES FOR RUNNING OR FOR THE
GYM, PLEASE CONTACT
ME, JO COCHRANE, ON 0912247001.
WE HAVE NEW STOCKS
COMING IN ALL THE
TIME.
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NISSAN
SUNNY 1999 MODEL , AIRBAGS , CD PLAYER , ALLOYS .FULL HOUSE .
VEHICLE IS IN
IMMACULATE CONDITION . PLEASE CONTACT JUSTIN 011402896
VW JETTA VR6 ,
1998 MODEL , LEATHER , AIRBAGS . MP3 PLAYER , ALARM , ALLOYS
.FULL HOUSE .
VEHICLE IS IN IMMACULATE CONDITION . PLEASE CONTACT
JUSTIN
011402896
BRAND NEW TRUCK TYRES , GOODYEAR KELLY 12R22,5"
PLEASE CONTACT
JUSTIN
011402896
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1
x double axle horsebox in good condition
3 x English General purpose
Saddles
2 x English tweed riding jackets (one is a Harry Hall size 32 or
34 in)
All above highest offer secures.
Phone Sherry 852027/8 or
0912-724595
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1.28
Isuzu
KB250, breaking for spares, accident damaged right front. Call Graham
on 011
406 023 or 741001 or email gtech@zol.co.zw
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1.29
TADA TEAK AND IRON
For a unique and diverse look in Security and
Furniture why not try us TADA
TEAK AND IRON.
We have a wide range of
Burglar Bars, Pool Fences and Security Gates both
external and
internal.
Our beds will have you sleeping in style.
Be dazzled by
our lighting with a variety of table lamps, chandeliers
and
candelabras.
Accessorize your kitchens with our stylish hot plate
stands, cheese and
chopping boards.
For all this and more come and see
us at our shop at 167 Enterprise Road,
Chisipite or contact us on 487239 or
446699, alternatively email us at
tada3@zol.co.zw or tada@zol.co.zw
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TEAK FURNITURE FOR SALE
Dining room table with 6 chairs
Hall
table
Square table
Other wooden Furniture
Wine cabinet
Baby
cot
Other small items of furniture
Price negotiable
Contact: pennytrue@gmail.com
Tel: 04 481224
Cell: 011
781108
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Hunting trophys for sale
Large collection including huge buffallo, bull
and
female kudu, 2 impala ,warthog ,various skins ,ashtrays etc, call Mr
Wallis
496829 or 023894597 or email zermatt@mweb.co.zw
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1.32
CC Sales Equipment Sale.
Friday 26th October 2007
Mt Hampden Sale
Pens.
9.30am
Guest consignors welcome, Contact CC Sales Harare,
04-252253-9
Kevin Higgins 011602565
Mark Hayter
011604623
Allister Banks 011601083
On sale will be an
assortment of equipment and machinery including
refrigeration
equipment.
This will be a good opportunity to sell idle
assets.
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Items for Sale:
4 piece blue lounge suite $ 300
000 000.00
8 piece dining room suite $ 300 000
000.00
1 Royal Velvet 9 x 12 Pink Carpet $ 50 000 000.00
1
Single bed $ 30 000 000.00
1 Bar counter
with 3 bar stools $ 80 000 000.00
1 Old Twin Tub washing
machine $ 30 000 000.00
1 Warfdale MP3 front loader,
2
pioneer 6 x 9,
1 XTC 2400 watt amp,
1 Jenson 525 watt 12"
sub $ 200 000 000.00
Contact 011777668 or
882146
NB - ALL PRICES SUBJECT TO
CHANGE
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1.34
Brand
New Laptops, Latest new processor not just Duo core but Duo Core 2
(newest
processor out there, 64bit)
Brand new Big screen, Acer Aspire 9424WSMI
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 @
1.83GHz / 17" Crystalbrite color TFT LCD / up to
256MB NVIDIA graphics /
120GB hard drive / DVD Super Multi Drive (Dual Layer)
/ Bluetooth / Wireless
Lan / 1.3mp Web Cam / Video out / Windows XP Media
Center Edition / includes
laptop bag. (Has side number pad)
Price $850
mil
Brand New, Toshiba Core2 Duo T5600 @ 1.83GHz / 1GB DDR2 RAM / 80GB
HDD
/15.4" Truebrite Wide View TFT Color Display/Bluetooth / DVD Super
Multi
Drive (Dual Layer)/ Intel 945GM Express Chipset 128MB RAM / 5-1 Card
Reader
/ SRS TruSurround System/MS Office OneNote/Win XP Home and Express
upgrade
to Vista / 2.71 Kg. Includes Laptop Bag, plus wireless HD
mouse
Price $750 mil
Contact Zane on 0912301396 or email me @ zane@yoafrica.com I can send
you
pics.
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1.35
Intersew
Sewing Machine. (made by Singer) As new.
$40 million
Contact :Land
Line
339574
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1.36
ABAC
Compressor for sale. 3 Horsepower, 150 Litre capacity. Contact Jimmy
on
091-2-351-260 for more
information.
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1.37
Fertilisers
60
bags Triple Supers. 120 bags MOP. and 150 bags Single
Supers.
Chemicals
51ltr Gramoxone. 31 ltr Atrozine. 28 ltr
Harness. 16 ltr Roundup. 7 ltr
Gardimol. 5 ltr Dual. 5 ltr Dursban. 4 ltr
Basagran.
Pivots
52 ha + 72 ha
Zimatic/Lindsay
Tractors
2001 Landini 8860 4wd. 1988 Landini 8820
2wd. 1998 Landini 7860 2wd. 1986
Landini 7860 2wd 1994 Ford
5640
Implements
Imco 2x8gang TCW harrow. Imco Rev. Plough. Imco
big Ox ripper. Duly ripper x
2. Duly Ridger. Duly Dam scoop.
3pt
grader. Galion 4000 grader. Land plane.
