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‘Zimbabwe issue impacts SA’ – Zulu defends ANC use of SANDF plane
The ANC said members merely took a lift with Defence Minister Nosiziwe Mapisa-Ngqakula who was on her way to the country.
Ace Magashule has told reporters that these stakeholders they will meet with at a later stafe include the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Non-Governmental Organisations Forum and opposition politician Simba Makoni.
A nine-member delegation of the ANC led by secretary-general Ace Magashule was due to land in Zimbabwe on Tuesday afternoon, ahead of talks on Wednesday.
MDC Alliance treasurer general Senator David Coltart says he is concerned by the silence by South Africa and SADC.
Zanu-PF spokesman Patrick Chinamasa labelled US ambassador Brian Nichols a thug, accusing him of fronting what he termed a “coterie of gangsters and mercenaries disguised as diplomats”.
The experts, who included members of the UN’s working group on enforced disappearances, said last year alone 49 cases of abduction and torture were reported in the country.
On Wednesday, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the fight against corruption must gain momentum but warned against what he called misguided activism threatening the unity of the party.
The remarks came after exiled former ZANU-PF political commissar Savious Kasukuwere announced he was planning to return home and challenge Mnangagwa in 2023.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is back in Harare after he cut short his attendance at the World Economic Forum meeting in Cape Town.
The Mnangagwa regime's coercive acts are a continuation of the violence and brutality of the Mugabe era, while he seeks global re-engagement and selective national dialogue.
Convicts and wardens alike bemoan packed cells where running water is erratic and shortages of food, clothes and bedding prevail.
The teacher, from a rural school in central Zimbabwe, was said to have blamed the minister and the ruling party for hardships in the country.
Oliver Matthews says the shaming of Nelson Chamisa’s rape accuser shows that dirty politics in Zimbabwe is not confined to Zanu-PF.
Mnangagwa said in comments published on Friday by the privately-owned weekly 'Zimbabwe Independent' and daily 'News Day' that there was no evidence of a rift between him and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.
Agriculture Minister Perrance Shiri, the former air force commander, says Zimbabwe can’t be allowed to take the same route as Somalia.
In a speech that marked the latest move in efforts to end his country's international isolation, he told delegates: "We are in the process of reforming our party.
Robert Mugabe’s name is synonymous with both Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle and its post-colonial politics. His role has been central to the country’s dynamics since the early 1960s – and could well set the tone for the foreseeable future.
Critics of Nelson Chamisa say that he and fellow opposition officials urged protesters to take to the streets two days after polls by insisting the MDC had won the election and telling supporters to defend their vote.
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