Thursday, 29th September 2011
Howzit
Mugabe and his party have torn Zimbabwe to pieces and they have spent years picking the carcass clean. Now, as the end approaches, however it may end, there are questions being asked as to who owns what, and what belongs to whom...
Zimbabwe House in London was used as surety for ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi by his friend Robert Mugabe, back in 2002. But did Mugabe have the authority to hand State-owned property to a foreign power? And what for?
And, with the ousting of Gaddafi, does the need for surety not fall away?
The transaction was said to have been personally facilitated by Mugabe, after his ZANU PF government’s failure to pay for oil supplied by the Libyan state company Tamoil. Tamoil said in 2002 that Zimbabwe had failed to meet its US$90million quarterly payment as part of a US$360 million oil deal Gaddafi had agreed to.
ZANU PF at the time dismissed the reports that the deeds to Zimbabwe House had been handed over, calling it an attempt to “discredit” the government.
Also in 2002 the UK’s Foreign Office said that it had not been informed of any change in ownership of the property. A spokesman was quoted in 2002 as saying: “It’s their property so I suppose they can do what they like with it.”
How many other properties has Mugabe signed over as surety to other countries for services and goods rendered?
Staying with properties - ZAPU want the title deeds of their properties back...
Former Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) members have appealed to President Robert Mugabe for the release of title deeds of properties owned by the former Patriotic Front Zimbabwe African People’s Union (PF ZAPU) then led by the late nationalist Joshua Nkomo.
The former ZIPRA combatants met over the weekend and resolved to follow up on a letter they wrote to President Mugabe in 2009 following up on title deeds of properties that were returned to them in 2004.
In the late 1980s, government seized all properties belonging to the PF ZAPU and its military wing ZIPRA, at the height of the Gukurahundi massacres.
However, some of the properties are yet to be returned to the two organisations.
So Mugabe didn't just have ZIPRA personnel murdered, but he stole from them as well...
What the learned judge omits to say is that the ZRP are a pro-Mugabe/ZANU PF outfit, and will stop at nothing to protect their own...
High Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi rapped the Gokwe police who investigated the murder of MDC-T activist Moses Chokuda, for attempting to conceal evidence in favour of the accused persons at the just-ended trial.
Delivering judgment, Justice Mathonsi said the court noted a worrying trend in which it appeared the police were attempting to conceal evidence in favour of the accused persons.
The convicted murderers are Farai Machaya, a member of the ZANU PF provincial youth executive and son of Midlands ZANU PF chairman, Governor and Resident Minister Jason Machaya , Edmore and Bothwell Gana, sons of ZANU PF Gokwe District Coordinating Committee chairman Ignatius Gana, and Abel Maphosa, a close friend of the Machaya’s and a ZANU PF activist.
“The manner in which the Gokwe police who investigated the murder handled the matter was far beyond expectation and we cannot exclude the fact that the police attempted to downplay what happened in favour of the defence. The police omitted vital evidence which was led by State witnesses and this is not acceptable,” Justice Mathonsi said.
The judge noted that State witnesses, who included Tinoziva Batisa, Tinashe Kwicho and Headman Isau Ndokwana, had all told the court that vital information they had given the police in their statements was missing.
Not only do the police allow this sort of thing to happen, but they recently banned a peaceful march by the MDC Youth... where is the equality in that?
And I am confused. The ZANU PF Youth go to the MDC Finance Minister about indigenisation... why not go to ZANU PF's Saviour Kasukuwere who is in charge of the so-called indigenisation?
About 50 pro-Mugabe youths gathered outside Zimbabwe's Finance Ministry on Wednesday, calling for government transparency amid controversial new plans to redistribute foreign-owned equity.
Protesters chanted outside the offices of Tendai Biti, an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangerai and the country's finance minister.
“Youths have come to the realisation that we will remain poor and even poorer if we do not sign for what we are against,” said Hamilton Pazvakavamba, the leader of the group. “We will leave a petition for (Biti) to read.”
Pazvakavamba said the group is angry that government plans to redistribute foreign-owned equity will not benefit Zimbabwean youths.
