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SADC Heads Bar 258 Million SADC Citizens Access To Illegally Reconstituted Regional court’

Posted on August 22, 2015August 22, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Following the decision to deny the 258 million SADC citizens access to the regional court of the SADC Tribunal, taken during the 35th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Botswana [17-18 August 2015], SADC Tribunal Rights Watch is gravely concerned. The SADC leaders have taken this retrogressive step unilaterally – and without consultation with the people of SADC. This flies in the face of Article 4 of the SADC Treaty where SADC…

President Ian Khama African New (SADC) Chair, Attacks Leaders Who Cling To Power

Posted on August 22, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

BOTSWANA President Ian Khama, the new chair of the South African Development Community has said the region needs to be a beacon for democracy for Africa, and blasted leaders who cling to power. At a press briefing after taking over the Sadc leadership Wednesday, Khama slated Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza whose country has been plunged into violence after he ran for a third-term despite strong domestic opposition. “It doesn’t matter how you got there….

Tsvangirai, Swiftly Sends Team To Lobby Khama To Re-establish & Pile Pressure On Mugabe’s Regime

Posted on August 17, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

FORMER Prime Minister and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has wasted no time in taking advantage of the annual changeover of Sadc’s rotating chairmanship, with a team already in Botswana to lobby the neighbouring country’s leader Ian Khama. Khama is taking over as chairperson following the expiry of President Robert Mugabe’s tenure this week. The Sadc 35th annual summit begins Monday in Gaborone. Impeccable sources told NewZimbabwe.com that Tsvangirai sent a team led by his chief-of…

Tsvangirai Accuses Mugabe And Zanu PF Of Forcing Zimbabwe , Down Onto “Its Knees”

Posted on August 17, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Morgan Tsvangirai has once again accused President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF of forcing the country to “its knees” through their misrule and being oblivious to the suffering of Zimbabweans. He repeated this as he called on SADC to intervene in Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis. Tsvangirai is calling for electoral reforms among other things. – Source: dailynews

‘Zimbabwe Foreign Missions , Surviving On Chicken Feet, Gizzards; No Salaries For 14 Months’

Posted on August 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

“WE are surviving on chicken nzondora(feet) and zvikanganwa hama (gizzards), the situation is really bad,” a Zimbabwean diplomat said in an interview at the weekend as he outlined the increasingly dire situation at the country’s foreign missions. Frustration is said to be high in the service and morale rock bottom. President Robert Mugabe has spent millions travelling the globe so far this year, even as the government admits it is struggling for money as tax…

Vascoda Mugabe In Botswana For 35th Ordinary Summit Of Heads Of State And Government

Posted on August 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Outgoing SADC Chairperson President Robert Mugabe has arrived in Gaborone, Botswana to attend the 35th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government which runs from the 17th to the 18th of August. The summit, which is set to focus on implementation of the Regional Industrialisation Strategy, will also see President Mugabe handing over the bloc’s chairmanship to President Seretse Ian Khama of Botswana. The two-day summit will be held under the theme, “Accelerating Industrialisation…

‘President Ian Khama To Take Over (SADC) Chair Post , When Mugabe’s Term Ends Next Week’

Posted on August 14, 2015August 14, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

BOTSWANA President Ian Khama is set to become the next Southern African Development Community (SADC) chair when President Robert Mugabe vacates the position next week, reports said. Mugabe is expected to hand over the one-year chairmanship to Khama at the 35th summit of heads of state and government to be held in Gaborone. The move is viewed by analysts as giving the bloc some long-sought teeth to reject dictatorship, rights abuses and electoral fraud in…

‘Globe-Trotter Vascoda Mugabe’ Ever In Flight Yet National Sports Team, ‘Warriors’ Are Grounded

Posted on July 24, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

President Robert Mugabe, an assiduous globe-trotter over the 35 years he has ruled Zimbabwe, has this year hardly slept at home. The 91-year-old leader has roamed the world, finding a convenient excuse in his ceremonial roles as African Union and SADC chairman. The government is broke, but the treasury is forced to find millions of dollars to fund Mugabe’s foreign jaunts which now number 25 or so this year; and its only July. He travels…

Vas Coda-Mugabe Ends Latest Visit To Zimbabwe And Jets Off To Equatorial Guinea

Posted on July 18, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

African Union and SADC chairperson President Robert Mugabe has left for Equatorial Guinea where he will attend an international conference on Africa’s fight against Ebola. He was seen off at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, cabinet ministers, service chiefs and other senior government officials. President Mugabe will be attending a two-day conference aimed at strengthening the continent’s fight against the dreaded Ebola virus. Running under the theme: ‘Africa Helping Africans in…

‘Mugabe Visit To Zimbabwe Ends, And He Jets Off With Grace To USA New York ‘

Posted on July 7, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

President Robert Mugabe has left Harare for the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, USA where he has been invited to attend a high level International Ebola Recovery Conference. The Ebola haemorrhagic fever that devastated three West African countries since its outbreak left more than 11 000 people dead and affected more than 27 000 others. President Mugabe, who chairs the African Union (AU) and SADC, is accompanied to New York by the First…

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