Category Archives: Press reports
Gukurahundi Reconciliation Urged
Institute for War and Peace Reporting New bill aims to address emotional scars of mass killings, but some say it doesn’t go far enough. By Fiso Dingaan in Lupane, Matabeleland (AR No. 109, 18-Apr-07) Fighting hard to hold back tears, 52-year-old Ernest Ngwenya points to three mounds of soil crudely marked with stones and burnt […]
Mugabe bans rallies as unrest spirals
The Daily Telegraph 19th February 2007 By Peta Thornycroft, Zimbabwe Correspondent Police stop opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from rallying President Robert Mugabe’s regime tried to suppress rising discontent across Zimbabwe yesterday by banning all opposition political gatherings. Heavily armed riot police enforced this edict by preventing one rally from taking place in the capital, Harare, […]
Mugabe blamed for justice collapse
The Daily Telegraph 19th January 2007 By Peta Thornycroft in Harare President Robert Mugabe: Increasingly repressive Zimbabwe’s justice system, once considered a model for the rest of Africa, has collapsed after being starved of funds by President Robert Mugabe’s government, one of the country’s most senior judges has claimed. In an unprecedented attack on the […]
Mugabe plans laws to silence critics
Peta Thornycroft Zimbabwe is poised to introduce draconian laws to silence its critics, both at home and abroad, who face 20 years in jail if they “publish or communicate a falsehood”. Opposition members have condemned the measures as “the most fascist legislation this country has known”. The Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Bill, went through […]
Letter to the Editor, Zimdaily
Editor, Zimdaily. 28th June 2006 Dear Sir, The article you published by Tsungai Mhaka on Monday the 26th June 2006 is in some respects false and you are invited to correct the falsehoods and publicly apologise for them. Whilst I take issue with most of what has been written as it is largely comment I […]
The reasons why I cannot join the Tsvangirai faction
It is 7 months since the divisive meeting of the MDC National Executive was held on the 12th October 2005. I have refrained from making public statements since then but am now of the view that the public have a right to know my perspective. I have always believed that the two factions of the […]
MDC must deal with violence in its own ranks
Zimbabwe Independent David Coltart ZIMBABWE has been afflicted with the terrible disease of endemic violence for over 150 years. Violence was used by Lobengula to suppress the Shona. It was used to colonise and after that to maintain minority rule, to overthrow white supremacy and, after Independence in 1980, to crush any possibility of legitimate […]
Zim ratifies SADC protocol on fugitives
The Herald By Tandayi Motsi Fugitives from justice will soon have no hiding place as steps are being taken to harmonise legal systems in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in addition to strengthening domestic regulatory and supervisory systems for the monitoring and detection of organised crime in United Nations member-states To this end, last […]
HOT SEAT: Part I – Coltart says: Mutambara faction is still viable
With Violet Gonda SW Radio Africa VIOLET: Welcome to you Mr Coltart. COLTART: Good evening Violet, it’s nice to be with you. VIOLET: Thank you. Now let’s start with your efforts to try and broker peace between the two factions of the MDC, where are you with this? COLTART: Since the split started on the […]
Zimbabwe Independent – Muckraker
Keywords: Zimbabwe Independent Muckraker Finally, we were rather amused by a story in the Sunday Mail’s business section. It proclaimed that Zimbabwe was back in ARSO and had even attended an ARSO meeting in Cairo last month. The meeting was hosted by Egyptian ARSOs. In case you are wondering, ARSO stands for the African Organisation […]