Zim Online
Thursday 26 October
2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe's High Court
has ordered the state to
compensate the widow of a man shot dead five years
ago by soldiers summoned
to quell protests by workers at a state firm - in
an unprecedented show of
disapproval by the court of the government's
methods of handling public
protests.
In a landmark ruling
made available yesterday, Justice Francis
Bere deplored as "as unwarranted
and excessive use of force" the deployment
in August 2001 of soldiers and
police - armed with live bullets - to put
down protests for more pay by
workers at government steelmaker ZISCOSTEEL.
Bere ordered
Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi, Police
Commissioner Augustine Chihuri,
Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi and army
commander Phillip Sibanda, all
defendants in the matter, to jointly pay Z$2
001 375 (US$7 992) to Joyce
Mwachinduka whose husband Samuel Masiyatsva was
killed when soldiers opened
fire on the protesting workers. Masiyatsva
worked for
ZISCOSTEEL.
"It is ordered that the defendants jointly pay
the sum of $2 001
375 being damages for loss of support," Justice Bere
ruled.
Commenting on government authorities' decision to send
armed
soldiers and police to control a labour protest, the Judge said: "The
court
is more than satisfied that the joint operation of the defendants at
ZISCOSTEEL was an unwarranted and excessive use of force which cost the
deceased (Masiyatsva)'s life and deprived the plaintiff of support from the
deceased."
Apart from Masiyatsva, two other ZISCOSTEEL
workers were also
killed while twenty two were injured when soldiers and
police shot at them.
The families of the other two deceased
workers had not pursued
compensation from the state. But senior officials of
the Zimbabwe Congress
of Trade Unions (ZCTU), which assisted the widow of
Masiyatswa in claiming
compensation, yesterday indicated fresh claims for
compensation may be
brought against the state following Bere's
judgment.
Briefing journalists in Harare yesterday, ZCTU
first
vice-president Lucia Matibenga said the court ruling had vindicated
calls by
the union that the army should be kept in the barracks and never
allowed
into the streets to control public protests.
She
said: "We welcome the ruling by the High Court .. for
sometime now the ZCTU
has been deploring the use of the army to quell
strikes and we repeat that
it is not the duty of the army to interfere in
civilian
matters."
Mugabe's government - battling to keep public
discontent in
check amid a deteriorating economic meltdown, hunger and
poverty -
frequently deploys the army and police to crush street protests by
workers
and the opposition.
In September, 31 ZCTU
officials were severely assaulted and
tortured by the police for attempting
to organise nationwide protests by
workers for more pay and better living
conditions.
Mugabe, who last August warned Zimbabweans that
the army would
"pull the trigger" on anyone protesting against his rule,
publicly praised
the police for assaulting the ZCTU officials who he said
deserved a beating
for disobeying orders to cancel anti-government protests.
- ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thursday 26 October
2006
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe acting Information
Minister Paul Mangwana says he
is ready to ask Parliament to repeal parts of
the government's tough media
legislation but only if journalists submitted
to him the offending sections
of the law they want changed.
Zimbabwe's Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA)
is
among the harshest media laws in the world, providing for imprisonment of
journalists for two years for practising in the country without licence from
the state Media and Information Commission.
Another law, the
Criminal Codification Act, also imposes sentences of
up to 20 years in jail
on journalists or other citizens convicted of
publishing false information
or statements that are prejudicial to the state
or are likely to cause,
promote, or incite public disorder, or adversely
affect the security or
economic interests of the country.
Mangwana told ZimOnline: "The
challenge I made when I came in as
minister still stands. If there are any
sections of AIPPA that are bad, then
the journalists should make submissions
to me and I would make
representation on their behalf in
Parliament.
"No laws are permanent and no law is cast in stone,
laws are made by
society and if journalists as citizens of Zimbabwe feel the
laws are bad,
they should table offending sections to me then we would deal
with the
unjust sections."
But the Zimbabwe Union of
Journalists (ZUJ) immediately dismissed as
dishonest and insincere claims by
Mangwana that he was willing to review
AIPPA.
ZUJ president
Mathew Takaona said the union had made several
representations about AIPPA
and other issues impeding journalists in their
work to Mangwana - who was
appointed acting head the information ministry
last June - but all to no
avail.
"We have (already) made several representations to both the
Minister
(Mangwana) and to the parliamentary portfolio committee on
transport and
communication and the intentions were to look at AIPPA and the
contentious
issues from the law," said Takaona.
President
Robert Mugabe's government, which has in the last three
years banned four
newspapers including the country's biggest daily paper,
The Daily News, is
regarded by most media experts as among governments most
intolerant to a
free Press.
Apart from banning newspapers, the Harare
administration - battling to
keep a lead on dissension amid a worsening
economic crisis - has also banned
the few private radio stations that had
attempted to open up in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe has three daily papers,
two of them majority owned by the
government and one said to be owned by the
state secret service.
The government-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting
Holdings (ZBH) operates
four radio stations and one television station all
tightly controlled by the
Ministry of Information.
The very few
privately-owned newspapers in the country are all weekly
publications and
with a smaller circulation than government-controlled
titles. -
ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thursday 26 October
2006
MUTARE - The trial of an ex-soldier
accused of unlawfully stocking
arms and plotting to murder President Robert
Mugabe opens here today before
High Court Judge Alfas Chitakunye, in a case
analysts have dismissed as a
ploy by the government to divert public
attention from a collapsing economy.
Peter Hitschmann, a soldier in
the former white government of
Rhodesia - Zimbabwe's name before
independence in 1980 - was arrested last
March together with several
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party
officials including the
opposition party's legislator for Mutare North
constituency, Giles
Mutsekwa.
The group was accused of working with the hitherto
unknown Zimbabwe
Freedom Movement to overthrow the government and were
charged under section
10 (1) of the Public Order and Security Act Chapter
11:17 that outlaws
possession of weapons for the purpose of committing
banditry, insurgency,
sabotage or terrorism.
The State later
dropped charges against Mutsekwa, MDC Manicaland
provincial youth chairman
Knowledge Nyamhoka, party treasurer Brian James,
activist Thando Sibanda and
four ex-policemen Peter Nzungu, Wellington
Tsuro, Jerry Maguta and Garikai
Chikutya. However charges against Hitschmann
were not dropped.
Hitschmann's case was supposed to be heard in June but could not
proceed
because his lawyer was away.
The lawyer, Trust Maanda, yesterday
confirmed that his client was
going on trial today and that he was denying
the charges.
The State alleges that Hitschmann and his group had
conspired to
assassinate Mugabe, businessman and ZANU PF activist Esau
Mupfumi and ZANU
PF Chipinge South legislator Enock Porusingazi during the
21st February
Movement celebrations held in Mutare to mark Mugabe's 82nd
birthday.
The State further alleges that the suspects had also
hatched a plan to
kill Mugabe before he arrived at the venue.
Part of the State outline reads: "To achieve this, the group agreed to
spill
oil on Christmas Pass highway when the motorcade would be approaching,
so
that the motorcade would slip and get involved in an accident.
"They (the group) had also agreed to throw tear smoke canisters in
tents
where the 21st February Movement celebration were going to be held so
as to
cause panic, disturbance to ordinary people in attendance," the State
added.
The State further alleges that prior to the 21st
February Movement
anniversary, the group held several secret meetings in
which they plotted
the assassinations. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Thursday 26 October
2006
MATOBO - Three medical workers at the
government-run Maphisa District
Hospital in Matobo were on Monday arrested
for stealing medical drugs worth
about $400 000 for resale on the parallel
market.
Sources at the hospital told ZimOnline yesterday that the
three, who
include a nurse, a radiographer and a dispensary assistant, were
arrested on
Monday while transporting the drugs to Bulawayo where there is a
ready
market.
"They were arrested along the Kezi-Bulawayo road
while carrying the
drugs in a private vehicle. Police detectives searched
them after someone
had tipped them of the theft, which is now rampant at
government hospitals,"
said the source.
Drugs such as
amoxyllin, cotrimaxazole and hydrochlorothiazide which
are all in short
supply at rural hospitals around the country were recovered
during the
operation.
There is a widespread shortage of drugs at most
government hospitals
around the country forcing most health institutions to
dispense only
pain-killers to patients.
"This is just the tip
of the ice-berg because a lot has been happening
at these government
hospitals. The medical workers are hungry just like
anybody else forcing
them to sell these drugs to some unscrupulous
individuals," said a nurse at
the hospital who refused to be named.
Police spokesman for
Matabeleland South, Inspector Tichafanana
Dzirutwe confirmed the arrest of
the three and said they would appear in
court soon.
"Yes I can
confirm their arrest, but I do not have the full details
right now, although
I am told that they will appear in court before the end
of this week. They
were arrested by police in Maphisa," he said.
Although medical
workers such as nurses earn slightly more than most
civil servants, their
salaries of around Z$40 000 a month are still way
below the breadline of
$100 000 a month that the Consumer Council of
Zimbabwe says an average
family of six needs to survive.
This has forced some sections of
the nursing community to resort to
unorthodox means to survive.
Zimbabwe is in its seventh year of a bitter economic recession
described
last year by the World Bank as unprecedented for a country not at
war. -
ZimOnline
[This report
does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
HARARE,
25 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - More than six years after Zimbabwe launched its
fast-track land reform programme, only around 200 of the several thousand
commercial white farmers affected have received compensation, and the
government will only be able to reimburse the rest by 2010.
According
to constitutional amendments in 2000, enabling the government to
expropriate
land, the authorities only have to compensate farmers for
improvements made
to their properties "within a reasonable period". In terms
of the amended
constitution, Britain, Zimbabwe's former colonial power,
should pay for the
expropriated farmland.
The lands ministry recently told parliament that
it had run out of money.
"Since we advertised for former white farmers to
come and get compensation
from the ministry, the response has been
overwhelming. That is why the Z$800
million [about US$3 million] that had
been originally budgeted for 2006 was
easily wiped out, and we had to go for
a supplementary budget," said Ngoni
Masoka, permanent secretary of the
ministry.
More than 4,000 white farmers lost their land when the
government embarked
on the acquisition of white-owned farms to resettle
thousands of land-hungry
black Zimbabweans in 2000.
Masoka added that
numerous former cattle ranchers had not been compensated
because
improvements on their farms were "insignificant", and it would take
more
than four years to complete financial restitution to the farmers. Only
37
farmers were compensated this year.
Dydimus Mutasa, the minister of lands
and national security, told parliament
earlier this month that only 206
farmers had been paid compensation for
immovable property on their former
farms.
Justice for Agriculture (JAG), a pressure group formed at the
height of the
land occupations to protect the interests of commercial white
farmers,
estimated it would cost about US$28 billion to adequately
compensate
dispossessed landowners, excluding subsequent damage, for which
the farmers
should also claim payment.
"Qualified evaluators put the
bill ... between US$8 [million] to $10 million
for the damages suffered by
the farmers over the past six years," John
Worswic, chief executive of the
JAG Trust, told the privately owned
Financial Gazette
recently.
Renson Gasela, former secretary for agriculture in the
opposition Movement
for Democratic Change, is convinced that the government
lacks the capacity
to pay the white farmers, some of whom have relocated to
other countries.
"If they [government] could pay only about 200 farmers
in more than six
years, I don't see any reason why they should believe that
they can complete
the process of compensating the remaining thousands in
only four years,"
Gasela told IRIN.
"The government failed to pay
when the economy was performing better than
now and, given the rate at which
it is deteriorating, where are they going
to get so much money from?" Gasela
accused the government of reneging on its
promise to pay the commercial
farmers 25 percent of the value of
improvements on the farms at the time the
owners were removed from their
land.
"Because the acquisition of the
farms was done in a hurried manner, and
without any planning, there was no
valuation of the farms before the
commercial farmers were booted out." He
pointed out that the lands ministry
should have at least done inventories of
the properties.
Many dispossessed farmers have not claimed compensation
because they have
migrated to other countries, notably Mozambique, Zambia
and Nigeria, where
they have continued farming, but Gasela urged the
government to trace them
and ensure that they received payment "because they
[the government] have a
legal obligation to pay".
The few farmers who
have received compensation are unhappy with the amount.
Peter Terblanche,
69, a former tobacco farmer living in an old people's home
on the outskirts
of the capital, Harare, said he was forced to accept the
about US$120,000
the government offered him because he was desperate for
money.
"I
don't know how they arrived at that figure but they just wrote to me to
inform me, saying that was the amount that reflected the value of my
property. I am now too old to be hopping from one office to another and had
no choice but to accept that money," Terblanche told IRIN.
The amount
is less than 10 percent of what he should have received, he said,
and should
be equivalent to the value of the tobacco crop taken over by
those who
subsequently settled on what had been his property. When the
figure was
determined, it did not take into consideration rising inflation -
now around
1,000 percent - which was the highest in the world.
Since the 2000 land
invasions began, Zimbabwe's economy has gone into
freefall. An annual
inflation rate hovering at around 1,000 percent has seen
unemployment levels
rise above 70 percent, and shortages of foreign currency
have caused food,
fuel and electricity to become scarce commodities.
Even though
Terblanche, a widower, does not hope to get the remainder, he
intends to
engage a lawyer, "who should keep my complaint, just in case a
new
government that is more sensitive to our plight comes into power in the
future".
A precedent could soon be set for farmers wanting to take
matters into their
own hands.
In July, 11 farmers of Dutch origin,
whose land was confiscated during the
redistribution drive, approached the
International Centre for the Settlement
of Investment Disputes, a World Bank
arbitration forum, seeking compensation
amounting to US$15
million.
The farmers' case, partly funded by the Open Society Initiative
for Southern
Africa, a nonprofit organisation, is yet to be heard, but the
arbitration
process is likely to be completed by January 2007.
Resource Investor
By Business Day
and Resource Investor
25 Oct 2006 at 08:29 AM EDT
JOHANNESBURG
(Business Day) -- Foreign mining firms in Zimbabwe may be
allowed to retain
their majority shareholding as a reward for their
contribution to the
development of local communities under amendments to
proposed new
legislation.
The government announced in March plans for a law to compel
foreign firms to
hand over 51% of their equity to local investors, sparking
warnings from the
mining sector that this would frighten away
investment.
Now, according to proposals obtained by AFP, the government
is to amend the
draft law to give companies credits for "any investment into
social
investments such as schools, scholarships, training and on-going
running
costs of clinics."
Companies that fare highly in a so-called
"empowerment scorecard" will be
required to shed a smaller stake to local
investors, which the government
says has been historically disadvantaged by
laws that favoured huge
conglomerates.
"Heartened" by News
The
chamber of mines, which has been leading the campaign against the
initial
proposals, said it was heartened by the latest developments.
"Both the
ministry and ourselves are keen to resolve the issue of
empowerment as soon
as we can," the chamber's president, Jack Murehwa, told
AFP.
"The
current thrust of discussion is therefore most welcome. However we are
not
yet at a point where we can release a common position."
In June,
President Robert Mugabe sought to reassure foreign mining firms
over
proposals to give the state a larger ownership share, saying they would
not
lead to property grabs.
Partners in Zimbabwe
"We are not there to
frighten away investors. We are not there even to take
away that which is
not ours. No. We are there purely to become partners in
Zimbabwe," said
Mugabe during a visit to a platinum mine in Ngezi.
Around 200 foreign
firms operate mines in Zimbabwe, which has significant
reserves of platinum,
diamonds and gold.
Zimplats [ASX:ZIM], majority owned by Impala Platinum
[JSE:IMP], SouthernEra
[TSX:SDM; AIM:SRE] and Caledonia Mining [TSX:CAL]
have producing projects,
while Anglo Platinum [JSE:AMS], Conquest Resources
[TSXv:CQR] and Mandorin
Goldfields [TSXv:MGD] have exploration and/or
development projects in the
country.
