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ZANU PF ‘too scared’ to open up airwaves 03/04/2012
The chairman of the parliamentary committee on media, information and communication technology claimed on Tuesday that ZANU PF is ‘too scared’ to open up the country’s airwaves.Settlement Chikwinya, the MDC-T MP for Mbizvo in KweKwe, said while the press has opened up in a number of ways in the wake of the GPA, reform of the electronic media is still very much an uphill battle.The MP pointed out that Zimbabwe, which gained independence in 1980, lags behind countries like South Africa and Namibia, that attained independence well after Zimbabwe but are forging ahead with multiple, independent TV and radio stations.The legislator said his committee will summon Webster Shamu, the Information Minister to interrogate him on why he has failed to implement the reforms, as directed by the principals to the GPA.‘The ZANU PF side of government developed cold feet to open up the airwaves, while there is defiance by Shamu to licence independent radio and television stations,’ Chikwinya said.The MP, one of the rising stars in the MDC-T, said that the free flow of information can help empower individuals to take full control of their aspirations and enable them to shape their political and social concerns.‘The moment you issue out licences to broadcasters with independent editorial policies, the people of Zimbabwe will become more informed and make better choices which are most likely not going to be in favour of ZANU PF.‘The media environment is such that journalists still face government repression and state media still largely acts as a government mouthpiece,’ the MP added.Chikwinya said an increased media space provides alternative and multiple sources of information that can help electorates make informed choices before any poll, such as Zimbabwe’s next general election.Chikwenya went on to say: ‘But what you a get is a shameful disclosure by a ZANU PF MP that he has banned people in his constituency from reading independent newspapers or listening to radio stations like SW Radio Africa and Studio 7.‘I was present when the MP said that during a media debate in Kariba but I’m also happy to note that MPs from his party strongly disapproved and rebuked him for saying that.’Zachariah Ziyambi is the ZANU PF MP for Chakari in the Midlands who shocked fellow MPs during a media workshop organized by MISA-Zimbabwe, when he disclosed that members in his constituency are banned from tuning in to foreign based radio stations. Siphosami Malunga
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Click here for Latest Local news_Repost. Jonathan Moyo, Enos Nkala worst Ndebele leaders since 1821 Posted on July 27, 2010 Category: Politics; Business, Sport
Professor Jonathan Moyo and former Defence Minister Enos Nkala are arguably the worst notorious Ndebele leaders since the formation of the Ndebele nation in 1821 under King Mzilikazi. A close historical analysis reveal that a section of the Zulus under King Mzilikazi who sought a different identity upon leaving Tshaka’s Zululand by renaming themselves as AmaNdebele have never had such clumsy leaders as Prof Moyo and Nkala. Perhaps every bucket of apples has bad ones. When Ndebeles crossed Limpopo River into southern Zimbabwe in 1821 they had extremely good, able and trustworth leaders such as Mcumbatha, Magwegwe, Lotshe and so on while Shonas crossed from the North into the same area as early as 1300. We have also had extremely reliable and brave Ndebele leaders such as Joshua Nkomo, Sydney Malunga, Lockout Masuku, Jaison Z Moyo, the list is too long. Prof Jonathan Moyo In my previous article entitled Matebeleland: Framing a crisis within a crisis, I strongly indicated that the embodiment of the internal flames of crisis within Matebeleland is that of leadership crisis. Former Defence minister Enos Nkala There is some unpopular willingness by these poodles to dabble in the politics of appeasing the ruling political system in Zimbabwe by those engaged in politics as representatives of the people and by those who are leaders in shaping the opinions and ideas about the vision of this region. Some have continued to seek personal glory and therefore invariably becoming personal glory seekers at the expense of those they claim to represent. The introspection on the Matebeleland’s flames of crisis therefore continues unabated. I have decided to zero down to two prominent Ndebele leaders that have either graced or disgraced (take your pick) the Zimbabwean body politic since Zimbabwe became independent from Southern Rhodesia in 1980. The argument advanced here is that Professor Jonathan Moyo and Enos Nkala are arguably the worst notorious Ndebele leaders we have ever had in our ranks since the crafty statesmanship of the creation and establishment of the Ndebele nation by the great elephant King Mzilikazi KaMashobana. The fact is that they are the