Public meeting - Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA)
The public meeting will provide the residents with a platform to interrogate the state of service delivery in the City of Harare.
Date: 30 June, 2009
Time: 5:30pm
Place: New Ambassador Hotel, Harare
The following persons/officials have been invited to speak at this meeting;
- Deputy Minister of Local Government (Hon Sessel Zvidzai)
- His Worship Mayor Muchadei Masunda (City of Harare)
- Mr. Ben Rafemoyo (ZESA CEO) Read more
Morgan Tsvangirai to Feature on CNN’s African Voices
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is speaking to ‘African Voices’ on CNN this weekend -
http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/africanvoices/
African Voices airs on Saturday June 27th at 13.30 and 20.30 and on Sunday June 28th at 19.00.
Tsvangirai talks about his childhood in a small village and eight brothers and sisters, and what inspired his political consciousness. He describes the hard work in the mine and with the trade unions, to the romance of love at first sight when he met his wife, Susan. Read more
Defunct educational system
Three kindergarten kids
With pocket money
More than the teacher’s three month salary
Tease their sleeping teacher.
“Come on teacher,
Teach us some grammar and arithmetic
And we will give you
Bits of pocket our money
Then maybe you won’t always
Be so miserable.”
The teacher purrs softly
Unoffended by their noisy teasing
And when they persist
He raises his head and says
“Go teach your fathers
To change the government.”
By Lawrence Hoba
Spare a thought for Iran
As Zimbabweans we are all too familiar with the feeling having voted and then being left wondering, after seeing the results, if they are from the same election we just voted in or from some Sci-Fi flick made in a hellish combination of Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood, Zollywood and the Zimbabwean Registrar General’s Office. The people of Iran are going through a similar situation right now. Let us remember them.
While the Iranian Government has banned foreign news agencies from reporting on the current crisis, young tech-savvy Iranians have been getting the word out through pictures, videos, blogposts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and numerous other blogs.
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwUMmMgIaeI&NR=1
You can also keep up to date with developments in Iran through the following up to the minute sources:
- http://friendfeed.com/iranwatch
- http://pourmecoffee.posterous.com/iran-election-saved-searches-aggregated
- http://www.twazzup.com/search?q=iranelection&l=all
Zimbabwe Law reloaded
Filed under: Family, Friendship, Community, How Zimbabwe can be better, Politics
The various statutes that make up the law of Zimbabwe are public documents. So are judgements from the country’s High Courts and the Supreme Court. The challenge though, has always been access to these documents, until now. A new online initiative now makes all of these documents freely available.
Through a new website, www.law.co.zw, researchers, law students, lawyers and Human Rights activists can now access the legal information they need, at no cost.
The website also features a legal resources directory which lists various lawyers and legal service providers in the country.
The site has been going through a testing phase for its first month of operation and is now open to the public. “There are still other areas of content to be filled in,” said a spokes person for the project managers, “it’s an ongoing project, as new court cases come up, we will add them. We also plan to increase the scope of the site to archiving newspaper articles that cover legal issues.”
Barack Obama awaits you, Morgan Tsvangirai
The White House yesterday released the following statement about the upcoming visit by Zimbabwean Prime Minister to the United States of America.
Statement on Visit of Zimbabwean Prime Minister
(Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will visit Oval Office June 12) (136)
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 8, 2009
Statement by the Press Secretary on the visit of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe
The President looks forward to welcoming Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe to the Oval Office on Friday, June 12. The Prime Minister, along with millions of Zimbabweans, has been working against the odds to secure a stable democratic future for the people of Zimbabwe. The two leaders will discuss the difficult road ahead in Zimbabwe, including how the United States can support the forces of reform as they work to bring the rule of law, respect for human rights, and free and fair elections back to Zimbabwe.
(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://www.america.gov)