The southern African country is
in the throes of an economic crisis,
characterised by four digit inflation
figures and severe shortages of fuel
and food.
A key pillar of the
economy along with agriculture, the mining sector last
year accounted for
44% of Zimbabwe's total foreign currency revenues,
according to Reserve Bank
figures.
Sokwanele
Sokwanele Report: 25 October
2006
Since last October, plenty of column space has been devoted to the split
in
the MDC. The subject has been debated and discussed ad nauseam in the
streets, on commuter omnibuses, and in the independent and government press.
Not surprisingly, the government mouthpieces, the Herald and the Chronicle,
have rapturously embraced this topic. Not surprising, we say, because the
split was assisted by Zanu PF and the CIO, and has successfully diverted
attention away from the shambles that this country is in, courtesy of the
regime's consistent failure on all accounts. Zanu PF itself is riven by
splits, as a careful reading of the newspapers will show; how convenient for
them to be able to divert attention from their own splits by looking at the
rifts in the MDC!
So, in defiance of their strategy, we draw our eyes
away from the
opposition, and refocus on the ruling party, Zanu PF, the true
cause of the
country's woes.
The cracks that are apparent have
appeared along three main fault lines:
firstly, the scapegoats or
sacrificial lambs such as Christopher Kuruneri
and even Philip Chiyangwa;
secondly, there is a strong link to the
succession debate as bigwigs jostle
for the top job of President, and their
minions line up behind them; and
thirdly, the inevitable casualties from
internecine warfare caused by
personal ambition and regional turf wars.
The scapegoats
Christopher
Kuruneri must be the shortest-lived Finance Minister ever: he
was appointed
in February 2004, and just a couple of weeks thereafter was
arrested and
charged with illegally exporting foreign currency, under the
Exchange
Control Act. The media had a field day unearthing various
properties in
South Africa purported to be owned by him, including some
palatial houses in
Cape Town. He spent nearly 18 months behind bars and, in
July 2005, was
released from remand prison and placed under 24 hour house
arrest at his
Glen Lorne home. His trial was postponed indefinitely in
September last year
owing to his poor health. He is also still awaiting
sentence following his
conviction on a separate charge of breaching the
Citizenship Act.
In
view of the known excesses and suspected misdemeanors of others in the
Zanu
PF camp, why was Kuruneri selected for such treatment? The immediate
answer
that comes to mind is that the ruling party wanted to be seen to be
acting
to stamp out corruption, even within its own ranks. Hence a scapegoat
had to
be found who, in biblical terminology, would bear the punishment of
many. By
exposing one of their own, and making him face the full wrath of
the law,
the regime could claim that it was truly intent on defeating the
Zimbabwean
scourge of corruption, and attempt to show the international
community (not
least the IMF) that it was truly committed to this path. Such
headline news
also provided - and this type of news continues to provide - a
welcome
diversionary tactic from whatever else the regime wanted to hide
from the
eyes of the public it is supposed to serve.
However, from what appeared
to be its initial role as a means to provide
scapegoats, the anti-corruption
drive of the ruling party has gathered
momentum and is a useful means of
publicly punishing those who might find
themselves out of favour with the
power-brokers of the regime. It is also a
very effective way of reining in
all Zanu bigwigs and associates, using
threats and fear to limit their
power.
The man in charge of all this, Paul Mangwana (Anti-Corruption and
Anti-Monopolies Minister), said government had re-invigorated the
anti-corruption drive which would result in a number of high-profile
personalities being arraigned before the courts, no doubt instilling fear
into the hearts of many. It surely serves Mugabe's interests to keep
everyone on their toes, none too confident and all thoroughly subservient,
confirming the need to impose a unity of fear where there is no true
unity.
Those who have recently been punished include Bright Matonga
(Deputy
Information Minister), Charles Nherera (Chairman of Zupco), John
Bredenkamp
(controversial tycoon and long-time friend of Zanu PF) and Samuel
Muvuti
(acting CEO of the GMB). Even Emmerson Mnangagwa, the one-time heir
apparent, has been under investigation.
Bright Matonga and Charles
Nherera were arrested in July this year on
corruption charges. The two are
accused of having received USD10 000 each
from a Mr Jayesh Shah to enable
Shah to supply Zupco (the state-run
transport company - and for "state"
here, read "Zanu PF") with new busses.
Nherera has also just recently been
convicted in another corruption case
involving soliciting a USD5 000 bribe
for each bus supplied to Zupco by
Shah. Ruling party sources said the arrest
of Matonga had sent tremors
through the Zanu PF establishment, indicating
the levels of fear among them
and, as evidence of the spreading net, the
lawyers of the accused have asked
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa to
specify and investigate Shah, the
state's key witness in both their cases.
This comes 2 weeks after the lawyer
issued an ultimatum to the Attorney
General's office demanding an
explanation as to why Shah was granted
immunity from prosecution in the
graft case, and asking the question: ".why
is Mr Shah an apparent sacred
cow?"
Samuel Muvuti, the acting CEO of
the Grain Marketing Board parastatal (GMB)
was arrested in August and
charged under the country's Prevention of
Corruption Act. He is alleged to
have used workers from the grain company to
work on his private farm in
northern Zimbabwe. Nelson Chamisa, the spokesman
for the MDC (Tsvangirai)
said the arrest of Muvuti confirmed beyond
reasonable doubt that the ruling
Zanu PF party was the "breeding ground of
corruption" and unbridled
political patronage.
<blockquote>"The MDC believes that his arrest
is a token attempt by a
cornered regime to be seen to be taking action on a
serious scourge that has
taken root in the higher echelons of Zanu PF and
the government. Muvuti
and .Nherera are just but small fish in a bigger pond
replete with corrupt
sharks and tigers. A genuine commitment to arrest
unbridled corruption would
basically mean this regime would have to
incarcerate itself".</blockquote>
On that same subject, we think
too of the use of huge numbers of civil
servants and other government
employees working on Mugabe's various farms,
courtesy of Minister Made (as
ever out to ingratiate himself with his
patron). How does this regime have
the temerity to charge Muvuti for
offences which the dictator brazenly
commits on a grand scale and without
any questions raised?
The
succession debate
Conventional wisdom has it that the two principal
contenders for the top job
were Mnangagwa and Joice Mujuru, but a third has
lately joined the fray:
Gideon Gono.
Until the end of 2004, the
heir-apparent to the Mugabe throne was Emmerson
Mnangagwa - that is to say,
in Mugabe's eyes, he was heir-apparent; he had
many fellow contenders, but
none appeared to have won Mugabe's favour in the
same way. That all changed
with what has now become known as the Tsholotsho
Declaration, where
dissenting heavy-weights like Mnangagwa, Jonathan Moyo
and 6 provincial
chairpersons were flushed out, caught in an apparent plot
to orchestrate
Mugabe's stepping down from power, and a new person stepping
in.
Mnangagwa was, until four years ago, the holder of the keys to
Zanu PF's
business empire, but has since been replaced. Tied in to the
anti-corruption
drive is what is seen as a mission to push this man, the
former Secretary
for Administration, out of Zanu PF's succession stakes.
Internal and
external audits into Zanu PF companies have been threatened, as
one of the
main bases for the fresh blitz on corruption. John Bredenkamp has
also been
targeted and recently arrested but subsequently acquitted on
charges of
holding two passports - he was cited as a financier of his
erstwhile ally
Mnangagwa in a report allegedly compiled for Mugabe by former
State Security
Minister Nicholas Goche in the wake of the November 2004
Tsholotsho meeting.
It was alleged that he had provided billions of dollars
to fund Mnangagwa's
campaign to become vice-president and eventually to
succeed Mugabe.
Bredenkamp has denied the claims but senior Zanu PF
officials, in particular
the faction led by retired army commander, General
Solomon Mujuru, continue
to view him with suspicion.
The media
reports that Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono
also has
presidential aspirations. Until quite recently just a prominent
banker, Gono
has risen to power as head of the RBZ and clearly someone close
to the ear
of Mugabe. It is reported that Gono has provoked a storm of anger
in ruling
Zanu PF circles, not only angling for the presidency, but also
taking upon
himself powers beyond those normally given to the head of a
country's
central bank, and straying into the domain of fiscal, rather than
purely
monetary, policies. Whatever Gono's credentials as Governor of the
RBZ, his
most striking feature observed by ordinary Zimbabweans is his total
subservience to Mugabe and his political agenda - a banker therefore trying
to do the impossible, and not having the courage to confront the main cause
of the country's economic plight.
The Mujuru camp is said to be
seething with anger at Gono over the new
currency and has vowed to fight him
to the end; they have also complained
that Gono has been attacking their
business interests by closing banks and
companies. Just after the new
currency was introduced, a group of angry
ministers was apparently heard at
a local restaurant in the Avenues, saying
"Gono has gone too far and must be
stopped now!" They were enraged because
as members of cabinet they were not
aware that new bearers cheques were
being introduced on the Tuesday, the
same day that cabinet meets, and when
Gono announced the issue in
Parliament, ministers appeared shocked. It
appears that only Mugabe and the
army and CIO knew about this in advance,
which was seen by Zanu PF members
as an indication that Gono had become
embedded with Mugabe, and with state
security and the army - widely seen in
ruling party ranks as the building
blocks to power. Interestingly, Gono
remarked at a public meeting in
Bulawayo, shortly after the launch of the
new currency, that he would not be
intimidated by people brandishing
liberation war credentials, a statement
seen as targeted directly at the
Mujuru camp.
Gono has not endeared
himself either to Herbert Murerwa: not even Murerwa,
the Finance Minister,
had been consulted in advance on the new currency
initiative! Mutumna
Mawere, a now-exiled top Zimbabwean businessman,
comments: "Through a
combination of patronage and intimidation, Gono is now
a feared man in
Zimbabwe. He is effectively the CEO of Zimbabwe Inc. and has
effective
control of the state machinery and anyone who dares challenge him
risks a
lot".
Until recently Vice-President Joice Mujuru appeared to be the
front-runner
in the succession stakes, it now appears that her plans have
been torpedoed
by her rivals: Mnangagwa and Gono. Even her own husband now
appears to
concede that she does not have what it takes to run the country
and Zanu PF.
The issue of who is to succeed Mugabe is clearly causing
mighty divisions
within the party, although one commentator noted that to
expect Mugabe's
voluntary retirement is day-dreaming, when he no longer
trusts anyone. As
The Standard newspaper reported at the beginning of
September, "the false
ray of hope created by misguided reports on Mugabe
encouraging Zanu PF
members to discuss his succession should be
contextualized; those who dared
to democratically influence the composition
of the presidium were
humiliated, sacked, demoted, managed, jailed and
forgotten. Ask Prof
Jonathan Moyo." In the meantime, the party is splitting
along its main fault
lines.
Personal ambitions and turf
wars
Politics is a dirty game for the unscrupulous. It is therefore a good
place
to get even with one's enemy; certainly a good opportunity to wash
someone
else's dirty linen in a public place.
Perhaps the most
bizarre and unlikely of all the divisions emerging in the
ruling party is
that public example currently being made of Patrick
Chinamasa, the Minister
of Justice. Rather, as with Mnangagwa, it would have
seemed inconceivable a
few short years ago for someone so close to Mugabe to
be allowed to be taken
to court. Justice simply would not have prevailed,
and any valid legal case
would have been dropped quietly; it follows then,
that the court case
against Chinamasa has almost certainly been sanctioned
by the top man
himself.
Chinamasa has been brought to court in a complicated legal case,
or rather
series of cases. The background is as follows: James Kaunye, a war
veteran,
himself facing attempted murder charges, brought a charge against
the
supporters of Didymus Mutasa (National Security and Land Reform
Minister),
accusing those supporters of attacking him to try to stop him
from running
against Mutasa in the Zanu PF primary elections; those
supporters have since
been convicted of this crime; Chinamasa has now been
charged by the state
("the state" - note carefully!) of trying to get Kaunye
to withdraw the
charges against Mutasa's supporters, promising him a
senatorial seat if he
did not challenge Mutasa.
An added twist to the
already complicated tale is that magistrates in Rusape
refused to preside
over Patrick Chinamasa's trial, alleging that Mutasa had
accused them of
being MDC members!
Chinamasa was acquitted in early September after the
court ruled that the
state had dismally failed to prove a prima-facie case
against him. However
appeal papers have now been filed at the High Court, as
the Attorney General
claims that the lower court had erred in its judgement.
Interestingly, after
his acquittal, Chinamasa spoke to journalists and said
that the motive of
his prosecution was to humiliate and embarrass him and to
cause him to be
kicked out of the system. Clearly Chinamasa has fallen from
grace. Not only
so, but for reasons best known to themselves, those who
wield effective
power under Mugabe are clearly determined to fix
him.
All sorts of other ministers, senators and Zanu PF followers have
also been
reported as being at loggerheads with each other, often in petty
personal or
regional vendettas. These don't have the national implications
of, say, the
succession debate, but they do portray a party which is
hopelessly divided.
Such an outcome is hardly surprising, given that ZANU PF
has no other real
core convictions now, apart from the frenzied desire to
stay in power and to
plunder whatever national resources remain: the only
unity possible is that
imposed by the Godfather over the
Mafia.
First, there's the regional infighting detailed earlier in this
article
concerning Bright Matonga and the Zupco chairman, Nherera, which has
its
roots in the Mashonaland West power struggles. Matonga is involved in a
fight for land with farmer Tom Beattie, a self-confessed financier of the
ruling party; it seems that senior Zanu PF officials in the province had
sided with Beattie in the struggle, and "Matonga is paying the price", we
are told.
Then, still in Mashonaland West, Hurungwe West MP Cecilia
Dausi Gwachiwa has
been suspended, as she is suspected of cohabiting with a
suspected MDC
sympathizer - the newspapers have had fun with this one! The
provincial
executive, led by John Mafa, is seeking her ouster from the
ruling party,
but it seems that tribalism and regionalism were behind
Gwachiwa's ordeal,
as she is viewed as an outsider, coming originally from
Manicaland. Heavily
armed security agents have also stormed her
government-allocated farm
allegedly in search of weapons. Constituency
members say that the incident
was indicative of how the Zanu PF leadership
in Mashonaland West was
determined to kick Gwachiwa out of the party by
raising "petty" personal
issues against her.
Thirdly, we have the
long-standing regional turf war being played out in the
City of Harare,
where the residents are the only losers, and there are no
winners. Zanu PF's
Harare province Secretary for Information and Publicity
is reported as
saying that there was concern among party members over
Chombo's continued
appointment of people from Mashonaland West to the
commission running the
affairs of the City of Harare; Chombo is the Minister
for Local Government,
Public Works and National Housing. There has been a
recent, unprecedented,
outburst from the Zanu PF executive in the capital,
condemning Makwavarara's
administration at Town House (she crossed the floor
twice - once from Zanu
PF to the MDC, and then back again, and has been put
in charge of the
interim commission appointed to run the City of Harare
following the ouster
of the MDC mayor). Zanu PF central committee members in
Harare have publicly
given her a vote of no confidence, but further action
against her has been
forestalled by Chombo's dogged defence of her and the
party's concerns over
an all-out war. The powers that be in the Harare
province of the ruling
party believe that Makwavarara does not have the
capacity to turn around the
fortunes of the city, once dubbed Sunshine City.
It is reported to be
Zanu PF politburo member Tendai Savanhu (believed to
harbour ambitions to
run the affairs of the city himself), versus
Makwavarara and Chombo. Savanhu
appears to be the force behind the Zanu PF
faction baying for the lady's
blood.
