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...power-sharing government that will oversee democratic elections planned for 2005. The Underdog Wins Zimbabwe The main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), won two crucial parliamentary by-elections despite evidence of large-scale vote rigging and intimidation by supporters of President Robert Mugabe. His ruling ZANU-PF party is five seats short of the two-thirds parliamentary majority required to enact constitutional change. Opponents fear Mugabe could change the constitution to appoint his own successor, dumping requirements for an election. Death of a Militant Kashmir Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir shot dead Saif-u-Islam, the chief...
...years, Zimbabwe did live up to its revolutionary promise. It was southern Africa's land of milk and honey - and maize and tobacco and beef. But drought and a botched land-reform program have decimated farming. Last week, a government report named prominent members of the ruling ZANU-PF, including Mugabe's sister and top officials, who had broken the "one man, one farm" rule for the redistribution of white-owned commercial farms. Zimbabweans had known this all along, but it was the first time the violations had been acknowledged at the top. Amid the chaos, production of maize...
...Corruption. He hasn't let up, writing songs like Zvatakabva Kuhondo (As we finish the battle, 1994) and Ndiyani Waparadza Musha (Who has destroyed our home?, 1998). State-run ZBC radio - the main source of news and entertainment - often bans Mapfumo's songs. During the chimurenga, ZANU-PF ran a Mozambique-based short-wave station that beamed into the country, a tactic that exiled Zimbabweans are using again. Now the regime is fighting back, recruiting popular singers to make propaganda albums. But the artists who sign on "are hated [for] glorifying a corrupt, brutal system," says a Harare music critic...
...bring him - matters so much. The President turns 79 on Feb. 21, and he looks tired. Some of his colleagues seem to be tiring of him. Last month, while he was vacationing, the papers were full of reports of an exit-and- exile plan allegedly hatched within his zanu-pf party. On his return, Mugabe scotched the rumors, cracked down on opponents and cranked up his propaganda machine, as if to show that he still can pull the levers of power at will. Six trouble-free Cup matches would be a nice birthday gift for himself. Britain's attempt...
...have been allocated to wealthy government ministers and their associates, rather than the landless farmers land reform is supposed to benefit. One member of Mugabe’s cabinet told the government-owned Herald newspaper recently that farmers should, “make sure they are members of Zanu-PF or risk losing land.” This program is not merely “marred by corruption and cronyism,” as Mugabe’s apologists claim, it is a travesty that benefits only the powerful...