(Harare, October 20, 2015) Women from the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF) continuously fight to reclaim and use traditional seeds, and break dependence on commercial seeds. As the world celebrated the World Food Day on the 16th, the international peasant movement, La Via (...)
Industrial investment in Africa by BRICS nations has been mired in scandal at times but on the whole appears to be welcomed. Farai Maguwu takes a closer look at the real impact of BRICS investments in Zimbabwe, and questions what is required for Zimbabwe’s long term benefit.
Zimbabwe’s latest (...)
Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is continuing a crackdown on all dissent, and among the recent victims are six socialists who could face the death penalty for the "crime of holding a meeting to watch news coverage of the revolutions in North Africa.
Forty-five people were arrested in the (...)
Scott McLemee, a columnist for Inside Higher Ed and organizer of a solidarity campaign for jailed Zimbabwean socialists, explained how international activists could support the victims of the Mugabe regime ahead of U.S. protests on Wednesday.
RIGHT NOW, six people are being held in solitary (...)
We hereby add our voices to the worldwide outcry of protest against the detention and torture of Zimbabwean citizens for the « crime » of gathering to discuss the recent mass movements in Tunisia and Egypt. We demand the immediate release, without charges, of the remaining 6 Zimbabwean activists (...)
Amnesty International Urgent Action
UA: 196/09 Index: AFR 46/012/2009 Issue Date: 22 July 2009
Amnesty International launched an Urgent Action:
Thousands of people in Harare face mass eviction from their market stalls and homes. Most of the targeted people were victims of the 2005 mass (...)
These “reflections” were sent as a contribution to the debate opened in the International Council (IC) of the World Social Forum (WSF) on its future.
Dear colleagues,
Having been actively involved in the Social Forum process at national and regional levels for the past 5 years (as a (...)
Sixty-three Women Of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) members were arrested on November 29 during a peaceful launch of its People’s Charter. They were taken to Bulawayo Central Police Station. WOZA leaders Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu were among those arrested.
A WOZA media release stated: (...)
Zimbabwe, according to Chris Alden, faces multiple crises - legitimacy as the postcolonial consensus crumbles, expectations stemming from the failure of the economy and polity, and confidence in the impartiality of the institutions of the state. All of these aspects can be seen as a crisis of (...)
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