The crux of the matter is in this: Zanu PF Harare province has
said that the
continued extension of the Makwavarara commission's term would
jeopardize
the ruling party's chances of making an impact in any election in
Harare.
Now that is something of great concern to Zanu PF, who are
determined not to
relinquish power for fear of the benefits they will lose,
and for fear that
their past sins will be uncovered by a new regime.
"Makwavarara's case is
being discussed in the highest echelons of Zanu
PF..", we're told - we can
believe it!
And not to be outdone,
Matabeleland has its fair share of regional
infighting too. Andrew Langa
(the Deputy Minister of Environment and
Tourism, and MP for Insiza) has
reported his Zanu PF colleague Sithembiso
Nyoni to the Police (Nyoni is the
Minister of Small and Medium-Scale
Enterprises and Development - the one who
can't seem to win any election of
her own). Langa alleges that Nyoni
threatened him on the phone following a
farmers' meeting in Fort Rixon to
discuss stock theft. At that meeting,
Langa apparently told the farmers that
senior politicians in the area were
behind the stock thefts, but did not
mention any names; Nyoni saw this as a
personal attack, and thence followed
the phone call leading to the charge
against her.
And party members
from the Women's League demonstrated against the MP for
Bubi Umguza, Obert
Mpofu, on allegations of untoward behaviour against the
party members and
leadership. Only the Zanu PF National Chairman, John
Nkomo, seems to have
seen the light, calling for unity of purpose among
party members and the
leadership in Matabeleland North province, and urging
them to desist from
gossip which is threatening to destroy the party.
What do we make of all
of this?
There are indeed implications in all of this for both the party and
for
individuals within the party (including, of course, Mugabe).
As
mentioned above, the only voice of reason (looking at it from the Zanu PF
side) appears to be John Nkomo. Interviewed recently in the government
paper, The Sunday News, Nkomo called on the party to remain united at all
times, following with the warning:
<blockquote>".but as we
pursue this spirit of openness, let us do so in the
spirit of building the
party, our party. Let it be constructive criticism. I
am against
rumour-mongers. There are some of the people [sic] who peddle
lies and in so
doing contribute toward the disintegration of the party..Mind
you, those
calling for the regime change are looking at the cracks that
could be coming
up. Let us make sure that no cracks come in to divide us.
Let us be one, but
there must be openness among party members. Nobody is
bigger than the
party."</blockquote>
This is the party that got its biggest fright
ever in the 2000 Parliamentary
Elections, where the opposition MDC gained 57
of the 120 elected seats - an
unprecedented challenge to a party that has
been largely unopposed since
Independence in 1980. Despite its impressive
wins, the MDC was cheated, as
the regime rigged the results not only in this
election, but also in the
2002 Presidential Election and again in the 2005
Parliamentary Election. Had
they been free and fair, and that means a free
and fair environment too,
Zanu PF did not have any hope of winning any of
these elections. It simply
does not have the support of the people any
longer. And the wise among them
know this.
So the cracks, yea rifts,
that are appearing in the regime are vigorously
ringing the alarm bells in
the corridors of power. How long can a party
which is riven by in-fighting
go on?
Zanu PF as we have known it for the last 26 years is busy
imploding.
Mugabe himself does not have a future - he is a pathetic old
man, rattling
on about liberation politics and the conspiracies of the West.
It is time
for him to step down, but his party is not yet clear on who
should replace
him.
Perhaps the most important evidence of the deep
cancer within Zanu PF's body
politic came a few weeks ago when the Zanu PF
Secretary for Information
Nathan Shamuyarira announced that plans were being
considered for Mugabe's
term to be extended from 2008 to 2010. Within days
Mutasa debunked that idea
and said there were no such plans. Shamuyarira was
then forced to try to
save face by saying he was "misquoted" - that
wonderful hiding place
politicians try to use when they have been publicly
humiliated.
Let us make the point that there can be no greater crisis
within any
political party than a disagreement over how long a party leader
should
remain in office. One just has to look at the furor created in
Britain over
when Tony Blair will stand down to see what divisions such a
debate can
cause within a political party. But of course that has happened
in the
Labour Party, a party which for all its faults does not settle its
differences using AK 47s.
Zanu PF on the other hand has a long
history of settling its internal
problems and political contestations
violently. The stakes are now very high
because there is clearly a
fundamental disagreement as to when Mugabe
himself should go. Clearly some
want his term to end in 2008 whereas others
want him to continue until
2010.
It is not fanciful to speculate that it is the Mujuru faction which
is happy
for Mugabe's term to be extended for it is that faction that needs
more time
now that Joice Mujuru hasn't worked out as they had hoped. They
are the ones
that need more time to get an acceptable candidate in place. On
the other
hand Mnangagwa appears to be gaining the upper hand within Zanu PF
and his
faction are clearly happy to see the back of Mugabe by 2008 so that
Mnangagwa can contest for the leadership of Zanu PF and the presidency of
Zimbabwe.
Mnangagwa appears to be pulling out all the stops - the
recent reports that
he is behind the arrests of businessmen (thus further
harming the economy)
and the evictions of productive farmers in Chipinge and
Kwe Kwe (also
further damaging the economy) indicate that he is doing all he
can to
undermine Joice Mujuru's efforts to resuscitate the economy. That,
although
despicable, is politically understandable, because if Mrs Mujuru
manages to
stabilise the economy prior to her run for the top job in 2008
her chances
of succeeding will be greater. However, and conversely, if
during her
"watch" the economy continues to crumble, that will enhance
Mnangagwa's
claim that he is the only Zanu PF leader who has the business
acumen to turn
the country around.
But all of this is of course a
high risk strategy. One cannot help but think
of all the frantic maneuvering
of the Nazis in the final days of the Third
Reich. Himmler, Goebels and
Bormann were consumed with jealousy in Hitler's
final days over the question
of who would succeed Hitler and lead the "next
Nazi government". These power
struggles took place as late as April 1945
when Russian tanks were only a
few blocks away from the Fuhrer bunker. To
all objective observers the power
struggle was an absolutely pointless
exercise as there was no possibility
that the Nazis would survive the Allied
onslaught - but jostle for power
they did even in the final days.
State House in Harare may not have
Russian tanks anywhere in its vicinity
but there are other hostile tanks
around - such as inflation, economic
collapse and the mounting anger of the
people. The days of this regime are
numbered and the increasing infighting
within Zanu PF is the surest sign of
its impending collapse.
As for
the country, the divisions and splits can only be good news,
presaging the
end of a regime which has dealt out death and destruction -
quite literally
- to millions. Its demise cannot come too soon. If there is
to be any hope
of beginning to repair the terrible damage that Zanu PF has
inflicted upon
Zimbabwe there must be fresh elections, held soon and under
credible
international supervision, to ensure that the people of Zimbabwe,
as
distinct from a privileged clique of discredited politicians, can pass
their
(long delayed) judgment on this delinquent regime and usher in an
altogether
new dispensation based on justice and the rule of law.
We hope that a
time will come in the not too distant future, when we can go
to the polls
again; not amidst violence and intimidation and cheating, but
peacefully,
and supervised by impartial, international observers.
We need democracy,
and the demise of the present Zanu PF power structure is
a pre-requisite for
that fundamental shift.
We need an end to Zanu PF as we know it. We need
peace, stability and
prosperity. Let us work together to make this happen.
Viva Zimbabwe!
Xan Rice in Addis Ababa and
Chris McGreal in Johannesburg
Wednesday October 25, 2006
Guardian
Unlimited
Africa's political leaders are being offered a $5m prize
and a stipend for
life if they do not plunder the national coffers or rig
elections. Nelson
Mandela, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton are backing the
initiative to be
formally launched tomorrow in London by a foundation
started by a
Sudanese-born telecom tycoon, Mo Ibrahim.
Mr Mandela
said the award, which is for former leaders who have shown
"excellence in
leadership", will contribute to "Africa's political and
economic
renaissance". Mr Blair said it supported efforts to "encourage
exemplary
leadership".
But sceptics say that the award will only emphasise the
power wielded by
individual leaders and fails to recognise the real causes
of corruption and
abuse of power.
Mr Ibrahim said the prize
is necessary to encourage African leaders to
consider a fourth alternative
to those they currently face when nearing the
end of their term, namely
"relative poverty, term extension, or corruption".
"Nothing is as
important as good governance in ensuring development and
reducing poverty,"
Mr Ibrahim told the Guardian. "Africa's leaders face many
challenges and
this award will help recognise those of them that have done
well."
The annual winner will be chosen by a board that
presently includes the
former Irish president, Mary Robinson. He or she will
receive the $5m
(£2.6m) over 10 years and $200,000 a year thereafter. They
are also allotted
$200,000 a year to be given to good
causes.
But Hassan Lorgat, head of the South African branch of
the global
anti-corruption group Transparency International, said the
thinking behind
the prize is flawed because it puts the emphasis and
responsibility for good
governance on one person.
"It targets
individuals and at best you can pick a few dozen leaders for the
prize and
that reaffirms the principle of the 'big man'," he said.
"It doesn't
read Africa's problems correctly. Those who keep governments
accountable are
ordinary people and that accountability needs to be
strengthened. That's
where he should have put his money. Or into the
parliaments that could hold
leaders accountable."
Mr Ibrahim, 59, who worked for British
Telecom before launching an African
mobile phone company, Celtel, and
amassing a personal fortune estimated at
more than £340m, will fund the
prize through his charitable foundation.
Some African leaders,
such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Uganda's Yoweri
Museveni, appear to be
motivated to cling to power for power's sake not
money, or out of a belief
that they are irreplaceable.
Other leaders, such as the late
Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire and a succession
of Nigerian military rulers, used
the huge amounts they plundered to spread
largesse and buy
loyalty.
Mr Lorgat said many of the worst leaders remained in
power with the backing
of powerful foreign governments.
"These
guys were useful tools. Everyone knew Mobutu was stealing but they
turned a
blind eye. Africa got the leaders other people wanted," he
said.
The first award will be made next year.
By
Tichaona Sibanda
25 October 2006
The Movement for
Democratic Change believes it has done enough ground
work to sway rural
voters to their side, but that their biggest threat will
come from Zanu (PF)
rigging the forthcoming rural district council
elections.
The
party has been engaged in an intensive nationwide rural campaign
to drum up
support ahead of this weekend's poll. A statement by the
Tsvangirai led camp
said their team led by their President himself was
currently spread around
the whole country drumming up support for the
candidates.
'Tsvangirai, Vice-President Thokozani Khupe, national chairman Isaac
Matongo
and the rest of the team have in the last week been virtually camped
in the
rural areas and will only be back in Harare on Friday,' the statement
added.
So confident is the MDC of countering Zanu (PF)'s
influence in rural
Zimbabwe that party spokesman Nelson Chamisa claimed that
only electoral
theft will save them from defeat.
Piniel Denga,
national council member for Mashonaland East, told
Newsreel Wednesday that
several of their supporters' houses in Mudzi West
were burned to the ground
by local Zanu (PF) thugs in the presence of the
party's candidate for the
area.
'We have shaken Zanu (PF) to its foundations by successfully
registering candidates in areas where they never thought the MDC would make
inroads. In retaliation Zanu (PF) has in the last two weeks waged a
relentless terror campaign against our supporters. We have members who have
sustained broken limbs and the police have been powerless to anything,' said
Denga.
In Kadoma, the campaign for the mayoral election this
Saturday was in
full swing Wednesday, with Bolomani Marere, the campaign
manager for the MDC
candidate Jonas Ndenda predicting victory.
'We have done our home work. Even known Zanu (PF) supporters working
for the
council have approached us telling us that we have come up with a
good
candidate. We have promised to fight corruption, which has destroyed
the
municipality and to clean up the whole town once we get elected,' said
Marere.
SW Radio Africa
Zimbabwe news
SW Radio Africa Transcript
Violet Gonda talks to Trade Unionist
Thabitha Khumalo on the programme
'Hot Seat'
Broadcast Tuesday 24
th October 2006
Violet: On the programme Hot Seat we welcome
Thabitha Khumalo, the
Zimbabwe Congress of Trades Unions third Vice
President. She was recently
named one of the winners for this year's Women
of the Year Award in the
United Kingdom . Now, the Trades Unionist has been
arrested and beaten up
several times by state security agents in her quest
to fight for better
standard of living for Zimbabweans. Today we are going
to talk about her
Dignity Period Campaign which she embarked on to fight for
the basic female
human rights to have access to sanitary protection. Welcome
on the programme
Thabitha.
Thabitha: Thank you Violet, thank
you so much.
Violet : And first of all, congratulations on the
award.
Thabitha: Thank you so much; it's not for me it's for all
Zimbabwean
women and the women globally whose rights are being trampled as
we speak.
Violet: Now the sponsors of the Women of the Year Award
said this
award is a salute to a woman whose work and courage in often
dangerous or
intimidating circumstances had opened all our eyes to a world
we otherwise
would not have understood. Now what is the Women of the Year
Award, and how
did they find you?
Thabitha: Well the Women of
the Year Award is to award women achievers
for that particular year who have
done well in terms of any spheres; be it
the issue of fundraising, be it the
issue of awareness, be it the issue of
campaigns. And it consists of; well,
all the women that attained that are
all winners because they are all coming
from different backgrounds; women
that have made it in life.
Violet: Now some will ask you know who is this woman Thabitha Khumalo
that
has won the Woman of the Year Award in the United Kingdom . Now, we
know
that you are the third Vice President of the ZCTU, but what are your
roots
exactly, what industry to you come from?
Thabitha: OK, I come from
the non-governmental organisation industry,
I work for an organisation
called The Civic Alliance for Social and Economic
Progress as a Programmes
Officer, and I'm based in Bulawayo .
Violet: And it's the Dignity
Period Campaign which was the vehicle
wasn't it?
Thabitha :
Yeah.
Violet: Now, what motivated you to start the Dignity
Period?
Thabitha: What motivated me is in 2000 we realised that the
manufacturing company which was there, re-located to South Africa and all of
a sudden there was a shortage of sanitary towels - and if at all one could
get them you could only get them in the parallel market. And, the bottom
line was then we wondered, as women in the labour movement, at the hygienic
status of these products which we were now being forced to buy in the
parallel market and at the same time we then had to find out why the product
was scarce and why was it on the parallel market only to discover that the
company had re-located, and, by so doing, it meant that the prices were
going to go up. And, for the prices to go up it meant to say that we are not
earning a living wage as Zimbabweans. So it meant to say three quarters of
our pay was going towards sanitary towels instead of meeting other needs of
life from the salaries we got, although they are not even living
wages.
Violet: Ordinary women cannot afford the sanitary ware right
now in
Zimbabwe , not only are they in short supply but they cannot afford
it.
Thabitha: Absolutely.
Violet: Can you describe to
usor tell us what an averageperson earns
in Zimbabwe and especially when you
have to worry about getting things like
sanitary pads, how much is it that
people would need?
Thabitha: Well, the average minimum wage for an
ordinary women is 12
million, 12 thousand Zim dollars (re-valued), then you
go in and you want to
buy something like sanitary towels you've got to spend
something like 6
million, if not 10 million Zim dollars (ten thousand
revalued). And now, the
question is, for example as Africans we've got very
huge families; can you
imagine a situation where there's a mother and four
girl children? And the
question now that you ask yourself is what does she
do. Obviously she will
not buy those sanitary towels. She will either teach
those kids to use
pieces of cloth, or newspapers or tissue papers depending
on the life that
they are leading. And, one crucial area that is really
shocking is that the
agricultural industry is earning Z$ 4 000 a month which
is even nowhere near
the price of the sanitary towels and then you can
imagine those people in
the agricultural industry; they don't even have
access to that, so what does
it mean? Do they use their old clothes? And, if
at all they have enough to
use as sanitary towels. And again, looking at the
type of water that they
use, chances of maybe washing those products are not
even there. So it's
basically just use and dispose, and, how long are you
going to taking your
old clothes, use them and dispose them and you don't
even have enough money
to replace those clothes because buying clothes is
now a luxury.
