Social / CSR in Zimbabwe
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SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/08/18
Zimbabawe’s President Robert Mugabe on Monday used his farewell speech, as outgoing chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), to remind Botswana’s President Ian Khama that relations between their two nations- presently rather strained – were once close.
He as well used the podium at the opening of the annual SADC summit here on Monday, to take an extra stab at South Africa’s white people.
Speaking at the International Convention Centre in Gabarone, Mugabe recalled how Botswana helped him travel to the founding summit of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), presently the African Union, in Ethiopia in 1963.
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SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/05/24
Admitting he was spewing "poison", President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday blamed unemployment in South Africa for the vicious xenophobic attacks against foreigners there, inclunding Zimbabweans.
Clearly revelling in his role as Africa's political grandee and elder statesman, Mugabe claimed that Africa's second biggest economy needed help from its poorer neighbours.
"We must help them; they need an extra liberation," said the veteran leader who, at 91, is old enough to be the father of most SADC leaders.
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ZIMBABWE, 2015/05/02
THE dismissal of an appeal by Zimbabwe's Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana and 122 other people, inclunding top police and army officers inclunding 11 companies "with costs", could cost the country over US$10 million.
In dismissing the case, the General Court, second only to the European Court of Justice, said the appellants were correctly identified as being close to President Robert Mugabe's government and its "critical infringement of human rights".
Government hired two London barristers, one of them being David Vaughan QC (Queen's Counsel) and an extra, Sarah Lee. QCs are top barristers who can charge on average £5 000 (US$7 500) per hour in legal fees. The Zimbabweans were being instructed by top lawyer Michael O'Kane of Peters and Peters Solicitors LLP.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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UNITED KINGDOM, 2014/10/08
Mr. Matt Baugh, Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Chief of Africa Department responsible for Central and Southern Africa, has urged Zambia to continue playing its critical role in helping to improve the situation in Zimbabwe.
“Our relations with Zimbabwe have improved in the recent completed and we hope to take chance of Zambia’s appropriate relationship with Zimbabwe to help push for an amicable settlement of the challenges the country is facing,” Baugh said.
Baugh spoke during high-level talks in London at the same time as he met with Zambia’s Permanent Secretary, George Zulu, according to a statement issued Monday by the Zambian High Commission in London.
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ZIMBABWE, 2014/05/15
ZIMBABWE'S indigenisation policies has left the construction of a multimillion dollar mall in Bulawayo in the balance with reports a South African-based company that won the tender to build the facility was rethinking its decision.
Tearracota Pvt won a tender to construct a $60 million national-of-the-art multi-purpose complex at Egodini in the country's second biggest city.
Tearracota company representatives were supposed to meet Bulawayo City Council fathers last week to sign the transaction to pave way for construction but return to South Africa without signing.
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ZIMBABWE, 2014/02/23
The World Food Programme executive director Ms Ertharin Cousin has appealed for funding to help vulnerable and hunger-stricken people in Zimbabwe.
Ms Cousin said the organisation was financially constrained and was asking for help from traditional and new donors. "We are asking for help to continue programmes of assisting vulnerable people to reduce physical and mental stunting," she said.
She had visited Zimbabwe to engage Government and donors on the challenges the organisation was facing in carrying out its humanitarian programmes. "To date, we support 1,8 million people and due to challenges, several of our programmes are underfunded," said Ms Cousin. "We will have to cut the number of beneficiaries and as well reduce the rations.
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SINGAPORE, 2013/11/15
President Mugabe on Wednesday flew to Singapore, from presently on again sparking conflicting reports as to the purpose of his visit. On Thursday the Zim Eye online newspaper speculated that Mugabe was visiting the Asian country for 'medical checkups'.
In June Mugabe was in Singapore for what the national media said was a 'routine eye check'. In 2011 national media had said that Mugabe underwent cataract surgery in Singapore. He was to visit again in July 2012, sparking rumours that he was treated for cancer.
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SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/10/02
South Africa has the potential and the desire to lead in Africa. It has an economy far larger than any in southern Africa and an advanced and powerful military. However, South Africa’s failure to resolve the ‘political crisis’ across the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe has left a lot of doubting its capability as an effective regional leader.
Western observers deemed Zimbabwe in a ‘crisis’ national from 2000. South African president Thabo Mbeki – a firm advocate of African solutions to African problems – reassured the West that, as an African and given the democratic credentials of his country, he was the only international leader with the legitimacy and moral authority to replace order, advance democracy and protect human rights in the neighbouring country. In doing so, he played the role of chief mediator in the bringing ZANU-PF and the two factions of the MDC to the negotiating table next the 2008 elections, which resulted in the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the World Political Agreement (GPA), which stipulated key reforms.
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ZAMBIA, 2013/08/12
The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) is proud to announce the IIPT International Peace Park at Victoria Falls will be re-dedicated on August 24, Opening Day of the UNWTO General Assembly. The UNWTO Twentieth General Assembly is being co-hosted by Zambia and Zimbabwe, August 24-29.
In making the announcement, IIPT Founder and President, Louis D’Amore, stated,
“We are most honored that UNWTO Secretary General Dr. Taleb Rifai will join us in the re-dedication ceremony that will feature a welcome by Chief Mukuni and members of the Tokaleya Village who will perform a traditional welcome dance.”
