Posted by The Zimbabwe government’s selective application of the law was exposed yesterday as it emerged that Police have been using a foreign registered vehicle seized from a Sky News crew to transport abducted civil society activists to and from court. It is illegal in Zimbabwe for anyone to drive a foreign registered vehicle in the absence of its registered owner.
The vehicle, a red VW minibus, together with television broadcasting equipment, laptops, computers, disks, and videotape was confiscated in May last year in Bulawayo, and three Sky employees were detained. Bernet Hasani Sono, Resemate Chauke and Simon Musimani were subsequently each sentenced to six months in jail. In July 2008 a High Court judge reduced the sentences to fines of Z$50 billion and they were deported.
The red VW minibus, with Gauteng registration plates HNL 223 GP, had been used so openly by the state to transfer the activists, some of whom allege that they have been tortured and beaten while in custody. Gauteng vehicle records show the vehicle to be the property of Kebone Tours and Transport, a tourism company based in Vorna Valley between Johannesburg and Pretoria, from whom Sky rented the vehicle. As Phetole Ramatseba of Kebone Tours said: “We haven’t really owned that vehicle since it was taken by the Zimbabwean state.”
Last year Police impounded MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai’s South Africa regestered vehicle on the pretext that it was illegal under the Customs and Excise Act for the opposition leader to use the vehicle in the absence of its owner who at the time had already returned to South Africa.
The armoured BMW X5 vehicle, confiscated by police in the run up to the disputed presidential elections now held in Bulawayo’s Drill Hall station.
The BMW X5 was impounded by police on 6 June when Mr Tsvangirai was detained for several hours at Esigodini police station in Lupane.
Instead police have charged a South African businessman with violating customs law after he donated an armoured vehicle to Tsvangirai for use during a June second round presidential election, controversially won by President Robert Mugabe.
The businessman, Adriaan Espag, brought the vehicle – a bullet-proof BMW X5 registered in South Africa – into Zimbabwe and gave it to Tsvangirai.
Additional Reporting by ZW News
gudo gushungo belongs to the past I cannot consider him as my future leader, we are not in dictactorship in MDC. Whatever nonsense you say about mugabe being a clever fool, the Zimbabwe electorate have shifted support to MDC. We shall have a consultative meeting as a progressive party and map the way forward. We do not beilive in dictactorship, murder, rigging, abductions, false accusations. We are an open book. Pamberi ne democracy.
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Ko ana Dynamos chichinjaika nyaya iripa website yenyu iyi. Asi hamuchina nyaya kani? Democracy unoigona mumba mako here unoda kumhanyira kuiita at national level?
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SALES at Dunlop Zimbabwe Limited have significantly improved since the company received a license entitling it to sell its products in foreign currency, says a report by the company.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe granted Dunlop Zimbabwe the licence required for companies in the country to sell products using foreign currency in late November 2008.
Without releasing specific figures, company managing director Kennedy Mandevani said that sales have been steadily increasing.
“The FOLIWARS (Foreign Exchange Licensed Warehouses and Retail Shops) sales are gradually picking up and will make a positive difference to our sales mix,” said Mandevani.
“Dunlop is intensifying its marketing campaign so that more of our customers are made aware of this facility.”
The licence has allowed the tyre manufacturer to import more raw materials, which have made an increase in production capacity possible, “thereby improving the company’s viability and safeguarding the company’s employment base.”
“In addition, the more we sell in forex, the more forex that is made available to the RBZ to finance crucial national programmes in the country,” stated Mandevani.
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Reality news this Dunlop story is nothing, you go and see the informal traders in all the towns they are doing very well dealing in USA and Rand, apananyaya apa. You must wait till the American and South African governments intervenes about their currencies your Dunlop is going down with mugabe again. Pasi nemi for killing the country’s economy.
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Dynamos you are more of a buffon than I imagined.Why would SA and USA intervene about their currencies?Are you not the same party that cried for dollarisation? Hanganwa dzenyu MDC-T dzinenge dzegunguo rinokanganwa parakandirira mazai aro. How do you stop currency going to a country. Ndapererwa nemashoko ekukuudza mhani.How low can you get, just opposing everything that gvt does.Go to hell mhani.
