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Tuesday 01 February MDC Information & Publicity Department, Harvest House, 44 Nelson Mandela Ave, Harare, Issue 061: 2011 Zimbabwe at crossroads ...Minister Makone pleads for sanity and tolerance HARARE – Hon. , the leading a group, which is forcing “When Zanu PF and ’s Home Affairs Minister says she needs villagers to sign the petition while in party were making preparations for an urgent meeting with her colleague, Nyanga, Zanu PF chairperson, Moses the events last December and January, , Police Commissioner Gutu is leading the group and Mutare respectively, the police did not take – General Augustine Chihuri and other South MP, Fred Kanzama is heading the any part in their preparations. So why senior police chiefs on the rising wave campaign in Mutare and villagers are do they want to be involved in MDC of lawlessness in Zimbabwe. being threatened with assault or death internal issues?” she asked. if they refuse. “I am very concerned about the spate of Last week, police in Marondera gate selective arrests, violence and a climate “There is nothing like political violence, crashed into MDC Women’s Assembly of intolerance that is threatening to rape or murder. Rape and murder cases internal meeting, which Hon. Makone throw us back to where we were before should be dealt with courts as such and was chairing and started taking notes. the MDC stabilised the country through we should let the due process follow,” our entry into government,” she said. she said. “They are operating as if we are in a police state. How can a group of men “May I take this opportunity, The MDC is receiving daily reports of force their way into an internal meeting unreservedly, to plead for sanity, violence, unlawful detention harassment where innocent women are gathered to tolerance and unity among of MDC officials and members from make their lives better?” she asked. Zimbabweans. There must never be an across the across the country. occasion for a brother to attack another A headman in Ward 6 in Zhombe, brother; a sister to maul another sister “I am not saying that people should not Midlands North province, Chrispen and a mother to turn on her own child or be arrested because they are from the Tazvinga on Saturday called for a a father to harm his family for political MDC, but I am shocked when people meeting where he instructed all MDC crumbs. We are a God - fearing nation. Home Affairs Minister, Hon Theresa Makone...raising an olive branch from one side only are arrested. supporters to surrender their party Public meetings on the constitution The assailants were identified but the regalia as well as append their signatures “There must be some dark forces were plagued by violence last year. police refused to take action saying the “You cannot have a public fight alone. on the petition to ascertain whether they lurking in the woods, clamouring for a Human rights groups say Mugabe issue is political. It is the duty of the police to arrest both are Zanu PF or MDC supporters. return to a failed state status – a situation militants backed by loyalist police and sides engaged in brawl and not to leave where there is no accountability and soldiers are still in place in bases, In Manicaland province, Zanu PF the other alone,” she said. However, Hon. Rogers Tazviona who decency within the usually law-abiding lying low in wait for a rushed election. officials led by war veterans are attended the meeting and other MDC communities of our beloved country. pressuring villagers in Chimanimani, Hon. Makone who is the Women supporters refused to sign in the book They must be flushed out as a matter of Violence monitors and concerned Makoni, Mutare and Nyanga districts Assembly chairperson in the MDC said and managed to stop Zanu PF from urgency. The people have had enough citizens says villagers were having to sign a petition calling for an end to the party was concerned that the police chanting their slogans and forcing them of violence and intimidation and want their names and identities recorded by restrictive measures that were imposed was showing a great interest in MDC to stop the signing of the petitions. to leave in peace.” Zanu PF thugs as that party prepares for on and his close allies. preparations that they were attending what it calls an anti-sanctions petition . their meetings although the meetings “However, I urge all MDC cadres who Hon. Makone’s efforts come as the The Zanu PF officials are forcing are internal issues. are contesting for any post in the party MDC is receiving an increase in the Hon. Makone’s concerns came at a villagers to sign the petitions under to conduct themselves with ultimate number of abductions, arrests and time when several MDC youths were duress and are threatening those who “I am finding it very strange on why the decorum. We are a Party of Excellence violence against its officials and last week made to pay US$50 bail each refuse to sign. police and Zanu PF youths are interested that will not engage in any physical members. at the Mbare Magistrate’s Courts on in the MDC internal structures ahead of violence,” she said. public violence charges. In Chimanimani district, Janet Knight, its crucial Congress in a few months “Zimbabwe and the international the Zanu PF provincial member is time. community are worried about the sudden surge in violence, arrests and abductions. We need to unmask the hand behind the scourge. What is more