Weekend Progs

for 19 – 20 May, 2012

• Callback
• Shotty says peasant farmers in Masvingo South are failing to sell their cotton because there are no buyers and the Grain Marketing Board is offering peanuts to buy it; Chakuma says there has been an increased number of youths trying to get identity cards and register to vote but they are frustrated by the demands of paper work from the Registrar General.
• Callback

• Election Watch
• National Constitutional Assembly information officer Blessing Vava says if COPAC cannot come out with a constitution after a three year delay, it is time the body was disbanded and a fresh independent one was commissioned to draft what he describes as a truly independent new constitution for Zimbabwe.
• Election Watch

• Through the Valley
• Richard looks at the life and lessons of Zimbabwe’s world famous martyr Bernard Mizeki, whose day is remembered next month.
• Through the Valley

• Cliffords Corner
• Zimbabwean diplomat Clifford Chitupa Mashiri questions what progress the European Union has seen in Zimbabwe, after meeting a Zim delegation last week. Mashiri says the EU is in danger of losing credibility on its Zim policy.
• Cliffords Corner

• Southern Africa Focus
• Alex Bell presents more details about last week’s landmark ruling in a South African court, which has ordered the authorities there to investigate acts of state sanctioned torture in Zimbabwe in 2007. Alex speaks to the two groups who launched this legal challenge, and also gets reaction from civil society about what this means for regional justice.
• Southern Africa Focus

Kodzero/Amalungelo

• The Kodzero/Amalungelo Consortium is made up of the Youth Initiative for Democracy in Zim, Artists for Democracy Trust, Center for Community Development, Zim Civic Education Trust and ZimRights. They are working together to build grassroots communities and local leadership. In this program they talk about the work they’re involved in, and its impact
• Kodzero/Amalungelo