Zimbabwe confirms First Coronavirus Case!

Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -  Zimbabwe has confirmed its first case of the coronavirus as the pandemic reaches a health system that has nearly collapsed amid an economic crisis. The health minister says the infected man lives in Victoria Falls, one of Africa's most visited tourist destinations. Meanwhile, two major African airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and South African Airways, are canceling international flights over the coronavirus. And the continent's busiest airport says foreigners cannot disembark. Thirty-nine of Africa's 54 countries now have confirmed virus cases totalling over 900. South Africa's cases have jumped to 202, the most in the sub-Saharan region.

Anxiety is rising in Africa's richest nation as South Africa says coronavirus cases have jumped to 202, the most in the sub-Saharan region. The continent's busiest airport, in Johannesburg, says foreigners will not be allowed to disembark. And state-owned South African Airways is suspending all international flights until June. South Africa's government earlier announced travel restrictions and declared a national disaster. Thirty-seven countries in Africa have confirmed virus cases totalling over 800. So far most cases have been linked to overseas travel, but Niger's first patient had traveled in four West African capitals.

Funeral Services for Late Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Today

 

Late President Robert Mugabe Coffin Today

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - African heads of state joined thousands of Zimbabweans at a state funeral Saturday for Zimbabwe's founding president, Robert Mugabe , whose burial has been delayed for at least a month until a special mausoleum can be built for his remains.

   More than 10 African leaders and several former presidents attended the service and viewing of the body of Mugabe, who died last week in Singapore at age 95, at the National Sports Stadium in the capital, Harare. The crowd filling about 30% of the 60,000 capacity of the Chinese-built stadium. Most of those attending were supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party.

   South African president Cyril Ramaphosa drew boos from the crowd, as a result of the recent attacks in Johannesburg on foreigners, including Zimbabweans. An official pleaded with the stadium crowd to let him speak. Ramaphosa apologized for the attacks.

   Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta described Mugabe as "a great icon of African liberation" and "a visionary leader and relentless champion of African dignity."

   The announcement Friday evening that that burial will be postponed until the building of a new resting place at the national Heroes' Acre Monument is the latest turn in a dramatic wrangle between Mugabe's family and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a once-trusted deputy who helped oust Mugabe from power.

   Mnangagwa presided over Saturday's ceremony, attended by Mugabe's widow Grace, who wore a black veil.

   "A giant tree of Africa has fallen," said Mnangagwa, who hailed Mugabe as "a bold, steadfast revolutionary."

   He praised Mugabe for seizing land from white farmers. "To him, this was the grievance of all grievances of our people," Mnangagwa said. "The land has now been reunited with the people and the people have been reunited with the land." He also called on Western countries to remove sanctions imposed during Mugabe's era.

   "Go Well Our Revolutionary Icon" and "Farewell Gallant Son of the Soil" were among the banners praising Mugabe, who led the bitter guerrilla war to end white-minority rule in the country then known as Rhodesia. Mugabe was Zimbabwe's first leader and ruled the country from 1980 for 37 years, from years of prosperity to economic ruin and repression.

   He was deposed in 2017 by the military and Mnangagwa in a bloodless coup that was marked by more than 100,000 people demonstrating in Harare's streets to demand that he step down. Following Mugabe's resignation, Mnangagwa took power and won elections the next year on campaign promises he would improve the collapsed economy and create jobs. But Zimbabwe's economy has lurched from crunch to crisis and some in the crowd expressed the view that life was better under Mugabe's rule.

   "Bread was less than a dollar when we marched against him (Mugabe). It is now $9," said Munashe Gudyanga, 18. "I am just here to say `Sorry, President Mugabe, we didn't know things will be worse."'

   Some in the stadium sang an impromptu farewell to Mugabe, "When you left bread was a dollar," lyrics that implicitly criticized Mnangagwa, whose nearly two-year rule has been marked by rising prices, with inflation currently more than 175%.

   The visiting leaders viewed Mugabe's the partially open casket, followed by a 21-gun salute, a flypast by Zimbabwean air force jets and the release of 95 doves, to mark Mugabe's 95 years.

   Mugabe's body is to be viewed in his birthplace, Zvimba, on Sunday and then will be held in preservation until the new mausoleum is ready.

   In downtown Harare, many Zimbabweans were busy with their weekend errands, and expressed little interest in the funeral, which was open to the public.

