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Briefing Paper to the Facilitation Team on the Political Conflict in Zimbabwe Union Buildings, Pretoria – 20 October 2010. Our Thanks and Acknowledgements The Crisis in Zimbabwe...

Lawyers representing Movement for Democratic Change Secretary-General Tendai Biti will soon file a Chamber Application in the Supreme Court seeking condonation of late filing of an appeal challenging his prolonged detention on treason charges. Biti’s lawyers Sarudzayi Njerere and Advocate Lewis Uriri said they will ask the court to consider their application.

Zimbabwean law excuses acts of aggression committed in defence of oneself provided one can show that an attack was imminent and that they acted with rationality in averting it. Apparently President Robert Mugabe’s call for ‘acceleration of pace’ has been understood by some within his party to mean, correctly or incorrectly, acceleration of violence- and they are not wasting any time.

Johannesburg – With Zimbabwe’s diamond industry still shrouded in secrecy, the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) and three Zimbabweans have petitioned South Africa’s New Reclamation Group for access to information that will shed some much-needed light on its controversial mining operations – and prove whether any of its promises to local communities have been fulfilled.

COSATU welcomes the historic awarding of the Arthur Svensson International Award to comrade Wellington Chibebe, the Secretary General of ZCTU (Zimbabwe Congress of Trade...

THE Harare Residents' Trust (HRT) rejects the so-called pre-budget consultative meetings which the City of Harare has scheduled to begin Monday 11 October 2010 through to 19 October 2010 across the capital ahead of the council’s adoption of the 2011 City Budget.

Statement by Hon. Gift Chimanikire, Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Development in response to the story in the Zimbabwe Independent published on Friday 8th October 2010. Statements attributed to me are not true and are an invention to suite spurious agendas which had nothing to do with my mission and agenda.

An article which was featured in the Herald Editorial dated 7 October 2010 with the title: “DYSFUNCTIONAL STATE OF ARBITRATION SYSTEM’’ cannot go unchallenged. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is greatly disturbed by the unjustified scathing attack on the arbitration system.

President Robert Mugabe’s recent unilateral appointment of governors is yet another gross violation of the Global Political Agreement. Indeed it is a worrying act of regression on his part – the kind that simply can no longer be allowed. Consequently, the Union for Sustainable Democracy supports Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s call for the nullification of Mugabe’s latest appointments.

The “Investing in Zimbabwe’s Future” Corporate Social Responsibility Awards are being launched for the first time this year by the U.S. Embassy in Harare.