Zim Online
Friday 06 October
2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe security commanders
last week told President
Robert Mugabe to increase tenfold soldier and
police salaries to boost
morale among security forces and stop poorly paid
juniors from deserting to
look for better paying jobs elsewhere, sources
told ZimOnline.
The sources, who are senior officers in the
army and police,
said Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantine
Chiwenga, Police
Commissioner Augustine Chihuri and Commissioner of Prisons
Paradzai Zimondi
made the request for more money during a meeting with
Mugabe on Thursday
last week.
The meeting between Mugabe
and the three service chiefs took
place about a week after the Defence
Forces Commission and the Police
Service Commission had written to the
government requesting a review of
soldier and police salaries, said our
sources who spoke on condition they
were not named.
"The
national army was the first to submit its (salary) proposal
to the
government on Monday (September 18), and ours (police) was submitted
on
Tuesday. The commanders then decided to moved in and take the matter
directly to the President," said a senior officer at police headquarters in
Harare.
He added that the top commanders proposed to
Mugabe that the
lowest paid member of the security forces earn a basic
salary of about Z$270
000, which is 10 times the $27 000 being paid to
junior soldiers and police
officers at the moment.
It was
not immediately clear what was the outcome of the
security commanders'
meeting with Mugabe, who in the past has yielded to
virtually every request
for money by the security forces.
Mugabe's spokesman George
Charamba could not be reached for
comment on the matter while Chiwenga,
Chihuri and Zimondi were all also not
available to take questions from
ZimOnline, with their offices saying they
were either out on business or too
tied up in meetings.
Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi,
under whose portfolio the
police falls, confirmed police were discontented
by poor salaries and said
his department was in talks with the Ministry of
Finance over the matter.
But he denied knowledge of Mugabe's
meeting with security
commanders and insisted reviewing of police salaries
was routine and would
be carried out in line with rising cost of
living.
He said: "Things are bad and affecting everyone in
the country
and the police are not an exception. They also live in the same
country and
their salaries must really be reviewed in line with the cost of
living.
"It is true that some of them have resorted to
deserting their
jobs and that is not good at all and as government we are
definitely going
to do something to the police to keep them loyal to the
country. We are
currently discussing that with the Ministry of
Finance."
Mugabe has increasingly relied on the country's
security forces
to stifle swelling opposition and dissension amid a
deteriorating economic
meltdown, hunger and poverty.
But
the 82-year old leader has had to break the bank from time
to time to keep
particularly the top echelons of the armed forces happy with
frequent salary
hikes as well as generous perks such as luxury vehicles and
farms seized
from whites. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Friday 06 October
2006
HARARE - The main wing of Zimbabwe's
splintered opposition Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC) party on Thursday
accused the ruling ZANU PF
party of stepping a campaign of terror against
its candidates in this month's
rural district polls.
The Morgan
Tsvangirai-led MDC says two of their candidates who were
elected unopposed
in Shamva and Gokwe-Senga respectively had fled their
homes in fear after
being accused of "embarrassing the ruling party."
The opposition
party said ZANU PF thugs last Thursday burnt down a
house belonging to
Samson Ncube, the MDC candidate for Gokwe-Senga.
The party says
Ncube has since fled the area and is temporarily living
with a senior party
official at Gokwe centre in the Midlands province.
Ncube told
ZimOnline: "They (ZANU PF thugs) came to my house at night
and told me to
remain in my kitchen while they torched my other house which
serves as the
bedroom.
"I only came out after property worth $1 million had been
gutted by
fire. I had no choice but to run away."
In Shamva,
Fletcher Muchenje also fled his home after Chief Bushu
threatened to beat
him up for daring to stand as an MDC candidate in his
area.
"I
am living in fear and I am now staying in Harare until the
situation returns
to normal," Muchenje told ZimOnline.
MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa
condemned the campaign of terror against
their party supporters adding that
the latest wave of violence confirmed
that ZANU PF was a violent
party.
"They are confirming that they are the violent party. But we
remain
resolute and undeterred . . . That is why we have taken a position
that
elections alone cannot be the only option in resolving the national
crisis,"
said Chamisa.
ZANU PF spokesman Nathan Shamuyarira
could not be reached for comment
on the allegations by the MDC. The ruling
party has however often denied
that it was a violent party accusing the MDC
of being cry babies out to
tarnish the image of the party and
government.
Police spokesman, Wayne Bvudzijena could also not be
reached for
comment on the matter. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Friday 06 October
2006
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe train drivers will
now be subjected to a
compulsory breathalyzer test as the country's rail
operator battles to curb
fatal accidents on the country's rail
network.
In a circular issued on Wednesday, the National Railways
of Zimbabwe
(NRZ) says train crews must with immediate effect take the
breathalyzer test
before assuming duty.
"The NRZ board,
management and organized labour have agreed to
implement a number of
measures to ensure the safety of the travelling
public.
"Each
trainman on duty will now be required to pass a breathalyzer
test and will
only be allowed to book on duty after passing the test," says
the
circular.
Zimbabwe railway networks have become virtual death traps
over the
past few years as hundreds of people died in train accidents the
government
blames on human error.
For example, last month
alone, eight people perished when two trains
collided along the
Bulawayo-Victoria Falls rail line.
Sources at the NRZ say the
latest moves to conduct breathalyzer tests
comes after an internal inquiry
blamed the accidents on drunkenness by train
drivers while on
duty.
A shortage of foreign currency to revamp ageing equipment has
forced
the NRZ to resort to ancient methods to run the train network with
disastrous consequences for commuters in crisis-torn Zimbabwe. -
ZimOnline
[This report
does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
HARARE,
6 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Police are defying a magistrate's order to
produce a
detailed report on the alleged assault and torture while in
custody of more
than a dozen Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) members
after a protest
was foiled by the security forces.
