Recent Sokwanele articles
Time to bring you up to speed on Sokwanele’s recent mailings:
Reward or Retribution: the politicisation of Zimbabwe’s food supply
This article, posted on our website here, looks at how food is currently controlled by Zanu-PF on the basis of voting patterns following the March parliamentary elections.
Those communities who voted ZANU PF in the March 31 election are now being amply rewarded with food hand-outs; those known to have voted for the opposition are simply denied access to the scarce and tightly-controlled supplies. Reward time or retribution time, pure and simple.
This article describes examples from three different places.
Dissenting voices: students protest in Zimbabwe
Protest still occasionally takes place in Zimbabwe, despite the government’s best efforts to prevent people from exercising their democratic right to voice their views. Read about it here.
Transfrontier Park and World Heritage Site under threat
This article looks at how Zimbabwe’s rich natural heritage is being disrupted by government negligence, poaching and uncontrolled land invasions.
