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Zimbabwe: Graft probe at ZMDC

10th October 2010
The Anti-Corruption Commission has raided the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) to investigate suspected corrupt activities, including 0000 in legal fees paid to the company's lawyer.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe court rescinds Marange mine ruling

8th September 2010
Yesterday, shares fell the most since May as the company said it would immediately appeal to the Supreme Court against the rescission. It said the move would have the effect of suspending the judgment.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Party Leaders, Security Chiefs Sued by Former Detainees

31st August 2010
Human-rights activist Jestina Mukoko and 17 others are suing some of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's closest colleagues for million, claiming they were kidnapped, tortured and illegally detained in 2008.
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Zimbabwe: Magistrate jails man for Mugabe 'wrinkles' insult

6th September 2010
Zimbabweans are reeling in shock after a court jailed a young man for describing President Robert Mugabe, 86, as an "old man with wrinkles".
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Zimbabwe: US health workers granted bail in Zimbabwe

13th September 2010
Four United States health workers and doctors from Zimbabwe and New Zealand were granted bail on Monday after their arrest last week on charges of illegally running a clinic that provides Aids drugs.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe arrests four US Aids workers 'without licence'

13th September 2010
Zimbabwean police have arrested four US health workers suspected of running an unregistered clinic and dispensing Aids drugs without a licence, the US embassy in Harare says.
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Zimbabwe: black farmer evicted despite Tribunal ruling

20th October 2009
HARARE – A pioneering black Zimbabwean commercial farmer has been evicted from his farm in defiance of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal ruling barring his eviction.
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Zimbabwe: 236 arrested, 12 soldiers tortured to death in CIO search for weapons

31st October 2009
HARARE -- At least 12 soldiers died last week after they were brutally tortured by military intelligence agents following the disappearance of an assortment of guns and bombs from Pomona barracks, we can reveal. (Pictured: UN torture expert Manfred Nowak – Was deported from Zimbabwe last week)
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ZIMBABWE: A WAY FORWARD

4th November 2009
ZIMBABWE: A WAY FORWARD
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Zimbabwe: Press Release (OSISA)

4th November 2009
NEWS RELEASE FROM THE OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (OSISA) Johannesburg, 04 November 2009: If the Southern African Development Community (SADC) does not act urgently to halt increasing militarisation in Zimbabwe and secure effective implementation of the Global Political Agreement, there is a serious risk that Zimbabwe will slide back to the crisis levels of 2008, devolve into further widespread violence and that real gains – in health and education – will be lost.
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Zimbabwe: Zim committed to unity: SADC

5th November 2009
Maputo - Zimbabwe's rival leaders remain committed to the nation's power-sharing deal, despite a deadlock that has paralysed the unity government, a regional official said on Wednesday ahead of a summit on the crisis.
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Zimbabwe: Human rights and media lawyer arrested

2nd November 2009
Mordecai Mahlangu, a prominent human rights and media lawyer was on 02 November 2009 arrested for allegedly writing a letter to Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana.
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"Zimbabwe could slide into a Civil War" - Leading think-tank warns SADC

7th November 2009
JOHANNESBURG - A leading Regional think-tank has warned SADC leaders of the impact of their failure to find lasting solution to the Zimbabwean crisis at the Maputo Summit on Thursday. In a statement released to the media Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), warned the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that if it does not act urgently to halt increasing militarisation in Zimbabwe and secure effective implementation of the GPA, there is a serious risk that Zimbabwe will slide back to the crisis levels of 2008, devolve into further widespread violence and that real gains – in health and education – will be lost.
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Zimbabwe: Child rape epidemic in Zimbabwe

9th November 2009
Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists. A single clinic in the capital, Harare, says it has treated nearly 30,000 girls and boys who were abused in the past four years ‑ an average of 20 per day. Experts believe that the country's economic collapse under Robert Mugabe has led to widespread family breakdown and left many children vulnerable.
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Zimbabwe: UNHRC must act on Zim - Nowak

29th October 2009
Johannesburg - The United Nations torture expert Manfred Nowak said on Thursday he would recommend that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) take action against Zimbabwe after his expulsion from the country.
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Zimbabwe: NGO leaders held in Zim