Contact Harare 788022 or email
pj@kurima.co.zw
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ITEMS FOR SALE 15 10 07 -some festive season gift
solutions
Christmas decorative lights new 140
....15
Christmas decorations....15
Bridge table (folding legs)
Nearly new, excellent baize....30
Sideboard oak 150 x 100 cm very good
condition ....90
Tennis Raquets Used Wilson in cases
(each)....10
2 cans of 3 balls Tennis balls....25
Ladies golf
clubs/bag/trolley.... 35
Coffee cups/saucers for 8.... 40
Tea
cups/saucers/side plates & large plate for 6....35
Tea set early
morning ....15
TV Cabinet ....25
Tea Trolley ....15
Towel
rack wooden ....15
Man's traveling cases ....10
Cupboard small
solid mahogany brass detail (antique) ....40
Warming cabinet 4 lidded
pyrex dishes ....25
Warming tray ....10
Artist Easels
....15
Artist's work table wood two drawers, shelf on
castors....20
Punch Set:
large glass bowl, 12 glass punch cups, 1
serving ladle
Decanters pair - crystal modern Dartington
Hall....30
Beer glasses Plain ....1.50
Tumblers
....1
Benedectine 700ml ....30
Dimple Haig litre
....35
Glenfiddich litre ....35
The above prices are payable in
Zimbabwe dollars at the imara exchange rate
one day before purchase or the
day that payment by RTGS or cheques (s) is
made.
Phone Denise or Tim
339592 or 011 201 231 or e-mail the above
address
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1997
Year - 19-372 Model MAN Single Axle Horse
58 000 km's on the
clock
with a More Steel tri Axle Trailer 2001 Model
Price : USD 40
000 equivalent
Contact:
Thys and / or Merilyn de Vries 011 216674,
09 245109, 09 240909
e-mail lde@netconnect.co.zw
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1.40
MEAT FOR SALE
20 kg Super freezer pack available. Contact 664747 664801
or 0912 610 106
or 0912 262 491
Email wakers@zim.co.zw
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WANTED
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2.1
Wanted
By way of loan or donation to the JAG Trust. The Trust is
Capacity Building
a New Project which necessitates the furnishing of an
office with desks,
chairs, cupboards and shelving. Any surplus office
furniture or trimmings
will be welcomed. Phone
799410.
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2.2
Wanted
Sheila Macdonald (Sally in Rhodesia) - If you have any of Sheila
Macdonald's
books for sale, please let JAG know the details including
condition etc with
your name, telephone number and price
wanted.
Telephone JAG - 04 -
799410
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2.3
Shotgun Wanted
Good quality, Baretta or Browning, 20 bore over/under
shotgun. In excellent
condition. Please contact the JAG office on
799410.
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2.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Barwick School is in urgent need of a
changeover switch for a 60KVA
generator (approx 100 amps). Please phone 0912
262566 or
BarwickTrust@mango.zw
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
We are looking for deep freezers and cold
room units.
Please contact David and Janet Cunningham 09 251555/
234879/232136 or
davidjanetc@yahoo.co.uk
You can
also contact Khosi Bhebhe - 09 251555/234879/232136 -
zimteam@impact.co.zw
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2.6
LOOKING
FOR A MEAT BAND SAW WITH, IF POSSIBLE, SPARE BLADES. ALSO LOOKING
FOR AN
ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL MINCER WITH SAUSAGE FILLER ATTACHMENTS.
PLEASE
CONTACT HANNES STEYN ON 490847 or
0912-243018
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2.7
Wanted PAPRIKA GROWERS (Ad inserted 15/08/07)
We are looking for Paprika
Growers / Farmers for the 2007/2008 season. We
are an end user - we are not
agents and we do not want agents.
Please contact info@papriex.com or visit our website www.papriex.com for
further
information.
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2.8
I
am desperately looking for someone who travels frequently travels
between
Harare and Johannesburg and would be willing to help.
My wife
is currently applying for Permanent Residence in S. Africa and has
to
re-apply for Police Clearance from Zimbabwe before the end of
November.
However, CID want US$75.00 if we apply from S.A.and I am concerned
that the
Certificate will disappear once the Forex is paid.
If anybody
can help in collecting my wife's application, deliver it to CID
HQ, and
collect and return to SA when cleared I will be most grateful.
I can be
contacted on the following numbers:
Cell: +27 (0)73 548-8991
(Richard)
or (0)83 714-8582 (Chloe)
Phone/Fax: +27 (0)11
462-2331
E-mail: marotte@telkomsa.net
I will of
course pay for any (reasonable) expenses incurred.
Richard von
Memerty
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2.9
WANTED - FORD BANTOM 1300/MADZA RUSTLER 1300.
Looking to buy either of
the above car, or to swop for my Nissan sunny.
Please phone Greer 0912
353 047 /
744075.
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2.10
"Looking for a set of bunk beds.
Please sms 091 2 264160 or e-mail
carol@powerspeed.co.zw"
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2.11
Wanted by WILD GEESE LODGE (ad inserted 30/08/2007)
Wild Geese Lodge are
looking for suppliers for any of the following items.
Payments are prompt.
Please phone or e-mail prices.
Meat - PORK, CHICKEN, LAMB, FISH,
etc
Dairy - MILK, CREAM, BUTTER, CHEESE, ICECREAM, YOGHURT
Drinks
- BEER, MINERALS, SPIRITS, WINES, FRESH JUICE, MINERAL
WATER,
CORDIALS.
Other - BREAD / ROLLS / FRENCH LOAF, GAS, MARGARINE,
PARFEX, EGGS, FLOUR,
OIL, COFFEE, RICE, PENNE PASTA, CLEANING DETERGENTS,
UNIFORMS, BREAD CRUMBS,
TINNED tomato / puree / apples / mango
etc.
PLUS anything else for Hotel and Catering.
