Why governance will go from bad to worse in Zimbabwe
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/08/why-governance-will-go-from-bad-to-worse-in-zimbabwe
“We have removed Mugabe but not Mugabe-ism.” –Nelson Chamisa, Leader: MDC Alliance Nine months ago, I penned a commentary piece on the uncertain
The damning Gukurahundi dossier that Mugabe frowned upon
▻http://inkjournalism.org/1555/the-damning-gukurahundi-dossier-that-mugabe-frowned-upon
After Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagagwa announced that his government was determined to put a closure to the Gukurahundi massacres [in 1983], anonymous Zimbabwean journalists working with INK Centre for Investigative Journalism began an investigation into what one former senior official of an international aid agency referred to as “the untold story of the massacres”. Source: Ink Journalism
Interdite par #Mugabe, une #pièce sur le pire #massacre de son régime enfin à l’affiche
▻https://www.lemag.ma/lemag/i/22795104/interdite-par-mugabe-une-piece-sur-le-pire-massacre-de-son-regime-enfin-laffic
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#Zimbabwe: bambini avvelenati nelle piantagioni di tabacco
Bambini nelle piantagioni di tabacco. Piccoli e adulti vittime di avvelenamento e con problemi respiratori. Mentre le multinazionali continuano a comprare il tabacco coltivato in queste condizioni. Human Rights Watch fa luce sul paese che si sta prepararando alle elezioni dopo il colpo di Stato contro Mugabe
A BITTER HARVEST. Child Labor and Human Rights Abuses on Tobacco Farms in Zimbabwe
Tobacco farming is a pillar of Zimbabwe’s economy. Tobacco is the country’s most valuable export commodity—generating US$933.7 million in 2016—and the crop is particularly significant to Zimbabwean authorities’ efforts to revive the economy. However, Human Rights Watch research in 2016 and 2017 into conditions on tobacco farms in Zimbabwe revealed an industry tainted by child labor and confronted by other serious human rights problems as well. Zimbabwean authorities and tobacco companies should take urgent steps to address child labor and other human rights abuses that may be undermining the sector’s contributions to economic growth and improved livelihoods.
▻https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/04/05/bitter-harvest/child-labor-and-human-rights-abuses-tobacco-farms-zimbabwe
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The struggle for moral authority in #Zimbabwe
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/01/the-struggle-for-moral-authority-in-zimbabwe
One of the most remarkable protest acts in Zimbabwe in 2016 was a little-publicized act by a small group of female Christian worshippers who dressed up in sacks, and prayed and wailed for three days. It was indicative of a year replete with seemingly symbolic and performative acts of defiance against President Robert #Mugabe and […]
The business of lies
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/05/the-business-of-lies
Lucifer has been hard at work on “African” social and traditional media over recent months. Donald Trump dissing Africans. Trump threatening to arrest Zimbabwean President #Robert_Mugabe and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Mugabe calling Trump Hitler’s child. Mugabe proposing to marry Barack Obama. Mugabe dissing Kenyan “thieves”. Tanzania’s President John Magufuli banning miniskirts. Eritrea […]
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#Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s white ally in land grab row
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/25281-zimbabwe-mugabe-s-white-ally-in-land-grab-row
Black peasant farmers in Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands have accused controversial white Zimbabwean businessperson Billy Rautenbach of forcing them off their land and destroying their livelihoods through a $600-million ethanol plant that enjoys extensive government support.
They are also complaining that Rautenbach did not honour an offer to set them up as sugar cane growers to feed the factory.
Rautenbach has already taken 9 400 hectares from local farmers, uprooting more than 1 700 households with an estimated 10 000 members. But he says he will need 45 000 hectares for cane production when the factory is at full capacity, suggesting that the land grab will continue.
Government backing for the plant, which includes legislation giving Rautenbach a production monopoly, represents an ironic reversal of Zanu-PF’s proclaimed land reform policy, which is supposedly intended to benefit small black farmers.
Rautenbach’s fast and furious rise to riches in South Africa and other African countries has frequently stirred controversy (see “Billy Rautenbach’s disingenuous and slippery story” below). He is alleged to have profited from Zimbabwe’s military adventure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1998 and to have donated generously to Zanu-PF’s election coffers. His close relationship with the ruling party saw him added to the list of individuals on the European Union’s targeted sanctions against the Zimbabwean elite.
#Zimbabwe’s Forgotten 20%
▻http://africasacountry.com/zimbabwes-forgotten-20
Zimbabwe makes a good story for western writers and readers. The staggering racism of the Rhodesian whites, the heroic liberation uprising, and Mugabe; a freedom fighter not unlike Nelson Mandela, who having spent more than a decade in prison, won the first democratic election and immediately called for racial reconciliation. Then, from the late ‘90s, […]
The black farm-worker communities who – under white employment – provided the sweat and toil which has driven the nation’s agriculture (and, hence, its economy) since the 1900s, make up nearly 20% of Zimbabwe’s population. Despite this, those farm-workers have accounted for less than 7% of the beneficiaries of land redistribution. Moreover, those workers suffered by far the worst of the violence and abuses committed during farm invasions – a suffering which was woefully underreported
Did Kofi Annan try to buy off Mugabe in 2000? | WikiLeaked
►http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/20/did_kofi_annan_try_to_buy_off_mugabe_in_2000
According to a September 2000 cable, an opposition source believed that then-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan approached Mugabe with a financial retirement package abroad
It’s not clear how reliable the U.S. Embassy source is, given that he admitted to the Americans that his information was hearsay. (And as the Guardian notes, some of the other information the same source told the U.S. embassy has been churning in the rumor mill for decades — and was scoffed at by the British High Commission when it attempted to verify the reports.)