most dishonourable and scandalous Ndebele leaders the Zanu PF system has ever produced since the glorious attempted preservation of the Ndebele nation by King Lobengula, who fought great battles against the marauding and blood-letting colonialists in the then African Ndebele Kingdom. The first ever black rebellion battle in the soil of that Kingdom was Impi yoMvukela organized and executed by the great King and his warrior impis in 1893. The illustrious battles of Tshangane and Gadade were to follow later, where the colonialists under the leadership of Cecil John Rhodes, were given a good hiding by the assegai and shield wielding warrior Ndebele impis. The values of ubuntu and the true and genuine leadership of this nation were tested during those wars and our great founding fathers showed leadership excellence in the midst of gun touting and trigger happy colonialists. Bad Leadership It is in this context that Prof Moyo and Nkala are viewed as the most notorious Ndebele leaders the peoples of Matebeleland and Midlands areas have ever had. They are good case studies of bad leadership that has been driven by personal glory seeking behaviour that has been executed at the expense of those they purport to represent. Their standing within this region is indeed ugly beyond any conceivable repair. They are our political twins from hell whose political notoriety in defence of Zanu PF would be recorded in the history books of Zimbabwe and the world as having been outstandingly nauseating since the birth of black independence in 1980. It is remarkably clear that Prof Moyo and Nkala are perched at the top of the heap of poor political leadership that has emerged from this region produced by the engendered and rooted Zanu PF political system. The existence of this kind of poor leadership in the region is not by accident but by Zanu PF’s design and political machinations against the region since pre and post 1980 period. Prof Moyo and Nkala have merely been the tools and agents of this deadly system. The claims made by Prof Moyo that his father was murdered in cold blood by the 5th Brigade during its supreme reign of terror in Matabeleland and Midlands areas are most likely true. This personal loss of his father at the hands of Zanu PF and its murderous apparatus makes his defence of Zanu PF an even more nauseating political exercise on his part. It renders the Professor a morally bankrupt individual whose conscience and aorta of morality is now sadly dead and buried in the criminal and murderous belly of Zanu PF. The public and those who still have the values of ubuntu are left with this fundamental and troubling question for the Professor: Does his political actions of defending and of being the vanguard of a system that crushed and obliterated his own father not amount to selling his own father’s memory for a few pieces of silver? It is indeed shocking and troubling to observe that the Professor is much closer to Zanu PF than to his moral conscience and values of ubuntu. Perhaps the his worst decision was to rejoin ZANU-PF when his electorate loved him so much and wanted him out of their perpetrators’ garden. Tsholotsho, which Prof Moyo is representing in Parliament is one of the Gukurahundi hardest-hit areas. The Professor’s dramatic, trouble-rousing and often vitriolic propaganda crusade against the real and imaginary enemies of Zanu PF since joining Zanu PF in 1999 and later becoming the appointed Minister of propaganda (information) is well documented and well known. Ever since that time, Prof Moyo became the illustrious, energetic and the visible face of Zanu PF’s tyranny against those perceived to be the enemies of this party. This was up until when he was expelled form Zanu PF after the embarrassing Diyane debacle in Tsholotsho where the Zanu PF internal power struggles exploded to the public arena. It is only then that the Zimbabweans got a respite from his haranguing propaganda. After this interesting and dramatic expulsion from Zanu PF, Prof Moyo would later famously declare that, ‘He who appoints disappoints’, temporarily breaking taboo of publicly criticising Mugabe. Many thought that this was the Paul of Damascus political moment and political aha phenomenon for the Professor. He let loose his propaganda against Zanu PF describing it as a ‘sinking ship’ that he had saved from total disaster. He promised the world that he would write his memoirs of his experience in Zanu PF and threatened to spill the beans against Zanu PF. The world is still waiting for these memoirs. We were to be proven wrong by the dramatic actions of the Professor who later rejoined Zanu PF claiming he had never forsaken his beloved party. He has since continued his propaganda from where he left after his expulsion from Zanu PF with relentless passion, political trumpeting and indeed political fanfare. What is hated by those of his kith and kin is not so much the propaganda he churns day in