Please contact
860466 / 860275 / 2930963
Cell: 011-604203 /
0912-262066
e-mail : billy@wildgeese.co.zw
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Alternator for generator:
Make: Brush (england) UK
K.V.A:
6
K.W: 6
Phase: 1
Amps: 45
Temp rise: 50
Price; 250m neg.Contact
Elsie on (04) 747929 / (04) 747961 after
hours
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2.13
Wheel Chair sought (ad inserted 30/08/07)
An old ex farming friend of
mine, Frikkie Terblanche, has lost the use of
his legs and has great spine
and leg pain when trying to walk and is looking
for a wheel chair, preferably
with wide (ish) wheels so that he can go into
his garden and get around a
bit. Please if anyone knows of a wheel chair
that is not in use, he would
like to try it out. For loan or purchase.
Please contact Philip on 091 2
235579 or 336962 or 334865 dichwe@mweb.co.zw
or Sarie on sterblanche@mango.zw
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2.14
Wanted Items:
Water Tanks: Borradaile Trust in Marondera, a large
retirement village with
hospital, is seeking water storage tanks for 20
000litres. Please advise
availability, whether new or second-hand and cost.
Kindly address e-mail
replies to The Warden at warden@btrust.co.zw.
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2.15
WANTED ITEMS "
I require 500 tonnes of Gypsum ( Calcium sulphate )
Delivered to Chisamba ,
50 km North of Lusaka . Please state delivered price
& chemical composition
. The requirement is immediate .
Please
contact:
Graham Rae
Zambezi Ranching & Cropping Limited
Tele/fax -
260 211 213731
Mobile - 260 966 860531
Email - gc@iwayafrica.com
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2.16
Looking
for second hand fish tank to buy. Minimum size 1m. Pse e-mail
carol@powerspeed.co.zw or sms 091 2
264160.
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2.17
WANTED / TO BUY
2 or more Penn Jig Master fishing reels in very good
working order or
something similar.
Please contact Boet Lamprecht
(China) mlamprecht@263.net
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3.
ACCOMMODATION WANTED AND
OFFERED
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3.2
FOR SALE (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Blue skies and warm seas
Situated
in the village of PENNINGTON in Kwa Zulu Natal Mid South
Coast,close to the
sea ,surrounded by up market homes and simplexes , three
golf courses in the
town area ,an ideal investment for the future with real
possibilities for a
simplex development.The two beautiful acres are side by
side with two road
fronts together are 100 x 80 meters...,secluded open
natural forest park
land. ,almost level , 5 minutes from the beach and the
very smart brand new
Village Mall shopping centre. Price on request.
Please look up our
website www.coastalvillageproperties.com
to see all or
properties for sale in the village of PENNINGTON.Our mission
statement is
"Making homes more affordable" by reducing our commission
tariffs.
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3.3
PROPERTIES FOR SALE (Ad inserted 15/08/07)
GLEN LORNE - A Country Home in
Town
Lovely hilltop property on 6 1/2 acres with views and beautiful
garden with
msasa trees and abundant bird life.
3 bed-roomed home with
wooden strip floors, 2 1/2 bathrooms, kitchen, dining
room area, big lounge
with fireplace, bar, covered veranda.
Charming cottage with 2 bedrooms, 1
1/2 bathrooms, open plan lounge and
kitchen. Modern fittings. Single lock-up
garage attached. Independent to
main house - own ZESA and Water
meters.
GOOD BOREHOLE plumbed in to both houses
Double garage /
Swimming pool / Staff quarters for 4 / 2 x Mushroom Houses /
Chickens runs /
Electric fenced all round / Woodrow Art Studio
HELENSVALE
Thinking
of downsizing to a nice quiet area?
Situated on a quiet close this is a
very appealing 3 bed-roomed home with
pretty garden, slightly elevated
looking out over lovely msasas on 2 acres.
2 bathrooms, lounge with
wooden doors opening onto covered veranda, dining
room, fitted kitchen.
Alarmed / Swimming pool / 5000 litre storage tank /
walled with electric
fence and gate. Small Guest Cottage
Very charming with Oregon pine
features
Contact Helen Stephens: 011406428 or Kennan Properties: 334994,
302721
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3.4
Accommodation :
Private Sale, Large double story house comprising 5
beds, 1 1/2 Baths,
fitted kitchen, lounge, dining room, double lock up
garage, all situated on
1 1/3 acres with good parking space in Mt Pleasant.
Property has perfect
potential for upmarket offices.
For more information
and viewing arrangements, please contact Doug
on
0912377383
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3.5
GARDEN FLAT AVAILABLE
Available is a nice , clean two bedroomed garden
flat. Very secure
premises, in Cotswold garden flats complex, Mabelreign. No
big family
please. Interested email me and I will give you the number of the
the person
to go and see. My CELL 07904562015
e-mail : knjaf@aol.com ATT:
J.KANGA
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3.6
Wanted:
I am looking for a house to Rent in Ballantyne Park, Chisipite,
Greystone
Park, Borrowdale village, or just outside Borrowdale
Brooke.
At least 4 bedrooms, 2 lounges, staff quarters.
Immediate
occupation: Call Monica on 0912 240 658 or
860793.
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3.7
Two
ladies and three small dogs are desperately looking for cottage or small
house to rent.
Please contact Rachelle at swannys@zol.co.zw
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3.8
DONAVANS PROPERTY CONSULTANTS
83 Bishop Gaul Avenue, Milton Park,
Harar
Ph: 741655
sales@donavans.co.zw
www.donavans.co.zw
EMERALD HILL PG
51 Bill
4 bed family home
Hilda on 0912 229 790 or 0912 430
756
MILTON PARK PG 76.5 BILL
Company registered! Solid 3 beds hse,
qtrs, partly walled, ½ acre.
