Salary : £21,479pa to £24,129 p.a.
Location : Harare, Zimbabwe
Closing Date : 14 Nov 2001
Posted on : 23 Oct 2001

A visit to Zimbabwe's main NGO website shows how seriously civic organisations are taking the current voter registration drive.

Public spending in Zimbabwe will double next year and taxes will be cut in what economists described as an electioneering budget presented to parliament on Thursday.

The psychological impact of Zimbabwe's political violence is only slowly beginning to emerge, as experts call for more attention to be paid to the effects of trauma.

The current xenophobic attacks on the Zimbabwean citizens in one of the informal settlements, to be exact, in Zandspruit, in Honeydew, north of Randburg were allegedly sparked by the murder of a young woman on the 8th of September. The culprit was identified as a Zimbabwean. The South African residents in the camp then retaliated by burning some of the shacks belonging to Zimbabweans. The Zimbabweans retaliated and burned about six shacks. The situation became serious early this week and a total of 130 shacks belonging to the Zimbabweans were gutted by fire and they were driven out of the settlement.

The government has warned the international community to avoid confronting or criticising Zimbabwe too harshly lest it create a "siege mentality" in President Robert Mugabe's government that will hamper efforts to solve the crisis there.

The looming risk of mass starvation in Zimbabwe has worsened as militants moved on to more white-owned farms, beating one worker for refusing to shout ruling party slogans and forcing hundreds of others to stop work.

A United States district court in New York this week held the ruling Zanu PF party liable for the murder and torture of opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters in the run-up to last year's June parliamentary election.

Minister of State for Information and Publicity Jonathan Moyo has threatened to sue "The Financial Gazette" for publishing erroneous assertions, "The Herald" reported on 1 November 2001.

Zimbabwe's ruling party is standing firm against sanctions threats by the European Union.

Dennis Dube lost everything when his neighbours torched his home and threatened to kill him if he was seen in the area again. "I'm just so sad that they (South Africans) can treat me like this, I've never known anything like this," he told IRIN on Wednesday.

Judith Todd, who combated white rule, now faces harrassment from Mugabe's forces as she fights for the freedom of Zimbabwe's press.

A statement issued at the end of a Commonwealth mission to probe what steps have been taken to end violence on Zimbabwe's farms in exchange for help with land reforms showed there is little hope for an early end to the crisis.

The Commonwealth was accused of giving President Robert Mugabe an easy ride yesterday as it wrapped up its mission to Zimbabwe by avoiding censuring his government for failing to uphold the rule of law and order.

The European Union will give Zimbabwe a final warning next week that it will impose sanctions if President Robert Mugabe refuses to accept European observers at the leadership elections next year.

Britain and the Commonwealth of its former colonies are making little progress in efforts to force Zimbabwe to stop the violent invasions of white-owned farms, Britain's top aid official said on Wednesday.

The Zimbabwean police detained the country's most respected human rights activist yesterday as a visiting six-nation Commonwealth delegation began assessing implementation of last month's accord reached in Abuja, Nigeria, on restoring the rule of law.

The President’s official announcement that his government had “dumped” ESAP dominated Zimpapers and ZBC during the week, but none of them explained that government had effectively abandoned the policy years ago.

The human rights group, Amnesty International, has warned that state-sponsored killings in Zimbabwe are on the rise.

For Zimbabwe, the immediate effect of these events is that the Zimbabwe Democracy Bill is likely to fall off the American agenda in the near future, in the same way that the world has disappeared from global news coverage. The restrained responses of the Government of Zimbabwe to the events in the US, indicate the Mugabe regime’s understanding of the space that has opened up to them.