Some school children in Zimbabwe cannot afford to buy a pencil. Often up to ten children share one pencil between them and in some cases children just cannot write or participate in lessons because of  the lack of stationery. Got some pencils or pens that you can spare? Then please share them with these children.

Corruption generating conditions peculiar to the region include but are not limited to the digital divide and poor information exchange, capacity constraints and technical challenges associated with generating demand for accountability in the midst of poverty and limited literacy, north-south dependency, repressive political environments, lack of credibility in international engagements and transparency inhibiting legal regimes, says a position paper on the Independent Anti Corruption Commission.

ANTI-CORRUPTION NOW! will carry relevant information to its members and partners on anti-corruption initiatives and programmes that TI-Z is embarking on. This information should be of use and interest to the public, as well as officials in the public and private sectors. The first edition carries background information on the mission and objectives of TI-Z, articles on the Presidential Elections, and unfinished cases of corruption.

The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare says the measles immunisation and Vitamin A supplementation exercise conducted in the first two weeks of July did not reach the intended target of 2 million children under the age of five.

Ruling party militants attempted to push a family of white farmers off their property Wednesday in the most serious bid to force defiant farmers to honor a government eviction order, farmer representatives said.

Dear Colleagues
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Committee will be hosting a feedback meeting for all CSO heads on Friday, the 23rd of August 2002, at OTD . The meeting will start at 0830hrs in the morning, up to lunch. This is a follow-up to the meetings held in May and June 2002.

While the controversial acquisition of white owned farms grabs headlines, political violence against mostly black opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters continues unabated and largely unreported, claim human rights NGO's.

Amnesty International says it is "deeply concerned" that the pattern of using violence against the political opposition and abuse of the neutrality of the police by government and state-sponsored "militia" will be repeated ahead of the September local elections.

The numbers speak for themselves; women in Zimbabwe are bearing the enormous burden of domestic violence. Last year alone 22 women were reported to have committed offences against men compared to the 181, or eight times as many men reported to have committed offences against women in Mashonaland Central province.

Zimbabwe has started preparing for a final withdrawal of all its troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they have been fighting since 1998.

Zimbabwean woman Angeline Mugwendere narrates her story of how she overcame her gender, rural background and poverty to get education and become successful. Now she helps people from her community set up businesses and establish themselves.

Zimbabwean woman Angeline Mugwendere narrates her story of how she overcame her gender, rural background and poverty to get education and become successful. Now she helps people from her community set up businesses and establish themselves.

The Matabeleland region is the area worst hit by drought, with 978,000 people affected by the food crisis, according to the World Food Programme.

Dear Friends,
It seems necessary to write to everyone possible about our impending famine. The situation is complicated by a number of factors. The rains have been bad. The total maize crop was less than 400,00 tonnes, between a half and a third of what the peasant farmers usually produce in a year. The commercial farmers, of whose problems you hear so much, normally produce much less than that; about 30-40% of the total crop. Removing them from the scene need not cause any problem in direct food production in a good year, but this was not a good year - in fact the worst since 1947. The disruptions caused by the land takeovers and the violence associated with the presidential election campaign must have contributed to the present problem.

Nearly 3,000 white farmers in Zimbabwe will have to leave their homes by midnight Thursday if they decide to obey new rules brought in by Robert Mugabe’s government.

At first sight, the initial decision by the leaders of Zimbabwe and Zambia to reject US offers of maize to feed their growing ranks of starving people appears to invite ridicule. On closer inspection, however, the decision by Zimbabwe and Zambia begins to lose some of its apparent naivety.

Zimbabwe police have searched the home of Morgan Tsvangirai, the president of the country's main opposition party, looking for weapons, subversive documents and illegal immigrants, the leader said. Tsvangirai is due to stand trial in November on allegations that he plotted to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.

As evidence grows that Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe is using food aid as a political weapon, we are writing to ask what steps your organisation is taking, and about any additional measures you propose to take, to prevent this. Could you let us know who is actually distributing the food for which you seek funding? What experience has your organisation had of militants of the ruling Zanu PF party blocking distribution in areas perceived as loyal to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change? What has your organisation done, or what does it propose to do, when your food supplies are blocked or seized by Zanu PF militants?

Sustaining a vibrant civic movement in neo-liberal post election Zimbabwe is a nightmare. What’s more the people of Zimbabwe may have to inhabit this nightmare for the few more years that the current regime may still retain power, writes Hopewell Gumbo.

The United States and Zimbabwe have reached agreement on supplying emergency food to the famine-stricken southern African nation, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Walter Kansteiner says.