For viewing please call Aldona 011 403 183 or
Hilda 091 2229 790 or
0912-430-756
GUN HILL PG 96 BILL
Spanish
style home on 3/4 acre in prime location.
3 bed (m.e.s), lounge and separate
dining room, fitted kitchen with
scullery. Double staff quarters (can be
converted into self contained
flatlet).
Erika 0912 370
651
BORROWDALE BROOKE ESTATE PG 168 BILL
Attractive and spacious
family home, north facing with beautiful views of
the golf estate and
Dombashawa Hills. House consists of 3 bedrooms, 2
bathrooms, study, lounge,
dining room, double lock up garage. Fitted
kitchen with breakfast room, walk
in pantry, seperate scullery and single
staff quarters. Although no bore
hole, has large water tank connected to
plumbing in house. Wired for
generator. Very few power cuts on this
property.
Phone Gail on 862677
or 0912-354 079
FLATS FOR SALE
AVENUES TOWNHOUSE PG 128 BILL
A
charming townhouse featuring spacious lounge, separate dining-room,
kitchen
and four bedrooms (2 en suite). Plus double lock-up garage and
laundry.
Excellent block. Share transfer.
Ph: Vanessa Vos
0912-333-548
AVONDALE PG 42.5 Bill
2 bedroomed flat
Hilda on 0912
229 790 or 0912 430 756
AVENUES - BRISTOL COURT- PG 21.25 BILL
2
bedroomed flat
Hilda on 0912 229 790 or 0912 430 756
PLOTS FOR
SALE
UMWINSIDALE - VACANT STAND PG 39.5 Bill
We are delighted to offer
this 1.3 HECTARE (approx 2.5 acres) piece of PRIME
REAL ESTATE in Harare's
Northern Suburbs.
>From Enterprise Rd, (heading out of town) turn left
into a small newly
>built road about 50 metres past the Umwinsidale Road
turnoff.
Views, beautiful trees, gently undulating land, perfect for your
dream house
and garden with almost immediate access to Enterprise
Road.
Ph: Nadia 091 2 789 111
BUSINESS PREMISES FOR
SALE
AVONDALE PG 199 BILL
This is a huge house on almost an acre
with an excellent borehole and walled
on all sides. The main dwelling is
currently used as a business (in fact
because of the additions and
alterations to the dwelling, this particular
house is only suitable for
business purposes). The size of the floor space
in the main dwelling is in
the region of 350 square metres. There are
altogether about 9 offices two of
which are huge and another which could fit
at least another 6 employees. One
could easily accommodate 30 employees.
Vanessa 0912-333-548 or Alison
0912-400-637
MSASA PG 357 BILL
Prime location exc. Road frontage.
6 acres good soils fully walled & elec
fence. Wooden warehouse &
ablution block.
Vanessa
0912-333-548
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3.9
EXECUTIVE
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
We have the following for rent
Borrowdale
Brooke - two very upmarket homes
Helensvale - furnished townhouse - St
James Park
Greendale - beautiful townhouse
Phone Nola 091 2 401
134 or Junelee 091 2 248
468
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3.10
Wanted asap:-
We are looking to rent a house in Harare. 4 bedrooms,
with borehole.
Please phone 011-411000 or
776205
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3.11
A
small family of Four is looking for accommodation cottage or flat to rent
in
Harare, Greendale, Msasa Park, Msasa, Letombo, Athlone or areas
surrounding
Msasa. Urgently like 01 November 2007.
Please ring Tendai Karinda on 487
559 or 487 832 or send an email to
chantelle@fourseasonsfoods.co.zw
or tengarnetts@yahoo.com
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3.12
HIGHER DIMENSIONS REAL ESTATE
Properties for
Sale
Residential
ALEXANDRA PARK P.G. $ 100 B
3
bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, m.e.s. Lovely fitted kitchen, lounge, separate
dining
room, entrance hall, laundry room, double lock up garage, store room,
double
staff quarters, property is walled and electric gated.
MOUNT PLEASANT
P.G. $ 135 B
Lovely home for relaxed living, so central to everything.
Nestled in a
tranquil garden, offering 4 large bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, m.e.s.,
study,
lounge, dining room, fitted kitchen, sparkling pool, borehole,
lock-up
garage, double domestic accomm. The property is fully alarmed, walled
and
electric gated, and is on one manicured acre. Invest in a lifestyle
today!
GUNHILL P.G. $ 65 B
Cozy Spanish Style house with charm and
character, 3 beds, 2 baths m.e.s.,
study, lounge, sep. d/room, fitted
kitchen, established garden, walled and
gated.
A bargain. Needs some
attention.
OLD MARLBOROUGH P.G. $ 40 B
This affordable home can be
yours today. Excellent value, excellent
condition.
Well maintained
property in a quiet avenue offering 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom,
sep. toilet,
lounge, d/room, fitted kitchen. Pool, lock-up garage, lockable
carport for 4
cars, workshop, guest flat let, single domestic accommodation
and prolific
borehole. The property is alarmed and well secured, walled on 3
sides and
gated.
HIGHLANDS P.G. $ 105 B (ref. 20916)
Here is the home you've
been looking for. Situated in a secluded close, this
solidly built and well
maintained property offeres three bedrooms, 2
bathrooms, m.e.s., study,
lounge and separate dining room, well fitted
kitchen with scullery and
walk-in cold room, ideal for stocking up on
essential perishables! Separate
self contained cottage, borehole, pool,
double carport, and double lock-up
garae. Neat garden, walled three sides
and gated. Excellent
condition.
MOUNT PLEASANT P.G. $ 62.5 B
We offer you a home in a
sought after suburb at an excellent price. Why pay
rent if you can own your
home? This bargain buy offers 3 bedrooms, bathroom,
lounge, sep. dining
room, fitted kitchen, study, self contained cottage,
prolific borehole,
lovely park like garden, walled 3 sides, hedged and
gated. Don't hesitate,
make a date, to view call:
Commercial
BLUFF HILL INDUSTRIAL PARK
P.G. $ 175 B
FACTORY UNIT of approx. 700 Sq.M. in this sought after
complex.
