THE MDC-T is demanding drastic action against Zanu PF youths who last week
threatened Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai with unspecified repercussions
for not advocating for the removal of sanctions imposed by western
countries.
The demand, made after Zanu PF youths marched through the streets of Harare
on Wednesday is set to further widen the gulf between the two parties in the
unity government.
The youths gave Tsvangirai a March 24 ultimatum to call for the removal of
the sanctions.
The latest spat comes at a time when Zanu PF and MDC-T are already trading
accusations over political violence in Epworth, which left several people
injured last weekend.
The parties are also sharply divided over the recently gazetted
indigenisation law.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Rhodesia, We miss you
Jacarandas, blue tinged trees,
Laughing children, all say please.
Smiling nannies loud and chatting,
Queens Club cricket, Rhodies batting.
Braais and picnics, Maleme Dam,
Tanganda tea and Colcom Ham.
Greeting friends to talk and talk,
Hillside Dams were safe to walk.
Snakes and mossies, flying ants,
Schoolboy rugby, winning chants.
Swimming parties,sleep-in nights,
Christmas Carols by candle light.
Honest Police, able and willing,
Downing's rolls ten for a shilling.
Sunday car trips, Matopos caves,
OM 's and Busters Saturday raves.
Week-end outings to Vic Falls ,
Dancing and Ballet in Curtain Calls.
Beautiful gardens, Centenary Park ,
Window shopping just after dark.
Burger and Hot-dogs, Eskimo Ices,
Aromas from cafes of curry and spices.
Snow white tackies, Bata shoes,
Charity fetes, tombola and booze.
Clear blue skies or heavy rain,
Wish I could live it all over again.
Memories fade, so much to tell.
Oh Yes, Dear Rhodesia
We miss you.
Laughing children, all say please.
Smiling nannies loud and chatting,
Queens Club cricket, Rhodies batting.
Braais and picnics, Maleme Dam,
Tanganda tea and Colcom Ham.
Greeting friends to talk and talk,
Hillside Dams were safe to walk.
Snakes and mossies, flying ants,
Schoolboy rugby, winning chants.
Swimming parties,sleep-in nights,
Christmas Carols by candle light.
Honest Police, able and willing,
Downing's rolls ten for a shilling.
Sunday car trips, Matopos caves,
OM 's and Busters Saturday raves.
Week-end outings to Vic Falls ,
Dancing and Ballet in Curtain Calls.
Beautiful gardens, Centenary Park ,
Window shopping just after dark.
Burger and Hot-dogs, Eskimo Ices,
Aromas from cafes of curry and spices.
Snow white tackies, Bata shoes,
Charity fetes, tombola and booze.
Clear blue skies or heavy rain,
Wish I could live it all over again.
Memories fade, so much to tell.
Oh Yes, Dear Rhodesia
We miss you.
Monday, February 22, 2010
86 and counting. Mugabes gift to Zimbabwe
As Mugabe blows the 86 candles on his lavished cake, Zimbabweans look on to:
1) Continued ZANU (PF) Occupation
2) Continued harassment and torture
3) Continued detention and murder of MDC supporters
4) 90 % Unemployment
5) An average life span of 34 years old
6) A country looted by Bob and his demons
7) A unity government that is at collapsing point
8) Outstanding agreed upon unity issues far from implementation
9) Continued farm invasions of which his wife Grace has 12 of the most productive
10) A Zimbabwe run by Satan
Is God punishing us for the sins of our ancestors or does the devil fear Mugabe making hell another Zimbabwe?
www.helpzims.com
1) Continued ZANU (PF) Occupation
2) Continued harassment and torture
3) Continued detention and murder of MDC supporters
4) 90 % Unemployment
5) An average life span of 34 years old
6) A country looted by Bob and his demons
7) A unity government that is at collapsing point
8) Outstanding agreed upon unity issues far from implementation
9) Continued farm invasions of which his wife Grace has 12 of the most productive
10) A Zimbabwe run by Satan
Is God punishing us for the sins of our ancestors or does the devil fear Mugabe making hell another Zimbabwe?
www.helpzims.com
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Mandel, we salute you
Twenty years ago, I was waiting for my O level results when the best news of all came about. The freedom of Nelson Mandela.
Prayers of millions the world over were answered and a true gentleman was given his freedom. Now, it was a matter of time before he becomes the President of South Africa.
I remember how whites were talking about how screwed they were and how their country was going to the pigs. Mandela on the other hand showed compassion and commitment to the cause. Freedom and equality to all.
Mandela embraced the same white people that jailed him and treated him worse than one can imagine. He stayed his course and ran his race.
Oh how I pray that Mugabe could learn and implement the tactics of Mandela, especially the stepping down aspect.
Just like I prayed for the freedom of Mandela, I will continue to pray for the freedom of Zimbabwe and the tearing down of its corrupt UN Godly government.
