R.I.P to a Zimbabwean Hero

Long before the uprising in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and the Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe’s own Mr. Mike Campbell took on the biggest and badest thug of them all. He took on Robert Mugabe.
The late great Mr. Campbell was a commercial farmer who made legal history when he took President Mugabe to the international court of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal in 2007 and won the case a year later.

Mr. Campbell sadly passed away at his temporary home in Harare on April 6.He never recovered from the abduction and brutal beatings meted out to him, his wife Angela and son-in-law Ben Freeth by Zanu-PF thugs late at night in a remote militia camp on June 29, 2008 just two days after the Presidential run-off election.

Our thoughts and prays are the Campbell family and our hope is that his battle was not in vein.

Ivory Coat. Zimbabweans neeed to learn

We as Zimbabweans should watch and learn from the opposition in Ivory Coast. A winner is a winner and no unity government to be formed with the loser.
Look at what a mess this GNU has been.
Come on Zimbabwe, it is time to rise and unite.

Police raid MDC-T offices

POLICE chanting liberation war songs on raided MDC-T headquarters
at Harvest House in Harare beating up party activists that had
converged to hold their primary elections.

What about Zimbabwe

Why the AU, UN NATO and the Arab leauge get involved with the situation, what about the situation in Zimbabwe?

We the people of Zimbabwe also demand help

Beatings and more beating for MDC

Opposition activists in Zimbabwe have said that they
were forced out of their homes and beaten for refusing to support President
Robert Mugabe, claiming that the attacks are 'state sponsored,' as the
police arrested those who complained, instead of helping them. Their claims come amid growing international concern about renewed political
violence in Zimbabwe.Barnabas, an activist speaking from a 'safe house' in
Harare, said: " They broke my arm and started hitting me along my spine with
a metal stake."

Shingai, another opposition activist said: " They came with petrol to my
house and threatened to burn me along with my family, but instead they just
beat me until I was unconscious."

Appeal against Bennett thrown out

Zimbabwe's Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an appeal against the
acquittal of Roy Bennett in an alleged plot to overthrow President Robert
Mugabe, his lawyer said on Thursday.

“The judgment was delivered by the Supreme Court today and the ruling said
the application against the acquittal of Roy Bennett had no chances of
success,” attorney Beatrice Mtetwa told AFP.

Bennett, a top aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, was acquitted in
May last year after a high court judge ruled the state had failed to connect
him to a plot against Mugabe.

Prosecutors filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the acquittal.

Bennett's case is one of the major stumbling blocks facing the unity
government between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, who had tapped him as deputy
agriculture minister in the unity government.

Mugabe has vowed he will never swear in Bennett.

The white 53-year-old former farmer was arrested in February 2009, shortly
before he was to be sworn in, over accusations that he had funded a plot to
topple Mugabe five years ago. -

Zimbabwe PM calls for 'divorce' with Mugabe

"We have reached a moment where we are saying, let's agree that this is not
working, it's dysfunctional," Mr Tsvangirai told a news conference at his
party's headquarters after the detention of one of his ministerial allies.

"Let's make arrangements to go for elections under a road map designed by
SADC (Southern African Development Community) so that we have a clear,
legitimate government."

"Even those with legendary patience, like some of us, have reached a stage
where we are saying enough is enough. There is obviously a breakdown in the
relationship between the parties," Mr Tsvangirai said.

"If people find that a marriage has reached irreconcilable differences, then
agree to a divorce."