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	<description>This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe.</description>
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		<title>&#8216;Scair Zimbabwe&#8217; and other tourist delights</title>
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There has been much hype in the Zim government press over the coming 2010 world cup, with Ministers and their lackeys drivelling on about the (highly unrealistic) expected influx of tourists.  Of course there will be some spill over from the soccer frenzy, but sadly most of it will take the form of tourists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5567</link>
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		<title>Indigenisation Act Conference &#8211; 26 March 2010</title>
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(Via circulated email) Human Resources (Pvt) Ltd has obtained a commitment from the Minister and the Permanent Secretary to address a follow-up conference on Friday, March 26.
A good line-up of lawyers and experienced business speakers have also been asked to address the conference and will  make a useful contribution too.
If you can make it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5559</link>
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		<title>The gift that Gwaai River Hotel gave to me</title>
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A friend today gave me images of the Gwaai River Hotel taken in recent years, and it hurled me back to my childhood. The hotel is a fixture of my very early youth, inextricably locked into my earliest memories of Zimbabwe. A year or so ago I was with my father when we drove past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5539</link>
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		<title>Public Hearings on Indigenisation Regulations</title>
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(Via Veritas) The Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance, Economic Planning and Investment Promotion will be holding public hearings on the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment (General) Regulations [SI 21/2010] in Bulawayo and Harare.  Venues and times are as follows:
Bulawayo
Friday 12th March, Small City Hall, 9 am
Harare
Monday 15th March, Harare International Conference Centre, 10 am
The Portfolio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5534</link>
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		<title>Two-faced Zanu PF: five years ago it was Murambatsvina; today its &#8216;economic empowerment&#8217;</title>
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I think what ruffles my feathers more than anything about Zanu PF’s indigenisation policy is the duplicity shrouding the  sanctimonious speech around it. It also bugs me that the few people supporting it fail to see the wood for the trees, and  that they foolishly turn a blind eye to Zimbabwean history as recent as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5527</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Against all odds they did, so we can&#8221; : &#8216;Music by Prudence&#8217; wins an Oscar!!!</title>
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What an amazing tribute to Prudence and all the wonderful members of Liyana. The full acceptance speech is posted below and can be read on the official Oscar&#8217;s page here.
I was expecting the usual Oscar-style thank-you speeches that we all have yawned through, but the producer, Elinor Burkett &#8211; who lives in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5516</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; moments</title>
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Today I was talking to a friend about women&#8217;s rights in the constitution. She told me this story about how she recently met a young girl from a very impoverished school in a high density area &#8211; the kind of school where there are hardly any text books and you expect the kids to battle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5509</link>
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		<title>Zanu PF youths detain freelance journalist</title>
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ZLHR Press Release &#8211; 24 Feb: Some ZANU PF youths on Wednesday 24 February 2010 detained freelance photo-journalist Andrison Manyere for filming a demonstration held in the capital, Harare.
Manyere was seized at the corner of Fourth Street and Jason Moyo Avenue whilst covering the demonstration organized by the ZANU PF youths to protest against the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5505</link>
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		<title>First steps taken to restore working relationship with the IMF</title>
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Comment by John Robertson: The International Monetary Fund Executive Board has agreed to restore Zimbabwe&#8217;s voting rights after a seven-year suspension and has agreed that if Zimbabwe settles its arrears to the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust, the country will be permitted access to the IMF&#8217;s General Resource Account.
