Category Archives: Press reports
Gukurahundi Reconciliation Urged
Institute for War and Peace Reporting By Fiso Dingaan 11 April 2008 Fighting hard to hold back tears, 52-year-old Ernest Ngwenya points to three mounds of soil crudely marked with stones and burnt logs at a clearing two kilometres from his homestead. The contorted face tells of the emotional turmoil Ngwenya is battling to control. […]
What does the Movement for Democratic Change stand for?
The Economist Apr 10th 2008 | JOHANNESBURG From The Economist print edition FOR nine years the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has focused on ousting Robert Mugabe at the ballot box. No one questions the courage and resilience of its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who has been imprisoned, badly beaten up and survived treason charges. But […]
Robert Mugabe steps up land grab violence
The Telegraph By Sebastien Berger in Johannesburg 9th March 2008 President Robert Mugabe’s regime has stepped up its campaign of violence in the wake of Zimbabwe’s elections, evicting more than 60 commercial farmers from their properties. The brutal response to the polls, in which Mr Mugabe is widely held to have come second to Morgan […]
Zimbabwe elections: Leader in waiting
The Independent By Daniel Howden in Harare Thursday, 3 April 2008 After days of uncertainty, it is official: Robert Mugabe has finally lost control of Zimbabwe’s parliament. How much longer can he resist Morgan Tsvangirai? It was a moment many believed they would never see. Zimbabwe’s ruling party lost control of parliament yesterday and this […]
An anxious wait – The delay in announcing Zimbabwe’s election results worsens an already fraught situation. The country is holding its breath
THe Zimbabwean By Wilf Mbanga March 31, 2008 6:30 PM | Printable version I was apprehensive before the poll. I’m apprehensive now. I find it very disturbing that the Zimbabwe electoral commission (ZEC) has chosen to withhold the results of the elections for so long. This is keeping people in suspense and fuelling the rumour […]
Election results round-up
The Zimbabwean Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:03 Election results round-up. HARARE – Zimbabwe ’s main opposition party has made historic gains in the country’s most hotly contested general election since independence 28 years ago, with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai clinching 67 percent of the total ballots counted so far, according to unofficial results released Monday. […]
Mugabe’s Last Stand
Newsweek A former close ally may offer the best chance yet of toppling Zimbabwe’s dictator at the ballot box. ‘A Gorbachev Type’: Makoni’s candidacy is evidence that the system is fracturing from within By Scott Johnson | NEWSWEEK Mar 31, 2008 Issue | Updated: 1:33 p.m. ET Mar 22, 2008 Politics is dangerous business in […]
Doubts over presidential run-offs
Zim Standard Sunday, 16 March 2008 THE determination of a winner in next week’s Presidential election has been thrown into uncertainty amid revelations that Section 110 of the Electoral Act contradicts the Second Schedule of the same legislation which outlines how the winner will be determined. This, lawyers said, had the potential to cause confusion […]
Mugabe cannot afford to give up power : Wall Street Journal op-ed
Wall Street Journal By MARIAN L. TUPY and DAVID COLTART March 14, 2008 Zimbabwe’s presidential and parliamentary elections on March 29 are rigged in favor of the incumbent leader Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. Much ink has been spilled on the electoral prospects of his two opponents — Morgan Tsvangirai, the […]
Will Morgan Tsvangirai survive a leadership Coup by Simba Makoni?
Zimbabwe Guardian Nancy Nyamhunga – Opinion Wed, 05 Mar 2008 SIMBA Makoni enters opposition politics in Zimbabwe and tells us that he is not standing AGAINST President Mugabe but FOR the presidency. He goes on to insist that despite compromising Zanu PF’s chosen presidential candidate’s position at the polls, he is still Zanu PF. The […]