As Zimbabwe extracts itself from years of turbulence, the Global Political Agreement (GPA) provides the map for the way forward. Thus, monitoring the implementation of the GPA provides some measure of understanding of progress in Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe can go it alone, Mugabe tells the West
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for the first time attended the Heroes Day ceremony in the country’s capital yesterday. The ceremony coincided with the funeral of Vice-President Joseph Msika, who died last week. Tsvangirai played no public role in the previous annual Heroes Day ceremonies to honour [...]
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Zimbabwe frees MDC official but many still face ‘charges’
After President Jacob Zuma ’s critical meeting with Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday, Harare authorities have released another former opposition MP from police detention. The release of Deputy Youth Minister Thamsanqa Mahlangu, who is also a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) legislator, on Monday shortly [...]
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Msika dies after long illness
One of Zimbabwe’s vice-presidents, Joseph Msika, has died at the age of 85 after a battle with illness, South African public radio reported on Tuesday. Msika died on Tuesday in a hospital in Zimbabwe, the report said. He was admitted to hospital in South Africa in June after falling ill at [...]
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Report prepared by Fungisai Maisva,
Research and Advocacy Unit [RAU] July 2009
Gender-based violence, be it in the home or in the public arena, impacts powerfully on the livelihoods of women. When violence becomes embedded in society as a culture, it makes women vulnerable, especially during periods of political tension. Violence is at [...]
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Human Rights Violations Against Women and Truth Commissions
A report by the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) in Zimbabwe.
This report looks at how African countries have dealt with violations against women in post-conflict situations. Particular attention is paid to the processes in South Africa, Kenya and Sierra Leone in terms of addressing women victims’ rights to [...]
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Zimbabwe’s Daily News to get licence back
IN a dramatic turn of events, the Zimbabwe government has granted the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe’s (ANZ) an operating licence as a mass media service provider – six years after its flagship newspaper, The Daily News, was shut down, reports a journalism.co.za correspondent.
ANZ are the publishers of both The [...]
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Zimbabwe unity deal at an all-time low
As a leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai must be enduring daily anguish. He has to carefully pitch each public statement he makes to ensure it sticks closely not only to the letter but the spirit of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) he signed with Robert Mugabe last September, whereby [...]
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Zimbabwe Observers See Turmoil in Mutambara MDC Grouping As Destabilizing
The formation of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara said Tuesday that its expulsion of three parliamentarians from its ranks would strengthen the party, though others saw the move as destabilizing. The party’s disciplinary committee on Monday expelled Abedniko Bhebhe, [...]
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Zanu-PF to campaign for Kariba Draft
Zanu-PF has allegedly deployed youths and war veterans across the country to campaign for the adoption of the so-called Kariba Draft of the constitution which is at the centre of a dispute between President Robert Mugabe and the MDC. The constitution-making process moves into the second phase which involves the [...]
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