Word: zimbabwean
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...past two weeks, Zimbabweans in South Africa have cowered in fear as xenophobic mobs have rampaged through townships splitting heads and burning flesh to send them a simple, ugly message: Go home. On Thursday, they heard the same message echoed from an unlikely quarter. Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai made a surprise visit to a police station in Alexandra township, where hundreds of his compatriots have sought refuge from the mobs, and urged them to follow him home. Tsvangirai is facing an increasingly violent political challenge at home, with supporters of President Robert Mugabe unleashing a campaign of intimidation against...
...forces and their allied militias, and the arrest of hundreds of others. Journalists are also prime targets. Several foreign correspondents have been arrested for working without accreditation in the past few weeks (Zimbabwe routinely denies accreditation to almost all foreign reporters). More precarious is the position of the independent Zimbabwean press, who cannot rely on outside help...
...There is little hope of Mugabe and his Zimbabwean African National Union (Patriotic Front) (Zanu-PF) party retaining power by legitimate means. Unemployment is at 80%, inflation an absurd 100,000% and life expectancy has plunged into the mid-30s. After 28 years of one-man and one-party rule, the results of the March 29 general election showed most Zimbabweans were unconvinced by Zanu-PF claims that Zimbabwe's economic misfortunes were not the result of state incompetence and corruption, but rather a Western imperial plot to impoverish, and eventually recolonize, Zimbabwe...
...Several other media figures have been arrested in the past week. On Thursday, Davison Maruziva, editor of the independent weekly The Standard was arrested at his newspaper's Harare office after publishing an opinion piece by M.D.C. figure Arthur Mutambara. A Zimbabwean photographer for Reuters, Howard Burditt, was also detained for three days and released on bail. Meanwhile Chikwore's lawyer, Harrison Nkomo, was arrested while waiting to make presentations at the High Court in connection with Chikowore's case. Nkomo, who has represented other foreign journalists detained in Zimbabwe, is said to have told senior prosecutor Michael Mugabe that...
...result in the presidential race: a do-over. The Zimbabwe Election Commission said opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won 47.9% of the vote to President Robert Mugabe's 43.2%. That means that, officially, no candidate has won an outright victory of more than 50%, a scenario which, under Zimbabwean electoral law, mandates a second round run-off within three weeks. "Since no candidate has received the majority of the valid vote cast... a second election shall be held on a date to be advised by the commission," chief elections officer Lovemore Sekeramayi told reporters in Harare...