» Mugabe resolute and unshaken: First Lady March 19, 2009
President Mugabe is a great leader who has stood firm in the face of adversity and has resisted Western machinations on the land issue, says Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe.
» Eddie Cross disputes Tsvangirai over crash March 19, 2009
The Movement for Democratic Change party's policy coordinator has disputed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's statement that the accident that killed his wife was a genuine accident.
» Tsvangirai crash: More questions than answers March 14, 2009
Based on the facts of this case, and keeping in mind the experiences of countries like Cuba, Chile, Venezuela, Iran or Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana among many others, there is more than enough to suggest that the activities of the British and American governments in Zimbabwe today have become too daring, too entrenched and too dangerous to be left alone.
» US embassy accident story not convincing March 13, 2009
» Tsvangirai crash: three drivers linked to USAID, DFID March 13, 2009
» Tsvangirai's son praises President Mugabe March 11, 2009
» UK to fund land reform in Uganda March 10, 2009
THE British government has finalised modalities through which it will assist Uganda to finance efforts aimed at solving land problems, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has disclosed.
» Deadly crash was the hand of God: Mugabe March 10, 2009
» Tsvangirai rules out foul play March 09, 2009
» Tsvangirai's Accident with UK and US Aid March 09, 2009
Yes, it could be an accident, but we should be suspicious amidst reports of US and UK 'charity' involvement and especially so because of the British haste to call this a genuine accident.
» Tsvangirai flown to Botswana March 08, 2009
» Truck driver in Tsvangirai accident distraught March 08, 2009
» President Mugabe's message of condolence to PM Tsvangirai March 08, 2009 Zimbabwe in mourning for Susan Tsvangirai March 08, 2009 MDC demands independent inquiry into car crash that injured the prime minister and killed his wife
The US-donated aid lorry, normally used to transport medicines, was being driven by a Zimbabwean man employed using money from a British development agency. Police said the driver admitted that he had fallen asleep at the wheel and veered into the oncoming Tsvangirai convoy. Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai in horror crash March 07, 2009
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his wife Susan were yesterday evening involved in a car crash 86km from Harare on the Masvingo Road when their Toyota Landcruiser was hit by a Nissan truck belonging to an American aid agency, Usaid. Prime Minister Tsvangirai, hurt in the crash, was last night still in Harare's Avenues Clinic, and able to sit up, while Mrs Susan Tsvangirai was feared dead although a formal statement is only expected today from the family. The Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity said the PM's vehicle was sideswiped by the Usaid Nissan truck, registration number 81TCE128, near Mhondoro turn-off. The registration number is one of those allocated to the American Embassy technical support staff vehicles.
» MDC Statement: The tragic death of Mrs Tsvangirai March 07, 2009
» MDC-T rioters shot January 27, 2009
» 'Inclusive govt next month' January 27, 2009
After 14 hours of deliberations the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) yesterday issued a statement saying Zimbabwe's main parties had agreed on a timeline to implement the power-sharing agreement signed on September 15, 2008.
» New chapter opened in political relations MDASH; Mugabe January 27, 2009
President Robert Mugabe says he hopes that a "new chapter" has been opened in Zimbabwe's political relations by the recent power-sharing agreement brokered in South Africa by the region's Heads of States and Government.
» Communique of Sadc Extraordinary Summit on Zimbabwe January 27, 2009
» Mbeki criticizes Tsvangirai's comment on SADC November 30, 2008
"It may be that, for whatever reason, you consider our region and continent as being of little consequence to the future of Zimbabwe, believing that others further away, in Western Europe and North America, are of greater importance," Mbeki said.
» President Mugabe should be forced out: Botswana November 26, 2008
» Send the troops into Zimbabwe, says Kenya's Raila Odinga Nov. 24, 2008
» Mbeki and MDC's Heated Exchange
The Movement for Democratic Change says it has officially withdrawn from negotiations with Zanu-PF until former President Thabo Mbeki is replaced as the official Zimbabwe facilitator of the Southern African Development Community. MDC announced this on Wednesday in response to a letter which Mr. Mbeki wrote to Tsvangirai on Monday. Mbeki wrote the letter in response to a letter which MDC secretary general Tendai Biti wrote to him on November 19.
» Zimbabwe welcomes power-sharing pact September 27, 2008
Nearly half a year after disputed elections and following two months of delicate negotiations, Zimbabweans on Sept. 15 welcomed the signing of a unity government agreement by President Robert Mugabe and opposition politicians.