In other words, the arrangements permit Zimbabwe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5501</link>
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		<title>Veritas commentary on the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment (General) Regulations</title>
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Introduction
These regulations, which were gazetted on 29th January, have caused consternation in many quarters.  Economists and business commentators fear they will discourage foreign investment at a time when Zimbabwe desperately needs it, and some foreigners who were intending to invest in the country have indicated that the regulations are a significant obstacle to their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5496</link>
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		<title>Is Savior Kasukuwere being forced to back-down from his indigenisation regulations?</title>
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Update: SW Radio Africa are reporting on the &#8220;mixed messages over the status of the indigenisation regulation&#8221;. The article quotes Arthur Mutambara, the Deputy Prime Minister, as saying:
No one else, Prime Minister or Ministers, no one else is mandated to speak on this matter as per our council decision. So any communications from anyone after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5488</link>
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		<title>TAKE ACTION: WOZA women still in custody today</title>
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Update: Sibongile and Rose have been released. A full update on the WOZA site.
WOZA are still needing support from the public to speed up the relase of two women, Sibongile Matupe and Rose Rukwewo, who were arrested in Mutare yesterday:
Two women, Sibongile Matupe and Rose Rukwewo, an elderly woman, have been arrested in Mutare today [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5482</link>
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		<title>A WOZA perspective on the state of democracy in Zimbabwe</title>
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Preamble
On 11th February 2009, a Government of National Unity (GNU) was formed between the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU PF) and the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) with the swearing in of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara. Its birth filled us with hope. The promises of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5474</link>
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		<title>Download the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act and Statutory Instrument 21 of 2010</title>
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The Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act 14, 2007  was passed by parliament towards the end of 2007, gazetted on March 7, 2008, and was signed into law on April 17 2008. This provided for all companies operating in Zimbabwe to arrange for 51% of their shares or interests therein to be owned by indigenous Zimbabweans.
Download [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5468</link>
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		<title>ZANE to embark on a fundraising tour for Zimbabwean pensioners (Australia via Singapore)</title>
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This invitation circulated by email: Readers in Australia and Singapore, please make a note of these meeting dates and locations in your diaries (in table at the end of this post):
ZANE (ZIMBABWE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY), a registered charity in the UK, is embarking on a tour to Australia via Singapore in February/March 2010. The purpose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5456</link>
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		<title>Saviour Kasukuwere&#8217;s indigenisation law is racist</title>
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&#8220;What do we do when the farms run out?&#8221;: this is a big question for Zanu PF and one can understand what a dilemma it is for a party that has few reasonable policies and is forced to buy loyalty and support by apportioning state assets. Legitimising theft has become Zanu PF&#8217;s key survival strategy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5447</link>
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		<title>Dark clouds hover over constitution-making process</title>
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Crisis Coalition Press Release &#8211; 13 Feb: Dark clouds hover over constitution-making process as arrests and intimidation of MDC supporters continue.
While the Parliament Select Committee, which is spearheading the constitution making process, is set to deploy teams for the outreach meetings, a dark cloud hovers over the success of the process owing to the arrests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5442</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Music by Prudence&#8217; nominated for an Oscar!</title>
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So incredibly exciting! A film about a Zimbabwean band has made it onto this year&#8217;s Oscar nomination list, in the  &#8216;Best Documentary Short Subject&#8217; category.
&#8216;Music by Prudence&#8217; tells the story of Prudence Mabhena, the lead singer of Bulawayo band Liyana.
Zimbabwean singer songwriter Prudence Mabhena, age twenty-one, was born severely disabled into a society where disabilities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5434</link>
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		<title>NCA Draft Constitution now included in Sokwanele&#8217;s online constitution resource</title>
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We have just included content from the National Constitutional Assembly Draft Constitution (2001) in our online constitution resource page.
The NCA&#8217;s Draft constitution emerged from public inputs which the NCA, working through its own structures and those of its member institutions, received between May 1997 and December 2001 (a period of four and a half years). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5430</link>
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		<title>Zimbabwe Attorney General admits abuse of section 121</title>
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ZLHR Press Release &#8211; 1 Feb: Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana on Monday 1 February 2010 conceded that his law officers and prosecutors had at times misjudged when they unnecessarily invoked section 121 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act (CPEA) to effectively reverse the granting of bail to accused persons.
Prosecutors and law officers from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5425</link>
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