worrying is that it is escalating at a time when the people thought the President Tsvangirai meets business, political leaders in Davos past was now behind them as they HARARE – MDC President Zimbabwe and the country at large. with President Zuma, President eagerly awaited a comprehensive, and Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Tsvangirai said: “President Mugabe patriotic process of national healing and has returned President Tsvangirai who was continues to needlessly cause alarm reconciliation,” she said. home from Davos, Switzerland accompanied by the Minister of State and despondency in the country by where he was attending the World in his office, Hon. , held pretending to be oblivious to the fact “As a result I am waiting for the Minister Kembo Mohadi who is attending a Economic Forum (WEF). another meeting with the chairperson that this is a coalition Government. funeral and the ministry’s permanent of Unilever to discuss possible ways secretary, Melusi Matshaya so that we During the forum, he took part of increasing local production of “The President and the Prime Minister will call for an urgent crisis meeting in several high level discussions detergents and foodstuffs to stem now share executive authority and with senior police chiefs and see how and forums and met with senior imports. one cannot act exclusive of the other we can deal with the issues of violence business and political leaders to in making executive decisions. The and intolerance that is threatening to promote and advance the interests He held further discussions with South dissolution of Parliament and the tear our society apart, once more.” of the people of Zimbabwe. Africa President Jacob Zuma to discuss holding of an election are subjects of an the political situation in Zimbabwe. executive decision that must be taken The Southern Africa Coalition for the On Thursday, the President President Tsvangirai scoffed at recent after consultation and agreement.” Survivors of Torture, an advocacy group Tsvangirai met with the remarks by Zanu PF’s Robert Mugabe monitoring violence in Zimbabwe, chairperson of Bata Shoe that he, Mugabe, had powers to Mugabe recently said he could use his says in a new report published at the Foundation, Sonja Bata, to explore unilateraly dissolve Parliament and powers under the old Constitution to leaders, selected intellectuals weekend that tensions rose markedly ways on how the shoe company call for elections based on the current dissolve Parliament. and journalists to discuss the in January. Together with the MDC, can expand its operations and Constitution. most pressing issues facing the the group has noted numerous mob create more jobs in the city of The WEF meeting brings together top world, including health and the attacks, threats, assaults, questionable environment. arrests by police and gun shootings. Gweru, where it is based in In his remarks after the meeting business leaders, international political

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1 Latest on fuel shortage ... Media scene still primitive HARARE - Zimbabwe is still far behind and may even slide backwards in its quest for media reforms, says the New York-based Noczim now up for grabs Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). HARARE - National Oil Company of Grain Marketing Board, declared by Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) is set for the Mugabe and Zanu PF the sole grain The CPJ made the observation after chop to enable the state to wean itself purchaser during the last decade, noting that no effort seemed to be from fuel procurement and distribution; resulting in serious food insecurity afoot to repeal stringent security and media laws that continue to plug corruption; and to ensure a and famine; Air Zimbabwe, a national to gag Zimbabweans and limit smooth flow of fuel and allied products airline that last registered a profit 30 space for debate and discussion. into the country. years ago; and 70 other state companies on the tax-payer’s annual budget for no “We call on the government to repeal the repressive Making NOCZIM commercially viable discernible economic value. Access to Information through public and private partnerships and Protection of Privacy is part of the MDC’s parastatal reform The government was yet to decide on Act (AIPPA), which would programme designed to turn around NOCZIM’s worth. “The partner for the be in line with media loss-making state companies and infrastructure company will be taken in reform pledges made under the power-sharing government,” remove the burden of tax payers who on an operational basis and they will be said Mohamed Keita, have had to bail them out every year. assisting in the stock management of the CPJ Africa advocacy the company. For the trading one we are coordinator, in a statement. “Several companies have shown interest looking for an equity partner though we AIPAA, one of the most repressive in the project,” said Hon Mangoma. are yet to come up with the actual figure media laws in the world, allows “All we want are serious investors with of the kind of investment we require.” rogue officials to abuse the Zimbabwe at heart; it does not matter Hon Mangoma freedom of expression principle whether the investors are local or The company shall be broken up into enshrined in the Constitution resulting in a surge in prices for most fuel and this exposed the country to fuel with gay abandon. Enacted in foreigners.” two. One would take over the Beira commodities especially public transport shortages and unnecessary price hikes. 