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Original Post Date: 2010-09-21 Time: 07:00:04 Posted By: The BeardedMan
Howzit
“A person like yourself needs to contact the main non-Mugabe reporters and coach them into reporting positively, even if it means bending the truth a little.
To win against Mr Mugabe, you have to be very careful and use whatever means possible, especially the media to really fight against him. The latest genocide charges against him and his generals need to be advertised more – especially by the media. Mr Mugabe should follow the same path a Charles Taylor… In fact these charges should be reported non stop, by reporting Charles Taylor’s case on a regular basis with references to Mr Mugabe.“
Whilst appreciate the email, I would never refer to Mugabe as ‘Mr’. And I would never use this page to bend ‘the truth a little’. This is because if one fact is ‘readjusted’ then more facts have to be readjusted to conform. This is where I believe Mugabe himself went wrong.
For him to have succeeded, he needed to have changed nothing. But his zeal to lead in his own style necessitated a small charge, which in turn caused other changes, and so it continued – a domino effect – which in the end meant that the entire country was affected by the changes.
And the damage caused was irreversible.
I do appreciate the email and I wish to thank the writer.
On the serious side, it does indicate the level to which life in Zimbabwe has fallen.
The report of a gunman in the city centre is certainly a report to be taken seriously, and we have to remember that in Zimbabwe, many people carry weapons, both legally and illegally, so the armed response is probably not excessive.
The tragic incident came amid a heightened state of alert by the police after a senior police officer was killed and a detective and four members of the public were wounded earlier that morning when at least three armed robbers raided a local bar.
Sources told New Zimbabwe.com the unnamed bodyguard, whose boss is the minister in charge of the police, was playing pool at the Chicken Inn eatery on Fort Street when security guards spotted his gun.
An armed response police team stormed the restaurant and ordered everyone to lie down.
A witness said: “Mohadi’s bodyguard followed the instruction together with everyone else, but they shot him while he was trying to explain who he was.“
I think back to when I was prosecuting in Plumtree and Bulawayo and often used to drive the hundred kilometres to Zimbabwe’s second biggest town, and then work in the courts. I worked largely in plain clothes, but would carry a 9mm CZ ’75 parabellum combat pistol in a shoulder holster. I suppose, given the security situation in the country at that time, this could have conceivably happened to me.
“Since the shooting in the early hours of Saturday when at least three gunmen raided the Cape to Cairo restaurant and bar, killing top cop Lawrence Chatikobo, the Officer Commanding the Serious Fraud Squad, Bulawayo resident have witnessed an unprecedented police operation in the hunt for the killers who got away with US$1600 and R800.“
Slim pickings for a raid that saw a policeman die.
For that matter, what ‘sincerity’ does the Zimbabwean government show in the forthcoming negotiations? What can the Zimbabwean government offer?
Last week, the US denied visas to two members of the Zimbabwe delegation to the 65th Session of the General Assembly and the Millennium Development Goals Summit.
However, after pressure from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UN Secretary-General’s Office, the US Embassy in Harare relented and granted passage to one of them.
By hosting the UN Headquarters, the United States has a binding obligation to allow all members access to the facilities.“
Not so. The measures are in place and are applied by the US authorities – and are not relaxed by a blanket surrender of their borders. To assert that the US has a ‘binding obligation’ to allow all members entry is incorrect.
“In an interview yesterday, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity, Mr George Charamba, said the US was acting in contravention of UN agreements.
“It is a very unwarranted action, which defies all logic and thought, and has neither rhyme nor reason.
“In two days’ time the American government is going to hold formal talks with Zimbabwe.
“They have themselves invited a delegation of the inclusive Government here, and it will be led by Minister (Elton) Mangoma.
“How can they on one hand say they want to engage in dialogue and invite a delegation here while at the same time they deny visas to an official delegation to a UN meeting?
“What are they communicating by exhibiting such hostility? Maybe the American ambassador in Harare can tell Government what exactly they are communicating by acting in such a manner,” he said. ZBC’s chief correspondent Reuben Barwe was denied a visa at the time the delegation left for New York, with embassy officials understood to have promised to issue one in time to allow him to attend the General Assembly.“
Mugabe went to New York with a 70 person delegation. Was there any need to have this many people accompany him?
And negotiating is a two sided coin. What have – or can – the Zimbabwean government offer in return for the travel sanctions to be lifted? Not a lot, I can guarantee…
“Mr Charamba said: “They had denied visas to two members of the delegation. The other one only got it at the airport after intense and persistent pressure through the machinery of Government.
“A deputation was also sent to the UN Secretary-General and we shall continue applying this pressure on the US government.
“Why America has decided to zero in on a journalist, I can’t fathom. Perhaps they want to smother the voice of Zimbabwe so that we can’t report to the world the grievances of illegal sanctions imposed on us by the Americans and their friends. Obviously this is futile and we shall continue to speak out, visas or no visas. Let the world recognise how unfair America has consistently been on Zimbabwe.“
What a pathetic comment. Mugabe seeks to muzzle the independent press in Zimbabwe in an effort to suppress the truth of life in Zimbabwe getting out. Yes, he has got the BBC and CNN reporters on board, but their stories still have to be vetted by his administration – as a consequence, not much news gets out.