Violet: Yes, I can understand using pieces of cloth,
but newspapers
and tissues, how practical is this?
Thabitha:
It's very practical because we are coming from a generation
where we were
taught to use tampons and pads, so we had a choice, and most
of our young
women obviously use tampons because they are much better, they
are
comfortable; we are used to them. And, instinct will always kick in when
you
pick up a tissue paper, all what you think is you roll it up and you
make it
into a tampon because that's what you have known all your time since
you
have been a woman. That's our upbringing and there's no other way to
change
that mind.
Violet: And newspapers?
Thabitha:
Newspapers are for those that are not even employed. They
cannot even afford
to buy the tissue paper neither can they afford to use
their old clothes
neither can they afford to buy a piece of cloth. For you
to buy a metre of
white material you are looking at about a very good
Z$2000 -
Z$3000.
Violet: And, there were also reports that some women were
resorting to
using leaves, is this true?
Thabitha: Yes,
apparently there's this tree, I don't know the name
where you take the bark
of that tree and then you use that as a pad; it has
a sponge-ish sort of
bark so rural areas obviously they are using that. So
they are those lucky
ones who have got the elderly who have been there
before and know that. But
remember, those things were not filtered down to
us, to our generation in
terms of what our great, great grandmothers used to
use that, and anyway,
why would we use that when we are in the 21 st Century
where there's the
world of technology? We are a country which can use
computers, we are a
country which uses cell phones; why then should we go to
the bark of a tree,
and that is environmental degradation as far as I'm
concerned.
Violet: Definitely, and some people would argue that that is extreme.
You
know, those seem to be extraordinary lengths to turn to as a solution,
and
surely there are risks of infections?
Thabitha: There is absolutely
great risk of infection and if you go
and try and buy vaginal cream from the
pharmacy you are looking at 2 or 3 or
4 million(thousand revalued) for you
to treat yourself. And, the question
is, you can't afford the sanitary
towels, you can't afford the medication
and then what next? You just live in
this vicious cycle of infection and
re-infection 24/7.
Violet: On this issue of women now using newspapers and tissues and to
some
extent some women using tree leaves or leaves, I was discussing this
with
Zimbabweans here in the UK and they seemed to think that this was an
exaggeration, that this is too extreme, that this cannot be happening in
Zimbabwe . What can you say about this?
Thabitha: That is a sad
statement. It's very, very sad, because when
somebody is in a comfort zone,
you tend to deny that you are coming from a
country that is in a
catastrophe. We as Zimbabweans, a very good example, is
that when we saw the
pictures of the people in Ethiopia we were alarmed;
kids with flies on their
eyes. So, it looks like, as human beings we believe
in pictures. And, I am
sad to tell them that I have never, in my forty five
years of living, ever
seen a photo with a pad full of blood, never have a
seen a tampon full of
blood, or, the leaves that people take out, because
that has been sacred.
And, get out of that bubble and the comfort zone; this
is the reality. For
you, it could be exaggerated because you don't see it,
and for me, it's not
because it's my daily life. And all that you need to do
is just get to
Zimbabwe and go to any public toilet and come back and tell
me what you have
seen in there. And, the onus is not for me to go to a
public toilet and
un-dignify these women by taking these photos, because it's
not about
photos, it's about reality. And, for you to know about reality you
should be
part and parcel of a system that is making sure that those
violations are
being done. For example, as we are talking now, we've got
eight people with
fractures in Zimbabwe . And that is not a joke, it's not
exaggerated. It's
going to be exaggerated for the people who were not there,
but for the
people who -
Violet: These were the ZCTU leaderswho were assaulted
by the police?
Thabitha: Exactly, exactly. And for the people that
are in the comfort
zone, they will say it's exaggerated. It's not
exaggerated. They are in
slings as we talk, and those women are using
newspapers as we talk. And, if
you communicate with some of the hotels they
will tell you that it's now
difficult for them to put tissue papers in the
hotels because they just
disappear just like that. And why are they
disappearing? Because, we are
using them as sanitary towels. And all what I
am saying is that people must
get off the comfort zone. You are in a country
where you can access
everything but not at home, that does not exist. And,
if at all, if it is
exaggerated, why are you sending people at home some
money? Why are we
sending some money if everything is OK? You're sending
money because things
are not OK.
Violet: That's right and you
know, you gave an example of a woman you
saw on the streets and this was one
of the reasons why you started this the
Dignity Period Campaign. Are you
able to just tell us about this, a short
brief on this?
Thabitha : Yes, I met this woman and I was wondering why she was
walking, it
wasso hot and she was walking outside the pavement and dejected
and she
didn't look senile to me, she looked like a normal mother to some
lovely
kids. When I crossed over and I spoke to her because I wanted to know
whether she was not feeling well and if I could help. And she just told me;
she just looked down and I saw the blood gushing down and I said to her
'look, why don't you buy the cotton wool and then she said 'I can't afford
it'. She had
Z$ 20,000, but then when I went to shop the cotton
wool was Z$60 000.
So, all what we are saying is, some of you have been here
for 6 years, when
you left things were still OK. Today, they are not. We
cannot even eat meat;
we cannot afford to buy meat because it is beyond our
reach. So if we cannot
buy meat when we are the second largest supplier of
beef in the world,
please tell me if we can buy the sanitary towels. Please
tell me that we can
buy that?
Violet: Akomana, you know, this
is heartbreaking and as a woman I can,
I cannot even imagine what the women
in Zimbabwe are going through because I
know how it feels to be in a
situation where you need every single month
when you are menstruating, but
not actually have something to use, and to
make matters worse to use things
that are so uncomfortable as newspapers.
Thabitha: Exactly, and
again, if you look at the Diaspora in this
country some of you are in
hiding. Why are you in hiding? Because you don't
have the papers to be here,
but surely, I totally believe, if you all come
together and unite, somebody
is going to hear you. Why are you in hiding in
this country if everything at
home is so good that you have to be here? You
are in hiding because you are
violating the laws of this country. But, for
the lawmakers of this country
to recognise that you are a force to be
reckoned with and you are in
trouble; it's for you to stand up and tell it
as is. And, it's good for you
to tell it as is, as long as there is
networking between the people at home
and the Diaspora, because we have to
give the same things that are happening
at home and those that know it
better are the people who are in the mix of
things, and that is us at home.
But we are not communicating with each
other. That is why you find people
saying 'things we are saying are
exaggerated' because we are not
communicating. The only communication that
we know from you is the pounds
that you send us home, and there's no verbal
communication.
Violet: And for people who are listening right now,
people in the
Diaspora who would want to help, how can they
help?
Thabitha: Well, those that would like to support the campaign
can log
on to the website ofACTSA, it's www.actsa.org and then there is the forms
there that you can fill in terms of your contributionsor whether you want to
do the debit contribution or you want to do a one off donation, or just to
spread the word to other people so that they can come on board so that every
month we are at least able to send a shipment to at least meet three
quarters of those women so that we try and move the struggle that best that
we know.
Violet: And ACTSA stands for Action for Southern
Africa ?
Thabitha: Action for Southern Africa , yes.
Violet: Now, I understand that several celebrities and organisations
in the
UK helped fundraising in the UK and you managed to get at least 2
million
products which were shipped to Zimbabwe to be distributed? These
were
sanitary products?
Thabitha: Yes. What happened was the Trade Union
fraternity has come
on board; I've been working with AMICUS, the Union ,
I've been working with
the TUC and all the Trade Unions within the UK
together with Action for
Southern Africa . And, the actors and actresses did
come on board, people
like Anna Chancellor, Stephen Fry, they all came on
board and did this
fundraising gig where we raised some money towards the
campaign and then we
eventually took the campaign to South Africa. SABC 5 FM
and Kula took over
the campaign and she managed to raise a million packets
within the South
African fraternity, that is the manufacturers; men, women
and children. So
what we then did as the ZCTU, we went and communicated with
the government,
the respective Ministries in terms of bringing over the
products duty free,
and, in principle, they had sort of agreed. So we tried
to push the truck to
the border and then we were advised that we had to pay
$782 million, by
then, before it was re-valued. So what then happened was
that we pushed the
truck back to South Africa and we tried to raise the
money, which we did.
And then when we did that when the truck went back, we
were then told that
we were under-charged in terms of the duty and we needed
to produce a
catalogue for those products that were in the truck. This meant
to say
sending the truck back and trying to look for the catalogue and then
the
catalogue was eventually found, and that was absolutely difficult
because it
was Easter, to get in touch with the manufacturers to get the
catalogue,
which were eventually found and we sent over.
And
then, thereafter we were then told that the total amount should be
$992, or
about a billion, which meant to say we then paid $23 000 towards
that. And
to me, it was very unfair because we were being made to pay for
our right to
our periods. And, the most unfortunate part is that for women
to get their
periods, there are no ways you can stop that. There are no
remote controls
to say ok, for now we haven't got the products, so we'll
switch ourselves
off until such products come. And, the irony of it was that
they were going
to be distributed free of charge. No woman was going to be
charged for that
product, we were just going to give them for free. So why
then being denied
that opportunity, and, after all, we are helping the
citizens of my
country
Violet: And the 23 000, was it 23 000 Zim Dollars or US
Dollars?
Thabitha: US dollars.
Violet: And, the
distribution, who were the recipients of this
product?
Thabitha
: Basically the people that we want to cover, those that were
covered were
the members of the Trade Union from our affiliated Unions. We
also covered
the informal economy because we've got a memorandum of
understanding with
the informal economy and again, that is just a drop in
the ocean, because
the criteria is not all about one being a member of a
Trade Union, but the
criteria is that you are a woman and you've got your
period every month.
And, we are overwhelmed by the demand and we need to
raise as much money as
possible so that we can reach all the corners. If not
all the women in
Zimbabwe but at least to try and reach as many as we can to
alleviate these
infections and prolong the lives of the women because I want
to believe that
if you dignify a woman you have dignified the nation And,
you have empowered
that woman because she does have confidence in herself
and she respects the
society that respects her, but now, it seems as if the
society has decided
not to respect us as women and they've made us to
literally undress
ourselves in public in the name of dignity.
Violet: So far the
women that you've managed to reach are in which
areas in Zimbabwe
?
Thabitha : We have covered all our regions; Bulawayo, Harare,
Chinhoyi, Mutare, Masvingo and part of the rural areas, which have been
covered by the informal economy because their membership is wide, and it is
covering the whole country.
Violet: And, I understand that you
have now secured a deal with a
manufacturer in Zimbabwe who now supplies and
distributes these sanitary
products within Zimbabwe , is this
correct?
Thabitha: Yes, that's very true because we found it was
not
economically correct for us to spend US$23 000 on duty whilst with that
US$23 000 we could have covered more women than ever. So, we thought the
best way out was to use somebody within the Zimbabwe , small as they are but
I think they can meet our demand. And at the same time it's the question of
employment creation because if the consignments increase as per the
donations that we get. That means to say there are some Zimbabweans that are
going to be employed; they are going to have a source of livelihood in terms
of the money that they are going to earn although is not a living wage but
at least it's something that will keep them going, and, like I said, it's
also employment creation.
Violet: And you haven't had any
problems as yet with the government?
Thabitha: Well, not as yet,
but knowing my government, in a way it
wouldn't be surprising that they try
to close that but, the question is, why
close that? Why sentence your own
women that you claim you respect, you care
about, and you love, why sentence
them to death when all that we are trying
to do is dignify them so they are
people who could be reckoned with in
society and they could also participate
in the policy and decision making in
a comfortable and secure manner so that
they will make decisions that will
meet their day to day needs.
Violet: You know, I watched you on television the other day, here in
the UK
, on the 'This Morning' programme, and you spoke passionately about
the
situation in Zimbabwe . Now, what you basically did was to bring the
subject
of Zimbabwe into every kitchen in the United Kingdom . You know, all
the
housewives in Britain probably now know about this, the Dignity Period
campaign and the problems that women are facing in terms of getting sanitary
products. Now, during the interview you said that you had been arrested
several times and raped by a group of thugs. Can you talk about
this?
Thabitha: As the Labour Movement we've got a song which says
that the
two homes that we know in this struggle is the jail and hospital,
and
basically those are the occupational health hazards of being a Trades
Unionist, because the only way we know of demanding the protection and
promoting of the workers rights is to peacefully demonstrate and demand
those rights. So with that, the laws are denying us that, to express
ourselves in order to talk to our leadership. Because we have tried all the
avenues of communication to try and resolve this through the Tri-partite
Negotiating Forum and we are not getting any joy because it's basically it
looks like it's just talk shows where we just discuss everything and then
everything remains in the board rooms, At the end of the day you'll find
decisions are made outside us even though we would have spoken to each
other. Increases are affected even though we had agreed they wouldn't be
affected. So, the question of arrests is part and parcel of the struggle of
the labour movement. Because the only language that we know is the
withdrawal of labour and at the same time the peaceful demonstrations that
we are trying to partake. And, I want to assure the Zimbabweans and the
people the world over that we are not going to stop these demonstrations
regardless of the beatings that we go through, and the arrests that we go
through. Because by beating us and arresting us and breaking our limbs, it
does not mean that we are stopping the struggle. Instead, we are more
resolute now than ever because it shows that we have to stand up and do
something and at the same time they can brutalise us as much as they can but
they cannot stop the struggle. We need a living wage, we need access to
anti-retroviral drugs, we need affordable sanitary towels and we need
reduction of tax, among other demands that we have as the Labour
movement.
Violet: You also talked about being raped by some
thugs?
Thabitha: Yes, I was kidnapped in Masvingo some time in
2000, and like
I said, in the struggle, those are the health hazards and
it's not about
what happens to an individual, it's what results come out of
there, and
those results are part of the Dignity Campaign where we have
restored the
dignity of Zimbabwean women. So in a struggle it's not worth it
to talk
about the pain that we go through because that will overshadow our
gaol in
terms of our intention of what we are doing. And, all that we need
to focus
on are the demands that we have in order for the people in
Zimbabwe,
especially the women to be dignified and to be part and parcel of
policy
decision making processes so that we have a dignified and lovely
country to
live in.
Violet: And did you know who the people who
attacked you were and was
it politically motivated?
Thabitha:
Well it was politically motivated because during those days
it was the time
when it was just towards elections, Council elections, and
everybody was
hyperactive and as usual, it's always been the name of the
game where
brutality takes the centre stage in terms of people holding on to
power. But
it's not about brutalising the people to solve the problems. We
have
problems and we need to solve them and the only way to solve those
problems
is to empower people with information and information can only be
disseminated when people are able to meet and discuss those issues and
hopefully produce a way forward. I want to believe the people in Zimbabwe
have got brilliant ideas in terms of how best we can resolve the problems we
are going through. The only problem is we are being stifled in terms of
trying to talk to each other and find the best way out to resolve these
problems and we need to carry on doing that until our destination is
achieved.
Violet: And the people that attacked you, did you
report this to the
police and has anything ever been done about
it?
Thabitha: Well I reported the issue at Masvingo Police Station
and I
got a fax confirming my report was getting the attention that it
needed and
six years down the line nothing has happened and we are still
waiting.
Violet: There seems to be a lot which is disempowering
women in
Zimbabwe . What role can women take in this struggle.
Thabitha: Well, we are being disempowered day in and day out but what
I want
to believe is the role we can play as women is to stand up and say NO
to
this dis-empowering, and the only way we can do that is by being
dignified.
