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Zimbabwean social justice blog, Sokwanele, reports on the public rebuking of the US Ambassador, Christopher Dell, by Robert Mugabe. Mugabe accused the ambassador of ?inappropriate behaviour? for what he saw as a criticism of his government. To justify

Zimbabwe:-A coalition of opposistion civic groups, the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) held improptu demonstrations in major cities in Zimbabwe on Saturday. This is Zimbabwe, the blog hosted by protest group Sokwanele/Zvakwana reports that 18 peop

Zimbabwean Pundit reports on the weekends demonstrations by a coalition of civic action groups ?National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), and the heavy handed response of Mugabe?s security forces. On ?Saturday, police used teargas to break up protests in th

Harare Diary reports on the continued negative affects of Mugabe?s Operation Murambatsvina. ?So many small income-generating activities remain brutally suppressed. Homes still lay broken. So-called “proper” housing promised by the government is nowher

Zimbabwean Pundit has a ?light relief? report from Zimbabwe. ?Deposed first bodyguard accuses first lady of infidelity?. The bodyguard, Winston Changara, claims he was removed to stop the President from finding out about his wife?s affairs with other m

Zimbabwean blog, The Bearded Man, has four reports including - the break up of MDC could aid Mugabe in creating a one party state; the evicted poor are slowly attempting to rebuild their homes. ?So what if the people of Zimbabwe, displaced by Operation M

Mugabe Makaipa reports that UN Secretary, Kofi Annan is ?concerned over Mugabe?s refusal to accept aid. ?Annan made a ?strong appeal to the government of Zimbabwe to ensure that those who are out in the open, without shelter and without means of sustainin

Zimbabwean Pundit guest writer, Eddie Cross asks whether African is going through a period similar to the European ?Dark Ages?. However he states that despite the poverty and decay the continent is experiencing there are ?islands of englightenment?.

Sokwanele - Civil Action Support Group - posts on the continued harassement of Zimbabwe?s poorest of the poor by the authorities and that demolitions are continuing, as out of desperation, displaced people return to the orignal sites of their homes to tr

ZimPundit considers and explains the irony that Zanu PF may have given the people hope in the form of the Constitutional Amendment No. 17 - The overbearing legislation set out to limit the movements of citizens deemed hostile to national security, protec

Welcome to the inaugral edition of the ?Voices from Zimbabwe Plus 3? where I hope you?ll find news from several small African blogospheres. Zimbabwe:-In what has now known as the MDC Senate Debacle, the Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe?s main o

Zimbabwean Pundit has a guest writer, Eddie Cross who has written an article on the ?roller coaster? politics in Zimbabwe and it?s affect on the lives of ordinary citizens.

Zimbabwean author, Chengerai Hove, writes in this weeks Pambazuka News of a “Zimbabwean disease” which dictates that once an institution is formed it becomes a national cause to tear it apart.

The 3rd and final day of the Southern African Social Forum, held in Harare, dealt with the crisis in Zimbabwe. ?Briggs Bomba, a representative of the parallel Uhuru Youth Forum of the SASF, said that Zimbabwe faces its worst economic crisis ever. The hosp

Sokwanle - Civil Action for Zimbabwe has issued a press release ?Crimes against humanity: The Case for Urgent Action Against Zimbabwe. In today?s press release , Cardinal Napier and Archbishop Pius Ncube, two leading clerics in the Roman Catholic Church,

The Bearded Man questions why Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, who is supposedly banned from travelling to the EU is allowed to attend a conference in Rome on world hunger where he will be speaking.

Zimbabwean Pundit revists the eviction of thousands of urban dwellers by President Robert Mugabe last July. As the world watched outraged, Mugabe came up with the excuse that new homes would be built. The people are still waiting!

Zimbabwean Pundit quotes Pan-Africanist writer, Baffour Ankomah, who ?irked by the constant delvings of western ambassadors in Africa wants to know what Africa?s diplomats in the west are doing that comparable?, comments ?I don’t understand why Western

Zimpundit has more on the current debate with Zimbabwe opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change over whether or not to contest the forthcoming senate elections. ?I think this might be the end of the MDC as we currently know it,? he writes.