2002 under the strong influence pipeline and all the national fuel storage costs. and direction of , NOCZIM joins Zisco Steel as the facilities. This company shall handle AIPPA demands the licencing of “Because we do not have long term first state-assisted entities to go under fuel imports; while the other becomes a media houses and journalists on Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister and the supplies, we are not able to use the the privatisation hammer following a fuel retail chain. an annual basis. MDC secretary – general, Hon. Tendai pipeline which then becomes a constant decision by the Inclusive Government, Biti said the major reason for fuel supply of fuel to the huge reservoirs. Zimbabwe’s media environment at the insistence of the MDC, that it Several state enterprises have suffered remains largely out of sync with shortages emanates from the lack of make no business or service delivery from mismanagement, incompetence, universal norms and standards. standing contracts with refineries and “We have not been able to use the sense for Zimbabwe to hold on to corruption and debt that MDC ministers A battery of laws, inherited from suppliers. reservoirs because the previous Zanu colonial and some mothballed public companies for have had to fight hard to convince PF government was bankrupt. To use crafted and passed by the Zanu PF political convenience. Cabinet to accept far - reaching reforms dictatorship still litter the statute “Zimbabwe does not have a long the pipeline, we need dead stock of in the quasi - state sector. books. Broadcasting, for example, standing contract with refineries and at least US$11 million worth of fuel Mangoma, a businessman and MDC long opened up and liberalised suppliers of fuel, we have got short term because the pipeline is like a river and worldwide, remains a preserve of deputy national treasurer, has not set any Three decades of Zanu PF’s sporadic contracts which when prices it has to continuously flow, but the the former ruling party, Zanu PF. time frame for receiving expressions mismanagement, corruption and go up, of which fuel prices have been government does not have the money to of interest and bids for NOCZIM – a embezzlement of public funds is the Other countries in the region going up from as little as US$45 per have the dead stock. fuel procurer, regulator, distributor main cause of the current fuel shortages have gone very far in opening barrel to US$90 per barrel of which the up the airwaves and in enabling and player in the same industry. being experienced in the country. price is still going up, you have to start “Depending on the road and not and empowering their people to

negotiating again,” he said. reservoirs capacity will expose the communicate a cacophony of Other likely casualties of the reforms Zimbabwe is experiencing fuel messages and ideas. country to the vicissitudes of price are Agribank, a company known to be shortages since the formation of the Hon. Biti said that the country was increases,” said Hon. Biti. making losses almost every hour; the inclusive government in February 2008, The changes that have taken place dependant on road transportation of in the region saw the introduction of community radio stations and private, special interest narrow casting and broadcasting ventures that have catered for difference tastes and diverse communities, Magistrate probes magistrate making the people enjoy the real Another pastoral letter benefits of their freedom from colonialism. MASVINGO – Acting Masvingo February 4 2011,” wrote Mwayera to provincial magistrate, Oliver Mudzongachiso last week. The failure or refusal of the state condemns the police Mudzongachiso, who convicted Youth Mwonzora and Associates said they had in making allowances for an open and Indigenisation Deputy Minister suspected impropriety well before the air environement has denied the HARARE - Police behaviour in with the mainstream Anglican Church Hon. Tongai Matutu of assault, has been magistrate’s alleged public utterances industry the necessary expansion, Zimbabwe’s volatile political situation community. The matter is still pending given until this Friday by his bosses to because his conduct during the trial last expertise and competition -- remains a source of major concern to in the Supreme Court. prove that his judgment was not driven year was inconsistent with a magistrate hallmarks for product quality and the church, civil society and political by political vengeance. whose duty was to impartially deliver the enhancement of a debating parties. However, Kunonga and his ‘priests’ justice. culture. The existing set up is have often defied the court orders Mudzongachiso was seen bragging in purely a propaganda outlet for the In a pastoral letter dated 21 January, and sought to evict other Christians public on January 8 that he would use “Our suspicions about improper former ruling party. Bishop Chad Gandiya, head of the from church buildings. In the Bindura his office to convict people he perceived conduct on the part of the magistrate Efforts by numerous advocacy Church Province of Central Africa of instance, the priests claimed to have as pro-MDC. arose during trial when it became groups for greater media freedoms the Anglican Church, said he is “deeply eviction orders which they failed to clear to