Mugabe arrived in New York on Saturday and is accompanied by several ministers drawn from both ZANU PF and MDC.“
Is someone able to tell me why it is necessary for Mugabe, his wife and a 70 person entourage to arrive in new York four days before the Assembly is due to begin? so much for travel sanctions…
“The pilots are still on an industrial action and we are still discussing with them.“
An article a few days ago said that the pilots were dismissed for not returning to work…
When asked by a reporter to expand upon his comments, he exclaimed: “I do not want to hear anything about it. If you continue asking me about this issue I beat you up. I was not addressing the people of Masvingo.“
That’s a very mature response from the ZANU PF hierarchy, isn’t it?
“Christine Nkulu learnt first-hand on Sunday how some of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s followers settle constitutional discussions. With a half-brick in the face.
She and a couple of hundred supporters of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which is in a power-sharing government with Mugabe’s ZANU PF party, had attended a meeting in Harare’s Mbare township, where citizens were being asked what they would like to see in a new draft constitution.
“ZANU PF youths arrived and they outnumbered us by five to one,” she said. “They were carrying iron bars, sticks, axes. They surrounded us and began to beat people, one by one. They beat women and old people.”
She managed to flee but a half brick hurled at her from close range caught her just above her left eye, causing it to swell up and turn a painful shade of blue.
It was the last of hundreds of sessions organized by the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) since June.
The huge range of opinions expressed are meant to form the basis for drafting a new democratic constitution to replace the flawed constitution used by Mugabe to cement his power over the last 30 years.
But meetings all over Harare at the weekend were broken up or had to be abandoned as mobs of youths took over the process. Witnesses at the Mbare meeting claimed the mobs had been bussed in from remote rural areas.“
When we read of senior members of ZANU PF threatening to beat reporters, should we be surprised when we read of the youths in that organisation resorting to their normal activities – violence?
And the ZRP will do nothing about the violence, preferring to hide behind the idea that the cases of violence are ‘political’. Since when do the police pick and chose what crimes they investigate?
Had the violence been perpetrated by MDC members, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that there would have been arrests.
“At one meeting, a ZANU PF supporter reportedly pulled out a pistol when other speakers spoke in support of a free media and property rights. People fled in terror.
At another, a ZANU PF youth is said to have opened the meeting with a prayer “God, kill those who are sellouts,” apparently referring to supporters of the MDC, which Mugabe accuses of selling out to the West.
In rural areas, the meetings were mostly run by chiefs and headmen, who are usually loyal to ZANU PF, with groups of intimidating youths or secret police reportedly often present.“
The sad truth is that many of these loyal ZANU PF ‘members’ have been promised riches beyond their wildest dreams, and, like so many of Mugabe’s promises, will not amount to anything – and those that were promised rewards will only realise it after the fact…
But, apart from the political hatred, there is another weapon which ZANU PF uses to their benefit… often and with huge success.
Racism.
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According to reports reaching London, droves of white people were chased away from participating in the constitutional outreach programme in Harare at the weekend, in which violence and confusion marred the process.
In Mount Pleasant, white families were subjected to a torrent of abuse by suspected ZANU PF supporters who later drove them away shouting racial slurs.
“If this process is to genuinely gather the views of people, then what has happened here is a farce. This is not acceptable. Are you saying whites are not part of Zimbabwe?” asked one white man who had been turned away after verbal abuse.
Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) co-chairperson Paul Mangwana deplored the incident, which he said was regrettable.
“This is the people's constitution, not a party's constitution. People should not fight and resort to violence because of partisanship. These parties are like clothes that you change because of weather, you can change them anytime,” he said.
There were reports of similar incidents in Graniteside.
In Dzivarasekwa Ward 39, irate residents were angered by the no show of COPAC teams.
The committee had initially scheduled the outreach programme for Saturday but later changed it to Sunday before moving it to Monday.
“How can you say Monday when you know that the majority of us will be at work? You want to bring people from other wards to come and act on our behalf and air views which are different from ours,” said Taurai Chuma from Dzivarasekwa 3.
Violence and ill tempers rocked the commencement of the outreach programme in Harare and Bulawayo.
In Mbare, five officials from the main faction of the MDC were seriously injured and scores arrested when rampaging ZANU PF supporters invaded Mai Musodzi Hall.
The incident came barely a day after the commencement of the outreach programme in Harare was overshadowed by intimidation and sporadic scenes of violence in and around the capital.
In Bulawayo, tempers flared after some tribal jibes which almost degenerated into chaos.“
Unreal.
‘debvhu
Source: http://thebeardedman.blogspot.com/2010/09/tuesday-22-september-2010.html