Terror of Rhodesian bush war days returns
Harare - There are now about 7 000 casualties of the rapidly worsening violence in Zimbabwe as the military's campaign against the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition party hots up, according to doctors treating the injured.
Statistics gathered countrywide in Zimbabwe this week show that only 10 percent of those beaten and tortured are able to get medical treatment. At least 700 people have been treated since the elections.
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\"The Mugabe regime descended on the defenceless people of Zimbabwe as retribution for voting for change. Command structures for the campaign of violence are now fully operational.
\"Mugabe's illegitimate and repressive rule has degenerated into a fascist dictatorship reminiscent of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge reign of terror in Cambodia. It is a crime against humanity … and an abomination for former liberation fighters to indulge in retributive atrocities and human rights abuses against the people they fought to liberate.\"

Tsvangirai would be as mad as Bob to stand in these circumstances
South African President Thabo Mbeki, having failed to query how Zanu-PF knew the result of the presidential election a month before the ZEC, and ignored all reports of murder, torture and intimidation which started immediately thereafter — no doubt in anticipation of the run-off Mugabe had decided on — has now advised religious leaders that he is sending a team to investigate the claims of violence being made in Zimbabwe.

Weapons arrive in Zim - report
The Weekender quoted a Mozambican online newspaper, which reported that the ship had been refuelled by the SAS Drakensberg off the coast of South Africa before sailing north to offload its deadly cargo.

It reported that the ship was offloaded at Ponta Negra in the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, Zimbabwean government officials said it was offloaded in Angola.

The report said that President Thabo Mbeki gave \"a direct instruction\" to Deputy Defence Minister Mluleki George to send the SAS Drakensberg to refuel the An Yue Jiang.

Presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga dismissed the reports, saying \"it seems that the season of propaganda is upon us\".

George said he had no instruction from Mbeki to dispatch the SAS Drakensberg and that the allegations had no substance.

However, the online article also said the arms were flown to Harare in an Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to Avient Aviation, a freight charter airline based in Zimbabwe but registered in the UK. This was confirmed by government officials in Harare, The Weekender said.