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By Peta Thornycroft
Southern Africa
11 September 2007
President Robert Mugabe's most outspoken and enduring critic, Pius Ncube,
has quit his post as archbishop so that he can stand trial on charges of
adultery as an individual and not as head of the Catholic Church in
Zimbabwe. Peta Thornycroft for VOA has more.
The Vatican announced Tuesday it had accepted the resignation of Archbishop
Pius Ncube, head of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe's second city Bulawayo.
In July, a collection of grainy photographs apparently taken in the
archbishop's bedroom above the Catholic Cathedral in Bulawayo, were
published in the state media.
The pictures showed a naked man, allegedly Archbishop Pius Ncube, with
Rosemary Sibanda, member of a prominent Catholic Women's organization. Other
more explicit images were screened on state television over several nights
showing the two in bed together.
Bishop Ncube, as he will now be known, has been sued for adultery by the
woman's estranged husband, Onesimus Sibanda, who is claiming about $160,000
in damages.
The case will be heard in the Bulawayo High Court.
In his statement, released to the media Tuesday, Bishop Ncube said he
believed he should face trial as Pius Ncube, an individual and not as the
leader of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe.
He said he wrote to Pope Benedict days after what he says was a "state
driven, vicious attack not just on myself, but by proxy on the Catholic
Church in Zimbabwe." He said his resignation would spare fellow bishops and
the Catholic Church any further attacks.
Two weeks before publication of the pictures, Mr. Mugabe lashed out at
Catholic priests, telling cheering supporters that some priests had sworn to
be celibate but were having sexual relations.
The photographs were taken by Ernest Tekere, a private investigator in
Bulawayo who is well known as a former member of the Central Intelligence
Organization during state-sponsored massacres of Ndebele speaking opposition
supporters in the 1980s.
A close friend of Bishop Ncube's who asked not to be named tells VOA that
the church and wider community will see that he has acted honorably. The
friend said that unlike the government of Zimbabwe, Bishop Ncube has not
committed mass murder, tortured people, nor thrown hundreds of thousands out
of their homes.
Bishop Ncube said he will continue to criticize President Mugabe. He said he
has not been silenced by what he called the crude machinations of a wicked
regime. Bishop Ncube said his new mission will be to help the poor and needy
and that he will continue to call for international food aid and medical
help in Zimbabwe's ongoing national crisis.
Bishop Ncube was not available to the media Tuesday. He was on week-long
retreat of "prayer and reflection" with several Catholic clergymen from
September 11, 2007, 18:00
Diplomatic tension is rising over Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's
attendance at the African Union/European Union (AU/EU) summit later this
year. Some EU members threatened to boycott the summit if Mugabe was allowed
to attend.
But as President Thabo Mbeki received new foreign representatives into the
country today, he said it would best if the summit went ahead. It was a
changing of the guard in the Cypriot and German missions in South Africa.
The two EU members want to nurture the relationship between Europe and
With the long awaited AU/EU summit due to take place in few months in
Portugal, tension is mounting with Britain refusing to attend if Mugabe is
invited. But Germany is among the EU countries that do not agree with this
position. It is an issue that may be raised when German chancellor, Angela
Merkel, visits the country next month.
Germany and South Africa share common views on global poverty, trade and
climate change. They will undoubtedly adopt similar positions on these
issues at the UN in two weeks.
Tue 11 Sep 2007, 17:27 GMT
By Timothy Gardner
NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Having had some success dispelling the myth
that the blood of virgins cures AIDS, Zimbabwean Betty Makoni is now also
fighting what she calls a root cause of the disease -- poverty.
"Many girls don't have anything to eat or drink. Then a sugar daddy comes
and says, 'If you have sex with me I will give you money,' and they are
likely to take the money and get infected with HIV/AIDS," the founder of
non-profit anti-rape group the Girl Child Network said in an interview in
New York.
Zimbabwe's AIDS rate and poverty levels make Makoni's job no easy task. The
country has one of the weakest economies in the world. Fewer than one in
four citizens have jobs, and the inflation rate is the world's highest,
hitting 7,600 percent in July.
One in five adults has AIDS, according to the United Nations, a level that
has helped sink the country's average life expectancy into the 30s, from
nearly 60 in 1990. Girls and women are far more likely to have the disease
than men.
Makoni, who herself was raped at an early age, formed the GCN in 1998. A
former schoolteacher, she was moved when two thirds of her girl pupils had
left class by the end of the year because they got AIDS, were married away
to members of religious sects, or had to return to work in their homes.
"Betty inspires these girls to do work I haven't seen in any other country,"
said Paola Gianturco, author of a new book titled "Women Who Light the
Dark," published this month by powerHouse books, in which Makoni is
The GCN now operates in the majority of Zimbabwe's rural districts with 450
clubs serving 30,000 girls and is beginning to expand into nearby countries.
The network fights rape by empowering girls and keeping them in school.
Thousands of girls have been given underwear by GCN on which parts of
national sexual violence laws have been written, so they know when their
rights have been violated.
She counts the village of Rusape as one of her successes. In 2000 there were
200 rapes reported there; now there are none, she said. The myth that the
blood of virgins mixed with herbs kills AIDS has been wiped out in Rusape,
she said.
But in other regions of the country, particularly near the Mozambique
border, the myth remains strong. Men either collect the blood after breaking
girls' hymens or after cutting their breasts -- wounds that often end up
killing the victim -- and use it themselves or sell it to men who have AIDS.
Time has taught Makoni to fight AIDS from all sides. "At the beginning we
were not trying to fight poverty; we thought there was a problem with
attitudes, beliefs and practices, but poverty can worsen AIDS," she said.
She helps give girls school basics because without education a girl is
nothing, she said. She said empowerment from education can help girls resist
male attacks, early marriage and religious sects that perform illegal
virginity testing. GCN supplies girls with food, drink, a school uniform,
pens and paper. "You can't empower yourself on an empty stomach," she said.
The network also directs some donations into buying the girls sanitary
pads -- which are rare in the country. Many Zimbabwean girls are not allowed
to go to school for up to five days a month when they menstruate, and
difficulties from the lost days can make them drop out. Makoni said sewing
machines can help them make sanitary pads out of cloth and keep girls in
The girls' clubs also raise money for education by growing vegetables, which
they can also eat, or holding dances.
SW Radio Africa (London)
11 September 2007
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Lance Guma
Over 80 percent of teachers under the 12 000 strong Progressive Teachers
Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) have heeded a call to down tools this week to press
demands for a 500 percent salary hike.
According to the union's Harare Province Chairperson Jacob Rukweza, teachers
in Hatcliffe, Chitungwiza, Dzivarasekwa, Mabvuku, Epworth and all the other
western suburbs like Warren Park, are clocking in at work but refusing to
teach. But the PTUZ say state security agents under the Central Intelligence
Organisation (CIO) are moving around schools using government vehicles and
trying to intimidate them.
The visits are being disguised as assessment trips meant to gauge the impact
of the strike. Rukweza however says by interviewing leaders from both the
PTUZ and the bigger ZIMTA union, the agents are in fact trying to intimidate
their officials. Asked how the strike was proceeding countrywide, Rukweza
says the response has been huge. In Bulawayo the PTUZ coordinator Enock
Paradzai says teachers in the city actually stopped teaching last week when
the others were still on a go-slow. In the Midlands, coordinator Wilbert
Muringani also reports a significant response. By late Tuesday he was said
to be headed to Gokwe, where they have a large membership, to assess the
response to the strike.
Other cities where the strike is ongoing include Mutare and Masvingo. The
PTUZ called on its representatives to ignore the CIO's who are moving around
interviewing them adding they were just as poor and struggling to make ends
meet as the teachers. This week the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)
added pressure on government by calling for a general strike on the 19th and
20th September. They are protesting a wage freeze imposed by Mugabe at the
end of August. The teacher's strike will run until the 17th of the month 2
days before the ZCTU strike, officials said.
Zim Online
Tuesday 11 September 2007
By Regerai Marwezu
MASVINGO - Zimbabwean teachers have threatened to embark on a sit-in
beginning today and gave the government until 17 September to respond to
their demands for better wages or face a full-scale strike.
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday announced the
nationwide sit-in and warned that its members would "down tools" completely
if the government fails to increase their salaries.
PTUZ president Takafireyi Zhou said teachers had been on a "go-slow" since
the beginning of the school term last Tuesday and that the industrial action
was now moving to the next stage of a sit-in.
The teachers would continue reporting for work but would refuse to conduct
"If by September 17 we fail to get any positive results from the employer,
we will stay away from work," Zhou told ZimOnline.
The teachers and other civil servants petitioned the government at the end
of July, demanding 400 percent salary increments to cushion them from
mounting poverty and the biting cost of living.
