BIKITA, August 31, 2009 - A Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party activist who had gone into exile in the run-up to last year's bloody June 27 run-off elections was murdered upon his return home over the weekend, police and the legislator for the area, Heya Shoko, confirmed.
Bikita West Member of Parliament (MP) Shoko said Edwin Chingami (32), an ardent MDC supporter who was an election observer for the party at the initial March 29 harmonized elections, was killed at a funeral in Ward eight, Chirove village under chief Nhema over the weekend.
Chingami had fled the country for fear of retributive violence that had hit the country.
"He had come for the funeral wake of his niece when some ZANU PF youths started accusing him of being a sell-out who had fled the country. They started beating him up and witnesses said he fled but was hit by a stone on the head," Shoko said.
Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Phibion Nyambo confirmed the incident, but denied the murder was politically motivated.
"We received a report of murder at a funeral. The suspects were drunk as there was beer at the funeral wake. I have not heard that the victim was killed because of his political affiliation," said Inspector Nyambo.
But MDC-T provincial chairman, Wilstuff Sitemere confirmed that Chingami, a district youth chairperson, was murdered for campaigning for the MDC-T, as well as standing as the party's elections observer.
"He was the target by ZANU PF youths aligned to former legislator Claudius Makova for vigorously campaigning for the MDC. They had told him that he will die whenever he returns, that's why it took him so long to come back. But this time around, his relative had died and he had no option but come back. We sadly mourn his death, he is a martyr," Sitemere said.
Contacted for a comment, the Minister of National Healing, John Nkomo, said he was unaware of the incident. Nkomo however said that he would investigate the matter so that the culprits are dealt with harshly.
"As the national healing Ministry, we urge people to throw their political differences so that the country can move forward. We also urge the justice system to deal harshly with the perpetrators of fresh political violence," said Nkomo.
Tuesday
Zimbabwean Refugee murdered on his return to Zimbabwe
Wednesday
MDC UK's ZANU PF Traits
This story was posted to the web by zim diaspora.
THE missing MDC-UK £54 151, 37 haunted Jonathan Chawora's executive on Saturday when tampers flared during a provincial council meeting in Wallsall attended by less than 30 party members loyal to him, our undercover reporter found out.
We can also reveal that the inadequate gathering was told that a party member from Walsall branch admitted misappropriating funds. No disciplinary action was ever taken even though the issue had long been reported to both the district and Chawora's executive.
Our under cover reporter also witnessed a half-baked financial statement being presented to the meeting triggering a barrage of criticism of the MDC-UK financial mismanagement. Our reporter says the statement was immediately dismissed by supporters as a mockery to the integrity of the party.
The skeletally attended meeting was bombarded with questions of financial credibility and even those known to be loyal to Chawora demanded financial accountability of party funds.
In theory, Mr Chawora and his ill-fated executive quickly became rebels themselves during an unexpected salvo by their most trusted allies. Perhaps the biggest betrayal Mr Chawora is feeling this week was the boycot by his closest confidente' who also say they have also lost confidence with the former police chief-turned-MDC-UK boss.
While there was bitter exchange of words in the Wallsall meeting there was pomp and splendour few miles away in a "rebel-organised" MDC Oxford fund-raising meeting also attended by Prime Minister Tsvangirai's UK deputy representative Ms Emily Madamombe and vice-chairman of the UK executive Mr Jameson Mashakada .
Our reporter says the Wallsall meeting, organised by Mr Tonderai Samanyanga and attended by Mr Chawora and some few members of his executive resembled a disused and neglected cemetery with less than 30 people present. The district itself failed to constitute a quorum, one of the laid down rules and regulations of the MDC party.
The flopped meeting was designed to try and hoodwink supporters into believing that Chawora was still in control yet it turned out to be a disaster.
Speaker after speaker bombarded Mr Samanyanga with questions most of which were never answered as he could only promise to come back to them later.
Of more significant was an irate member who stood up and said, "Chairman, I am not really clear about what will happen on Saturday the 5th of September, 2009 when the National Chairman Mr Lovemore Moyo attends our provincial rally and 10th Anniversary Celebrations. Are we all going to form a queue to take turns to read and view the Provincial financial report? Or is the provincial treasurer going to print many individual copies for members to look at because people want to know what happened to our money? In any event, Chairman, there are only about 30 of us in this room and it has taken us, so far 2 hours just discussing the Treasurer’s report – how then can we be expected as the full Province to go through the Provincial financial report on the 5th of September, 2009 and still have an Assembly and the 10th Anniversary Celebrations and an address from our National Chairman."
There was a round of applause from party members present. Mr Samanyanga did not respond - all what he could say was that ‘we are writing down everything so that we take all your queries to the Provincial Council.’
Another speaker asked "How much does the District keep in their account?".
The response was that the district remits all funds to the provincial account and does not keep any money in its coffers. Then party members said "So why should we deposit the money into the district account?"
Supporters also questioned Mr Samanyanga about the credibility of the meeting saying the skeletal attendance showed that the party cannot fulfil the quorum system rendering the meeting invalid.
This also prompted Stoke-On-Trent chairman, Mr Tafadzwa Gidi to say: "Party members are angry - and until issues are addressed and resolved then this poor turnout will continue".
There were no MDC songs and the usually dance as compared to the Oxford fund raising one where the "rebels" led by Provincial Vice chairman Mr Jameson Mashakada sang pro-Tsvangirai revolutionary songs, chanted MDC slogans, danced and boasted.
There were four district executives, no representatives from Wolverhampton branch, two representatives from Stoke-On-Trent, one branch executive member from Birmingham and acting as secretary and minute taker for the district, one committee member from Coventry, no representative from Derby, two executive members from Walsall and the few so-called co-opted Committee members for Walsall branch.