and day out against Zanu PF’s perceived western enemies but his overzealous defence of a system that prides itself with cultural and social oppression, tribal and political hegemony, intellectual and educational strangulation of the entire peoples’ of Matabeleland and Midland areas. The defence of these injustices by strengthening Zanu PF’s political existence is indeed treacherous and ugly. Genocide and Leadership In 1980 the infamous Enos Nkala, like Jonathan Moyo, became the propaganda face of Zanu PF against PF Zapu and the populace of Matabeleland and Midland areas. The rouble rousing Enos Nkala laid the foundation for the first ever genocide to be committed in southern Africa. Nkala’s provocative political ranting against PF Zapu and The Zimbabwe Peoples’ Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) led to the dangerous clashes that took place between ZNLA and ZIPRA forces at Entumbane. His actions and that of his gang laid the foundation for the future mass raping, mass beating and mass carnage of his own people. He became a tool and agent of a long planned strategy to uproot Joshua Nkomo’s perceived political powerbase through violence and mass murder of his perceived supporters. To this day, the Gukurahundi genocide remains an albatross around Nkala’s neck, his legacy and that of his Zanu PF comrades. It should be noted that during this mayhem and ‘madness’ of Gukurahundi years, Nkala was the visible face of Zanu PF’s genocidal forays in Matabeleland and Midland areas while Prof Moyo became the visible face of Zanu PF’s Hondo Yeminda murderous adventures in every corner of Zimbabwe. This is Moyo’s and Zanu PF’s legacy in recent years. One statement of fact about Nkala is that during this height of Zanu PF’s ‘madness’ years in the 80’s, he held various key ministerial portfolios in Mugabe’s government. These were the ministry of Defence and Home Affairs respectively. On the 26th of February 1998, Nkala unashamedly denied his involvement and responsibility in Gukurahundi in a public meeting organised by Imbovane YaMahlabezulu, a political pressure group from Matabeleland. He sought to exonerate himself from this ‘madness’ and heaped all blame on Robert Mugabe, Sydney Sekeramai and Emmerson Mnangagwa. One hopes that in the not so distant future, Nkala’s extent of involvement and responsibility in this despicable crime against humanity shall be uncovered. In the same vein, one hopes that the extent of Professor Moyo’s involvement and responsibility in exporting violence to all the corners of Zimbabwe during the Hondo Yeminda disturbances shall be fully uncovered. There is no doubt that Nkala and Moyo have been at the forefront of the bastardization and soiling of the good principles and goals of the revolutionary struggle pioneered, led and internationalized by Joshua Nkomo. They have played a dastardly and roguish role in this game leading to mass human rights violations in Zimbabwe particularly in Matabeleland and Midland areas. They have been the political mahobhoz of Zanu PF and its system. Mao once remarked and asserted that, ‘All correct leadership is necessarily from the masses to the masses’. This is truly not the case with Enos Nkala and Professor Moyo. They have never been from the masses to the masses in our region. They have always been imposed by Zanu PF through political trickery. Prof Moyo’s ascendency to the Information ministry in Mugabe’s government and the subsequent pumping of Zanu PF resources into Tsholotsho to buy the long deliberately underdeveloped constituency into voting Moyo is a case in point. That cosmetic and short-lived development ended with Moyo’s expulsion from the party. It might have resumed recently since Moyo’s return to the party. That kind of ‘development’, if we may call it development, is unsustainable and not needed at all. Matabeleland and the people of Matabeleland deserve better. Hebert Spencer commenting on the scourge of hero-worshiping stated that hero-worshiping, ‘…is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom’. Zimbabwe is one of those textbook examples where there is little regard for human freedom. Enos Nkala and Professor Moyo are the products of a system that has least respect for human freedoms. Beyond Zanu PF’s Nkala and Moyo MDC-T has not proved any different from Zanu PF. In reality MDC-T has perfected a Zanu PF system of producing political mahobhoz from our region. The Ndebele leadership element in MDC-T movement has suffered or is suffering the mahobho syndrome of the likes of Jonathan Moyo and Nkala. They are equally suffering the same fate that the enfeebled old PF Zapu leadership suffered under Zanu PF after the unity accord. John Landa Nkomo as the Vice President of Zimbabwe is as enfeebled as Thokozani Khuphe the MDC-T Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. This however should not surprise us. For the record, it is well known that MDC-T is composed of mainly Zanu PF rebels who sought to ambush donor funds by shouting, ‘Democracy! Democracy! Democracy!’ to keep the donor funds flowing like River Nile to their accounts. They have become the fat cats of Zimbabwe. Morgan and his gang have little time for democracy. They can not even observe it within their movement and yet they expect Mugabe and Zanu PF to observe democracy in Zimbabwe. Conclusion The solution is located in having dedicated leadership coming from the people for the people and not from Zanu PF for Zanu PF. It should not be a badge of honour to work for and defend the monster that is Zanu PF. The jury is still out on the leadership of the revived PF Zapu post their association with Zanu PF. They have a challenge to demonstrate that they no longer have the political mahobho syndrome obtained from Zanu PF. It has to be a case of the correct leadership that comes from the masses to the masses and not from Zanu PF. We should run roughshod over this mahobho syndrome among those who long to lead us. Only through such intervention will Matabeleland be able to rescue itself from self destruction tendencies and rediscover its glory as a region of excellence and merit.Zim Diasporawww.zimdiaspora.comZimbabwe News as it happens, voice of the voiceless, highlighting social and political injustice in our societies without fear of reprisal or prosecution Mugabe plans handover to Mnangagwa 08/04/12
ADVISORS TO ZIMBABWE'S PRESIDENT, ROBERT MUGABE, ARE DISCUSSING A HANDOVER OF POWER WITH AIDES TO OPPOSITION LEADER MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, REPORTS SAY. HARARE Zimbabwe is heading towards a full-scale civil conflict as Robert Mugabe deploys troops across the country to secure re-election followed by the imposition of Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa as his successor. Highly placed sources in state intelligence and the military have revealed that the Zimbabwe National Army is deploying across the country with full combat equipment and with orders to carry out raids on villagers. A member of the army stationed at the Zimbabwe Military Intelligence Directorate (MID) supplied copies of secret military communications marked Highly Classified.He said Zanu (PF), with the assistance of South Africas ruling ANC and other SADC states, was involved in a plot to make Mnangagwa president in place of Mugabe.Under the new constitution, a sitting president retiring from office will be allowed to nominate his successor. A majority vote will be passed in Parliament for the new president to take charge for the remainder of the term without calling for general elections.The plan is in line with the long political process crafted with the assistance of former South African President Thabo Mbeki.High-level Zanu (PF) sources this week made the startling revelation that Mnangagwa had an invisible hand in crafting the global political agreement Mbekis brainchild.He spent a considerable time going up and down to South Africa soon after Mugabe was defeated by MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in 2008. He met Mbeki, then president, on several occasions to plot a solution to protect Mugabe and Zanu (PF) from losing power.Mnangagwa, Mbeki, Mugabe and the army generals really know where this GPA thing is going, a Zanu (PF) central committee member said. You see they somehow control the process, because they conceived it way ahead of our partners in the inclusive government. Mnangagwa himself is using it for his own political calculations.ZANU PF ‘too scared’ to open up airwaves 03/04/2012 The chairman of the parliamentary committee on media, information and communication technology claimed on Tuesday that ZANU PF is ‘too scared’ to open up the country’s airwaves.Settlement Chikwinya, the MDC-T MP for Mbizvo in KweKwe, said while the press has opened up in a number of ways in the wake of the GPA, reform of the electronic media is still very much an uphill battle.The MP pointed out that Zimbabwe, which gained independence in 1980, lags behind countries like South Africa and Namibia, that attained independence well after Zimbabwe but are forging ahead with multiple, independent TV and radio stations.The legislator said his committee will summon Webster Shamu, the Information Minister to interrogate him on why he has failed to implement the reforms, as directed by the principals to the GPA.‘The ZANU PF side of government developed cold feet to open up the airwaves, while there is defiance by Shamu to licence independent radio and television stations,’ Chikwinya said.The MP, one of the rising stars in the MDC-T, said that the free flow of information can help empower individuals to take full control of their aspirations and enable them to shape their political and social concerns.‘The moment you issue out licences to broadcasters with independent editorial policies, the people of Zimbabwe will become more informed and make better choices which are most likely not going to be in favour of ZANU PF.