On Tuesday magistrate William Bhila
dismissed a police report written by the
arresting officers, which said
there was no substance to the torture
allegations, and ordered the Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) to take
over the enquiry, as it was improper
for the police "to investigate
themselves".
The magistrate postponed
until 17 October the trial of the unionists, who
have been charged with
"acting in a manner likely to cause public disorder",
to give the
authorities the necessary time to complete a comprehensive
report on the
incidents of alleged torture.
Among those arrested and allegedly beaten
last month were ZCTU president
Lovemore Matombo and secretary-general
Wellington Chibhebhe.
Police spokesman Assistant Commissioner Wayne
Bvudzijena told IRIN that the
police investigation had found no evidence of
torture, and that "the
unionists who had bruises, sustained them while
resisting arrest during the
demonstrations."
He said, "Those with
injuries received them after jumping from moving police
vehicles, after
being arrested, and our officers only used minimum force to
rearrest
them."
Alec Muchadehama, the ZCTU's legal representative, dismissed the
police
claim that his clients had jumped from moving vehicles as "flimsy,
and not
serious".
A medical report by the Zimbabwe Association of
Doctors for Human Rights
(ZADHR) said in a statement that the bruises
sustained by the unionists were
"consistent with being beaten with baton
sticks".
"The ZADHR states that the medically confirmed and documented
pattern of
injuries sustained by the ZCTU members, who were arrested on 13
September
2006 and detained in police custody until 15 September 2006, is
consistent
with the testimony given by the ZCTU members
themselves."
According to the association, some of the injuries sustained
by the
unionists indicated that they were beaten with blunt objects,
resulting in
seven of them suffering bone fractures, and that the unionists
had received
injuries to the backs of their heads, shoulders, arms, buttocks
and thighs.
"Soft-tissue injuries to the soles of the feet are also
consistent with
beatings, and correspond to the torture method called
'falanga', which can
leave a torture victim having difficulty with normal
walking for the rest of
his or her life," the ZADHR said.
President
Robert Mugabe's perceived endorsement of police heavy-handedness
after the
arrest and detention of the unionists was expected to result in
the case
dying a natural death.
"Some people are now crying foul that they were
assaulted," Mugabe said.
"Yes, you get a beating - when the police say move,
you should move. If you
don't move, you invite the police to use force. We
cannot have a situation
where people decide to sit in places not allowed,
and when the police remove
them, they say 'no'."
The protest was
designed to spark nationwide rolling mass action to force
government and
employers to address the increasing hardships of citizens. If
there were no
response to their grievances, they were to stage a two-day
demonstration the
following week and, if necessary, weeklong protests.
Police response to
the initial protest appears to have derailed planned mass
action designed to
highlight the country's economic meltdown, which has
resulted in annual
inflation soaring to 1,200 percent - the world highest -
and unemployment
levels in excess of 70 percent.
[This report does not necessarily reflect
the views of the United Nations]
HARARE, 6 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Banking
facilities remain a pipedream for rural
communities, which comprise around
70 percent of the population, a situation
described by the Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe as an "unhappy financial
exclusion".
"Too many Zimbabweans
out there are trapped in excluded financial conditions
... This is a recipe
for disaster, because the affected Zimbabweans have
fallen hostage to the
whims of illegal mini-central banks and parallel
market dealings," said
Gideon Gono, governor of the Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe, in a statement in
late September.
His comments followed visits to rural areas in August to
retrieve old bank
notes phased out to make way for the new, which lopped
three zeros off the
old currency to curb inflation. The lack of banking
facilities in
hard-to-reach rural communities forced authorities to extend
the deadline
for the surrender of old bearer cheques. Gono alleged that
criminals had
been taking advantage of rural dwellers in the
changeover.
Simpson Mapondera, a communal farmer and shop-owner in
Muzarabani in
Mashonaland Province, about 70km from Zimbabwe's eastern
border with
Mozambique in the humid Zambezi valley, sold basic essentials
such as soap,
bread, cooking oil and sugar, as well as second hand clothing
to the
impoverished villagers, many of whom had never set foot in an urban
centre.
In the absence of a bank, Mapondera kept his earnings in a hole
dug in the
floor of the thatched hut that served as his makeshift safe. The
lack of
rural banking facilities could not have hit him harder as he watched
his
savings go up in smoke when a veld fire burnt down the hut.
"I
lost about Z$500,000 [almost US$1,996], which I kept in the hut,
anticipating to use it to buy stock for my shop and to purchase inputs for
the coming planting season. I might never be able to run the business
again," he told IRIN.
Twice a week, Mapondera, who was the envy of
surrounding villages because of
his shop, would eagerly wait for the only
bus to the nearest town, Mount
Darwin, about 200 kilometres away, to give
the driver money to buy him stock
for his business or receive purchased
goods.
He said several people from his village were cheated by
blackmarket dealers,
who dumped large amounts of money in old notes by
offering to buy livestock
at high prices. This made it difficult for them to
exchange the money for
the new bearer cheques, because the Reserve Bank had
stipulated that
individuals had to prove that any amount exceeding Z$100,000
(about US$400)
had been acquired legally.
The absence of banks has
made life hard for rural communities in many ways.
"In the past I have had
problems with thieves, who would trace where I kept
my money and then steal
it, while rodents and termites sometimes eat up the
notes. In addition, I
often forget how much money I would have saved and,
since I resort to hiding
it in different places, remembering all the places
is a problem," Mapondera
said.
"Even if we would want to deposit the money in the banks, the roads
are so
bad and transport operators shun us. Sometimes we are forced to walk
very
long distances over several days to go and have our cheques changed
into
cash," he added.
Small-scale farmers, who sell some of their
produce to the Grain Marketing
Board, sometimes resort to currency dealers
to cash their cheques, who often
demand goats for the
service.
Mapondera appealed to banks to introduce mobile outreach
services, which
could also help the farmers raise loans for inputs and
equipment.