District executives present were district chairman, Mr Tonderai Samananya himself, his deputy, Mr Solomon Mashiri, District Vice Organising Secretary Mr Robert Hombiro and District Treasurer Lincoln Makotore. Some shocking absences included Chawora's close ally district Information and Publicity Secretary, Mr Makusha Mugabe, district secretariat and women’s representative. No explanation was ever given on the controversial absence.
The biggest representation was from Leicester branch (about six branch officials) who so far has contributed £2000 to the district since January, 2009.
"The meeting was then presented with the Treasurer’s financial report. This item on its own covered more two hours of the meeting. Interesting questions raised from the floor included the Treasurer being asked to prove the transactions that he had reported in his report." our undercover reporter said.
An angry Leicester branch executive reportedly stood up and dismissed the scant financial report saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, this financial statement is a joke, anyone can type up the amounts shown on the report, what we need is a bank statement and proof of acknowledgement of receipt of funds from the Provincial Treasurer was important".
He said the report was not substantive as there was it did not "add-up at all".
"We need a proper report accompanied by a bank statement detailing financial activities of the province. We also need something clear comparative tables against the other Districts," the speaker from Leicester said.
No supporter has ever seen a bank statement pertaining to the management of the MDC-UK funds, they said.
While many MDC branches have since stopped remitting funds to Chawora's provincial executive, Wallsall, Wolverhampton and Derby Branches were singled out as problematic branches.
While four key members of the Chawora executive defied him and turned up for the "rebel" organised fund-raising meeting in Oxford, the Wallsall provincial meeting failed to take off the ground in line with the MDC rules and regulations.
For starters, there was no clear reason for the absence of the district secretary, Theresa Matope, the district vice secretary Edward Zvavarei, district organising secretary, Miss Nomalanga MacKenzie and the very late arrival of unconstitutionally co-opted district Youth Chairman Nicholas Chawasarira.
THE missing MDC-UK £54 151, 37 haunted Jonathan Chawora's executive on Saturday when tampers flared during a provincial council meeting in Wallsall attended by less than 30 party members loyal to him, our undercover reporter found out.
We can also reveal that the inadequate gathering was told that a party member from Walsall branch admitted misappropriating funds. No disciplinary action was ever taken even though the issue had long been reported to both the district and Chawora's executive.
Our under cover reporter also witnessed a half-baked financial statement being presented to the meeting triggering a barrage of criticism of the MDC-UK financial mismanagement. Our reporter says the statement was immediately dismissed by supporters as a mockery to the integrity of the party.
The skeletally attended meeting was bombarded with questions of financial credibility and even those known to be loyal to Chawora demanded financial accountability of party funds.In theory, Mr Chawora and his ill-fated executive quickly became rebels themselves during an unexpected salvo by their most trusted allies. Perhaps the biggest betrayal Mr Chawora is feeling this week was the boycot by his closest confidente' who also say they have also lost confidence with the former police chief-turned-MDC-UK boss.
While there was bitter exchange of words in the Wallsall meeting there was pomp and splendour few miles away in a "rebel-organised" MDC Oxford fund-raising meeting also attended by Prime Minister Tsvangirai's UK deputy representative Ms Emily Madamombe and vice-chairman of the UK executive Mr Jameson Mashakada .
Our reporter says the Wallsall meeting, organised by Mr Tonderai Samanyanga and attended by Mr Chawora and some few members of his executive resembled a disused and neglected cemetery with less than 30 people present. The district itself failed to constitute a quorum, one of the laid down rules and regulations of the MDC party.
The flopped meeting was designed to try and hoodwink supporters into believing that Chawora was still in control yet it turned out to be a disaster.
Speaker after speaker bombarded Mr Samanyanga with questions most of which were never answered as he could only promise to come back to them later.
Of more significant was an irate member who stood up and said, "Chairman, I am not really clear about what will happen on Saturday the 5th of September, 2009 when the National Chairman Mr Lovemore Moyo attends our provincial rally and 10th Anniversary Celebrations. Are we all going to form a queue to take turns to read and view the Provincial financial report? Or is the provincial treasurer going to print many individual copies for members to look at because people want to know what happened to our money? In any event, Chairman, there are only about 30 of us in this room and it has taken us, so far 2 hours just discussing the Treasurer’s report – how then can we be expected as the full Province to go through the Provincial financial report on the 5th of September, 2009 and still have an Assembly and the 10th Anniversary Celebrations and an address from our National Chairman."There was a round of applause from party members present. Mr Samanyanga did not respond - all what he could say was that ‘we are writing down everything so that we take all your queries to the Provincial Council.’
Another speaker asked "How much does the District keep in their account?".
The response was that the district remits all funds to the provincial account and does not keep any money in its coffers. Then party members said "So why should we deposit the money into the district account?"
Supporters also questioned Mr Samanyanga about the credibility of the meeting saying the skeletal attendance showed that the party cannot fulfil the quorum system rendering the meeting invalid.This also prompted Stoke-On-Trent chairman, Mr Tafadzwa Gidi to say: "Party members are angry - and until issues are addressed and resolved then this poor turnout will continue".
There were no MDC songs and the usually dance as compared to the Oxford fund raising one where the "rebels" led by Provincial Vice chairman Mr Jameson Mashakada sang pro-Tsvangirai revolutionary songs, chanted MDC slogans, danced and boasted.
There were four district executives, no representatives from Wolverhampton branch, two representatives from Stoke-On-Trent, one branch executive member from Birmingham and acting as secretary and minute taker for the district, one committee member from Coventry, no representative from Derby, two executive members from Walsall and the few so-called co-opted Committee members for Walsall branch.
District executives present were district chairman, Mr Tonderai Samananya himself, his deputy, Mr Solomon Mashiri, District Vice Organising Secretary Mr Robert Hombiro and District Treasurer Lincoln Makotore. Some shocking absences included Chawora's close ally district Information and Publicity Secretary, Mr Makusha Mugabe, district secretariat and women’s representative. No explanation was ever given on the controversial absence.