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Now when it comes to guantamo bay no one cries foul play-when we torture victims for information , its not acceptable but to mdc its cool to support guantanamo torturers. they never said a word about that. in zimbabwe we deal with terrorists like they do elsewhere. we dont have to tell you when we come to arrest you-we dont have to release you until we are satisfied the public is or will be safe.
so vana Justina mato****. why do you take part in terror acts against your fellow citizens. mucha**** mese chete . isu we zanu hondo takarova kare. morgan thinks these bandits of his will untopple mugabe and he will walk to state house-hapana.if he wants a proper war then go for it full time because tuma scouts and bandits and brownis like Justina. They will be picked up and locked up. when it comes to the security of our country we do whatever it takes to safeguard you the citizens. it is our duty.
dont force the police to release these bandits until all the evidence and confessions have been taken into account. thats how sh.i.t works world wide. we all know that. why the urgency to release them? Let them face the law-our law-zimbabwe law…thats how it goes down. you saw the americans playing games with those iraqi prisoners-Tutu said nothing-mdc said nothing. so now we treat terrorists as terrorists..let them have it. To get information from these sort of people you have o torture them…is that not right? So why cant we torture these terrorists of mdc in zimbabwe? f.u.c.k off
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You might support the use of torture but truly civilised people do not. This crap argument about ‘the West’ or its ‘puppets’ supporting guantanamo but crying foul when old Bob and his cronies do it is pure bull****. I support the democratically elected true government of Zimbabwe, not the ZANU usurpers.
I see that soon more voices will be added to the increasing number recognising the crimes against humanity being committed under Mugabe’s instruction. The South Africans are waking up:
” Former anti-apartheid activists in South Africa have launched a stinging attack on their leaders over their handling of Zimbabwe .
They say they are ashamed that the South African Government has not intervened to resolve the humanitarian crisis which has seen thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing across the border into South Africa .
Bishop Paul Verryn heads the Methodist Church in Johannesburg where he has welcomed thousands of Zimbabwean refugees.
He has been appalled by their stories.
“We are witnessing a slow genocide in Zimbabwe . And what will it take for the international community, West, East and African, to come to the place where we say, ‘That’s it’?” he said.
“This is a bunch of thugs and a gang that is ruling a country. And the only reason I say that is because of the stories I hear in my armchair in my office that leave me at the end of the day confused and traumatised.”
Bishop Verryn was joined in his church by several human rights advocates who have recently returned from Zimbabwe . They were shocked by what they saw.
Kumi Naidoo, a former anti-apartheid activist, says a lack of action by South African leaders has “betrayed an entire generation”.
He is one of a growing number of civic leaders who have been highly critical of the South African Government and its regional organisation the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for failing to intervene in the Zimbabwe crisis.
“The culpability and the responsibility cannot be left at ( Zimbabwe President Robert) Mugabe alone,” he said.
“It has to be shared right now by the leadership of SADC that has basically allowed Mugabe to get away with murder.”
Mr Naidoo is the honorary president the World Alliance for Citizen Participation. He says the situation has made him ashamed to be a South African .
“When people repeatedly say ‘How can you let us down, how can you abandon us, how can you tolerate abduction, torture, complete collapse of services?’ I felt ashamed as a South African not to be able to give an answer,” he said.
“And if we can tolerate it on our borders, then sadly it means we will tolerate it at home, and that would just be a betrayal of the history and legacy of the liberation struggle in this country.”
Bishop Verryn agrees with that assessment.
“The deep anxieties I have about my own nation is that it seems as if we have forgotten so quickly what it really feels like to be vulnerable,” he said.
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56. reality news: “To get information from these sort of people you have o torture them…is that not right? ”
Sums up the mentality and total lack of moral integrity of ZANU supporters, doesn’t it?
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Abel you are thick yourself, that foreign currency that is circulating in Zim most of it is there through illegal means, that is the issue I am addressing. Very soon you zanu thieves would be producing the rand from your reserve bank. What is happening to these currencies is illegal, lets wait and see what Tito Mboweni will say. The concerned gvts have not agreement with the Zim gvt for this kind of abuse of their currencies. South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland have an agreement about the use of the Rand in those countries and not Zimbabwe just do a lot of reading Abel and educate yourself rather than concertrating in murdering people with your zanu.
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Are you a gvt spokesman for SA to say they have not agreed to us using their currency, you think we must tell you mutswiris every move we take? what if we agreed with them.And assuming they did not agree, what will Mboweni do, go to war with Zim. Why are you so naive in African type of politics? I told you to go to hell mhani. what are you still doing here.Or you need help by being abducted by us.ramba uchiita manyemwe ako iwayo.We came to power by murdering and we will hang on by murdering, cant you get that into your thivk skull?
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Uridofo iwe Abel chete bvuma, how can Tito go to war? Certainly he will take measures, the rand is in a super inflation outside its own country and South Africa is not like Zimbabwe they will act to protect their currency. I think you can continue abducting coz thats is your area of specialization, and we will continue seeing how we can bring sanity to Zimbabwe.