Gono said the financial exclusion of rural communities had
resulted in the
"underutilisation of available cash resources", reliance on
"brutal loan
sharks", aversion to a culture of saving and "lack of
investment
opportunities" in affected communities.
He announced
various measures to address the problem, including a Rural
Banking
Developmental Programme to set up banks in villages. The Reserve
Bank
expects the programme to be in place by the end of October and
requested the
banking sector to extend its social responsibility by
establishing financial
institutions in rural communities.
However, economist Anthony Mandiwanza
said financial institutions would need
incentives to venture into rural
areas and suggested that development in
marginalised areas "through the
establishment of small-scale industries"
could encourage banking
institutions to expand.
Developing infrastructure, such as reliable
roads, electricity supply
networks, and postal and telephone services in
rural areas could also
provide incentives to banks.
The Herald
Business
Reporter
THE cost of living for a family of six has risen from $96 326 in
August to
$112 034 in September, reflecting a 16,3 percent increase,
according to
statistics released by the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe
yesterday.
The CCZ said notable increases were recorded in meat which
rose by 53,1
percent and margarine which went up by 45,3 percent and washing
bars whose
prices shot up by 44,7 percent.
Washing powder went up by
23,5 percent and bath soap rose by 26,5 while milk
prices climbed to 23,4
percent.
The survey by CCZ also revealed that flour, especially the
self-raising
variety, was still in short supply in most parts of the
country.
Rent went up by 16,4 percent while cooking oil rose by 17,1
percent in
September.
Prices for the month under review have been
increasing at a decelerated rate
and this is reflected by the total cost of
the family basket which has
increased marginally compared to the previous
month.
On the bright side, the consumer watchdog has welcomed the setting
up of the
National Prices Stabilisation Committee which it says will ensure
that
sanity prevails in the pricing of basic commodities.
"The
setting and gazetting of prices is vital to ensuring sustainable access
to
basic commodities for all consumers. Therefore, CCZ urges the committee
to
carry out its mandate effectively and on time," said the consumer
watchdog.
In addition, the consumer watchdog said the NIPC's mandate
should be
extended to include incomes to achieve a balance. CCZ also urged
the
imposition of deterrent fines to discourage businesses from engaging in
profiteering.
The consumer watchdog also called on consumers to be
alert and report any
anomalies in the market place to the CCZ.
Fin24
06/10/2006 16:42
Harare - Zimbabwe said on Friday it hoped to secure investment deals
from a
visiting Russian business delegation, a potential boost to its ailing
economy and Moscow's own bid to raise its economic profile in southern
Africa.
Analysts said Russia's interest in the sub-region,
following a
determined push by China, signalled growing competition for
Africa's natural
resources as the two economies boom.
The
Zimbabwe visit follows a similar Russian foray into South Africa
last month
when President Vladimir Putin led business chiefs and pledged
billions of
dollars in investment to forge ties between the global mineral
and diamond
superpowers.
"There are a number of opportunities which we expect
to agree on that
will benefit the economy but those details you can only get
when the deals
are concluded," Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Hebert Murerwa
Reuters on
Friday.
The 48-member team is seeking opportunities
in mining, transport,
power, tourism and telecommunications. Seventeen
journalists are
accompanying the group on the week-long trip.
Local private media have reported that Zimbabwe's central bank
governor
Gideon Gono had brokered a $500m deal which would see the country
receive
five Tupolev and Illyushin planes from Russia. Officials have
refused to
comment on the reports.
Zimbabwe is grappling with its worst
economic crisis, which critics
blame on President Robert Mugabe's government
and is dramatised by the
world's highest inflation rate of over 1 200% and
shortages of food, fuel
and foreign currency.
Western donors
have shunned Mugabe over policy differences, including
the seizure of
white-owned land to resettle blacks, which has forced the
veteran leader to
turn elsewhere for help.
Competition for Africa's
resources
Zimbabwe says it is pursuing a "Look East" policy to woo
investors -
notably from China and lately Russia. The two countries
supported Mugabe's
now ruling ZANU-PF party during the 1970s nationalist war
against white
rule.
Mugabe's government last month said it had
landed a $200m facility
from China, the first major external loan extended
to the southern African
nation since its isolation from former foreign
lenders in began in 1999.
Analysts said Russia appeared to be
following China's footsteps in
southern Africa as appetite for Africa's oil,
minerals and other natural
resources grows.
"These countries
(Russia and China) are now leveraging their long
political relations with
African states to pursue economic interests as
their economies grow," James
Jowa, an economist with a Harare finance house
said.
"There
seems to be growing competition, subtle though, to grab a large
piece of
Africa's resources but for us here the big question is what do we
benefit
from them," he added.
David Coltart, a member of the opposition
Movement for Democratic
Change, told Reuters in London this week Mugabe was
selling off state assets
at bargain basement prices to China.
"The Chinese are giving balance of payments support to a completely
discredited regime," he said. "They are participating in a fire-sale. There
are deals in the minerals and energy sectors but we don't know on what
terms.
"All we see in return is third rate shoes and clothes
which are
undermining our textile industry, and a few fourth rate roads
which rapidly
become impassable," he added.
VOA
By Jonga
Kandemiiri
Washington
05 October
2006
Political tensions are rising in a number of Zimbabwe's
rural districts
before elections late this month for rural district
councils, in effect
local administrative bodies.
One hot spot is
Gokwe South district in the Midlands, where an opposition
candidate who is
running unopposed saw his house burned down, and a chief
loyal to the ruling
party is said to have confiscated the plough - in
planting season - of
another activist in the Movement for Democratic Change
faction led by Morgan
Tsvangirai. The owner of the plough was managing the
campaign of an
opposition candidate.
Local MDC officials said the home of Samson Ncube,
running unopposed in
Gokwe South, was burned last week. Gokwe police
declined to comment on the
matter.