   "What will I get if I go there? What will Mugabe do for me now that he failed to do when he was alive?" said Amelia Tukande, who was selling cellphone chargers along Harare's Samora Machel Avenue that leads to the stadium. "It is a waste of time. I have to work for my family."

   Others said they would have wanted to attend the funeral but cannot afford transport fares.

   "I didn't like him, but I still wanted to attend just to see for myself that he is gone ... but kombis (minivan taxis) want $3.50 just to get to the stadium," said Amos Siduna, waiting in line at a bank to get cash, which is in short supply. "That's too much money for me just to go and say `bye bye' to a corpse. Mugabe's corpse. No."

   The mourning period for Mugabe's death has been marked by the ongoing drama over where, when and how the ex-strongman will be buried. The new resting place will be built near the stadium at Heroes' Acre, a national burial site for top officials of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party who contributed to ending white colonial rule

   The mausoleum will be at an elevated site above the other graves, according to Mnangagwa and a Mugabe family spokesman.

   Grace had previously insisting on a private burial rather than the state funeral and burial in a simple plot alongside other national heroes planned by the government.

   "We are building a mausoleum for our founding father at the top of the hill at Heroes' Acre," Mnangagwa said on state television Friday night, consenting to the Mugabe family's wishes.

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The Late President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe

Rest in Peace Robert Mugabe - Former President of Zimbabwe

The Late President Robert Mugabe (1924 -2019)

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Robert Mugabe will be buried at a hilltop shrine reserved exclusively for Zimbabwe's ruling elite, an official said Saturday, as the southern African nation began several days of official mourning.

   Mugabe, who was 95 when he died Friday in Singapore, will be laid to rest in Harare at the National Heroes Acre, which has been set aside for Zimbabweans who have made huge sacrifices during the war against white-minority rule and who dedicated themselves to the nation, which emerged from the ashes of colonial Rhodesia.

   "Comrade Mugabe will be buried at the Heroes Acre," deputy information minister Energy Mutodi said. "That is where he deserves to rest."

   Leo Mugabe, a nephew of Robert Mugabe and a family spokesman, told The Associated Press that the date of the funeral and other details, including when Mugabe's body will arrive in Zimbabwe, weren't yet available.

   "Arrangements are not in place yet," he said in a text message.

   Located on a hilltop, and built with the help of North Korean architects, the plot has a commanding view of Harare, features a huge bronze statue of three guerrilla fighters and boasts black marble and granite flourishes.

   Mugabe is viewed by many as a national hero despite decades of rule that left the country struggling. He was an ex-guerrilla chief who took power in 1980 when Zimbabwe shook off white minority rule and presided for decades while economic turmoil and human rights violations eroded its early promise.

   Mugabe had been forced to relinquish power by a previously loyal military in November 2017.

   Flags flew at half-staff Saturday, but there were no public activities to mark the death of a man who singularly shaped the once-prosperous country in his own image and created a repressive system that some say remains even today.

   Reaction to his death was mixed, although praise ironically came mostly from ruling party officials and military leaders.

   The state-run Herald newspaper, which vilified Mugabe when he was forced to resign and when he subsequently voiced support for the opposition, carried glowing tributes.

   In a "commemorative edition," the newspaper, which often acts as a mouthpiece of the government, carried a montage of his pictures with the headline: "Robert Mugabe-1924-2019" on its front page and glowing reports throughout.

   In an editorial page, the newspaper praised Mugabe for "his uncompromising stance when it came to the rights of Africans."

   "Whatever happened towards the end of his leadership should not be used to rubbish the good things that he did during his life," the commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces and one of the commanders who led the military campaign to oust Mugabe after years of propping his rule, was quoted as saying in a separate story in the newspaper.

   Others were less charitable. "95 and out," read the privately-owned Newsday newspaper.

   "Despite his intellectual prowess, Mugabe's failure to let go of power when it was time was his major undoing . In short, he was a liberator who turned villain. Leaders need to know when to draw the line," said the newspaper in an editorial.

   "End of an era as Mugabe dies, leaves Zim poor, divided," read the front page headline of another privately-owned newspaper, the Daily News.

   "Notwithstanding the many mistakes that he made, many Zimbabweans will probably agree that had he not held on to power beyond the 1990s, he would today be largely remembered as one of Africa's best leaders in history," the paper said in an editorial.

   Both newspapers were major targets of Mugabe's vitriol, with editors and reporters routinely arrested during Mugabe's rule.

