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Controversy over Hunzvi’s hero status - "Turning
Heroes Acre into Zanu PF graveyard"
AS
PRESIDENT Mugabe and Zanu PF functionaries continue to eulogise the late war
veterans leader Chenjerai Hunzvi, senior ex-combatants are divided over his
hero’s status.
Comment
Hunzvi’s
departure marks political watershed
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Mugabe expected to reshuffle cabinet
PRESIDENT
Mugabe will soon announce a cabinet reshuffle that will result in the
relocation of ministers following the loss of three cabinet members, the
Zimbabwe Independent has learnt.
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Nothing
African about lawlessness
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Letters to the Editor
Mbeki expected to meet Mugabe
PRESIDENT
Mugabe was yesterday expected to hold crucial talks on the Zimbabwe crisis with
South African president Thabo Mbeki on the sidelines of the G-15 summit in
Jakarta, Indonesia.
Cherokees for Zanu PF
THE
ruling Zanu PF has obtained 12 Cherokee Jeeps for use during the presidential
election campaign. This comes hardly a month after government was thwarted in
its attempt to buy 40 Mercedes Benz E240 saloons from South Africa for use by
senior government officials.
Three vie for Gezi’s post
ZANU
PF is scouting for a party cadre to fill the post of secretary for the
commissariat and culture which fell vacant following the death of Border Gezi,
the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt.
Trudy's Diary
How
did you celebrate your freedom this year?
Chavunduka, Choto torture probe hits wall
POLICE
investigations into the abduction and torture of two Standard journalists, Mark
Chavunduka and Ray Choto, have run into a brick wall of political and bureaucratic
obstacles. One year since Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay ordered an inquiry, no
suspect has been arrested or charged.
Rautenbach planning to stage dramatic comeback in the
DRC
CONTROVERSIAL
mining and transport tycoon Billy Rautenbach is planning to stage a comeback at
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s Gecamines, a milking cow in the vast
diamond-rich African republic from which he was evicted by the late Laurent Kabila,
the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt.
Comment
Belgium,
France, SA have duty to disown killers
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Give
Chinamasa the boot
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Misinformation
and Lies dept
Senior army, police officers join land grab
SENIOR
army and state security officers as well as members of the police are involved
in illegal land seizures and cultivation on stolen property alongside
villagers, it was learnt this week.
Zim in Kabila cover-up
NEWS
of President Laurent Kabila’s death was clumsily manipulated by Congolese and
Zimbabwean authorities to ease the transition of power in Kinshasa, it became
clear yesterday.
Eric Bloch Column
What
they should get for Christmas
Mnangagwa climbs back
SPEAKER
of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa whose political future was thought to have
gone up in smoke after a drubbing in the June election, has bounced back.
Letters to the Editor
News Analysis
Fireworks
expected at Zanu PF congress
UN DRC probe team to return to Zim
THE
United Nations panel of experts investigating the exploitation of the
Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) natural resources is set to return to
Zimbabwe to interview President Mugabe and senior government ministers after it
failed to meet them last week.
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Mugabe
finally falls in Malaysia
UN probes DRC plunder
A
UNITED Nations panel of experts is in Zimbabwe to investigate the exploitation
and plunder of Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) natural resources in a move
that is set to expose the extent to which top government officials and military
officers benefited from the current Congo war, it was established yesterday.
State claims on amnesty denied
CONTRARY
to statements by ministers, no representations were made to the government by
opposition parties or civic organisations to pardon hundreds of people awaiting
trial for election-related violence, the Zimbabwe Independent has gathered.
News Analysis
Makoni
has unenviable task ahead of budget
Letters to the Editor
Zanu PF negotiates truce among feuding war vets
ZANU
PF has cobbled together a truce among the feuding war veterans’ leaders ahead
of what is deemed a more important battle — the party’s campaign for the 2002
presidential election, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.
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Milosevic’s
fate holds lessons for Zim scribes
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Tsvangirai’s
foolish choice of words
ZNA deployed on civilian duties in DRC
ZIMBABWEAN
troops were recently deployed in Mbuji-Mayi to quell crowd disturbances and
defuse tension that had been mounting in the town after the Congolese
government confiscated a 267,82 carat diamond from its local owner.