The same opposition sources said
the man from whom the plough was taken was
told by police that they could
not take action, and advised to seek relief
in the courts.
MDC
Provincial Chairman Cephas Zimuti told Studio 7 reporter Jonga
Kandemiiri
that despite such incidents the opposition intends to defend its
gains in
the district.
VOA
By
Blessing Zulu
Washington
05 October
2006
Zimbabwean Industry and Trade Minister Obert Mpofu has
flown to India in
hopes of reviving the collapsed joint venture between the
Zimbabwe Iron and
Steel Company and ex-partner Global Steel, a ministry
source said on
Thursday.
A senior ministry official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, confirmed
that Mpofu had instructions from the
cabinet to try to convince the Mittal
affiliate to re-enter the soured
venture deal, or to find another investor.
Global Steel scuttled plans to
invest US$400 million in Zisco amid reports
top officials had demanded share
stakes.
A report by Zimbabwe's powerful Economic Conduct Inspectorate on
what has
been dubbed the "Steelgate" scandal is said to implicate ministers,
parliamentarians and Zisco officials in the failure of the deal, and in
asset-stripping at the parastatal.
Mpofu shared partial findings with
parliament's committee on industry and
trade - but the full report has been
withheld from the legislators. Deputy
Finance Minister David Chapfika has
reportedly agreed to hand over the
report, but ruling party members of the
committee told said they are
concerned the document will be watered
down.
Such fears were heightened when Security Minister Didymus Mutasa,
to whom
the economic inspectorate nominally answers, said even he has not
seen the
report.
For another perspective on "Steelgate," reporter
Blessing Zulu of VOA's
Studio 7 for Zimbabwe turned to economist James Jowa,
who said attempts at
keep the lid on the burgeoning scandal will make it
even harder for Harare
to attract foreign investment.
VOA
By
Patience Rusere
Washington
05 October
2006
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network said Thursday that
parliamentary
by-elections taking place on Saturday in Rushinga and Chikomba
may not be
free and fair. ZESN cited various irregularities in the electoral
preparation process.
Rushinga is in Mashonaland Central province;
Chikomba is in Mashonaland
East.
The group issued a report saying
that while there has been little
pre-election violence, electoral rolls in
the constituencies are in poor
condition, the number of polling stations has
been reduced and voters are
not sufficiently informed as to the
process.
But ZESN Chairman Reginald Matchaba-Hove said he was more
concerned about
the October 28 rural district council elections, in which
the ruling party
has already claimed some 400 seats of roughly 1,000 being
contested because
hundreds of opposition candidates were disqualified in the
nomination
process under new regulations.
Dr Matchaba-Hove, a
physician as well as founder of the respected monitoring
group, told
reporter Patience Rusere of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that
violence has
been more of a concern in the approach to rural council
elections late this
month.
Zimbabwejournalists.com
By a Correspondent
Zimbabwe Cricket chief Peter Chingoka has
again been accused of
corruption involving millions of dollars.
Themba Mliswa - a sports consultant and provincial cricket chairman -
joined
with a group of Zimbabweans including former administrators calling
themselves "Black Pioneers stakeholders" to make the accusations at a news
conference.
They accused Chingoka, who is in India to watch
Zimbabwe in the
qualifying rounds of the ICC Champions Trophy, was alleged
to have presided
over the disappearance of $US7.3 million ($A9.81 million)
of income from
television rights.
The group said the money's
disappearance also involved ZC chief
executive Osias Bvute, who was arrested
with Chingoka a year ago before
being released.
"These
individuals are holding Zimbabwe cricket to ransom. They are
killing the
game for what are evidently selfish ends," Mliswa said.
"They are
directly responsible for the rampant corruption,
mismanagement and outright
criminal activity that has become the order of
the day."
Mliswa, who until recently was a confidant of Chingoka, is demanding
that
the ZC chairman and Bvute submit to a full-scale audit by a reputable
accounting firm.
Mliswa identified the deduction of $US1.4
million ($A1.88 million) in
commission from the sale of TV rights to sports
broadcaster Octagon and the
purchase of an outside broadcast unit for $US1.9
million ($A2.55 million) -
a vehicle yet to be seen in
Zimbabwe.
Mliswa said the group was acting independently of other
groups which
have previously attempted to topple Chingoka and Bvute. Those
groups
consisted primarily of whites and Asians and were accused of having a
racist
agenda.
Zimbabwe's sports minister Aenios Chigwedere and
the government's
sports commission have been informed of the allegations,
prepared over the
last two weeks in a series of secret
meetings.
President Robert Mugabe - the patron of Zimbabwe Cricket
- will
receive a copy.
I was recently interviewed for the BBC Hardtalk programme. I can now confirm
that the programme will be aired on Monday 9th October at 5.30, 10.30, 16.30
and 20.30 Central African time. Please can viewers outside Zimbabwe
doublecheck the times for their region by visiting the BBC Hardtalk website,
which can be found at the link below (at the time of this mailing it had not
yet been updated):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/default.stm
Hardtalk
interviews can also be viewed online via the Hardtalk website
(using the
same link).
Finally, if you miss the programme and would like to watch
it, please do a
keyword search for my name on the Hardtalk website and you
should be able to
watch it there after the 9th October as well.
Yours
sincerely,
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Mail and Guardian
Harare, Zimbabwe
06 October 2006
04:41
Thousands of Zimbabweans have joined a diamond rush in
a remote
eastern district of the country, cutting down trees and digging
pits and
gullies in a desperate attempt to strike it rich, a weekly
newspaper
reported on Friday.
Schoolchildren and the
elderly have joined the diamond panners
in the Marange communal lands, where
about 4 000 people are estimated to be
looking for the precious stones, the
Manica Post said.
The paper said school enrolment in the area
had drastically gone
down as pupils abandon their schoolbooks in the hope of
making a quick buck.