Lots of office space and store rooms. Neat and
secure.
Call or Text Eleanor Bunting-Gray
011-420209, 0912-315399,
04-303328/9
Property Wanted
Houses, Garden Flats, Town Houses and
Cluster Homes wanted by Cash buyers,
all suburbs.
Call or Text Eleanor
Bunting-Gray
011-420209, 0912-315399,
04-303328/9
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3.13
Due
to previous accommodation falling through, we are URGENTLY SEEKING
IMMEDIATE
ACCOMMODATION
for ex farming couple with two dogs (people and pet
friendly!) and a loyal
maid! To HOUSE SIT or Nominal RENT short or long
term.Pref Avondale/Alex
Park/Mt Pleasant/Newlands, but cant be fussy! Dave
& Wendy Dolphin 335124
Mornings, 495886 Evenings (next two weeks only)
011 205459 or 0912 205459
email thedolphs@zol.co.zw
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3.14
For Rent
Charming, old, fully restored, double storey house in the
Avenues. Double
plot. Ample undercover parking. Swimming pool. Beautiful
established garden
with Msasa trees. Gated & walled. Ideal for residence
or offices. (No power
or water failures due to location). Would suit
Embassies, NGO's etc.
Please contact Martyn on e-mail martynandcarole@zol.co.zw or
landline 721710
or cell 011 215
197
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3.15
OFFICE PREMISES WANTED
Looking for Office premises, an office suite in
town or big house ideally in
the following areas:
Milton
Park
Avondale
Alex Park
Will consider other Northern
Suburbs.
Contact Tarryn Hall on 705475/6 or 0912 237 509 email tarrynh@efs.co.zw
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3.16
FLATS AND HOUSES FOR SALE
Avondale - Lovely 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom flat on
a quiet road. Front and
back gardens, veranda and double lock up
carport.
Piersdale Mews, Borrowdale - Well appointed 3 bedroom, 2
bathroom
townhouse with combined lounge and diningroom, fitted kitchen,
veranda,
water tank and double lockup garage. Share Transfer
Dandara
Studio Apartment - This lovely little studio has one large room,
bathroom,
kitchenette and veranda.
Marlborough - 3 bedroom home and two bedroom, 2
bathroom cottage on 2
acres with PROLIFIC borehole and good
soil.
Hatfield and Parktown - These 2 homes have 4 bedrooms and 2
bathrooms
and are both on an acre. The Hatfield one would be ideal for
offices
for a business that uses the airport alot.
For details on
these and other properties - please contact Jenny Taylor
on
011 409 353 or
251643.
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3.17
Art
Teacher from St John's College looking for townhouse / flat / cottage to
rent A.S.A.P.
Please contact Amanda 023-406453
Sally
0912-607879
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4.
RECREATION
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4.1
Need a break
Getaway and enjoy peace and fresh air at GUINEA FOWLS
REST
Only 80kms from Harare, Self-catering guest-house
Sleeps 10 people,
Bird-watching, Canoeing, Fishing, DSTV
REGRET: No day visitors. No boats
or dogs allowed.
Contact Dave: 011 600 770 or Annette 011 600 769
or 091
22 55 653 or email dapayne@zol.co.zw
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4.2
Savuli Safari (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
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. Best value for money.
U12 are 1/2 price
Contact John : savuli@mweb.co.zw or Phone 091 2631
556
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4.3
GACHE GACHE LODGE - KARIBA (Across the lake.)
The weather has warmed up
and the fish are biting! Come and enjoy -
Those of you going to the TIGER
TOURNAMENT plse note that you can book for
lunches or just pop in for a drink
with us then go back to fishing for that
BIG one!
Bookings now open
for DECEMBER HOLIDAYS! Boat tansfers arranged or you can
drive around in a
4x4.
Contact: Fatima - tourleaders@zol.co.zw or phone
301889.
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4.4
Self Catering Holiday Cottages S.A (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Figtree Self
catering Holiday cottages almost on the beach in the quiet
village of
Pennington four cottages which may sleep comfortably 20 persons.
Minimum of
R300 per night and R60 per person per night.Kindly book in
advance so as not
to be disappointed. Contact Cindy or Willy on 27833002394
or Email : cvp@eastcoast.co.za We really look forward
to hearing from
you
all.
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4.5
NATUREWAYS SAFARIS (Ad inserted 15/08/07)
Urges you to take a step back
in time to the untouched, unchanged wilderness
of MANA POOLS. Away from the
rush and stress of the modern cities to an
exclusive paradise where you can
be at one with nature and interact with a
variety of interesting neighbours
such as elephant, hippo, waterbuck to name
just a few.
Partake in a
luxury Odyssey safari (and spend your days walking, canoeing or
on safari
drives) or climb into your canoe and set off on an
exciting
semi-participatory Explorer canoe safari down the mighty Zambezi
River. We
look forward to welcoming you to our magic world!
Email : bookings@natureways.com, Phone: 333
414 / 339 001, Fax: 333414 /
339008
Skype: natureways_reservations2 or
www.natureways.com
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4.6.
SOUTHERN BELLE
Luxury Cruise Ship on Lake Kariba
Christmas special
2007 - individual cabins on offer:
Deluxe Cabin: US$ 195.00 per person
per day
Executive Cabin US $ 190.00 per person per day
Double
Cabins US $ 155.00 per person per day
Twin Cabins US $ 140.00 per
person per day
Triple Cabins US $140.00 per person per day
Cruise
dates 22 December to 26th December 2007
Departure times Marineland
Harbour 10.30am
Cruise departure dependent on minimum of 24
passengers
Book now to avoid disappointment - bring the whole
family.