» Zimbabwe: Power-sharing deal hailed September 13, 2008
Ordinary Zimbabweans, political parties, analysts, church leaders, captains of industry, trade unions, the United Nations and the European Union have hailed the signing of a power-sharing deal by Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations.
» Historic Zimbabwe power-sharing deal signed on 9/11 Sept. 11, 2008
THE leader of the Movement for Democratic Change has confirmed to reporters in the capital of Zimbabwe, Harare that a power-sharing deal has been signed by the main political parties in Zimbabwe and President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, the appointed mediator, has held a press conference to announcing the news.
» Zimbabwe's President Mugabe and Tsvangirai Agree to Share Power
» Zimbabwe Rivals Strike Power Deal
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai have finally reached a deal on power sharing in the turbulent country.
» Zambian president Mwanawasa dies in France, aged 59 August 20, 2008
» Zambia's Levy Mwanawasa, 'Darling of the West' August 20, 2008
His temerity in criticising Mugabe - in stark contrast to the much-criticised quiet diplomacy of South African President Thabo Mbeki - won him the enmity of the Harare regime who portrayed him as a puppet of old colonial power Britain. Western powers meanwhile warmed to him, with European nations stumping up $160m in aid for Zambian poverty eradication programmes for 2008.
» The West can go to hell - Mutambara August 20, 2008
Mutambara said the negotiations, currently being brokered by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, are driven by 'national interest' and the West should not interfere.
» Mutambara interview on ABC August 20, 2008
The following is the full transcript of an interview by Movement for Democratic Change faction leader, Professor Arthur Mutambara on ABC's 'Saturday Extra' programme. The interview was given before the Southern African Development Community's annual summit held last weekend.
» What is on offer now is what is practicable - Ncube August 20, 2008
» Tsvangirai's U-turn: The facts August 14, 2008
» Why did Tsvangirai 'walk out'? August 14, 2008
» MDC in secret talks with Anglo American August 14, 2008
THE Movement for Democratic Change party led by Morgan Tsvangirai and mining giant Anglo American (Anglo) have held secret confidential talks that could reverse the concessions ceded to the Zimbabwean government by Anglo Platinum (a majority-owned subsidiary of Anglo) the Zimbabwe Guardian has learnt.
» Mugabe's Biggest Sin: Anglo-American and Chinese interests clash
over Zimbabwe's strategic mineral wealth July 30, 2008
Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, presides over one of the world's richest minerals treasures, the Great Dyke region, which cuts a geological swath across the entire land from northeast to southwest. The real background to the pious concerns of the Bush Administration for human rights in Zimbabwe in the past several years is not Mugabe's possible election fraud or his expropriation of white settler farms. It is the fact that Mr. Mugabe has been quietly doing business, a lot of it, with the one country which has virtually unlimited need of strategic raw materials Zimbabwe can provide–China. Mugabe's Zimbabwe is, along with Sudan, on the central stage of the new war over control of strategic minerals of Africa between Washington and Beijing, with Moscow playing a supporting role in the drama. The stakes are huge.
» Sanctions hurting ordinary folk – Gono July 30, 2008
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor says sanctions imposed by the West are not just targeted at individual politicians as claimed by Western governments and related media, but are hurting 'ordinary folk' and are tantamount to a direct attack on press freedom.
» Gono urges national cohesion and unity of purpose July 30, 2008
» Recalled Italian ambassador returns to Zimbabwe July 30, 2008
» Burma and Zimbabwe witness the last gasps of the supreme
global sheriff July 30, 2008
The west can no longer impose its will on the increasingly powerful and self-confident nations of the developing world
» Negotiators urged to avoid the media July 29, 2008
Dr Ndlovu reminded the negotiators that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Zanu PF and the two MDC parties categorically bars them from discussing details of the talks or to negotiate in the media, as that would jeopardize the process.
» Mbeki says talks not deadlocked July 29, 2008
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa on Tuesday denied rumours that talks between Zimbabwe's main political parties had hit deadlock as reported by sections of the international and independent Zimbabwean media.
» US Prepared To Help If Talks Succeed July 28, 2008
The United States government says it has imposed further sanctions against the government of President Mugabe as a way of ensuring that the ruling Zanu PF party negotiates in good faith at the ongoing talks in South Africa scheduled to end next week.