Schoolteachers are also reported to be digging for
diamonds.
The rush began in May after a villager went to the
official
Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) with a sample of
a stone
he had mined to find out whether it was a real diamond, the report
said.
So rich is the area that, if fully exploited, it could
become
Zimbabwe's second biggest diamond producer, the paper said. Murowa
Diamond
initiative in Zvishavane is the biggest producer so
far.
The authorities here are intensely worried by the latest
rush,
believing Zimbabwe is losing much-needed foreign currency through the
illegal sale of diamonds. -- Sapa-dpa
By Tererai
Karimakwenda
06 October 2006
The entire leadership of the
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe
(PTUZ) were detained for most of the
day Friday by police in Masvingo as
they prepared to attend World Teachers
Day commemorations. The event had
been organised by the PTUZ but was to take
place at the offices of The
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in Masvingo.
The Secretary General of the
PTUZ Raymond Majongwe said police had cordoned
off the streets in the area
and made it impossible for the event to
continue. Teachers attempting to
gather Friday morning were blocked from
reaching the venue and were
threatened by police. The arrested leaders
including Majongwe and PTUZ
president Takavafirei Zhou were released without
charge Friday afternoon.
Majongwe criticised the police for
applying the law selectively by
allowing the Zimbabwe Teachers Association
(ZIMTA) to continue with their
commemorations just a few hundred metres away
from the ZCTU offices hosting
the PTUZ. Refusing to comment on why ZIMTA had
been favoured Majongwe said
the police action was a deliberate attempt to
disrupt their activities. He
also said police told them they would shoot and
make them disappear if they
insisted on holding the commemorations. "This is
Masvingo not Harare"
Majongwe quoted the police.
Reports
indicate that police surrounded the ZCTU offices and closed
off the road
leading to them beginning the night before the event. Their
presence
combined with the threats of assault caused teachers to disperse
before the
celebration of World Teachers Day.
According to the ZCTU spokesman
Mlamleli Sibanda, the police wanted to
know why the PTUZ had invited the
Mayor of Masvingo as a guest speaker. He
said they also asked why the PTUZ
was using the ZCTU boardroom. World
Teachers Day is an annual and
international event meant for teachers to come
together to discuss their
profession. But the government of Robert Mugabe
has been paranoid and afraid
that any gathering might turn into a violent
protest as Zimbabweans continue
to call for a new constitution and free and
fair elections.
The
ZCTU leaders were brutalised by police while in custody last month
after
they attempted to gather for a demonstration in Harare. This has not
stopped
them from organizing other activities and has strengthened their
resolve. As
for the PTUZ, Majongwe said teachers will remain
resilient.
SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe
news
VOA
By
Carole Gombakomba
Washington
05 October
2006
Officials of the American Business Association of Zimbabwe,
which held an
investment forum in Harare Thursday, said they are looking for
ways the
private sector can help stimulate a recovery in the moribund
national
economy through increased trade.
The American Business
Association comprises Zimbabwean and American business
people and investors.
Its leaders say a top item on their agenda in Harare
was to take a fresh
look at the opportunities and threats facing business in
the
country.
E-World Holdings chief executive officer and forum guest speaker
Jameson
Timba told reporter Carole Gombakomba of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe
that
Zimbabwean businesses could learn much from developing countries like
Brazil.
Zimbabwejournalists.com
By Stephen Kuuzabuwe
It was with such
dismay and utter disgust that we witnessed yet
another attempt at
suppression of the right to free expression in last week's
ZCTU
demonstrations. That the Zimbabwe Republic Police is one of the most
brutal
police forces in the world is unquestionable.
That they do so with
the blessings of the President of Zimbabwe is not
in doubt. For how can they
justify the brutal beatings and maiming of
innocent workers and their
representatives? Not one of the hundreds of
workers who turned for the
demonstration was armed.
ZCTU is a legally constituted body
representing the interests of
workers throughout Zimbabwe. The decision to
demonstrate was not a decision
by Wellington Chibhebhe alone, nor was it
Lucia Matibenga's.
ZCTU was exercising its constitutional right to
demonstrate in order
to highlight issues affecting them as workers: poverty,
lack of healthcare
provision, HIV and AIDS, the ridiculously low wages and
inflation.
Individuals who fight to liberate themselves and fight
to convince
others to do the same are often targeted by the Mugabe regime.
Is it any
wonder that His Excellency came out fuming at the leader of the
ZCTU and
attacking his personhood? What has he said about the outspoken
Archbishop
Pius Ncube? If we are to talk about big bellies and corruption
Your
Excellency, take a good look at your ministers! Big bellies as a result
of
ill-gotten wealth!
For the head of state to speak out in
support of a brutal and
heavy-handed police force deliberately flouting
human rights is to justify
the illegal. Was the demonstration a threat to
national security? No sir!
These were innocent workers and their
representatives exercising their
constitutional right. This is state
violence at its worst!
Is this a new phenomenon? No! From 1997 we
have seen the same pattern
repeated over and over again. Violence and
torture have systematically been
used by state agents as a means of
silencing dissent on individuals and
groups that are attempting to air
different views or change the status quo
Anyone who dares to show up on the
streets of Harare and indeed other cities
and towns in Zimbabwe
demonstrating against Mugabe, the Zanu PF government
and its policies will
surely bear the brunt of the state's machinery of
violence. Suppression of
progressive movements that seek to educate or
conscientise is an art that
Mugabe and ZANU Pf have perfected over the
years. How often has he gloated
that he has degrees in violence?
