‘This time next year Mugabe will be gone’
Saturday Star 7 February 2009 By Peta Thornycroft A Zimbabwean judge ended the treason trial of a top opposition leader this week, another indication that President Robert Mugabe’s party wants a proposed coalition government to work. Magistrate Olivia Mariga ruled that Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti had been improperly arrested on charges of
New governors to be sworn in next Friday
SW Radioafrica By Tichaona Sibanda 6 February 2009 New governors for the country’s ten political provinces are set to be sworn in, on the same day as ministers and their deputies. This follows an agreement in South Africa between ZANU PF and MDC negotiators that Robert Mugabe must reverse the appointment of all current ten
Now even the doubters can doff hats to peacemakers
Business Day 6 February 2009 By Tony Heard A CACOPHONY of sceptics. That collective noun aptly describes the underlying disbelief over the South African-led peace effort in Zimbabwe. And it will persist. This correspondent has some personal experience of it, because last year in Business Day he ventured a test swim against this particular tide.
Liberalise CIO, says Coltart
Zimbabwe Times 6th February 2009 By Raymond Maingire HARARE –David Coltart, the Senator for Khumalo representing the Mutambara-led MDC, has called for the liberalization of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and the Attorney General’s (AG) office, saying they have been used as partisan institutions to entrench President Robert Mugabe’s rule. As parliamentarians across the political
Bill sails through
The Herald 6 February 2009 By Zvamaida Murwira CONSTITUTION of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 19) Bill that seeks to give legal effect to the framework of the inclusive Government was unanimously passed by both the House of Assembly and Senate yesterday. The Assembly passed the Bill with a margin of 184-0 with the Senate giving it
Zimbabwe Senate passes constitutional bill for inclusive government
www.chinaview.cn 2009-02-06 HARARE, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — Zimbabwe’s senate on Thursday passed Constitutional Amendment Number 19, paving the way for the establishment of an inclusive government. The bill now awaits the signature of President Robert Mugabe to enact it into law after 72 senators who are in the House voted for its passage with no
Zimbabwe Opposition Agrees To Form Unity Government
Washington Post By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, January 31, 2009 JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30 — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party announced Friday that it would enter a unity government with autocratic President Robert Mugabe, bending to pressure to end a nearly five-month impasse that had paralyzed the government as a humanitarian and economic crisis
Rivals agree to form government in Zimbabwe
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Saturday, 31 January , 2009 08:12:00 Reporter: Andrew Geoghegan ELIZABETH JACKSON: It’s taken almost most five months of wrangling but Zimbabwe’s Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has agreed to form government with his bitter rival Robert Mugabe. The agreement comes as Zimbabwe’s economic and humanitarian crisis deepens. Cholera has now killed more than
Zimbabwe Opposition Agrees To Form Unity Government
The Washington Post By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, January 31, 2009 JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30 — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party announced Friday that it would enter a unity government with autocratic President Robert Mugabe, bending to pressure to end a nearly five-month impasse that had paralyzed the government as a humanitarian and economic
Hope is on the way
HOPE IS ON THE WAY By David Coltart 20th January 2009 I have just finished celebrating the inauguration of President Barack Obama by watching it on television with my family. On a day when there is so much gloom in my beloved Zimbabwe – the legacy of decades of oppression – I found the entire