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Shamwari maZimba are the experts of circumventing measures. Akachinja currency, maZimba will have that currency way before South Africans in Kwazulu Natal.so why would they do such a stupid move. kutongotarisa while we use their money. We abduct muface, hatina funny panyaya iyoyo where national secuity is concerned. Wematama anoziva kuti achingotsika ivhu redu tomusunga nenyaya dzake, anodziziva iye muridzi so if we can take your leader, what more ana mupurwa Dynamos.
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mdc is ****ed up- they only like bad news day in day out. they are now obsessed by bad news that they can not go a day without it. Any good news on zimbabwe brings withdrawal symptoms. any company doing well is considered a mugabe ally-so the US and other monsters must put it on the sanctions list.Any news outlet that brings balanced news like talkzimbabwe is considered a mugabe sympathiser and so must be alianated. the only good news comes from anti mugabe media. tell you what, if these media reported truthfully about events on the ground and real issues not trumped up stories, then zimbabwe would be better off …much better!!! as things stand we have only been fed lies and lies to discredit mugabe -some of it true some but the majority of it nonsense—ask yourself why zimbabwe is still standing?
these lies have led to the whole world believing that zimbabwe is almost sinking beyond repair-and that mugabe will fall anytime soon -and in that respect they have pulled back from plan B etc thinking mugabe will go naturally…manyepo have actually set you back millions of years and have worked in mugabe’s favour…
good luck nemanyepo enyu….the truth shall prevail.
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Wataura reality news. I told some MDCsta exactly what you said. Havazive kuti all those fake stories make Bob exonerated kunze uku. Plus too much changing of goal posts and standards while judging Mugabe and different stds while judging others. How do you explain why more countries are pro-Mugabe than those who are anti.Just that they are with a stronger media so they think they are the majority.Most countries are too scared to do what Bob did but they support it.
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Abel and Reality News mugabe is a murderer period the reason he is still in power is because he is scared for crimes against humanity, the former Liberia President is waiting for him. That idiot is histroy and has no future in Zim politics. He will only ve there by force.
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kaora kanyaya aka kasina nebasa rose hamusi kukanzwa here munyuzirumi yenyu,ini pandinovhura webhusaiti yenyu kunzwa kachinhuhwa kuti kutu.ko kumbiraika vana abheru kana riyariti vambofira vachikunyorerai zvine musoro imi makazorora zvenyu.shuwa kaora kanhuhwa kunge kiti yadirwa mvura.moita saana tsvangiraiwo kana vafunga kudya mari dzemadhona hanzi mitingi kuno kusauthi kuzim kwete kune korera,dzopiswa mari dzemarema(varungu)asi chabuda hapana.zvichapera hwani dheyi.
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Who is this IDIOT who calls himself ZANU NEWS and says Morgan did nothing about Colera in Zim, and VIVA ZANU. MUGABE failed to issue him a passport you nutter! ! ! !
VIVA MDC ! ! !
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Steve don’t stress yourself about the dumm heads of zanu, the man didn’t have a passport and if he had traveled they would have arrested him as soon as he lands in Zimmugabe. Where is mugabe now he is galavanting in Malasia when people are dying of cholera. Zanu is just in denial that their house is not in order, they will not be in power till the next elections, that is if we do not hold elections now. When this idiot comes from vacation I hope SADC will tell him off, Shwashwi just confirmed that they will be another SADC summit on Zimbabwe in February.
Charles Taylors son has been jailed for 98 years for crimes against humanity, mugabe is so scared of getting out of power because files are waiting for him that idiot he is going from State house to the courts that murderer.
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That idiot mugabe has swindled US$92 000.00 to his Malaysian bank account for his holiday with Marufu’s wife Grace and the four kids from the Zimbabwe central bank, the country’s economy is bleeding and this man has the guts to steal from the central bank so much. This comes after the ARV taking minister of finance patrick chinamasa introduced a $50 000 000.00 note which can buy two loaves of bread. What kind of country is this under this leadership. This is total failure, those who still support mugabe need to be checked if they are mentally okay.
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Tipeiwo kuchinja nyaya ana Zim Metro, takungonyaudzwa naana Dynamos nekanyaya karikunhuwa like Nicol said. This is a sign that the website habhoroka zvedi. Purizi Metro tipeiwo nyaya nyowani chero kukumbira Kwayedza ikupei one nyaya. Ana Dynamos tatone bhabharasi navo pano.
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WHY DOES MORGAN WANT A MEETING WITH OUR MUGABE? I THOUGHT THE MDC WON THE MARCH ELECTION AND THEY DO NOT NEED ZANU PF FOR ANYTHING. WHY CANT MORGAN GO ON AND FORM A GVT? HEEE WE DONT NEED NEED ZANU PF THIS AND THAT AND MORGAN IS NOW LOOKING FOR MUGABE DAY AND NIGHT. WHY HAS HE BEEN HIDING IN BOTSWANA ALL THIS TIME.
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