us that the magistrate was not have always been thwarted by disturbed by the prolonged suffering of produce. The magistrate in December convicted reading submissions written on behalf forces of darkness who view the our people at the hands of the police and fined Matutu US$100 on charges of the accused person (Matutu). need for people’s freedom with who continue to claim to be receiving Kunonga is a strong Zanu PF supporter assaulting Vengesai Rushwaya in Gutu, disdain. orders ‘from above’ to prevent us from who has benefitted from the land reform . Hon. Matutu, “We later noticed that his keeping of the using our church buildings.” programme. who is the MP for Masvingo Urban, is trial record was shoddy with the result The net result of an oppressive appealing against both conviction and that some key evidence favourable media scene pushed hundreds of Bishop Gandiya’s comments follow a Last week, Zimbabwe’s Roman Catholic sentence. to the accused was not recorded. In Zimbabwean journalists into exile, fresh order that gives the police power bishops registered their concern about his judgment, he never analysed or forcing them to set stations to to restrict Christians who are CPCA the rise in political violence, a plague Mudzongachiso now finds himself in evaluated the evidence of the defence broadcast and to reach information members from within a 200 metre that has dogged Zimbabwean elections the unfamiliar position of having to witness,” wrote Mwonzora and hungry audiences back home. radius of any of their Anglican Church for the past three decades. defend his conduct after he reportedly Associates. buildings. Also in the Diaspora are a plethora boasted during a beer drink with of online publications and other “Without sincere engagement, we will colleagues at a local hotel that he had The law firm said it had been prepared discussion forums whose existence He said he was particularly disturbed continue to be dogged by violence, just started a crusade to convict MDC to attribute this to “simple ineptitude” can only be traced to a climate of that on 16 January, police accompanied political intolerance, hate language in “puppets”. on the part of the magistrate, but dictatorship and intolerance at by two priests from rebel Anglican the public media, injustice, rigging of Mudzongachiso’s subsequent behaviour home. bishop Kunonga’s faction harassed elections, fear and deception,” they “On Saturday, January 8 2011, the after the trial “led us to believe that he CPCA parishioners who were attending said. learned magistrate went for a beer drink acted maliciously in this trial”. Recently, George Charamba, a church service at the St Andrews at Chevron Hotel in Masvingo. During the Permanent Secretary in the Church in Chipadze, Bindura. In a separate pastoral letter, the bishops the beer drink the learned magistrate Mudzongachiso allegedly made the Ministry of Media, Information warned that violence, prevalent in some uttered the following words (in the utterances while in the company of and Publicity told a parliamentary The dispute in the Anglican Church provinces, could push Zimbabwe back vernacular Shona language): fellow Masvingo magistrate Timeon committee that a free media has spilled into the courts, forcing to the dark days it experienced after Makunde, public prosecutor Rodrick environment remains a pie in the judiciary to order Kunonga’s Mugabe and Zanu PF lost the 29 March “MDC puppets we shall convict. One Chipembere and law officer Mirirai the sky as the country lacked the breakaway group to share premises 2008 election. wherewithal and equipment to of them we have already convicted and Shumba of the Masvingo Magistrates’ regulate the industry. we shall continue convicting them. We Court. are war veterans if they didn’t know,” Zimbabwe has a capacity to reads a complaint written by Matutu’s “The other court officials especially accommodate several additional lawyers, Mwonzora and Associates Mirirai Shumba tried to restrain the national television stations and Legal Practitioners, to the chief learned magistrate but this was all in hundreds of commercial and magistrate’s office. vain, much to the disgust of members community radio outlets. of the public present,” wrote Mwonzora Acting chief magistrate Hlekani and Associates. Several parts of Zimbabwe have Mwayera immediately asked to depend on foreign broadcasts Mudzongachiso to respond to the The letter was copied to the office from neighbouring countries as allegations. Attorney General, the Registrar of the the sole broadcaster is unable to High Court and Mudzongachiso. adequately cover the entire nation. “We are in receipt of a letter of complaint In the meantime, millions depend against you by Messrs Mwonzora and Ironically, Mudzongachiso was on on foreign satellite stations for Associates Legal Practitioners, a copy Monday expected to preside over a case news and entertainment services of which was sent to you. against Douglas Mwonzora who is the -- even within the very poor MP for Nyanga North at the Masvingo communities. May we have your comments Magistrates Court. and response to issues raised by

