Friday Progs

17 February, 2012

  • Callback

Banda says PM Tsvangirai is sometimes careless in choosing words when delivering speeches, as when he said Mugabe was chosen by God, when he knows Mugabe is an evil killer; while Khumalo says Jonathan Moyo’s propaganda rhetoric about destroying the draft of the new constitution is causing panic and confusion in most people & fear is returning to their minds.

 

  • Beyond Protest

Piers Pigou, research coordinator for the International Crisis Group, talks about their new report on the targeted sanctions issue. He says a comprehensive review of the sanctions and their impact is needed and it’s important for the EU to show flexibility on the issue, by allowing officials on the list to apply for visas when they need to travel on official business. Pigou said South Africa should exert much more pressure on the GPA partners to move forward with the implementation of the agreement, with the emphasis on specific time frames.

 

  • Letter From Zimbabwe

Cathy writes: ” Nowhere is there a more graphic demonstration of the national shame we carry around than in our supermarkets. Going shopping in Zimbabwe with a notebook tells the most shocking story of where we are in terms producing our own food eleven years after Zanu PF’s land seizures .