‘The media environment is such that journalists still face government repression and state media still largely acts as a government mouthpiece,’ the MP added.Chikwinya said an increased media space provides alternative and multiple sources of information that can help electorates make informed choices before any poll, such as Zimbabwe’s next general election.Chikwenya went on to say: ‘But what you a get is a shameful disclosure by a ZANU PF MP that he has banned people in his constituency from reading independent newspapers or listening to radio stations like SW Radio Africa and Studio 7.‘I was present when the MP said that during a media debate in Kariba but I’m also happy to note that MPs from his party strongly disapproved and rebuked him for saying that.’Zachariah Ziyambi is the ZANU PF MP for Chakari in the Midlands who shocked fellow MPs during a media workshop organized by MISA-Zimbabwe, when he disclosed that members in his constituency are banned from tuning in to foreign based radio stations.Mugabe in Singapore on private visit 02/04/2012 PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is in Singapore on a private visit to arrange post-graduate studies for his daughter, state media reported Sunday."President Mugabe left the country yesterday (Saturday) evening on a private visit to Singapore," the state-owned Sunday Mail newspaper said.The paper said that Mugabe would oversee arrangements for his daughter Bona to begin post-graduate work, after she received her accounting degree last year.Mugabe, 88, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, visited Singapore several times last year. His spokesman said the president had gone for cataract surgery amid repeated media reports that he was suffering from cancer.His health has been the subject of much speculation, especially since WikiLeaks last year released a 2008 US diplomatic cable saying central bank chief Gideon Gono had told then-US ambassador James McGee that Mugabe had prostate cancer and had been advised by doctors he had less than five years to live.Mugabe's health has been cited as one reason that a faction of his Zanu PF party has pushed to rush new elections.But Mugabe, who has already been named as his party's candidate for the next elections, has shot down rumours that he is sick. The veteran leader told a party meeting Friday that work on a new constitution must be concluded by May or Zimbabwe holds new elections under the Lancaster House constitution. “Let’s conclude the new constitution, whether we agree or disagree. The dance we have had for the past four years is over. Let us have an election and end this animal called inclusive government,” Mugabe said. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry Minister Welshman Ncube, leaders of the MDC factions in the ruling coalition are demanding a raft of media, security and electoral reforms before a new vote.Load-shedding could worsen: Mangoma POWER supply problems could worsen across the country over Easter unless the US$76 million debt owed to suppliers in Mozambique is significantly reduced, a cabinet minister has warned.Energy Minister, Elton Mangoma said Zimbabwe needs to reduce its debt to under US$40 million by Friday to ensure the current power supply problems do not get worse.“They (Mozambique) agreed to increase power supply once we have made our payment. They expecting us to bring our debt to below US$40 million and they said that is when the power supply would be increased for us,” Mangoma told the state-owned Herald newspaper.“For us to have reduced load-shedding during the holidays, it all depends on whether we are able to mobilise the required resources by Friday.“If that is not the case, it means the situation would remain the same and we will continue with the power outages until we set off what we owe.”Mangoma said ZESA – which is owed more that US$550 million by customers -- would step-up disconnections of defaulters over the next few days to help raise the money needed to reduce the debt with Mozambique.“What this means is more power disconnections for everyone,” he said.“Although I cannot disclose the amount we have at the moment, we are also going to apply multiple methods to raise the money and Government also has to look for other alternatives like loans or where to borrow.”Zimbabwe generates 1,300MW of electricity which was way short of the daily national requirement of about 2,200 megawatts.The country has plugged the gap with imports from regional suppliers but many have cut back supplies due to payment problems.The shortages have forced ZESA to ration supplies to both commercial and domestic users with some areas going for more than 10 hours per day without power. Israeli pilot claims police stole diamonds 01/04/2012AN ISRAELI pilot arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle diamonds worth US$2 million out of the country has claimed that some of the gems are missing and may have been stolen by the police.Shmuel Kainan Klein, 58, was arrested at the Harare International Airport on March 17 and faces charges of unlawful possession of the gems as well as contravening the country’s immigration laws.But his lawyer, Janathan Samukange told a Harare magistrate’s court Friday that some of the gems were missing and may have been stolen while in police custody.