They threatened at the time to abandon classrooms if the government did not
increase their salaries to $15 million a month with effect from September
from about $2.9 million currently.
The teachers also demanded a review of their housing allowance, introduction
of a $3 million retention allowance and exemption from paying school fees
for their children.
"These demands have to be met with immediate effect because we tabled them
before our employer long back," said Zhou.
The demands were submitted to the Public Service Commission and the Ministry
of Education, Sports and Culture through the APEX council that represents
all civil servants.
Education Minister Aeneas Chigwedere yesterday said he was not aware of the
"I am yet to be given that report from the provinces. May be by the end of
the day I will have an answer," Chigwedere said when contacted for comment.
In the southern Masvingo province, some teachers confirmed they had not
conducted lessons since schools opened last week.
"We are just reporting for work and sit without conducting lessons. This
time the strike will be successful because every teacher is not happy with
his or her salary," said a teacher at Don Bosco Primary School in Masvingo
who refused to be named fearing victimisation.
He said about 50 percent of the teachers at the school had so far not
reported for duty since schools opened on 4 September.
This was confirmed by education officials here who said the teachers are
using the excuse that they could not afford bus fare to get to work.
"The situation has reached critical levels and we hope by next week we will
have a clear picture," said a senior Ministry of Education official who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
Teachers in Zimbabwean public schools have during the past seven years
clashed with their employer over poor remuneration in a country grappling
with world record inflation of over 7 600 percent.
The government has responded by deploying state security agents to schools
to intimidate the teachers but Zhou said that tactic would not work this
"We are aware that the government will deploy its state agents to intimidate
those who will join the industrial action but we will soldier on despite
these threats," he said.
A recent survey by PTUZ revealed that 7 200 teachers had left the country
since January this year in frustration over low pay and working conditions.
This is 44 percent more than the 5 000 teachers who left the country in the
whole of last year.
The bulk of the teachers left to seek employment in Botswana, South Africa,
Namibia and Swaziland.
The worst affected would be peri-urban and rural schools because teachers
would not afford high transport costs.
Zimbabwe is grappling with a severe brain drain as professionals continue
leaving the country to regional and overseas destinations in search of
better paying jobs.
It is estimated that there are 10 000 Zimbabwean teachers in South Africa,
some of them doing menial jobs.
The South African government recently said it wanted to recruit foreign
teachers to teach science and mathematics and that it preferred the
"well-trained" teachers from its troubled northern neighbour. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Tuesday 11 September 2007
By Sebastian Nyamhangambiri
HARARE - Zimbabwe's government on Monday angrily reacted to calls by
labour leaders for fresh protests by workers, threatening to deal with union
officials it accused of seeking to plunge the country into chaos.
Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi said he and other security
officials would most likely discuss today a Zimbabwe Congress of Trade
Unions (ZCTU)-led work stoppage planned for September 19 and 20.
The government, which has in the past arrested ZCTU leaders and sent
armed police and soldiers onto the streets to crush worker protests, said it
was not going to "sit and watch" the union cripple Zimbabwe with job
strikes, according to Mohadi.
"We are likely to discuss the issue tomorrow with the security
ministry," said Mohadi, who is in charge of the police.
"The government will deal with the ZCTU leaders if they want to cause
chaos to this country. We cannot sit and watch them while they do what they
want," he said.
Zimbabwe's labour movement at the weekend said it was calling the job
stayaway to pressure the government to lift a ban on salary increases
announced by President Robert Mugabe last week that union officials have
described as "satanic' and meant to reduce workers to paupers.
Mugabe used powers granted him under the Presidential Powers
(Temporary Measures) Act to order a freeze price and salary increases, which
he said was necessary to halt galloping inflation.
Inflation, labelled Zimbabwe's number one enemy by Mugabe, is more
than 7 600 percent and the highest in the world.
The ZCTU, which before the salary and price freeze had called on the
government and business to link salaries to inflation, says the freeze is
illegal because it violates the rights of worker's to negotiate and bargain
for better remuneration.
ZCTU president Lovemore Matombo was not immediately available to
respond to threats by the government to thwart protests by workers.
Inflation is the most visible sign of Zimbabwe's deep recession that
has left more than 80 percent of workers without jobs while those lucky to
still hold a formal job are unable to feed their families because of
ever-rising prices.
The Harare administration last June ordered business to reduce prices
of all goods by 50 percent, in a desperate attempt to halt inflation that
has however had damaging consequences with most basic goods no longer
available in shops because factories cannot produce at a loss. - ZimOnline
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11 September 2007
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Henry Makiwa
Residents in Zimbabwe's two biggest cities, Harare and Bulawayo, discussed
or took action Tuesday against water and electricity service providers,
following the long-running crises, affecting both services.
In the capital, residents from Mbare and Sunningdale high-density suburbs
stormed the offices of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) and
Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) demanding an audience with the
bosses. The residents delivered a petition calling for the two authorities
to explain the current power and water cuts. Their efforts however proved
futile as ZESA and ZINWA leaders snubbed meeting the residents.
Sunningdale and Mbare residents, led by Combined Harare Residents
Association (CHRA) chairpersons and coordinators representing five wards,
threatened to "protest soon" against ZINWA and ZESA.
CHRA advocacy officer Jabulani Shumba said the residents were particularly
bitter about the cold response they received from the two authorities.
Shumba said: "The people were unhappy with the way they were snubbed by the
ZINWA and ZESA bosses especially given that they pay their taxes and
charges, hence are justified to seek an audience. Because ZINWA and ZESA
wouldn't respond, the residents feel forced to resort to one form of
protest: a demonstration. The government has been told over and over again
about the need to increase the capacity of both ZINWA and ZESA but has not
done anything."
Shumba added that there was no improvement in the provision of water despite
the recent allocation of some funds to ZINWA in government's supplementary
budget last week.
In Bulawayo, city elders and representatives of the residents' association
were locked in an all-day meeting to map out action to force government into
resolving the crisis.
Bulawayo residents have also called on the government and the donor
community to drill more boreholes across the country's second largest city
and avert a looming catastrophe.
Churches in Zimbabwe's second largest city, are launching emergency
distributions of water and warning of 'disastrous' water shortages that
could lead to diseases like cholera. The churches report that three of the
five dams supplying the city's population of 700,000 have run out of water,
with the fourth due to run dry later this month.
Bulawayo town councillor Charles Mpofu said stopgap measures to the water
crisis were needed as a "matter of urgency".
Mpofu said: "Of the 77 boreholes we had drilled across the city earlier this
year, only 8 remain functional now. To make matters worse, the government is
not doing anything to repair them, let alone provide an alternative option
to the crisis. This situation calls for a sensitive and credible government,
not the one we have. We are instead focusing our priorities and attention on
donor organisations requesting aid. As it is the people are very bitter and
the situation may spark an implosion if it persists."
Already, the British aid agency Tearfund which works through local churches,
is preparing to supply twenty 5000-litre water tanks to be placed in
communities where the need is greatest in Bulawayo.
Churches say the catastrophic decline in water supplies is due to
unregulated farm resettlements putting pressure on supplies, plus a dispute
between national and local government over the city's water supply,
vandalism and drought.
September 11 2007 at 08:40PM
Harare - Zimbabwe's main opposition party Tuesday accused President
Robert Mugabe's government of bribing traditional chiefs by giving them
brand new vehicles ahead of elections due next year.
Thirty-eight chiefs were given the open-backed vans on Monday at a
ceremony in the capital.
The handouts are part of a programme to equip the country's 266 chiefs
with vehicles before year-end, the official Herald newspaper reported. The
programme began four years ago, the paper said.
But the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) described the gesture as
bribery meant to coerce the traditional leaders into doing the ruling
ZANU-PF's bidding ahead of joint presidential and parliamentary elections
due in March.
It is by no coincidence that the vehicles are being handed over now,
the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC party said in a statement.
Chiefs hold massive sway over the rural electorate, and are seen as
key ruling party allies in its political strongholds in the countryside.
Earlier this year the chiefs reportedly endorsed Mugabe, who will be
seeking his fourth term in office at the age of 84, as their candidate of
choice in the 2008 polls.
But the MDC Tuesday accused Mugabes party of abusing a respected
No government should abuse civic institutions and our respected elders
for selfish political ends that are inimical to their traditional roles, the
party said.
According to the report in the Herald some of the chiefs were
delighted with their new vehicles.
My people are footsore. There are no buses in my area. This vehicle
would be the ambulance and public transporter, Chief Sogwala from central
Zimbabwe was quoted as saying. - Sapa-DPA
Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:30AM BST
HARARE, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Mozambique has doubled daily electricity
supplies to Zimbabwe, helping to ease an acute power shortage in the
southern African country amid a severe economic crisis, state media reported
on Tuesday.