The biggest representation was from Leicester branch (about six branch officials) who so far has contributed £2000 to the district since January, 2009.
"The meeting was then presented with the Treasurer’s financial report. This item on its own covered more two hours of the meeting. Interesting questions raised from the floor included the Treasurer being asked to prove the transactions that he had reported in his report." our undercover reporter said.
An angry Leicester branch executive reportedly stood up and dismissed the scant financial report saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, this financial statement is a joke, anyone can type up the amounts shown on the report, what we need is a bank statement and proof of acknowledgement of receipt of funds from the Provincial Treasurer was important".
He said the report was not substantive as there was it did not "add-up at all".
"We need a proper report accompanied by a bank statement detailing financial activities of the province. We also need something clear comparative tables against the other Districts," the speaker from Leicester said.
No supporter has ever seen a bank statement pertaining to the management of the MDC-UK funds, they said.
While many MDC branches have since stopped remitting funds to Chawora's provincial executive, Wallsall, Wolverhampton and Derby Branches were singled out as problematic branches.
While four key members of the Chawora executive defied him and turned up for the "rebel" organised fund-raising meeting in Oxford, the Wallsall provincial meeting failed to take off the ground in line with the MDC rules and regulations.
For starters, there was no clear reason for the absence of the district secretary, Theresa Matope, the district vice secretary Edward Zvavarei, district organising secretary, Miss Nomalanga MacKenzie and the very late arrival of unconstitutionally co-opted district Youth Chairman Nicholas Chawasarira.
Thursday
Facebook Debate continued.
Noreen Welch posted a link.
Yesterday at 11:33.
AFP: Blair says Mugabe 'should be overthrown'
Source: www.google.com
BERLIN — Tony Blair believes that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe should be overthrown, a German magazine quoted the former British prime minister as saying in an interview published on Wednesday.
Bobo Jaan : Tick tock tick tock tick tock age is such a wonderful process...its going to be great to see the propagandists, generals , sycophants, criminals, rent-a-crowds, etc etc scramble when the figurehead passes with great pomp to heros acre (or is that the sin bin)....what a wonderful feeling....Hum diddly dee....
Yesterday at 15:52 Ray RockinghamRUFFCUTS, as the November 1997 public letter from Labour Government Secretary of State Claire Short clearly states, the British Government told Mugabe that they would withhold further financial compensation for the purchase of white owned commercial farm land until a new Land Registry was established which verified with complete transparency that ... Read morethe British Taxpayers money (compensation) was buying white owned land which was being given to poor BLACK Zimbabweans for the clear purpose of alleviating BLACK poverty in Zimbabwe. This is what angered Mugabe because Mugabe want the land as a bribe to buy the loyalty of the senior ZANU-PF members who keep Mugabe in power.
The British wanted to help poor BLACK Zimbabweans but Mugabe would not permit the British to do this so Mugabe invented the LIE that the British were practicing neo-colonialism against black peoples' interests. RUFFCUTS, Mugabe is a LIAR and if you repeat Mugabes' LIES then RUFFCUTS you are also a liar equal to Mugabe.
Yesterday at 18:34 RuffcutsWear Marco Machona@Ray..Please read my posting carefully. What your wrote was exactly my points. I said Tony had imprints on the land issues in Zim . I stated exactly the amount then...which was about 47million pounds and the reasons for the conflict ..how to disburse and future usage. Bob saying he didn't want to be told how to spend it and on who..etc...Tony ... Read moreinsisting on what U have expressed. Audit etc. So my friend you can equate me to Bob all you want but the land issues in Zim were to a greater extend Tony's and Bob's staborness...Up to now UK Government feels not obliged to pay any compensation, it was Tony's final stance. Bob capitalised on that.Ruffcuts is not a liar, i just follow Politics. That is why MDC, CFU are on a hard place now and AU, SADC,etc on Bob's side. Facts.
Yesterday at 20:12Conor WalshWe should blame the Brutish government because it did not overthrow Mgaxa at the height of Gukurahundi.
We should not blame the Brutish for not paying money to allow weekend goche goche farmers to tshisa nyama instead of farming as is now the case.
Yesterday at 20:35 Ray RockinghamRuffcuts says ... ''So my friend you can equate me to Bob all you want but the land issues in Zim were to a greater extend Tony's and Bob's staborness...Up to now UK Government feels not obliged to pay any compensation, it was Tony's final stance. Bob capitalised on that.''
By these words above Ruffcuts Machona holds Blair and Mugabe equally ... Read moreresponsible for the land grab and the collapse of commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe. Machona is talking rubbish as Mugabe is alone to blame because the British were defending poor black Zimbabweans against Mugabes' abuse of poor black Zimbabweans by denying them the land which the white British taxpayers wanted to pay for, but Mugabe falsely blames the British because Mugabe is a Liar who abuses poor black people in Zimbabwe and then falsely blames the white British Government. Therefore the British government have zero blame for food insecurity in Zimbabwe and Mugabe is 100% to blame for food insecurity in Zimbabwe.
...continued below...
Yesterday at 21:13 Ray RockinghamRuffcuts Machona falsely states that Mugabe and Blair are equally to blame because Ruffcuts Machona is no less a liar than Mugabe. Above Taff Gidi says to Ruffcuts Machona ... ''To blame Tony Blair for the shambolic, murderous land grab by Mugabe loyalists is just plain silly!''
Taff Gidi is right when he says that Ruffcuts Machona is silly. ... Read moreMachona has no rational opinion which is worth typing on facebook because Machona is an empty-headed mischief maker who plays with is computer and tries to sound intelligent when he is not - Machona is Silly - and he lies just like Mugabe.
