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Soldiers Bludgeon Children at Orphanage Iz qula enzo u I G ze o n ir z it o a G M u q a j u n l i a h C C h o i r n i t j i a a M M a a i j t i n r i o h C The Changing Times Movement for Democratic Change A Party of Excellence! The Official Mouthpiece of the MDC Friday 13 November MDC Information & Publicity Department, Harvest House, 44 Nelson Mandela Ave, Harare, Zimbabwe Issue 009: 2009 Distributed free of charge Soldiers bludgeon children at orphanage BULAWAYO – A dozen gun-toting “We suspect that this incident was “Seven children have injuries on The leader of the goon squad has been and is on the agenda of issues that soldiers last week ransacked and result of a disgruntled soldier named their faces, ankles, thighs and backs identified as Sergeant Tshabalala, who are being tackled by regional leaders Tafadzwa whom we had earlier on is stationed at the Bulawayo State currently seeking a solution to beat up children at an orphanage in as a result of baton and weapon Trennance, Bulawayo, ostensibly on turned away after he had been seen on House. After battering children at Zimbabwe’s long-running power- the premises trying to propose love to battering,” a shaken Ncube told The the orphanage, The Changing Times sharing crisis. the prowl for MDC supporters who a 15-year-old girl at the orphanage,” Changing Times. heard that the soldiers ran amok at the live in the area. Ncube said. Trennace shopping centre, clobbering The MDC has also expressed mid-afternoon shoppers. concern at the ominous presence of The principal officer for Thuthuka The soldier is said to have gone away and “We managed to take them to Mpilo soldiers in the countryside, deployed Orphange, Charles Ncube told The returned with a dozen reinforcements, General Hospital for them to seek Brian Dube, a Trennance resident last year April after President Changing Times the soldiers, who unleashing an orgy of indiscriminate medical attention but they were referred told The Changing Times the soldiers Mugabe and Zanu PF’s devastating were driving in an army truck and violence at the orphanage and leaving were accusing everyone of being electoral loss to the MDC in the wielding AK-47 rifles, forcefully scores of children nursing injuries, with to Galen House, a private clinic. seven of them serious. MDC supporters. March 29, 2008 harmonised polls. entered the premises and threatened The troops unleashed unprecedented “However our worry is we are failing to the authorities, accusing them The centre houses children from the age The militarization of the country is one violence that left over 500 MDC of harbouring MDC members at of two months to 18 years. No one was foot the bill for the X-rays and medical issue that has featured prominently on supporters dead and another 200 000 the centre. spared the senseless violence. tests,” added Ncube. the catalogue of outstanding issues, internally displaced. HARARE – The Finance Minister is “Nobody is compelled to comply with Bitimoving to clip the wings of central reins in Gonoan unlawful instruction. An unlawful bank governor Gideon Gono, with the instruction is entitled to be ignored,” proposed Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe he said. (RBZ) Amendment Bill tabled in Parliament Wednesday. Gono has for the past five years abused his power as governor, dishing out MDC secretary-general and Finance freebies from the fiscus to Zanu PF. Minister, Hon. Tendai Biti has This plunder has continued to this day, described the RBZ Amendment Bill, which seeks to limit the functions of the with Gono recently siphoning US$45 central bank, and bring the powers of million between December last year the governor under a board, as a “fire and August. fighting Bill”. This latest theft is unprecedented The RBZ Amendment Bill, originated as the pilfered cash was a statutory by Hon. Biti, has been okayed by reserve meant to provide cover to the drafting section of the Attorney distressed banks. General’s Office, has been unanimously given the green light in Cabinet and Gono, who the MDC wants fired and was given a non-adverse report by replaced by a consensus candidate Parliament’s Legal Committee. agreed by all three principals in the inclusive government, has killed It was then moved to Parliament on Zimbabwe’s national currency through Wednesday, where it is expected reckless minting of cash that spawned sail through, ending forever the omnipotent role played by Gono in the record-breaking hyperinflation. national economy. The country has been forced to adopt Pro-reform Finance Minister Hon. Tendai Biti Kleptocratic Central Bank governor Gideon Gono use of a basket of foreign currencies Speaking during the second reading of as a result, after the death of the the Bill, Hon. Biti said the proposed gone through extensive interrogation and people should have confidence in This debt profile had to be probed, Zimbabwe dollar. legislation was a transitional regulation in Cabinet, adding