Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.
Zimbabwe update
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2009-07-03, Issue 440
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe met U.S. Under-Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson on the sidelines of the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union General Assembly in Sirte, Libya on Thursday. The meeting with Carson was the fir...
MDC may quit over new powers for Mugabe
2009-07-03, Issue 440
The troubled unity government of Zimbabwe is locked in a "make or break" battle over the constitution that could see the party of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai walk out. Members of Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) boycotted a c...
Civil Society constitutional convention reject use of Kariba draft
2009-07-03, Issue 440
The co-chairperson of the Parliamentary Select Committee on constitutional reform, Douglas Mwonzora, on Friday said comments made by Robert Mugabe that the new constitution must be anchored on the Kariba Draft, were just a reflection of Mugabe’s pers...
Commonwealth meeting set to pave way for readmission
2009-07-03, Issue 440
A meeting of a Commonwealth committee on Zimbabwe, which is set to host a roundtable discussion in South Africa next week, could pave the way for the possible readmission of the country into the 54-nation grouping. The group of former British colonie...
Minister denies that the CIO abducted activists
2009-07-04, Issue 440
State Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi stunned a Harare Court by denying that the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) was involved in the abduction of opposition and human rights activists, including Jestina Mukoko, last year. This is despite...
Government denies diamond killings
2009-06-25, Issue 439
A Zimbabwean minister has denied any killings in the eastern Marange diamond fields, where rights groups have sounded the alarm over the forcible evictions of small-scale miners. Zimbabwe's deputy mining minister Murisi Zwizwai told a meeting of the ...
China justifies veto of Zimbabwe sanctions
2009-06-25, Issue 439
China's veto of proposed sanctions against Zimbabwe by the United States and Britain last year has been vindicated by the formation of the inclusive government, outgoing Chinese Ambassador Yuan Nansheng has said. Addressing a press conference on the ...
State concedes Mukoko’s abduction was illegal
2009-06-26, Issue 439
A state prosecutor on Thursday conceded that the way human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko was abducted by state security agents, was illegal. The 53 year-old former news reader has taken her case to the Supreme Court, seeking a permanent stay of he...
Constitutional stakeholders meetings begin
2009-06-26, Issue 439
The process for a new Zimbabwean constitution kick started on Wednesday when the Parliamentary Select Committee began constitutional hearings across the country. Political commentator Professor John Makumbe said the meetings that took place began wit...
PM Tsvangirai visits Brussels, secures financial assistance
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai had talks with senior European officials on the political and economic situation in his country and secured financial assistance for the administration. Tsvangirai, who is on a working visit to Brussels, to...
4 detained WOZA members, badly beaten and denied medical treatment
2009-06-19, Issue 438
It has been established that five WOZA members and three journalists were arrested after six peaceful protests were violently broken up by police in Harare on Thursday. Four women, including Clara Manjengwa and Maria Majoni, remain in custody in Hara...
Tsvangirai urges US to support inclusive government
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is urging the United States to support his government despite abuses by his coalition partner, President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai plans to make his case Friday in a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama a...
Mugabe acrimony over, says Tsvangirai
2009-06-05, Issue 436
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has told the BBC the "acrimony is over" between him and President Robert Mugabe. He made the remarks ahead of a tour of Europe and the US to garner support for his country's four-month-old power-sharing gover...
COMESA mulls rescue package for Zimbabwe
2009-06-05, Issue 436
Africa's COMESA trade bloc is preparing a financial rescue package for Zimbabwe to help the southern African nation to rebuild its shattered economy, a senior official has said. Finance ministers from Africa's largest trading bloc met to discuss the ...
Zimbabwe to use SA rand permanently
2009-06-05, Issue 436
Zimbabwe's minister of finance, Tendai Biti, has announced that the fragile government of that country is considering the idea of using the South African rand as it's permanent official currency. "We are looking at various avenues and the adoption of...