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4.7
I
am looking for New Year's accommodation at Charara, from 29/12/07 -
3/1/08
Please contact Roger Blair 062-2537 or blair2@zol.co.zw
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4.8
Accomodation available in Cape Town
6 Berth at Seapointer in Seapoint
from 21 - 28 December.
6 Berth at Big Bay in Blouberg from 28 December -
4 Jan.
ZAR5,000 per each week.
Contact Simon Silcock - 0912 233
103
Email sunshineflowers@zol.co.zw
sunshine@ecoweb.co.zw
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4.9
KARIBA COUNTRY CLUB
Situated on the Heights Kariba - most amazing views
anywhere in the world.
Ideal place for your special occasion or
functions.
Weddings,
Birthdays,
Anniversaries,
Conferences
We
can cater for large groups and assist in getting discounted Accommodation
in
the Kariba Area.
Three Bars, Tennis Courts, Squash Court, Snooker, Darts,
Swimming Pool.
GUEST are always MOST welcome - small entrance
charge.
Coldest and cheapest Drinks in town with very reasonably priced
Meals.
Open every day except MONDAYS.
Enquiries regarding
functions please either phone the Manager on 061 2283 or
email sengwa@mweb.co.zw
Phone: +263 61
3215
Cell Phone: +263 91
344961
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4.10
CHRISTMAS IN MOZAMBIQUE
Accommodation available over the Christmas period
in 3 bedroomed (max 6 pax)
beach house at Pomene, Mozambique (150km south of
Vilancoulos). Idyllic
setting with km's of unspoilt, exclusive beach.
Dolphins, flamingos and
crystal, clear tropical seas. Situated on a lagoon
with excellent snorkeling
and swimming for kids, world class
fishing.
Self catering. House fully equipped with minus 40 fridge and
freezer, gas
stove, linen, cutlery, crockery etc. Staff available to clean
and do
laundry.
Contact - Janna Pole, 19 Rolf Avenue, Ballantyne Park,
Harare
091 2 432523 / 870019 / janna@earth.co.zw
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4.11
" Hippo Pools Wilderness Camp -
Need a breakaway for a relaxing weekend,
where there is untouched natural
beauty and no outside interference? Hippo
Pools Wilderness Camp is the place
you want to be. On the bank of the Mazowe
River In the Umfurudzi Safari
Area. For Details phone Elsie on 747929 or
email wildernessafrica@zol.co.zw
"
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4.12
ABERFOYLE LODGE
Self catering lodge, situated in Honde Valley. Offers
something for
everyone - golf, tennis, squash, snooker, lovely walks in
idyllic
surroundings & excellent birding. There is a bird guide should
you require.
Gather your friends, share transport for fun-filled few
days.
For further information contact Sue : E-mail booking@aberfoyle.co.zw or
phone
028-2493 /
028-2251-7.
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4.13
Accommodation to rent - Nyanga
Large, well equipped house in Nyanga with
lovely views and amazing bird
life. Close to hotel, golf course and
shop.
Sleeps 12.
Just bring your own food and drink. Cook included
in the rate.
For more information, please contact Rose Worthington on
email:
worthynr@zol.co.zw or worthynr@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: cell:
0912 339414
Landline: 0298 873 or: 0298
304
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4.14
Bulawayo
Light Tackle Club will be holding the 16th Western All Species
Fishing
Tournament from Olive Beadle Camp on the Zambezi River. The dates
are
Captains meeting Friday 19 October, fishing 20-21 October 2007. This is
open
to all anglers and is for teams of two anglers. Prizes for top
male/female
team, top overall team, top veterans team and many others.
Camping facilities
are availible, if you get hold of me early enough we may
be able to organise
accomadation in one of the chalets.
Entry Fee is one million dollars per
team and includes a light meal on the
Friday night and Sunday night, as well
as National parks fees for the
tournament days. Further information and entry
form are available from Rob
Mckenzie Cell 011 602 016 or email robmck@gator.co.zw or from Tom
Oxden
Willows cell 011 402 674 Willfit@gatorzw.co.uk
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4.15
BANTRY
BAY, CAPE TOWN - BEAUTIFUL 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATHROOM TIMESHARE AVAILABLE
FROM
23RD NOVEMBER TO 7TH DECEMBER TO VIEW SEE
www.bantrybayinternational.co.za
Ph 011 218 770 or e-mail
lee@gourmetgirls.co.zw
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5.
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
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5.1
Vehicle Repairs
Vehicle repairs carried out personally by qualified
mechanic with 30 years
experience. Very reasonable rates.
Phone Johnny
Rodrigues: 011 603213 or 011 404797, email:
galorand@mweb.co.zw
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5.2
SpeedWorx - WYNN'S
Intelligent Car Service has arrived!
Why pay
ridiculous prices and be without your car for days.
Our services are done
while you wait & cost a fraction of the normal repair.
At SpeedWorx
we will:
Service your car
Increase your engine's performance and
improve your fuel economy
Completely flush your engine oil to prolong
your engine life
Restore your Power steering performance and stop it
leaking
Restore your Automatic Transmission performance and stop it
leaking
Completely flush your brake system and make you safe
Stop
your car overheating and reduce the risk of leaks
Remove bad odours from
the interior of your car and keep it fresh
Services done at your home or
office.
Contact: Bryan 011 612 650 or Russell 011 410
525.
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5.3
VIDEO PRODUCTION
Filming & Editing of Weddings & Special Events.
