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Original Post Date: 2010-06-09 Time: 07:00:02 Posted By: The BeardedMan
Howzit
Foreign currency mid-rates updated…
Consider that there is a pro-Mugabe police officer on a US$100 bail for murder…
So the courts in Zimbabwe are suggesting that the supply of time-expired vitamins and diet supplements is five times more serious than murder?
In Bindura, the MP for Epworth, Hon. Eliah Jembere and Mashonaland Central provincial treasurer, Gilbert Kagodora are expected to appear in court tomorrow at the Bindura magistrate's court on another trumped-up charge of undermining the President at a rally at Wadzanai Business Centre in Shamva on Saturday.
Another MDC official, Isaac Mupinyuri who was arrested on Sunday on charges of undermining the President at a rally at Shinje Business Centre, Guruve South is expected to appear in court tomorrow at the Guruve magistrate's court.
Mupinyuri is the MDC secretary for Mbire district.“
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As becomes more and more apparent that the police have been instructed to arrest as many MDC MPs, activists and supporters – on any charge, no matter how transparently trumped-up that charge may be – to keep the Tsvangirai-led faction from realising any power at all in the coalition government.
And while the police pursue the MDC, there are members of the Mugabe-led political party – ZANU PF – who have been named in murders, beatings, abductions, arson and intimidation that remain free without any investigation being conducted.
In Mugabe’s mind, being an MDC member or supporter is a crime within itself.
His wife Kerry Kay, who is also an MDC official, told SW Radio Africa on Tuesday that her husband committed no offence and the medicines he allegedly distributed in his constituency were part of a consignment that was donated by the Church of Latter-day Saints. The MDC official said the church has over the years been donating non-prescription drugs, such as vitamin tablets, whose life often exceeds the expiry date.
“I have raised this point before – how does the distribution of time-expired non-prescription drugs convert to ‘illegal firearms’ and ‘pornographic materials’? And, even though nothing was found, Kay was arrested anyway?
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Spokesman Nelson Chamisa of the Tsvangirai MDC formation said the incidents have shaken the foundations of the troubled government of national unity.
Police confirmed that Ian Kay, who represents the Marondera Central constituency some 75 kilometers east of the capital and is the only white member of the House of Assembly, was arrested early Friday.
Police searched Kay’s home in Harare’s Helensvale suburb saying they were looking for arms and drugs. They said the search was ordered after Kay donated expired pharmaceuticals to clinics in Marondera and Mutoko.
The MDC issued a statement saying Kay has been arrested on “trumped-up charges of possessing illegal and expired drugs.” It added: “Six police officers from the Harare (Criminal Investigation Division) drugs section raided his house in Helensvale, Harare, in search of the drugs but found nothing. Ironically, they arrested him.
“He is currently out on a US$500 bail.
“Elsewhere, the MDC said the party’s district chairman for Mount Darwin North, Mashonaland Central province, had been abducted by armed ZANU PF militia members late Wednesday and his whereabouts remained unknown.
Mount Darwin North party information secretary George Masveta said at about 10 armed men descended upon Magonye’s homestead on Wednesday night, dragged him out of his house and took him away.
In Manicaland province, the trial of Mutasa North legislator Pishayi Muchauraya on charges he insulted President Mugabe was put off indefinitely on Friday when the state said it was not ready to proceed.
Authorities issued a summons to Muchauraya last week obliging him to appear before a Mutare magistrate’s court for allegedly insulting Mugabe at a rally in Manicaland in 2002.
But Muchauraya has dismissed the allegations, “To be frank, I cannot recall any police case against me dating back to that period. This is pure harassment by ZANU PF using state resources.“
Mugabe is treading water, having his police, CIO, war veterans and youth militia doing just enough to keep the MDC honest and touchy. It is my belief that the idea is to keep the tensions bubbling on the back burner until the FIFA World Cup football tournament in South Africa is complete.
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Mutasa, Minister of Presidential Affairs and ZANU PF secretary for administration, has justified his actions saying he was doing so to “protect the poor”.
He said Zimbabwe had a law that did not allow land cases to be solved by the courts.
Mutasa told the villagers in Chipinge at the weekend that they should not leave Makandi Tea and Coffee Estates, owned by Brendon James Scott despite the court ruling ordering them to do so.