And it's a long road to achieve that, but it can be done.
Violet:
And it seems that more and more Zimbabweans are embarking on
specific
issues, or rather, targeting specific people to bring about change
in the
country. For example, there's the UK based Free Zimbabwe youths who
have
started a campaign targeting African Embassies in London to counteract
what
they say is the propaganda they are being fed by the Mugabe regime. And
also, there's the Combined Harare Residents Association, which has started
dumping raw sewerage at their Council Offices. Now it's estimated that about
a quarter of the Zimbabwe population is outside the country. Do you think
those of us here have a role to play, and if so, what role?
Thabitha: Yes, the Zimbabweans in the Diaspora play a very, very vital
role
in terms of the reconstruction of Zimbabwe , but the main critical area
is
there is need for unity of purpose. Because, for as long as the Diaspora
is
not united then, trust me, we will not get anywhere. And, reconstruction
of
Zimbabwe is not about reconstructing Zimbabwe after the changes that we
are
all expecting, no. The reconstruction starts now. You know,
reconstruction
is just as good as when you buy a one-roomed house. You buy
that one-roomed
house not specifically to stay there for the rest of your
life. You are
buying it because you want to extend it, so as time goes on
you eventually
add another one and another one and it eventually becomes a
home. So the
Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, what they need to do is to come
together. I
know they are all coming from different fields but what is
important is
there is one common enemy that we are all facing in terms of
reconstruction.
And reconstruction affects teachers, doctors, everybody in
terms of your
academic qualifications, you are affected by reconstruction,
so why not come
together on that common goal?
Violet: Ok, thank you very much
Thabitha Khumalo and good luck with
the Dignity Period
Campaign.
Thabitha: Yes, and I want the Diaspora to know that in
the labour
movement we say workers problems are the same the world over. The
only
difference is the social, economic and the political environment. And,
I
want to urge the people in the Diaspora that the struggle that we are
going
to fight today will determine the type of leadership that we will
have.
Audio interview can be heard on SW Radio Africa 's Hot Seat
programme - Tues 24/10/06 . Comments and feedback can be emailed to
violet@swradioafrica.com
October 25,
2006
By Savious Kwinika (CAJ)
Harare (AND) Teachers in
Zimbabwe are getting a paltry Z$35 000 (about
US27.5), making them the
lowest paid professionals in the world.
In a snap survey by African
News Dimension (AND), it emerged that
Zimbabwean teachers are living a life
of destitution as they have to grapple
with the excessively low salaries
they are getting from the Public Service
Commission.
The
salary that has been described by analysts as way below the
poverty datum
line, and have called for an immediate review of the salary
upwards if the
Government of Zimbabwe is to stem the movement of teachers
down into South
Africa, Botswana and Namibia, where they are seeking greener
pastures.
The least paid person in South Africa gets R1 000
(about US$125) and
that translates to Zim $200 000, at the parallel market
rate.
In an interview with AND this afternoon, the Johannesburg
based Hope
Centre Teachers Forum Chairperson, Kabelo Ndlovu, said the
US$27.5 being
given to teachers was too little to meet their basic
needs.
Ndlovu called on the government of Zimbabwe to review
salaries for
teachers and other civil servants upwards as an incentive to
lure back those
who had deserted the country.
"The government
of Zimbabwe has to do something positive about the
plight of the teachers in
the contry.Life in Zimbabwe has become unbearable
and
unaffordable.
"As a result teachers are leaving Zimbabwe and
trekking into South
Africa to try and make ends meet," said
Ndlovu.
He added: "The government should immediately adjust
teachers'
salaries in line with inflation in Zimbabwe which has balooned to
over
1800%."
Another Zimbabwean teacher who is now working in
South Africa said she
wanted to go and work in Zimbabwe again but that the
salary levels were
disarmingly low.
Echoing same sentiments was
the Hope Centre Teachers Forum Researcher,
Irene Chiteka, who said the
Zimbabwe teachers were ready to go home if the
government could give better
incentives.
"Zim teachers in South Africa have a feeling that they
should go back
to work at home but on calculating they will get there they
are totally
disappointed, and abandon the idea of rejoining the service back
home,"said
Irene Chiteka.
The Zimbabwe Political Tortured
Victims Association (ZIPOVA)
Secretary-General, Oliver Kubikwa accused the
Zanu PF government of not
caring about the civil servants'
plight.
"The funds for these teachers are there but the problem is
our
government is only concerned about funding their children
abroad.
"All the government ministers have their children abroad
for better
education, using the state funds supposed to be channeled towards
improving
the working conditions and salaries for teachers," said
Kubikwa.
Zimbabwe Bureau, AND
Raw Story
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Wednesday October 25,
2006
Harare- A decision by a Zimbabwe court to award damages to the widow
of a
steel worker shot dead during a protest five years ago shows that the
army
should not intervene in strikes, the main labour body said Wednesday.
Samuel
Masiyatsva and two of his colleagues were killed during a
demonstration for
wage hikes at the state-owned ZISCOSTEEL company in
central Kwekwe in August
2001, said the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
(ZCTU) in a statement.
The labour body said anti-riot police fired tear
gas at striking workers
and, in the ensuing panic, members of the Zimbabwe
National Army (ZNA) shot
and killed three workers.
For some time now,
the ZCTU has been deploring the use of the army to quell
strikes and we
repeat that it is not the duty of the army to interfere in
civilian matters,
said ZCTU vice president Lucia Matibenga as she welcomed a
High Court
decision to award damages to Masiyatsvas widow.
The amount of damages to
be paid after a protracted five-year battle for
justice was not immediately
clear.
Matibengas comments were particularly poignant, coming just weeks
after she
and several other top ZCTU officials were beaten up by police
following
aborted trade union protests.
She had to go to South Africa
to seek medical treatment for injuries the
police maintain were inflicted
when ZCTU members resisted arrest.
The army should always be confined to
the barracks and not be used to fight
its own people, Matibenga said. She
said President Robert Mugabes government
and ZISCOSTEEL had trivialized the
shooting incident.
© 2006 dpa German Press Agency
By Violet Gonda
25 October 2006
Five WOZA members, including a 75-year-old grandmother Thalitha
Mthendezi,
were arrested on Wednesday during protests against illegal
evictions and
poor service delivery in Bulawayo. The Women of Zimbabwe Arise
were part of
a group of about 50 residents of Mabutweni and Iminyela who
staged a
demonstration at the Mpopoma Housing Offices. They are being held
at
Bulawayo Central Police Station.
WOZA spokesperson Rudo Moyo said
the residents were protesting against
Joshua Mafu, the Chairman of The
Bulawayo Residents Association and Fabion
Dube, Superintendent of Mpopoma
Housing Office, who have allegedly given 36
residents illegal eviction
notices so that the can allocate the houses to
their cronies. It's also
reported that the residents were only given a month's
notice.
The Residents Association is supposed to stand up for the rights of
the
tenants and although the City Council owns the houses, the
superintendent is
responsible for seeing who goes in and out. But WOZA claim
the two officials
have been conniving and illegally evicting tenants.
Moyo said; "If
someone goes to them with a bribe they just go and
evict people from the
houses. So they (residents) are not happy with this.
They are also
protesting against the City Council for not providing the
necessary
services. The garbage is not being collected and the ablution
facilities are
in a sorry state."
Orphaned children are said to be among the
evicted. At least 4 000
people are dying every week in Zimbabwe as a result
of the HIV/AIDS
pandemic, leaving many children orphaned. Because of this a
growing number
of child headed families is emerging, and in most areas
survive on renting
out rooms in their homes. But WOZA says in places like
Mabutweni these
orphans are being evicted soon after the official owner of
the house dies.
As a result of theses problems and desperate to
save their homes the
residents marched to the housing offices. The pressure
group said; "The
protesters, who were carrying placards and a WOZA banner
marched into the
housing premises, where they scattered newsletters
outlining theirs
grievances and demands before dispersing."
They also complained that they were being evicted regardless of the
fact
that they were paying their rent. Moyo added; "That is why they were
demonstrating because they felt they are being cheated because these are
council houses. Anyone should be allowed to stay in these houses as long as
they are able to pay their rent."
The people were also
demonstrating against the Bulawayo City Council's
refusal to give them the
opportunity to buy the homes under a home ownership
scheme, instead of
keeping them on long leases.
At the time of going to press, the
pressure group was busy running
around to find out why the 5 had been
arrested and the exact charge. They
were also having difficulties finding a
lawyer as most lawyers were said to
be in court.
We were not
able to get a comment from the Bulawayo City Council, the
Bulawayo Residents
Association or Mpopoma Housing Office.
SW Radio Africa
Zimbabwe news
October 25,
2006
By Savious Kwinika (CAJ)
THE future of Zimbabwe
lies with the Diaspora, says the Diaspora Civil
Society Organisations (CSOs)
Forum based in Johannesburg.
The Zimbabwe Diaspora CSOs
Forum is a coalition of over 28 civil
society bodies formed by exiled
Zimbabweans based in South Africa.
They are forming a study
group to produce an economic and capital
mobilization plan to be executed in
the Diaspora, before being introduced
into Zimbabwe after 2010, as a model
for growth oriented leadership.
In an interview
with CAJ News yesterday morning, the Zimbabwe Diaspora
CSOs Forum Treasurer
and Economist, Luke Dzipange Zunga, says lack of
economic upliftment was the
basis of dissent in Zimbabwe. Around 1998 Civic
societies under the banner
of NCA thought they could push for a new
constitution to discipline an
errant government to address economic decline.
"But the
government thought otherwise, took over the initiative,
produced something
else which was rejected at the referendum. What followed
was madness. The
electoral and democratic processes were further
suppressed, land violently
grabbed and farm workers and the poor were pushed
into rural
areas.
"Right now sixty five percent(65%) of the citizens are
in rural areas,
enduring lives of peasants. They are monitored by the army,
the police,
chiefs, kraal heads, violent youths and political executioners,
amid hunger,
diseases and deep poverty," said Mr.Zunga.
Zunga says the peasants have lost capacity to decide or plan the
future of
the country. They are so dominated that the political system will
remain in
the hands of the same players who failed to lift the
economy.
"One of the problems is that Zimbabweans
are totally dependent on
government and foreign funders. Policy is crafted
by people protecting
privileges and alignment to a president who fears the
citizens will
persecute him.
"The president is
concentrating power in a few individuals who face
the same risks as him,
such as General Mujuru, who facilitated Mugabe's
rise to power after he
ousted Ndabandingi Sithole. Gen Mujuru, his wife(now
vice President) are
aware that the death of Gen Tongogara amongst others
will haunt them," added
Zunga.
The Zimbabwean economist, who was forced into exile in
the early 1990s
believes the national development strategy has lost in
prominence in this
farce of liberation struggle gyratics, land seizures and
force, with the
rural areas as political playground. As long as necessary
democracy will be
shut down.
Zunga accuses the Zanu PF
government of closing foreign funding, a
move he says has adversely weakened
civil society movements and opposition
parties.
"Unfortunately the rural peasants cannot interpret these issues, but
the
Diaspora can. As a country Zimbabwe lost some of its brains abroad as
it
crashed legitimate views by the citizens.
"The
Forum urges Zimbabweans in other countries to form National or
Regional
Forums. These Forums will form an International Forum, to chart
policy,
diplomacy, friendship, peace, democracy, and above all an economic
revival
plan to be practised in the Diaspora first," said Zunga.
According to the Zimbabwe Diaspora CSOs Forum treasurer, the plan
will,
among other things, set Zimbabweans abroad into various businesses in
manufacturing, farming and skills development.
He says it is naļve of Zimbabwe authorities to think that millions of
Zimbabweans abroad will just dissipate.
He added: "The
policy of the Forum is not to engage Zimbabwe in a
confrontational way, but
to build parallel capacity, particularly in
business, so that at appropriate
times Zimbabweans abroad will go back and
invest in
Zimbabwe."
Zunga suggested that Zimbabwe needed was a new breed
of leaders, to
blend with existing leaders at some point and create a new
thought process.
He argues that all political parties in the
country need a soft
landing, so as to fight poverty, the biggest huddle in
Zimbabwe, and indeed
Africa.
Zunga, who
compared and contrasted the Zimbabwean situation says the
problem with
international community is that strategically they have lost,
because where
competition is required Zimbabwe authorities employ violence.
And it is the
cunning educated elite planning the violence during their
execution of
employment duties.
"Hard talk will not force decisions on the
country and Afrocentric
forces will stop such moves as interference. China
is equipping Zimbabwe
militarily and the above argument is none of their
concern.
"The region will experience a mini arms race as each
country is
positioning for strength to fend off any hostile possibilities.
The
ultimate is that there will be little change in Zimbabwe. The leadership
is
capable of going down with everybody," said
Zunga.
He believes the Forum is the only
organization with clear positive
thinking in terms of solving Zimbabwe's
socio-economic and political
challenges.
He summarized the
policies of the Zimbabwe Diaspora CSOs Forum as a
means to create an
international platform for Zimbabweans abroad, so that
they speak with one
voice on issues of democracy and development, to turn
Zimbabweans abroad
into business persons as a modicum to influence change.
"Poor
people can sing politics but are not politicians. The Forum is
advocating
for Diaspora Vote with a view to advocate for a free encompassing
constitution which protects and promotes civil and property
liberties.
"On top of all, we want to advocate for peace in
Zimbabwe," he
summarized.
Zunga says the plans
are shaped but needed a one year preparation
before explaining that this is
not careerist approach, but pragmatic time
specific
disposition.
"In 2 years we should be planting business in
South Africa and SADC.
South African policy is somewhat indifferent and is
unlikely to produce an
answer. Although the Forum has approached three
government departments to
sell our ideas and seek their assistance, the SA
government officials are
not sure.
"Both countries are
engaged in military build up, and squaring for
positions on the august
African Union, SADC and its organs. Debate at AU
and SADC is shut down to
whispers," said Zunga.
He says Botswana which, at some point
tried to speak, has found no
echo and has folded the tail. South Africa and
the regional leaders simply
hope Zimbabweans will solve their problems.
What they miss is that 65% of
the citizens in rural areas are muzzled and
cannot make a decision. When
they do it will probably be violent and will
affect the region more. South
Africa has suffered and gained on
Zimbabwe.
Zunga said the collapse of the economy means that
South African
industries are the main suppliers.
"The
influx of some skilled Zimbabweans has cushioned South Africa
shortage of
skills. The trade off is the poor immigrant Zimbabweans
battling for jobs
on the South African job market, xenophobia and the cost
of unending
deportations from the notorious Lindella," he added.
The SACP
says Zimbabweans situation cost South Africa R9 billion.
When you look at it
there is no leadership on Zimbabwe. The witty Thabo
Mbeki will not get
another term and Jacob Zuma or any other will most likely
caress the furs of
Mugabe's disaster-
CAJ News.
October 25,
2006
By Savious Kwinika (CAJ)
Zimbabwe (AND) About 50
Bulawayo students from various tertiary
institutions were arrested this
afternoon by the police for demanding that
the government improves falling
education standards.
They were arrested near Mhlahlandlela
government complex on their way
to presenting a petition to the governor
protesting the government's failure
to address falling
standards.
Promise Mkwananzi, the president of the Zimbabwe
National Students
Union (ZINASU) who said the protests were organised by the
students' body
confirmed the arrests.
"The students
have been locked up at Bulawayo Central Police Station
as we speak,"
Mkhwananzi said.
"We wanted to present a petition in
protests against the government's
failure to address our concerns such as
poor accommodation and exorbitant
high fees."
No
comment could be obtained from the police in the arrests as the
police
spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Shepherd Ndlovu was said to be out
of
town.
