5 August 2009 Zim News Flash
Written on August 5, 2009 by Emily
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 a summit of eastern and southern African leaders, the radio report said. Reports in Zimbabwe at the time said he had suffered a stroke. He had had poor health since 2005. Msika, who was 85-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s senior by just a few months, had been state vice-president since 1999. Joice Mujuru, wife of influential former army general Solomon Mujuru, is the other vice-president.
Parliament draws up final list of Zimbabwe media Commissioners
Parliament’s Standing Rules and Orders Committee have drawn up a final list of applicants to sit on the new Zimbabwe Media Commission. The list contains 12 names, described by the Committee as ‘experts in the media, and highly professionals in the field.’ The speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo will send the list to Robert Mugabe who will whittle it down to nine. The five-member panel was chaired by MDC-T Senator Obert Gutu, and included ZANU PF Senator Chief Fortune Charumbira, MDC-T MP Tabitha Khumalo, MDC-M MP Edward Mkhosi and ZANU PF MP Mabel Chinomona conducted the interviews.
Army Brigadier-General Mujaji wreaks havoc at Headlands farm
Rights campaigners Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have published sensational details of the abuse of yet another large-scale commercial farmer and defiance of court orders by a senior official of Robert Mugabe’s armed forces, Brigadier General Austin Mujaji. Charles Lock, one of a handful of white farmers still on the land told the latest ZLHR publication Legal Monitor obtained on Friday (Jul 31) that armed soldiers numbering about eight at any given time were preventing him from harvesting about 500 tonnes of maize and export tobacco, all valued at nearly US$1 million.
Zimbabwe PM Tsvangirai Lobbies Region for Backing on Unity Gov’t Issues
Zimbabwean Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday stepped up regional diplomacy meeting Botswanan President Ian Khama in Gaborone following talks Monday with South African President Jacob Zuma on issues troubling Harare’s unity government. Sources in Mr. Tsvangirai’s office said that in the days ahead he will be meeting other leaders of the Southern African Development Community, of which Mr. Zuma is now chairman. They said Mr. Tsvangirai hopes to resolve outstanding issues before Mr. Zuma’s tenure ends in September, when he will hand off the chairmanship at a SADC summit.
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