Friday Progs

18 May, 2012

• Callback
• Mthombeni says in Seke most poor people have realised that being used by politicians to commit acts of violence against each other won’t change their plight; while Bova says almost all the provinces in Zimbabwe support devolution of power apart from corrupt and thieving ZANU PF top brass who want to protect their own interests.
• Callback – Listen here

• Beyond Protest
• Lionel Saungweme, who attended the Information and Communications Technology conference in Bulawayo on Thursday, talks about the theme- “Women and Girls in ICT”- and how this is important in Zimbabwe. He says technology has given young girls access to education and opportunities that they were deprived of when families could only afford to educate boys. But the downside has been an increase in abuses of woemn, through pornography and “cyber bullying”. Face of Zimbabwe UK model Nokuthaba Vuma talks about the fundraising event she organised in coventry this week, to raise money for the two children in Zimbabwe that she adopted. She plans to meet them when she goes there in December.
• Beyond Protest – Listen here

• Letter From Zimbabwe
• Cathy Buckles writes: “Kilometre after endless kilometre of seized but now deserted, derelict farms. Once thriving fields now empty, tractors and people working in the lands just a fading memory from the past. Farm buildings stripped of roofs, door and window frames look as if they’ve been hit by bombs but in fact you know they just been destroyed by another kind of war: a rabble of political pawns who came and grabbed, in the name of land reform, and then left.”
• Letter From Zimbabwe – Listen here