The petition by the students read in part: "The
students of Zimbabwe
demand that the recently introduced fees be immediately
abolished and be
replaced with the traditional grants.
"The immediate resignation or dissolution of the whole ZIMSEC Board
since it
has failed to run efficiently the Examination Board thereby
lowering the
Education standards."
However, Mkhwananzi and ZINASU
secretary general, Beloved Chiweshe
said they feared the arrested students
might be assaulted by the police.
"What they did to ZCTU
officials is what they might also do to out
fellow comrades," said
Chiweshe.
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) leaders
were last month
brutally assaulted by the police for organizing protests
over worsening
economic conditions in the country.
On
Monday, 12 Masvingo State University students were arrested for
protesting
against the cancellation by university authorities of student
council
elections that had been set for Tuesday.
An increase in
tuition fees early this year sparked a wave of protests
at the country's
tertiary institutions leading to the arrest of several
students.
The protests follow the arrest of 12
Masvingo State University
students on Monday for protesting against the
cancellation by university
authorities of student council elections that had
been set for Tuesday.
The education sector has also been
left crippled by the flight of
experienced personnel to other countries in
the region and the western world
due to poor salaries.
Zimbabwe Bureau, AND
People's Daily
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) on Tuesday said
it is planning to
appoint a tourism attache in Russia soon as efforts to
explore emerging
markets intensify.
ZTA Chief Executive
Karikoga Kaseke said Russia was one of Zimbabwe's
top source markets in
Eastern Europe. "We are going to appoint an attache
there soon," he said.
"We are working on that. Russia is a very big market
that we can not afford
to lose."
Kaseke said the country was also looking at such markets
as the Czech
Republic, South Korea and Singapore in its quest to diversify
source markets
after its demonization in the traditional source markets of
western Europe.
Zimbabwe, he said, had also joined the worldwide
race for China which
has been predicted to become the world's biggest
tourist source market by
2020.
The country has sent a tourism
attache to China, while the Asian
country has also granted Zimbabwe the
highly acclaimed Approved Destination
Status in an effort to promote tourism
between the two countries.
Zimbabwe has also introduced a direct
flight to Beijing to enhance
human traffic, trade and business links with
China.
Zimbabwe's tourism sector has taken a nosedive in recent
years owing
to the bad publicity the country receives from the international
media.
The tourism sector contributes 6 percent to the country's
gross
domestic product, 2.2 percent of employment and 10 percent of total
foreign
currency earnings.
Source: Xinhua
VOA
By Ndimyake Mwakalyelye
Washington
24 October
2006
Southern African leaders face pressure from the West to
isolate Zimbabwe as
they move along the path to economic integration,
pending political and
economic reforms in Harare, but Southern African
Development Community heads
of state didn't seem inclined to heed this call
at an extraordinary summit
in South Africa this week.
Some argue,
moreover, that the regional integration process could have a
moderating
effect on Harare's economic policies by providing a convenient
rationale for
reform.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe joined his Botswana and
Swaziland peers
on Monday in signing a finance and investment protocol that
is one of the
building blocks of the economic union envisioned for Africa's
southern tier
of countries.
But the European Community has been
urging SADC leaders to exclude Zimbabwe
from the free trade zone and customs
union planned for 2008 and 2010,
respectively, for one thing to ensure
Zimbabwe does not share in the
benefits from the economic activity spun off
by the 2010 World Cup of soccer
that South Africa is hosting.
Lesotho
Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, now SADC chairman, said the
region should
be considered in its totality, "instead of the outside world
singling out
the one member and saying because of member X we will not
invest in
SADC."
Economist Eric Bloch of Bulawayo told reporter Ndimyake Mwakalyele
that
Zimbabwe has alienated Western governments, institutions and investors,
so
its regional partners are not entirely pleased to be its partner in a
regional financial arrangement. But the regional protocol could also have a
beneficial effect on Harare's own policies.
Institute for War and Peace
Reporting
Despairing of politics, many people here are
looking to religion to
turn their fortunes around.
By Nonthando
Bhebhe in Harare (AR No.80, 25-Oct-06)
Millions of Zimbabweans,
bewildered by their ever-deepening
impoverishment, are turning to religious
to survive the multiple crises
afflicting the country.
With
more than 85 per cent of the population living on less than the
equivalent
of one US dollar a day, 4,000 people dying of AIDS-related
illnesses each
week and inflation exceeding 1000 per cent, Zimbabweans see
God now as the
last hope for themselves, their families and for the country.
Many
leaders of the various Christian communities here are openly
praying for
"divine intervention" to pull Zimbabwe out of the mire. Indeed,
the
country's leading Roman Catholic, Bulawayo's Archbishop Pius Ncube,
regularly describes President Robert Mugabe as an "evil" man and says
publicly that he prays "the Good Lord will take Mugabe away from us .
Everyone is fed up with him. We're all hoping against hope that something
will happen".
Pastor Elfas Zadzagomo of Faith Ministries - part
of an international
apostolic movement with headquarters in Oxford, England,
and with 42
churches across Zimbabwe - said more and more people are being
counselled in
churches because of economic and social
pressures.
"When people face problems they seek consolation in the
church where
they meet with other people with similar problems and share
their
experiences," he said. "It relieves the pressures. We are also
counsellors
who help people through their problems."
Pastor
Brian Keith Williams, from the United States, was recently
amazed by the
thousands of people who turned out recently at a conference he
attended in
Harare's New Life Covenant Church, which regularly has 5,000
worshippers and
now plans a new church building to accommodate a
congregation of
10,000.
Williams said the praise and worship in Zimbabwe was
electrifying,
like nothing he had experienced in the US or on preaching
visits to Britain,
countries where life was comparatively much easier and
where much smaller
numbers of people had experienced extreme
poverty.
Millions are now turning to the power of prayer, rather
than politics,
to achieve their goals. One New Life Covenant congregant,
Muchaneta
Mharapara, told IWPR, "I pray and fast when I want something and I
always
get it. I prayed for the job I got and I prayed for the man in my
life and
now we are getting married in December.
"In Zimbabwe,
if all of us had the faith I have and prayed as much as
I do, we would be
able to get out of this mess. Our leaders have failed and
I don't see them
coming up with solutions. They need to pray and ask for
forgiveness and give
their lives to God."
Some top ranking politicians, apparently
despairing of their failed
efforts to halt their countrymen's slide into
despair and misery, are openly
saying they are turning to God.
Joseph Msika, one of two vice presidents, has been ordained as a lay
pastor
in the Anglican Church, while his fellow vice president Joice Mujuru
was
promoted to captain in the Salvation Army. Two cabinet ministers are
believed to have applied to train as Roman Catholic priests.
Even Emmerson Mnangagwa, the powerful former intelligence chief backed
by
many to succeed President Mugabe, has announced that he is a born-again
Christian.
"I think their consciences are troubling them," said
sociologist
Professor Gordon Chavunduka, former vice chancellor of the
University of
Zimbabwe. "They have a lot of tension and stress because they
have no idea
which way the country should be driven."
Reserve
Bank Governor Gideon Gono always laces his otherwise
mind-numbingly dull
speeches on the economy with Biblical quotations.
In his most
recent quarterly Monetary Policy Framework statement, Gono
inserted five
quotations from the Bible, and ended, "Into the Lord's hands,
I commit this
Monetary Policy Framework for our economic turnaround."
Finance
Minister Herbert Murerwa, a Methodist Church lay preacher,
likes to say that
divine intervention is necessary to save Zimbabwe, but
goes on to quote from
the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah to say that "God
has a plan for
Zimbabwe".
What, however, Murerwa never does is to quote some of
the fieriest
warnings Jeremiah reported God as giving to leaders of the
people, such as,
"They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be
lamented; neither
shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the
face of the earth;
and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine;
and their carcasses
shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beats
of the earth."
[Jeremiah, ch 16, v 4]
Even for non-believers
and followers of other faiths, it is difficult
to escape Zimbabwe's new
Christian religious revival. Gospel songs top the
current music charts;
evangelical preachers are on TV daily; political
rallies, and even military
parades, are enlivened with songs in praise of
God.
Prosperous
young Zimbabweans interviewed by IWPR frequently attributed
their success to
their strong faith in God. This reflects the way Protestant
Evangelical
preachers, especially those with connection to American
missions, have
focused on empowerment and encouraging their followers to
engage in
activities that will pull them out of poverty.
Ronnie Kaseke, a
leading member of Zimbabwe's Apolostic Faith Mission,
with international
headquarters in El Paso, Texas, said, " What we need to
do is to stop
attracting negativity. If you are positive, positive things
happen to you.
The problem with Zimbabweans is that all we do is complain,
we are not
positive in our outlook."
Kaseke, who is also a leading financial
consultant, owning a large
house in the leafy Harare suburb of Borrowdale,
and the father of children
who attend the city's most expensive private
schools, went on, "The church
teaches us to be positive and to have faith in
the Lord. It teaches us to
fend for ourselves, to strategise and set goals
so that we prosper.
"It discourages us from begging or borrowing.
With God, nothing is
impossible. With prayer, you can remove the curses of
poverty, progress
hindrances and open the doors of success, prosperity and
financial
fulfillment."
And Tafadzwa Masango, another Apostolic
Faith Mission member, said,
"Most people are coming to church now because of
economic hardships. They
come for counselling and when they see prosperous,
devout Christians it
gives them hope. It is all about having hope because
people's spirits have
been broken down by poverty and this can lead to
suicides."
Nonthando Bhebhe is the pseudonym of an IWPR reporter in
Zimbabwe
IOL
October 25
2006 at 12:22PM
Harare - Police in southern Zimbabwe have raided
members of a cult who
were living in the wild and refusing to eat until
Jesus Christ came, it was
reported on Wednesday.
Police on
Saturday took seven children who were severely malnourished
away from the
cults camp and placed them in the homes of Christian pastors
in Bulawayos
Luveve suburb, said the state-controlled Herald newspaper.
Thirteen
members of the cult, believed to be an offshoot of the
popular Seventh Day
Adventist Church, were also picked up and questioned by
police, the report
said. The cult members who would only give their first
names were described
as frail.
Some of the cult members were reportedly
sweating profusely and
coughing uncontrollably, said the
newspaper.
They had been camped in a bushy area beyond Bulawayos
Pumula South
suburb, worrying nearby homeowners.
We picked them
up after receiving complaints from Pumula residents who
were not sure of the
cults motives. The residents were afraid they could end
up committing
various crimes in the neighbourhood, said police spokesperson
Langa
Ndlovu.
The policeman added that the group was also removed for
their own
safety as they were frail, possibly due to
starvation.
The cult members were told to go home, but police are
doubtful they
will obey.
Churches and sects have been gaining
in popularity in Zimbabwe, where
economic and social problems are biting
hard. There has been widespread
concern over the advertisements for
so-called miracle crusades, where
attendees are promised prosperity and
healing from diseases. - Sapa-dpa
As a JAG member or JAG Associate member, please send any classified
adverts
for publication in this newsletter to:
JAG Classifieds: jag@mango.zw; justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
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1.
For Sale Items
2. Wanted Items
3. Accommodation
4. Recreation
5.
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6. Pets
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OFFERED FOR
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1.1
For Sale (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
I have two Electrolux freezers for sale -
they are 30 years old but still
going strong, though their looks have
suffered a little. They have been
checked by a
refrigeration specialist of
long standing and he has recommended the
following prices:
1 chest
freezer 12 cubic feet $400, 000.00
1 upright 9 cubic
feet $290, 000.00
Office
furniture
I have two filing cabinets [imported oak] three drawers,
lockable for sale:
$220,000.00 each
L shaped desk, oak, one side has
sliding doors and a shelf, plus normal desk
$350,000.00
This is less
than half the cost of new ones. All in good condition. Please
phone 861167
if
interested.
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For Sale (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
WHITE LUGGAGE TRAILER, LOCKABLE.
CROP
MOISTURE TESTER, complete (Delmhorst Instrument Company, USA)
ELNA LOTUS
SEWING MACHINE
PROLINE SOHO SCANNER (Computer)
HEWLETT PACKARD DESKJET
670C PRINTER
CARPET TILES
SHOWER HEADER TANK 100 LITRES
8 sq.m. ITALIAN
FLOOR TILES
2 sq.m. MOSAIC TILES
KNITMASTER DOUBLE BED KNITTING
MACHINE.
ELECTRIC MOTORS - various
BANJO
PIANO ACCORDIAN
Please
phone 091 305
313
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For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
Motor Bike
Suzuki TF 125 -- in
very good condition -- Zim $ equivalent of US$ 1000.00
contact: zanadu@zim.co.zw
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1.4
For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
Linhoff photographic tripod with tilt and
pan head. Price $15,000
Phone evenings 04 487631 or days 04 459702 ask
for ray or email
rwestley@mango.zw
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For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
Very Good Condition - ADAM BEDE Oak
Dining Room Suite, Six Chairs and Two
Carvers, Extendable Table and Welsh
Dresser with Leaded Glass Doors. Price $
3 000 000.00. Must Be Seen.
Telephone 020 68626 Trevor or
Michelle
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For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
Toyota Hilux double cab 3Lt 2003 model
white in colour, 57000 kms.
Excellent condition. Offers
Phone 091
606212
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1.7
For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
Book titled, Exotic Tropical
Fishes
Authors of this comprehensive book include:
Dr. Axle rod
Dr.
Vordevinkler
Dr. Emmens
Mr.Sculthorpe
Mr.
Proneck
Dr.Burgess
700 plus pages most with full colour plates and
description. One page per
species. Condition as new
Asking price
$15,000
Suit the more serious fish keeper or breeder. There are also many
others
being sorted for sale.
Telephone 04 487631 or during business
hours 04 459702 (if lines not down)
Ask for Ray. Or email rwestley@mango.zw
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Generator For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
8 H.P. Briggs and Stratton
Motor with 3.5.K V A Alternator. Mounted on
Frame and in good condition.
Price $400.000.00
Contact Telephone 301860or Cell 011
416984
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For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
"The Weavery"
Super gift ideas for
local and overseas friends and family.Hand woven
articles which are
light,easy to pack and send, and fully washable.
Xmas is on the way again!
Buy before the "rush" and before prices go up
again!Contact Anne on 332851 or
011212424.Or email joannew@zol.co.zw
Crocheted oven
gloves--$3,000.
Cotton oven gloves--$2,000.
Small woven
bags--$2,000.
Large woven bags--$3,000.
Crocheted
bags--$4,000.
Queen(approx.250x240cms) size bedcover--$30,000.
Other
sizes to order.
Single Duvet cushions(open into a duvet)--$24,000.
Other
sizes to order.
2x1 meter Throw--9,000.
Baby
Blanket(1x1meter)--$3,500.
3 piece toilet set--$5,000.
Bath
mat--$3,000.
Decorated cushion covers--$3,000.
Table
runner--$2,000.
Set(4)Bordered table mats +
serviettes--$9,000.
Set(6)Bordered table mats +
serviettes--$13,000.
Set(4) crocheted table mats
only--$5,000.
Set(6)fringed table mats + serviettes--$12,000.
Lots of
other combinations.
Small (approx.105x52cms) plain cotton
rug--$3,000.
Medium (approx.120x65cms) plain cotton rug--$5,000
Large
(approx.150x75cms) plain cotton rug--$7,000.
Ex. Large(approx.230x130cms)
plain cotton rug--$22,000.
Small patterned cotton rug--$4,000.
Small rag
rug--$3,000.
Medium patterned cotton rug--$6,000.
Large patterned cotton
rug--$10,000
Ex. Large patterned cotton rug--$28,000.
Small patterned
mohair rug--$6,000.
Medium patterned mohair rug--$9,000
Large patterned
mohair rug--$12,000.