Yesterday at 21:14 RuffcutsWear Marco Machona@Ray...all you know its a group of old women who started land invassion. Bob actually arrested them first. Cde Hunzwi hijacked the plot of land invassion. Again Bob was initially against land invassion....the beef between Tony and Bob "much later" fuelled using land invassion ...AND was used as an election and political tool. Like i said your lack ... Read moreof knowledge is what makes u loud for nothing. I would think as a sympathiser for 'so called food security" you would know the history behind the messy. Its wise you read than resort to calling names. You are a victim of your own propaganda my friend. Don't rely on FB for facts.....I rest my case...lack of knowledge is dangerous.
Yesterday at 21:24 Ray Rockingham So now Ruffcutts Machona has abandoned his lie that Tony Blair and Mugabe were equally responsible and now Machona is admitting that the land grab and the collapse of food security in Zimbabwe was 100% Mugabes' responsibility as an election and political tool.
If Mugabe wanted to win the votes of the ordinary black poor people of Zimbabwe then ... Read moreMugabe would have welcomed the British £40+ million to buy commercial farm land to give to poor black Zimbabweans. But Mugabe is an autocratic Dictator who never felt any need to encourage the black peasantry to like him and to vote for him, the only voters Mugabe cared about was the 400,000 black commercial farm workers whom he wanted to punish for voting MDC - just as he had previously used Gukurahundi to punish the Indebele for voting ZAPU and later used Murambatsvina to punish urban workers for voting MDC.
...continued below...
Yesterday at 22:24 Ray Rockingham Mugabe only ever wanted the valuable land in the high rainfall areas for ZANU-PF, so Mugabe printed fake duplicate bank notes at the Reserve Bank as bribes to buy the loyalty of 20,000 junior ZANU-PF (warvets) so they would harass commercial farms with dancing, chanting and a few fights, then Mugabe amended the constitution to seize commercial ... Read morefarms so he could buy the loyalty of senior ZANU-PF members with bribes of free farms. In this way Mugabe caused hyper-inflation and the collapse of food security in Zimbabwe making Zimbabwe today officially the most aid dependent country in the world.
All this suffering which Mugabe has caused to millions of ordinary Zimbabweans, both those living within Zimbabwe and those living in exile in other countries, all because Mugabe is a Psychopath who would happily destroy Zimbabwe rather than lose his power over Zimbabwe.
...continued below...
Yesterday at 22:24 Ray Rockingham And now this idiot called Ruffcuts Machona wants the 3000 friends of Noreen to believe that Mugabe was powerless to control the events which were being instigated by some old women and Hunzwi plus Tony Blair who only angered the Psychopath Mugabe by insisting that British Taxpayers money was only to be use to alleviate the poverty of poor black ... Read moreZimbabweans.
Machona you are disgusting and the way you refer to Hunzwi as ''Cde'' reveals to all of us that Ruffcuts Machona is really a Zaniod who is only on Noreens' friend list to promote ZANU-PF propaganda. Ruffcuts Machona at the end of your last comment you say, ''I rest my case'', but there is no need for you to rest your case because you are a ZANU-PF propagandist and your facts are fictitious so you have no case to explain and therefore no case to rest. Machona you are a ZANU-PF activist and the only reason you are not ashamed of yourself is because you are too stupid to know how stupid you are.
Yesterday at 22:26 Malvin Ndlovuhe has to go
21 hours ago Bobo JaanRay, do you really expect any more from a guy who worked as a propagandist for the mouth piece of Zanu PF the ZBC??
15 hours agoRay RockinghamThank you Bobo Jaan - I didn't know that. From now on every time Marco Machona appears on facebook we should all post a comment exposing his ZBC origins and his ZANU-PF allegiance. Anyone who supports, or avoids criticising Mugabe/ZANU-PF, is someone who is no better than the other human scum who still today sympathise with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Yesterday at 11:33.
AFP: Blair says Mugabe 'should be overthrown'
Source: www.google.com
BERLIN — Tony Blair believes that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe should be overthrown, a German magazine quoted the former British prime minister as saying in an interview published on Wednesday.
Bobo Jaan : Tick tock tick tock tick tock age is such a wonderful process...its going to be great to see the propagandists, generals , sycophants, criminals, rent-a-crowds, etc etc scramble when the figurehead passes with great pomp to heros acre (or is that the sin bin)....what a wonderful feeling....Hum diddly dee....
Yesterday at 15:52 Ray RockinghamRUFFCUTS, as the November 1997 public letter from Labour Government Secretary of State Claire Short clearly states, the British Government told Mugabe that they would withhold further financial compensation for the purchase of white owned commercial farm land until a new Land Registry was established which verified with complete transparency that ... Read morethe British Taxpayers money (compensation) was buying white owned land which was being given to poor BLACK Zimbabweans for the clear purpose of alleviating BLACK poverty in Zimbabwe. This is what angered Mugabe because Mugabe want the land as a bribe to buy the loyalty of the senior ZANU-PF members who keep Mugabe in power.
The British wanted to help poor BLACK Zimbabweans but Mugabe would not permit the British to do this so Mugabe invented the LIE that the British were practicing neo-colonialism against black peoples' interests. RUFFCUTS, Mugabe is a LIAR and if you repeat Mugabes' LIES then RUFFCUTS you are also a liar equal to Mugabe.
Yesterday at 18:34 RuffcutsWear Marco Machona@Ray..Please read my posting carefully. What your wrote was exactly my points. I said Tony had imprints on the land issues in Zim . I stated exactly the amount then...which was about 47million pounds and the reasons for the conflict ..how to disburse and future usage. Bob saying he didn't want to be told how to spend it and on who..etc...Tony ... Read moreinsisting on what U have expressed. Audit etc. So my friend you can equate me to Bob all you want but the land issues in Zim were to a greater extend Tony's and Bob's staborness...Up to now UK Government feels not obliged to pay any compensation, it was Tony's final stance. Bob capitalised on that.Ruffcuts is not a liar, i just follow Politics. That is why MDC, CFU are on a hard place now and AU, SADC,etc on Bob's side. Facts.
