Zimbabwe
SALO Women's Month Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue - 13 August 2020
The Southern African Liaison Office hosted a Women’s Month Public Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue, with specific focus on Zimbabwe. The keynote speaker was Tsitsi Dangarembga. The award-winning Zimbabwean author was recently detained overnight …
COVID-19 and the question of Human Security in Zimbabwe
DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION Context Last year (2019) marked the 25th Anniversary of the Human Security concept; it was also a year that highlighted the increasing salience of the adverse impacts of climate change on various communities throughout …
A TALE OF ARRESTS AND TESTS… - UKUTHULA TRUST
Where and How Shall We Care For Ourselves? COVID 19 UPDATE: 2 June 2020 Bulawayo and Rural Matabeleland Arrests and Tests PDF
Zimbabwean Migrant Workshop - 28 May 2020
SALO is hosting an online multi-stakeholder workshop on Zimbabwean migrants and COVID-19 responses.
BREAKING: Zim confirms first Covid-19 case -20 March 2020
source - https://www.herald.co.zw/zim-confirms-first-covid-19-case/ Nyore Madzianike and Joseph Madzimure Zimbabwe has confirmed its first Covid-19 case, a foreigner living in Victoria Falls who appears to have been infected in Britain but …
Judith Todd – The ‘inconvenient’ white woman
Ms Judith Todd, SALO Board Member Source: https://www.chronicle.co.zw/judith-todd-the-inconvenient-white-woman/ Yoliswa Dube-Moyo, Senior Reporter Judith Todd, the second daughter of former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, Sir Garfield …
Finding a way through the Zim deluge by Prof. Brian Raftopolous (SALO Board Member)
The euphoria that marked the end of Robert Mugabe’s stay in power in the November 2017 coup quickly dissipated in the aftermath of these events. The resurgence of authoritarian politics in the form of the post-2018 election violence and the …
Zimbabwe police use force to disperse opposition crowd
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/zimbabwe-police-force-disperse-opposition-crowd-191120111813030.html Riot police in Zimbabwe’s capital have forcefully dispersed supporters of the main opposition party who had gathered to …
South Africa’s Land Reform: Drawing Lessons from Zimbabwe
DATE: Thursday 14th November 2019 TIME: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm VENUE: Sierra Burgers Park Hotel, 424 Lilian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Facilitator: Dr Phillan Zamchiya (D. Phil, Oxford University), UWC: PLAAS Co-facilitator: **Dr Tara Polzer …
End of Mission Statement of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Mr. Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, on his visit to Zimbabwe (17-27 September 2019)
Harare, 27 September 2019 Members of the press, Ladies and gentlemen, In my capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, I conclude today the first official visit carried by …
SALO mourns the loss of Dumiso Dabengwa - 23 May 2019
Dumiso Dabengwa (former Zimbabwean Minister of Home Affairs and a former Zanu- PF Politburo member) addresses a SALO consensus-building workshop at Burgers’ Park Hotel in Pretoria (December 2008) “Last December our beloved Dumiso Dabengwa …
Statements of the ANC and SA Government on Zimbabwe – March 2019
Date and Source 12 March 2019 DIRCO Retrieved from: http://www.dirco.gov.za/docs/2019/zimb0313.htm Statement DIRCO Media Statement: South Africa hands over humanitarian package to Zimbabwe Key Issues “Following the successful two-day …
Statements of the ANC and SA Government on Zimbabwe: January 2019
Date and Source: 20 January 2019, News24 Retrieved from: news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/anc-raises-concerns-over-drc-zim-instability-20190124 Statement News24: ANC and alliance partners hold an NEC lekgotla Key Issues “The ANC has said that it …
LETTER TO AU CHAIRPERSON REQUESTING URGENT INTERVENTION TO PROTECT PEACEFULLY PROTESTING WORKERS AGAINST ALARMING VIOLENCE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE
Your Excellency, The African Regional Organization of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa www.ituc-africa.org ) calls for your urgent intervention with the Government of Zimbabwe to bring an end to the alarming and …
SILENCING OF ZIMBABWEANS DISTURBING – COSATU
Source: https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/silencing-of-zimbabweans-disturbing--cosatu Zanele Matebula | 17 January 2019 Federation condemns forceful nature in which govt of the country is responding to legitimate protests COSATU …
Army, Zanu PF role in protests exposed By Newsday
Source: https://www.newsday.co.zw/2019/01/army-zanu-pf-role-in-protests-exposed/ A SERVING top military official and a police officer were yesterday unmasked as leaders of the deadly protests in the Epworth dormitory town, which led to the …
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY ON THE CRACKDOWN ON LEGITIMATE PROTEST IN ZIMBABWE AND THE SILENCING OF ZIMBABWEAN VOICES BY SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET 15th January 2019
The Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum is deeply concerned about the escalation of violence in Zimbabwe. The level of frustration and anger amongst citizens who feel excluded and alienated by the successive economic and political attacks carried out …
Zimbabwe Dialogue - 5 Dec 2018
In partnership with the Norwegian Embassy and Norwegian People’s Aid, SALO is hosting a diplomatic briefing on Zimbabwe and current issues.
Policy Brief on: Multi-stakeholder Workshop on Regional Peace and Security
On 26 November 2018, the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) together with the Norwegian Embassy hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop entitled ‘Regional Peace and Security Issues’. The Minister of Small and Medium Business Development and …