» Zimbabwe crisis puts Zuma above Odinga July 27, 2008
The West, especially the British, had been trying to push Zuma to swallow their bait by publicly criticising Robert Mugabe thus driving a dangerous wedge between him and President Thabo Mbeki who has been pursuing quiet but fruitful diplomacy to defuse the problems in Zimbabwe. Thankfully, Zuma had the courage to reiterate what leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have repeatedly made clear on many occasions. They have said the West exaggerates the crisis in Zimbabwe, that we have had problems on the continent but the West does not raise the alarm as it has done regarding Zimbabwe; we had millions dying in Angola, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and northern Uganda, but the West kept silent.
» MoU: Dining Tsvangirai, Deigning the British July 26, 2008
» MoU softens EU stance on Zimbabwe July 26, 2008
» Zimbabwe: Makumbe fails to substantiate violence claims July 26, 2008
Police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka said they visited Makumbe at his University of Zimbabwe offices to verify the authenticity of his allegations. "He only referred the officers who quizzed him to a hostile newspaper, The Zimbabwean, and said he had got some of his information from the pirate radio station run by Voice of America," he said. Police have since dismissed Makumbe's claims saying they were unfounded and meant to cause alarm and despondency.
Pan-African, independent and civil society labels are now being applied to hawkish, imperialistic and anti-Black African groups that are funded by the US and European powers in collaboration with White settlers in Zimbabwe for the purpose of demonizing President Robert Mugabe and coercing regime change in Zimbabwe. The fact that there are Black Africans in these groups does not make them any less anti-Black African or free from European manipulations.
— Ayinde
Pan-Africanists logic and conviction deduces that because imperialism is an enemy of Africa and we are Africans then the enemies of Africa and/or Zimbabwe are our enemies. Right now imperialism's most pronounced and pointed attack on Africa is in Zimbabwe. When imperialism attacks Zimbabwe it is attacking us. This is our logic.
— Netfa Freeman
Clearly, Mugabe's capital crime was to displace White privilege in Zimbabwe and personally stand up to the White establishment in London and Washington.
— Timothy Kalyegira
Interview: Zimbabwe Ambassador
Should an election be carried out when a country is under sanctions and it has been made clear to the electorate that the sanctions will be lifted only if the opposition party is elected?
Should a political party which is the creation of, and is funded by, hostile foreign forces, and whose program is to unlatch the door from within to provide free entry to foreign powers to establish a neo-colonial rule, be allowed to freely operate?
Should the leaders of an opposition movement that takes money from hostile foreign powers and who have made plain their intention to unseat the government by any means available, be charged with treason?
These are the questions that now face (have long faced) the embattled government of Zimbabwe, and which it has answered in its own way, and which other governments, at other times, have answered in theirs.
Zimbabwe: The Spark ...Claire Short's letter of 1997
Full text of then British Secretary of State for International Development Claire Short's letter of 5 November 1997 that sparked the political and current economic crisis in Zimbabwe
Mr Mbeki said those who fought for a democratic Zimbabwe "with thousands paying the supreme price during the struggle, and forgave their oppressors and torturers in a spirit of national reconciliation, have been turned into repugnant enemies of democracy".
In a direct reference to Britain, he said: "Those who, in the interest of their [white] 'kith and kin', did what they could to deny the people of Zimbabwe their liberty, for as long as they could, have become the eminent defenders of the democratic rights of the people of Zimbabwe."
Martin Luther King noted in 1967 that the Vietnamese people 'must see Americans as strange liberators'. In this brilliant and deeply-researched book, investigative journalist Gregory Elich shows how the US state has not changed its spots. He proves this by analysing its actions against Iraq, North Korea, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe. Scroll down this amazon.com page for reviews.
Contrary to what is implied, many Africans (people of African descent) interpret Zimbabwean developments, not necessarily through romanticism, but with a valid rejection of imperialism's 'mania for regime change'. Too often has the public seen leaders and countries demonized simply as a prelude for this policy.
Before the Mugabe Government started uprooting the white farmers in 2000, this Government kept inflation at 5 percent, 8 percent (or 11 percent in difficult years.) How, then, does a country with all the same factors and leaders from 1980 to 2000 suddenly (because the white commercial farmers have been uprooted) see inflation soar to world record levels in a space of just six years starting in 2000? And how is it that a stable Zimbabwe has an inflation rate 1 500 times higher than Somalia, a country without a govt since 1991?
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to the overwhelming Eurocentric campaign to demonize President Robert Mugabe over the land reclamation exercise.