Zimbabwe has suffered chronic electricity shortages that have hit industries
and mines, adding to an economic crisis and rising political tension over
President Robert Mugabe's 27-year rule.
Mozambique will now meet almost half of Zimbabwe demand of 650 megawatts a
day, Zimbabwe's power utility said.
State-owned ZESA chief executive Ben Rafemoyo told the official Herald
newspaper that Mozambique's Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) had, since
last week, increased supplies to Zimbabwe from 150 megawatts to 300
megawatts a day.
Zimbabwe also receives electricity from South Africa, Zambia and the
Democratic Republic of Congo, but foreign currency shortages have made
payments erratic, angering suppliers.
HCB had cut power exports to its neighbour during the southern hemisphere
2007 winter after Zimbabwe failed to pay, but Rafemoyo said the Mozambican
utility had agreed to increase supplies despite arrears amounting to $20
"We negotiated with them...and they understood our plight. So, they really
responded positively and decided to add 150 megawatts from what we have been
getting," Rafemoyo said.
"We have very huge foreign obligations to HCB. We are yet to pay our bills
for July and August and in total we have outstanding obligations of four
months' supply, which is around $20 million, but they have maintained
supplies to us."
Apart from erratic power supplies, Zimbabweans have to cope with persistent
food, fuel and foreign currency shortages.
Critics blame Zimbabwe's economic crisis -- highlighted by the highest
inflation rate in the world above 7,600 percent -- on Mugabe's controversial
policies, such as the seizure of white-owned commercial farms to resettle
Mugabe, however, denies mismanaging the economy and blames Western
The Herald (Harare) Published by the government of Zimbabwe
11 September 2007
Posted to the web 11 September 2007
GOVERNMENT will spend up to $32,9 billion on monitoring and stabilising
prices until year-end, while $36 billion has been earmarked for use by the
National Incomes and Pricing Commission.
Finance Minister Dr Samuel Mumbengegwi said last Thursday $17,5 billion will
be utilised on capital expenditure by the National Incomes and Pricing
The commission will spend an additional $18,5 billion on recurrent
These are the first grants from Treasury targeted at ensuring pricing sanity
in a market rendered volatile by rampant distortions caused by speculation.
Mr Elliot Manyika, chairman of the Cabinet Taskforce on Price Monitoring and
Stabilisation, was not immediately available to comment. His office said he
was in meetings the whole day.
The commission is, however, expected to assume a leading role in coming up
with strategies that stabilise prices and incomes.
It was set up against a background of speculative pricing and shrinking
Inflation, which climbed to 7 364 percent year-on-year in July, presents one
of the most difficult obstacles for the commission.
Keeping tabs on the rate at which prices and incomes rise would go a long
way in stifling inflation growth, say analysts.
Already, Government has tried to stop inflation-indexed pay rises, as a way
of controlling the scourge.
On June 25, Government imposed a blanket freeze on all prices at the June 18
levels, but has been gradually reviewing the prices over the last month.
The controls were meant to restore sanity to the market place, which had
seen most basic commodities rising beyond the reach of the average worker.
Other factors such as reducing money supply growth and cutting of the budget
deficit remain critical to bringing down inflation, once described by
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Dr Gideon Gono as the country's number one
The Herald (Harare) Published by the government of Zimbabwe
11 September 2007
Posted to the web 11 September 2007
HARARE City Council has launched a four-month blitz to rid the central
business district of illegal vendors, vagrants, street children and touts,
officials said yesterday.
Chamber secretary Mrs Josephine Ncube said municipal police would be
deployed from 6am to 10pm in the CBD and the Avenues area until yearend to
remove such elements from the streets.
"The project runs until the end of December. We hope to have spruced the
image of the city centre by then."
So far, Mrs Ncube said, 879 people had been arrested while 1,1 tonnes of
perishables had been confiscated.
Peace and order prevailed in Harare yesterday following the launch of the
Vendors could be seen milling around their selling points with no wares on
display, as they played hide-and-seek with the municipal police.
Operations to rid the city of illegal traders have yielded little success in
the past as the street people often resurface at the end of the blitz.
Mrs Ncube said street children and vagrants presented challenges to the city
because there was no permanent place to put them.
"We are waiting for the Government to identify a place where we can take
these people. This would be very soon," she said.
She said those arrested were being taken to the Zimbabwe Republic Police's
licensing unit where they would be released after paying admission of guilt
fines and have their goods confiscated.
From NewZimbabwe, 11 September
By Staff Reporter
Five of eight Zimbabwean asylum seekers held at a British immigration
removal centre for women went on hunger strike on Monday, pressing for their
release. The eight - detained at Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre in
Bedford - have been told they face deportation to Malawi and South Africa
after UK authorities refused to accept they were Zimbabweans who travelled
on foreign passports to beat a new visa regime introduced in Harare. Britain
has stopped deportations to Zimbabwe pending the outcome of a country
guidance case known as HS Zimbabwe. Judgment in the case was reserved after
a week-long hearing last month. Human rights groups say Zimbabweans face an
automatic risk of torture if deported back to the southern African country
where President Robert Mugabe is accused of human rights abuses. Maud
Kadango Lennard, a spokesperson for the striking detainees, told New
Zimbabwe.com that they would not call off the hunger strike until they were
released. "We are determined to resist deportation to countries whose
geography and systems are alien to us," said the 36-year-old who came to
England in January 2004 on a Malawian passport. "The Home Office, against
all the evidence, has refused to accept that we are Zimbabwean and we are
saying that is wrong. It's convenient for them, but potentially hazardous
for us." Hundreds of Zimbabweans who bought travel documents in neighbouring
countries in order to avoid visa restrictions imposed on the country have
been told they will not be considered for UK asylum.
Lawyers and human rights groups say the UK is endangering Zimbabwean asylum
seekers who are detained and interrogated on arrival in Malawi and South
Africa, and face criminal prosecution for using fake travel documents. The
deportees are then handed to Zimbabwean authorities, with no system in place
to check their wellbeing. Lennard said she was detained after overstaying in
the UK, while other Zimbabwean detainees were arrested after being found
working. She has been told she will be deported to Malawi on September 19. A
letter from the Home Office, seen by New Zimbabwe.com, states that she left
Zimbabwe on a valid Malawian passport on January 27, 2004, and transited via
Egypt, arriving in the UK a day later. She was refused leave to enter the UK
on arrival, but granted a temporary admission on condition that she would
catch a flight back to Zimbabwe on January 30, 2004, but she absconded. She
was detained after turning up at Heathrow Terminal 3 to claim asylum on
August 8 last month. The Home Office wrote to her: "You disputed the fact
that you would be returned to Malawi as you claim to be from Zimbabwe.
However, you hold a valid Malawian (sic) and are therefore removable to
Malawi." Lennard's appeal was dismissed on August 30 - a judge ruling that
she was not in danger of being persecuted if deported to Malawi, "and
accepted the fact that she was entitled to a Malawian passport".
Campaigners said there were many similar cases of the Home Office deporting
Zimbabweans to foreign countries after refusing to accept several forms of
identification disproving their assumed identities on the false travel
documents. Sarah Harland of the campaigning Zimbabwe Association said they
had tried to make representations to the Home Office to no avail. And New
Zimbabwe.com's legal columnist, Lloyd Msipa, said: "The tragedy of this
situation is that once these Zimbabweans are deported, they are forgotten.
It's like putting people on a conveyer belt to nowhere. Nobody wants to
touch these cases with a long stick because legal aid is no longer available
to most of them, and the cases are notoriously difficult to win. I have seen
people who have produced birth and death certificates of their parents,
letters from headmen and many other forms of identification to invalidate
their false passports, but they all suffer the same fate." Rights groups
have been pushing the UK government to follow-up on people who have been
deported to guarantee their safety - one of the key elements of the argument
in the HS Zimbabwe case. Although Air Zimbabwe and British Airways have both
refused to fly deportees, some airlines like Kenyan Airways and Air Malawi
continue to accept deportees. They have previously been targeted by
campaigners. Flight captains are handed the passports of any deportees on
their planes, which they hand over to immigration officers on arrival at
their destination - a process which rights groups say invariably leads to
lengthy questioning for the asylum seekers and harassment. Hunger strikes
have been tried by asylum seekers in the past, including other
nationalities, with very little success. No comment was immediately
available from the Home Office last night.
BuaNews (Tshwane)
11 September 2007
Posted to the web 11 September 2007
Thabisile Khoza
Police arrested over 1200 people in Limpopo over the weekend for helping to
smuggle illegal Zimbabwean immigrants into the country and Zimbabwean
A total of 92 police stations in the province worked together as part of
Operation Vulindela (meaning make way), which kicked off on Friday and ended
Cigarettes worth over R200 000 were seized and 1 212 people were arrested by
Monday morning on charges related to smuggling illegal foreigners into the
country, murder, attempted murder, robbery, assault, possession of
unlicensed firearms, dagga and stolen property.
