Category Archives: Press reports

By Peta Thornycroft Voice of America 17 July 2007 Zimbabwe’s state-controlled media are carrying explicit photographs of a man they claim is Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, allegedly taken with a naked woman inside his bedroom. Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA the outspoken critic of President Robert Mugabe is being sued by a civil servant who […]

International Herald Tribune The Associated Press Published: July 16, 2007 HARARE, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube was named in an adultery case Monday in what his lawyers called an “orchestrated attempt” to embarrass the outspoken government critic. Attorney Nick Matonzi said Ncube was in his office in the second city of Bulawayo when […]

Police and Zanu-PF lead bargain hunt after officials order shops to act The Guardian By Chris McGreal in Harare Monday July 16, 2007 Zimbabweans are shopping like there’s no tomorrow. With police patrolling the aisles of Harare’s electrical shops to enforce massive government-ordered price cuts, the widescreen TVs were the first things to go, for […]

International Herald Tribune By David Coltart Published: July 13, 2007 BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe: As I marched in protest with a handful of fellow Zimbabwean lawyers in Bulawayo recently, I looked into the eyes of the riot police and believed that I saw the beginning of cracks in the regime. The Law Society of Zimbabwe called a […]

By the Financial Gazette 21 June 2007 Njabulo Ncube Harare BIG brother is watching. This aptly describes the jittery mood within the media and telecommunications sectors in Zimbabwe following the passing by Parliament last Wednesday of the controversial Interception of Communications Bill, despite opposition to some of its provisions by opposition legislators and free speech […]

Voice of America By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 15 June 2007 Zimbabwe this week passed a new law allowing the government to monitor telephones, mail and the Internet. For VOA, Peta Thornycroft reports that the Zimbabwe government justifies this new law by saying it is necessary to protect national security. President Robert Mugabe regularly tells […]

By Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zimbabwe’s House of Assembly on 13 June 2007 passed the controversial Interception of Communications Bill without amendments despite opposition to some of its provisions by opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) legislators. MISA Zimbabwe National Director Rashweat Mukundu said the passing of the bill marks yet another sad […]

By Reuters Published: June 13, 2007, 4:44 PM PDT The lower house of Zimbabwe’s parliament passed a bill on Wednesday allowing the government to monitor phones, mail and the Internet to protect national security. While conceding the country needed to protect itself against terrorism, opposition members said they feared the bill would pave the way […]

Published in the Washington Post by Michael Gerson A nation is dying, its leader a tyrant, its neighbors indifferent Thursday, June 14, 2007 WASHINGTON – When I talked earlier this week with David Coltart, a Zimbabwean member of parliament and human rights lawyer, his office in Bulawayo had been without power for five hours. The […]

Financial Times by Alec Russell Published: May 21 2007 03:00 The people of Nswazwi are once again on the move. Three decades ago their tiny settlement of thatched mud huts, a few miles from the border with Botswana, was caught up in Zimbabwe’s liberation war. Many residents fled across the frontier before returning home to […]