Zimbabwe – Mugabe anger at Zanu-PF fighting

BBC
Video- Robert Mugabe: “The party is fighting itself, it’s eating itself up”
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has hit out at members of his own party for weakening their rule over the country.
Zanu-PF has been forced to share power with the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after disputed polls last year.

Tsvangirai’s terrifying gamble

Pambazuka News

A season of fear has returned to Zimbabwe, following Morgan Tsvangirai’s decision to ‘disengage’ from the country’s dysfunctional Government of National Unity, Mary Ndlovu writes in Pambazuka News. With unlawful arrests, abductions, beatings, torture, burning of homes and killings by Zanu PF and state agents on the increase again, ordinary Zimbabweans are sceptical that [...]

Fresh hope for Zimbabwe as Zuma takes over as mediator

Daily Nation
By KITSEPILE NYATHI, NATION Correspondent
There is renewed optimism that Zimbabwe’s on and off coalition government will be rescued after a regional body asked South African President Jacob Zuma to step in as the new facilitator.
Mr Zuma effectively replaces his predecessor Mr Thabo Mbeki who helped broker the historic power sharing agreement on September 15 [...]

Zimbabweans sued for torture case

BBC
Nine Zimbabwean human rights activists and others tortured in custody are suing government officials for $500m (£314m), their lawyers have said.
Jestina Mukoko and eight others are suing the police commissioner, a cabinet minister and police officers.
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that terrorism charges against her be dropped because she had been tortured.
Ms Mukoko’s lawyers [...]

ZIMBABWE: Catholic Bishops Speak on National Healing

CISA
PASTORAL LETTER ON NATIONAL HEALING AND RECONCILIATION
God Can Heal the Wounds of the Afflicted
1 October 2009
1. Introduction
The Spirit of the Lord is upon our land and God is ready to heal us. Today, as we struggle with the Global Political Agreement, national economic recovery, the national constitutional process, national healing, national visioning, etc., we must [...]

Zimbabwe drops activist charges

BBC
Follow up to story May 2009
Terrorism charges against a prominent Zimbabwean rights activist have been thrown out after a court ruled she had been tortured while in custody.
The Supreme Court granted Jestina Mukoko a permanent stay of prosecution after she told how security agents took her from her home and beat her.

Grace Mugabe’s dairy farm in deal with Nestlé

Mail and Guardian
Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, owns dairy farms that sell up to a million litres of milk a year to food giant Nestlé, London’s Sunday Telegraph reported.
Grace Mugabe took over six of the country’s most valuable white-owned farms around 2002, the newspaper said.

Letter from Zimbabwe

Independent Catholic News
By: Clemens Freyer SJ
“Who is my neighbour?” For us in St George’s there are 1,200 of them, just across Borrowdale Road behind bars in Harare Central Prison.
Times are bad for all of us – more so for those who have no contacts, no lobby, only guards. Since the beginning of 2009 Fr Koni [...]

ZIMBABWE: Date Set for Ordination of New Bulawayo Archbishop

BULAWAYO, August 28, 2009 (CISA) -The new Archbishop for Bulawayo Diocese, Father Alex Thomas Kaliyanil, is to be ordained on 12 September, at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair show grounds, the Zimbabwe Telegraph has reported.

ZIMBABWE: Gender Activists Want Equality in Constitution Reform

HARARE, September 4, 2009 (CISA) -Women’s rights activists are worried that the Zimbabwe’s latest constitutional reform process will again address the concerns of women because only 9 of the 25 members of the Select Committee, tasked in mid-July with drafting the constitution, are women.