Provincial police spokesperson Superintendent Mohale Ramatseba said on
Tuesday: "There was also zero tolerance approach to people who urinated and
drank in public, drove recklessly and carried dangerous weapons."
He said 120 people had already paid admission of guilt fines.
Operation Vulindela will continue through out the week as police set up
roadblocks and conduct raids and patrols, said Ramatseba.
He warned people not to drink in public, or to sell liquor without a license
or to allow minors to buy alcohol.
"We will also make sure that the person who sent the child to a liquor
outlet gets prosecuted," he said.
In April the Limpopo provincial police task team in Limpopo had a major
success when they managed to arrest a suspected robber while the alleged
suspect posed as a victim of crime and tried to open a case at the Polokwane
police station.
The suspect claimed that his VW Kombi - which was used in an attempted
cash-in-transit heist earlier Monday - was hijacked from him.
The kombi was found abandoned at Ga-Maja village after a failed attempted
robbery following quick intervention by members of the police's crime
intelligence gathering unit from the head office.
It is alleged that the armed robbers attacked a cash-in-transit vehicle and
fired several shots at the security guards but the driver managed to drive
away towards Sebediela until the robbers returned.
After realising that the cash-in-transit vehicle managed to flee the scene,
the robbers then returned towards Polokwane.
A Toyota Camry and a VW Kombi, which were used in the attempted robbery,
were later found abandoned in different places.
The owner of the VW Kombi, who is alleged to have been part of the robbers,
went to the police, claiming that his vehicle had been hijacked and was
arrested upon further interrogation by the police.
Another suspect was arrested in the Polokwane taxi rank while in possession
of an AK-47 rifle.
He was shot on the thigh while trying to open fire at the police.
By Blessing Zulu
10 September 2007
South African President Thabo Mbeki's influence in Zimbabwean politics faces
a test this week as the politiburo and central committee of the country's
ruling party meet to discuss proposals emerging from the crisis resolution
talks he is mediating.
Sources in the ZANU-PF ruling party and the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change said a consensus has been reached by the two parties to
the talks as to the shape of a constitutional amendment awaiting action by
the parliament. The amendment would make sweeping changes in the electoral
It remains to be seen if ZANU-PF hard-liners will accept the compromise
deal. Sources said negotiators agreed the lower house would expand from 150
to 210 seats, none of which would be presidentially appointed. On the senate
side the president will name 35 out of 93 senators - the upper chamber
currently has 66 seats.
The negotiators who met in Pretoria recently also agreed to hold local
elections as well as presidential, general and senate elections at the same
time in March of next year - as matter stand, the local elections were to be
held in January.
The Pretoria compromise tightens the rules for redistricting from what the
ruling party had proposed in its draft amendment, allowing only a 20%
variance in the population of redrawn districts, as opposed to the 25%
variance ZANU-PF had proposed.
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, lead negotiator for ZANU-PF, was
expected to table the amendment legislation in parliament on Tuesday, Sept.
Some found encouragement in the compromises in Pretoria - but Senior
Researcher Chris Maroleng of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria
told reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that piecemeal
changes to the constitution cannot ensure that next year's Zimbabwe
elections will be free and fair.
Cape Town-based political analyst Glen Mpani agreed, saying Harare needs to
scrap draconian laws including in particular Public Order and Security Act
and the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which
respectively have been used by Harare to stifle political dissent and press
In other parliamentary business, sources said the government will amend its
so-called indigenization legislation to provide that companies obliged to
cede a 51% controlling stake in their enterprise will also be obliged to
fund such indigenous investments.
The government would impose a levy on publicly traded or privately held
firms to fund what it describes as an economic empowerment fund. Harare had
proposed to fund the takeovers itself, but finance ministry sources say this
would be too expensive.
They noted that projected public revenues will only fund about Z$37 trillion
of the Z$255 trillion supplementary budget presented to parliament last
Harare economist John Robertson called the latest proposal "a wicked act."
Dennis Mandudzo, a U.S.-based doctoral candidate in finance, said the
proposed modification to the indigenization legislation will further spur
investor flight.
Zim Online
Tuesday 11 September 2007
Your Excellency President Silva
RE: Revocation of President Robert Mugabe's invitation to the African,
Caribbean, and Pacific-European Union (ACP-EU) Summit
We have learned with profound regret your intentions to invite Robert
Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, to attend the ACP-EU summit
to be held in Lisbon, Portugal in December, 2007.
As Zimbabweans, we humbly prevail upon you to reconsider and rescind this
invitation as a protest against the flagrant human rights violations and
unrestrained vile abuses blatantly committed by Mugabe and his associates
upon Zimbabwe's civil society.
Zimbabwe is now an oligarchy with the highest inflation rate in the world
due to mismanagement, racist agrarian reform policies, corruption, looting
of state coffers and the gross incompetence of its government.
This has precipitated the collapse of industry, commerce, health delivery
system, education and all essential services.
State sanctioned violence through torture, arbitrary arrests and detention,
coupled with extra judicial killings are now the preferred governance tools
of the Mugabe dictatorship.
Purveyor of tyranny, Robert Mugabe has no place on the high table of world
It is psychological torture for ordinary Zimbabweans, victims of his brutal
repression, to watch him wine and dine with respected democratic leaders at
such an esteemed meeting while we wallow in abject poverty and perpetual
Mugabe no longer has the trust, mandate, or authority over the people of
Zimbabwe except for his militias and sycophantic party functionaries.
Zimbabwe is a signatory to the Cotonou Agreement which is unambiguous in its
principles and ethics on fundamental issues of good governance, human rights
and corruption.
Part 3.1 of the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement reads: Respect for human rights,
democratic principles and the rule of law are essential elements of the
Mugabe is a divisive dictator who has egotistically become the torchbearer
for kleptocracy and his invitation to the ACP-Summit is converse to
democratic principles and international humanitarian law.
We anticipate and collectively hope and pray that your timely, humble,
steadfast posture shall be consistent with European Union charters, values
and norms, thus rendering a mortal blow to tyranny and usher a new era for
peace, democracy, freedom and justice to Zimbabwe in particular and Africa
in general.
Zimbabweans eagerly await your intrepid actions and anxiously look forward
to your historic rejoinder.
Kind regards
Phil Matibe
Zim Online
Tuesday 11 September 2007
By Nigel Hangarume
HARARE - Tourism Minister Francis Nhema is confident a FIFA delegation
expected in Zimbabwe tomorrow will give the country a thumbs-up to host
visitors to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The four-day visit had initially been scheduled to start on Monday, but
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief executive Karikoga Kaseke said the
itinerary would now start tomorrow.
He did not give reasons for the postponement.
The FIFA officials want to assess accommodation and other facilities in
Zimbabwe, which is taking advantage of its proximity to South Africa to reap
benefits from the football tournament.
Nhema admitted Zimbabwe had challenges but has confidence in the country's
"We have some of the best hotels and tourist attractions like the Victoria
Falls which I believe every tourist coming to southern Africa would want to
visit," he said.
The FIFA inspectors visit at a time Zimbabwe is failing to reverse an
economic recession dramatised by the world's highest inflation of over 7 500
percent as well as serious shortages of food, fuel and electricity.
Despite the challenges, which also include crumbling infrastructure, Nhema
still thinks Zimbabwe will be an ideal tourist destination.
"The problems we have in the case of food and shortages of basic goods is
just about pricing systems and I believe it's something that will be sorted
out soon as government and business continue to negotiate," Nhema said.
"Otherwise we have all that a tourist might want - above all peace and
tranquility - and I don't see the FIFA officials giving us a thumbs-down."
Nhema said renovations of hotels and other tourist facilities had already
Zimbabwe is also renovating the National Sports Stadium and Rufaro Stadium
in Harare, where FIFA is funding the installation of an artificial turf.
It could not be established yesterday who will make up the FIFA
delegation. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Tuesday 11 September 2007
Own Correspondent
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe has used up the bulk of a South African Reserve Bank
loan facility amid revelations Harare was behind on payments of medical
expenses for military veterans now resident in South Africa.
Although details of the loan facility remained sketchy last night, South
Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told the country's parliament
yesterday that the 75 million rand facility to President Robert Mugabe's
government was secured against South African Land Bank bills worth more than
81 million rands.
According to Manuel, the Harare authorities had by the end of July used 73.2
million rand of the facility expected to expire on 31 December 2007.
"The facility is secured by a pledge of South African Land Bank bills to the
value of 81.8 million rand," Manuel said.
