MDC Activists hounded in SA by CIO

PRETORIA – Zanu (PF)’s notorious spy Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) has spread its tentacles to neighbouring South Africa, where it has been secretly pursuing and intimidating political activists, according to information gathered by The Zimbabwean.

Asylum seeker takes his own life after losing legal aid

Refugee support group blames immigration policy for leaving asylum seekers without help to pursue claims
Owen Bowcott and Natalie Hanman, The Independent, 01/08/10

Zimbabwe should move fast on media reforms

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe, whose main daily newspaper is state owned and biggest private papers are weeklies, should speed up registration of newspapers to boost democratic reforms, a senior cabinet minister said on Saturday.

SA to tighten immigration laws

JOHANNESBURG – The South African government is looking at ways of tightening its immigration laws in a bid to limit the continued influx of foreign nationals, a government minister said this week.

Mugabe says no concessions to MDC

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe says his Zanu-PF party will never give in to MDC demands for the resolution of outstanding issues to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) before the sanctions are scrapped.

This SYMAAG news is about Delshad Zorab and asylum seekers’ right to work

Longstanding readers of SYMAAG news and active members of the group will know something about Delshad from Doncaster/Iraqi Kurdistan.

Biti attends negotiations despite Tuesday car crash

MDC-T chief negotiator Tendai Biti is attending talks that are hoped will bring finality to the remaining issues in the Global Political Agreement.

Mugabe to meet African journalists

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is this week expected to meet local and foreign journalists at the end of a two-day congress by African journalists in Harare this weekend.

Zimbabwe Finance Minister Tendai Biti Said Unscathed Following Road Collision

Biti, secretary general of the MDC grouping of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, was to be released late Wednesday from a private hospital in Harare where he was under observation for possible chest injuries from air bag deployment.

Police seize photographs of repression under Mugabe from exhibition

Harare – Zimbabwe police on Tuesday seized all the photographs from an exhibition depicting repression under President Robert Mugabe, and arrested the chief of the human rights body that organized the show, officials confirmed.