Struggle News Worldwide

by Fanuel Nsingo, Abahlali baseMjondolo
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 acceptable and proper treatment of human beings. Before going home, I braced [...]

Open Democracy, 22 June 2008
by Hope
This morning I woke up to the sound of my cellphone beeping messages about what was happening in Harare. The day started to roller-coaster forwards from there, fuelled by adrenaline and anxiety.
While I was scrambling to get the pages of the blog to open up to add news received via [...]

Sokwanele, 22 June 2008
MDC Press Release:
At 1500hrs President Tsvangirai announced that he and the MDC will no longer participate in the 27th of June 2008 Presidential run off election.
President Tsvangirai stated that, “The MDC won the 29th of March election despite the conditions that were far from free and fair. Our party’s message of peaceful, [...]

Sokwanele, 18 June 2008
The following entries are sample testimonies randomly selected from the data sheets we used as a source for the information on our map here. We have taken pains to obscure any details that could potentially identify the victims - words inserted in square brackets are ours. These testimonies are selected from locations [...]

This is Zimbabwe, 22 May 2008
This very distressing information alert from Advocacy & Community Organizing Centre for Community Development In Zimbabwe (CCDZ), via SW Radio Africa:
We can’t believe that the youthful, soft-spoken,humble, truthful, dreadlocked Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activist, Tonderai Ndira is no more. Today we give this eulogy for a courageous men who [...]

International Trade Union Federation, 19 May 2008
Brussels, 19 May 2008 (ITUC OnLine): Zimbabwean High Court Judge, Justice Ben Hlatshwayo, today granted Z$20 billion bail each to two Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders’ who are facing charges of “inciting the public to rise against the government and communicating falsehoods.” The judge’s decision comes after [...]

Women of Zimbabwe Arise, 5 May 2008
WOZA members beaten in Bulawayo today; at least 12 arrested
Members of Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise took to the streets of Bulawayo today to call for an end to the politically motivated violence that has left more than 20 people dead in the last few weeks. The protest [...]