Demonstrations are a way of
reminding those in the corridors of power
of issues affecting the average
person, a particular group or community. An
attempt by the Mugabe regime to
at least allow these groups to have their
say would really change things for
these octogenarians. Only by seeking to
learn from what the other group is
saying can we grasp the full power of the
protest. It's a universal truth
that accepting other people's standpoint is
a true trademark of great
leaders. This is something that Mugabe and his
government would never
consider. This is an authoritarian regime that is not
tolerant of the views
of its own citizens. How can we expect tolerance from
a party that is not
tolerant of the views of its own senior cadres?
In the balance of
power, for the leader to speak out the way he did is
to empower the rogue
state agents who are at the forefront of brutalizing
and intimidating the
very citizens they are supposed to be protecting. The
same agents are paid
from state resources that are contributed by taxpayers,
the workers. Is
Zimbabwe turning out to be another Rhodesia? Probably the
state of the
economy is the only dividing line. As for abuse of human
rights, state
sponsored violence, torture, forced removals or denying the
electorate a
chance to vote the ZANU PF government compares favourably. Our
brand of
democracy!
".individuals construct their own reality and liberate
themselves from
oppression, only to go to the opposite extreme and become
the antithesis of
what they were fighting against."
IFJ
06/10/2006
The International
Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned
Zimbabwe's government media
commission for its recent attack on the Zimbabwe
Union of Journalists (ZUJ),
claiming the union has been spreading
anti-government
propaganda.
The Chairman of Zimbabwe's Media and Information
Commission (MIC),
Tafataona Mahoso, has requested the Ministry of
Information investigate the
activities of the ZUJ, which he accuses of being
part of a lobby group to
discredit the government.
"We firmly
condemn these totally false allegations," said Gabriel
Baglo Director of the
IFJ Africa Office. "We call on the Ministry of
Information of Zimbwabe to
take no part in the MIC campaign to muzzle press
freedom organisations and
to recall that the true role of the MIC is to
ensure press freedom in
Zimbabwe, not stifle it with investigations like
this one."
These charges are the latest to plague the media and media support
groups in
Zimbabwe. Since 2001, journalists have been imprisoned, four
independent
newspapers closed and foreign correspondents expelled as the
government of
Robert Mugabe has tried to exercise complete government
control over the
press in his country.
In the 1st of October edition of The Sunday
Mail newspaper, Mahoso
alleged that the ZUJ leadership has been
"clandestinely peddling
anti-Government propaganda to entice foreign donor
agencies into funding the
organisation's activities." Mahoso added that one
of the ZUJ's chairmen,
Nunurai Jena, was spreading false reports about human
rights abuses to
foreign media houses.
"All these accusations
are unfounded," Foster Dongozi, ZUJ Secretary
General, told the IFJ. "Our
union is not involved in any campaign against
the government. Our activities
are advertised and we even invite the MIC,
Members of Parliament and
government officials to attend them. They all know
that we are working on
setting up an independent media regulatory body, the
Voluntary Media
Council, and the reform of controversial media laws like the
Access to
Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA)."
Besides the
ZUJ, the two other members of the Media Alliance of
Zimbabwe (MAZ) were
recently attacked by the MIC. The Media Institute of
Southern Africa (MISA)
- Zimbabwe and the Media Monitoring Project of
Zimbabwe (MMPZ) were accused,
together with the ZUJ, of holding clandestine
meetings to destabilise the
regime.
Separately, on Tuesday, 3 October, police officers raided
the Harare
office of the London-based newspaper The Zimbabwean. The raid was
prompted
by an article published last week alleging corruption in the
Zimbabwean
police force.
"We express our solidarity with the
journalists of The Zimbabwean, to
the members of the Media Alliance of
Zimbabwe and all the journalists of the
country," the IFJ's Baglo said.
"Despite this harassment, they have to keep
up the fight for press freedom
in the country."
For further information contact the IFJ: +221 842
01 43
The IFJ represents over 500,000 journalists in more than 110
countries
By Tichaona
Sibanda
6 October 2006
The Movement for Democratic
Change, founded in 1999 celebrates its
seventh anniversary at the Zimbabwe
grounds in Highfield, Harare on Sunday.
Formed as a party that embraces
liberal and other democratic principles on
the 11th of September 1999, the
MDC will celebrate seven difficult years
under an unrepentant dictatorship,
its party spokesman Nelson Chamisa said
Friday.
In a statement,
Chamisa said the occasion will attract thousands of
MDC supporters both in
and outside Harare, provincial leaders from across
the 12 provinces as well
as national executive and standing committee
members. Morgan Tsvangirai, the
party President is expected to give the
keynote address at the carnival
ceremony which will be interspersed with
music and drama from various
groups.
'On Sunday, we will celebrate the resilience of the people
of Zimbabwe
in the face of visible signs of collapse which include a high
inflation rate
that continues to skyrocket, a collapsed health and education
system, a life
expectancy of 34 years, massive corruption in all sectors of
the economy and
an acute shortage of foreign currency for critical imports
such as power,
fuel and medicines,' Chamisa said.
The MDC, said
Chamisa, bears visible scars after only seven years in
existence while at
the same time it 'remembers and salutes the thousands of
our supporters who
perished at the hands of Zanu PF such as Learnmore
Jongwe, Talent Mabika and
Tichaona Chiminya, to mention but a few; we
remember the thousands whose
houses were burnt and destroyed by this
government and the millions who have
fled their motherland to seek refuge
elsewhere and to work in dehumanising
and degrading conditions.'
He added; 'We remember the pain and
tears of our supporters over the
past seven years as Zanu PF went on the
rampage across the country and
unleashed unprecedented violence on those
suspected of sympathising with the
MDC. Ours has been a tough struggle
against a dictatorship determined to
remain in perpetual combat with the
ordinary people of Zimbabwe. The MDC has
shown its resilience under one of
the most vicious dictatorships and the
fact that we are still existing bears
testimony to the determination of the
people of Zimbabwe to save their
country. Our cause is just and we continue
to survive the detours,
impediments and set-backs authored by the
dictatorship'.