Yesterday at 20:12Conor WalshWe should blame the Brutish government because it did not overthrow Mgaxa at the height of Gukurahundi.
We should not blame the Brutish for not paying money to allow weekend goche goche farmers to tshisa nyama instead of farming as is now the case.
Yesterday at 20:35 Ray RockinghamRuffcuts says ... ''So my friend you can equate me to Bob all you want but the land issues in Zim were to a greater extend Tony's and Bob's staborness...Up to now UK Government feels not obliged to pay any compensation, it was Tony's final stance. Bob capitalised on that.''
By these words above Ruffcuts Machona holds Blair and Mugabe equally ... Read moreresponsible for the land grab and the collapse of commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe. Machona is talking rubbish as Mugabe is alone to blame because the British were defending poor black Zimbabweans against Mugabes' abuse of poor black Zimbabweans by denying them the land which the white British taxpayers wanted to pay for, but Mugabe falsely blames the British because Mugabe is a Liar who abuses poor black people in Zimbabwe and then falsely blames the white British Government. Therefore the British government have zero blame for food insecurity in Zimbabwe and Mugabe is 100% to blame for food insecurity in Zimbabwe.
...continued below...
Yesterday at 21:13 Ray RockinghamRuffcuts Machona falsely states that Mugabe and Blair are equally to blame because Ruffcuts Machona is no less a liar than Mugabe. Above Taff Gidi says to Ruffcuts Machona ... ''To blame Tony Blair for the shambolic, murderous land grab by Mugabe loyalists is just plain silly!''
Taff Gidi is right when he says that Ruffcuts Machona is silly. ... Read moreMachona has no rational opinion which is worth typing on facebook because Machona is an empty-headed mischief maker who plays with is computer and tries to sound intelligent when he is not - Machona is Silly - and he lies just like Mugabe.
Yesterday at 21:14 RuffcutsWear Marco Machona@Ray...all you know its a group of old women who started land invassion. Bob actually arrested them first. Cde Hunzwi hijacked the plot of land invassion. Again Bob was initially against land invassion....the beef between Tony and Bob "much later" fuelled using land invassion ...AND was used as an election and political tool. Like i said your lack ... Read moreof knowledge is what makes u loud for nothing. I would think as a sympathiser for 'so called food security" you would know the history behind the messy. Its wise you read than resort to calling names. You are a victim of your own propaganda my friend. Don't rely on FB for facts.....I rest my case...lack of knowledge is dangerous.
Yesterday at 21:24 Ray Rockingham So now Ruffcutts Machona has abandoned his lie that Tony Blair and Mugabe were equally responsible and now Machona is admitting that the land grab and the collapse of food security in Zimbabwe was 100% Mugabes' responsibility as an election and political tool.
If Mugabe wanted to win the votes of the ordinary black poor people of Zimbabwe then ... Read moreMugabe would have welcomed the British £40+ million to buy commercial farm land to give to poor black Zimbabweans. But Mugabe is an autocratic Dictator who never felt any need to encourage the black peasantry to like him and to vote for him, the only voters Mugabe cared about was the 400,000 black commercial farm workers whom he wanted to punish for voting MDC - just as he had previously used Gukurahundi to punish the Indebele for voting ZAPU and later used Murambatsvina to punish urban workers for voting MDC.
...continued below...
Yesterday at 22:24 Ray Rockingham Mugabe only ever wanted the valuable land in the high rainfall areas for ZANU-PF, so Mugabe printed fake duplicate bank notes at the Reserve Bank as bribes to buy the loyalty of 20,000 junior ZANU-PF (warvets) so they would harass commercial farms with dancing, chanting and a few fights, then Mugabe amended the constitution to seize commercial ... Read morefarms so he could buy the loyalty of senior ZANU-PF members with bribes of free farms. In this way Mugabe caused hyper-inflation and the collapse of food security in Zimbabwe making Zimbabwe today officially the most aid dependent country in the world.
All this suffering which Mugabe has caused to millions of ordinary Zimbabweans, both those living within Zimbabwe and those living in exile in other countries, all because Mugabe is a Psychopath who would happily destroy Zimbabwe rather than lose his power over Zimbabwe.
...continued below...
Yesterday at 22:24 Ray Rockingham And now this idiot called Ruffcuts Machona wants the 3000 friends of Noreen to believe that Mugabe was powerless to control the events which were being instigated by some old women and Hunzwi plus Tony Blair who only angered the Psychopath Mugabe by insisting that British Taxpayers money was only to be use to alleviate the poverty of poor black ... Read moreZimbabweans.
Machona you are disgusting and the way you refer to Hunzwi as ''Cde'' reveals to all of us that Ruffcuts Machona is really a Zaniod who is only on Noreens' friend list to promote ZANU-PF propaganda. Ruffcuts Machona at the end of your last comment you say, ''I rest my case'', but there is no need for you to rest your case because you are a ZANU-PF propagandist and your facts are fictitious so you have no case to explain and therefore no case to rest. Machona you are a ZANU-PF activist and the only reason you are not ashamed of yourself is because you are too stupid to know how stupid you are.
Yesterday at 22:26 Malvin Ndlovuhe has to go
21 hours ago Bobo JaanRay, do you really expect any more from a guy who worked as a propagandist for the mouth piece of Zanu PF the ZBC??
15 hours agoRay RockinghamThank you Bobo Jaan - I didn't know that. From now on every time Marco Machona appears on facebook we should all post a comment exposing his ZBC origins and his ZANU-PF allegiance. Anyone who supports, or avoids criticising Mugabe/ZANU-PF, is someone who is no better than the other human scum who still today sympathise with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Wednesday
Posts from Zimbabweans on Facebook Forums
AFP: Blair says Mugabe 'should be overthrown'
Source: www.google.com
BERLIN — Tony Blair believes that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe should be overthrown, a German magazine quoted the former British prime minister as saying in an interview published on Wednesday.
