Politics

Over 5000 Zimbabwean asylum seekers allowed to stay in the UK

Published on: 9th July, 2009

Over 5000 Zimbabwean asylum seekers allowed to stay in the UK   | read this item

ZIMBABWE – HARARE – More than 63,000 of the 450,000 historic cases that were found to have slipped under the radar for years have now been told they can stay.
Many are because they have been in the country for so long hat the Home Office would have difficulty trying to remove them on human rights [...]

Efforts to bar killer cop from UN mission

Published on: 3rd July, 2009

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Efforts to bar killer cop from UN mission  | read this item

ZIMBABWE – HARARE – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo has been warned against accepting a Zimbabwean police officer to serve with it because of allegations that he was involved in torture whilst working in Harare.
Police sources say senior officials were now looking at withdrawing Inspector Mawone, a ruthless police instructor at Morris [...]

Bennett further remanded to October

Published on: 1st July, 2009

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Bennett further remanded to October

Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Treasurer General and Deputy Minister of Agriculture-designate Roy Bennettis arrested in Harare, Zimbabwe...epa01634802 (FILE) A file photograph dated 18 April 2008 shows Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Treasurer General and Deputy Minister of Agriculture-designate Roy Bennett (L) and Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (R) in Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 April 2008. Bennett was arrested by Zimbabwean police at Prince Charles airport outside Harare, Zimbabwe, as he was about to board a charter flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he has lived in exile in recent years, and transferred to Mutare, some 300km south-east of the capital. EPA/JON HRUSA  | read this item

HARARE – MDC treasurer-general and deputy Agriculture minister-designate, Senator Roy Bennett, facing charges of insurgency, was on Wednesday further remanded to October 13 by a Mutare magistrate.
However, MDC lawyers have said they will oppose further bail at the next remand hearing if the State fails to come up with a trial date. Failure to proceed [...]

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