Scott yesterday refused to comment saying his problems mounted each time he spoke to the press.“
It is all very well Mutasa claiming that he is ‘protecting the poor’ – but when we look at the programme that took the land – forcibly – from the white commercial farmers, and instead of handing the seized land to the ‘landless blacks’ ZANU PF kept the land for themselves and their loyalist support.
I am not so sure that one of Mugabe’s senior party members can just brazenly break the law like this and defy a court order. And as for his suggestion that “Zimbabwe had a law that did not allow land cases to be solved by the courts” – well, all he is doing is negating the courts completely.
But if there is a law that allows the land question to be resolved out of court, why hasn’t he told us how it works? Or, is it just ZANU PF posturing, saying the first thing that comes out of their mouth, even if it is rubbish?
“Two months ago the Chipinge Magistrates' Court ordered that 300 villagers including nine village heads and some councillors from the town should vacate the estate because it was not gazetted for resettlement under the controversial land reform programme. Scott's lawyer, Tinoziva Bere yesterday told NewsDay the courts had ruled in his client's favour but complained that the police were not being cooperative in enforcing the court order.
“There was a ruling in favour of our client but unfortunately there is no assistance from the police to enforce that court order,” Bere said in an interview. “There is disrespect for the court. They only respect the court when they want to fix opponents or when they want to grab property,” he said.“
So Mutasa believes that he can subvert the courts in Zimbabwe…
“The court order should not have been given.
“In fact there is a law that says land issues cannot be referred to court. You can verify. I do not think the removal of these people settle at Makondi is legitimate because they have offer letters.“
If such a law exists, then why have ZANU PF taken ten years to tell us about it?
And I do wonder what became of the US$i billion that Mugabe’s mines minister reported had been sold already this year. That sort of money would do a great deal to kick start to rebuild of Zimbabwe – yet Mugabe still claims that the country is broke.
Where is that money?
“Based on evidence provided by the government of Zimbabwe and private investors, and on… first-hand assessment of the situation, Zimbabwe has satisfied the minimum requirements of the KPCS for trade in rough diamonds,” said a report by Kimberley Process (KP) monitor Abbey Chikane and seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
South African monitor Chikane was appointed to assess diamond operations at Zimbabwe’s controversial Chiadzwa fields to the east of the country, following an agreement between the southern African country and the KPCS.
Zimbabwe’s diamonds have come under the spotlight following charges of human rights abuses and gem smuggling at the Chiadzwa fields.
“The KP monitor is ready to supervise export arrangements, in close collaboration with the relevant Zimbabwean authorities and other relevant parties,” the report said.“
I read with interest an interview given to SW Radio Africa’s Violet Gondo where an activist claimed that the KP monitor was a “ZANU PF activist”.
And I find it a little disconcerting that the Kimberley Process has failed to give the correct amount of concern to the blatant and open abuses of human rights within the diamond fields. We have the ZR Police forming a company to mine the precious stone, we have ZANU PF bigwigs bullying their way into the diamond market, and Mugabe behaving as if the national natural resources were his personal property.
“The government says it has stockpiled more than 2 million carats while waiting for the Kimberley Process certification. Zimbabwean authorities have recently voiced their frustration over their inability to sell the diamonds, with President Robert Mugabe and Mines Minister Obert Mpofu threatening to trade the gems outside the Kimberley Process.
Last month, Mpofu banned all diamond sales from Zimbabwe, including from Rio Tinto’s Murowa mine, which produced 124,000 carats in 2009, and the privately owned River Ranch mine, until the country got KPCS approval to sell the Chiadzwa diamonds.
Rights groups accuse security forces deployed to the Marange fields by Zimbabwe’s government of widespread atrocities in the poorly secured diamond fields and have been pushing for a ban on the stones.“
There is a serious problem when it comes the diamond mines in Zimbabwe… and Chikane’s report seems to ally itself to Mugabe’s forced occupation of the fields.
“The immediate de-militarisation of Chiadzwa may present unintended consequences for the government of Zimbabwe,” the report says.
“Indications are that any form of withdrawal will have to be conducted in a gradual manner. Based on this indication, the army may have to remain in Chiadzwa until conditions are conducive for withdrawal.“
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Source: http://thebeardedman.blogspot.com/2010/06/wednesday-9th-june-2010.html