Harare - New Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Friday gave beleaguered white farmers some reassurance when he said that people invading their properties with fraudulent documents would be arrested.
His remarks come amid a worsening crisis on the estimated 400 white-owned farms left in the country, where President Robert Mugabe's supporters are forcing their way onto the land, evicting families, seizing their crops and assaulting farm workers.
Harare - Expectations that decades of violent repression meted out by President Robert Mugabe's henchmen would end with the creation of the new coalition government have been bitterly disappointed, a leading local human-rights body said Thursday.
Instead, "not much has changed yet" to the "almost inherent Zimbabwean culture of political victimization and discrimination," said the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO forum in its latest report.
Johannesburg - International advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Southern African leaders meeting next week to discuss aid for Zimbabwe to make any rescue package contingent on an end to human rights abuses.
Leaders of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) political and economic bloc are meeting on Monday in Swaziland to consider a request from Zimbabwe's new unity government for 2 billion dollars in short-term aid.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong lawmakers and human rights activists on Tuesday called for the wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to be banned from the city after she was granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged assault.
Grace Mugabe, 43, escaped prosecution for allegedly attacking a British photographer who took pictures of her on a shopping trip to Hong Kong in January.
Hong Kong - The wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged attack on a newspaper photographer in Hong Kong, officials said Sunday.
The city's Department of Justice decided 43-year-old Grace Mugabe is entitled to immunity despite a police investigation that concluded there was enough evidence to prosecute her over the January 15 incident.
Harare - New Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Friday gave beleaguered white farmers some reassurance when he said that people invading their properties with fraudulent documents would be arrested.
Harare - Expectations that decades of violent repression meted out by President Robert Mugabe's henchmen would end with the creation of the new coalition government have been bitterly disappointed, a leading local human-rights body said Thursday.
Johannesburg - International advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Southern African leaders meeting next week to discuss aid for Zimbabwe to make any rescue package contingent on an end to human rights abuses.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong lawmakers and human rights activists on Tuesday called for the wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to be banned from the city after she was granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged assault.
Hong Kong - The wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged attack on a newspaper photographer in Hong Kong, officials said Sunday.