He did not say when the facility was agreed or what the loan was for.
News of the loan facility comes exactly two years after the internationally
isolated Mugabe approached South Africa for a US$500 million loan to help
stop the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy.
The loan talks collapsed when Mugabe refused to accept the terms attached to
the loan, which included economic and political reforms.
Manuel also announced yesterday that the Zimbabwean government had reneged
on payments to the South African government for the medical expenses of
Zimbabwe military veterans staying in South Africa.
"Since 2000, the Zimbabwean government has not refunded these payments as
specified in the agreement. As at 31 July 2007, the amount overdue was 2.2
million rand," Manuel said. - ZimOnline
Zim Online
Tuesday 11 September 2007
By Tafirei Shumba
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe has gone pop featuring in a fresh
propaganda piece of music that is receiving massive airplay on
state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) radio.
Mugabe was never known to have a knack for pop music until this week when
the new release titled Beitbridge hit the airwaves.
ZimOnline could not immediately establish the producers of the song but
understands Mugabe's information ministry was responsible.
The president's gravelly voice booms in his trademark raucous style in the
piece done by songbird Nonsi, a popular supporter of government propaganda.
Nonsi comes in with the lead vocals beckoning listeners: "Come to Zimbabwe
and see the city of Beitbridge . . . our beautiful city . . . a symbol of a
lovely country . . . the future of our children lies in our hands..."
Mugabe does not waste time corroborating Nonsi's lyrics with a chorus heavy
with his unmistakable intonation: "Pamberi neBeitbridge (forward with
Beitbridge) . . . nekuvaka Beitbridge (forward with developing Beitbridge) .
. . kudya kuBeitbridge (food to the people of Beitbridge)... Dhorobha redu
iri hatidi kuti murambe muri shure richisekwa, aiwa. Takazvipira kuti
Beitbridge tiisimudzire isvike pamusoro (we don't want Beitbridge to lag in
development. We are committed to the development of Beitbridge)."
Mugabe did not necessarily have to go to the studio for the recording.
What the producers did was to lift sections of a speech by Mugabe sometime
ago while on a visit to Beitbridge, on the border with South Africa,
blending parts of the speech into Nonsi's vocals, interchangeably, to
produce the song, desperate propaganda in a futile bid to endear the
unpopular ruler with Zimbabwe's opposition southern regions.
The song, arranged in Zimbabwean pop style, borders on the traditional jiti
fusion and is played with nauseating frequency on all stations.
An announcer at ZBC, who cannot be named, told ZimOnline yesterday: "That
one (Beitbridge) is being treated by bosses here (ZBC) as second only to the
national anthem. They are so crazy about the recording and we play it at
least twice in every hour.
"And that's an order by the way, it's not by choice because no sane
presenter would play that kind of stuff that talks about giving food to the
people of Beitbridge when everyone knows there is no food to give. It's
being spiteful, it's sick, immoral, insensitive and ill-timed."
The song is a bad reminder of the days of former information minister
Jonathan Moyo whose office bombarded listeners with disgusting praise songs
and jingles some of which Moyo himself wrote and were recorded by PaxAfro, a
young outfit of cheerleaders that vanished with Moyo's sacking from
Zimbabwe's information ministry operates a strong budget for propaganda
purposes and runs numerous musical galas countrywide hosting a staggering 20
bands or more in a single show.
Broadcast live on television for 12 straight hours - 6pm to 6am - the galas
are a record, in their own right, for the longest uninterrupted live
televised musical shows that are merely a ZANU PF propaganda tool where
ministers and party heavies get together to drink and dance the night away
with the crowds.
One such gala is on in Beitbridge next week to commemorate the late Simon
Muzenda who together with Joshua Nkomo, also late, were Mugabe's deputies at
the formation of the government of national unity when the warring ZANU PF
and PF ZAPU merged in 1987.
The broadcaster is not paid for the transmission of the galas and is
expected to offer free service in the name of national service.
But financial technocrats at the station's Pockets Hill headquarters say
government was taking ZBC for a ride hoodwinking the docile broadcaster to
prop up support for the ruling party.
With the release of Mugabe's Beitbridge, ZANU PF and cabinet can now boast
of "pop" celebrities in their ranks.
Elliot Manyika, the party's national commissar, recorded the "smash hit"
revolutionary Nora. Chen Chimutengwende former information minister and now
recycled back into government is known for his kwasa-kwasa artistry while
Mugabe's late deputy Simon Muzenda was popular for his traditional
ngororombe dance which he always performed in public in between writing and
reciting poetry.
As of now it would probably be too early to say if Mugabe would feature in a
video version of Beitbridge should the producers decide to shoot one.
If that happens viewers might just be lucky to enjoy the rare opportunity of
seeing, in motion picture, how good or bad at waltzing their 83-year-old
leader is. - ZimOnline.


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Applying the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF)
Towards a more comprehensive refugee response
Despite the challenges generated by the influx from South Sudan over the past year, Uganda maintains one of the most progressive policies to refugee protection. With an open-door policy, the Government upholds an inclusive approach, granting refugees freedom of movement, the right to seek employment, establish businesses and access public services such as education, on par with nationals.
Refugees in Uganda do not live in camps. In line with Uganda's settlement approach – which the Government pledged to continue at the Leaders' Summit on Refugees on 20 September 2016 in New York - refugee families receive plots of land on which they can live and do farming. The Government has set aside many thousands of hectares of land for refugee use, and more have been provided by local communities.
In order to ease pressure on local services and leverage the positive economic impact of refugees, Uganda has integrated refugees into national development plans. Likewise, it has established the Settlement Transformative Agenda (STA), which supports the development of refugee-hosting districts by investing in infrastructure, livelihoods, peaceful coexistence initiatives and environmental protection.
The STA takes into account the protracted nature of displacement and their impact on local communities. Furthermore, it is in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its main principle to "leave no one behind". Owing to this, Uganda is regarded as a model for many other refugee-hosting countries.
Strategic roll-out of the CRRF
Building on these existing approaches toward a comprehensive refugee response, the CRRF in Uganda addresses five mutually-reinforcing themes: admission and rights; emergency response and ongoing needs; resilience and self-reliance of refugees; expansion of solutions through resettlement and complementary pathways such as scholarships and work placements abroad, and, finally, voluntary repatriation which in the current situation focuses on investment in human capital and transferrable skills as well as support to the countries of origin.
The Office of the Prime Minister and UNHCR officially launched the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) on 24 March 2017, adapting the principles and objectives set out in Annex I of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants to the Ugandan context. The following day, Uganda's signed on to the Nairobi Declaration on Somali Refugees (25 March 2017) to find solutions for Somali refugees, including voluntary repatriation.
A multi-stakeholder workshop was held in June 2017 to further develop a roadmap for CRRF and establish government-led governance structures for implementation under the CRR framework. Reflected in the Kampala Declaration on Refugees (2017) the objectives under the comprehensive framework in the Ugandan context are to:
- Maintain and support Uganda's progressive policy towards refugees, and protect asylum space;
- Support the resilience and self-reliance of refugees and host communities;
- Expand solutions for refugees, including third country options;
- Support Uganda's role in the region and invest in human capital and transferrable skills.
In October 2017, a high-level, multi-stakeholder Steering Group was set up - the first ever Government-led forum bringing together humanitarian and development actors, local government and authorities, refugees and the private sector, to engage and provide guidance on refugee matters.
As part of its responsibilities, the Steering Group mobilises support from humanitarian and development actors, including civil society and the private sector. It will also document lessons-learned from the Uganda refugee context to inform relevant global, regional and national initiatives, including the development of a global compact for refugees in 2018.
With support from UNHCR, the CRRF in Uganda has been fully initiated by the Government, who assumes full leadership of the process. The Steering Group set up a Secretariat, which will benefit from secondments from within Government agencies as well as external stakeholders. The Secretariat is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of 2017 and has been tasked to update the Road Map and Work Plan for endorsement by the Steering Group before the end of the year.
Through the CRRF governance structure, Uganda seeks to create a more predictable and sustainable approach to refugee management, respond more efficiently to the refugee emergency, and accelerate the implementation of the Government's Refugee and Host Population Empowerment (ReHoPE) strategy. ReHoPE provides a national framework for integrated and holistic support to refugees and host populations; it was incorporated into the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) in 2016 and thereby supports the National Development Plan II and the Settlement Transformation Agenda.
The refugee response and ReHoPE represent key building blocks to realize the CRRF in Uganda, making refugees part and parcel of the development agenda. In keeping with the spirit of the New York Declaration, ReHoPE seeks to enhance peaceful coexistence between refugees and Ugandans and to protect asylum space, and helps equip refugees with skills and knowledge to rebuild their countries when peace returns.