SW
Radio Africa Zimbabwe news
http://www.un.org/
The United Nations-backed body
overseeing trade
in endangered species today suspended the export of 60
tonnes of ivory from
Botswana, Namibia and South Africa because of
shortcomings in the system to
monitor elephant populations and
poaching.
The Geneva-based Secretariat of the Convention on
International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
agreed in
principle to the sales in 2002 on condition that the Monitoring of
Illegal
Killing of Elephants (MIKE) system establish up-to-date and
comprehensive
baseline data on poaching and population
levels.
Today's meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
determined that
this condition has not yet been satisfied and the sales may
not go forward
at this time.
CITES, which is administered
by the UN Environment Programme
(UNEP), banned the international commercial
ivory trade in 1989. In 1997,
recognizing that some southern African
elephant populations are healthy and
well managed, it allowed Botswana,
Namibia and Zimbabwe to make a one-time
sale to Japan totalling 50 tonnes.
Those sales took place in 1999 and earned
some $5
million.
The now suspended sales authorized in 2002 allowed
the export of
30 tonnes from South Africa, 20 tonnes from Botswana and 10
tonnes from
Namibia.
In 2004, requests by several
southern African countries for
annual ivory quotas were turned down by the
Conference of the Parties (COP)
to the Convention. All legal sales of ivory
derive from existing stocks
gathered from elephants that have died as a
result of natural causes or
culling.
The long-running
debate over elephants has focused on the
benefits that income from ivory
sales may bring to conservation and to local
communities living side by side
with large and often dangerous animals
against concerns that such sales may
increase poaching. The baseline data
will make it possible to determine
objectively what impact future ivory
sales may have on elephant populations
and poaching.
In a related decision, the Standing Committee
decided that Japan
had established a sufficiently strong domestic trade
control system to be a
trading partner allowed to purchase the ivory when
sales eventually proceed.
October 6,
2006
By ANDnetwork .com
The Zimbabwe Dollar faces
further and faster decline ahead in the
continued absence of any formal
investment alternative to the stock market,
analysts say.
The
Zimdollar broke the $1 000:$1 level on the parallel market last
week, new
lows that will increase pressure on central bank governor Gideon
Gono to get
a promised new foreign exchange system off the ground.
While the
exchange rate on the official market remained at $250 to the
US greenback,
dealers on the parallel market quoted the key rate at $1020
late last
week.
Analysts say a large part of the renewed pressure on the local
currency has come from the high liquidity levels on the money market, which
are seen rising further in the coming months.
The stock market
has defied expectations that it was due for a major
correction as investors
took profits from the recent run. Although there
have been pauses, no real
bout of profit taking has yet been seen.
Analysts at Imara
Stockbrokers had correctly forecast the past trading
week to be "more likely
to be characterised by mixed trading rather than
being decidedly bearish
given that there are few options as to what to do
with the money once one
cashes out."
Other analysts note that one of the immediate results
of the low
interest rate regime would be fired up demand for foreign
currency.
"If one decided to sell out of stocks today, what would
they do with
the returns. Apart from buying back into the (stock) market,
there is a
temptation to buy forex," one banker said, however admitting that
the scope
to go long on the parallel market was limited.
The
exchange rate has remained static since July 31, when Gono
devalued the
dollar by 60 percent to $250. He however said this was only in
preparation
for a new system that would see the appointment of an Exchange
Rate Impact
Assessment Board (ERIAB) to "monitor and inform the market of
sustainable
bands of exchange rate adjustments under the new flexible
exchange
rate."
The ERIAB would meet monthly to review developments on the
foreign
exchange market and make recommendations to the central bank's
International
Banking and Portfolio Management Division, which would then
set foreign
currency trading bands for the following month.
However, the board is yet to be established, increasing calls for
urgent
action on the exchange rate from industries seeing the premium on the
parallel market rate broadening to over 70 percent and annual inflation
hitting a new record 1 204.6 percent.
The Reserve Bank had
since January followed a volume based exchange
rate system, which only
allowed the rate to move according to daily volumes
traded. Under that
system, the rate only moved once - by one percent on
April 25 - before the
July 31 devaluation. Since that move, volumes traded
have remained below the
$5 million volumes needed to move the currency.
Trades rose from about $900
000 on August 21 to a shade above $2 million on
August 30, before falling
below $1 million by last Friday. A record low was
4 September, when $270 000
was traded.
By December 2008, Gono aims to have achieved "a regime
of market
driven and stable exchange rates free of any artificial value
determination."
www.zimobserver.com
From The Zimbabwean, 6 October
By Gift Phiri
Harare - Vice President Joice
Mujuru's housemaid Dorothy Mutepfa has been
jailed for 12 months with hard
labour, ostensibly because she stole sheets
from her house, although
independent sources say she could have revealed
some classified information
about the Vice President's personal life.
Mutepfa's case was heard in camera
before provincial magistrate Priscilla
Chigumba at Rotten Row Magistrates
Court last week on Saturday. Chigumba
sentenced her to 12 months with hard
labour with three months being
suspended on condition of good behaviour
following her own admission of
guilty, although there are reports that she
was tortured to obtain a
confession. Mutepfa's lawyer Tinashe Chibwana of
Antonio Associates on
Monday filed an appeal in the High Court and
simultaneously made an
application for bail pending appeal to the Rotten Row
Magistrates Court on
the grounds that the court could have misdirected
itself in passing
custodial sentence. Chibwana asserted that Mutepfa was a
first offender and
the court could have considered community service instead
of a custodial
sentence. "The sentence passed in the circumstances is so
excessive as to
induce a sense of shock," Chibwana said in his court papers.
He said 190
hours community service with a wholly suspended sentence would
suffice.