“(Klein) will state that he has been shown a copy of the affidavit by Clever Sithole, which shows that the total carats were 8 486.66 and further state that about 2 140.34 carats are missing,” Samukange said.Detective Shamiso Tashu of the Police Border Control and Minerals Unit conceded during cross examination that some of the evidence was missing.Klein denies trying to smuggle the diamonds out of the country claiming he was an agent for a company called Masri diamonds.“Klein advised them (police) that he would be flying that afternoon to Tel-Aviv, Israel, where he would be handing the diamonds to the owner,” Samkange said.“He also said that he carrying the diamonds on behalf of Masri diamonds and was to hand them to Nisim Masri.“He told them that he was acting as his agent for the purpose of possessing and carrying the diamonds to Tel-Aviv.”An official with the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) said the diamonds weighed 1,7kg with and were valued at about US$2,4 million.But Samukange doubted his qualifications saying, “the court needs to rely on a qualified person not someone who has gone for a seven day crash course programme”.He also said the value of the diamonds had been “extremely exaggerated” insisting they were worth no more than US$220 000Mugabe vows to call elections by May. 31/O3/2012PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe issued his ruling coalition partners an ultimatum on Friday: conclude the new constitution by May or Zimbabwe holds elections under the Lancaster House constitution. Mugabe told a meeting of his Zanu PF party’s central committee that elections would certainly be held this year to end what he called a “government of negatives”. “Let’s conclude the new constitution, whether we agree or disagree. The dance we have had for the past four years is over. Let us have an election and end this animal called inclusive government,” Mugabe said. Douglas Mwonzora, the MDC-T’s co-chair of a parliamentary committee leading the process to draw up a new constitution, said earlier this week that he envisaged a referendum in September. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry Minister Welshman Ncube, leaders of the MDC factions in the ruling coalition formed after disputed elections in 2008, are demanding a raft of media, security and electoral reforms before a new vote. But Zanu PF is increasingly concerned that its candidate Mugabe, 88 this year, will not handle the rigours of campaigning if elections are delayed even by as little as a year. On Thursday, Mugabe warned some within his party who were opposing his election push to “go and join the MDC”.He thundered: “They [MDC factions] are delaying the constitution arguing on small matters, but we are saying no, no, no. They are out of step. We must conclude this process. If they haven’t finished in time, we will do it our way. “If they reject the constitution, we will go back to the Lancaster House Constitution, which gave us our independence. That is what we are going to tell the facilitator [South African President Jacob Zuma]. “Their days are numbered and one should expect that by May we have a referendum. It is this referendum that should give us the way forward.” Mugabe fired advance warning to Zuma in anticipation of opposition to his renewed election push. “We are a sovereign State and we cannot be led by the government of South Africa,” he vowed.So determined is Mugabe to push through with elections that he has offered to complete the draft constitution over a roundtable with Tsvangirai and Ncube. “We want to move on unhindered by little thoughts and in some cases sheer ignorance. This government is a government of negatives. It’s a government of people who do not want to do things for the people,” said Mugabe, who chided Finance Minister Tendai Biti for failing to deposit US$200 million with a fund to revive industries in Bulawayo. “Bring the document [uncompleted draft constitution] we will complete it ourselves. We have done it before,” he said. Bin Laden fathered 4 kids while US forces were hunting for him. 30/03/2012 Bin Laden fathered 4 kids whilS forces were hunting for hime U Zimdiaspora.Osama Bin Laden fathered four children while on the run, the wife who bore them has told Pakistani officials.Amal Abdulfattah, from Yemen, was Bin Laden's youngest wife. She was arrested after the US raid on his compound near the Pakistani capital in 2011.She said two of her children were delivered in state hospitals, but she stayed there