Comment · .
Mike Bennett
What an imbecile.
7 hours ago
Gus Nhara
uuuuummmmmmmm.....intresting he says this after he is out of office
6 hours ago
Clement Museka
no wonder tht guy Tambaoga sang tht 'The Blair tht he knows is a toilet...'
6 hours ago
Ed Mungure
With the greatest of respect Tony Blair is partly to blame for our current predicament. Careless unhelpful statements such as this help create the prevailing atmosphere. Gus this is not the first time Blair has preached the gospel of regime change even as Prime minister he said the same. Mugabe would then use such to say Britain wants to recolonise the country and the MDC are their agents. This is a clear case of the heart being in the right place but the mouth and mind in the wrong place.
6 hours ago
Shalton Yotham Ngwenya
Last time I checked he. His job description was peace envoy!!
6 hours ago
Desmond Ian Crystal
But isnt he right ?
6 hours ago
Masimba Biriwasha
In spite of our decay, and ever-lasting doldrums, Mr. Blair should just shut up. He is not helping our cause by his unsought blabber.
6 hours ago
Taff Gidi
Tony is not the enemy here. would everyone stop p***sy footing around bob and just tell it as it is. Speaking out against the evil is not wrong!!!! Tony Blair is to blame for taking Mugabe to task because he was starving his own people? Gimme a break......
6 hours ago
Desmond Ian Crystal
Well put Taff, what Zim needs is strong Men & Women and a lot less politicians, Tony just said what all are too scared to.
6 hours ago
Mota Kuta
Bob is the devil incarnate, that is , the devil in person!!!!!!!!
6 hours ago
Roger Stringer
I wonder who he thinks should do the overthrowing?
6 hours ago
Desmond Ian Crystal
The people who put him there in the first place.
5 hours ago
Roger Stringer
You'll never find anyone who said they voted for him!
5 hours ago
Mabel Laurence
We shall overcome We shall overcome We shall overcome some day CHORUS:... Read moreOh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day
5 hours ago
RuffcutsWear Marco Machona
Oh boy...is Tony still around! Tony Tony Tony...Last time he was verbally abused in SA during a UN something...he never recovered from that "belittlement". Help us Tony...how and when??? Tony...i see your prints on the land question in Zim..Wasn't it u who refused land compensation? (40 million pounds for Commercial farmers)... .now u talk Tosh again without a plan!!!!Wrong person to say som' like that!!
5 hours ago
Taff Gidi
Machona, get your fact straight. Tony said to Mugabe show us what you did with the first £40mil+ we already gave you before we can give you anymore. Mugabe knowing that he stole most of that money refused to account for it and instead called blair names. I am surprised you fell for that. To blame Tony Blair for the shambolic, murderous land grab by Mugabe loyalists is just plain silly!
4 hours ago
Desmond Ian Crystal
Im outta here guys ! tired of talking in square circles, Let Zim fall where it may.
4 hours ago
RuffcutsWear Marco Machona
@Tafi..I have checked my facts. Am correct. Zim had recieved far more that 40 million pounds pre to Tony Adminitrastion. When he entered the scene, an outstanding balance of 47million pounds was due. A disagreement on the usage of the previous 'funds" and future use of the balance. Disagreements erupted and the rest is in the public domain...of ... Read morename calling but that was the source of frictions through Tony's era. Anything else u want me to explain mr Tafi.....yes like i said Tony had imprints in the land issue in Zim...its no secret. Am not a loyalist but factual as it comes...
4 hours ago
Conor Walsh
Blair may or may not be right but the fact is nobody will overthrow the son of the Father of Lies so he is just wasting his breath.
4 hours ago
Bobo Jaan
So exactly what happened to the 40 million? .....
3 hours ago
Kirth Dube
Tony has just asked the people to get rid of the c...nt! and what do Mugabe worshipers do?...piss on those who have guts to tell it as it is. Mugabe must be shot at point blank including all his prophets of doom.
2 hours ago · Delete
Bobo Jaan
Tick tock tick tock tick tock age is such a wonderful process...its going to be great to see the propagandists, generals , sycophants, criminals, rent-a-crowds, etc etc scramble when the figurehead passes with great pomp to heros acre (or is that the sin bin)....what a wonderful feeling....Hum diddly dee....
2 hours ago
Ray Rockingham
RUFFCUTS, as the November 1997 public letter from Labour Government Secretary of State Claire Short clearly states, the British Government told Mugabe that they would withhold further financial compensation for the purchase of white owned commercial farm land until a new Land Registry was established which verified with complete transparency that ... Read morethe British Taxpayers money (compensation) was buying white owned land which was being given to poor BLACK Zimbabweans for the clear purpose of alleviating BLACK poverty in Zimbabwe. This is what angered Mugabe because Mugabe want the land as a bribe to buy the loyalty of the senior ZANU-PF members who keep Mugabe in power.The British wanted to help poor BLACK Zimbabweans but Mugabe would not permit the British to do this so Mugabe invented the LIE that the British were practicing neo-colonialism against black peoples' interests. RUFFCUTS, Mugabe is a LIAR and if you repeat Mugabes' LIES then RUFFCUTS you are also a liar equal to Mugabe.
9 minutes ago
Source: www.google.com
BERLIN — Tony Blair believes that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe should be overthrown, a German magazine quoted the former British prime minister as saying in an interview published on Wednesday.
Comment · .
Mike Bennett
What an imbecile.
7 hours ago
Gus Nhara
uuuuummmmmmmm.....intresting he says this after he is out of office
6 hours ago
Clement Museka
no wonder tht guy Tambaoga sang tht 'The Blair tht he knows is a toilet...'
