Top News | Reuters.co.za: "HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe will not invite back white farmers whose land was seized by President Robert Mugabe's government despite calls by the central bank chief to allow them to help the struggling agriculture sector, state media reported.
'The land here is for the black people and we are not going to give it back to anybody. We are not inviting any white farmers back,' Security Minister Didymus Mutasa, also in charge of Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement, told the state-owned Sunday Mail.
Since 2000 Mugabe's government has seized thousands of white-owned farms after often violent invasions by government-backed veterans of the country's 1970s struggle against white rule."
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Friday, July 29, 2005
Tiny Jewish Community in Zimbabwe Perseveres Despite Economic Woes
Tiny Jewish Community in Zimbabwe Perseveres Despite Economic Woes: "Tiny Jewish Community in Zimbabwe Perseveres Despite Economic Woes
By Moira Schneider
CAPE TOWN, July 27 (JTA) -- Hylton Solomon, a Zimbabwean Jewish leader, says that he has never felt threatened by the turbulent goings-on in the country, though he did admit to feeling ?a little bit uneasy? during the government?s recent Operation Restore Order, which saw hundreds of thousands of street vendors and others being driven out of urban areas and rendered homeless in midwinter.
?It was like Kristallnacht. You can?t describe it in any other way,? says Solomon, the president of the Bulawayo Hebrew Congregation.
Zimbabwe?s mostly elderly Jewish community has dwindled through emigration to around 300 individuals from a high of 7,500 in the early 1970s. Despite its much diminished size and the rapidly deteriorating political and economic situation in the country, Jewish life, though curtailed, carries on."
By Moira Schneider
CAPE TOWN, July 27 (JTA) -- Hylton Solomon, a Zimbabwean Jewish leader, says that he has never felt threatened by the turbulent goings-on in the country, though he did admit to feeling ?a little bit uneasy? during the government?s recent Operation Restore Order, which saw hundreds of thousands of street vendors and others being driven out of urban areas and rendered homeless in midwinter.
?It was like Kristallnacht. You can?t describe it in any other way,? says Solomon, the president of the Bulawayo Hebrew Congregation.
Zimbabwe?s mostly elderly Jewish community has dwindled through emigration to around 300 individuals from a high of 7,500 in the early 1970s. Despite its much diminished size and the rapidly deteriorating political and economic situation in the country, Jewish life, though curtailed, carries on."
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Zimbawe in financial crisis
SABCnews.com - africa/southern_africa: "Zimbabwe slump unprecedented : World Bank
Zimbawe in financial crisis
July 27, 2005, 05:00
Zimbabwe's rapid economic decline over the past six years is likely unprecedented for a country not at war, says the World Bank's director for the country. In an interview with Reuters yesterday, Hartwig Schafer said reversing the decline would require major economic restructuring, similar to policies that helped rebuild former Soviet states also endowed with infrastructure and human resources."
Zimbawe in financial crisis
July 27, 2005, 05:00
Zimbabwe's rapid economic decline over the past six years is likely unprecedented for a country not at war, says the World Bank's director for the country. In an interview with Reuters yesterday, Hartwig Schafer said reversing the decline would require major economic restructuring, similar to policies that helped rebuild former Soviet states also endowed with infrastructure and human resources."
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