DRC denies pledging to repay Zim for war costs
THE
Democratic Republic of Congo never promised to repay Zimbabwe for its efforts
in the Great Lakes conflict and there was certainly no “verbal agreement”
between the two Sadc allies for compensation to be paid to the Zimbabwe Defence
Forces, the Zimbabwe Independent has been told.
Letters to the Editor
News Analysis 3
Mugabe
holds key to effectiveness of new cabinet — analysts
Comment
Reformers
held hostage to old power structure
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Of
baboons, moments of weakness and hooligans
Comment
Voting
for change
Face to Face
Zanu
PF’s election mascot says he is not for hire
$20m Zanu PF channelled to land siezure remains
unaccounted for
THERE
is concern that the $20 million the ruling Zanu PF party channelled to the war
veterans from its depleted coffers in February to bolster its now
three-month-old land seizure campaign was abused, the Zimbabwe Independent has
learnt.
Diamond company to pay Zimbabwe for role in Congo
ZIMBABWE
will be partly paid for its participation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) conflict from proceeds from the controversial Oryx Diamonds company which
is seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange, the Zimbabwe Independent
established this week.
Govt orders $3b arms from China
IN
the midst of the worst economic crisis the country has ever experienced and an
acute foreign currency shortage, the government has placed a $3 billion order
for military hardware from China, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.
Controversy over $600m spare parts for ZNA
DEALS
for the procurement of spare parts worth $600 million for Zimbabwe National
Army armoured vehicles have sparked controversy with allegations of
back-handers involving civilians and senior officers, the Zimbabwe Independent
learnt this week.
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The
Great Dictator and Gandhi’s reminder
Mash West appeals against Paradza’s disqualification
ZANU
PF’s Mashonaland West province has appealed to the party’s first secretary,
President Robert Mugabe, to have the election directorate’s decision to bar
former journalist Kindness Paradza from contesting the party’s parliamentary
primaries in Makonde overturned.
DRC belligerents obstruct peace
MILITARY
liaison officers of the United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic of
Congo (Monuc) are facing problems in securing the cooperation of the
belligerent camps — including Zimbabwe — to facilitate deployment of a UN
peacekeeping force, it emerged this week.
More surprises expected in Zanu PF primaries
THE
Zanu PF primary elections — which have seen a lot of surprises with
heavyweights being defeated by upstarts — seem set to produce more dramatic
results.
Gezi accused of imposing candidates in Mash Central
MASHONALAND
Central Zanu PF leadership is under fire for imposing candidates on the
electorate, a move which could create divisions in the province, the Zimbabwe
Independent has gathered.
Taskforce divided over Mugabe’s exit
THE
15-member Zanu PF taskforce appointed to probe reasons for the resounding “No”
vote in the recent referendum and devise strategies for electoral success in
April is divided over whether to formally ask the party’s first secretary
Robert Mugabe to clarify his retirement plans, the Zimbabwe Independent has
gathered.
Mahachi in trouble over ‘No’ vote
MINISTER
of Defence Moven Mahachi last Friday said he was prepared to step down as Zanu
PF secretary for the commissariat and culture after he came under fire from the
party’s highest decision-making body, the politburo, and the central committee
for failing to prepare the party sufficiently for the recent referendum, the
Zimbabwe Independent has gathered.
Zanu PF shows Mugabe red card
UNCERTAINTY
surrounds the future of President Robert Mugabe following a sustained assault
on his stewardship by hitherto loyal party members who now see him as a
liability.
Letters to the editor
Cabinet Performance review
Voters
must keep leaders on their toes
Zanu PF, Hutu rebels sign military pact
THE
ruling Zanu PF party and a Burundi rebel group fighting to overthrow President
Pierre Buyoya’s military regime in Bujumbura have signed an agreement for
military cooperation, the Zimbabwe Independent learnt this week.
Hutu rebels seek arms from Zim
A
HIGH-POWERED four-member delegation of Burundi Hutu rebel leaders is in the
country to enlist government support in overthrowing Major Pierre Buyoya’s
Tutsi minority military regime in Bujumbura, the Zimbabwe Independent learnt
yesterday.
Mnangagwa in charge of DRC operations
THE
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Emmerson Mnangagwa
received instructions earlier this year from President Robert Mugabe to oversee
the country’s military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sources
told the Zimbabwe Independent this week.