   On the streets of the capital, Harare, few seemed bothered as people struggled to cope with biting economic problems largely blamed by critics on Mugabe's rule and perpetuated by his successor and an ally who later turned foe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa took power in 2017 with the help of the military.

   "Who cares?" said Percy Maute, a street vendor pushing a cart full of tomatoes along a busy street named after the former president.  "I don't care. I am too busy looking for money to mourn a man who put me in this position."

   A small group of people drank beer and sang pro-Mugabe songs outside a liquor outlet and wore T-shirts with Mugabe's face. Although only a few people cared to join or commiserate with them, they danced vigorously and spoke glowingly of a man they said fought for the liberation of not just Zimbabwe, but "the rest of Africa."

   "Bob was our hero, he taught us that the white man is not a master," they sang. Mugabe was popularly known by the nickname Bob.

Mugabeisms - Quotes by the Wise Man of Africa, President of Zimbabwe, Hon, Robert Mugabe

Kiongozi wa Vijana Zimbabwe Yuko Jela Kwa Kutukana Rais Mugabe

Kiongozi wa Vijana Zimbabwe Solomon Madzore (mwenye kofia)

Wadau, nakumbuka tulikuwa kwenye halaiki na vijana wa shule mbalimbali za Tabora nilipokuwa Form 5. Kijana fulani wa Tabora Boys aliuliza kwa sauti eti kwa nini tunapoteza muda kuwa pale kwenye mambo ya kijinga. Doh! Kijana wa watu alipigwa mbele yetu na afande fulani.  Sitasahau!  Enzi zile za Chama Kimoja, Chama Kimeshika Hatamu nk.  Huyo Kiongozi wa vijana wa Zimbabwe, Charles Madzore, si mara yake ya kwanza kufungwa kwa kumsema Rais Mugabe. Safari hii kamwaita "punda zee".

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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A lawyer for a youth leader in the Zimbabwe prime minister's party says he is in jail for referring to the nation's longtime ruler as "a limping donkey" at an election campaign rally.

   Attorney Charles Kwaramba said Friday the youth wing head  is charged with  insulting President Robert Mugabe, 89, under sweeping security laws.

   In the local Shona language the phrase "dhongi rinokamina" is used to depict a lame draught animal that is no longer of any use and must be put out to pasture.

   Youth leader Solomon Madzore faces a penalty of a fine or several months of imprisonment.

   Legal charges for insulting Mugabe are common in Zimbabwe.

   The prime minister's party says the arrest is to stifle its campaigning for younger voters in elections scheduled this year.

Rais Robert Mugabe wa Zimbabwe

Waziri Mkuu wa Zimbabwe Anataka Kuoa Lakini Wapenzi wa Nje Waleta Kasheshe!

Mbavu sina! Ndo faida ya midume kuwa na wanawake wengi! Eti kuwa na mabibi wengi ndo udume. Hebu koma!

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Zimbabwe PM Tsvangirai Akimchumbia Bi Elizabeth Macheka

Kutoka Reuters:

..Second woman seeks to block Zimbabwe PM's wedding

....HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's plan to get married this weekend faced a second legal challenge on Thursday from another woman who said she was romantically involved with him, fuelling a scandal that has already hurt his reputation.

The dispute has handed long-serving President Robert Mugabe political ammunition as he seeks to extend his three-decade rule in an election expected within a year since Tsvangirai is his main rival.

On Thursday, Nosipho Regina Shilubane, a South African woman, lodged a legal challenge to try to block the premier's wedding, the day after the High Court threw out an application by another former lover to halt the ceremony.

In papers filed at a magistrates court she said she was engaged to Tsvangirai after being introduced to him by her church pastor at a hotel in South Africa in September 2009.

Shilubane, who did not appear in court, said Tsvangirai had taken her on holiday to Singapore, the Seychelles and Botswana and that the two were "still engaged to be married".

Tsvangirai's colorful private life has come under scrutiny since the death of his wife Susan in a car crash in 2009, with local media reveling in stories of his relationships with numerous women.

The other woman keen to halt the wedding - Locardia Karimatsenga - is appealing a judge's decision to reject her challenge to Tsvangirai's marriage to fiancee Elizabeth Macheka.

If the wedding were blocked it would be a major embarrassment for Tsvangirai, who had been expected to invite Mugabe, his political partner in a fractious coalition formed after a disputed 2008 election, as well as some foreign leaders to the ceremony.