“They have started the indiginisation of foreign firms, we do not see where we fit in,” he said.
The Mugabe youth must remember at all times that the land grab and the firm grab are policies dreamt up by ZANU PF, not the MDC...
This is just plain silly. We know the people of Zimbabwe don't want Mugabe to remain in power, but Mugabe, using his 87-years of experience, will do anything to deny the people anything which his security chiefs believe may be used against him, to wit, a Blackberry internet service...
President Robert Mugabe, fearing agitated citizens calling for regime change, is refusing to licence the BlackBerry service in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwean citizens are tech-savvy and emboldened, a fact that has raised fears okaying the Blackberry service could result Egypt and Tunisia-style uprisings. The Canadian mobile phones have flooded the country, but it looks as though the BlackBerry internet service will never see the light of day.
Government sources say the Joint Operations Command, a group of top security generals, has sternly warned against it, although Twitter and Facebook are allowed.
ICT minister Nelson Chamisa reportedly approved the service, but has been stonewalled by Mugabe.
"It’s securophobia mutating into technophobia," minister Chamisa told The Zimbabwean. He declined to comment further, saying the matter was still before Cabinet.
In Zimbabwe, it would appear, are unable to access the internet on their mobile techology as it might upset the ZANU PF gravy train...
Vice President John Nkomo has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, officials and family sources said this week.
Unconfirmed reports say that Mugabe has prostate cancer, whilst this article tells us one of his deputies has got brain cancer... Mmmm - very interesting!
An enormous force in Zimbabwean politics for the past decade, 77-year-old Nkomo is one of President Robert Mugabe's top aides alongside Joyce Mujuru.
The veteran politician, who was a senior official in founding nationalist Joshua Nkomo's Zapu before its merger with Mugabe's ZANU PF in the 1980s, is seen by many as an efficient administrator, and a temperamental leader.
South African doctors have allegedly conducted a battery of tests, including a biopsy, and identified a cancerous mass on the top left portion of his brain as the cause of his recent seizure.
The news sent shockwaves across Zimbabwe, particularly Matalebeleland where he is held in high esteem. Many of his colleagues have been shaken by the news, although a family source expressed hope for a full recovery.
Take care.
'debvhu
Zimbabwe House in London was used as surety for ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi by his friend Robert Mugabe, back in 2002. But did Mugabe have the authority to hand State-owned property to a foreign power? And what for?
And, with the ousting of Gaddafi, does the need for surety not fall away?
The transaction was said to have been personally facilitated by Mugabe, after his ZANU PF government’s failure to pay for oil supplied by the Libyan state company Tamoil. Tamoil said in 2002 that Zimbabwe had failed to meet its US$90million quarterly payment as part of a US$360 million oil deal Gaddafi had agreed to.
ZANU PF at the time dismissed the reports that the deeds to Zimbabwe House had been handed over, calling it an attempt to “discredit” the government.
Also in 2002 the UK’s Foreign Office said that it had not been informed of any change in ownership of the property. A spokesman was quoted in 2002 as saying: “It’s their property so I suppose they can do what they like with it.”
How many other properties has Mugabe signed over as surety to other countries for services and goods rendered?
Staying with properties - ZAPU want the title deeds of their properties back...
Former Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) members have appealed to President Robert Mugabe for the release of title deeds of properties owned by the former Patriotic Front Zimbabwe African People’s Union (PF ZAPU) then led by the late nationalist Joshua Nkomo.
The former ZIPRA combatants met over the weekend and resolved to follow up on a letter they wrote to President Mugabe in 2009 following up on title deeds of properties that were returned to them in 2004.
In the late 1980s, government seized all properties belonging to the PF ZAPU and its military wing ZIPRA, at the height of the Gukurahundi massacres.
However, some of the properties are yet to be returned to the two organisations.
So Mugabe didn't just have ZIPRA personnel murdered, but he stole from them as well...
What the learned judge omits to say is that the ZRP are a pro-Mugabe/ZANU PF outfit, and will stop at nothing to protect their own...
High Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi rapped the Gokwe police who investigated the murder of MDC-T activist Moses Chokuda, for attempting to conceal evidence in favour of the accused persons at the just-ended trial.
