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...week when the police and courts allowed the Daily News, the country's only independent daily newspaper, to publish for the first time in four months. It was the same day South African President Thabo Mbeki told visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder that Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government would resume talks with the embattled opposition. "I am quite certain they will negotiate and will find an agreement. We will work with them," Mbeki said. But it was too good to be true. Harare quickly asked the courts to silence the Daily News again, and Zimbabwean politicians from...
...dumped in the bush. "They were saying, 'What you chaps started is war,'" Khumalo says. Khumalo's ordeal is just one skirmish in President Robert Mugabe's long, bloody war on dissent. Over the past six weeks, Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party (ZANU-PF) has closed the country's only independent daily newspaper and stepped up its violent crackdown on political opponents and dissidents. The next target: nongovernmental organizations. Mugabe's parliament has drafted laws requiring aid groups to register with the government and allowing it to suspend their leadership. "They want...
...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...