Key partnerships
The World Bank has approved a US$50 million loan to help Uganda invest in the socio-economic development of refugee-hosting districts. Likewise, the Bank is considering Uganda as a recipient of the IDA-18 regional sub-window for refugees and host communities, which aims to support low-income countries to deliver services to refugees and the communities hosting them.
Furthermore, the ReHoPE Strategy is the World Bank's and United Nations' contribution to the implementation of the Government's Settlement Transformation Agenda (STA). Under this programme, humanitarian and development actors, jointly with the private sector, work together to support the Government to deliver socio-economic progress in refugee-hosting areas.
An online Refugee Response Portal has been launched to support coordination among partners and to make information about the refugee response in Uganda available in a reliable and predictable manner. The portal contains a specific section on CRRF.
Current challenges
The main challenge is the fact that the refugee response is chronically underfunded. Without more support from the international community, and investments by existing and new partners, Uganda's ability to fully realize this exemplary model is at risk. In June 2017, the President of Uganda and the UN Secretary-General, with the support of UNHCR and the UN family in Uganda, co-chaired a Solidarity Summit on Refugees.
The Summit (more information) mobilised around USD 355 million in new funding for Uganda. However, the humanitarian response remains critically underfunded and the refugee-hosting districts continue to face major development challenges.
Operational and funding needs to deliver on a comprehensive refugee response
1. Support towards more sustainable responses for emergencies, including early engagement of development actors
The ongoing influx from South Sudan offers a timely opportunity to test this early engagement and harvest lessons from early harmonized efforts between humanitarian and development actors from the first stages of an emergency.
2. Resettlement
The projected resettlement needs for 2017 for refugees in Uganda are 16,500 persons. More resettlement countries need to be identified.
3. Complementary pathways
Third-country governments – in cooperation and with the support of other stakeholders, such as the private sector, civil society and diaspora organizations – are encouraged to establish and expand complementary pathways for refugees living in CRRF roll-out countries.
These pathways may include expanded family reunification and family-based mobility; labour mobility schemes; scholarships and education programmes; and regional mobility schemes. (Note: implementation of such pathways necessitates certain facilitative administrative measures, as well as protection safeguards. UNHCR may support States with technical advice in these areas.) UNHCR can provide more information on the needs relating to complementary pathways.
4. Greater support for broad involvement of government offices
This includes line ministries, district authorities and host populations in the strategic roll-out of CRRF.
5. Greater coherence and rationalization of NGO and UN Agency support to the CRRF Secretariat
This is to maximize efficiency.
6. Need for expanded private sector and civil society partnerships
This is to encourage the integration of innovative approaches in refugee responses.
7. Funding
The Operating Plan for the refugee response in 2017 is US$ 500.7 million; this plan is currently only 15% funded. Another funding strand that is severely underfunded is the Uganda section of the South Sudan emergency response appeal, which is only 17% funded. UNHCR received a list of ReHoPE projects amounting to US$ 42 million to be considered for funding – 9 million of which has been committed.
Through the UNDAF, the UN agencies collectively have indicated a requirement of some USD 213 million to implement ReHoPE, of which approximately 60 million is expected to be funded by the end of 2017.

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Friday, September 30, 2011
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
The state wasn't through with convict labor, however. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was built to house convicts who would mine coal directly for the state. The mine mouth opened within the prison walls and coal was shipped via a convict-built railroad spur. Initially a wooden stockade, the current castle-like complex was built in the 1920s.
While it operated, Brushy housed one of the more famous felons in U.S. history. James Earl Ray, the convicted killer of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was also one of the few inmates ever to escape. He was at large nearly two days, but never made it out of the mountains surrounding the prison. A few years ago I actually met the Tennessee Highway Patrolman who found him. This trooper was providing security for one of our emergency drills for the nuclear facilities in Oak Ridge. He told me he had been part of a line of officers methodically searching across the mountain when he stepped on something soft and heard an "oooff." Ray had found a depression in the soil and had lain there covered with leaves. The Trooper didn't see him and just stepped on him by accident. I guess history is the product of simple fate.
Kingston, Tennessee, attorney Chris Cawood in 1995 published Tennessee's Coal Creek War: Another Fight For Freedom, a fascinating account of the Coal Creek War.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The Spirit of Red Hill
Monday, September 26, 2011
Michaelmas 2011
Michaelmas, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, comes on Thursday of this week. The whole village is getting ready, especially the Michaelmas Daisies. They've been planted all around the village and usually start to bloom in late August. This year they were late, but they're catching up fast.
and crafts.
here. Ya'll come!
here. Ya'll come!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
The pumpkin patch
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Constitution Square
Constitution Square, in Danville, KY, is a small state park that offers a lot of Kentucky history. Danville is less than 10 miles from Harrodsburg, Kentucky's oldest town, and thus at or near the center of the state's first settlements. Settlers arrived both via the Ohio River to the north and the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap to the south. The Courthouse, above, was the site of a series of state constitutional conventions that in 1792 finally resulted in Kentucky being admitted to the Union as the fifteenth state. The original building was erected in 1784-85 as home to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Danville is also home to Centre College, founded in 1819 by Presbyterians, and today considered to be a top-50 private liberal arts college.
Monday, September 19, 2011
A Country Store
The Davenport Grocery serves the South Fork community of Casey County, Kentucky. Casey County was formed in 1806 and named for Col. William Casey, a great-grandfather of Samuel L. Clements, a.k.a. Mark Twain, adding another regional tie.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
While we were away
Our front porch doesn't see a lot of activity in July and August. It's simply too hot to spend much time there, unless you're our resident front-porch skink. Better to spend the cool mornings on the shaded, screened, back porch. So I shouldn't have been surprised when I saw something on one of the front porch chairs.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
We installed a window above the landing on the stairs to let in some light. Since it was on a west wall, it worked entirely too well. We got both light and heat in summer. We had a neighbor at the time who was a stained-glass artist and she volunteered to make an insert for the window that would allow light in but reduce the amount of heat we got.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Sweet Autumn Clematis
It suddenly has become conspicuous along roadsides and in lawns. It's locally called Virgin's Bower but, strictly speaking, that's a different species, a North-American native. A quick look at the leaves clearly shows smooth margins, instead of the toothed margins found in the native.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Hug your child, your spouse, your friend
If we cannot assure their complete protection, then I think the most important thing we can do is to assure those whom we love that we do, in fact, love them. Life and health have no guarantees, and either can be lost in an instant. No one wants to live with feelings left unsaid. Always kiss your spouse goodbye, even if you're only going to the market. It may be the last time you see him/her. Always hug your children and tell them you love them, regardless of their ages. Tell your friend how you feel; don't let either of you pass without your friendship being spoken. It only takes a second, it always is appreciated, and in the final analysis, it's the only thing that really ever counts.
Be safe tomorrow.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Goldenrod and ragweed bloom at roughly the same time every year, and much of their ranges overlap. Goldenrod's bright color indicates they are pollinated primarily by insects. Ragweed's green flowers don't attract insects, and they release copious amounts of pollen into the wind. As a general rule-of-thumb, insect-pollinated flowers do not cause nasal allergies, while wind-pollinated species often do. So don't fear the pretty flowers.
There are about 15 species of ragweed in North America and more than 60 species of goldenrod.
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Bacteria culture and growth curve? - (Mar/15/2010 )
What do i have to do to culture the bacteria so i can plot the curve of the bacteria? Srry, kinda new to this topic, any help?
Depends on what bacteria you're trying to grow. Let us know what they are and we may be better able to help you.


text: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Daniel Ziltener <dziltener%lyrion.ch@localhost> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new user of NetBSD and as that I wanted to share with you what I > experienced until I got my system running as I wanted. > First, when I wanted to download it: It was weird. It the folder structure > seems to somehow depend on the ftp server it's on. > On most, for the final release, it's kinda direct that one lands on a page > with > all ISO and IMG files; that's fine. But there's that other confusing folder > structure, especially if one wants to get an RC. It's nowhere described. First > there is a folder for every architecture with a confusing subfolder structure. > One might end up in a folder containing a "boot.iso" and a "boot-com.iso" > file. > boot.iso seems to be a boot-only iso getting all stuff from the servers during > installation; I did not try out the boot-com.iso file. Especially, there's > nowhere any description about them. But even worse is when one wants the > actual installation iso file. No, it's not in the architecture folder - it's > in > the hard-to-find "images" folder hidden in the mess of architecture folders. > That definitely was confusing. > Unfortunately I had to use one of those RCs since 6.0.1 was unable to detect > the installation media (usb and cd), which is solved in 6.1-RC2 (a bug that, > weird enough, also is in FreeBSD 9.1 when booting from usb, but solved in > CURRENT). > I agree with most of this. I've been using netbsd for 10 years and still have trouble finding stuff on the website. > Then, as a second thing, there's your pkgsrc system. It's a nice system like > the other ports-like systems. BUT: If one, like a newbie does, starts with the > "NetBSD Guide", there's hardly any information about it to be found. At least > there should be a link to the official pkgsrc documentation at pkgsrc.org. > Once again, that's a bad thing especially since BSDs are usually known for > their good documentation. > > If you've read until down here thank you, and thank you to the IRC channel > people for helping me out so far. > ---- > Daniel Ziltener There are a few links to docs on pkgsrc.org- if you click on "docs" or also "using pkgsrc on NetBSD" from the "Supported platforms" section. What did you not find on there that you needed? If it's not already there, I'll add it.


