This is Zimbabwe

ACTSA are asking people to take action on behalf of Wellington Chibebe, General Secretary of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), and Lovemore Matombo, President, who have been arrested and are being detained in Harare Central Police Staion. ACTSA have an automatic protest email you can send to the Zimbabwean embassy from their website (link [...]

On Tuesday night Mr and Mrs Rogers (pictured) were viciously attacked in an incident between Chegutu and Kadoma. Their farmhouse was looted and trashed in the attack. We have been told that their injuries are serious: Mrs Rogers was beaten and has suffered a cracked jaw and broken ribs. Mr Rogers has broken ribs and [...]

Above: This is little Samson (3 years). He was beaten on Golden Star farm, Shamva. His parents are ex farm workers who remained living on the farm after their white employer was evicted. His parents were beaten on 21st April by militia who were saying “Whites left you on this farm, you are MDC, you [...]

Zimbabwe Election Support Network Press Release: 6 May 2008 Zimbabwe Election Support is urgently appealing to the police and political parties to immediately intervene in putting an end to the ongoing attacks on accredited election observers in Chibara village in Mt Darwin East. The attacks are happening now and so far 8 huts have been torched [...]

Last night we received unconfirmed reports that eight people were executed in Shamva. Their bodies are in the morgue, but their names are still unknown. A little after this report came in we heard that ten people were killed in Mazoe, not Shamva. There is some confusion about whether eighteen people have been [...]

Last week Gono announced a new monetary policy. This week there is chaos. I am not an economist so can only try to explain in my own layperson terms what is currently going on. Maybe someone with a better understanding of this can comment. Gono’s monetary policy has given the banks authority to [...]

5th May 2008 - Hon. Thokozani Khupe,MDC Vice-President The MDC rejects the presidential figures that were announced yesterday by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and we would like to reiterate that President Morgan Tsvangirai won this election with a clear majority. Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF should concede defeat following their defeat in the 29 March 2008 [...]

By Solidarity Peace Trust Addendum: Excellent suggestion left in our comments: I have plucked the email addresses for all the media contacts listed in the action contacts database, and emailed them this video with a request for them to circulate this as much as possible - the world needs to see the true extent of the situation [...]

Members of WOZA took to the streets today. They were beaten by the police. At least 59 have needed to seek medical attention. Members of Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise took to the streets of Bulawayo today to call for an end to the politically motivated violence that has left more than 20 people dead [...]

BASELINE CONDITIONS MUST BE MET BY THE AUTHORITIES IF A SECOND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS TO BE AT ALL ACCEPTABLE IN LAW AND PRACTICE ZLHR Press Statement: 4 May 2008 Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has noted the announcement of the results of the presidential elections by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on 2 May 2008 after [...]

A friend told me this story at the end of last week. Two weeks after returning to work (after going home to vote) David* was made redundant. The company was already in debt, stock was unavailable, inflation impossible to keep up with and wages had just been increased. The delay in awaiting results and [...]

There is still no clarity on the run-off - when it will be or even if the opposition will participate. So, everyone is waiting again. But not the teachers: today’s news is that they are threatening to go on strike in response to a campaign of violence against them. Teachers have traditionally assisted in running elections. The [...]

Here are the total counts per presidential candidate, according to The Herald. We were hoping to see the breakdown by constituency… but not yet it seems… Our activist ‘number cruncher’ is totally fed-up, and has just left the room angrily saying, “I’m sick of looking at incomplete spreadsheets and only half the story”. Fact is, the [...]

Breaking news via the BBC: The long-awaited results of Zimbabwe’s presidential poll have been announced, with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai winning, but not outright. Election officials say Mr Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe by winning 47.9% of the vote and faces a re-run. Mr Tsvangirai’s party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), earlier said it would reject the [...]

The An Yue Jiang is limping back into the news. Last week we called attention to an article in the Nyasa Times that informed us that Malawi was playing a role in helping to ensure the weapons arrived in Zimbabwe. This news hasn’t been widely publicised on the Internet, but activists reading this blog have [...]

Tererai Karimakwenda of SW Radio Africa managed to conduct a telephone interview with one of the workers from the Munroe farm. The worker is now safe and in hiding. Copied below is the full article that TK wrote. If you live in a land of speedy conections, please note that you can listen to SW [...]

The first thing to point out before writing this post is that the Presidential results have still not been released. Nor have the full results for the 23 seats being re-counted. This is unacceptable. However, the press seem to have largely bought into the idea that Morgan Tsvangirai won the Presidential vote with 47% - in [...]

An update on this post here: A meeting took place at Nymandhlovu police station. The head of the district police came out from Bulawayo to meet with Inspector Moyo who is the new ZRP policeman newly placed there. Wayne Munroe’s father in law, who helped set the meeting up, was accused of over-reacting. The [...]

This is taking place right now. Please can you all call the press in your area and pass the information onto them. We believe that the family are in real danger. Include the message to the press to contact SWRadio Africa for more information. Their website has contact details. Wayne Munroe, a farmer in Nymandlovhu (just [...]

We asked a colleague to write us a post about payday. This is his story. Today is pay day. I received a gross wage of just under $860 million. I also received benefits being $400 million dollars as a transport allowance and $67 million as a housing allowance. These benefits were awarded by [...]