On the Saturday of September 23, Mutepfa appeared in court
wearing an arm
sling having sustained a broken arm and with deep soft tissue
bruising all
over her body, the result of a gruelling interrogation by her
investigating
officer, one CID woman officer Zaranyika. The State alleged
that Mutepfa
stole two bed sheets valued at $32,000 before going on her
annual leave in
August. She was arrested on September 21, as she returned to
Mujuru's house
to resume her duties. She was taken to Harare Central Police
Station where
she was subjected to severe physical attack. Mutepfa's
distraught mother,
who is a Methodist preacher's wife, said police refused
to grant her access
to her daughter but advised her to bring new clothes
before she appeared in
court. "When I went back on Friday to give my
daughter some clothes I could
not believe what I saw," she told The
Zimbabwean. "Stains of blood were
every where on Dorothy and she could not
walk properly." Mutepfa is
currently serving her term at Chikurubi Maximum
Prison. Her appeal had not
yet been heard at the time of to print.
Please send any job opportunities for publication in this newsletter to:
JAG
Job Opportunities; jag@mango.zw or justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
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HEAVY PLANT WORKSHOP MANAGER
We are
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MANGER WILL ARISES AT THE END OF NOVEMBER 2006. THE
POSITION IS WITHIN THE
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GENDER IS BEING
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SEWING (THE
PRESENT INCUMBERENT IS MALE) OR HAVE IMMEDIATE ACESSES TO A
BACKUP WHO CAN
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AND BE PREPARED
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RENUMERATION PACKAGE WILL BE
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Vacancies Available
Two vacancies need
to be filled at Peterhouse:
1. Estate Manager (September
2006)
Responsibilities include;
Maintenance of sports fields, swimming
pools and sporting facilities
Overseeing water supply and borehole
upkeep
Controlling lawn mowers, tractors and equipment usage
Managing a
forestry plantation and estate gardens
Usage and maintenance of
generators
Managing a small labour force
2. Transport Manager
(November 2006)
Responsibilities include;
Procurement, storage, issuing
and recording of fuel
Vehicle records
Planning and controlling the daily
transport requirements
Maintenance and servicing of the vehicle
fleet
Please send a detailed CV with 3 references and application
to:
The Bursar, Peterhouse, P/Bag 3741, Marondera
Or fax to: 079 -
24200, or e-mail to: peterhousebursar@mango.zw
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Tourism and Conservation
We are looking
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We are looking for someone to help
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On top of this applicants must have
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not essential, but must be computer
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GARAGE / MAINTENANCE MANAGER
This
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ONCE UPON A TIME NURSERY
SCHOOL is looking for a teacher for January 2007.
If you are a qualified
Primary, Infants or Nursery School trained teacher
you will find this a
rewarding position. We have a happy work atmosphere,
wonderful equipment, and
offer an excellent salary.
For more information phone Rosy on 776470 or
091-216730 or Andy on 746811
or
091-315
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Ad
inserted 5 October 2006
Floor Manager Wanted
Position for a floor
manager in a vegetable wholesaling business 15 km
outside of Harare. 4 day
week and would suit an energetic gentleman
experience not essential. House a
usual farm perks offered. Please contact
011 208447 or
011
207639.
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Employment
Sought
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Ad
inserted 7 September 2006
Employment Sought
I am a highly
experienced individual with a varied background and a tertial
education. I am
seeking a position in sales and marketing, advertising,
shipping or similar
areas. Please call Cheryl on 776 875 or
011628451
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Ad
inserted 14 September 2006
Gardener
Gardener looking for job for
three days a week and also needing
accommodation. Preferably in the Alex Park
area.
Phone
744075
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Ad
inserted 14 September 2006
BALANCESHEET BOOKEEPER/ADMINISTRATOR
I
am a 39-year-old man looking for placement in the above post and am
very
proficient in the following functions.
ACCOUNTING:
i) Cash
book entries
ii) Bank reconciliation's
ii) Debtors invoicing and
administration
iii) Creditors invoicing and administration
iv) Fixed Asset
Registers
v) Monthly Management Accounts
vi) Balance Sheeting
vii)
Income Tax Computation
ADMINISTRATION:
Company Secretarial
Work
Deeds Office Searches
Company Registrations
Forms CR14, Forms CR6,
Forms CR2
Annual Returns
Handling Judicial Managements and
Liquidations
Salaries
NSSA Registrations and Returns
NEC
Returns
P.A.Y.E administration
Bank Transfers via Paynet
Software
Medical aid
Pension Fund returns
Reconciling various salaries
related accounts
COMPUTER LITERACY:
Pastel Accounting Version 4 to
7
Solution 6 Accounting*
Microsoft Office (Excel & Word)
Belina
Payroll
Paynet Salaries, Paywell Payroll*, Payplus Payroll*
Denotes
packages used a while ago requiring some recapping
Please contact Peter
Andrew TAPIWA on Telephone 04 740233 or e-mail
andrew@guardtec.co.zw
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Ad
inserted 28 September 2006
Employment Sought
Workshop, parts
manager, and motor mechanic looking for employment.
Please contact me on
091 772 473 or 011 732
084
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Ad
inserted 5 October 2006
Employment Sought
HONEST, RELIABLE, 64
YEAR OLD, MARRIED FAIRLY ACTIVE EX FARM GENERAL MANAGER
FOR A LARGE AND VERY
SUCCESSFUL FARMING OPERATION, SEEKS CARETAKER TYPE
POSITION OR ANYTHING
INTERESTING PREFERABLY IN OR AROUND THE HARARE AREA.ONE
MONTH NOTICE
REQUIRED.UP TO DATE CV AND CHARACTER REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON
REQUEST. MAIN
OUTSIDE INTERESTS IS PLAYING BOWLS AND FISHING. PLEASE CONTACT
091387891 OR
EMAIL lilford@hms.co.zw
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For
the latest listings of accommodation available for farmers, contact
justiceforagriculture@zol.co.zw
(updated 5 October 2006)