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I received a 4-page hand-written letter from my brother in the USDB, and quite frankly, he is adjusting to the news of his twin's passing and life in prison way better than expected. He thanks me for taking care of the funeral arrangements. Surprisingly, he calls the last two weeks "peaceful".
"I've really made a point to relax and take it easy. I've been exercising, lifting weights again... I had lost a lot of weight from fasting. So now, I'm putting on weight again. I feel good. I'm healthy. I'm also now slowly getting back into reading and my studies and meditations and recording my dreams – which were things I had stopped since (our brother) died."In fact, his words explain his feelings best, so I will continue with what he says:
"Some people have told me that I'll always 'have a lump in my heart' or that 'a piece of me will always be missing' – which I have always immediately responded with 'No, I will not always have a lump in my heart. I will move through this, I will make peace with this and get past it. I am whole, I am complete within myself and I'm ok.' Which is true. Y'know, I'll love (our brother) for the rest of my life, and I'm dearly sorry that he was suffering so bad. I really tried to help. I recognize that this radically affects my life both inside of prison and when I get out. There is no denial here. I recognize the significance of this situation. But also, I am not emotionally or psychologically dependent on (our brother) or anyone else."I knew that. He acknowledges I know that. Our brother wore a mask of bravado, but was definitely the more fragile – and dependent – of the two. That's also why he had an addiction problem – it stemmed from this dependency. Whether it was survivor's guilt, or a feeling of responsibility for what happened to the two of them years ago, he could just never move beyond it. He clung. Desperately, and we both knew he was depressed, even suicidal. And we both tried to help.
"If anyone thought that (our brother) didn't feel remorse, guilt, embarrassment from all the stupid shit he's done, they would be very wrong. (Our brother) was humiliated from his own actions, and he knew it was his own fault, but gosh, depression can be debilitating."In my one brother's case, it kept him stuck in one place in time for years.
"I'm not mad at (him). I'm disappointed. He was so close to moving out of Philadelphia and to Phoenix (I did not know this). He tried. So long best friend."My brother in the USDB has adjusted to this loss in interesting ways.
My brother tells me he's reading a book of Zen Koans I sent him. He states that as a Buddhist, he affiliates himself with Zen.
I've been cutting the grass outside and I enjoy my job. I find myself in positions to save little critters from getting hurt, like frogs. Earlier this week, I was operating the motorized weed whacker and for a brief moment, I wasn't paying attention to what I was cutting and I whacked a sleeping bird in the face. I didn't know birds slept on the ground. I thought he died instantly, but then I saw he was still alive. I turned off my tool and got to my knees and picked up the bird with my hands. I was so sorry. He gasped for breath and died in my hands.
As for his first level appeal, it was denied. As expected. Still, he is disappointed. He was hoping for a reduction of his sentence to "life with parole." He tells me the second level of appeals will take about 6-8 months. I'll take his word on this.
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Best Buy now confronts two lines — one for Black Friday bargain-hunters already queuing up, the other for skeptical analysts wary of its future.
The Richfield-based electronics chain had warned that its third-quarter financial performance looked bad. But three days before Black Friday, Wall Street was surprised by how bad.
Shares plunged 13 percent after Best Buy reported that it lost money as same-store sales fell 4.3 percent.
"Horrendous," stock guru Jim Cramer said on Twitter, later warning on CNBC, "Best Buy is maybe not fixable."
The start of the holiday season is a horrendous time for Best Buy to be staggering, given the crush of holiday business coming its way and the need to be at its best.
"We know that three quarters of Americans intend to give consumer electronics as a gift for the holidays," CEO Hubert Joly told analysts. "Tens of millions will be coming to us online and into our stores between now and the end of the season, and we are ready for them."
Early-bird shoppers already are lining up outside some Best Buy stores. They're looking to snare hot Black Friday deals, like a 40-inch Toshiba flat-screen HDTV for $179.99.
"There are still people camping out in front of the Best Buys," said Stan Pohmer, a Twin Cities retail analyst. "If the deals are good enough, people are going to come in."
But the long drizzle of gloomy news is taking a toll, Pohmer warns.
"The consumer mind set is that there is a little crisis of confidence, especially when you're dealing with big-ticket merchandise," Pohmer said. "If I'm going to invest $1,000 in a flat-screen TV, are they going to be around to service it?"
To be clear, Pohmer is "absolutely not" predicting Best Buy is on the brink of going under. But a year-long run of troubles, missteps and shockwaves is inflicting real damage, he believes.
"They just stated in New York last week that they saw growth opportunity in online sales — and then their Internet site gets overwhelmed, and that's before Cyber Monday."
Less than three months into the CEO job, Joly termed the results "clearly unsatisfactory," adding that it "only strengthens our sense of urgency and purpose."
Still, he did highlight some positives. Sales of hot products such as mobile phones, tablets and e-readers were up. So were appliance sales. And online sales continue to grow at 10 percent annually, Joly said.
In addition, some of the bad news hinted at better times ahead. Training costs in the quarter were high, as Best Buy arranged coaching and instruction for tens of thousands of its sales-floor employees.
"We think that we're going to see positive results with our employee engagement, with our customer satisfaction, and those will start to show up in the fourth quarter," said Mike Vitelli, outgoing president of U.S. retail operations. But his presence underscored the turmoil, as Vitelli was one of two recently replaced Best Buy executives on the call.
Still, Pohmer applauded the training initiative. At a brick-and-mortar retailer with online competitors, "The people on the sales floor are the difference," he says. "The expertise, the way they handle customers, the way they respect them or don't respect them."
Meanwhile, Best Buy's founder and former chairman Richard Schulze continues to circle and is said to be preparing a bid to retake the company. The continued erosion in Best Buy's share price adds even more urgency, with the stock down 31 percent in a month.
Shares of Best Buy fell $1.79, or 13 percent, to close Tuesday at $11.96.
Tom Webb can be reached at 651-228-5428.


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The classic comedy Dandy Dick, starring celebrated actors Patricia Hodge and Nicholas Le Prevost will open at Theatre Royal Brighton on Thursday (June 28) and run until Saturday July 7.
The play, which marks the launch of Theatre Royal Brighton Productions, will then tour to eight regional UK venues before a London run.
DANDY DICK is directed by Christopher Luscombe, Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Brighton Productions, and kicks off the first of many planned classic plays to tour the country's best playhouses nationwide before the West End. Christopher said, "We're thrilled to be staging Dandy Dick, a glorious British comedy written 125 years ago in Brighton, as the first production for Theatre Royal Brighton Productions' opening season.
"It is a rarely seen treasure that so richly deserves to be enjoyed by modern audiences in search of quality and entertainment in an evening out at the theatre."
"Dandy Dick is as funny today as it's always been," added Patricia Hodge. "We are having a ball with it in rehearsals."
Written in Brighton in 1887, DANDY DICK tells the hilarious story of the Very Reverend Augustin Jedd, a pillar of Victorian respectability, who preaches regularly against the evils of horseracing and gambling.
However, a visit from his tearaway sister, Georgiana, leads him to risk all at the races, much against his better judgement. Mayhem ensues, with romantic intrigue, mistaken identity and a runaway horse.
Olivier Award-winner Patricia Hodge, whose career spans film (Betrayal, Behind Enemy Lines), theatre (Noises Off, Calendar Girls) and television (a BAFTA nomination for Hotel du Lac, The Falklands Play and Miranda), will play Georgiana.
Nicholas Le Prevost, whose distinguished stage career includes many productions at the National Theatre, including My Fair Lady, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award, and, most recently, The Misanthrope with Keira Knightley in the West End, will star as the Dean.
This classic British comedy saw its last major production in 1987 in a national tour starring Sir Anthony Quayle and Margaret Courtenay, and the play last appeared in the West End in 1973 starring Alastair Sim and Patricia Routledge.
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The judge in Jian Ghomeshi's case will render a decision today in a sexual assault case that captivated people across country following an investigation into the former CBC broadcaster in October 2014.