DVD Production, Broadcast
Quality. DVD & VHS transfers. Call Greer on
744075 / 0912 353 047
Greer Wynn - Focused Video Productions: 0912 353
047 /
744075
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5.4
HUNTING TROPHY EXPORTS (Ad inserted 31/07/07)
For:
Fast and
efficient dipping and shipping
Professional administration and
storage of trophies
Taxidermy in the USA
Convenient drop-off
Contact me, Joe Wells on Tel/fax (263) 04 490677,
Cell: (263) 0912 239305
Email: josh@zol.co.zw, Joobie62@yahoo.co.uk
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5.5
MAGNA PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL
WE UNDERTAKE TO DO ALL OUR WORK
PROFESSIONALLY AND PROMPTLY - PLEASE GIVE US
A CALL. (DOMESTIC AND
INDUSTRIAL)
1. ELECTRCIAL
2. PLUMBING
3. BUILDING AND
RENOVATIONS
4. CARPENTRY
5. PAINTING AND GLAZING
6. TILING,
PATIOS AND DRIVEWAYS
WE ALSO HAVE A PROCUREMENTS DIVISION
WE WILL
UNDERTAKE TO FIND ANYTHING YOU CANNOT - EITHER LOCALLY
OR
EXTERNALLY.
THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE FOR FOR
SUPPORT.
CONTACT
ROB AND SUE
852658 / 011 601 885
macgyver@zol.co.zw / havill@zol.co.zw
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5.6
Highly
recommended painter/tiler/brickworker (As inserted 23/08/2007
.
Newton
Samukuite. 2 Wakefield Road, Avondale. Cell 011 523624.
References
available from Mary Dunphy, efgaz@mango.zw, tel/fax 308318
cell 091 2
401664
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5.7
ELECTRICAL DEFY PRODUCTS
Specializing in all Defy electrical products at
a very competitive price.
Will also source other brands of electrical
goods for you. Please look at
the Defy website
www.defy.co.za for more details and models etc.
you may want to order.
Delivery time is usually within a week after
payment - payment to be made by
RTGS,cash or transfer - details will be
provided once an order is made
Contact - Janna Pole, 19 Rolf Avenue,
Ballantyne Park, Harare
091 2 432523 / 870019 / janna@earth.co.zw
VISIO INTERIOR
DESIGN
Specialising in residential and lodge interiors - let us help you
create
your dream home.
Diploma in Interior Design and Decoration -
Rhodec International UK
Contact - Janna Pole, 19 Rolf Avenue, Ballantyne
Park, Harare
091 2 432523 / 870019 / janna@earth.co.z
THE PACKING CO. -
Professional packing and crating of trophies
Secure storage of trophies
with treatment to prevent any contamination
Thorough inspection of
trophies
Trophies individually wrapped and packed in industrial boxes and
strong
wooden crates
Fast and efficient processing of
documentation
Delivery of packed crate and paperwork to shipping
company
Weekly update on progress of shipment
Contact - Janna
Pole, 19 Rolf Avenue, Ballantyne Park, Harare
091 2 432523 / 870019 / janna@earth.co.zw
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5.8
Bond Point Mortgage, Finance for You!
Looking to buy a house in South
Africa or Dubai? Let us do your finance.
It is hassle free residential and
commercial property & development.
Contact Sue Ronnie on + 27 83 951
5064 or email susand@bondpoint.biz
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5.9
TRANSPORT
8 tonne lorry and trailer for hire
Phone Peter
073-2585 or
011-205377
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5.10
NIBBLES CATERING
For all your catering needs, please contact Glynis
0912-343198 or
Tarryn
0912-413323
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5.11
WHEN DID YOUR BUSINESS LAST HAVE A HEALTH CHECK?
On 25 September John
Robertson made a sudden shift from the usual macro
economic presentation. He
told business people to get to grips with the
fundamentals of managing their
businesses.
He stressed that if you want to survive this depressed
economic environment:
Go back to fundamental business
principles
Resist managing by crisis
The Business Link in
conjunction with John Robertson is proud to offer a 3
day business health
check programme on 6 to 8 November.
As usual the Business Link's emphasis
will be on implemention of
straightforward practical business solutions. For
over 30 years we have
helped nearly 9 000 business people on three
continents.
To register please e-mail your name and contact details
including phone and
cell numbers to lorna@businesslink.co.zw
OUR
STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE IS TO MAKE SURE THERE IS A FUTURE
Stan Parsons,
Lorna Pearson and John
Robertson
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5.12
A ZIMBABWEAN'S SURVIVAL MANUAL - STRESS SLAVES - How it Imprisons
You - How
to Break Free - By Pamina Mullins, published by Kima Global
Publishers, Cape
Town can be ordered now from www.kimaglobal.co.za or at
Avondale
Bookshop.
"Pamina Mullins trained as a corporate and personal stress
management
consultant in the United Kingdom and practices in Harare, Zimbabwe
where
stress management is an essential survival tool; the moment by
moment
challenges being akin to climbing Everest on a daily basis! She has
walked
every step of her talk - work stress, relationship stress, family
stress,
single parenthood, divorce, bereavement and financial stress. She
works with
CEOs and secretaries, human resources trainers and housewives,
board members
and bankers, messengers and marketing executives.
Stress
Slaves explores with irrepressable humour the countless ways in which
we
abuse our psychophysiology buying into stress slavery and explains with
logic
and compassion how to stop pawning your personal power, plug the
energy
leaks, divorce extreme expectations , shed historical baggage and
reclaim
your birthright of healthy, happy self centred living - in
any
environment!
If you would like to order a copy from Avondale
Bookshop please contact Mrs.
Newton and give her your name and contact
details and she will contact you
when she has copies in stock.
If you
wish to book a Stress Management Seminar for your company or a
private
consultation please call 04 336769 or 0912 973232 or email
mapani27@yahoo.co.uk
It's the best
insurance policy you will ever
have!
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5.13
Christian Counselling Centre
8 Coltman Road, P O Box MP 1129, Mount
Pleasant, Harare
Tel: 744212 / 744580 - E-mail Address: hccc@mweb.co.zw
Dear
Friends,
These days a great deal of emphasis is placed on physical
health
(understandably). But health is important in every aspect of our
lives. We
are presenting 3 Seminars which I know will help you examine what
you are
doing to stay healthy in terms of your lifestyle, your thinking, and
also
regarding your self esteem.
