The following is a summary of the recommendations the Open Society Institute for Southern Africa (OSISA) is making to SADC ahead of a Maputo meeting which seeks to resolve the political impasse in Zimbabwe.

ZIMBABWE: A WAY FORWARD 

  Executive Summary

The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) makes the following recommendations: Continue...

So SADC has met and made recommendations again. To the scores of people who were hoping for an amicable solution to thepolitical impasse in Zimbabwe, Maputo has been a huge disappointment to dsay the least. But what else could have happened? It was clear that SADC was never going to take a hardl stance on Mugabe. After all, he is a democratically elected president and is duly recognized as such. As for Tsvangirai and the MDC, their 30-day ultimatum is all they to hang on to for now. Whether that will materialize is still a matter of debate. Continue...

HARARE, Zimbabwe, November 11, 2009 Continue...

The People Against Suffering, Suppression, Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP), a South African refugee rights group has claimed that South African insurance firm, Old Mutual is the second largest shareholder in the Zimbabwe government-controlled Zimbabwe Newspapers (ZimPapers), publishers of government mouthpieces The Herald a Continue...

The article below was published on The New York Times website on 14 November 2009.

Dr. Tererai Trent Continue...

Yesterday, our Image of the Day was of Jenni Williams, one of the two women activists from Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA). US president, Barack Obama yesterday presented the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award to founders of WOZA, Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu. The ceremony was held at the White House. Below is a report from the New York Times on this occassion

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