2 Mudenge shocker causes investor jitters Time up for smuggled Potential investors in the tourism and the Save Valley conservancy would be be based on normal business hospitality industry, a major contributor protected under international law after considerations,” the note said. to the national gross domestic product top officials in Robert Mugabe’s ZANU and a prime foreign currency earner, are PF party, the army and police muscled The embassy said the invaders have Marange diamonds confused by the sudden turn of events into conservancies and ranches in the indicated that they want to take over as hordes of Zanu PF militants have area. the properties without paying for them. HARARE - Attention of the anti- begun to descend on their businesses at This is the second time in less than a diamond lobby remains focussed the behest of senior Zanu PF officials. These include the Save Valley year that the Germany has protested to on Zimbabwe’s nascent diamond Conservancy Trust in which German Mumbengegwi over the illegal seizure industry following the December The latest wave of attacks started last national Willy Pabst is one of the major by Mugabe’s supporters of properties week when Robert Mugabe’s nephew, shareholders. owned by its nationals. arrest of David Vardi, an Israeli Patrick Zhuwao, ordered an assault on diamond dealer with illegal gems the tourism and water sports facilities Affected safari operators have been The embassy wrote to Mumbengegwi from Marange, Manicaland. around Lake Chivero near Harare. forced to surrender between 50 and 80 protesting against continued violation percent shareholding in their properties of an investment protection agreement Although it was unclear how Vardi’s Although Zanu PF officially tried to to ZANU PF officials, top police and between the two countries after farm agents and couriers managed to distance itself from the invasions, military officials, and traditional chiefs invaders illegally grabbed three access the diamonds, only to be Zhuwao -- the MP for the area -- later in a renewed crackdown on white- properties belonging to German arrested at Ben Gurion Airport in confirmed that the party was fully owned businesses. citizens. Israel, the World Federation of behind the move as part of Zanu PF’s Diamond boss Avi Paz Diamond Bourses (WFDB) saw it so-called 51 percent empowerment The Save Valley Conservancy is the Aaron Mazvi, leader of the invasion, is He urged the individual bourses to drive. world’s biggest private game reserve. district chairman of the war veterans in fit to immediately heighten its watch on Zimbabwe’s rogue elements and impose an absolute ban on conflict the Zvimba community west of Harare, diamonds as expressed in the rules As Zhuwao enunciated his party’s In a note to Mumbengegwi, the embassy President Mugabe’s rural home. looters of the national resource. policy to have a go at the nation’s said the illegal seizures, code named and regulation of the WFDB and to prime tourist outfits, Masvingo Initiative, were allegedly In Mazvi’s memo of January 6, 2011 to The WFDB instantly expelled Vardi prepare presentations in their native and were busy being driven by Titus Maluleke, the Minister on “the take- from the Israel Diamond Exchange language on the Kimberley Process ‘governor of Masvingo province’ where threatening tourim players in Masvingo, over of properties along the lower and (IDE) for violating a ban on trade in Certification Process (KPCS). 300 kilometres south, with similar the conservancies are located. upper reaches of Lake Chivero”, Mazvi action. states the following on behalf of the Marange diamonds before ordering its members to screen all gems, “We have to uphold our commitment “It should be noted that the concept “Zvimba community at large” to assure that no diamonds of partnership as advocated by the especially those from Zimbabwe. Mudenge, a medieval historian, was originating in conflict regions enters even more brutal in this chilling ‘Masvingo Initiative’ does not seem to To Page 4 message, saying Zanu PF supporters WFDB President Avi Paz told the trade, and the members of our stood ready to erect pole-and-mud huts a Zimonline correspondent 29 member bourses are those who in the conservancies overnight and hunt that each of the federation’s 29 need to stand guard over this,” down all the animals for a traditional bourse members must meet said Paz, in a letter to members. venison roast with ease. in a general assembly to After his arrest, Vardi’s courier, Gilad So blunt and serious was Mudenge’s discuss how to protect the reputation of the WFDB-affiliated Halachmi, implicated the Israeli Zanu PF policy pronouncement that it resulting in the trader being picked sent shivers around the world. This was diamond bourses and their members. confirmed by none other than Tourism up for questioning. The diamonds Minister . As part of the measures, the WFDB were not accompanied by Kimberley chief said it was important that each Process (KP) certificates as required In Harare, the Germany embassy’s individual diamantaire who by law and international treaties. reaction was swift and unconcealed, holds bourse membership demanding clarity from the government on what was going on. was “completely up to speed as to the requirements, rules Agency reports say the German embassy and regulations concerning the ban on in Harare has written to Zimbabwe’s trading in diamonds originating Foreign Minister Simbarashe in areas and regions of conflict.” Mumbengegwi asking him to provide Some of the safari lodges Zanu PF wants to invade and destroy! assurances that German interests in Our record in leadership …as we move together with the people MASVINGO – Masvingo BULAWAYO- Bulawayo may this CHIPINGE - Chipinge East and West municipality has set