6 hours ago
Ed Mungure
With the greatest of respect Tony Blair is partly to blame for our current predicament. Careless unhelpful statements such as this help create the prevailing atmosphere. Gus this is not the first time Blair has preached the gospel of regime change even as Prime minister he said the same. Mugabe would then use such to say Britain wants to recolonise the country and the MDC are their agents. This is a clear case of the heart being in the right place but the mouth and mind in the wrong place.
6 hours ago
Shalton Yotham Ngwenya
Last time I checked he. His job description was peace envoy!!
6 hours ago
Desmond Ian Crystal
But isnt he right ?
6 hours ago
Masimba Biriwasha
In spite of our decay, and ever-lasting doldrums, Mr. Blair should just shut up. He is not helping our cause by his unsought blabber.
6 hours ago
Taff Gidi
Tony is not the enemy here. would everyone stop p***sy footing around bob and just tell it as it is. Speaking out against the evil is not wrong!!!! Tony Blair is to blame for taking Mugabe to task because he was starving his own people? Gimme a break......
6 hours ago
Desmond Ian Crystal
Well put Taff, what Zim needs is strong Men & Women and a lot less politicians, Tony just said what all are too scared to.
6 hours ago
Mota Kuta
Bob is the devil incarnate, that is , the devil in person!!!!!!!!
6 hours ago
Roger Stringer
I wonder who he thinks should do the overthrowing?
6 hours ago
Desmond Ian Crystal
The people who put him there in the first place.
5 hours ago
Roger Stringer
You'll never find anyone who said they voted for him!
5 hours ago
Mabel Laurence
We shall overcome We shall overcome We shall overcome some day CHORUS:... Read moreOh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day
5 hours ago
RuffcutsWear Marco Machona
Oh boy...is Tony still around! Tony Tony Tony...Last time he was verbally abused in SA during a UN something...he never recovered from that "belittlement". Help us Tony...how and when??? Tony...i see your prints on the land question in Zim..Wasn't it u who refused land compensation? (40 million pounds for Commercial farmers)... .now u talk Tosh again without a plan!!!!Wrong person to say som' like that!!
5 hours ago
Taff Gidi
Machona, get your fact straight. Tony said to Mugabe show us what you did with the first £40mil+ we already gave you before we can give you anymore. Mugabe knowing that he stole most of that money refused to account for it and instead called blair names. I am surprised you fell for that. To blame Tony Blair for the shambolic, murderous land grab by Mugabe loyalists is just plain silly!
4 hours ago
Desmond Ian Crystal
Im outta here guys ! tired of talking in square circles, Let Zim fall where it may.
4 hours ago
RuffcutsWear Marco Machona
@Tafi..I have checked my facts. Am correct. Zim had recieved far more that 40 million pounds pre to Tony Adminitrastion. When he entered the scene, an outstanding balance of 47million pounds was due. A disagreement on the usage of the previous 'funds" and future use of the balance. Disagreements erupted and the rest is in the public domain...of ... Read morename calling but that was the source of frictions through Tony's era. Anything else u want me to explain mr Tafi.....yes like i said Tony had imprints in the land issue in Zim...its no secret. Am not a loyalist but factual as it comes...
4 hours ago
Conor Walsh
Blair may or may not be right but the fact is nobody will overthrow the son of the Father of Lies so he is just wasting his breath.
4 hours ago
Bobo Jaan
So exactly what happened to the 40 million? .....
3 hours ago
Kirth Dube
Tony has just asked the people to get rid of the c...nt! and what do Mugabe worshipers do?...piss on those who have guts to tell it as it is. Mugabe must be shot at point blank including all his prophets of doom.
2 hours ago · Delete
Bobo Jaan
Tick tock tick tock tick tock age is such a wonderful process...its going to be great to see the propagandists, generals , sycophants, criminals, rent-a-crowds, etc etc scramble when the figurehead passes with great pomp to heros acre (or is that the sin bin)....what a wonderful feeling....Hum diddly dee....
2 hours ago
Ray Rockingham
RUFFCUTS, as the November 1997 public letter from Labour Government Secretary of State Claire Short clearly states, the British Government told Mugabe that they would withhold further financial compensation for the purchase of white owned commercial farm land until a new Land Registry was established which verified with complete transparency that ... Read morethe British Taxpayers money (compensation) was buying white owned land which was being given to poor BLACK Zimbabweans for the clear purpose of alleviating BLACK poverty in Zimbabwe. This is what angered Mugabe because Mugabe want the land as a bribe to buy the loyalty of the senior ZANU-PF members who keep Mugabe in power.The British wanted to help poor BLACK Zimbabweans but Mugabe would not permit the British to do this so Mugabe invented the LIE that the British were practicing neo-colonialism against black peoples' interests. RUFFCUTS, Mugabe is a LIAR and if you repeat Mugabes' LIES then RUFFCUTS you are also a liar equal to Mugabe.
9 minutes ago
Saturday
Sunday
Organisation To Fight Political Violence
Bulawayo –May 15 2009-
An organization geared at fighting all forms of political violence in Zimbabwe known as the Zimbabwe Smart Politics Campaign (ZSPC) has been launched in the country.
In an interview ZSPC chairperson, Retired Liet. Col. Moses Dendere, who is based in the United Kingdom said the organization was formed by Zimbabweans in the diaspora who escaped political violence before and during the build up to the June 27, 2008 presidential run-off elections.
“After receiving a lot of inquiries from victims of political violence in and out of Zimbabwe we decided to launch an organization that will help in the process of national healing as well as trying to stop political violence in future elections in Zimbabwe,” said Dendere who was Director of elections for the Mavambo Project under Dr Simba Makoni.
Dendere left Zimbabwe on June 27 last year after releasing a 10 page document analyzing the 2008 elections with special focus on violence durinng the build up to the presidential run-off elections. Dendere accompanied a team of retired South African generals to several parts of Zimbabwe who were sent to by President Thabo Mbeki to investigate reports of political violence during the build up to the presidential run-off elections. Dendere had subsequently been placed on the wanted list by the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO).