Muckraker Column
Unrepentant
Tatchell brings outrage to Harare
Viewpoint
Zanu
PF: time to clean house
Zanu PF gives Mataure two-year sentence
THE
controversial MP for Chimanimani, Michael Mataure, was last week given a
two-year wholly suspended sentence by the ruling party’s disciplinary committee
on condition that he does not make any more scathing attacks on the party’s
leadership in the next five years, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.
No confidence vote for Zanu PF executive
POLITICAL
differences within Zanu PF’s Bulawayo province deepened this week as district
leaders passed a vote of no confidence in the provincial executive led by Edson
Ncube, it has emerged.
Masvingo faction in bid to unseat Mudenge
IN
an unprecedented move, Zanu PF has deployed senior politburo members to monitor
crucial party district elections in Masvingo North where party favourite,
Foreign Affairs minister Stan Mudenge, is facing a challenge for a
parliamentary seat from young lawyer and politician Bruno Mugabe, the Zimbabwe
Independent has learnt
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Professor
doing the commission a disservice
Ndhlovu accused of backing Zvobgo for president
ZANU
PF investigations into the flouting of party regulations in the volatile
Mashonaland West province have taken a new turn with sources within Zanu PF
claiming there is a conspiracy to remove the faction led by provincial chairman
Charles Ndhlovu which is accused of clandestinely stoking Eddison Zvobgo’s
presidential ambitions, the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt.
Cutting Edge 2
Ministers
are rewarded for under-performance
Ministerial salary hikes outrageous — analysts
THE
recent award of a bumper 182% salary increment to cabinet ministers has raised
eyebrows among the public and injected new steam in the already heated debate
about the size and efficiency of President Mugabe’s cabinet.
Political intrigue at Zanu PF women’s meeting
THE
Zanu PF Women’s League conference held in Harare last weekend to elect a new
executive was used as a dress rehearsal for public campaigns and backroom
intrigues by the ruling party’s heavyweights ahead of next year’s election,
political analysts said.
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Groping
in the dark for president’s speech
Editor’s Memo and Feedback Letters.
Hungwe provokes storm in Masvingo
CONFRONTATION
is looming between Minister of State in Vice-President Simon Muzenda’s office,
Tsungirirai Hungwe, and the Masvingo provincial leadership over alleged acts of
insubordination by the non-constituency MP during the recent district elections
in the politically volatile town, the Zimbabwe Independent established
yesterday.
Mayoral race hots up in Mutare
BATTLE
lines are drawn for the weekend’s Zanu PF primary elections to choose the
party’s candidate for the forthcoming executive mayoral elections in the
eastern border city of Mutare where three contestants will be fighting to
represent the party, the Zimbabwe Independent heard yesterday.
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Independent Comment
Army in $2b housing project
THE
Zimbabwe Defence Forces have embarked on a multi-million dollar housing project
for senior officers on land next to Commando Barracks in Cranborne, it has been
learnt.
Zanu PF in move to ensure party stalwarts run in
mayoral elections
THE
ruling Zanu PF has tightened its vetting process for aspiring mayoral
candidates in a bid to ensure that only party loyalists with a record of
unwavering political allegiance stood in the forthcoming elections.
Secret body set up to take charge of DRC strategy
THE
government, rapidly running out of money to pay for Zimbabwe’s forces currently
deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has set up a secret body to take
charge of strategy and identify new sources of revenue to fund the war, the
Zimbabwe Independent has learnt.
Chinese take-away won’t help Zimbabwe
THE
$1,1 billion pledge secured by President Robert Mugabe during his recent trip
to China is unlikely to prove the magic wand to wish away the multitude of
problems currently bedevilling the country, observers said this week.
Letters to the Editor
Factional tensions over Mutare mayoral race
MANICALAND
Province is set to become a political battlefield as two Zanu PF factions once again
lock horns over the Mutare mayoral post.
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Zexcom funds looted
War
veterans lose millions
Projects financed by the Zimbabwe Ex-Combatants Investment Fund (Zexcom)
have been looted of millions of dollars prejudicing thousands of liberation war
veterans, a report by an internal investigations committee has revealed.
