News stories for Thursday 29 July |
MDC harassment continues as ZPF start ‘electioneering’
Harassment of the MDC is continuing, amid widespread fears that ZANU PF has started an early election campaign, and has stepped up its clamp down on the MDC. The latest case is the arrest of MDC deputy organizing secretary, Senator Morgen Komichi, who was arrested Wednesday at Lupane police station in Matabeleland North, on charges of communicating so-called ‘falsehoods’. |
Exiled businessman warns Interfin over its takeover of disputed bank
An exiled Zimbabwean businessman who says his bank was illegally seized by the government in 2004, has condemned the recent takeover of that same institution by Interfin Financial Services. Gilbert Muponda says he owns Century Bank through his ENG Capital investment company, but was forced to flee the country at the height of a controversial crackdown on the financial sector in 2004.
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Media Commission issues four more licenses, but Aippa still stands
The Zimbabwe Media Commission has announced that four new media houses have been granted licenses to operate. The ZMC chairperson, Godfrey Majonga, said the Cable News Agency and the African Open Media Initiative will run news agencies, while Berimark Enterprises will publish a monthly magazine called Zimceleb and Feyjay Investments will publish a weekly sports magazine called Sport/24. |
Robert Mugabe’s sister Sabina, has died
ZANU PF has announced that Sabina Mugabe has died after a long illness. She was 76. ZANU PF spokesman, Rugare Gumbo, said Sabina would be buried at Heroes Acre after the politburo were ‘unanimous in granting her that honour.’
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MDC-T to hold major rally in Hwange on Saturday
A statement from the MDC announced that the party leadership will address thousands of supporters at a rally in Hwange, Matebeleland North on Saturday.
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‘Operation Shut Your Mouth’
The violence and intimidation being perpetrated by ZANU-PF to sabotage the constitutional outreach programme has turned into a fully-fledged official campaign dubbed, Operation “Vhara Muromo”, which means “Shut Your Mouth”.
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| See previous news stories |
Constitutional Outreach |
| Taking the Constitutional Debate to the People - PDF |
| Bulawayo Daily Agenda: Constitution update 28 July |
| Constitutional law expert: ‘Practise what is law’ |
| Sokwanele: Constitution Outreach 22 July - 28 July - PDF |
| Byo Daily Agenda Constitutional outreach 27 July |
| ZZZICOMP Constitutional outreach report 1-12 July - PDF |
| Sokwanele: Constitution Outreach 19 July - 22 July - PDF |
| Outreach Meetings:Manicaland: 26 July to 7 August - PDF |
| Byo Daily Agenda: constitutional outreach 20 July |
| The MDC’s Constitution principles - PDF |
| CHRA constitution watch - 21 July |
| Constitution: A nation divided against itself |
| Key Recent Reports on Zimbabwe click here |
Recent Zimbabwe stories of interest |
| PF-Zapu stalwarts ditch Joshua Nkomo |
| Building a Jerusalem in Zimbabwe's green and pleasant land |
| Zimbabwe Football Association suspends chief executive |
Heart of the Matter, Thursday July 29, 2010 |
| MDC: All roads lead to Hwange on Saturday |
| ZBC Does Not Belong To Either ZANU-PF or MDC |
| The MDC Today 28 July |
| Mbare Chimurenga choir song must be banned |
| ZPP Zim violence Report June 2010 - PDF |
| Will Zimbabwe Crisis Kill Kimberley Process |
The MDC Today 27 July |
| Zimbabwe Mobile Phone Firms Clash |
| Fund raiser for torture victims Zimbabwe - PDF |
| Henry Olonga on Behind the Headlines |
| Devolution will benefit the whole country – Mutambara |
| MDC: The Real Change Times 26 July |
| Silence on Zim rights abuses condemned |
| Counting the cost of Zimbabwe's 'blood diamonds' |
Is Zimbabwe guilty of xenophobia as foreigners rot in jail? |
| Gono refuses IMF audit of Reserve Bank |
| Zimbabwe Vigil Diary – 24th July 2010 |
HOT SEAT with Irene Petras– Transcript 23/07/10 |
| OUTSIDE LOOKING IN A letter from the diaspora |
| See more relevant reports on Zimbabwe |
Other things you should know |
| Mandela driver in murder charge |
| How Britain's athletics hero escaped the chaos of Somalia |
| ANC releases brutal leadership review |
| South Africa to lose six kings and queens |
| Rwanda's opposition silenced |
| Tanzania: Albino killer sentenced to death |
| Sudan: The annoyance of International justice - PDF |
| The Next Empire -- Africa General -PDF |
| US Partners strengthen provision of HIV/ AIDS support |
| Zambia: The three decade burden of HIV/AIDS - PDF |
| Africa readies troops for Somalia |
| SA: Objections to info Bill 'emotional and hysterical' |
| SA teachers union warns of strike |
| SA failing to reduce child mortality |
| Fifa official shot in Joburg |
| US alarmed by deteriorating security in Darfur |
| The bridge man of Langa Township |
| Swaziland: Journalists who 'write bad things will die' |
| Every penny we give in aid to Africa must be made to count |
Wildlife & environment in trouble articles |
| Gabon tour operator pulls plug on Africa's Eden |
| Amazon bridge to open world's greatest rainforest to development |
| Scores of hippos killed by anthrax outbreak in Uganda |
| Climate change 'undeniable' |
| Catalonia bans bullfighting in landmark Spain vote |
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