Zimbabweans squat in Cape Town consulate office

Zimbabweans Squat In Cape Town Consulate Office http://news.radiovop.com 20/09/2010 18:22:00 Cape Town, September 20, 2010 – While AfriForum is waiting for the courts to decide if it can go ahead with auctioning an abandoned building belonging to the Zimbabwe government, homeless people, predominantly Zimbabwean refugees, have occupied it. Over 20 people, most of them Zimbabwean …

Magistrate, interpreter jailed 24 months for corruption

Magistrate, interpreter jailed 24 months for corruption http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Energy BaraMonday, 20 September 2010 16:16 MASVINGO – A Zvishavane magistrate and court interpreter were on Friday convicted and jailed for 24 months each for criminal abuse of office after they solicited for a US$50 bribe from a Mberengwa businessman on the pretext that they would …

Home Affairs minister Makone says ZANU PF holding police captive

Home Affairs Min Makone says ZANU PF holding police captive http://www.swradioafrica.com By Tichaona Sibanda20 September 2010 Co-Home Affairs Minister Theresa Makone on Monday launched a tirade against ZANU PF for ‘virtually holding the Zimbabwe Republic Police captive.’ In an outburst directly aimed at her coalition partners in government, the minister said she was ‘disgusted and …

IOM to resettle Zimbabwean farm violence victims

IOM to resettle Zimbabwean farm violence victims http://www.apanews.net/ APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday that it was resettling more than 340 Zimbabwean families displaced by farm violence in the east of the country last year. The organization said in a statement that the 342 families have been living in two emergency …

War vets call for Mudenge’s arrest

War vets call for Mudenge’s arrest http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Energy BaraFriday, 17 September 2010 09:34  MASVINGO – Higher and Tertiary Education minister Stan Mudenge should be arrested and prosecuted for illegally invading Chikore farm, a Masvingo magistrate heard Wednesday. This was said during the trial of 35 war veterans and Zanu PF supporters, who are being …

Judges among corrupt accused

Judges among corruption accused http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 17 September 2010 12:39 HIGH Court Judges are among judicial officers who could be receiving bribes, according to a senior Anti-Corruption Commission official who has revealed that graft has pervaded virtually all levels of the justice delivery system. Sukai Tongogara, the Anti-Corruption Commission investigations manager, said cases of bribery …

RBZ, ministry official squable over diamond claim

RBZ, ministry official squabble over diamond claim http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 17 September 2010 12:43 A SUBSIDIARY of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has accused an official in the Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment of using government indigenisation policies to grab a diamond claim in which the central bank has an interest. On the …

Woman who took part in violent attacks on white farmers in Zimbabwe denied UK asylum

Woman who took part in violent attacks on white farmers in Zimbabwe denied UK asylum http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ By David GardnerLast updated at 7:52 PM on 16th September 2010 A woman who admitted taking part in savage evictions of white farmers from their homes in Zimbabwe lost her bid for asylum after a High Court judge accused …

Mugabe deploys riot police to kick out land invaders

Mugabe deploys riot police to kick out land invaders http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Written by Jane MakoniThursday, 16 September 2010 07:11 MARONDERA-SVOSVE – Zanu (PF) youths who invaded Eldorado Ranch in Macheke last Saturday, were chased off the land by heavily armed riot police allegedly sent by President Robert Mugabe, The Zimbabwean  can reveal. Rowdy youths led by …

Chegutu farm burned down by land invaders

Chegutu farm burned down by land invaders http://www.swradioafrica.com/ By Alex Bell16 September 2010 A farmer in Chegutu has become the latest victim of the continued onslaught against the commercial farming community, after her property was burned down by land invaders this week. Catherine Jouineau-Meredith’s Twyford Farm was burned to cinders on Tuesday by the ZANU …