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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Judgment A Cause For Concern

2nd December 2011
Should we trust the government's bona fides when it says it has good reason to keep information from us, or is the onus on them to prove that we will all be better off if they hang onto their secrets?
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Zimbabwe: US Protests Media Arrests in Zimbabwe

7th December 2011
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The United States on Wednesday protested the increasing number of arrests of journalists and civic activists ahead of the completion of constitutional reforms and proposed elections in Zimbabwe.
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Press Release: SADC Ministers Must Stand Up to Mugabe and Support the SADC Tribunal – Not Sabotage It

10th April 2011
JOHANNESBURG – With the rule of law under threat in much of the region, Southern African Development Community (SADC) Ministers are meeting this week to decide the fate of the SADC Tribunal – amid growing fears that they will conspire to block individual access to the court, further imperilling human rights and long-term economic growth.
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Zimbabwe: Marange Diamond Field: Zimbabwe Torture Camp Discovered

8th August 2011
A torture camp run by Zimbabwe's security forces is operating in the country's rich Marange diamond fields, BBC Panorama has found.
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Zimbabwe: Has Northern Zimbabwe chosen to hear no evil regarding secessionists?

17th March 2011
It appears 2011 will be full of fireworks and drama that may shake the Zimbabwean body politic to the core.
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Zimbabwe: Presidency ‘Falls Short’ on Proof for Report Refusal

19th May 2011
THE Presidency and the Mail & Guardian newspaper were at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday over whether President Jacob Zuma should release a report compiled by justices Dikgang Moseneke and Sisi Khampepe for former president Thabo Mbeki in the run-up to the hotly disputed Zimbabwean election in 2002.
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Zimbabwe: SA Court Rules for Zimbabwe Farmers

7th June 2011
A HOUSE at Kenilworth in Cape Town owned by the Zimbabwean government could be sold to defray the legal costs of three white farmers dispossessed of their land, the North Gauteng High Court ruled yesterday.
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Zimbabwe: Southern African Leaders to Hold New Zimbabwe Summit

9th June 2011
HARARE — Southern African leaders meet this weekend in Johannesburg to lay out a roadmap to elections in Zimbabwe, amid warnings of rising violence and intimidation, officials said Thursday.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe 'Egypt Uprising' Activists in Treason Trial

18th July 2011
The trial of six Zimbabwean activists charged with treason for attending a lecture in February about the Egyptian uprising is due to open in Harare.
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SALC in the News: Disaster if Zimbabwe Exported its Crisis to Region

15th June 2011
AS A Zimbabwean now living in SA, I look with alarm at the violations of the rule of law that Zanu (PF) seems intent on exporting from Zimbabwe to the region.
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe General Mujuru’s Death ‘Murder Most Foul’

17th August 2011
ZIMBABWE’s most decorated army general and political kingmaker Solomon Mujuru’s death in a blaze at his farm yesterday will have far- reaching consequences for the country’s political landscape.
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Zimbabwe: Most 'Egypt video' Zimbabweans freed

7th March 2011
The BBC News Thirty-eight Zimbabweans arrested last month for discussing an Egypt-style....
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Zimbabwe: SADC Holds Crucial Regional Summit on Zimbabwe

9th June 2011
Expectations are high among Zimbabweans ahead of a regional summit that many hope will result in a roadmap to free and fair elections. The summit follows a key regional meeting in Zambia two months ago, when without naming names, regional leaders blamed President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party for failing to implement key sections of the 2008 political agreement which brought the country's inclusive government to power.
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Zimbabwe: SADC Exerts Pressure on Mugabe to Reform

13th June 2011
Southern African leaders on Sunday pressured Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to make democratic reforms ahead of new elections, hoping to set a new timetable for polls.
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe Pressured to Act on Zimbabwe Elections

12th June 2011
They directed that South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique — a troika of nations working on the Zimbabwe issue — assign a team to work with Zimbabwean officials and hasten progress toward elections and the enforcement of a power-sharing deal Mr. Mugabe and his party, ZANU-PF, made with his political enemy, Morgan Tsvangirai, and the party he heads, the Movement for Democratic Change, after discredited 2008 elections.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe court grants bail to six activists

17th March 2011
A Zimbabwe court on Wednesday freed on bail six civic activists accused on charges of treason for allegedly plotting an Egypt-style uprising against longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe.
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SALC in the News: Mugabe in Rome Shows up Vatican Hypocrisy

10th May 2011
YOU have to wonder how that conversation went. Vatican official: "We appreciate that he is under a European Union (EU) travel ban but as we’re not part of the EU and in terms of treaty undertakings between Italy and the Holy See, you have to secure him safe transit through Rome."
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's story of missed opportunities

1st March 2011
Lashias Ncube &nb....
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe election report back in court

8th March 2011
THE Presidency, in its appeal against the Supreme Court of Appeal judgment which ordered it to hand over a report on the 2002 Zimbabwe election to the Mail & Guardian newspaper, argues that sufficient evidence was placed before the courts in justifying the refusal of access to the report.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabweans charged for discussing Egypt unrest

24th February 2011
By The Mail and Guardian A former Zimbabwean lawmaker and 45 others were charged with treason on Wed....
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Diamond Controversy Brings Calls to Reform Kimberley Process

29th October 2010
An ongoing controversy surrounding diamonds from Zimbabwe is bringing about new calls to revise the Kimberley Process. Activists would like to see the diamond industry's certification structure do a better job in legitimizing diamond trading.
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Zimbabwe: Art Exhibit Stirs Up the Ghosts of Zimbabwe’s Past

24th January 2011
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — The exhibit at the National Gallery is now a crime scene, the artwork banned and the artist charged with insulting President Robert Mugabe. The picture windows that showcased graphic depictions of atrocities committed in the early years of Mr. Mugabe’s 30-year-long rule are now papered over with the yellowing pages of a state-controlled newspaper
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Zimbabwe: M&G wins bid for 'secret' Zim report

14th December 2010
The Mail & Guardian has again won in its bid to obtain a confidential report on the 2002 Zimbabwe presidential election at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.
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Zimbabwe: Diamond watchdog debates Zim mine 'abuses'

2nd November 2010
Members of the Kimberley Process diamond watchdog began talks in Jerusalem on Monday over whether to allow Zimbabwe to resume exports of the gemstone from its controversial Marange fields.
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe doesn't learn Egyptian lessons

23rd February 2011
By Sapa The US State Department says that Robert Mugabe had failed to heed the lessons from Ar....
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Zimbabwe: Zim journalist arrested for police article

18th November 2010
Zimbabwe authorities on Wednesday arrested a journalist over a story alleging police were recruiting war veterans to take over senior posts ahead of next year's elections, media reported.
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Zimbabwe: Man spends two months in Zim jail with untreated wounds

24th November 2010
An alleged motorcycle thief spent two months in a Zimbabwe prison awaiting trial without receiving medical treatment for a police bullet wound, which left his intestines protruding through his stomach, local media reported on Wednesday.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe fails to get go-ahead to export diamonds

5th November 2010
Conference organizers say the global diamond industry’s oversight body has upheld a ban preventing Zimbabwe from exporting its vast stockpile of diamonds from a large mine.
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Zimbabwe: Zanu Pf Officials to Be Questioned in Torture Trial

24th August 2010
By Alex Bell Top ZANU PF officials are set to face questioning in the High Court next week, in ....
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ZIMBABWE: Mining industry attracts child labour as economy picks up

14th October 2010
The economic upswing in Zimbabwe is luring workers under 18-years-old to the now bustling mining town of Shurugwi, about 350km south of the capital Harare in Midlands Province.
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