While 88-year-old Mugabe has been criticized for turning what was once one of Africa's strongest economies into a basket case, Tsvangirai is now being publicly questioned over his dealings with women and money.

(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Andrew Osborn)...

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Uhusiano wa PM Tsvangirai na  MSouth Africa Nosipho Regina Shilubane




PM Tsvangirai na Nosipho Regina Shilubane Wakiwa kwenye Cruise

Kutoka Bulawayo 24 News

Zimbabwe State Media reports that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wedding to Elizabeth Macheka remains doubtful following the filing of another urgent application at the magistrates' court by a South African woman who is claiming to be legally engaged to marry Tsvangirai.

Nosipho Regina Shilubane filed the urgent application objecting to the pending wedding ceremony between Tsvangirai and Macheka in terms of Section 19 of the Marriages Act Chapter 5:11, through her lawyer Wellington Pasipanodya, a senior partner at Manase and Manase law firm according to the State media.

Pasipanodya filed the papers before regional magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi and said his client is aggrieved that Mr Tsvangirai intends to marry without her knowledge and without finishing outstanding lobola negotiations with her family.

In part, Ms Shilubane contends she was introduced to Tsvangirai by her pastor, Mr Lazurus Muriritirwa of the Gospel Assembly Church on the 5th of September 2009 in Johannesburg at Monte Casino shopping complex.

Thereafter, a relationship blossomed between the two after Tsvangirai told the applicant he was a widower who was looking for a bride to marry and the pastor had said she was a suitable candidate.

Shilubane further argues that she visited Zimbabwe between the 18th and 20 of September in 2009 staying at her pastor's house in Borrowdale.

Tsvangirai is said to have relocated Shilubane from Yeoville to an upmarket apartment near Sandton Buccleuh, following which they went for a holiday in the Seychelles between 28 of December and 10 January 2010.

On the 19th of December, Shilubane alleges Tsvangirai asked her to follow him to Gaborone in Botswana, saying he was distressed. She followed and they stayed together in his hotel.

On the 27th of December 2010, they went together for another love cruise holiday in Singapore for two weeks up to early 2011, on a yacht called the Legend of The Seas.

In February, Tsvangirai is said to have proposed to marry Shilubane indicating he wanted the ceremony to be conducted in Zimbabwe and Shilubane accepted, advising him that he should first marry her traditionally according to her Tsonga custom.

After the marriage dates were agreed upon, Shilubane alleges Tsvangirai would shift them saying government commitments were disturbing him.

Shilubane says she was shocked to discover that Tsvangirai was scheduled to marry Elizabeth Macheka on the 15th of September 2012, hence her objection to the issuance of a marriage licence.

AKrimu Mtoto Halafu Adai Kazaa na Mhindi!

Huko Zimbabwe kuna mambo! Mama moja kakrimu mtoto wake ili aonekane shombe halafu kaenda kwa mhindi kudai yeye ni baba.  Nia yake ilikuwa kumtapeli huyo mhindi ili kupata pesa! Huyo mama kaolewa lakini katembea nje ya ndoa yake na mhindi.

Natoa pole kwa huyo mtoto! Kuwa creamed mwili mzima unaweza kumletea madhara ya afya kama kansa ya ngozi.  

Huyo mama na mue wake wanashitakiwa mahakamani kwa kosa la utapeli.

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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Prosecutors in Zimbabwe say a fraud trial is set to hear claims a black baby was treated with skin-bleaching cream to extort money from a man of Asian descent.

Prosecutor Malvern Nzombe said a court in the second city of Bulawayo on Friday ordered a Zimbabwean woman and her husband to reappear for trial at a date to be set in August.

   He said it is alleged they wanted the baby to appear that it was of mixed race in a plot to "reap financial benefits" from the light-skinned man with whom the woman had an affair.

   Her husband is accused of helping plan the scam, Nzombe said.

   In Zimbabwe's troubled economy, authorities have reported a recent spate of bizarre cons to extract money from unsuspecting victims.

Walimu Zimbabwe Wauza Vitabu Viliyotolewa Kama Msaada

Umasakini jamani!  Leo, kuna habari kuwa vitabu viliyotolewa na UNICEF kwa ajili ya watoto wa shule Zimbabwe, zimeuzwa badala ya kupewa wanafunzi. Aibu kweli!

