March 13, 2002 - March 20, 2002
Zimbabwe Opp welcomes Commonwealth decision
Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002
LINDA MOTTRAM: Zimbabwe's Opposition says the Commonwealth's decision is long overdue.
The Opposition Movement for Democratic Change says Commonwealth leaders have redeemed themselves after failing to take action for more than two years but the MDC says that the suspension won't relieve the suffering of the Zimbabwean people, now being compounded by deepening political unrest. MORE
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Calls for targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe
Posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2002
The Federal Opposition has renewed its call for targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe, despite the overnight decision to suspend the country from the Commonwealth.
A committee of three Commonwealth heads of state, including Australian Prime Minister John Howard, made the decision to suspend Zimbabwe last night. MORE
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Australia confirm Zimbabwe tour
Posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2002
HINDUSTAN TIMES - Australia will go ahead with their cricket tour of Zimbabwe next month in spite of the African country being thrown out of the Commonwealth for a year.
Australian Cricket Board Chief Executive James Sutherland said his organisation was satisfied, at the moment, it was safe for the team to tour the strife-torn country.
But Sutherland said the ACB would continue to monitor the situation in Zimbabwe as the safety of players and officials was the board's major concern. "Sport is a powerful force for social cohesion," Sutherland said. MORE
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Australia's PM rules out sanctions against Zimbabwe
Posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has ruled out sanctions against Zimbabwe, after the Commonwealth suspended the African country for one year.
Mr Howard has called on Zimbabwe to hold new presidential elections, after a committee of leaders ruled its elections earlier this month, which saw Robert Mugabe returned to power, were neither free nor fair.
However, the Commonwealth decided against imposing sanctions in the short-term. MORE
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Commonwealth suspends Zimbabwe
Posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Three Commonwealth leaders meeting in London today suspended Zimbabwe from the councils of the Commonwealth for one year.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, chairman of the troika, said Commonwealth observers had concluded that last week's elections were "marred by a high level of political violence" and had not allowed for a free expression of the wishes of the electorate. MORE
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2 African leaders try to ease Zimbabwe tensions
Posted: Monday, March 18, 2002
HARARE, Zimbabwe The presidents of South Africa and Nigeria flew to Zimbabwe on Monday and urged President Robert Mugabe and his opposition party rival to work together to salvage this troubled nation, which is racked by food shortages, unemployment and political tensions. MORE
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Zimbabwe trade unions call three-day general strike
Posted: Monday, March 18, 2002
HARARE - Zimbabwe's main labour federation has called a three-day general strike later this week to protest the post-election harassment of workers.
Previously led by defeated presidential challenger Morgan Tsvangirai, the federation's members are believed to have been among his strongest backers against President Robert Mugabe, who won a fifth term as head of Zimbabwe's government last week in an election many countries and observers have said was rigged. MORE
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Mugabe issues new warning to white businesses
Posted: Sunday, March 17, 2002
President Robert Mugabe warned the white community in Zimbabwe yesterday that he intended to step up land reforms and would give economic control to black Zimbabweans. MORE
• Asian and white communities prepare to leave
QUOTE: "Jack Straw, Britain's Foreign Secretary, would strengthen his case against Mr Mugabe if he were to be more vociferous in his defence of human rights and democracy elsewhere – and especially elsewhere in Africa. Yoweri Museveni, the current president of Uganda, is favoured by the West because he allows a free press and pursues economic policies of which we approve, but his no-party system means Uganda's elections, while nominally free and fair, are democratically flawed. Kenya is a more obvious case, where President Daniel Arap Moi's repression of political opposition renders his multi-party system a mockery of democracy.
Britain and other democracies are right to condemn last week's vote in Zimbabwe as a fraud, but must adopt a similar uncompromising stance in demanding free and fair elections in the rest of Africa and the WORLD."
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Mugabe Takes Zimbabwe's Top Office
Posted: Sunday, March 17, 2002
HARARE, Zimbabwe –– Longtime President Robert Mugabe was sworn in for another six-year term Sunday after being declared the winner of elections that some observers said were flawed.
Mugabe, 78, swore to "bear true allegiance to Zimbabwe and uphold the laws of Zimbabwe." Mugabe then railed against colonialism and imperialism, and urged other African leaders to support him against hostile Western nations. MORE
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Africa Moves to Avert Commonwealth Zimbabwe Ban
Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2002
HARARE (Reuters) - South Africa and Nigeria have stepped up diplomatic efforts to avert Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth over President Robert Mugabe's disputed election victory, diplomatic sources said on Saturday. MORE
SADC Statement on the Zimbabwe Elections
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum has completed its interim assessment of the Zimbabwe 2002 elections.
On the invitation of the government of Zimbabwe by letter dated February 4, 2002, the SADC Parliamentary Forum Observer mission constituted a delegation of 70 members, consisting of 39 Members of Parliament and support staff drawn from the Secretariat in Windhoek, Namibia and eleven parliaments of the region. MORE
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Zimbabwe election draws rising number of critics
Posted: Thursday, March 14, 2002
Those discrediting Zimbabwe's electoral process should listen to what the Africans are saying," Zuma told Zimbabwean state radio MORE
• Secret mission to solve Zimbabwe crisis?
• MDC rejects prospects of a coalition govt
• Way forward for Zimbabwe
• Straw says no new sanctions on Zimbabwe
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Mugabe victory leaves west's policy in tatters
Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
African observers say poll was free and fair
Britain and other western countries were left frustrated and impotent yesterday after Robert Mugabe formally declared that he had overwhelmingly won Zimbabwe's presidential election.
The extent to which Mr Mugabe outmanoeuvered the west was made clear yesterday when southern African countries issued a surprise statement declaring the conduct of the election free and fair. MORE
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Press Spars over Election Results
Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
WORLD PRESS REVIEW - Celebrating though it may now be, Zimbabwe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and its leader, Robert Mugabe, are taking a calculated risk in legitimizing the results of the elections held on March 9 and 10. Leaders and supporters of Zimbabwean opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) still see the election as stolen and as signaling the untimely death of democracy in Zimbabwe. MORE
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Zimbabwe poll is legitimate, say SA observers
Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Harare - South African observers said on Wednesday that Zimbabwe's election, won by President Robert Mugabe, was "legitimate".
"Based on our observations, it is the view of the South African observer mission that the outcome of the 2002 Zimbabwe presidential election should be considered as legitimate," mission leader Samuel Motsuenyane told reporters in Harare. MORE
• Report: Mugabe Re-Elected in Zimbabwe
• Key dates in Zimbabwe's history
• Mugabe Declared Winner, Opposition Reject Results
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White farmers charged with bribing poll officials
Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Twelve white farmers have been charged with corruption for offering food to polling officials in Zimbabwe's election as the state media blasted the white minority for supporting the opposition. A court in Chinhoyi, north-west of Harare, charged the farmers with corruption and possession of radio equipment tuned to police frequencies. Jonathan Samukange, a lawyer for the farmers, said his clients had been released on bail and ordered to surrender their passports. MORE
It is up to South Africa to tell the truth about President Mugabe
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