Wednesday, 27th July 2011
Howzit
Talk about throwing good money after bad! What concerns me is the idea that this money can 'be drawn down at any time for any reason'. Even with the MDC's Tendai Biti in charge of the country's purse strings, I do believe that ZANU PF cannot wait to get their dirty mitts on the money...
The IMF (International Monetary Fund) has today confirmed that $400 million has been transferred to the IMF account of Zimbabwe which can be drawn down at any time for any reason. A further $102 million of international aid has been held in a suspended account until the Zimbabwe clears its $140 million debt with the IMF. Despite the fact that Zimbabwe itself is in the grip of a damaging political climate there is still a need to invest in the economy to try and avert total collapse.
In a budget review, Biti has also told the country that the diamond sales and the money returned do not tally. No surprise at all...
Zimbabwe has exported more than 700000 diamond carats since the beginning of the year as production levels at the Marange diamond fields increased in line with market demands but these exports and revenues declared are not tallying, Finance minister, Tendai Biti has revealed. Presenting his 2011-2012 budget review, Biti said it was worrying that while Zimbabwe exported 716958 diamond carats to outside markets, only US$103,9 million was realised by government from the resource.
Zimbabwe has exported more than 700000 diamond carats since the beginning of the year as production levels at the Marange diamond fields increased in line with market demands but these exports and revenues declared are not tallying, Finance minister, Tendai Biti has revealed. Presenting his 2011-2012 budget review, Biti said it was worrying that while Zimbabwe exported 716958 diamond carats to outside markets, only US$103,9 million was realised by government from the resource.
Somebody's fingers have been in the cookie jar.
The Gukurahundi continues to be a barb in the flesh of the people of Matabeleland. No matter how many people call for a commission of some sort to give closure to the families of those concerned, Mugabe refuses to do anything.
The closest he had ever come to doing anything about it is admitting that the Gukurahundi was 'a moment of madness'. He has never apologised to the Matabele people for the operation, and refuses to do so.
International experts on genocide have said that justice for the Gukurahundi massacres is needed, before real peace can come to Zimbabwe.
The closest he had ever come to doing anything about it is admitting that the Gukurahundi was 'a moment of madness'. He has never apologised to the Matabele people for the operation, and refuses to do so.
International experts on genocide have said that justice for the Gukurahundi massacres is needed, before real peace can come to Zimbabwe.
The killings of tens of thousands of Zimbabweans in the 1980s, at the hands of Robert Mugabe loyal soldiers, were last year finally classified as genocide by the internationally recognised group Genocide Watch. The group’s chairperson, Professor Gregory Stanton, said the Mugabe regime has been trying to sweep this atrocity under the rug for 30 years now but this classification now means the perpetrators can be prosecuted no matter how much time has passed.
Mugabe will probably disagree that the Gukurahundi was a genocide, and will ignore the experts, believing that he know best, as is his habit.
I am a little taken aback at the fact that the report is able to tell us that a specific number of people were in the gang. Who stopped and counted them all?
A 46-member armed gang robbed a mine in Kadoma, Zimbabwe, of more than four tonnes of gold ore in two separate incidents.
The gang are also believed to have beaten up workers with iron bars and clubs, according to Zimbabwe's Herald Online on Wednesday.
The owner of the mine Sam Munyoro confirmed the robbery, but declined to divulge details, the report said.
Is it illegal in Zimbabwe to distribute party newsletters? Apparently so...
Mugabe will probably disagree that the Gukurahundi was a genocide, and will ignore the experts, believing that he know best, as is his habit.
I am a little taken aback at the fact that the report is able to tell us that a specific number of people were in the gang. Who stopped and counted them all?
A 46-member armed gang robbed a mine in Kadoma, Zimbabwe, of more than four tonnes of gold ore in two separate incidents.
The gang are also believed to have beaten up workers with iron bars and clubs, according to Zimbabwe's Herald Online on Wednesday.
The owner of the mine Sam Munyoro confirmed the robbery, but declined to divulge details, the report said.
Is it illegal in Zimbabwe to distribute party newsletters? Apparently so...
Kesa, who is the MDC ward 12 chairman in Bubi district, was arrested on 15 July at Drumland Resettlement area by two plain clothes police officers and detained at Inyathi and Lupane police stations for a week, only to be released on Friday without charge.
The two police officers who arrested him are believed to have been tipped off by some ZANU PF officials in the area.
A week in custody and then released? Justice is Zimbabwe is very difficult to define, given that the police can lock someone up in their cells and then release him. Should the matter have been taken to court, the magistrate would have thrown the case out, so the ZRP just kept him in their dirty cells for a week to teach him a lesson.
This I find quite disgusting. And the ZRP will do nothing even though the victim's phone is being used by the gang of people who murdered her...
SW Radio Africa investigates unsolved and deliberately ignored cases of political violence, torture, murder and other forms of abuse, by people in positions of authority. This week we focus on the brutal June 2008 murder of Abigail Chiroto, the wife of Emmanuel Chiroto, the MDC-T deputy Mayor of Harare.
This year alone police have arrested a cabinet minister for calling Mugabe a liar, a police officer for using Mugabe’s official mobile toilet at a Trade Fair, and a group of activists for watching video footage of protests in Egypt and Tunisia. But a group of well known ZANU PF thugs who murdered Abigail in 2008 remain free. Not only are they said to be boasting about it, one of them is still using the mobile phone stolen from their victim.
And then, of course, there are the senior officers in the ZNA who do whatever they want, using threats and violence to get their own way.
Notorious army commander, Brigadier Douglas Nyikayaramba last week forced two young journalists from a Harare-based publication to run for dear life after they quizzed him on remarks by a parliamentarian that he was an “idiot”, Radio VOP has learnt.
Nyikayaramba, the commander of the 3rd infantry battalion in Manicaland province allegedly threatened to beat up two journalists from The Mail after they asked him respond to a comment in parliament by Masvingo Central legislator Tongai Matutu that the Brigadier General is an 'idiot' for his comments he made on the leader of the mainstream Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) Morgan Tsvangirai whom he labelled as a national security threat because he supports ZANU PF.
This I find quite disgusting. And the ZRP will do nothing even though the victim's phone is being used by the gang of people who murdered her...
SW Radio Africa investigates unsolved and deliberately ignored cases of political violence, torture, murder and other forms of abuse, by people in positions of authority. This week we focus on the brutal June 2008 murder of Abigail Chiroto, the wife of Emmanuel Chiroto, the MDC-T deputy Mayor of Harare.
This year alone police have arrested a cabinet minister for calling Mugabe a liar, a police officer for using Mugabe’s official mobile toilet at a Trade Fair, and a group of activists for watching video footage of protests in Egypt and Tunisia. But a group of well known ZANU PF thugs who murdered Abigail in 2008 remain free. Not only are they said to be boasting about it, one of them is still using the mobile phone stolen from their victim.
And then, of course, there are the senior officers in the ZNA who do whatever they want, using threats and violence to get their own way.
Notorious army commander, Brigadier Douglas Nyikayaramba last week forced two young journalists from a Harare-based publication to run for dear life after they quizzed him on remarks by a parliamentarian that he was an “idiot”, Radio VOP has learnt.
Nyikayaramba, the commander of the 3rd infantry battalion in Manicaland province allegedly threatened to beat up two journalists from The Mail after they asked him respond to a comment in parliament by Masvingo Central legislator Tongai Matutu that the Brigadier General is an 'idiot' for his comments he made on the leader of the mainstream Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) Morgan Tsvangirai whom he labelled as a national security threat because he supports ZANU PF.
Take care.
'debvhu
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