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 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's education ministry says it is investigating into how school text books donated by the U.N. children's agency wind up in the hands of bookstores and street vendors.

The United Nations Children's Fund has supplied 22 million books since late 2010 after a decade of economic meltdown that left many schools without teaching materials. In some schools, scores of pupils shared a single book.

Education Minister David Coltart said Friday culprits behind the theft of books - officially the property of government schools - will be prosecuted

 The books, stamped and identifiable, sell for up to $10 on the street. A main teachers union says teachers may be stealing to make up for poor salaries.

MZimbabwe Abaka Msichana New Jersey

Nyie wanaume kutoka Afrika, mkija Marekani poozeni hizo dhakari zenu. Kuna kijana kutoka Zimbawe mwenye miaka 19 tu ambaye anashitakiwa kwa kubaka huko New Jersey. Ilitokea baada ya Prom, yaani sherehe ya kumaliza Form Four. Hapa Marekani mwanamke akisema basi, manake basi! La sivyo mtafungwa na kuchafuliwa majina na kuitwa sex offender. Kijana huyo ni mwanafunzi na alikuwa ana kaa na host family. Nyege zimemponza. Anashikiliwa kwa dhamana ya $125,000. Huyo ambaye kabakwa lazima atakuwa mzungu, dhamana kuwa kubwa kiasi hicho!

Inaelekea kijana alishikwa na nyege mshindo. Binti ambaye kabakwa alikuwa amezimia kwa ulevi. Wenzake walimkuta anafanya mambo yake na kuanza kumpiga! Mnaweza kusoma habari kamili hapa:
http://www.cliffviewpilot.com/bergen/1355-northern-valley-student-charged-with-raping-fellow-senior-at-seaside-heights-motel

Pia,bado kuna mawazo finyu kuwa waafrika wana uume/miboro kubwa kuliko watu wengine. Hivyo wanawake watawashiwishi kutaka kuziona.

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N.J. Prom-Party Rape Raises Red Flag

OLD TAPPAN, N.J. (CBS)

It was a nightmare for a teenaged girl celebrating her prom. She was raped during a party that was supposed to be joyous and memorable.

She was part of a group from Bergen County that traveled to the Jersey Shore last week to live it up.

It's a dangerous tradition that has changed the way some schools celebrate their proms.

Could this attack have been prevented? That's what students and parents at Northern Valley Regional High School are asking.

Jackie Finno is an 18-year-old who will be going to her senior prom on Friday night. Then, as the tradition goes, she and her friends will head to the Jersey Shore.

But news an 18-year-old girl was allegedly raped at her after-prom party at the Shore last Friday has Finno on edge.

"When I found out it was terrible. Oh my God. It's very nerve-wracking," Finno said.

But Finno's mother said she's still willing to let her go.

"With much stipulation and we trust. And we trust her and we trust her choices and we have to start letting her go, even through all these tragedies that occur," LeeAnn Finno said.

Police said 19-year-old Matthias Kabette from Zimbabwe and a senior at Northern Valley raped a classmate at a motel in Seaside Heights on June 4. Members of Kabette's host family declined to speak to CBS 2 HD on Thursday night.

"I can't comment I'm sorry," one said.

Students who know the suspect were stunned.

"He's a really nice guy. Like I can't see any bad sides about him," Eugene Kim said.

"I played soccer with him. He was a really nice kid," another student said.

Now parents and students are questioning if the alleged attack could have been prevented.

"I think it's an issue that you are giving teenagers today the freedom to go down to the shore at 16, 17 years old," one parent said. "You're asking for trouble."

Northern Valley junior Christian Mecca said he'd support a midweek prom, like many area high schools already have.

"Because it keeps people out of trouble. It is kind of a tradition to have it on a Friday and you're with your friends for the weekend. But I feel like, just everyone's just gotta be responsible," Mecca said.

Parents said they also bear the responsibility, but feel timing makes no difference.

"Do you think the day of the week probably would've mattered to this kid? Probably not," parent Mike Poole said.

"Is it something that can be completely avoided in our world? Unfortunately not," LeeAnn Finno added.

Kabette, who is studying in the U.S. on a student visa, is being held on $125,000 bail.

Mzungu Am 'Kanye West' Mweusi kwenye Oscars

Umesikia kituko kilichotokea kwenye Oscars juzi? Huyo Roger Ross Williams alikuwa anapokea tuzo kwa ajili ya sinema ya 'Music by Prudence'. Ghafla katokea bibi wa kizungu, Elinor Burkett, na kuanza kusema, "mwache mwanamke aongee" na maneno mengine ambao watu hawakuelewa.

