THEMA: Zimbabwe auf dem Weg der Besserung!
11 Jan 2008 16:07 #57214
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Da war ich noch nicht umfassend informiert:
Nampower switches on Zesa
From New Era (Nambia), 9 January

Petronella Sibeene

Windhoek - Namibia has started receiving the first 40 megawatts from Hwange Power Station as part of a multi-million-dollar, 150 megawatts deal signed last year between NamPower and Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa). NamPower spokesperson, John Kaimu, yesterday told New Era that the power started flowing from Zimbabwe on January 3.
Zesa begins Namibia power exports
Zim Independent

Augustine Mukaro

POWER cuts worsened throughout the country this week after the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) started exporting power to Namibia at a time when Mozambican power utilities Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bssa (HC) and Electrica de Mocambique suspended supplies to Zimbabwe over a ballooning debt.

Zesa started exporting 40 megawatts of power to Namibia on January 3 under the Nampower contract, a development that created a major power deficit for local consumers.

Zesa spokesman Fullard Gwasira confirmed the export saying it was a contractual obligation on the part of Zesa.

\"Nampower met its part of the obligation by availing the loan facility, but like all loans, the conditions stipulated that the debt be amortised by power exports,\" he said.

\"The impact of the exports is minimal but by the end of the project, it will leave Zesa with a refurbished plant and better performing units with a greater electricity generation potential.\"

Zesa again confirmed that Mozambique has suspended power supplies to Zimbabwe.

\"The switching off of power is a credit management option which was available for HCB and they have exercised it,\" Gwasira said.

Despite Zesa claims that it had reduced its debt, HCB said the outstanding debt has ballooned to US$26 mllion resulting in the suspension of power supplies.

Zesa last week said it had reduced its debt by US$7million, bringing the amount paid to the power utilities to US$35 million within one and half
a months and it was negotiating for an increase in power exports.

Zesa chief engineer Ben Rafemoyo said they were negotiating with suppliers to increase up to 300 megawatts from the 75 megawatts power currently coming from Mozambique.

The development has plunged more than 70% of the country, mostly cities, into darkness. The areas hit worst by the blackouts this week included Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Masvingo, Chitungwiza, Kadoma, Chpinge, Chegutu, Chiredzi and Marondera.

Load shedding has been restricted to residential areas but has now spread to the city centres and industries.

Gruß, Michael
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07 Apr 2008 13:51 #64563
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Moin zusammen.
Cold sober logic of the man who destroyed Zimbabwe
The president doesn’t like being thwarted. Mugabe faced his first loss of face when he was defeated in a referendum on a draft constitution in 2000.
Blaming whites for supporting the opposition, he encouraged his thugs to seize white commercial farms, even though many farmers had been given legal land rights after 1980. This accelerated the economic meltdown. A few thousand white farmers were ejected, but hundreds of thousands of farm workers were also put out of work. Agriculture collapsed. Famine meant Mugabe’s henchmen could control the countryside by centralising the distribution of food.
The cities turned to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai. Mugabe’s solution? Bulldoze the urban shantytowns. More than 700000 city dwellers lost their homes or livelihoods.
Farming had been destroyed. So had tourism. The final straw was to force foreign companies, especially mining, to give 51% control to indigenous black Zimbabweans, effectively a last handout to Mugabe’s cronies.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A742792

Aus der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 03.04.08 von Michael Bitala
Milliarden für die Mugabe-Holding
Wie die Günstlinge des greisen Diktators mit Hilfe von Staatsfirmen das einst reiche Land wirtschaftlich in den Ruin trieben
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Die Regierungspartei ist ein riesiges Wirtschaftsunternehmen, das von einer Handvoll Männern geleitet wird. Und diese gehören allesamt zu den engsten Vertrauten Mugabes. Die ZANU-PF ist seit fast drei Jahrzehnten im Besitz mehrerer Firmen, die wichtigste davon ist die Zidco Holding, durch die es an nahezu allen Geschäften in Simbabwe beteiligt ist.. Sie hat Anteile an Duty-Free-Shops, Catering-Firmen, Bauunternehmen, Banken, Immobilienfirmen, Maschinen- und Waffenfabriken und an Im- und Exportgeschäften, um nur einige Bereiche zu nennen. Diese Beteiligungen haben der ZANU-PF über viele Jahre hinweg nicht nur Einnahmen in Milliardenhöhe garantiert, ihre Schlüsselfiguren konnten sich über die Zidco Holding auch gut bezahlte Posten in der Wirtschaft sichern. Eine Wahlniederlage Mugabes wäre somit auch ein enormes Verlustgeschäft.

Wie rücksichtslos Mugabes Clique mit dieser Holding gegen die Interessen des Landes gehandelt hat, wurde schon während des Kongo-Krieges deutlich, bei dem simbabwische Militär von 1998 an auf der Seite Kinshasas gegen Uganda und Ruanda gekämpft hat. [Namibia übrigens auch!] Emmerson Mnangagwa, der viele Jahre Schatzmeister der ZANU-PF war und als Nachfolger Mugabes gehandelt wurde, hatte zu diesem Zeitpunkt nicht nur die Vorstandsposten in 14 Zidco-Firmen inne, er handelte mit der Kongo-Regierung auch mehr als ein Dutzend Verträge für Zidco aus. Mugabes Vertraute in Polizei und Militär erhielten dadurch Bergbau-Konzessionen in diesem rohstoffreichen Land und außerdem Lieferverträge für Waffen, Strom und Telefone. Für Simbabwe war der jahrelange Feldzug ein finanzielles Desaster, da er rund eine Million US-Dollar täglich kostete und der Internationale Währungsfond und die Weltbank deshalb Kredite über eine Viertelmilliarde Dollar eingefroren haben. Für Partei-Funktionäre und Militärs aber war es ein gutes Geschäft.
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Auch der ANC hat einen Wirtschaftsableger.