26th October 2009
Harare - The heads of the umbrella organisation for all of Zimbabwe's non-governmental organisations were arrested on Sunday amid worsening signs of the disintegration of the country's fragile coalition government.
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Zimbabwe: Zim withdraws invite to UN Rapporteur on Torture

28th October 2009
Zimbabwe has withdrawn an invitation to a United Nations (UN) expert on torture citing a busy schedule because of a visit to the country by the regional bloc’s ministerial to try and unlock a political deadlock between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai.
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Zimbabwe: SADC jets in as attacks on MDC & NGO’s escalate

28th October 2009
With a SADC team heading to Zimbabwe Wednesday a leading human rights lawyer said there is a disturbing escalation of conflict and violence in the country. Recent attacks on MDC activists, both in urban and rural areas, have escalated the tense relations between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe. The human rights defender, who asked not to be named, warned that the country was on the brink of a major catastrophe, which if not addressed ‘immediately and decisively’ would plunge Zimbabwe into a crisis worse that last year’s.
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Zimbabwe: UN rights expert deported from Zim

29th October 2009
Harare - United Nations human rights expert Manfred Nowak was deported from Zimbabwe on Thursday after being detained by security officials on arrival overnight, a U.N. official said. "We are boarding the plane to Johannesburg now," the official said by cellphone from Harare airport.
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Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, courthouse filming lands journalist in jail

1st March 2010
New York, March 1, 2010—A Zimbabwean freelance journalist was arrested today for the third time this year—this time for taking footage of prisoners outside a courthouse in the capital, Harare, according to local journalists.
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Zimbabwe: African NGOs adopt resolutions on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe

12th November 2009
The Forum for the participation of NGO’s at the 46th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) on 9 November 2009 agreed to adopt a resolution on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe as a whole.
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Zimbabwetimes.com - Court throws out Mukoko application

5th February 2009
HARARE – The High Court on Wednesday threw out an application by incarcerated Zimbabwe Peace Project director, Jestina Mukoko, who is seeking her release from custody on bail.
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ZimOnline - Rights groups slam politicians over jailed activists

9th February 2009
JOHANNESBURG – Rights groups on Saturday criticised Zimbabwean political leaders for beating their chests about progress towards formation of a unity government while forgetting detained Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activists
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Zimbabwetimes.com - Zim Journalist denied full treatment

10th February 2009
HARARE (MISA) - The magistrates’ court on February 9, 2009, heard how prison officers had whisked detained freelance photojournalist Anderson Shadreck Manyere from the Avenues Clinic in Harare on February 6, 2009, before he had been accorded full medical treatment.
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Zimbabwesituation.com - Zimbabwe - End to repressive media laws on the agenda for JOMIC

12th February 2009
HARARE - The media sub-committee of the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC) wants to meet with the new information minister next week, to start work on the deregulation of draconian media laws.
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The Weekender - Zimbabwe:Generals hold out for amnesty

24th February 2009
Zimbabwe’s peace is being held to ransom, raising the question of whether peace is possible without justice, writes NICOLE FRITZ
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Zimbabwejournalists.com - MISA-Zimbabwe statement on the inclusive government and media reforms

2nd March 2009
MISA-Zimbabwe cautiously welcomes the formation of the inclusive government in terms of the September 15 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) and extends its congratulations to Honorable Morgan Tsvangirai....
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ZimOnline - Farmers want court to order govt to uphold Tribunal ruling

28th January 2009
HARARE – A group of Zimbabwean white farmers have appealed to the country’s High Court to direct the government to uphold a ruling by a regional Tribunal that forbade seizure of their land under a controversial farm redistribution programme.....
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Zimbabwejournalists.com - Hands off HIV/Aids funds, activists tell RBZ

24th November 2008
The Zimbabwe Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (ZNPP+) has called on the government to disburse donor money directly to AIDS..........
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Zimbabwejournalists.com - Jestina Mukoko abducted in Harare

4th December 2008
IN A development that many took to signal a crackdown by the Zimbabwean government, the prominent human rights and political violence monitor Jestina Mukoko was seized......
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