The Daily IIJ

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s powerful labour movement on Tuesday condemned the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for continuing to handle Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe with kid gloves while the country suffers under the weight of a deepening political and economic crisis.

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JOHANNESBURG – Graca Machel, the wife of Nelson Mandela, on Wednesday said Zimbabwe’s government had lost all legitimacy by turning against the people and demanded release of human rights and opposition activists jailed in Harare. President Robert Mugabe’s government had violated human rights while its failed policies had resulted in the death of thousands of [...]

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Zimbabwe’s National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) civic alliance on Wednesday called upon Africa Union (AU), SADC and its mediator between Zimbabwe ’s feuding political parties Zanu-PF and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), former South Africa Thabo Mbeki to publicly denounce the “Idi Amin style” abductions of human rights activists and political leaders in Zimbabwe . 

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York Anglican church Archbishop John Sentamu said “time to remove Mugabe from power has come” and the world must recognise that the era for Zimbabwe power sharing talks was over. Sentamu said this joining calls for President Robert Mugabe to be toppled from power and face trial for crimes against humanity.

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A leading international aid agency, Oxfam on Tuesday called the government of Zimbabwe to declare the current cholera epidemic a national health emergency to allow urgent national and international aid be mobilised to address the outbreak. The humanitarian body also urged Zimbabwe political parties and regional leaders to address the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe irrespective [...]

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JOHANNESBURG – More than 1 000 cholera patients are in Beitbridge hospital, while Musina hospital has received a total of 168 Zimbabwean cholera patients since the outbreak of the disease, South African health officials said on Monday.

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