Delivering judgment, Justice Mathonsi said the court noted a worrying trend in which it appeared the police were attempting to conceal evidence in favour of the accused persons.
The convicted murderers are Farai Machaya, a member of the ZANU PF provincial youth executive and son of Midlands ZANU PF chairman, Governor and Resident Minister Jason Machaya , Edmore and Bothwell Gana, sons of ZANU PF Gokwe District Coordinating Committee chairman Ignatius Gana, and Abel Maphosa, a close friend of the Machaya’s and a ZANU PF activist.
“The manner in which the Gokwe police who investigated the murder handled the matter was far beyond expectation and we cannot exclude the fact that the police attempted to downplay what happened in favour of the defence. The police omitted vital evidence which was led by State witnesses and this is not acceptable,” Justice Mathonsi said.
The judge noted that State witnesses, who included Tinoziva Batisa, Tinashe Kwicho and Headman Isau Ndokwana, had all told the court that vital information they had given the police in their statements was missing.
Not only do the police allow this sort of thing to happen, but they recently banned a peaceful march by the MDC Youth... where is the equality in that?
And I am confused. The ZANU PF Youth go to the MDC Finance Minister about indigenisation... why not go to ZANU PF's Saviour Kasukuwere who is in charge of the so-called indigenisation?
About 50 pro-Mugabe youths gathered outside Zimbabwe's Finance Ministry on Wednesday, calling for government transparency amid controversial new plans to redistribute foreign-owned equity.
Protesters chanted outside the offices of Tendai Biti, an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangerai and the country's finance minister.
“Youths have come to the realisation that we will remain poor and even poorer if we do not sign for what we are against,” said Hamilton Pazvakavamba, the leader of the group. “We will leave a petition for (Biti) to read.”
Pazvakavamba said the group is angry that government plans to redistribute foreign-owned equity will not benefit Zimbabwean youths.
“They have started the indiginisation of foreign firms, we do not see where we fit in,” he said.
The Mugabe youth must remember at all times that the land grab and the firm grab are policies dreamt up by ZANU PF, not the MDC...
This is just plain silly. We know the people of Zimbabwe don't want Mugabe to remain in power, but Mugabe, using his 87-years of experience, will do anything to deny the people anything which his security chiefs believe may be used against him, to wit, a Blackberry internet service...
President Robert Mugabe, fearing agitated citizens calling for regime change, is refusing to licence the BlackBerry service in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwean citizens are tech-savvy and emboldened, a fact that has raised fears okaying the Blackberry service could result Egypt and Tunisia-style uprisings. The Canadian mobile phones have flooded the country, but it looks as though the BlackBerry internet service will never see the light of day.
Government sources say the Joint Operations Command, a group of top security generals, has sternly warned against it, although Twitter and Facebook are allowed.
ICT minister Nelson Chamisa reportedly approved the service, but has been stonewalled by Mugabe.
"It’s securophobia mutating into technophobia," minister Chamisa told The Zimbabwean. He declined to comment further, saying the matter was still before Cabinet.
In Zimbabwe, it would appear, are unable to access the internet on their mobile techology as it might upset the ZANU PF gravy train...
Vice President John Nkomo has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, officials and family sources said this week.
Unconfirmed reports say that Mugabe has prostate cancer, whilst this article tells us one of his deputies has got brain cancer... Mmmm - very interesting!
An enormous force in Zimbabwean politics for the past decade, 77-year-old Nkomo is one of President Robert Mugabe's top aides alongside Joyce Mujuru.
The veteran politician, who was a senior official in founding nationalist Joshua Nkomo's Zapu before its merger with Mugabe's ZANU PF in the 1980s, is seen by many as an efficient administrator, and a temperamental leader.
South African doctors have allegedly conducted a battery of tests, including a biopsy, and identified a cancerous mass on the top left portion of his brain as the cause of his recent seizure.
The news sent shockwaves across Zimbabwe, particularly Matalebeleland where he is held in high esteem. Many of his colleagues have been shaken by the news, although a family source expressed hope for a full recovery.
Take care.
'debvhu
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