- Gunfire breaks out
- MDC Vice President,Thokozani Khuphe: “This is now a regional disaster”
- We cannot cope with the situation:Health officials
Gunfire broke out in Harare Central when rampaging, unpaid soldiers clashed with Police who went on a looting spree.
Both the public and police fought the estimated 100 rampaging soldiers early this morning, after they took money from people they accused of being illegal foreign currency dealers.
The clashes ended after the soldiers were rounded up by other security forces,the soldiers resorted to robbery after they were not paid their salaries.
ZINWA over the weekend shut off Harare’s water supply because there are no more decontamination chemicals. Tainted water is blamed for a cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 400 lives.
Almost 12,000 people have contracted cholera since August in Zimbabwe, and the outbreak threatens to grow more dire and deadly.
Residents there were digging shallow holes in their yards in hopes of finding water. In some cases, nearby holes served as latrines. Other residents were getting water from polluted rivers.
“Just be strong. This will come to an end one day,” MDC Vice President Thokozani Khupe told cholera patients while visiting the Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital in the capital Monday.
The World Health Organization reports that 11,700 people in Zimbabwe have contracted the curable disease and 473 people have died from it since August -but MDC Health Secretary Henry Madzorera said the numbers are being underreported.
At Beatrice hospital in Harare, bodies were piled in the mortuary, awaiting relatives to collect them.
“We are receiving up to 15 bodies a day since the cholera outbreak. That is why we have started piling them like that. We cannot cope with the situation,” a hospital official said.
Khupe said some victims were traveling to Botswana and other neighbouring countries for treatment.
“This is now a regional disaster,” Khupe said.
The MDC issued a statement last week warning that conditions could worsen this month as the rainy season brings steamy downpours to much of Zimbabwe, especially the eastern mountain forests.
The MDC reported Monday that many of the nation’s doctors and nurses have gone on strike because of poor salaries. Even if they were being paid adequately, the MDC said, many would refuse to work because there are no drugs for patients or protective clothing for health workers.
“Some of the patients admitted at the centers are health workers who contracted cholera due to lack of protective clothing,” the MDC statement said.
Mbeki
Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s prominent media headlines do neither help the country, nor will these help himself, the SADC facilitator and former South African president Thabo Mbeki has said, his first public comments against what he veiws as the MDC leader’s appetite for making headlines.
Alluding to the ‘burden’ that South Africa is “suffering” for hosting millions of Zimbabwe who fled the crisis in Zimbabwe, Mbeki said: “As you secure applause because of the insult against us that we are ‘cowards’, you will have to consider the reality that our people have accepted into their countries very large numbers of Zimbabwean brothers and sisters in a spirit of human solidarity, prepared to sustain the resultant obligations.”
“None of our countries displayed characteristics of cowardice when they did this,” Mbeki said in his letter to the MDC leader. Mbeki conviently forgets that the crisis in Zimbabwe is as result of his failure to stop the ZANU-PF leaders from following through with their misguided policies over the years.
“All of us will find it strange and insulting that because we do not agree with you on a small matter, you choose to describe us in a manner that is most offensive in terms of African culture, and therefore offend our sense of dignity as Africans, across our borders,” the usually diplomatic Mbeki, who has fought his entire tenure as South African president to protect Robert Mugabe, fumed at Morgan Tsvangirai.
“You know this, too, that the rest of southern Africa, your neighboring countries, has also had the unavoidable obligation to carry much of the weight of the burden of the Zimbabwe crisis, in many ways,” Mbeki, who less than seven months ago claimed there was no crisis in Zimbabwe, lamented.
Among other things, various countries of the region host large numbers of economic migrants from Zimbabwe, who impose particular burdens on these countries.
“None of our countries and governments have spoken publicly of this burden, fearful that we might incite the xenophobia to which all of us are opposed,” he added.
Mbeki said, realistically, Zimbabwe will never share the same neighborhood with the countries of Western Europe and North America, and therefore secure its success on the basis of friendship with these, and contempt for the decisions of its immediate African neighbors.
“I say this humbly to advise that it does not help Zimbabwe, nor will it help you as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, that the MDC-T contemptuously repudiates very serious decisions of our region, and therefore our continent, describing them as ‘a nullity’,” he wrote, urging to the MDC to be more patriotic.
“It may be that, for whatever reason, you consider our region and continent as being of little consequence to the future of Zimbabwe, believing that others further away, in Western Europe and North America, are of greater importance,” Mbeki said.