Gruß, Michael
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07 Apr 2008 14:40 #64572
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Hallo Yoshi,

das sind doch olle Kamellen, die Infos hast Du uns doch früher schon mal gepostet. Wichtig ist doch jetzt, welche Auswirkungen das (nicht vorhandene) Ergebnis zur Präsidentschaftswahl hat, hier einige aktuelle Infos:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,545806,00.html

Ich glaube kaum, das die britische und amerikanische Regierung massiv intervenieren werden. Gordon Brown war am Wochenende bei den Protesten gegen China schon auf Tauchstation, George Bush kommt vermutlich mit der Fernbedienung seines Fernsehers nicht klar und weiss mal wieder nicht, was in der großen weiten Welt passiert.

Hoffentlich wird der Mut von Tsvangirai belohnt...
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07 Apr 2008 14:57 #64577
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GRINS

Wirklich aktuelle Informationen findet man hier:

http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/
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07 Apr 2008 15:30 #64580
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Das ist doch mal eine gute Quelle :-)

Und wenn es dann noch mit einer ausgewogenen Auswahl der geposteten Artikel klappt, hast Du einen echten Mehrwert geschaffen...
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Hallo,

vieleicht hilft`s ja tatsächlich wenn möglichst viele Leute aktiv gegen die Zustände protestieren, siehe nachfolgenden Link

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From: Ben Wikler - Avaaz.org
Date: 2008/04/15 06:45:33 AM
Subject: Zimbabwe--Mbeki, time to act

Dear friends,

The Zimbabwe crisis is spinning even further out of control, but the international response is gaining steam.

In less than a week, more than 120,000 people from 215 countries and territories--including thousands from across Africa--have signed the Avaaz petition demanding the release of the election results. On Wednesday, as world leaders enter the United Nations for a special summit chaired by South Africa, a plane hired by Avaaz will soar above them pulling a massive aerial banner reading \"MBEKI: TIME TO ACT--DEMOCRACY FOR ZIMBABWE.\"

To make this message count, can you help us reach 150,000 signatures by the end of the day? Forward this email to your friends and family, and urge them to sign the petition at this link:

www.avaaz.org/en/dem...e/20.php?cl=76887328

Yesterday, the Zimbabwe High Court ruled against requiring the immediate release of the results of the March 29 Presidential election. In response, opposition called for a nationwide strike, and Mugabe deployed police throughout the country.[1]

All of this came just after South African President Thabo Mbeki--who, more than anyone else in the world, could influence Mugabe's actions--said on Saturday that \"there is no crisis in Zimbabwe.\"[2]

But Mbeki isn't off the hook just yet. Tomorrow (Wednesday), he will chair a special United Nations Security Council meeting, where diplomats have promised to raise the Zimbabwe crisis.[3] If he looks up as he enters the United Nations headquarters, Mbeki will see a 280 square metre (3000 square foot) banner amplifying the voices of Avaaz members around the world--and if he doesn't see it then, you can be sure he'll see it in the newspapers the next day. International press have already begun to report on the planned fly-over of the banner.

Throughout the day, Avaaz will update reporters in Southern Africa and at the United Nations on the growth of the petition. If all of us forward this email to friends, co-workers, and relatives, we can add tens of thousands of new signatures in one day, and show Mbeki and Mugabe that the world is watching--and supporting the people of Zimbabwe as they demand democracy.

It's easy to sign at this link:

www.avaaz.org/en/dem...e/20.php?cl=76887328

This Friday, the 18th of April, marks Zimbabwe's Day of Independence from colonial rule. Amidst the worsening poverty and danger, civil society organisations across Zimbabwe are gearing up for nonviolent resistance to Mugabe's regime, calling for local actions and urging supporters to wear white in solidarity. And Zimbabwean media organisations--many now operating outside the borders--are broadcasting news about the international support that Zimbabwe's people are receiving.

Mugabe was once the hero of Zimbabwe's liberation. Now his own people embody the principles he once championed. For those of us around the world, it is our privilege and our responsibility to stand with them.

With hope,

Ben, Ricken, Galit, Paul, Milena, Graziela, Pascal, Iain, and Milena--the Avaaz.org team

Sources:

AFP: Zimbabwe opposition strikers face police crackdown afp.google.com/artic...dG0A1GFJ6SSTbcP_MP8w
Zimbabwe is not in crisis, says Thabo Mbeki www.telegraph.co.uk/...08/04/12/wzim412.xml
Reuters: US, Britain want UN council to tackle Zimbabwe. (See final paragraph.) thestar.com.my/news/...amp;sec=Worldupdates
Zimbabwe National Association of Non Governmental Organizations
www.nango.org.zw/news/view.asp?id=802 _____

ABOUT AVAAZ
Avaaz.org is an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform global decision-making. (Avaaz means \"voice\" in many languages.) Avaaz receives no money from governments or corporations, and is staffed by a global team based in London, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Paris, Washington DC, and Geneva.
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