Letters
to the Editor
Letters
to the Editor
As
Sadc split deepens
Kabila’s allies renew commitment
to war
LAST week’s decision by the leaders of
Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe to seek a military solution to the impasse in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo effectively scuppers the Sadc peace initiative
led by Zambia’s President Chiluba and is bound to deepen the existing fault lines in
the region.
Mahachi
denies ZDF training Hutu militiamen
DEFENCE minister Moven Mahachi has dismissed reports that
Zimbabwe is training Hutu militiamen to buttress the flagging war effort of
allied forces fighting to uphold the regime of President Laurent Kabila in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Parliament
to recommend probe into Transnational bid
Parliament is expected to recommend an investigation into
Transnational Holdings Ltd’s attempted acquisition of a 43%
stake in Zimbabwe Financial Holdings Ltd (Finhold), the Zimbabwe Independent
learnt this week.
Transnational
in bid to take over Finhold
TRANSNATIONAL Holdings Ltd, owned by a consortium of
black businessmen, is understood to have pitched for a significant stake in
Zimbabwe Financial Holdings Ltd (Finhold) in a take-over bid widely seen as a
precursor to the formation of a giant financial services holding company.
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Comment
Mahachi
has choice not to appear in court — AG
THE director of the Civil Division in the
Attorney-General’s office, Lillian Goredema,
yesterday said Defence minister Moven Mahachi and two officials from his
ministry had a choice to stay away or appear before the High Court because they
were not subpoenaed.
Letters
to the Editor
Independent
Comment
Eric
Bloch Column
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Column
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Eric
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Editor’s Memo & Feedback
CCJP
report reveals systematic torture
THE Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP),
shocked by the torture of journalists, this week made public a 13-year-old
report which chronicles the torture tactics of Zimbabwe’s
security agents and horrific stories told by victims of torture.
Medical
report confirms journalists were tortured
A DETAILED medical report by a Harare orthopaedic surgeon
and trauma specialist has revealed that two Standard newspaper journalists were
assaulted and tortured during their recent detention by military and CIO
agents.
Letters
to the Editor
Candid
Comment
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Editor’s Memo & Feedback
State
criminals must be held to account
NOT content with abduction, unlawful detention and
contempt of court, Zimbabwe’s authorities this week added
assault and torture to the list of crimes they will be held to account for.
Muckraker
Independent
Comment
IMF
makes policy shift on statements
THE International Monetary Fund has taken a policy
decision to disregard anything President Mugabe might say on land and the
economy and instead focus on agreements reached with individual ministers.
Judge
orders editor’s release.... but Defence
ministry defies him
HIGH COURT judge Justice George Smith yesterday granted
an order for the release of Standard newspaper editor Mark Chavunduka who was
illegally detained earlier this week by military authorities for publishing a
story on a foiled military coup.
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SPECIAL
EDITION - Standard lodges Contempt of Court plea
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2.The Standard
Magazine: What's On Air...—He “had to”go...
IT’S
a great shame when your internal upheavals, orchestrated by a few misguided
geriatrics and their younger sidekicks, are the cause of boisterous and
animated debate in a neighbouring country’s parlia- ment.
Magazine: MISS ZIM PREGNANT?
THE
reigning Miss Zimbabwe faces the unprecedented possibility of being stripped of
her title if allegations that she is pregnant—or of having aborted—prove to be
true.
MAHACHI KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT
MOVEN
Enoch Mahachi, minister of defence, has died. He was 49. Mahachi died in Nyanga
yesterday evening in a car accident on his way from Mutare to Nyanga. He had
attended a Zanu PF Manicaland provincial meeting in the afternoon.
ARMY CHEFS LOOT CONGO DIAMONDS
SENIOR
Zimbabwe Defence Forces officers are allegedly heavily involved in t he looting
of diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) despite being exonerated
by a United Nations report on the plunder of DRC resources by foreign forces,
The Standard has learnt.
Beta attacks Manyonda
MUTARE—Former
Zanu PF Manicaland provincial chairman, Shadreck Beta, has accused former
provincial governor, Kenneth Manyonda, of fanning divisions within the party in
order to secure for himself the provincial chairmanship.
Chido Makunike On Sunday—War veterans should be
ashamed!
CHENJERAI
Hunzvi claims to be a liberation war veteran, although many of my war veteran
friends and relatives are dubious of this claim. It now turns out that he may
have ‘liberated’ millions of dollars from the bank accounts of the war veterans
association.