This letter by Mbeki reveals what many had always feared: That he views the MDC as un-African. His failure to treat the MDC as a genuine political party, many believe, led to his failure to broker a genuine gnu deal in post June 27, 2008 Zimbabwe.
the only way out of this is by working on the agreement as soon as possible .You do not want to be wasting time globe trotting even without a passport.imagine if he had a passport, we would not even see him…crazy african…is he african? Why beg and cry for aid when you are not doing enough to help yourselves? You cant force regime change because you will be forced out too.make no mistake.what goes around comes around-check out Thailand etc.Those hungry solidiers are suffering as a result of a targetted campaign by those who are party to the regime change agenda who are trying to deny then access to their cash so they can cause confusion.We shall deal with these rogues.
We will never surrender to colonialists-we defeated them before and we will do it again.While this is going on , the primeminister is collecting certificates in democracy from morocco…hahahahaha what a mess and campaigning for food handouts instead of asking his masters to remove the sanctions he cried for in the first place.This guy if allowed to govern will take us into no man’s land.muchati baba na mr o levels.good luck.
These are symptoms of civil war “soldiers vs cops”.Mugabe should now watch out.He might go the Saddam way.He should have followed the Gaddaffi way if he wanted to stay in power.Don’t play with the West.You will go.
Reality News …pliz dont divert people’s attention from whats happening on the ground
mugabe, all the security forces are NOW AGAINST YOU
….WATCH OUT FOR THE LAURENT KABILA WAY…
Reality News is very far from reality. Reminds me of those right wing fascists in Americal with their racist sloganeering and talk of being ‘un-American’ (remember McCarthyism?). So Morgan Tsvangirai is ‘un-African’. Does that mean he is a democrat, not a dictator? Grow up…..
The greatest weakness a person will ever have is “never accepting blame and always finding scapegoats to your problems”. Zimbabwe’s problems are chiefly of Mugabe’s making. His obsession with power. His security forces have killed more civlians than Smith’s army. To cap it all Smith did that during a war. Mugabe wasted state resources fighting Zapu and Nkomo, Alfonso and MNR, the DRC war etc. Mugabe will never extend an olive branch to anyone. Yes the British are responsible for someof our problems, but Mugabe is responsible for the majority of our problems. There are many people who have the same problems with me. In 1984 my mother was raped was gukurahundi soldier resulting in me being conceived. My mother’s community never accepted me, I had problems to even get a birth certificate. I did not get a chance to go to school until when I was 11 years old and my uncle took me to South Africa. I am at university now, but I lost years of my life. Go to many parts in Matabeleland you will find so many stories like mine. I do not understand all these people posting praises for Mugabe. Do they condone what he did? Scarface, Reality news, Abel, NICOL etc are CIOs. Please accept that Mugabe has failed and will do anything to find someone to blame.
One day sanity will prevail. But not with Mugabe in place. He is too old to change now.
Mugabe and his stooges [morons] will be aware of the futility of denouncing the very
countries that on his own version are critical in moving the country’s
agenda for progress and yet he misses no opportunity to concede that he has
no alternative plan to lift the country out of its abyss.
The kind of change that Zimbabwe deserves must and should be a consequence
of some shared vision but regrettably even at this eleventh hour
mugabe has no problem, for example, squandering a unique opportunity
presented by the UN in Doha to correctly and accurately express the desire
by all concerned about the future of the country that it is not acceptable
for any Zimbabwean to mistakenly and mischievously attempt to mislead the
world into believing that the removal of targeted sanctions is a panacea to
the problems and challenges confronting the country.
In as much as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the offences that have been perpetrated by zanu through GUKURAHUNDI, Operation Murambatsvina,Farm Invasions,March ‘08 Elections Brutality ,Cholera and ,of late,Anthrax, ZIMBABWEANS [soldiers and policemen] have had enough of the ABYSS.
it looks like these soldiers are our only hope.I was glad to hear that one of the CIO guys that abducted ‘Tonderai Ndira’ died [it's believed] of cholera last week.He’s to be buried by the state not in his hometown.Pamberi ne Zanu.
In the years of Rhodesia, never would this have happened.
Bring Back The Rhodesian Front !
Chatsva kumba uko, Robert achabva achimhanya. Soldiers and their families are suffering tgether with the people. no education, no health no money….Chabvondoka
Ehe, mamwe masoja ndee Zanu PF, mamwe ndee MDC. The same goes for the police. That’s how the power sharing deal will be working. Masoja anodawo kuitwa co-manage se Home Affairs. Ha ha ha ha!
To the person who wrote that the “soldiers are suffering with the people” – those poor soldiers beat and slugged people, prevented them from voting in elections, set up and manned road blocks to prevent people moving around the country, and had it good with big pay rises while the rest of the people could just sit and watch. These soldiers are the very people who should be working to assist medical teams reaching the people, who should be assisting in getting food distribution, who should be working with international teams to get the country in order. NO – They rather protect Sir Robert Mugabe and keep the very cause of the problem in power.
