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Action alert: putting the pressure on Mugabe
Sokwanele are calling supporters to take action against Austrian company : Jura JSP ACTION: We are calling on all our supporters and subscribers today to phone, email and write to Jura JSP and ask the...
Molesters and Voters
Marko Phiri of Kubatana draws the analogy between women being unable to exercise their democratic right to vote for their choice of candidate and that of the right of a woman not to be physically mole...
The Country That Never Was……Zimbabwe, ……………..wait before you……………….!
Excitement gripped me when I was able to go back across the border to visit my family in Zimbabwe. Pleased as I was, I tried to ignore all the media reports on the country’s disregard of accepta...
Mapping terror in Zimbabwe
The awful reality of the violence against opposition leaders and supporters in Zimbabwe is made visual and very real by Sokwanele’s June map of terror. Via White African Tags: Zimbabwe SHARE...
switching race and other pessimisms
The Chinese in South Africa have won their case to be designated “Black” showing us how arbitrary racial categories are. Lucky them, under apartheid they were able to take advantage of not...
Quick Links
May’s International Carnival of Pozitivities is up at dropdeadhappy. Two blog posts stand out - “Myths and misconceptions about HIV and AIDS” by The AIDS Pandemic in which he looks a...
Solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe
PRESS STATEMENT: SA LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY CONCERNED ABOUT DEMOCRACY CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE The South African Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (LGEP), formerly known as the National Coalition for Gay a...
Action Alert from Sokwanele
Sokwanele These photographs were taken the day before yesterday. The two men are MDC MT supporters based on Mashonaland East. They, and others, were viciously assaulted by Zanu PF militia on Tuesday...
Human rights groups use technology to map and monitor Zimbabwe elections
Kubatana.net is the second Zimbabwean human rights group to use Web 2.0 technology to monitor and report on the elections and the third in Africa following the Ushahidi project on the Kenyan elections...
Quick Links Photos
Queuing to vote via Bearded Man Kids against war Nigeria’s most beautiful - can you guess the winner? Padlocked fences via The Road to the Horizon Extra Tags: Zimbabwe Burundi Nigeria...
29th March = Z day
I’m thinking of Zimbabwe this morning and probably like most people hoping today will end the reign of Mad Bob Some last words by Sokwanele Tales are flying. I just had a call from a very conn...
WOZA: “The effects of fighting repression WITH LOVE”.
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) report on the political violence experienced by their members on Wednesday 19 March 2008 in Harare. Another woman testified that she had been abducted from her home in...
Failing asylum seekers
Thousands of Zimbabweans are to face forced removal back to Zimbabwe after the elections. So far 500 failed asylum seekers have received letters asking them to leave voluntarily or face deportation bu...
Mapping Zimbabwe
I had to rewrite this post as weird things were happening with the formatting. Zimbabwe goes to the elections on Saturday 29th March and there doesn’t seem to be much optimism about the ultimat...
Rescue Kenya
Rescue Kenya: Post Election Hubis a blog dedicated to collating initiatives, reports and resources on post election Kenya…. To provide an information & coordination portal for ALL those co...