Category Archives: Press reports
A Matter for Debate – Has Britain failed Zimbabwe?
The Spectator LLOYD EVANS WEDNESDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER 2007 Lloyd Evans reports from the inaugural Spectator / Intelligence Squared debate and finds that he is still undecided on the question of whether or not Britain has failed Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe – last in the dictionary and too often last on the agenda. The new season of Intelligence […]
Zimbabwe ‘close to collapse’
ABC By Desmond Kwande of AFP 18th September 2007 With inflation at 7,500 per cent, Zimbabwe’s supermarkets have run out of food. The latest report from the International Crisis Group has found Zimbabwe is close to complete collapse with four out of five people living below the poverty line and inflation running at 7,500 per […]
Zimbabwe humanitarian crisis is world’s worst
By Jeremy Lovell LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) The humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe has become the world’s worst but is still largely ignored by the international community, a member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Monday. David Coltart, one of Zimbabwe’s leading white politicians and member of parliament for a mainly black […]
Parched city is forced to drink sewage while Mugabe ‘plays a political game’
The Times (UK), 15 September 2007 Jan Raath in Bulawayo It did not smell too bad and her family had not become sick, even after drinking it for the past two months. “Some people say it is sewage, but they may be making it up,” she said as she heaved a 25 litre drum up […]
Robert Mugabe critic Archbishop Ncube quits over sex scandal
From Times Online September 11, 2007 By Jan Raath, of The Times, Harare Archbishop Pius Ncube, one of the most vocal opponents of Robert Mugabe, announced his resignation today as a result of an alleged sex scandal. The Archbishop came under fire in July after images emerged in state-controlled media allegedly showing him naked in […]
Zimbabwe Archbishop Resigns in Scandal
Tuesday September 11, 2007 By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press Writer VATICAN CITY (AP) – An archbishop who was an outspoken critic of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe before becoming embroiled in a sex scandal has resigned, saying Tuesday he wanted to shield his church from attack. Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Archbishop Pius Ncube, […]
Zinwa takeover of city water was ill-timed: Parliamentary committee
Zim Independent 7 September 2007 Orirando Manwere THE Zanu PF-dominated parliamentary portfolio committee on Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development still maintains that the takeover of water and sewer reticulation services in urban centres by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority was not in the best interests of residents as the purported consultation was confined […]
Precious Stones Bill passed
The Zimbabwe Independent 7th September 2007 THE Precious Stones Trade Amendment Bill on Wednesday went through its second and third readings in Parliament without amendments despite debate on the effectiveness of the proposed five-year mandatory custodial sentence for its contravention. The Bill, which, among other things, seeks to redefine precious stones and make provisions for […]
Zimbabwe: Precious Stones Bill Passed
The Herald (Harare) 6 September 2007 The House of Assembly on Wednesday passed without amendment the Precious Stones Trade Amendment Bill that seeks to deal with illegal trade in diamonds following the recent discovery of the mineral in some parts of the country. Both sides of the House were in agreement that the Bill was […]
Starving in Zimbabwe ‘amounts to genocide’
The Telegraph By Sebastien Berger in Bulawayo 21st August 2007 Zimbabweans are starving to death on a scale equivalent to genocide, a top opposition MP claimed yesterday. Four million people will need food aid by the end of the year, the World Food Programme said earlier this month, as President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF government oversees […]