just "two or three hours".Bin Laden, 54, orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington in which nearly 3,000 people died.He evaded the forces of the US and its allies for almost a decade, despite a $25m (£15m) bounty on his head.Family 'scattered'According to a report of the interrogation carried out by Pakistani investigators, Ms Abdulfattah, who came from a family with 17 children, married Bin Laden because "she had a desire to marry a Mujahideen", or holy warrior.Along with three other wives found living at the residence, she was charged with entering and living illegally in the country.The report recommends that the 30-year-old and her children be immediately deported.However, a lawyer for the three widows has said that they would be formally charged for illegally staying in Pakistan - a charge that carried a maximum prison term of five years - on 2 April.Her account says she flew to Pakistan in 2000 and travelled to Afghanistan where she married Bin Laden before the 11 September 2001 attacks.The family was subsequently "scattered" she told investigators and she travelled to Karachi in Pakistan, later meeting up with Bin Laden in Peshawar and then moving to the Swat Valley, where they lived in two houses.They moved once again before settling in Abbottabad in 2005.During the hunt for him, most US and Pakistani officials believed he was hiding somewhere along the remote Afghanistan-Pakistan border, possibly in a cave - BBCTsvangirai Asks Britain To Remove Sanctions Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has asked British Prime Minister David Cameron to remove western imposed sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and his cronies. 30/03/12 Tsvangirai revealed this in Parliament Wednesday while responding to a question by Zanu (PF) MP for Mwenezi East, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti who sought clarification on the object of his recent visit to London.“I met the Prime Minister of the UK Mr Cameron specifically on issues of this nature (sanctions), that you cannot encourage reform by removing certain people and leaving certain people on the list because it is actually a discouraging move,” he said.Tsvangirai, who was speaking for the first time since coming back from his controversial visit to Britain last week, said he also asked the British premier to impress upon the rich western countries to help the country clear its debts. He said debt was slowing economic recovery in the country.Tsvangirai also criticised Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu for his continued refusal to act on cabinet directives aimed at media reforms, adding he believed the minister was taking instructions from elsewhere.“It is not government policy for anyone who has sworn to uphold the constitution, to uphold collective decisions of cabinet to defy them,” he said: “My own conclusion is that this is nothing to do with him. Perhaps the person who is giving him instructions must come forward and say why he is giving him that direction. I don’t think any minister must stand up in defiance against the directives of cabinet and against the directives of the principals. There must be a reason behind that and especially where a civil servant stands up to confirm that defiance..."“It we don’t have media reforms, then we must as well forget about a free and fair election. Not only are you undermining the right of Zimbabweans to have what they are supposed to have but you are also undermining the right of Zimbabweans to free information and free expression,” he said.Turning to the ZESAgate, Tsvangirai asked President Mugabe and other ZESA defaulters to settle their bills immediately to allow the struggling power utility to get back to its feet.“Services rendered must be paid for if you want the continued service to be provided,” he said. “Senior government officials should be at the forefront of settling these bills. My appeal to my colleagues in government is ... please pay something. This culture of getting things for free must end. We all have to pay.” CAIN MATHEMA AT IT AGAIN MLF(By David Magagula) o4/04/12
It is not surprising but disgusting to note how the perpetrators of Gukurahundi are trying so hard to find common ground with their evil past,and yet the praise singer tries so hard to oppose the wind. Cain Mathema,s utterances that the Unity Accord signed between Zanu and Zapu in 1987 solved the filthy shame smell foul like the mouth of the utterer. Far from it Cain. The genocide has been classified as A GENOCIDE and those involved know their days are numbered. There is a very important point you how ever raised in your defense of the Genocide - that of the involvement of the British. We would like you to further furnish us all about the actual involvement of the British so that the world can shame the British and drag them together with Zanu to court. Everybody awaits your details on this one. It has come to