Of the power sharing deal – perhaps Morgan should take the stage of Prime Minister and set things up to run the country – in spite of the President, to perhaps make the president irrelevant – which he is already. MORGAN this is your chance to make your difference !
MARI CHAIYO????? >>>>>>KUNZI YAPERA MUBANK??????INGA MASHURA !!!!!!
NYIKA YAFA
This is what the MDC President said.He said the Zimbabwean Zanu PF government will collapse in 2 months time.He predicted himself to be in the office within 2 months.
There is a fool who is using my name -it bmust be baba –please dont use my name in vain.I do not ever want to be associated with puppets.Reality news brings you news that is balanced and to the point.It stops most of you mdc fools from day dreaming.The reason this is happening is as long as there is peace in zim the police run things. Once we declare a state of emergency then the army takes over and the police are relegated to division 2 as bystanders.We then hand over control of the police to morgan while we sort things out.Soon muchamuka.
Zimbabwe’s notorious youth militia are thought to be behind a spate of
indiscriminate attacks on forex dealers and vendors in Harare since last
week, rather than members of the army as reported.
Nehanda Radio sources say the youths who were unarmed, wore green regalia
which might have convinced people they were soldiers. Reports that unpaid
soldiers attacked money changers and clashed with police have been dismissed
as slightly inaccurate.
Still, with the strict control of information in the country it remains
difficult to verify events. Some reports had said riot police fired teargas
to disperse hundreds of stone-throwers who chased a group of soldiers they
accused of a violent crackdown on illegal foreign currency dealers.
While it cannot be denied that there were running skirmishes, the Border
Gezi Training camp youths have traditionally been used by the Reserve Bank
to mount so-called anti-black market raids on the street dealers and it does
look like they are behind the current clashes.
Police said they were unaware of the incidents, and there were no reports of
injuries but Nehanda Radio understands one man was shot on Monday during the
disturbances. Most shops in Harare also closed down due to the clashes.
Pamberi nezimbabwe!!!!
reality news
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Hapana gwan pano, to everyone who has commented HAPANA GWAN! These are not the signs of any kind of coup de ta, nor enough soldier are hungry, kune vamwe vachiri kudya vachiguta, so they will be reluctant to break rank. It is the intrisic nature of military personnel to follow orders, saks they need to be LEAD by more senior ranking officers, and they in turn are the ones varikuguta. What about the junior officers, not enough of them varikutambura, the few that will be caught and court martialed will be made a severe example of the rest will buckle!!
No salvation from the military, what a fantasy
Zanu pf its going to storm soon it may not be now but it will and when it does it will wipe away all the rubbish in to the big lake Kariba and you are almost finished wait and see you have made people cry die killed for the fun of it so its going to be your turn to get burnt catch a fire its your turn to get burnt .
Situations dzakadai really expose weakness yeMDC. They do not know what to do to take advantage of the situation. Masoja mashoma iwayo will be court marshalled and vamwe tichadimbura musoro as an example. Nyika iri in auto-pilot and MDC-T cant take advantage. As usual vanosiya simbi ichitonhora.Ndinonyara mhani.
If someone in Zim does not do anything, this once great country will see thousands die through desease and starvation. The country has many positives, these include:
1. Plenty of arable farmland – great for growing emergency food stocks such as maize (though I prefer to call this ‘corn’), maybe even hundreds of hectares of potatoes and pumpkins – easy to grow and quite tasty.
2. A legal framework which remains in place from the British, Rhodesian and early Zimbabwe days – that offers opportunity to work for the country if applied without political input or interference or domination from any particular party (ZANU or MDC)
3. A skill base of expats around the world waiting for a chance to develop given stability in the country
All the place needs is to be dusted off a bit, idiots and incompetant policical appointees should be removed from their position – and positions be granted on merit and experience, whether the person be black, white or what ever colour, and a COMMITMENT from the GOVERNMENT to work for the people rather than against them.
To Sir Robert – You’ve had your revolution, you got what you wanted (control of the country), you could not maintain it, it fell apart – so for everyone’s sake please give it to someone else to run peacefully – before someone takes it from you using some form of brute force – just as you did back in the 70’s at the cost of many thousands of lives.
That’s my take for this day
shame for mugabe, cant he realy sence danger for him self. let him step down to serve fellow humans suffering at his hands.
zanu and its idiotic power hungry leader mugabe are facing resistance from their own army and ranks, and fools like scarface are calling for war with Botswana. reality news (CID like scarface) should know that these scenes happening in Zimbabwe now signify a major shift in power and support. Some of the soldiers support MDC and some confused ones still support zanu. We will soon take over because power is shifting away from idiotic mugabe.