Terrorists like Mugabe need to be tor down.
www.helpzims.com
Prayers of millions the world over were answered and a true gentleman was given his freedom. Now, it was a matter of time before he becomes the President of South Africa.
I remember how whites were talking about how screwed they were and how their country was going to the pigs. Mandela on the other hand showed compassion and commitment to the cause. Freedom and equality to all.
Mandela embraced the same white people that jailed him and treated him worse than one can imagine. He stayed his course and ran his race.
Oh how I pray that Mugabe could learn and implement the tactics of Mandela, especially the stepping down aspect.
Just like I prayed for the freedom of Mandela, I will continue to pray for the freedom of Zimbabwe and the tearing down of its corrupt UN Godly government.
Terrorists like Mugabe need to be tor down.
www.helpzims.com
March Madness
On March the 1st Mugabe and his cronies have a law in force to give blacks (ZANU PF)
51% shares and control of foreign owned businesses.
This is total madness and just another sign that Mugabe only things of himself and his thugs as opposed to the millions of suffering Zimbabweans.
Philip Chiyangwa, the so called millionaire businessman nephew of Robert Mugabe made tons of money this way. This is plain old theft.
www.hepzims.com
51% shares and control of foreign owned businesses.
This is total madness and just another sign that Mugabe only things of himself and his thugs as opposed to the millions of suffering Zimbabweans.
Philip Chiyangwa, the so called millionaire businessman nephew of Robert Mugabe made tons of money this way. This is plain old theft.
www.hepzims.com
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Mugabe Strips Tsvangirai Of Powers
A fresh confrontation is looming in Zimbabwe's shaky power sharing
government after President Robert Mugabe reportedly ordered all ministers to
stop reporting to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai but to the two Zanu PF
Vice-Presidents in a bid to demote the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
leader.
Highly placed government sources have told Radio VOP that the Mugabe issued
the directive through a memo written and signed by the country's chief
secretary to the president and cabinet Misheck Sibanda last week.
The controversial directive by Mugabe, which goes against the Global
Political Agreement (GPA) which gave power to Tsvangirai, is likely to
escalate tensions in the transitional government following last week's
collapse of talks between Zanu PF and the two MDC formations.
government after President Robert Mugabe reportedly ordered all ministers to
stop reporting to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai but to the two Zanu PF
Vice-Presidents in a bid to demote the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
leader.
Highly placed government sources have told Radio VOP that the Mugabe issued
the directive through a memo written and signed by the country's chief
secretary to the president and cabinet Misheck Sibanda last week.
The controversial directive by Mugabe, which goes against the Global
Political Agreement (GPA) which gave power to Tsvangirai, is likely to
escalate tensions in the transitional government following last week's
collapse of talks between Zanu PF and the two MDC formations.
Election whistleblower living in fear after death threats
Shepherd Yuda, the 38 year-old former prison officer, famed for exposing how
Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party rigged the ballot in the 2008 Presidential
run-off, revealed on Wednesday he still receives threatening letters and
phone calls.
The clandestine footage Yuda shot inside jail gave incontrovertible proof of
how the military hierachy stole the elections for Mugabe by forcing rank and
file members of the armed forces to vote for him in front of their
superiors.
After the expose, Yuda fled to the UK where he's now in his second year at
university studying applied science and forensic investigations. Speaking on
the programme, The Hidden Story, he admits paying a price for his actions.
He has been receiving torrents of abusive and threatening e-mails since
2008, and his family and close friends have not been spared either.
"I am very concerned about the harassment of relatives and friends in
Zimbabwe," Yuda said, adding that "there were threats sent to my e-mail and
made to my mobile phone - death threats. I'm still getting hate mail and
some phone calls."
He added; "They are truly stomach-turning and show what sort of venomous
monsters we are up against as pro-democracy activists. At times the messages
and hate mail left me shaken up and terrified, but I worry much when the
same people turn against my family and friends who had nothing to do with
what I did," Yuda said.
Some of the texts were 'graphic' and made him fear for his life and were
considered so severe that security has been stepped up around him and his
family. Though the police keep a discreet distance, Yuda is safe in the
knowledge that all his movements are shadowed, and home closely monitored.
"I have changed homes twice now in the last year, and changed my mobile
number a couple of times, but you still get a sense that there is a baying
mob hunting you down out there - like a pack of wolves. Personally, I can
fend for myself but I am worried about those near me," Yuda said.
The original plan for the secret filming was to show what life was like
inside Zimbabwe's prison system but, by chance, Yuda was present with his
hidden camera when a senior prisons officer organised vote-rigging by
getting fellow prison officers to fill in their postal ballots in his
presence.
He also obtained footage of ZANU PF rallies where voters were told to
pretend to be illiterate so that an official could fill in their ballot
paper for them in favour of Mugabe. Since then state security agents and
ZANU PF supporters have hunted him down obviously without success.
Last week at a funeral wake for his young sister who passed away in
Chikangwe, Karoi, his home town, CIO agents visited his family thinking he
would fly from the UK to attend the burial.