This one morning (or part of the
morning) could impact your life forever.
Please note there was an error
on our brochure which advertised 2 of the
seminars to start at the same
time. The correct times are given below.
The details of these 3 seminars
we are offering are as follows ;
13. A Balanced Lifestyle - Led by
Brenda Smith
Do you get stressed out by overwork, or over- stretched by
trying to help
others, or feel like you are always giving, forever trying to
keep others
happy? Do you struggle to find balance in your life. Then this
seminar is
for you. Find out why we become driven, or people-pleasers or
rescuers and
how we can change.
Time: 9.00 am
14. Healthy
Thinking - Led by Sue Marland
Our perception of events affects how we
feel. So, if our view is wrong or
distorted, it will result in unnecessary
negative emotions. How do we
recognise wrong thinking and how do we correct
it? This vital subject of
being healthy in our thinking has huge
significance for all of us.
Time: 10.30 am
15. Healthy
Self-Image - Led by Olga Fredericks
Lack of confidence, shyness,
defensiveness, being inflexible or controlling,
a sense of failure, guilt,
and depression can all be symptoms of low
self-esteem. We all suffer to some
degree from this sense of inferiority.
Learn how to change and become the
person God meant you to be.
Time: 12.00 noo
Yours in
Him
Ian
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5.14
Specialised Business Strategies
. . . . now into our 14th year . . . . .
. .
and still assisting people with much needed valuable Advisory
Services. . .
. .
A. PLC - Private Limited Companies
-
New Company Registrations
- Shelf Companies
- Statutory
forms, ie Annual Returns, amendments to CR14, CR6,
completion
of
& submission to Registrar of Companies
B. PBC - Private
Business Corporations
- convert from PLC to PBC - distinct
advantages
- amendments to PBC Founding Statement
C.
Nominee Shareholders
- caretaker shares in your company in light of the
new Indiginisation and
Empowerment Bill,
expected to soon become
law
D. Investor Care Services
- DFI -Direct Foreign
Investment projects
- New Investor procedures and
formalities
- Immigration formalities into Zimbabwe
ie.
residence and employment permits
E. Resolving disputes through
Arbitration/Mediation
- labour matters - domestic and corporate
employees
- rental matters - landlord/tenant disputes
F. Rent
Board matters
- Problems with undesirable tenants. .
.?.?
- Problems with unfair/unprincipled landlords
G. Labour
related matters
- Workplace disputes
- 'retrenchment' of
staff
- 'Collective Bargaining' negotiations
For further
information and enquiries
Contact us:
Thomas Vallance
ACIArb
Commissioner of Oaths
PARADiGM Management Services (Pvt)
Ltd
Business Management Practitioners
Tels: (B) 304 482 (M) 011-617 161 /
0912-227 473
Email:[paradigm@zol.co.zw]
........doing it right the
first
time....................
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6.
PETS
CORNER
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6.1
Looking for a Home (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Please would some kind person
give a home to 'Jessica'. She is a 4 year old
brindle English Bull Terrier
bitch. Loves cats but is terrified of other
dogs so doesn't get on with them.
If you are wanting an only dog Jessica is
for you, she has a lovely
temperament and just wants love in return. Tel
Michelle on 884294 011602903
or e-mail gandami@mweb.co.zw
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6.2
A
male Bouvier dog was found on Coronation Avenue a few days ago, and a male
Rottweiller - young - was found at Chisipite Shopping Centre. If anyone has
lost either of these dogs, they are at Kamfinsa Vet on Court
Road.
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6.3
LOST
Fritz, a liver and tan male daxi, disappeared from 28 Morton Jaffray
Road,
about a week ago Please please can someone find this precious little
dog -
his owner is devastated. If he is found please phone Ron Saul at
778573
Home, or 753336
Work.
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6.4
MISSING PARROT
Small green parrot with a grey head is lost in the
Ballantyne Park area. He
will probably land on someone's shoulder. If you
see him , please call:
Des 883226 / 011-606159
Amy 023-781169 /
883368
Kim 0912-274914 /
776643/7
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7.
SOCIAL
GATHERINGS
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7.1
Country Juke Box (Ad inserted 7/08/07)
Come and party with Country Juke
Box. Bring the family. Children allowed.
Reasonable bar prices, club menu and
a great atmosphere. A wide selection of
dance music from the 60's to 90's,
Country, Tiekkie Draai, Rock and Roll
etc. For details contact Joe
Esterhuizen on 339378 or 0912 338414 or e-mail
countryjukebox@hotmail.com
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7.2
DONNYBROOK PARK
Short Circuit
(Stock cars and
speedway)
SATURDAY 27TH OCTOBER 2007
RACING STARTS
1.00PM
Full bar and
catering
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7.3
ST GEORGE'S RACE MEETING
Come racing with the dragon
Date:
Saturday 27th October
Venue: Mashonaland Turf Club
Time: 12
noon
Faith wear Fashion Show Faces of Faith. Plus music, auction, raffle
and
spot prizes.
Catering and cash bar or bring a
picnic.
Entrance fee: $ 100
000
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7.4
The Athol Evans Home 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert
Harare
International School Auditorium, Mount Pleasant
7.00 p.m. Saturday 27th
October 2007
A very wide variety of musical talent from indivudual
singers, a youth
orchestra, a pipe band to a group of harmony
singers.
Tickets are very reasonable priced at $400,000 and $200,00 for
senior
citizens, and can be purchased from The Spotlight, Athol Evans Complex
and
other outlets.
Please come and support this very worthy
cause.
PAM GRAHAM (Mrs)
SECRETARY
ATHOL EVANS
COMPLEX
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JAG
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or
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with subject
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