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This would be a good project for students at UWA - you are in a mining area after all and have good access to libraries and good minds to explain the ins and outs to you. Then you can explain them to us!

I think we want to check these things out and identify pressure points where we can act without causing “collateral” damage - to anyone, including to yourself. Go by the motto “don’t use a atom bomb when a spear will do”. Precise and to-the-point, not big,noisy and destructive.

How to get started. I don’t think I kept the link - start searching on zimplats. You won’t find direct mentions of payments on their sites of course! What you need to do is research the picture at company level (including their bankers etc - all on their annual reports, I imagine) and then research which journalists would ask questions. Who is into social responsibility etc. And ask them “do you know anything about this?”. It seems slow but it goes fast and it gets interesting and you learn a lot in the process.

Let us know how it goes and we can coach you from there.

Looking forward to hearing more.

interesting info, on the aus platinum mines, if you have more info please share as i would love to do something this side, even though i am student, i can get the students at UWA involved, as i know many zimbabweans and others who would get involved!!

The reason why the leader of the opposition agreed to be PM in Kenya is because he then runs the cabinet and the President becomes more ceremonial.

The parliament cannot change the constitution, I suspect without 66% of the vote, which MDC doesn’t have.

But if they have 50%+ then any budget - or act of parliament - can be stopped. So everything has to be negotiated. That happens in the States if the President is one party and the Congress/Senate are dominated by the other party.

In NZ, the political system is such the winning party never has total control. So they make deals with minor parties not to block the budget in exchange for cabinet positions. One fellow has two odd portfolios - Minister of Horse Racing and Foreign Affairs - and he negotiated NOT to be in Cabinet. There is complicated - he represents NZ abroad but does NOT represent the government and doesn’t have to say he agrees with decisions he doesn’t like!

It is time for us to pay attention. The point is that the Central Committee is no longer in charge and we have to work out the rules that are good for Zimbabwe.

For example, What is the existing legislative power of the parliamentary majority to declare the presidential recount null and void due to failure to publish the actual results with which to compare it? And, if this power is not presently available to Parliament, surely the parliamentary assembly would have the ultimate power to change the Constitution to enable it to acquire this power?

Yes the timing is to do with the UN Security Council meeting. Mmm, we must keep thinking through the details.

This is good. The old man and the JOC, who may be the real problem, are dancing to other people’s tune. Let’s keep them dancing and dancing and dancing - oooo, that feels cruel!

Good, I’ll put out comments on various columns to prime the pump. How are they trying to influence the Security Council? No one believes him anymore - 28 days is just too too much. They have beaten themselves with administrative ineptness. Now to get them to go away. So we must make it unprofitable to them to stay.

No guns! That makes it scary.
No banknotes. I read that a Mercedes Benz costs them 25 pounds. Someone check the calculation.
This is how it works - 25 pounds are sent home from London - current rate 300m to the pound. They go to Reserve Bank and buy at 30k - and they have 25 000 pounds! See - that is what the bank notes support. So we must stop the notes and stop money going into RB.

And stolen ivory - CITES.

And the 1m pounds a month paid by Australian platinum mines direct to the President’s office. Is that true? Aussie based people protest in Aus. Put it on Rudds new website where he collects ideas. Link Rudd to China . . he speaks Chinese fluently for everyone else’s info.

There are only a few enablers left. Like four legs on a table, if we knock out one, we are done.

And don’t forget things like world prayer day. All the people in church go to work. One piece of paper given to the right journalist is all we need. We can’t ask them to do it and they can’t tell us. If they are aware, they will just do it, quietly. The leg will fall. We won’t know how or why. It will have been done by one small person somewhere. Keep pressing.

Cheers

Does the term ‘Blood Diamonds’ spring to mind? Look to Joice ‘Taylor’ and Solomon ‘Burton’ and their contacts.

Interestingly, the Cooperative Bank here in UK are flighting an ad in which they proudly claim to have refused substantial loans which would otherwise have been counter to human rights issues. The other side of the coin is therefore which banks ARE providing the loans refused by Cooperative Bank. Anyone recall which British bank it was that in 2007 was found to be bankrolling Bob, and what was the outcome?

Meanwhile - anybody heard the vague rumour about the financial deals being offered by Mad Bob to ANC bigwigs who support him (any names spring to mind?) & the mystery flight out of Lanseria, Jhb to Thornhill, Gweru recently with some ANC bigwigs aboard? What might the reasons be? What about to look over some prospective bribes in the form of mining or safari options?

I have the same suspicion as you as soon as I heard the results of the recount.

Mugabe is making the process look transparent and then he is going to pull the rug.

Mugabe will undoubtedly throw in some red herring on Monday, ahead of the UN discussions on Tuesday, which will probably be aimed at putting UN delegates on the back foot.

With the MDC treason accusation, how will their presidential candidate, or even their agent turn up to argue their point on the supposed presidential results. Will their possible non-appearance, for fear of apprehension, somehow adversly affect some other nit-picking legal clause?

Then the raids. ZANU(PF) falsify documents left right and centre. Who knows what info they have got, or claim to have got from seized documents and data. They can quite easily doctor MDC documents, and when MDC present the originals (which presumably they had externalised before now) ZANU(PF) will claim THEM to be falsified by MDC in an effort to protect themselves from the ‘original’ damning ‘evidence’ ZANU(PF) has to hand (are you managing to follow this!)

Lies within lies and subterfuge piled atop deception. In an tangled web with no recognised form or pattern, you never know from which direction the spider comes.

(ps exit the X… it was an error on my part)

If this creeping in the total votes appears in other constituencies then there will be an increase in the number of presidential votes which may be the plan?

Hope

And to the current officials who didn’t buckle! I salute you!

Big changes in Masvingo hey!