The organization which has trustees based in Zimbabwe aims among other things to educate citizens of their political rights and how to avoid being manipulated and abused by political parties. Dendere said ZSPC would also raise funds to assist victims of political violence and would work closely with the three ministers of national healing in the inclusive government.
“ZSPC is an apolitical organization that will work with citizens of Zimbabwe from all political formations. Our aim is to promote permanent peace and assist victims of politically motivated violence whenever it resurfaces in Zimbabwe. We are disturbed by the reports of fresh farm invasions which in some cases have resulted in politically motivated violence and we are appealing to the three principals to speedily resolve the matter.”
Scores of victims of politically motivated violence mostly in the rural areas of Zimbabwe who lost their family members, and property and some who were injured have not received any assistance as the national healing process is yet to get off the ground. Cases of people being victimized for their political allegiance are still being reported in some rural areas of Zimbabwe with no meaningful intervention from the authorities.
An organization geared at fighting all forms of political violence in Zimbabwe known as the Zimbabwe Smart Politics Campaign (ZSPC) has been launched in the country.
In an interview ZSPC chairperson, Retired Liet. Col. Moses Dendere, who is based in the United Kingdom said the organization was formed by Zimbabweans in the diaspora who escaped political violence before and during the build up to the June 27, 2008 presidential run-off elections.
“After receiving a lot of inquiries from victims of political violence in and out of Zimbabwe we decided to launch an organization that will help in the process of national healing as well as trying to stop political violence in future elections in Zimbabwe,” said Dendere who was Director of elections for the Mavambo Project under Dr Simba Makoni.
Dendere left Zimbabwe on June 27 last year after releasing a 10 page document analyzing the 2008 elections with special focus on violence durinng the build up to the presidential run-off elections. Dendere accompanied a team of retired South African generals to several parts of Zimbabwe who were sent to by President Thabo Mbeki to investigate reports of political violence during the build up to the presidential run-off elections. Dendere had subsequently been placed on the wanted list by the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO).
The organization which has trustees based in Zimbabwe aims among other things to educate citizens of their political rights and how to avoid being manipulated and abused by political parties. Dendere said ZSPC would also raise funds to assist victims of political violence and would work closely with the three ministers of national healing in the inclusive government.
“ZSPC is an apolitical organization that will work with citizens of Zimbabwe from all political formations. Our aim is to promote permanent peace and assist victims of politically motivated violence whenever it resurfaces in Zimbabwe. We are disturbed by the reports of fresh farm invasions which in some cases have resulted in politically motivated violence and we are appealing to the three principals to speedily resolve the matter.”
Scores of victims of politically motivated violence mostly in the rural areas of Zimbabwe who lost their family members, and property and some who were injured have not received any assistance as the national healing process is yet to get off the ground. Cases of people being victimized for their political allegiance are still being reported in some rural areas of Zimbabwe with no meaningful intervention from the authorities.
Wednesday
Zimbabwe prisons a hell hole
Posted on the web on 1/04/09 by m&g
Zimbabwe's prisons have long been notorious for being dirty, disease-ridden places of despair, where opponents of President Robert Mugabe languish for months, usually on murky charges of plotting against him.
But just how bad conditions have become within prison walls, while the economy collapses without, is only beginning to come to light.
A documentary to be screened on SABC television on Tuesday evening shows emaciated prisoners teetering at death's door for lack of food and medication.
The documentary, which is based on secret footage obtained by officials and prisoners, also tells of how relatives coming to collect their loved ones' remains are forced to rummage through mounds of dead bodies.
The Zimbabwean Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Offender (Zacro) estimates that at least 20 prisoners die each day in the country's 55 prisons.
According to Edison Chiota, Zacro national director, most die of HIV/Aids or associated diseases such as tuberculosis, which thrive in unhygienic conditions.
The incidence of pellagra, a skin disease caused by malnutrition that can cause serious psychological problems and even death, has also soared. Cholera, on the other hand, a diarrhoeal disease that has killed more than 4 000 Zimbabweans since last autumn, had been been brought under control in prisons "to a certain extent", he said.
In the SABC documentary, entitled Hell Hole, 28-year-old Brighton Mudadi's life is shown to to be hanging by a thread.
Mudadi, who is serving an 18-month sentence for robbery in the southern Beitbridge prison, has tuberculosis and is severely malnourished. His rib cage protrudes through his matchstick frame as a fellow prisoner helps him wash himself and the soiled pants he is wearing.
Zimbabwe's prisons have long been notorious for being dirty, disease-ridden places of despair, where opponents of President Robert Mugabe languish for months, usually on murky charges of plotting against him.
But just how bad conditions have become within prison walls, while the economy collapses without, is only beginning to come to light.
A documentary to be screened on SABC television on Tuesday evening shows emaciated prisoners teetering at death's door for lack of food and medication.
The documentary, which is based on secret footage obtained by officials and prisoners, also tells of how relatives coming to collect their loved ones' remains are forced to rummage through mounds of dead bodies.
The Zimbabwean Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Offender (Zacro) estimates that at least 20 prisoners die each day in the country's 55 prisons.
According to Edison Chiota, Zacro national director, most die of HIV/Aids or associated diseases such as tuberculosis, which thrive in unhygienic conditions.
The incidence of pellagra, a skin disease caused by malnutrition that can cause serious psychological problems and even death, has also soared. Cholera, on the other hand, a diarrhoeal disease that has killed more than 4 000 Zimbabweans since last autumn, had been been brought under control in prisons "to a certain extent", he said.
In the SABC documentary, entitled Hell Hole, 28-year-old Brighton Mudadi's life is shown to to be hanging by a thread.
Mudadi, who is serving an 18-month sentence for robbery in the southern Beitbridge prison, has tuberculosis and is severely malnourished. His rib cage protrudes through his matchstick frame as a fellow prisoner helps him wash himself and the soiled pants he is wearing.
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