Sisi watazamaji tulishangaa sana inatokea nini. Kumbe huyo mzungu aliwahi kuwa producer wa hiyo sinema lakini waligombana na Williams. Burkett alimpeleka mahakamni lakini walisuluhisha nje ya mahakama. Burkett aklisem hakupenda jinsi sinema ilivyokuwa inaenda. Ajabu, jinsi ilivyoenda ndo ikashinda Oscar!

Lakini wadau , hii kituko kisingetokea tusingekumbuka habari ya hiyo sinema, Music by Prudence. Pia hao Williams nad Burkett wasingejulikana. Sasa hivi Letterman, Leno na wengine wanamtania huyo Burkett. Bila shaka na Saturday Night Live watamtania!

Pia wanamwita Burkett, Lady Kanye! Kumuka mwaka jana Kanye West alivyoingia hotuba ya Taylor Swift kwenye tuzo za MTV.

Waziri Mkuu wa Zimbabwe apata Ajali ya Gari!

BREAKING NEWS: CNN wanasema kuwa mke wa Morgan Tsvangirai amefariki katika hiyo ajali!

Habari kutoka Zimbabwe zinasema kuwa Waziri Mkuu mpya wa nchi hiyo, Mh. Morgan Tsvangirai amepata ajali ya gari akielekea kwao Buhera, Zimbabwe. Nitaposti habari zaidi nikipata.

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Zimbabwe PM in hospital after car crash, MDC says

(CNN) — Zimbabwe’s new prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been hospitalized after his car collided with a large truck, officials with his party and his spokesman told CNN on Friday.
“Yes I can confirm that he was involved in a car accident along Harare-Masvingo road,” said Tsvangirai’s spokesman, James Maridadi. “He has been brought to Harare and doctors are looking at him at a hospital.”

Maridadi would not say how serious Tsvangirai’s injuries are as a result of the head-on collision. Tsvangirai was in the car with his wife, an aide, and the driver, he said. All four are being assessed by doctors.

They were en route to Tsvangirai’s hometown of Buhera, south of the capital, Harare, when the accident occurred, Maridadi said.

Rudini Zimbabwe - Uingereza!

Loh! Kumbe waingereza ni wakatili. Wameamuru wakimbizi 11,000 walioko Uingereza warudi Zimbabwe. Hali ilivyo mbaya huko Zimbabwe hao wakimbizi watakuwa salama kweli? Washenzi wa Mugabe watawauliza, "ehe mlikimbia nini?" halafu watanyanyaswa ile mbaya.

Nashangaa waingereza kwa uamuzi wao. Wanajua kabisa kuwa Zimbabwe kuna matatizo sana hasa kuhusuiana na haki za binadamu. Na wenyewe wamesemea serikaliya Mugaba si ya halali. Waingereza si wanadai wao ni watetezi wakuu wa haki za binadamu. Lakini hawashutuki kurudisha watu kwenye hali ambayo inahatarisha maisha yao.

Hali ya waZimbabwe wakimbizi huko Uingereza ni mbaya. Hawapati huduma ya serikali (welfare) na pia hawaruhusiwi kufanya kazi. Kutokana na hali hiyo wengine wanazagaa mitaani na kuwa ombaomba huko Uingereza.

Nauliza wangekuwa wakimbizi kutoka nchi ya kizungu kama Bosnia wangewarudisha kweli?

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/06/immigration.immigrationpolicy

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ministers-accused-over-return-of-refugees-to-zimbabwe-856070.html

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/methchzim324.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/07/20087705459520761.html

Wazimbabwe Wakatwa Mikono na Vidole! - Ushenzi wa Mugabe

Ama kweli raisi Mugabe wa Zimbabwe kawa kichaa mwendawimu. Badala ya kutoka kwenye ofisi ya raisi na heshima zake atatoka kama mnyama!

Leo kuna habari kuwa watu huko Zimbabwe wanakatwa mikono na vidole kusudi wasipige kura. Wengine wamevunjwa mikono na vidole. Pia watu wanapigwa ovyo!

Na mpinzani wake, Morgan Tsvangirai ameomba hifadhi kwenye ubaolizi wa Uholanzi huko Zimbabwe.

