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	<description>This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele&#039;s pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe.</description>
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		<title>Whose voice has been amplified?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By granting the Zimbabwe Newspaper Group and known ZANU (PF) supporters broadcasting licenses the already compromised Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has shown its patronage and the voice it wants  amplified. The Tafataona Mahoso led BAZ wants ZANU (PF) to have an amplified voice when the country goes to elections.  The Zimbabwe Newspaper Group which is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7331</link>
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		<title>Zanu PF kidnaps broadcasting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the country stepped into the New Year, Zimbabweans look with frustration at the unchanging media landscape in the country.  For long they have waited for an alternative to ZBC and when it become apparent that the powers that be where not willing to let go their stronghold on the media people turned to satellite receivers. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7333</link>
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		<title>Zimbabweans switch OFF local radio stations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you hear of a Political Leader trying to gain popularity through music it means there is something wrong with him or his party. This is no laughing matter and one just needs to drive around the capital City of Harare and bear witness to this new phenomenon.  It all started when ZANU PF, through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7335</link>
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		<title>Zimbabwe&#8217;s media landscape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” &#8211; United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Not long ago, a young friend of mine went walking around a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7329</link>
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		<title>Zanu PF&#8217;s tragic comedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a circus in Bulawayo. The colors and the madness were just too much for the usually laid back city. It’s a comedy with the theme elections that was set and acted by people who have no regard for an election outcome. Yet they want an election, people only ask why? President Robert Mugabe, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7317</link>
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		<title>A constitution that does not serve future generations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was shocked and embarrassed to learn from the report produced by Zimbabwe Peace Project, Zimbabwe Election Support Network and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, that only 21% of  Zimbabwe’s youth attended the Constitutional Parliamentary outreach programmes and yet this piece of paper has a bearing more on their future rather than their political leaders. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7312</link>
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		<title>Sports or HIV and AIDS, which is our priority?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Global Fund recently announced that it has stopped the application for round 11 of funding for HIV and Aids in Zimbabwe. http://www.radiovop.com/index.php/national-news/7649-zim-aids-funding-suffers-yet-another-big-blow.html We were told they were unable to raise enough funds and that major donors no longer see HIV and AIDS as an emergency compared to issues such as climate change. In my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7307</link>
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		<title>The unintentional felling of the Mbuya Nehanda tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death of the Mbuya Nehanda tree in Harare has been viewed with mixed feelings. Some say it means the death of a big person, while others say it means bad luck to the nation, as if Zimbabwe has not had its share of bad luck over the years already. The tree is believed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7303</link>
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		<title>Free maize seed for sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ZANU PF conference was another moment to bring amazement to ordinary people of Zimbabwe. It all started with the usual noise about the revolutionary party telling the us how the conference is going to pass resolutions that will drive the party and Zimbabweans in the right direction. I am not going to say much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7297</link>
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		<title>Elections will never cease to take their toll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Election continue to haunt Zimbabweans to the point that when any politicians mention the “E” word, people start to quiver and shake.  There is no sense of celebration that should come with exercising our democratic rights. This will only change when all politicians change their ways. Only when democratic reforms are fully instituted, torture camps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7292</link>
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		<title>Africa’s  Richest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The recent survey published by Forbes magazine listing Africa’s richest people http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/89/africa-billionaires-11_land.html is certainly missing a whole chunk of the continent’s wealthiest.  With all the billions that we read about in the newspapers , how can the magazine leave out the dictators who have stashed their ill gotten wealth around the globe?  Forbes conspicuously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7284</link>
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		<title>People feel the drought coming again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the sweltering heat I sat under the huge tree as birds sang dirges of a drought foreseen. It’s December, supposedly the wettest month of the year in Zimbabwe, we have had a little rain, but the sun has been relentless, wilting the saplings and the tendrils. I watched a woman with a hoe and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7280</link>
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		<title>House of Exile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The decision to more or less permanently leave home is a gut wrenching one. For months on end, families are torn apart as they debate whether to uproot everything and leave or stay with an uncertain future. This was the case for millions of Zimbabweans between 2000 and 2008. Granted, young people had been leaving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7276</link>
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		<title>Zimbabwe  2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background: An identity crisis An identity crisis has continued to paralyse Zimbabwe’s body politic throughout 2011. The reason for the inability of Zanu PF and the democratic forces to work together is because of the fundamental divergence of their world views. Zanu PF believe the core issues to be empowerment, race and a foreign based [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7262</link>
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		<title>Zimbabweans want Tsvangirai to change love life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morgan Tsvangirai has the potential to become the country’s next president and the majority of Zimbabweans say “Amen” to that, however, the man’s most recent sex contacts have raised eyebrows both on friends and foes. He has bed hopped; accusations that he has impregnated two women inside a year have seen the media descending on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7258</link>
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		<title>Anti sanctions campaign against who?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As it stands innocent Zimbabweans, who do not even understand what sanctions are and how they were imposed, are the ones who are bearing the brunt of the Zanu PF anti-sanctions mantra. The former ruling party is putting paid to the saying if you are not with us then you are against us. The truth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7230</link>
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		<title>Tsvangirai in a disgraced mood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The much talked about story of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s alleged marriage continues to be viewed differently by Zimbabweans from different walks of life. When the Premier was called to a traditional court by a Mazowe Chief for flouting African traditional culture by paying lobola in the month of November, Tsvangirai refused to attend citing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7255</link>
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		<title>Musings of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is astonishing, but not surprising that Zimbabweans do not want elections any time soon. This reads like a contradiction. Not really. It is not surprising because Zimbabweans remember the violence of 2008 and simply do not want a repeat of it. The main reason is Zimbabweans have full supermarket shelves for the first time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7251</link>
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		<title>Christmas is a time to forget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its Christmas time and preparations are at an advanced stage for the big day where impoverished Zimbabweans forget about their sorrows. The rich have been buying goods and clothes at up market shops while the poor have been buying whatever they can at downtown shops with predominantly Chinese goods, sadly of very low quality &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7247</link>
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		<title>Christmas came early to Bulawayo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in Bulawayo last week, having gone to attend my friend’s wedding, I had an opportunity to talk to some of my friends who l had not seen for a very long time. Our bar talk changed from one topic to another, but most interesting was the hosting of political parties conferences in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7241</link>
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