our attention that the Zimbabwean government ,using their official spokesperson George Charamba, who goes by the name of Manheru,has started intimidating Mthwakazians that a second Genocide is in the making. These are empty threats that will scare no one. In fact such reckless utterances are attempts to keep our nation forever terrified by the possibility of a second Gukurahundi makes us more resolute in demanding our freedom and Independence so as to avoid such threats and indeed madness that has been the order of the day in Zimbabwe for the last three decades and have assurance on our security and right to life and property.We will not sing and clapp as they kill us like we did in the past,neither are we going to fold our arms and let Zimbabweans do as they please. The statement issued by the governor is as irresponsible as its owner who cannot even initiate projects to save those left behind when the genociders killed as they wished. One wonders where Cain will be when the perpetrators go to the gallows for their crimes against humanity.ZESA urged to switch off Mugabe o3/04/12 The national power utility ZESA is facing increasing pressure to switch off top government officials who have not paid their bills, including the First Family.ZESA has embarked on a campaign to cut off supply to power bill defaulters nationwide in an effort to deal with its debt crisis, as the parastatal is unable to afford to repair the dilapidated power grid. This has resulted in a worsening power service and countrywide Zimbabweans have had little to no electricity for hours and sometimes days at a time.SW Radio Africa has been told that some residents in Kadoma have had such intermittent power service that outages have lasted as long as three days. One resident said that water supplies there have also been irregular and that they had gone a week without water recently.Other power consumers have also explained that power, when it is available, is most often only available in the dead of night or other inconvenient times, meaning normal day to day living is all but impossible.ZESA has argued that its switch-off campaign will encourage defaulters to pay their outstanding bills, meaning more money for it to pay off its own debts and start improving the service.But Zimbabweans have slammed the utility for ‘selective’ cut offs, in the aftermath of a report that exposed top government officials among the country’s worst defaulters. This included the First Family who reportedly owed the state utility more than US$300,000 as of December 2011.Also exposed with more than US$300,000 in outstanding bills were Manicaland Governor Chris Mushowe and CIO boss Happyton Bonyongwe. Others exposed include; Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao, whose bill ran to more than US$54,000; Paddy Zhanda the ZANU PF Goromonzi North MP US$174,000; Women’s Affairs Minister and ZANU PF Mutoko South legislator Olivia Nyembesi Muchena who is US$44,000 in arrears. None of these individuals have been cut off.Simba Makoni, the former Finance Minister and now President of the Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn party told SW Radio Africa on Tuesday that ZESA must carry out its switch off exercise “without fear or favour.” He explained that even the President and his wife must be cut off if they do not either pay their bills in full or make a payment plan with ZESA.“ZESA should have started by switching off those power users who owe huge amounts, and then moved down last to the ordinary person,” Makoni said, agreeing that it is “disturbing” that the average Zimbabwean is being cut off before the top government defaulters.Makoni said the government should be leading by example and those officials who have been exposed for not paying their bills should be “embarrassed.”“I think it is silly that the furore in government has not been about how much is owed, but about the fact that this information was released at all. They should be embarrassed, because they have been exposed as raping this public company,” Makoni said.ZESA meanwhile has faced even more criticism after the death of a child as a result of exposed power lines. Ten year old Takudzwa Nyandoro died last Friday from burns sustained after falling into a ditch where naked ZESA cables were lying. The child was buried at Granville Cemetery on Sunday.It has since been revealed that the family had to fight with ZESA who initially refused to compensate them, until they produced receipts proving that they were customers. Legal intervention by the family eventually resulted in ZESA being forced to supply them with a coffin, transport and US$300 to cover other funeral expenses.This was just one of a number of deaths caused by ZESA’s gross incompetence and negligence. In just about any other country in the world ZESA would no longer exist as a company. Internet can promote Evil Ideas: Chamisa.
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