Comment & Letters to the Editor
Chido Makunike On Sunday—Are we going to look after
Kabila’s family too?
I
WISH to express my condolences to President Mugabe on the death of his close
friend, Laurent Kabila, unelected president of the DRC.
War vets stick to bonus demands
LIBERATION
war veterans have vowed to continue pressing for an annual bonus, despite
defence minister Moven Mahachi’s pronouncement that as pensioners, they were
not entitled to any.
No bonuses for war vets
THE
Minister of defence, Moven Mahachi, has dismissed outright war veterans’
demands of 100% bonuses on their monthly allowances of $4 000.
War vets demand 100% bonuses
WAR
veterans are demanding from government bonuses amounting to 100% of their
monthly allowances, The Standard learnt last week.
Mahachi promises residents severe beatings
THE
government has threatened to unleash soldiers on Harare residents to crush
public protests calling for the removal of President Mugabe, planned for next
month.
Comment & Letters to the Editor
Mugabe won’t go without a fight
PRESIDENT
Mugabe, who seems to be on his knees as pressure mounts from all directions for
him to quit the country’s highest office, will not succumb to pressure and
leave the office he holds so dearly without a fight.
Army failing to pay troops
THE
cash crisis currently facing Zimbabwe has now caught up with the army as the
government has reportedly failed to pay subsistence allowances to troops
fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the last three months.
Comment & Letters to the Editor
Personality Profile—‘Zanu PF and MDC have failed’
MOSES
Mvenge, the former Zanu PF member of parliament for Mutare Central together
with about 19 other politicians who stood as independents in the June
parliamentary elections but lost, are ready to set up their own political party
if the idea meets with public approval.
Chido Makunike on Sunday—Anti-US propaganda will not
work because...
IF
the Zimbabwe Democracy Bill before the US Congress were to become law, it would
make things quite awkward on a personal level for many of our ministers.
Airforce pulls out of DRC
THE
Airforce of Zimbabwe (AFZ) has downsized its contingent in the Democratic
Republic of Congo by 75%, The Standard has been informed.
Comment & Letters to the Editor
MAHACHI’S DAUGHTER MARRIES ABIOLA’S SON
DEFENCE
minister, Moven Mahachi, has married off one of his twin daughters, Nyaradzai,
to the son of the late Nigerian business tycoon and politician, Moshood Abiola,
The Standard has discovered.
NEW CABINET ANNOUNCED • 17 ministers booted out •
Chen, Zvobgo, Kangai
PRESIDENT
Robert Mugabe last night announced the long-awaited cabinet, which saw a number
of his trusted liberation war colleagues dropped in the 19-member team.
Absurdities of the campaign trail
MANY
people want to get the election over and done with so that things can bet back
to as ‘normal’ as you can call the Zimbabwe of the last few years.
ZNA provides intelligence to war veterans on farm
invasions
THE
Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) is actively involved in the farm invasions by
groups of war veterans and Zanu PF supporters despite denials by defence
minister Moven Mahachi last week, The Standard has established.
Police cordone off city centre
FOR
the second time in a fortnight, police in Harare yesterday cordoned off the
city centre in a blitz aimed at ridding the city off illegal weapons which have
been used in a series of armed robberies that have rocked the city.
Army commander ordered to comply with court order
A
HIGH Court judge has ordered the commander of the Zimbabwe National Army,
Constantine Chiwenga, to permit the Deputy Sheriff, or his authorised
assistant, to enter into KG VI Barracks and serve summons on the commander
himself, and other senior army officers being sued by two journalists at The
Standard newspaper.
Let the drums roll. . .The gravy-train is coming to a
sad end
Farm invaders defy government
ZIMBABWE’s
war veterans yesterday defied government orders to vacate white-owned farms
they invaded to press their demand for land reform.
Chidzonga warns upstarts of tough fight
MAVIS
Chidzonga, the MP for Mhondoro, has accused senior members of Zanu PF of
attempting to unseat her and replace her with “political lightweights”.
Comment and Letters to the Editor
Journalists hit back at Mugabe
TWO
Standard journalists, Mark Chavunduka and Ray Choto, have dismissed President
Robert Mugabe’s version of the torture perpetrated against them by the military
and other agents of the state as cheap politicking.