British Embassy says sanctions do not target ordinary Zimbabweans
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The British Embassy has responded to an article published by the state controlled Herald Newspaper, which claimed the UK government had to ‘airlift’ destitute British pensioners from Zimbabwe because western sanctions had destroyed the economy. The E...
EU not ready to rersume ties with Zimbabwe yet
2009-05-29, Issue 435
The European Union is not yet ready to establish normal ties with Zimbabwe or resume aid despite a "positive evolution" in politics there, according to a letter made public Thursday. "The EU shares your opinion that there are indications of a positiv...
Norway resumes aid to Zimbabwe
2009-05-29, Issue 435
Norway said on Monday it was renewing aid to Zimbabwe it cut off in 2000, despite worries about what it called "years of misrule, embezzlement and hyperinflation" under President Robert Mugabe. The Norwegian government, one of the first to renew badl...
Zimbabwean journalists & lawyers brought before the courts
2009-05-29, Issue 435
There was much activity in the magistrates’ courts in Harare on Thursday when human rights lawyers, two senior journalists and WOZA activists appeared in court for separate, routine, remand hearings. Two editors from the Zimbabwe Independent newspape...
Army threatens war over Gono removal
2009-05-29, Issue 435
The country’s security chiefs have taken the current political fight over the reappointment of Gideon Gono a step further, threatening to take up arms to prevent the removal of the Reserve Bank Governor from his post. Robert Mugabe on Monday declared...
Mugabe, Tsvangirai on course to overcome key hurdles
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Zimbabwe's power-sharing government has resolved most disagreements but remains deadlocked on the appointments of the central bank governor and the attorney general, the Prime Minster said on Thursday. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said the region...
Gono accuses Biti of corruption
2009-05-22, Issue 433
The controversial Governor of the Reserve Bank, Gideon Gono wrote a blistering letter to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai last week, in which he accused Finance Minister Tendai Biti of victimising him and of corruption. Gono claims, in the letter whi...
Government silence on land attacks continues
2009-05-22, Issue 433
The deafening silence from the unity government on the ongoing and increasingly violent land invasions has continued, despite promises by government leaders that the rule of law will be respected in Zimbabwe. The Prime Minister’s media conference on ...
Hear Us – Zimbabwean women affected by political violence speak out
2009-05-15, Issue 432
In 2008, political violence erupted throughout Zimbabwe as a result of the contested national elections. Zimbabwean women of all ages, targeted for their political affiliations, were abducted from their workplaces and homes, raped, tortured, and beat...
Prominent human rights lawyer arrested
2009-05-15, Issue 432
A prominent Zimbabwean human rights lawyer was arrested Thursday at a court in Harare, colleagues said. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights director Irene Petras said Alec Muchadehama was arrested at a magistrates court where he had gone to work....
MDC powerless to deal with ZANU PF hardliners
2009-05-15, Issue 432
The MDC is fully aware that some of the top civil servants and cabinet ministers from ZANU PF are working against the inclusive government, but are powerless to deal with them. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday said that hard-liners left ...
Evidence of politically motivated violence against Zimbabwean women
2009-05-08, Issue 431
The Research and Advocacy Unit [RAU], an NGO working on providing specialist assistance in research and advocacy in the field of human rights , democracy and governance, has released a video and written report documenting political and human rights v...
Harare to receive African credit
2009-05-08, Issue 431
African states and institutions are raising hundreds of millions of dollars in trade credits and business loans to shore up Zimbabwe's bankrupt unity government in the absence of a financial rescue package from the west. Regional officials fear that ...
MDC gives Tsvangirai, Mugabe ultimatum
2009-05-08, Issue 431
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has given President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai an ultimatum to resolve issues fuelling infighting within the government. The move by the main wing of the divided MDC s...
Activist Mukoko granted bial
2009-05-08, Issue 431
Former news reader with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, Jestina Mukoko was on 6 May 2009 granted bail by Harare Magistrate, Catherine Chimanda after the defence reached a mutual agreement with t...
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