"I was warned in advance that I would put myself in grave danger if I went
to the funeral in Karoi. My family is still under surveillance and the
minute my sister died, state security agents knew about it and went looking
for me. I would have loved to have gone but because I have refugee status in
the UK, laws don't allow me to travel to Zimbabwe," Yuda said.
"I don't regret doing what I did. I wanted the world to know that Mugabe
rigs elections and I'm happy they saw it. I have an uncle who lost a leg
during the electioneering period, and I know of many people who died because
Mugabe used the military to kill unarmed civilians," Yuda added.
Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party rigged the ballot in the 2008 Presidential
run-off, revealed on Wednesday he still receives threatening letters and
phone calls.
The clandestine footage Yuda shot inside jail gave incontrovertible proof of
how the military hierachy stole the elections for Mugabe by forcing rank and
file members of the armed forces to vote for him in front of their
superiors.
After the expose, Yuda fled to the UK where he's now in his second year at
university studying applied science and forensic investigations. Speaking on
the programme, The Hidden Story, he admits paying a price for his actions.
He has been receiving torrents of abusive and threatening e-mails since
2008, and his family and close friends have not been spared either.
"I am very concerned about the harassment of relatives and friends in
Zimbabwe," Yuda said, adding that "there were threats sent to my e-mail and
made to my mobile phone - death threats. I'm still getting hate mail and
some phone calls."
He added; "They are truly stomach-turning and show what sort of venomous
monsters we are up against as pro-democracy activists. At times the messages
and hate mail left me shaken up and terrified, but I worry much when the
same people turn against my family and friends who had nothing to do with
what I did," Yuda said.
Some of the texts were 'graphic' and made him fear for his life and were
considered so severe that security has been stepped up around him and his
family. Though the police keep a discreet distance, Yuda is safe in the
knowledge that all his movements are shadowed, and home closely monitored.
"I have changed homes twice now in the last year, and changed my mobile
number a couple of times, but you still get a sense that there is a baying
mob hunting you down out there - like a pack of wolves. Personally, I can
fend for myself but I am worried about those near me," Yuda said.
The original plan for the secret filming was to show what life was like
inside Zimbabwe's prison system but, by chance, Yuda was present with his
hidden camera when a senior prisons officer organised vote-rigging by
getting fellow prison officers to fill in their postal ballots in his
presence.
He also obtained footage of ZANU PF rallies where voters were told to
pretend to be illiterate so that an official could fill in their ballot
paper for them in favour of Mugabe. Since then state security agents and
ZANU PF supporters have hunted him down obviously without success.
Last week at a funeral wake for his young sister who passed away in
Chikangwe, Karoi, his home town, CIO agents visited his family thinking he
would fly from the UK to attend the burial.
"I was warned in advance that I would put myself in grave danger if I went
to the funeral in Karoi. My family is still under surveillance and the
minute my sister died, state security agents knew about it and went looking
for me. I would have loved to have gone but because I have refugee status in
the UK, laws don't allow me to travel to Zimbabwe," Yuda said.
"I don't regret doing what I did. I wanted the world to know that Mugabe
rigs elections and I'm happy they saw it. I have an uncle who lost a leg
during the electioneering period, and I know of many people who died because
Mugabe used the military to kill unarmed civilians," Yuda added.
Tsvangirai Says Early Elections Could Solve Zimbabwe's Political Problems
"There is going to be a deadlock, and I have said to our party
representative that let's finalize this, let's not procrastinate by saying
we are going to have another meeting let's see what we have agreed and what
we have not agreed," said Morgan Tsvangirai. "Therefore we are able to say
to president Zuma and SADC that ZANU-PF is refusing to implement and
therefore as far as we are concerned the only solution is that let's agree
on a road map to an election."
Only last month the prime minister rejected a call by South Africa's
President Jacob Zuma for elections next year. Mr. Zuma is mandated by the
Southern African Development Community - or SADC - with facilitating talks
on the implementation of the so-called Global Political Agreement (GPA)
which brought about Zimbabwe's power-sharing government. SADC is a guarantor
of the deal along with the African Union and South Africa. South Africa is a
member of SADC.
representative that let's finalize this, let's not procrastinate by saying
we are going to have another meeting let's see what we have agreed and what
we have not agreed," said Morgan Tsvangirai. "Therefore we are able to say
to president Zuma and SADC that ZANU-PF is refusing to implement and
therefore as far as we are concerned the only solution is that let's agree
on a road map to an election."
Only last month the prime minister rejected a call by South Africa's
President Jacob Zuma for elections next year. Mr. Zuma is mandated by the
Southern African Development Community - or SADC - with facilitating talks
on the implementation of the so-called Global Political Agreement (GPA)
which brought about Zimbabwe's power-sharing government. SADC is a guarantor
of the deal along with the African Union and South Africa. South Africa is a
member of SADC.
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