SPCA ACCUSES ZDF OF PARROT-SMUGGLING
SENIOR
officials of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces are believed to be involved in the
illegal trafficking of parrots from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
1999: A year of despair and hope for The Standard
WITH
the winds of democracy blowing across the African continent, Zimbabweans were
this year, in January, shocked when President Mugabe’s government took the law
into its hands by illegally detaining and torturing two journalists from this
paper, Mark Chavunduka and Ray Choto.
MDC marches on Mahachi
NEW
opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),is seeking to boost
its support base ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections by embarking on a
rural outreach programme in Manicaland, The Standard has learnt.
Zimbabwe training Burundi militias?
THE
Guardian newspaper in Tanzania recently reported that armed militias were
trained by Zimbabwean troops currently in the DRC.
Row over Vic Falls
TWO
parastatals, National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) and the
Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management are involved in a bitter
fight over the control and ownership of the money-spinning Victoria Falls World
Heritage site.
Ndhlovu attacks Chanetsa in Mash West saga
THE
political power struggle in Zanu PF’s hottest province, Mashonaland West, took
a fresh twist last week, with the current provincial leadership calling on the
ruling party to investigate allegations being levelled against the provincial
governor, Peter Chanetsa, The Standard learnt this week.
Congo venture critised
BRUSSELS—The
Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s
main rebel group, said on Friday President Laurent Kabila was being
“irresponsible” in joining forces with Zimbabwe to exploit Congo’s rich mineral
resources.
ZDF chief in DRC mining ventures
VITALIS
Zvinavashe, chief of the armed forces, is among the directors of the company,
Osleg Private Limited, formed late last year to deal in the mining and selling
of gold and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Zapu sets team to monitor intimidation
THE
Matabeleland based political party, Zapu, has set-up a committee headed by its
vice secretary-general, Smith Mbedzi, to investigate and deal with complaints
relating to alleged intimidatory statements allegedly being made by senior
members of the ruling Zanu PF party.
‘Pay us if you want us as a reserve force’—War Vets
THE
controversial chairman of the Zimbabwe National War Veterans’ Association,
Chenjerai Hunzvi has demanded that the government pay the war veterans a normal
salary before they agree to be part of the Reserve Force of the Zimbabwe
Defence Forces, The Standard has learnt.
Fireworks at Zanu PF Women’s elections•Mugabe’s
favourites booted out
Zimbabwe’s
presidency of President Robert Mugabe and vice-president Simon Muzenda were
yesterday given a rude shock when their favourites were soundly trounced in the
ZanuPF Women’s League elections held in Harare yesterday.
Standard journalists claim damages of $2m each
LAWYERS
representing the editor of The Standard, Mark Chavunduka, and chief writer, Ray
Choto, have served notices on various state officials, including three cabinet
ministers, of their intention to institute legal proceedings against them for
the journalists’ illegal arrest and torture earlier this year.
Witch hunt in Mash West
THE
ruling Zanu PF’s secretary for commissariat and culture, Moven Mahachi, has set
up an investigation team to probe allegations that the party’s Mashonaland West
province is not being run according to party regulations, The Standard has
learnt.
Zanu PF women threaten to beat up Irene Zindi
THERE
was drama at the Zanu PF Harare provincial headquarters yesterday when angry
Epworth residence besieged the party’s offices along Fourth Street demanding
the provincial executive to allow Misheck Tanyanyiwa to contest in the district
elections.
Chimbetu being sued by promoter
A
legal battle is simmering between one of Zimbabwe’s leading musicians, Simon
Chimbetu, and a local music promoter, with a $450 000 lawsuit having been
instituted against Chimbetu.
Politburo reverses Mahachi order
THE
ruling Zanu PF’s politburo on Friday decided to validate the results of primary
elections held in Chinhoyi, Chegutu and Kadoma, thus effectively reversing a
nullification order declared by the party’s secretary for commissariat and
culture, Moven Mahachi, The Standard has learnt.
Improbable task for Young Warriors
THE
Zimbabwe national under 23 side will today book themselves a ticket to the
Johannesburg All Africa Games if they subdue Zambia with a seemingly impossible
4-0 margin at Rufaro Stadium.
Comment
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