that the proposed it. People’s confidence will be eroded he said. meant to rationalise operations at law was motivated by national interest. when they fear that their money will be Gono was also directly involved in the the RBZ, which has vandalised The Bill got cross-cutting party support stolen,” he said. “The RBZ was never created to contract terror campaign that followed Zanu the economy through so-called quasi- in Cabinet. loans; the contraction of loans was not PF’s electoral loss last year, providing fiscal activities. He said the Bill sought to ensure that the central bank remained focused on because of the absence of the law, but Mahindra and CAM vehicles used by “The amendments are consistent with disregard of the law,” he said. hit-squads that abducted and killed over the best practices in other countries like its core business, which is monetary He said there was no attempt to curtail policy formulation, stabilising the 500 MDC supporters last year. Gono Uganda, Georgia and South Africa,” the independence of the RBZ, and said local currency and supervision of The Minister said quasi-fiscal activities also bankrolled the running expenses after the situation normalise, members Hon. Biti said. “At the core of the financial institutions. were illegal, and Gono’s arguments for these hit-squads, including the of the public will be consulted on a proposed amendment is the restoration that he was working under instructions regime’s internationally condemned central bank they envisage through the of confidence in the central bank, Minister Biti said due to the quasi-fiscal from the government of the day were Operation Murambatsvina that displaced Constitution-making process. which confidence is non-existent at activities of the central bank, the RBZ the moment. had accrued staggering debts of US$1, inadmissible. He said quasi-fiscal 700,000 people. Hon. Biti, who is also the Harare East 5 billion in three years yet the country activities could only be undertaken MP, said the Bill, whose debate was “The central bank of any country or a had only accrued debt of only US$4, with express Treasury authority granted The MDC has given Mugabe 30-days to deferred to next week Tuesday, had developing state must be dependable billion in 28 years. by Parliament. get Gono fired and replaced. 1 Ceaseless abuse of our President: a major outstanding issue By Tagwirei W. Bango The slow recognition of President hardly resides in a latest abusive event. Tsvangirai’s new official role by Experienced conflict managers search Any chief executive dreads the day security service chiefs attracted mealy deeper for telling words beneath the when immediate subordinates and staff mouthed attention and no sanction from song before fostering counsel. President turn into a gadfly, especially with the expected quarters when convention and Tsvangirai maintains that he is still in the tacit direction and blessing of the board. the Constitution are normally unkind to matrimonial home. He only came out of When internally generated executive such foul public manners. the closet to allow Zimbabweans and abuse becomes visible to shareholders, their neighbours access into a troubled striking at the heart of patience and Commander-in-chief Robert Mugabe, home. Tsvangirai’s most vocal, public motivation, it is folly for a model who presided over the ceremony, critics should know better: almost all principal to remain silent in the forlorn seemed unable to notice the absence of of them have performed dismally in hope that tomorrow shall sort itself out. his top military brass. To Zimbabweans their private, once voluntary marriages. that meant little compared to a record- They know from armpit experience the The essence of a legitimate and a breaking climb-down and a rare act difficulties of voluntary marriages, let successful national election is either of capitulation by one of Africa’s alone those of forced loveless unions. a confirmation of the status quo or remaining strongmen and a former outright regime change. Even, in a As a genuine partner, President liberation war idol. The people urged traditional African setting, leadership Tsvangirai needs space, sovereignty Tsvangirai on; reflecting a national “I have seen it all,” President Tsvangirai seems to be saying to the recalcitrant officer succession in royal families is a given, and sense of inclusion to remain true sentiment that irked a trembling few. positive step for communal and national Unilateral Zanu PF decisions; sweeping to work, a deceptive, over-boiled to his executive mandate. Zanu PF and Since then, state-sanctioned and stability. When Zimbabweans settled policy shifts, positions and statements; line that kept Zanu PF together about Mugabe are unable to explain Zimbabwe celebrated abuse on our President has for President Morgan Tsvangirai as dubious state-sanctioned actions and President Tsvangirai’s past is often today to their traditional supporters.
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