Sikutegemea kuwa nitasikia habari za kusikitisha kama hizi kutoka Zimbabwe. Kweli huyo Mzee Mugabe kapatwa na 'senility' (kichaa) ya ajabu. Labda anadhani ataishi daima. Ametawala Zimbabwe kwa miaka 28 na sasa ni nchi enye dhiki.

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/25/zimbabwe.voices/index.html

http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKL2569371620080625

Breaking News - Vita dhidi ya Wananchi wa Zimbabwe!

Yaani huyo Mzee hataki kutoka! Si bora atoke na heshima zake? Sasa watu wamekwisha sahau wema aliyofanya wanamwona kama kichaa!

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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's opposition leader fears that President Robert Mugabe is preparing a "war against the people" in his bid to hold on to power.

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told a news conference Saturday that his party was reluctant to take part in an election runoff because of the growing risks of violence.

He says there is no need for such a runoff because he won presidential elections last Saturday.

The opposition will mount a new bid in the High Court on Sunday for the election results to be published. Armed police prevented lawyers from entering the court Saturday.

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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Armed police prevented opposition lawyers from entering Zimbabwe's High Court on Saturday to lodge an urgent suit aiming to force the publication of presidential election results.

Opposition lawyer Alec Muchadehama said a senior police officer wearing a ruling ZANU-PF shirt gave the orders, amid increasing signs of a clampdown.

"No one is going to enter. They say they are going to call the riot police," Muchadehama said. Journalists waiting outside the court also were ordered to disperse.

The Movement for Democratic Change wanted the High Court to force the electoral commission to publish results of the March 29 presidential election.

Official results for the parliamentary elections showed the ruling party lost its majority in the 110-seat parliament. Independent observers projected that MDC candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, won most of the votes cast in the presidential contest but not enough for an outright victory over longtime ruler Robert Mugabe.

The ruling ZANU-PF party announced Friday it was endorsing Mugabe, whose 28-year rule led Zimbabwe from liberation to ruin, in a runoff election.

Earlier, the opposition asked the United Nations to intervene during the runoff campaign over fears that Mugabe, 84, may stage a violent crackdown to retain power.

Nelson Chamisa, spokesman for the opposition, pointed to signs of a coming clampdown, including a march in Harare by war veterans loyal to Mugabe who have beat up opponents in the past, a raid on opposition party offices and the detention of foreign journalists by armed police in full riot gear.

"They are trying to intimidate people, they are trying to set up the context for unleashing violence. The vampire instincts of this regime are definitely going to come out," Chamisa charged.

Zimbabwe needs the assistance of the international community, he said.
"The U.N. has to make sure that there is no violence in this country. ... They should not (wait to) come when there is blood in the street, blood in the villages."
But South African President Thabo Mbeki said Saturday that international intervention is not needed.
"I think it is time to wait. Let's see the outcome of the election results. If there is a re-run of the presidential election let us see what comes out of that," Mbeki said.

Mugabe has ruled since his guerrilla army helped bring about an independent Zimbabwe in 1980. His popularity has been battered by an economic slide that followed the often-violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms since 2000. A third of the population have fled the country, 80 percent of those who remain are jobless and inflation is more than 100,000 percent.
Chamisa said he expected the court to answer its petition for the election results immediately in Saturday morning's hearing, but he was not hopeful of the outcome.

Zimbabwe's courts are stacked with Mugabe sympathizers who have delayed hearing opposition challenges to results of 2002 and 2005 elections that international observers said were marked by fraud and intimidation.

The U.S. and other Western nations also have been pressing for the presidential results to be announced.

The law requires a runoff within 21 days of the first elections. But diplomats in Harare and at the United Nations said Mugabe was planning to declare a 90-day delay to give security forces time to clamp down.

An African Union election observer team found no evidence of fraud during voting last weekend, according to the delegation's leader, former Sierra Leone president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
Kabbah praised Mugabe as "a patriot," and said during a meeting Thursday that the Zimbabwe leader was "relaxed" despite his setback at the polls.

New York Times journalist Barry Bearak was among those detained Thursday by heavily armed riot police who surrounded and entered a Harare hotel frequented by foreign reporters, lawyers said. The U.S.-based National Democratic Institute said one of its staff, American Dileepan Sivapathasundaram, was detained at Harare's airport as he tried to leave the country Thursday.
The government had rejected most foreign journalists' applications to cover the elections and had barred Western election observers.

Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said the attorney general decided there was no case against the two Americans and a third person who was not identified. However, police decided to hold them. It was not clear whether new charges would be filed.

State Department Tom Casey said four Americans were detained Thursday, but two had been released and were leaving the country. He told reporters Friday that U.S. officials had been in contact with the two Americans still in custody.

Magafula Zimbabwe!

Sasa huko Zimbabwe wanafanya fujo gani tena? Wanatishia waandishi wa habari wa kutoka nchi za nje wasiandike ukweli? LOH!

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AP: Armed paramilitary police in riot gear have surrounded a Harare, Zimbabwe, hotel housing foreign journalists.

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Zimbabwe opposition offices raided

By ANGUS SHAW, Associated Press Writer

4-3-08

HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe's government raided the offices of the main opposition movement and rounded up foreign journalists Thursday in an ominous indication that he may use intimidation and violence to keep his grip on power.

Police raided a hotel used by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and ransacked some of the rooms. Riot police also surrounded another hotel housing foreign journalists and took away several of them, according to a man who answered the phone there.

"Mugabe has started a crackdown," Movement for Democratic Change general secretary Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. "It is quite clear he has unleashed a war."

Biti said the raid at the Meikles Hotel targeted "certain people ... including myself." Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "safe" but had canceled plans for a news conference, Biti said.
He said that Thursday's clampdown was a sign of worse to follow but that the opposition would not go into hiding.

"You can't hide away from fascism. Zimbabwe is a small country. So we are not going into hiding. We are just going to have to be extra cautious," he said.

The opposition claims it won Saturday's presidential race outright. While the election commission has issued results for the parliamentary races held alongside the presidential race, it has yet to release any presidential count.

Official results showed the opposition won the majority of seats in the 110-member parliament. But the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said that there were "logistical problems" delaying the results for the 60-member senate.

Mugabe's Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga said Thursday that Mugabe was ready for a runoff, dashing hopes that he would bow quietly off the national stage he has dominated for 28 years.
"President Mugabe is going to fight. He is not going anywhere. He has not lost," Matonga said on the British Broadcasting Corp. "We are going to go hard and fight and get the majority required."
The 84-year-old Mugabe was shown on state television Thursday meeting African Union election observers, his first public appearance since the elections.

Matonga accused the opposition of trying "to get rid of President Mugabe at all costs and that is what we are going to fight."
"This election campaign was not a campaign for democracy but a campaign for regime change," he said, going on to say that the opposition was sponsored by the West. He said ZANU-PF would go back and "regroup" and campaign "very vigorously in "a very peaceful manner."

International concern mounted about the continuing delays.

"We still have not seen the important thing, which is real live election results," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey. "We need to see an official tally, see it soon and have assurances made that this is actually a correct counting of the votes."

"Delays raise serious questions in our minds about what is going on in the vote counting," he said.
Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said the continuing delays were dangerous. He urged the government and the electoral commission to scrupulously observe the electoral law and "to declare the election results faithfully and accurately."

"We live in an open world today and indeed the eyes of the world are on Zimbabwe, on its Electoral Commission, on its President. I urge them to do the right thing, to respect the Constitution and to obey the electoral laws. The election results should be released now," he said.
Mugabe has ruled since his guerrilla army helped force an end to white minority rule in then-Rhodesia and bring about an independent Zimbabwe in 1980.

He ordered the often-violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms, ostensibly to return them to the landless black majority. Instead, Mugabe replaced a white elite with a black one, giving the farms to relatives, friends and cronies who allowed cultivated fields to be taken over by weeds.

Today, a third of the population depends on imported food handouts. Another third has fled the country and 80 percent is jobless. Inflation is the highest in the world at more than 100,000 percent and people suffer crippling shortages of food, water, electricity, fuel and medicine. Life expectancy has fallen from 60 to 35 years.

Kwa Heri Mzee Mugabe!!!!

Habari kutoka Zimbabbwe zinasema kuwa Mzee Robert Mugabe ambaye amekuwa rais wa Zimbabwe kwa miaka mingi mno, ameshindwa vibaya katika uchaguzi wa Rais. Mugabe amekuwa Rais wa Zimbabwe tangu nchi hiyo ipate uhuru mwaka 1980.

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Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0403/p01s07-woaf.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/world/africa/03zimbabwe.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7431192

http://allafrica.com/stories/200804020735.html