aside US$7 month be able to supplement its MPs Hon. Mathias Mlambo and Hon. million to improve service delivery electricity supply when its thermal Sibonile Nyamudeza respectively are and infrastructural development in power station starts running, a move building new classrooms and clinics the town and work has already started likely to mitigate the current bouts of in Chipinge, Manicaland province. with council employeees upgrading power cuts. water and sewer systems, Masvingo In Chipinge East, Hon. Mlambo Mayor, Femius Chakabuda has said. The station, known here as Kontuthu is spearheading the repairing of Ziyathunqa, from its smoke emissions classrooms at several schools in the He said the city of Masvingo was was abandoned in 2000 by the national area. set to receive a major infrastructural power utility after ZESA failed to keep facelift this year following the in service. ZESA has already conducted This week, Hon. Mlambo and the availability of the money. test runs in preparation for the power community of Nyatutu were busy generation whose impact was likely to building a new block at Nyatutu “Council employees are already on be felt countrywide. Secondary School.The classroom has the ground and work is progressing reached roofing level and is expected The revival of Bulawayo’s power to be completed later this week. well. We have already started the generation comes after the signing refurbishments as per our target and Great Zimbabwe - our national heritage of a Memorandum of Understanding action plan,” Mayor Chakabuda said. The school accommodates 600 pupils between Zimbabwe and Botswana and 12 teachers and was constructed Meanwhile,Rwatirera Chiromwaamba, in October last year. In terms of the He said most of the trucks would be in 2000. “We are not going back on this and deal, Botswana would inject US$9 deployed towards water, sewerage and an MDC Youth Assembly member refuse collection. we want to prove that the MDC – run in Bikita South, Ward 8 last week million, while Zimbabwe supplied 45 Furthermore, Hon Mlambo is leading councils are efficient and reliable. purchased eight electric sewing megawatts of power for three years in the construction of a clinic in Daizy We are upgrading the sewer system return. Zimbabwe is woefully short of “The majority of the 23 trucks will go machines that will be used by youths in to the water and sewerage departments. Hill area, which is expected to be and more plans will be implemented the self help projects. power, thus affecting the revival of the completed in February. very soon. We are going to upgrade economy. We expect them to reduce the reaction the old bridge at Mucheke river. time whenever sewer or water pipes Chiromwaamba, who is the chairperson burst are reported,” said Mayor Moyo. The clinic has female and male This year we are going to fulfil of the Kubatana branch in the same Meanwhile, the Council is set to buy 24 wards, dispensary, waiting room, our development plans with great trucks at a cost of US$1, 2 million this treatment room, reception, staff confidence,” said the mayor. ward, said the machines will be used to month in a move designed to improve He said other council departments empower the youths in rural Bikita. would get at least one vehicle each. offices, emergency room and baby service delivery in the city, Bulawayo room. mayor, Thaba Moyo has said. Apart from upgrading the sewer “I have purchased eight electric sewing “Residents can expect improved system and water treatment, all the machines and I will use them to equip service delivery after we purchase the In Chipinge West, Hon. Nyamudeza major roads in the city were also The vehicles include 23 pick-ups trucks has resurfaced a 30km road linking youths in my area with skills for the and one tow truck. vehicles and we expect them to help refurbished last year. The roads sake of empowerment. us in reducing the pipe leak backlog in Birirain and Tanganda, which will go were previously unmarked. Bulawayo. a long way in improving the lives of Mayor Moyo said negotiations with “I have noticed that all major industries the supplier were at an advanced stage the local community who were being “Go and see for yourself what we “Most of the vehicles being used by forced to pay high transport costs. are doing at the water treatment are located in towns and cities and as and the vehicles are expected early next a result many people are leaving their week. the city council are old as they were plant. You can assess the state of rural homes to settle in urban areas. purchased in in 1997. They frequently The road had been inaccessible since the roads, compared to the past “We are optimistic that the cars will be breakdown and are an inconvenience independence in 1980 and people years. We operate on the basis of “I wish to reverse that trend by coming. We could have them as early to the city and the residents. The cost were failing to get access to health, transparency. We do not want to sit encouraging the youths to work within as early next week. Negotiators with of maintaining them keeps rising, so education and other facilities due to on our developmental projects. We their areas,” said Chiromwaamba. the supplier are going and a deal set to we have decided that the new vehicles the distance and high transport costs. have a reputation to protect,” said be concluded soon,” he said. would serve in the best interest of the Alderman Chakabuda. ratepayers,” said Mayor Moyo.

