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...Parliament is due to pass an Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill, which will ban foreign correspondents from the country and impose heavy fines and jail terms on local reporters for "unethical journalism." For the past two years Mugabe has tried to secure support for his zanu-pf party by distributing farmland forcibly wrested from its white owners to landless black Zimbabweans. The looked-for political gains have not materialized as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, won 57 of the 119 constituency-held seats in June 2000 elections. Since then bands...
ZIMBABWE More Chaos The publication of the first list of 1,000 names of black Zimbabweans to be allocated land seized from white farmers did nothing to ease increasing chaos in the country. Gangs of youths, supporters of President Robert Mugabe's zanu-pf party, rampaged through Harare townships looting shops and beating up residents. Human-rights workers as well as opposition leaders claim that the violence is part of an orchestrated campaign to secure another five-year term for Mugabe in forthcoming presidential elections...
...Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party. "People are being terrorized and beaten if they speak out against Mugabe," says Harare taxi driver John Makatini. The MDC has applied to contest in court 37 of last year's electoral constituency results that went to Mugabe's zanu-pf. Four of the opposition party's political heavyweights, including the leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, are also due to appear in court on charges of incitement in calling for a popular movement to oust Mugabe, and the government has said it would seize passports of critics whose statements or actions harm Zimbabwe...
...with student vandalism. Were there any record of such destructive pranks, perhaps this concern might be reasonable--but the last record of any kind of attacks by students from one House on another was the famously innocuous stand-off between Adams and Pforzheimer, where only a gong and a "Pf" changed hands. In short, safety provides no compelling reason to block universal access...
...ZIMBABWE Internal Strains Parliament again postponed debate on a controversial media bill amid reports of growing dissent within the ruling zanu-pf party. As human-rights groups noted increasing incidents of political violence and the U.N. delivered food aid to once-productive areas, local reports said a parliamentary revolt led by rebel M.P. Eddison Zvobgo had forced the government to amend proposed new information laws. Bills curtailing political activity and election campaigning have already been passed into...