Ex. Large patterned mohair rug--$30,000.
Lots of
other articles. Please be aware that prices may change
without
notice.
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For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
"Mercedes-Benz C180 Elegance for sale.
Automatic. Petrol. 1994 model.
104850 genuine kilometres. Metallic
Gunmetal, all extras including Sony
radio and a 10 CD shuttle. Pristine
condition. Asking price US$14 000.00
or equivalent in Zimbabwe
Dollars.
Please contact Adam on: - 091 208754 or 04 336237 after
hours."
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For Sale (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
CAMPING EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
Various
camping equipment for sale, tents in good condition, camp beds,
double
inflatable lilo, gaslights, gas skottle, set of new stainless steel
camping
pots (very compact one inside another) etc. Phone 091 311 503, or
work
339144
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS FOR SALE
Complete set of Brittanica
encyclopaedias for sale. Ideal for reference for
young people. Phone 091
311 503, or work 339144.
GOLF CLUBS FOR SALE
1 complete set of golf
clubs - Rawlings, and two other part sets.
Must sell - offers. Phone 091 311
503, or work
339144
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For Sale (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
COARSE SALT. 50 kg bag Z$ 8,500
delivered Harare.
MOLASSES. Z$150 per litre. For large quantities supply
container.
CHILDREN'S COLOURED CHAIRS. Z$ 3,500
Apply: mnmilbank@zol.co.zw
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For Sale (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
Borehole water delivered anywhere in
Harare Area. Minimum load 2000 litres.
Contact:
091-262834/091-311500/091/343198
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For Sale (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
JUNGLE GYM - LARGE with slide, swing,
barrel swing, ladder, Platform, etc.
PRICE $25,000-00 only.
22 RIFLE -
BRUNO - offers
PERSIAN TYPE RUGS 6 x 8 $15,000-00 each
Telephone
091909244
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For Sale - Like New (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
BREATHING MACHINE FOR BABIES:
Rescue Breathing or Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation Alarm. Breathing Effort
Monitor with Tummy Tickle stimulation.
Our baby had a problem of breathing
and we used this machine, which you
attach to the Nappy. View www.respisense.com to see more
details.
Our asking price is Z$140,000-00 Tel: Lindsay
091909244
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For Sale (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
KTM 525 exc Motor Bike, 2003 modle, well
maintained and in good condition.
USD 5500 equivalent in Z$.
Toyota
RAV 4, White, 2001 (new shape), 55000 Km,
USD 21000 equivalent in
Z$.
Mazda Familiar 323 Hatch back. 2000 modle, 100000km Metallic blue.
One
owner. USD 8500 equivalent.
Please contact me on dale@zol.co.zw.
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For Sale (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
SECURE INTERNET VIA SATELLITE FOR THE
REGION - FIXED DISH OR PORTABLE BGAN
Please email info@satsys.net or visit www.satsys.co.za
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1.18
Pet Mince for Sale (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
Please be advised that there is
limited pet food.
Pet Mince for sale 500g for $350. Pet mince made from
pork offal including
liver and veg only, it is minced and well
cooked.
Delivered on Friday's, collected at Benbar Msasa at 10:30, JAG (17
Philips
Ave, Belgravia) at 11:30, Peace Haven (75 Oxford St off Aberdeen) at
12:30
and Olivine Head Office in car park at 3:00.
Please order by
email. Phone 011221088 or email claassen@zol.co.zw
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For Sale (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
Toyota Land Cruiser Pick-up. I999 and
only 56 000 km on the clock. Genuine
offers will be welcomed. The vehicle is
in Bulawayo at this time but can be
brought to Harare if there is the
need.
Phone Ben on 011 444717 or Bebe on 011 408401. email mobenic@zol.co.zw
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For Sale (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
Linen
1 Single Bed Duvet Cover -
Green, Pink Biggie Best Floral $50 000.00 for 1
Green Lamp Shade Cover to
match above set 1 Continental Cushion cover to
match above
2 Double
Bed Duvet Covers, 1 Continental Cushion cover, 100 000.00 for 2-4
pillow
cases, 1 kist cover, 2 small, 2 large lined curtains, set night
frill, small
circular table cloth, Grey's/Pinky/maroon's
Oddments/Kitchenware etc
1
Cast Iron Pot with yellow lid (biggest pot) 40 000.00
1 Washing up wall
drainage rack (as new) 15 000.00
1 Plastic serviette holder 1 000.00
1
Electric Carving Knife 10 000.00
2 Tupperware measuring cups
(25mls/50mls/100mls) 3 000.00
1 Square to round adaptor
2 000.00
1 Craft Wood Burner 5 000.00
1 Compass Cutter 5 000.00
1
Coleman's drinks cooler box (green and cream) 12 000.00
4 Rectangular baking
trays ea 2 000.00
1 Cardboard Shoe Rack (9 Pce) 8 000.00
1
Bread Maker, Recipe Book, Measuring cup and spoon (Newish) 50 000.00
1 Double
tape deck/radio with removable speakers
60 000.00
1 Ironing board 8
000.00
1 PC, key board, mouse, monitor etc 200 000.00
1 Vacuum
Cleaner 50 000.00
Microwave
3 Microwave plates of varying
depths ea 2 000.00
1 Boiled/poached eggs microwave set 5 000.00
1
Microwave cook book 2 000.00
1 Microwave Vegetable Steamer 2
000.00
Garden/Cleaning/Braaing etc
1 Extension Cable and stand 25
000.00
1 Round small braai 5 000.00
1 Braai Set, stick in ground
holder for drink and utensils 3 000.00
2 Gas bottles with plates ea 50
000.00
2 Square Washing tubs (white with grey specks ea 6 000.00
1
Plastic blue and black small pedal bin 5 000.00
Furniture
1 round
dining room table 80 000.00
1 Rectangular coffee table, dark wood 20
000.00
2 square side tables to match above ea 5 000.00
1 Bathroom
Cabinet and matching rail - Teak 150 000.00
1 Garden Suite, round table,
tablecloth,4 chairs and cushions 100 000.00
1 Deck Chair (Canvas and wood) 10
000.00
1 Double Bed,+ mattress (Newish) 250 000.00
1 Automatic (front
loader) Washing Machine 250 000.00
1 Cane lounge suite, couch + 2 one
seater's, peach cushions & covers 180
000.00
1 Cane kist, to match
cane lounge suite above 80 000.00
1 Pine double cupboard for wall 50
000.00
1 Pine Wardrobe 90 000.00
1 Pine Dressing Table and Stool 80
000.00
1 Pine Kist 60 000.00
1 Pine Book Case 40 000.00
1 Pine Chest of
Drawers 60 000.00
2 Pine Bed side Tables ea 20 000.00
Prices
negotiable, within reason
Call Shelley on 091 264361 or 883348 pms only or
reply by email :
bungzip@zol.co.zw or
tahara@mweb.co.zw
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1.21
Motorcycles For Sale (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
Honda XR 600, 4-stroke trail
bike, 1994 model, 16 500km, registered.
Yamaha WR 450 F, 4-stroke enduro
bike, 2005 model
off road only.
Yamaha YZ 125, 2-stroke scrambler,
2002 model, off road only.
Honda CR 85, 2-stroke scrambler, 2004 model,
off road only.
Kawasaki KX 85, 2-stroke scrambler, 2002 model, off road
only.
Phone 04 443017 or 011
218792.
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1.22
Tyres For Sale (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
Goodyear, Silverstone, Pirelli,
Dunlop.
All sizes available including agricultural and commercial vehicle
tyres.
If we don't have it, we'll find it.
Phone 04 443017 or 011
218792.
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1.23
For Sale (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
DVD player, Sanyo SL-40, still in the
box. $140,000 (40% less than Makro)
o.n.o.
Contact Rob 091 887 864, 04
499776
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1.24
For Sale (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
BOAT FOR SALE
Piranha fisherman with
90 Force (Mercury). We have had this motor from new.
Complete set up with
bass motor, lifejackets, fishing rod holders etc.
Offers around 7000 US (or
equivalent)
Phone Jacquie 339144 or 091 311 503.
FOOT SPA
Brand new
Salton foot spa $20 000. Brand new bathroom scale $7 000.
Christian Dior
travel pack of perfumes (still in new packaging) - $25 000,
Phone Jacquie
339144, 091 311
503
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1.25
For Sale (Ad inserted 24/10/06
Lorry cattle
"boxes"
1. Custom built in square metal tubing to fit
Hino FF
lorry, 2000 model, rear side opening
doors.
2. Custom built in metal and wood to fit
Perfection
Trailer, 1985 model, rear side-opening doors.
Please
contact me on email: faed@zol.co.zw or phone
091 255
659.
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1.26
For Sale (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
Sony Ericson T610 for sale. In good
condition with brand new covers. Also
available is a blue tooth hands free
for this phone. Offers phone 091
322
213
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1.27
For Sale (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
GSC Generator Service (Pvt)
Ltd
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@advas.co.zw
Service: 480272, 480154
or gsc@adas.co.zw
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1.28
For Sale (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
ZNSPCA is selling dog collars and
leads
156 Enterprise RD. P.O.Box CH55 Chisipite. Harare
Tel:
497885/497574
DOG COLLARS AND LEADS
WEB
COLLARS:
Large $950
00
Med. $900
00
Small $850 00
WEBBING
LEAD
Large $3,000 00
each
Med $2,500
00
Small $2,000 00
CHAIN LEAD
$2,400
each
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1.29
For Sale (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
Please advertise the following furniture
for sale; 4-piece 6-seater lounge
suite $250 thousand, TV cabinet solid $250
thousand, kitchen dresser $150
thousand, writing desk c/w 3drawers 150
thousand, book shelf
150 thousand, Empisal sewing machine (slim line) 500
thousand. Contact Jo
Lewis home 336680 work 755149 or
090363471.
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2
WANTED
ITEMS
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2.1
Wanted (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
Second hand baking trays and tins in good
conditions
Also second hand electrical mixer in good condition
Please call
011 200
325
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2.2
Wanted (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
Does anyone have a second hand swimming
pool fence that they would like to
sell? If so, please could you phone me on
091326755.
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2.3
Wanted (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
Looking for a copy of "Golden Age of
Tobacco" if anyone has a copy of this
book please contact me on secretary@zol.co.zw
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2.4
Wanted (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
Second-hand 28" old-fashioned bicycle
wanted. Please phone John Robertson on
Harare
740205
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2.5
Wanted (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
Double bed and base set in very good
condition. Please phone
Jenny
011409353
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2.6
Wanted (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
For loan or hire a bunk bed for November
Dec and January as I have my family
coming from New Zealand.
Also Looking
for 3 to 4 Leaver Locks Preferably a good make like Union.
Please contact
Ann on 301860 or cell 011
404357.
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2.7
Wanted (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
If any one knows of a front-loading washing
machine for sale please contact
Maggie Norton on 499349 or
091255955
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2.8
Wanted (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
1. King size bed in good condition. With or
without headboards.
2. Glass dining and coffee table
Phone Roy
011433588
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2.9
Wanted (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
I am looking for a second hand or
reasonably priced dish holder for a very
big dish I bought from a friend that
left the country. I have been told it
should not be mounted on the
wall.
The dish holder I need is one that is a tripod at the base (which
is
concreted into the ground) and reduces to the size of the dish fitting
on
the top.
It is made up of metal bars if you know what I
mean.
Please reply by return mail or to ziminter@telco.co.zw
or call me on
301152, 091 324
287
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2.10
Wanted (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
Looking for an Incubator. Contact Graham
on 075-2264 or 011406023 or e-mail
gtech@zol.co.zw.
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2.11
Wanted (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
Stove - 4 plates - electric wanted,
must be neat and in good working order.
Please contact me on 091 865 666 or
882013 (evenings) or e mail on
secretary@plastique.co.zw
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2.12
Tractors Wanted (Ad inserted 24/10/06
If anyone has tractors for sale,
please contact me on
HO@zol.co.zw or on
04-776458.
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2.13
Wanted (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
Looking for a RAM (sheep) of good stock. If
they could contact me through
hopitt@zol.co.zw
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2.14
Wanted (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
Skimmer required for use on Kariba. Please
phone 091604444/091243184 or
email stleger@hms.co.zw/ kswetzlar@zol.co
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2.15
Wanted (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
WANTED urgently is a Working / Non-
Working TV , VCR ,DVD , Satellite Dish,
Decorder and/or Hifi. Please contact
Joel on 091 450 928 or email
joelsonwozhi@yahoo.com
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3
Accommodation Wanted and
Offered
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3.1
House for Sale (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
Greendale North
2.5 subdivisible
acres with msasa trees
3 bed/ 2 bath brick under tile and a self contained
cottage
Double garage and staff quarters, Pool
10 000 litre water storage
tank with pressure pump
Electric gate and security light
2 metre
electrified security fence and prickly pear hedge
House alarm, Security guard
at end of Close
Borehole sited but not drilled.
Good area - Italian
Embassy, French, British and Nigerian ambassadorial
residences
Walking
distance of Chisipite School and shops.
Serious buyers only, phone Margot on
04-776499 or 091 358
122
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3.2
House Sitter Wanted (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
Attractive newly thatched
cottage to let for October and November on farm
near Bromley, 55 kms
Harare. Garden and space for vegetables. $15,000
per month
plus
Zesa.
Please phone 073 3399, or 011 423614, or 04 572513 (leave message
here)
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3.3
Flat Wanted to Buy (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
Widow requires a safe cluster
home/garden flat in Northern suburbs. Must
have three bedrooms, 2 bathrooms,
2 carports or garages (a must) as she
doesnt want to lose her late husbands
vehicle!! Phone Jacquie (on behalf of
Widow) 091 311 503,
339144.
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3.4
House Wanted (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
3/4 bed roomed house for single
mother with 2 children. Must be safe and
secure. Areas around
Mt
Pleasant, Greendale, Alexander Park, Avondale, Borrowdale,
Highlands;
Newlands, Gunhill.
Please phone Debbie on 091 830 953 or
446191/2 during business
hours
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3.5
Cottage for Rent (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
AVAILABLE TO RENT, end of
October
DOUBLE- STOREY SPACIOUS THATCHED COTTAGE with wooden
decking
verandahs/balconies...
KAMBANJI - BEAUTIFUL VIEWS
TWO DOUBLE
BEDROOMS EN SUITE. SECURITY - ELECTRIC FENCE, ELECTRIC GATE,
NIGHT WATCHMAN
ETC.
PLEASE CONTACT 499119. e-mail calder@zol.co.zw
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3.6
Fish Hoek for Rent (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
To let: In Fish Hoek;
Two
bed roomed house with lock-up garage. Close to
beach, shopping centre and
station in quiet street. R3000 monthly. Six-month
lease. Available from 1st
November.
To let: In Fish Hoek;
One bed roomed flat with own fitted
kitchen, bath in
secure area; Close to beach, shopping centre and station in
quiet street.
R1500 monthly. Six-month lease. Available from 1st
November.
For details please contact Graeme: gjcopley@yahoo.com
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3.7
Wanted Housesitter/Part time tenant
Garden flat in secure complex, two
minutes walk from Sam Levy's village. 2
bed 2 baths, 1 en-suite. Furnished,
Lock-up garage.
Minimal rent to cover expenses required.
Available 15th
October. Please phone Nello Davies.
091-402410.
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3.8
House Wanted (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
House wanted to rent as from 1st
December 2006 in Avondale, Milton Park,
Emerald Hill, or Mount
Pleasant.
Need at least 4 bedrooms and swimming pool and if possible a
borehole.
Please contact Carol on 332798 or 011 231 541 if you have anything
suitable.
