whiteman sues Zimbabwe in North Gauteng High Court (South Africa) for ‘his land’

Stephan Hofstatter
13 January 2010
Johannesburg — CIVIL rights group AfriForum launched an urgent application in the North Gauteng High Court yesterday to protect the property rights of South African farmers facing land seizures in Zimbabwe.
The application is the first step in trying to get a key Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal ruling on property rights registered in SA.

Southern Africa’s leaders supports Mugabe – tells Morgan Tsvangirai get lost

AllAfrica: Southern Africa’s leaders have told Zimbabwe’s two main parties to form a unity government and to share control of the ministry which supervises the country’s police force, but Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected their decision.

President Robert Mugabe’s Speech at the Opening of the 7th Parliament of Zimbabwe

Full text of President Robert Mugabe’s speech at the opening of the Seventh Parliament of Zimbabwe on Tuesday 26th August 2008
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Madam President of the Senate, Mr Speaker Sir, Senators and Members of the House of Assembly, Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends. I welcome you all to this First Session of the Seventh Parliament of Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe: New Currency Introduced As 10 Zeros Disappear

Ten zeros were removed from all monetary values on Friday, resulting in Z$10 billion being re-valued to one dollar.

The measures were announced Wednesday by Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono during his 50 page, half year monetary policy statement. The new currency will co-circulate together with the family of bearer cheques currently in use. However the bearer cheques will be scrapped at the end of this year. Cash withdrawal limits were also increased from Z$100 billion to Z$200billion, now re-valued to Z$200.

Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai Shake Hands on Deal

Zimbabwe’s principal political protagonists, Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, have signed an agreement which establishes a framework for substantive negotiations to end the country’s political crisis.

South African foreign affairs spokesman, Ronnie Mamoepa, confirmed this in a statement issued from Harare Monday.

Mugabe’s economic liberation is upsetting white people

Mugabe’s only woe is that, so far, he is the only one who is taking the liberation struggle of the African people from a political realm to an economic realm! This is a no go area and it is tickling the bile of the British. The land issue is very thorny but the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, knows the truth.

Mugabe had negotiated with John Major, another former British PM. Major was warm towards compensating the British landowners for the land to be given back to the blacks but Blair called off the deal. This irked Mugabe, and what followed is now history.

Morgan Tsvangirai leaves Dutch Embassy

HARARE, ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwe’s opposition leader emerged from his refuge at the Dutch Embassy Wednesday to call for African leaders to guide talks to end Zimbabwe’s crisis, saying a presidential runoff this week was no solution.

Morgan Tsvangirai Seeks Refuge At Dutch Embassy

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has gone into hiding in the Dutch embassy in Zimbabwe, a day after he announced he was pulling out of the presidential run-off election.

Morgan Tsvangirai press statement on quitting Zimbabwe election runoff

The MDC won the March 29th elections despite conditions that were far from free and fair. Our party’s message of peaceful, democratic change and rebuilding a New Zimbabwe enjoys the support of the vast majority of Zimbabweans.

Our election victory confirmed this to Mugabe and since that date, he and his supporters have been waging a war against the people of Zimbabwe

Archfred Chipiyo attacked, kidnapped & murdered in Zimbabwe

TimesOnline: Archfred Chipiyo was one of three men discovered by the roadside in Harare today with their skulls smashed after they were abducted by loyalists of the president’s Zanu-PF party on Tuesday. The body of a fourth man was later discovered nearby.
Archfred Chipiyo was kidnapped on Tuesday night after armed security forces raided the home of his father, Suleiman, the MDC chairman in the Chinunwiza district. Suleiman Chipiyo escaped from the scene with a number of other activists, but his son and three others were left in the house, surrounded, and badly beaten up before being abducted. One of those killed was believed to have been a passer-by caught up in the attack by chance.

Thabo Mbeki in Zimbabwe meeting Robert Mugabe

AllAfrica: South African President Thabo Mbeki headed to Zimbabwe on Wednesday to hold talks with Robert Mugabe ahead of next week’s presidential run-off poll. Mbeki also met with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangerai as well as United Nations envoy Haile Menkerios before setting out to Bulawayo to meet Mugabe.

Robert Mugabe asks “how can a ballpoint fight with a gun?”

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe yesterday indicated he will refuse to stand down if he loses forthcoming elections. He told supporters at a rally, “how can a ballpoint fight with a gun?” after reminding them of Zimbabwe’s bloody war of liberation. Observers say election violence against opposition supporters has escalated from beatings and torture to mutilation and murder. Meanwhile, a senior UN envoy, Haile Menkerios, arrived in the country to assess the political and humanitarian crisis. The run-off presidential poll between President Mugabe and Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai is on 27 June.

Zimbabwe: Three MDC Officials Killed in Army Petrol Bomb Attack

Zanu PF militants wearing army uniforms petrol bombed an MDC office at Jerera growth point in Masvingo killing 3 officials on Tuesday.

A statement from the MDC said a truckload of militants arrived at the party offices at midnight and fired shots into the building. The attackers later petrol bombed the building that was also housing victims of political violence in the area. At least 4 activists are missing and presumed dead while another 2 suffered critical injuries and are detained at St Anthony’s Musiso Hospital. The charred remains of 3 bodies lay on the floor in the burnt out MDC offices and all had bullet wounds.

Tonderai Ndira kidnapped, tortured & murdered in Zimbabwe

Tonderai Ndira kidnapped, tortured & murdered in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean: In 2002 he told BBC’s Panorama: “We are prepared to die. It is just the same, we are still dying in Zimbabwe. We are dying by hunger, by diseases, everything, so there is nothing to fear, nothing to [be] scared [of].”On the morning of May 14, they came. Around nine armed men in [...]

Robert & Grace Mugabe in Rome

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe arrived in the Italian capital, Rome on Sunday for a High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bio-energy being held in Rome from June 3 to 5.
He touched down at 2000 GMT at Rome-Fiumicino airport

‘Zimbabwe will never be a colony again’ – Robert Mugabe

AllAfrica: “Then we can sing our song, our song that Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. The message we should send out abroad is please leave us alone. Zimbabwe — call it your fatherland or your motherland — Zimbabwe is the only country you have. It’s the only country I have. I have no other.

“I get my fruit from Zimbabwe, I get my riches from Zimbabwe. So let me be king of my own forests, my own animals, my own rivers, my own mountains. Please leave me to be king of my own country. This is what everyone should be saying. And the women should be declaring let me be queen of my own country.

“Zimbabwe cannot be British, it cannot be American. Yes, it is African, but first and foremost it is Zimbabwean and for Zimbabweans,” he said to loud ululation from the thousands gathered for the launch.

An Yue Jiang and cargo disappeared in Africa without a trace

The Chinese government on Wednesday denied that a ship, the An Yue Jiang, from their country carrying arms has managed to offload its ‘deadly cargo’ to the regime in Harare. [Chinese were already caught lying once when they said the ship was recalled to China]

Reports in the past week have suggested that the cargo was offloaded either in Angola or Congo, Brazzaville, and Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga last week confirmed that the cargo had indeed arrived in the country.