3 Nation must resist Zanu PF violence HARARE – Two MDC Harare I was seriously bleeding on the injured The Zanu PF youths were led province Youth Assembly leg,” he said. by one Gobvu. All the goods in members had to be hospitalised the office worth thousands of last week after they were severely Mukuwari’s leg was operated on and he dollars were looted and Mwanaka assaulted and shot at by Zanu PF is still having difficulties in walking. sustained a broken right arm and hoodlums in Mbare and Budiriro head injuries. as Zanu PF perpetrated violence Another MDC Mbare Youth Assembly flared in Harare. member, Barnabas Mwanaka, 26, was He managed to escape and made heavily assaulted by Zanu PF youths on a report at Mbare Police Station William Mukuwari, 26, of Budiriro the same day at the MDC Mbare district before he was admitted in hospital was shot last week in Budiriro 5. offices. and placed in the intensive care He was walking home with other unit. He received an operation on MDC youths after attending an He had been left by the police to guard his arm. MDC district meeting. Mukuwari the MDC youths’ flea market goods that is the MDC Youth Assembly they kept at the offices at night but 19 The two have since been Budiriro district treasurer. other youths who were at the offices discharged from hospital. when police raided the place were He managed to identify Godfrey locked up at Mbare Police Station. The other 19 MDC youths were Gomwe, the Zanu PF chairperson, arrested and remanded in custody as the one who fired the firearm. William Mukuwari, “On Saturday we were at our Mbare Barnabas Mwanaka at the Harare Remand Prison for office when Zanu PF youths came and a night before being granted a “We were walking home on down,” said Mukuwari. attacked us,” said Mwanaka lying in his and everyone was ordered to go to the US$50 bail each. Saturday at around 5pm after hospital bed. police station,” he said. attending an MDC district “Gomwe came and further assaulted me, The assailants in both incidences, meeting, when a group of known together with his gang and I sustained “However, we managed to drive them The police ordered Mwanaka to remain although known have not been Zanu PF youths attacked us. As head injuries. He only stopped beating out but police officers from Mbare behind guarding the flea market goods arrested and are roaming scot free. we were escaping from them, I me after some of the Zanu PF youths Police Station later came and broke and the Zanu PF youths returned and got shot on the left leg and I fell restrained him after they had seen that down the locked door of the office brutally assaulted him.

Madzibaba Nzira on a Zanu PF campaign trail Barely a week after being pardoned “One simply needs to listen to Radio Zanu PF hates No Copac data missing by Robert Mugabe, convicted Zimbabwe’s news about deaths all over Chitungwiza serial rapist Godfrey Zimbabwe to understand how serious HARARE – The Constitution information on issues of land, natural Nzira is understood to have embarked the problem is. About 80 percent of the people - Moyo Parliamentary Committee (Copac) resources and the environment. on a Zanu PF campaign trail, starting death notices are from Zimbabwean spokesperson, Hon. Jesse Majome Zanu PF immediately raised the red flag with Muzarabani District, targeting prisons. None of these people have BULAWAYO – The MDC has said no data collected during the pointing wrongly pointing fingers at the members of his sect to support Mugabe ever benefited from such Presidential National chairperson, Hon. Constitution – making process went MDC officials saying they could have and Zanu PF in the event of an early pardons.” has said the missing and said that reports that the been responsible for the removal of the election. failure by the former Zanu PF information had been misplaced was information. A furious member of the Johane government to fairly distribute Zanu PF propaganga. In 2003 Nzira, a dubious prophet, was Masowe WeChishanu Apostolic Church resources to all regions has Hon. Majome who is the MP for jailed for 32 years, later reduced to 20 told SW Radio Africa they are surprised caused gross under development Zanu PF’s was quoted Harare West and the Deputy Minister years, on seven counts of rape and one Nzira was fit enough to go on tour, especially in the Matebeleland saying data on land, natural resources of Women’s Affairs, Gender and count of indecent assault. drumming up support for Mugabe region. and the environmental issues had gone Community Development, said it was ahead of elections. missing. shocking for Zanu PF to claim that the The day Nzira was convicted 2,000 At a Matebeleland leadership information had gone missing when members of his sect caused havoc “They are calling it a tour for prayer summit in Bulawayo, Hon Moyo “That is not true. There is no way that Zanu PF had its own IT expert in Copac outside the magistrates’ court, beating but really it’s a campaign for Zanu PF said that the MDC is a party that the data could go missing as it is stored who had never raised any complaints up court officials and policemen on and we already know from the sermons, believed in equal opportunities in different formats in print, video and over the storage of data. duty. Even the magistrate is said to they are telling all Mapostori to support and distribution of resources in audio formats. have narrowly escaped death when they Zanu PF. He is trying to turn our church order to develop the people of Meanwhile, Copac chairperson, Hon. pounced on her. into a campaign point for Zanu PF, Zimbabwe and their communities. Mangwana last week briefed the Zanu Douglas has said Copac has hired a especially in the rural areas where we PF Politburo and falsely claimed that computer expert from Kenya to be No arrests were made, in line with Zanu have the majority of our