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3.9
House Sitter Offered (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
Accommodation Wanted/House,
animal sitter available end Nov
I have been housesitting professionally
for the last 2 years (I have
references). As of 1st Dec 2006 I will be
looking for anyone who needs a
house/animal sitter for 4months or longer in
Harare, preferably around
Borrowdale, Chisipite, Highlands, Mount Pleasant,
Newland area. I am
26/farmers daughter, very homely and have passion for the
outdoors and love
of animals. Any furnished cottage or small houses would be
perfect. Needs to
be a secure surroundings, as, I'm a single female.
I
would love to hear from you. Contact Lisa on 091 340 373 or
charterseeds@zol.co.zw
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3.10
HOUSE WANTED OR EXCHANGE (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
Private Sale
We
are looking for a 2 to 3 acre property with 2 houses on the property or
1
house and a separate decent 3 bedroomed cottage. Property must be
walled,
secure and have a prolific borehole. Areas considered are
Borrowdale,
Ballantyne Park, Colne Valley, Colray, Rolf Valley, Rietfontein,
Highlands
and Chispite.
OR
we would consider an Estate Agent valued
exchange for our house, located in
Mount Pleasant. Property is on 1 acre
with executive house. 4 b/rooms, 2
ensuite and separate shower and guest
toilet. Also has flatlet with
downstairs shower and toilet and extra
upstairs room with bath and toilet.
Large kitchen with hob and oven, 2 large
lounges plus one smaller. Lovely
bar. Has jacuzzi and sauna. Floodlit aw
tennis court and pool. 4 lock up
garages plus pit. Underground watering
system and prolific borehole. Very
secure and extras not mentioned. Has
been valued at US$350,000 equivalent.
Please reply to peat@zol.co.zw
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3.11
House Wanted to Rent (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
I am currently looking for a
reliable tenant for my house in Mandara
(Harare), available immediately and a
long lease. 3 bedrooms (loads of
cupboard space), 2 bathrooms (main en
suite), 2 lounges, dining room,
kitchen, study, 3 verandah areas, workshop,
laundry, store room, pool,
satellite dish, 2 garages. Set in a 4 acre garden
with lovely indigenous
trees. Very peaceful, quiet and a great garden for
children.
There are 2 excellent domestic workers at the house and I would
like them to
remain with the property.
If you are interested, please
email me on cadlam@mweb.co.za or call/sms
me
on +27 84 6930 912 (SA) between 9am and 6pm for more details. Only
serious
enquiries please.
(NB - this house is not suitable for a single
lady)
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3.12
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
MUTARE
Young couple
looking for a 2 or 3 bedroomed House or Garden Flat in or
around town
(Mutare), that allows dogs. Looking around nothing more than
Z$50 000.00
rent
Contact Ronel on 023 284 772 or 011
609607
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3.13
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
Two or three roomed cottage,
Belvedere,Lincoln Green or Ridgeview area.
Call Andrew on 740233 or email andrew@guardtec.co.zw
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3.14
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
Forcibly retired farmer and
wife desperately in need of cottage with
outbuildings to rent immediately -
anywhere from Ruwa to Marondera. Phone
011-221088 or contact Cherie at Jag
offices.04-799410.
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3.15
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
Young couple with 1 young
child require a 2 or 3 bedroomed house or garden
flat in a low density suburb
of Gweru. For occupation immediately or in
November or December. It must be
walled and gated. Preferably with a
lock-up garage, staff quarters and
swimming pool, although these are not
necessities. If anything is available,
please contact Dalmaine on 091 777
033, (054) 221 501 (in Gweru) OR Pam on
091 646 268, (04) 756 841/850
(in
Harare)
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3.16
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
ZNSPCA is looking for
accommodation in Harare, preferably around Chisipite,
Newlands, or Highlands.
Any cottage or room would be perfect. Needs to be a
secure surrounding. For a
single female who will be only using it for 2
weeks in a month. If anything
is available please contact Helen 497885
or
497574.
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3.17
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 24/10/06)
W are looking for a 3 to 4
bed-roomed house, will consider most areas. Need
from 1 Feb 2007, for a
2-year lease contact Di at
creativemarketing@zol.co,zw
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4
RECREATION
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4.1
Hippo Pools Camp (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
Hippo Pools Wilderness Camp -
Need a break from your hectic everyday life,
for a relaxing weekend or
midweek getaway Hippo Pools Wilderness Camp is the
place to go. For details
phone Tracy on 747929 or email
mailto:wildernessafrica@zol.co.zw
"
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4.2
(Ad inserted 26/09/06)
LIFEHOUSE CHRISTIAN RESOURCE CENTRE
88
Lomagundi, Road Emerald Hill
Is the home of the following Christian
organizations:
LifeWords (Formerly Scripture Gift Mission)
Words of
the Holy One (Christian literature)
Life Tower (Christian library)
Your
Life Magazine
Acts Basket
These are all legitimate non-profit
Christian Organizations.
At present life House (Kindly left to Lifewords
by the late Ms Audrey
Hickley in her will) is badly in need of some attention
and renovation to
make it more user friendly to the public as a Christian
resource centre. The
renovation has started, funded thus far by money from
our own pockets, but
we (the small group of 5 people involved in the above)
have found that our
personal resources are not nearly adequate for the task.
Some of the needed
items are great indeed, but we do not wish to
underestimate either the power
of God or the generosity of some people, by
not asking.
So it is that we humbly approach you the public in an appeal
for the
following:
. Funding/general donations.
. Bore-hole (to be
drilled)
. Bore-hole pump and motor, piping etc
. Water storage tank
.
Plants (palms, cactii, hanging baskets, pot plants etc)
. Garden furniture
and benches (prayer/reading/tea garden)
. Garden umbrellas
. Tables &
chairs
. Office furniture (Christian internet reference library)
. Lounge
furniture (Prayer room)
. Computers (Christian internet reference
library)
. Printers
. Wood for book shelving and a carpenter's time and
skill (Christian
library)
. Paint
. Christian literature for the
library collection.
. Light fittings
. Tiles
. Wrought iron security
enclosure (verandah)
. Curtains
. Small rocks/boulders to build a
rockery
. Lawn
. Tobacco scrap
. Compost
. Manure
. Plant
pots
. Gravel
In fact anything you could give would be most
appreciated. If any gift
cannot be used for the revival of Life House to
benefit all Christians, it
will be donated to Acts Basket and so still
benefit a Christian brother or
sister in need.
Should you wish to make
a pledge or donation or ask any questions, please
contact:
Anne
Hadingham at LifeHouse on 304127 or 091400751 or email:
wildart@zol.co.zw or Peter Nyangara at
LifeHouse on 304124 or 011629218 or
email: wohobooks@zol.co.zw
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4.3
GACHE GACHE LODGE (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
GACHE GACHE LODGE - across Lake
Kariba still have some rooms available for
the Xmas period. Full catering.
Children welcome.
Contact: Andrea: 091 208 836 tourleaders@zol.co.zw
New Year is now
full.
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4.4
House Boat For Hire (Ad inserted 03/10/06)
MTEPATEPA: houseboat for hire.
Sleeps 12, 3 crew, tender boat. Reasonable
rates.
Phone Kate 067 23112 or
091 356
981.
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4.5
Lift Offered (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
Lift offered to Beira, Mozambique leaving
30th October returning 3rd
November Contact
091-343198/04-851873
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4.6
Houseboat for hire (Ad inserted 17/10/06
Luxury Cruise Ship on Lake
Kariba
- Southern Belle -
Christmas special 2006 - individual cabins
on offer.
Deluxe Cabin - US$ 156.00 per person per day. / or
ZW$ equivalent
at RBZ rate of the day.
Executive Cabin - US$ 150.00
per person per day.
Double Cabins - US$ 144.00 per person per
day.
Twin Cabins - US$ 138.00 per person per day.
Triple
Cabins - US$ 136.00 per person per day.
Cruise dates - 22nd
December to 26th December 2006
Book know to avoid disappointment, as
Cabins are filling up fast.
Cruise subject to cancellation in the event that
bookings fail to exceed 20
passengers for this Christmas
Cruise.
Edward Vermaak (General Manager)
Zambezi Paddle Steamer P/L,
P.O. Box 339, Kariba
Tele / Fax +263 061 3176 or Cell 011 208665
Email kbelle@zol.co.zw / www.southernbellekariba.com
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4.7
Savuli Safari (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
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 091 631
556
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4.8
Accommodation Wanted (Ad inserted 17/10/06)
Accommodation wanted for 2
nights in Mongwe for 3 people - 3rd & 4th
November, 2006
Please
phone 011-215 111 or 011 213
660
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4.9
ART EXHIBITION
Sunday 04 November 2006.
At 187 Carrick Creagh Road,
Helensvale.
Open at 9 a.m. to late afternoon.
An exhibition of lesser
known artists. Something for all tastes.
If you are an artist and you
would like to exhibit, please contact me on 091
346 785.
There will be
teas and cakes available and maybe a wine bar.
4.10 Lovely Linens
Christmas Fayre
(Ad inserted 24 October 2006)
14 Aintree Road,
Highlands, Harare.
Thursday, 23 November 2006: 4pm to late.
Friday, 24
November 2006: 10 a.m. to late evening.
Saturday, 25 November 2006: 10 a.m.
to mid-afternoon
Full bar and catering available. Jazz band
on
Saturday. Secure parking. Please bring all your friends and family for
a
great opportunity to do all your Christmas shopping in one
place.
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4.11
Borrowdale Christmas Fayre in the Village
(Ad inserted 24 October
2006)
Saturday 09 December 2006
9 a.m. to late afternoon
at Sam
Levy's Village, Borrowdale.
For bookings contact 091 346 875 or The
Tenants' Association at The Village.
4.12 (Ad inserted
24/10./06
TANDEM SKYDIVING' every saturday at Charles Prince Airport.
Contact
Chris
091302357
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5
SPECIALIST
SERVICES
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5.1
(Ad inserted 26/09/06)
1. The Power People
Radium Africa stocking
2.5Kva, 5.5Kva, and 16Kva Generators. 40's and 60's
on the water. Larger
units available on request.
Assessments, Installations and servicing
available. Full spares backup.
Phone Office: 04 335848 Cell Derrek
011611717
Email: radiumzw@africaonline.co.zw
2.
Need to use your FCA? - Radium Africa
Harrow discs 24" 26" and 28",
Generators, Silage Machines in stock. Other
agricultural equipment imports
available on request.
Phone Office: 04 335848 Cell Sean 011600389 Keith
011800859
Email: radiumzw@africaonline.co.zw
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5.2
(Ad inserted 10/10/06)
For all your outside Bar & Catering
requirements contact NIBBLES.
We specialise in Christmas Parties, Birthdays,
and Weddings etc. Let us
take the hassle out of your function!
Contact:
091-343198/0901-252703/04-851873
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5.3
(Ad inserted 17/10/06)
SELF EMPOWERMENT CENTRE
PH 850480 091 702 280
or email tania@africaonline.co.zw
MIND
POWER
ALL your problems lay in your Subconscious Mind
Whatever
the problem is .. Health .. Money .. Relationships { or lack of }
Depression
or Confusion .. you CAN change it !
Learn how to Re-programme your
subconscious and start making those changes
EASILY and NATURALLY.
Make
the REST of your life the BEST of your life
BOOK NOW FOR OUR NEXT
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Venue: Self Empowerment Centre ...22 Ross Rd , Rolf
Valley
Time: Saturday 28th October~ 8.30 am - 5.00
pm
Sunday 29th October~ 8.30 am - 1.00
pm
Cost: $ 40 000.00 [ Bring and share lunch ]
FOR
BOOKINGS AND DETAILS PHONE THE SELF EMPOWERMENT CENTRE ON 850480
TANIA
091702
280
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5.4
(Ad inserted 17/10/06)
Personalised DVD's and Calendars.
For
that hard to find Christmas present...
Transfer your photos onto DVD/VCD
(Will add music, captions and group the
photos in to a series of your
choice.)
For that special Calendar this year have a personalised calendar
made with
your favourite photos added.
To view samples, phone 745512
(evenings) / 011 611 744 or e-mail
adrianc@zol.co.zw
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5.5
Wanted: Computer-Based Home School (Ad inserted 24/10/06
Looking to start
a computer-based home school in Umwinsidale. This will be
on the Brainline
form of teaching (South African system). Anyone interested
please phone 011
806 731 - or Hre 494925 - or email acs@zol.co.zw.
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PETS
CORNER
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6.1
Puppy Wanted (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
A puppy (jack russell, jack russell
cross, maltese or
maltese cross, or similar) late November/early
December
Please contact sandeman@zol.co.zw or call 011 630 803 or
Harare
746408
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6.2
Dog Sitter Required (Ad inserted 26/09/06)
Homes wanted. We have recently
relocated to Europe. Due to various
circumstances we are unable to bring our
two dogs (Black Retriever and
German Shepherd) as yet Once we have settled in
and have reasonable space we
will call for one or both of our pets. In the
mean time we are looking for
an elderly couple that would be willing to baby
sit/ look after, or possible
adopt our two dogs. Due to the situation it is
difficult to put an exact
time period required. They are good security dogs
and are extremely loving.
They would suit a couple as the shepherd enjoys the
company of females and
the Retriever, enjoys being around Men. We would be
prepared to supply food
etc as an when required to the approved " new home
For any further
information or enquiries, please contact cmhch@yahoo.com
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6.3
PUPPIES FOR SALE (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
PEDIGREE IRISH SETTERS MALE AND
FEMALE FROM
KRUGER KENNELS, HARARE - 35 YEARS EXPERIENCE
NO LESS THAN
4 CRUFTS CHAMPIONS IN THE BLOOD LINE
NO INBREEDING AS MALE FROM THE CAPE AND
DAM FROM ENGLAND.
PUPPIES READY MID NOVEMBER CONTACT BELOW FOR
VIEWING
email djclarke@zol.co.zw
496961
091-400-328
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6.4
Puppies Wanted (Ad inserted 10/10/06)
Two Jack Russell puppies - Please
phone Jenny 011 409
353
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6.5
Temporary / Permanent Home wanted
(Ad inserted 10/10/06)
We have
recently relocated to Europe. Due to various circumstances we are
unable to
bring our two dogs (Black Retriever and German Shepherd) as yet.
Once we have
settled in and have reasonable space we would like to call for
one or both of
our pets if possible.
In the mean time we are looking for an elderly
couple who would be willing
to baby sit/ look after, or possibly adopt our
two dogs. Due to the
situation it is difficult to put an exact time period
required. They are
good security dogs and are extremely loving. They would
suit a couple as the
shepherd enjoys the company of females and the
Retriever, enjoys being
around Men.
We would be prepared to supply
food etc as an when required to the approved
" new home "
For any
further information or enquiries, please contact by email
doug_keeling@yahoo.co.uk
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6.6
For Sale
Pedigree Persian kittens. 5 left. Please contact Warwick on
091 346 875
to
book.
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Letter
1 - Patricia Broderick
Dear JAG,
This is from my Canadian friend
Marcia McKenzie who is involved with Bonda
Mission in Nyanga. You farming
types should have some suggestions. I thought
of the old fashioned charcoal
rooms held together with chicken wire as seen
in Zambezi Valley but that
requires a breeze and a drip system for the
water.
I am looking for an
engineer or consultant in HVAC, and wonder if Tim knows
one. We have 12
freezers which need to be in a cool room (+/-20c) and I
would like to know
what level of insulation will aid in this. A shelter was
built on the
premises of 4 Connaught, and the analysis that the building was
suitable for
the freezers was incorrect There must be some old gent who is
into hot and
cold construction in Zimbabwe.
Best,
Trish
Please visit my
web site of African Watercolours
http://www.patricia-wood.com/
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