“Zimbabwe Today” by Robb WJ Ellis (25-07-2011)

WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.

It is just gone 2 in the afternoon, and I have been struggling with learning Dynamic HTML… it isn’t easy!

I seem to say it at least twice a week. Whatever ZANU PF does is deemed acceptable by the ZRP, but if the same were done by the MDC, then there would be arrests, beatings, incarcerations, prosecutions, convictions and imprisonments. Is this what they call ‘a level playing field’?

Supporters of the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) on Saturday 23 July 2011 descended on Parliament building in Harare in large numbers to intentionally disrupt a public hearing organised to solicit people's views on the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) Bill. This follows chaotic disruptions witnessed in the last four days at similar parliamentary committee hearings organised in Chinhoyi and Mutare.

In Zimbabwe, it is no longer what you do to commit a crime, but the illegality is dependent upon who breaks the law…

SADC and African Union leaders now understand President Robert Mugabe is the major cause of the country's problems which is why they have toughened their stance and insist on free and fair elections, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said.

The problem being that Mugabe will listen to no one, will do as he pleases, when he pleases to whoever he pleases, and, if he finds himself in a tight spot within an organisation such as SADC, he will just decide that Zimbabwe will leave that organisation.

And SADC’s dealing with the crisis in Zimbabwe has fallen horribly short of doing anything whatsoever. Their appointment of Mbeki and now Zuma as mediator in the ongoing crisis was as short-sighted as lauding Mugabe’s ‘win’ in 2008.

With Mugabe’s reluctance to pay any heed to SADC or anyone else, the problem of Mutambara holding office without a party seems to carry just a little more importance than people realise. We have Mugabe hanging on to the Presidency and Mutambara hanging on to the Deputy Premiership – that is a mere two out of three. Not the best odds when the intention is democracy…

There are allegations that Arthur Mutambara's refusal to step down and allow MDC-N President Welshman Ncube to take over as a principal is a ‘CIO project' intended to collapse the inclusive government.

Mutambara is a Deputy Prime Minister in the inclusive government. He lost the MDC-N leadership to his former secretary-general during the party's congress in January, but has refused to relinquish his post as the Deputy Premier and principal, arguing that the congress, which ushered Ncube into power, was illegal.

As with anything where ZANU PF is involved, the situation on the ground is tense, often violent, and laced with threats. And that the latest invasion and eviction is accompanied by theft of private property – which the ZRP do nothing about – Zimbabwe is no longer circling the drain, but has begun the headlong flight into depths never plumbed before.

So much for the ‘willing buyer – willing seller’ idea in the Lancaster House agreement…

A farming family in Nyazura has been forced to flee their home on Friday, after an attack by a mob of land invaders.

The Smit family from De Rust farm has been fighting their illegal eviction from the property the whole week, after a self-confessed CIO agent called Onisious Makwengura, plus a gang of thugs, started harassing and intimidating the family.

Makwengura and his gang have vandalised property on the farm and threatened the Smit family, insisting he is acting under the orders of top police officials and the Manicaland governor.

But the situation turned very ugly on Friday after farm owner Koos Smit was arrested. SW Radio Africa was told that Makwengura gave police a false statement saying Smit had assaulted him. Smit was arrested and held at Nyazura police station on assault charges for most of Friday morning.

I suppose it is one way of avoiding paying the bill… accuse the owed bank of irregularities and have it shut down…

Gono’s intentions are well chronicled… if you will excuse the pun.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe owes Renaissance Merchant US$7 million in the form of gold bonds and statutory reserves.

The merchant bank was placed under curatorship after the central bank unearthed serious financial irregularities in its operations. RBZ Governor Dr Gideon Gono disclosed this before a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Investment Promotion on Monday.

Why don’t ZANU PF just sell a few more kilograms of their blood diamonds to pay the bill, or is their preference just to detour the money to their own private accounts?

And finally today, Mugabe doesn’t even try and bother with the correct protocol when it comes to appointments.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is seething with anger over President Robert Mugabe’s alleged unilateral appointment of the deputy chief of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Aaron Nhepera, without consulting him.

The appointment of Nhepera has also been condemned by the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Welshman Ncube.

President Mugabe last week announced the appointment of Nhepera as deputy director of the CIO. A former ZANLA cadre, Nhepera replaced Mernard Muzariri, who succumbed to cancer three months ago.

The appointment comes as the protagonists in the troubled inclusive government are locked in a bitter wrangle over security sector reforms. The MDC formations want the spy agency to fall under the purview of Parliament.

Mugabe’s unilateral appointments, although publicly criticised, remain in place – serving as an almost permanent reminder of who is boos, even though he, no his unruly, violent and criminal ZANU PF party, hold the public mandate to rule Zimbabwe.

Take care.

‘debvhu