Rule of the lawless
The Spectator Jan Raath on the continuing story of murder and intimidation in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe Harare Most brutal regimes dispatch troublesome colleagues and pretend afterward to know nothing about it. Lenin perfected the wiping from memory of freshly eliminated aides. President Robert Mugabe’s government, according to a decision just handed down by a high
Under Siege: Human rights and the rule of law in Zimbabwe
Monash University Law Chambers, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Lecture Good evening everyone. It’s very heart-warming to see the magnificent turn out for a country which, after all, is located in the forgotten continent and a country that doesn’t have any oil or anything else like that to attract the attention of the international
Probe land inspectorate, ministry officials
Sunday Mail UNCOLONISED – With Lowani Ndlovu The fact that over the last three or so months following the last Cabinet reshuffle in March the historic fast-track land reform programme that was started in 2000 has been mired in bureaucratic controversies is reason for great concern among the uncolonised and the time has come to
Mugabe forces more whites out of Zimbabwe
The Daily Telegraph 10th July 2004 By Peta Thornycroft in Harare The exodus of whites from Zimbabwe is gathering pace, with most heading for Britain or Australia. Many of those leaving had put up with four years of persecution in the hope that President Robert Mugabe would relent. But last week, when he ordered the
Made ‘Kondozi Minister’
Faith Zaba, Business Tribune Although both MDC and ZANU PF have said Tuesday’s events where Chimanimani MP Roy Bennett assaulted two cabinet ministers were regrettable, legislators from both parties found a lighter side the following day by throwing comments, which left the House roaring in laughter. In the usual parliamentary spirit, MDC legislators at every
ZANU PF calls for Bennett’s expulsion
Faith Zaba, Business Tribune ZANU PF wants Chimanimani Member of Parliament Roy Bennett to be expelled from Parliament for assaulting Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Minister of Special Affairs for Anti-Monopolies and Anti-corruption Programme Didymus Mutasa on Tuesday. However, some political analysts say Bennett’s actions were not that severe to warrant
ZIMBABWE – Inter-Parliamentary Union
Resolution adopted unanimously by the Governing Council at its 174rd session (Mexico, 23 April 2004) CASE N° ZBW/12 – JUSTIN MUTENDADZAMERA CASE N° ZBW/13 – FLETCHER DULINI-NCUBE CASE N° ZBW/14 – DAVID MPALA CASE N° ZBW/15 – ABEDNICO BHEBHE CASE N° ZBW/16 – PETER NYONI CASE N° ZBW/17 – DAVID COLTART CASE N° ZBW/18 –
The law that Mugabe gave to Deuschle
Muckraker Column – Zimbabwe Independent DEFENCE minister Sydney Sekeramayi has called on defence attachés accredited to Zimbabwe not to engage in local politics but to concentrate on giving military advice. “May I remind you that the world over the defence forces as the most powerful instrument of the state apparatus must be apolitical for they
Mugabe’s ‘stealth’ state of emergency
Peta Thornycroft – Harare President Robert Mugabe has issued a decree so draconian that it amounts to a “state of emergency” by stealth, human rights lawyers and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change said yesterday. New laws will extend periods of detention for those accused of both economic and political “crimes” from 48 hours to
Zimbabwe has detention without trial: UDM
Sunday Times (South Africa) Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has given himself powers of detention that allow his police to hold opponents of his regime in prison for up a month without legal process on charges of “subversion,” the opposition Movement for Democratic Change said. The state-owned press reported at the weekend reported that sweeping presidential