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...goes for 10 times the official price - that is, if you can find one. Bakeries use the ingredients to make non-price-controlled products like rolls. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change should be leading the call for reform. And its members are, when not in court - leader Morgan Tsvangirai is on trial for treason, for allegedly plotting Mugabe's assassination - or jail. Indeed, it often seems as if ZANU-PF's only effective policy has been the systematic emasculation of the MDC. The repression means, as one Harare woman says, "we're all ZANU-PF on the outside...
ZIMBABWE Mugabe Hangs On Apparently fatigued by the disputed election that saw President Robert Mugabe re-elected, Zimbabweans largely ignored opposition calls for a three-day general strike. Mugabe was pressured by South Africa and Nigeria to take defeated opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai into a government of national unity as his country was suspended from the Commonwealth for a year. As violence against white farmers and opposition supporters continued, Tsvangirai was taken to court to be charged with plotting Mugabe's assassination...
...week after Robert Mugabe won another term in a presidential election widely regarded as rigged, it's back to business as usual in Zimbabwe. Opposition leader and presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was formally charged with treason for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe, another white farmer was killed by marauders, the son of a human-rights activist was beaten, and youth militia went on a rampage against supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Tsvangirai, the third MDC official to be arraigned on the treason charge, was released on bail and had to surrender his passport. "It was expected...
...Although Tsvangirai welcomed the Commonwealth action as a message to Mugabe that his "wayward behavior" was unacceptable, he said he would be happier if the regional Southern African Development Community suspended Zimbabwe as well. But local leaders, in particular South Africa's Mbeki, are concerned that isolating Mugabe would increase regional instability...
During the period of Zimbabwe's suspension, Mbeki, Obasanjo and other African leaders will keep the pressure on Mugabe to reform. It will not be easy. With the treason charges against Tsvangirai and two other leading MDC officials, a government of national unity is out of the question. Mugabe and Tsvangirai are personally and politically worlds apart. At least 10 people, mostly MDC supporters, have already died in post-election violence and about 50 white farmers have been forced off their lands, their homes ransacked and looted. Among the opposition there is more despair than defiance. Where there might have...