members,” in charge of information and data PF’s tradition towards its supporters. said the church member. He said Zanu PF must be held liable for all under-development processing. that has taken place in the country. A year before he had claimed Mugabe Church sources say five senior serving “He is an undisputed expert who was was a “divinely appointed king of CIO operatives were ordered to shave Zimbabwe and no man should dare their heads and assigned to perform Hon. Moyo who is the Speaker in charge of the data processing during challenge his office”. duties as Nzira’ s new bodyguards. of Parliament said before the Kenya’s constitution making process.” formation of the inclusive Two weeks ago Mugabe set him free, “The security at Nzira’s shrine is tight. government, Zanu PF had used The expert whose costs will be met saying he was too ill to remain in Visitors are vetted by clean shaven men the state institutions for disgusting by the United Nations Development jail – an issue that attracted the ire of who suddenly appeared on the scene looting and corruption at the Programme (UNDP) is expected to millions of Zimbabweans who perished after Nzira was released from jail,” expense of the poor and suffering arrive in the country next week to take in prisons either because of lack of food said a neighbour. masses. Hon Majome charge of the process. and medical care or through natural causes. Last year Mugabe attended a service in “School structures, roads and Manicaland, organized by the Johanne “We have lost thousands of Marange Church, and was seen dressed the Zambezi water project are Mudenge shocker Southern Sudan: Zimbabweans through deaths in in their familiar white garments. clear-cut examples that since prison,” said a Harare prison officer. 1980, Matabeleland has not been Africa’s newest country prioritised in developmental causes investor jitters From Page 3 Sudan has split into two separate planning and projects by the countries. The South, through a then Zanu PF government,” Hon. “… In view of the government requisite referendum in which 99 percent of Moyo said. that blacks should be empowered voters in the region chose separation through the attainment of 51 percent from Khartoum in the week-long shareholdings in foreign funded poll that began on January 9, is now He castigated the then Zanu PF operations, I do hereby propose that government’s pace of developing officially Africa’s newest sovereign the clubs be occupied and redistributed state. the country’s regions saying the amongst community members and the former government had no some be reserved for Ministers, The move ended a civil war which defined development model. top government officials, senators, began in 1983 when the people of Members of Parliament, Chiefs and the Christian and animist south, led “Without a well-defined model those in the hierarchy of traditional by Colonel John Garang, decided to we will not see any development leadership.” break away from the Arab Northern taking place in Matabeleland or Sudan citing discrimination and a anywhere else in this country. At Aaron Mazvi has played a leading democratic deficit. The war ended with the moment it is not clear whether role in violent farm invasions in the a plebiscite to determine the wishes of central government is using the Mashonaland West area, including the the southerners who turned out in large aid model, growth point model or property next door, RB Ranches, where numbers to endorse the late Garang’s he currently resides. The first farm succession plan. devolution of power model. That invasion in Mashonaland took place in is why the MDC is in full support 2000 on Saffron Waldon farm close by. “The vote for separation was 99.57 of the devolution of power so percent,” Chan Reek Madut, the deputy that the onus to develop our The murder of two well-known white head of the commission organising the communities is on us.” farmers in the district occurred during January 9, week-long referendum, told the early years of the invasions, notably cheering crowds in the first official “We would like to see the the high profile beating and then announcement of results. devolution system adopted by the shooting of commercial farmer Terry new constitution and therefore Ford (51) on Gowrie farm at Norton in The figure did not include voters in it is only right to encourage 2002. north Sudan and other countries, a one another to closely monitor small proportion of the electorate. Final Don Stewart, a 68-year-old dairy farmer results are expected later. The vote was the remaining steps of the promised in a 2005 peace deal in north- Constitution-making process so from Norton, was beaten and burnt to death in November 2005. Several of south conflict, Africa’s longest civil war that the issue of devolution is not the farms in the area were taken over by which cost an estimated two million set aside. the Mugabe family. lives; forced four million to flee; and Those who have names of perpetrators of violence in your constituencies destabilised the region. feel free to phone or write to Hon Sipepa Nkomo said the MDC Information and Publicity department. Numerous cases of violence against people should unite in their farm workers were also recorded. Five of the 10 states in Sudan’s oil- Telephone: 04-770708 communities despite their producing south showed a 99.9 percent Email: [email protected] Although in many cases the perpetrators vote for separation and the lowest different political backgrounds for are known, there is no record of any Postal Address: Harvest House, 4th Floor, the purpose of development. vote was 95.5 percent in favour in the 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue, Harare. having been convicted. western state of Bahr al-Ghazal which borders north Sudan. -- REUTERS

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