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  • President Mugabe Makes Two Safe Appointments to the Supreme Court

    Two more judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court bench in line with the country's new constitution which was gazetted this week. Justices Ben Hlatshwayo and Bharat Patel were sworn in by President Robert Mugabe at State House on Wednesday, bringing the total on the bench to nine. The new judges were said to be elated at their promotion from the High Court to the superior court, ...

  • Zimbabwe June Election Unlawful in Terms of New Constitution

    The new Constitution that was formally gazetted by Robert Mugabe on Wednesday makes his desired June election date technically unlawful, with months worth of preparations constitutionally required. Mugabe and his ZANU PF party have been pushing for elections to be held as soon as the current Parliamentary term comes to an end on June 29th. This is the official date that marks the end of the ...

  • Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Pleads for Funding

    The dysfunctional Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has approached parliament in a bid to get funding for its operations, a few months before the end of its tenure. The commission was set up in 2009 under the current inclusive government, to investigate human rights abuses following the bloody 2008 elections. But four years later and a few months from the expiry of its life on June 29th, ...

  • Zimbabwe HIV Test Case Heard By Zimbabwes New Constitutional Court

    A rights activist, who is living with HIV, filed a test case in the newly constituted Constitutional Court on Thursday to highlight the challenges and ill treatment facing people living with the virus in the country's prisons. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said Douglas Muzanenhamo's landmark legal application becomes the first case under the new constitutional dispensation, ...

  • Jonathan Manthorpe Zimbabwes ray of hope with a new constitution

    Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe (left) signs into law the Zimbabwe’s new constitution next to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (right) at the State House in Harare, on May 22, 2013. The 89-year-old, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, signed the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved by Zimbabweans in a ...


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I Am Curious—Blue (Jag ärr nyfiken—en film i blått) [DVD]

I Am Curious—Blue (Jag ärr nyfiken—en film i blått) [DVD]

I Am CuriousYellow would mostly likely be a forgotten movieleft somewhere in the multitudinous ranks of 1960s experimental avant-garde films that mix sex and politicsif the U.S. Customs Office hadnt seized the first copy being imported by its distributor, Grove Press, into the United States in 1968. In its misguided attempt to protect decent American citizens from Swedish obscenity, the gov ... ...

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  • The World Today podcast Zimbabwes new constitution

    Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signs draft constitution. Zimbabwe's president of 33 years, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday signed a new constitution which many believe offers the southern African country its first real hope for political and economic revival. Zimbabwe’s people have suffered more than a decade of murderous repression by the regime, collapse of the country's once ...

  • Zimbabwe Saints of Dictatorship Versus Prisoners of Defunct Legitimacy

    The events of 2008 in Zimbabwe led to bloodshed and the present-day Government of National Unity. ZANU PF has exposed its cast-iron willpower to thwart the implementation of any meaningful reforms and the prognosis for the 2013 elections appears ...

  • Zimbabwe Spy Chief Convicted of Electoral Violence Pardoned by Mugabe Dies

    WASHINGTON -- The Deputy Director (internal) of the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), Elias Kanengoni, died Thursday. His elder brother, Alexander Kanengoni, said the spy boss was taken ill at a private clinic in Harare on Wednesday night and was pronounced dead Thursday. Kanengoni had been campaigning to represent Zanu-PF as a senatorial candidate for the Mazowe constituency in ...

  • Zimbabwe Lawyers Say Harare Police Station Not for HIV Positive Inmates

    HARARE -- The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) says in a claim before the Supreme Court today Harare Central Police Station is no place for HIV positive inmates. In February 2011, social rights activist Douglas Muzanenhamo was arrested, along with 44 others, on charges that he was plotting Egyptian-style uprisings in Zimbabwe. Muzanenhamo says that during his detention at Harare ...

  • $10 Million Zimbabwe Youth Empowerment Fund Loses Steam

    WASHINGTON DC -- The country’s controversial indigenization program was back in the news at the weekend with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai threatening to reverse the Zanu-PF backed empowerment drive if elected president in fresh polls this year. Today parliament heard the empowerment drive is failing to attract the country’s youth with very few applying for funds under the $10 ...

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