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Jian Ghomeshi, 48, will learn the judge's decision in his sexual assault trial this morning in the Ontario Court of Justice. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)For those who need a refresher on what's happened leading up to today's decision, please check out our timeline above. It covers everything from Ghomeshi's firing and the police investigation in October 2014 to his February trial.
As Mark Gollom points out in his analysis of the eight-day proceedings in February, the trial "rivalled the most intense courtroom dramas."And, while we'll know the judge's decision shortly, several lawyers spoke with CBC News about some of the factors Horkins would likely consider before giving his ruling. The issue of collusion -- suggested by the defence because of the thousands of messages exchanged by complainant Lucy DeCoutere and the third woman in the case -- may have damaged the judge's perception of each witness's independence, criminal lawyer Russell Silverstein told CBC News.
"Once the Crown was deprived of that, it really got in the way of their hopes for a conviction," the litigator said.
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The protesters outside are calling on the province to pass an amendment to the Employment Standards Act, which would guarantee victims of sexual or domestic violence 10 days of paid time off from work.
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Decision: Ghomeshi is charged with five separate offences connected to three different complainants.
The first complainant alleges two incidents happened in December 2002, while the other happened in early 2003, allegations which have resulted in charges of sexual assault.
One count of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking relate to complainant Lucy DeCoutere, both of which are alleged to have happened in July 2003.
The fourth count of sexual assault is connected to an incident alleged to have happened between July and August 2003 connected to a third woman.
The first complainant first met Ghomeshi while working as a server at a party in 2002. She described Ghomeshi as charismatic and he seemed smitten with her, the judge said of the testimony.
Ghomeshi invited her to a taping of his show Play and then they had a drink with colleagues afterward. The witness recalled "certain small details of the evening, for example that he ordered a Heineken and, she, a gingerale."
After that time, Ghomeshi and she went to his car together so that he could drive her to her vehicle. The car was significant to her impression of Ghomeshi; she described it as a "love bug, a Disney car" that made her feel at ease because it wasn't something flashy.
The pair then began kissing in his car, the witness recounted, until Ghomeshi suddenly pulled her hair, the judge says.
The witness described the pulling of the hair "as painful" and Ghomeshi asked her if she liked it, the judge said in recounting her testimony.
"It was confusing and [the witness] was unsure what to think," the judge said. "She continued to ask herself if he had really intended to hurt her."
Another night they went to Ghomeshi's home where he put on music and they began kissing on the couch, the judge says of the testimony. Then he pulled her to ground and struck her, according to her testimony, Horkins said.
"The force of the blow was significant. She said it felt like walking into a pole or hitting her head on the pavement. She thought she might pass out."
One example the defence presented was that the woman told the Star that the hair-pulling happened after the kissing, while in court she said it happened during "sensuous kissing," which would change the charge from common assault to sexual assault, the judge said.
The judge has moved on to the "hair extensions" issue -- the fact that the witness initially told police that she was not wearing hair extensions, but then later emailed them to say she was wearing them.
But then in court she said she was not wearing hair-extensions, which is why they would not have come off in Ghomeshi's hand.
The judge noted there was also contradictory evidence concerning the witness's memory of an alleged "head smashing" against the car. It's something that she mentions in a police interview, but did not tell the court. She denied describing that to police until the defence showed a video of her doing just that, the judge said.
And when asked about the discrepancy she said "she was high on nerves" during that interview with police, the judge said.
The love bug: "One of [the complainant's] memories was demonstrably wrong," the judge said.
But the judge found that Ghomeshi did not get the VW bug until seven months after she met with him.
In a case that relies entirely on the credibility of the witness this "otherwise innocuous" slip of memory takes on greater importance, because the witness made it a major part of her character analysis of Ghomeshi at the time.
"The impossibility of this memory makes one seriously question what else might be [correctly] remembered of her and what else ... might be wrong.:
The judge has moved on to the emails the complainant sent to Ghomeshi, both of which he said it seems impossible to believe that she forgot about.
"The negative impact of this after-the-fact-conduct is surpassed by the fact that she never disclosed any of this to the police or the crown. It was only after she confront by the emails and subsequent images" in cross-examination "that she remembered the emails were part of a plan," the judge said.
While the judge said it's possible someone could try to bait someone in this way, the fact that it completely contradicted her earlier evidence causes him to find it an unlikely scenario. He said that while the after-the-fact behaviour can't be held against a witness in a sexual assault trial, "the behaviour of this complainant is, at the very least, odd."
The judge said the first complainant's evidence seemed valuable when delivered to the prosecution, but that it "suffered irreparable damage" under cross-examination when she "was exposed as a witness willing to withhold" evidence from the prosecution, the police and the court.
"It's clear that she breached her oath to tell the truth," the judge said.
DeCoutere and Ghomeshi met in 2003 at an arts conference in Banff, the judge recounts.
The pair exchanged emails for about a month and then made plans to meet in Toronto. They went to dinner at a restaurant, DeCoutere testified, in which she said Ghomeshi spoke very highly of himself.
She said she they then went to his home and Ghomeshi gave her a tour. He began kissing her, she said, and then choked and slapped her while this was happening.
She testified that she saw him later that weekend, but was not interested in him in a romantic way. She sent him flowers as a thank you for the weekend.
The judge said that DeCoutere's witness was then "vigorously challenged" under cross-examination and there was "last-minute disclosure" to police, despite having her own counsel to help her through the process and having regular communication with the investigating detective.
DeCoutere "insisted that her [new disclosure] was spontaneous" and had nothing to do with the fact that the previous complainant had been confronted with emails by the defence team.
DeCoutere admitted that prior to trial, she had not told police that she and Ghomeshi had kissed after the alleged assault that night.
Instead she told police that "nothing stuck in her memory," the judge recounted.
"It is difficult for me to believe that someone" who alleges they were choked during a sexual assault "that they would consider" the information that she kissed Ghomeshi afterward relevant. The judge said he can understand her reluctance not to disclose it, but not that she would believe she should not tell police.
He described it as not credible that she would feel the need to describe the flowers in Ghomeshi's home, about the organization of his shirts, and yet not feel it important to tell police that she kissed Ghomeshi after the alleged incident.
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Kingston upon Thames has a population of 173,853, that's 2.0% of the 8.6 million people living in London
The average age of the population is 37.0 years old, that's 1.1 years older than the London average. The under 16s in the borough outnumber the over 65s. Children and young people under 16 make up 19% of the population compared to 13% for the over 65s.
People who are black, Asian or of minority ethnic origin, BAME, represent 30% of the residents. 29% of the people living in Kingston upon Thames were born abroad. The largest migrant group according to the last census is from Sri Lanka and makes up 2% of the population. The second largest group, based on the census is from India. More recently the largest number of migrants have come from Bulgaria and Poland.
The median house price in the borough is £385,000. Owner occupiers outnumber those who rent with 28% owning their home outright and a further 39% with a mortgage compared to 22% who rent privately and a further 11% living in social housing rented from the council or a housing association.
The council tax on a Band D property (the mid-tier cost in most local authorities) is £1,675.
The crime rate in Kingston upon Thames is 59 crimes per 1,000 residents, which is lower than the London average of 84 and is among the lowest in the capital.
The Area
Kingston upon Thames covers an area of 3,726 hectares compared to the biggest borough, Bromley, which covers more than 15,000. The smallest borough, not counting the City of London, is Kensington and Chelsea, which covers around 1,200 hectares.
Some 36% of the area is classified as green space. The average for London is 38%.
The employment rate in the Kingston upon Thames is above the national average with 74% of people in work. The median annual salary for men is £40,000 and for women it is lower at £31,387. The median income for a household in the borough is £56,920.
The workforce is among the highest qualified in London with 54% of workers who are educated to degree level or above. 6% have no qualifications and 4% of young people under 25 are listed as NEETS (that's not in education, employment or training).
There are 70,421 cars in the borough, which equates to 1.1 cars per household. Kingston upon Thames is rated as below average for public transport, based on an index compiled by Transport for London. According to Government data on physical activity, 21.1% of people cycle each month.
Health and Well-being
Men living in Kingston upon Thames can expect to live until they are 82, for women life expectancy is 85 years. The borough has a death rate from what are considered to be preventable causes of 140.6 per 100,000 people. The national rate for England is 182.
Other health indicators show that 5% of people over 17 suffer from diabetes and 16% of children are classified as obese.
When asked in a Government survey to rate their satisfaction with life the average score of people in the borough was 7.3 out of 10, which is above average for London.


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Groom updates Facebook Relationship status at the altar
Human beings have never been so connected with one another and obsessed with info. Then again, maybe we are all just stupid monkeys tweeting our every move, trying desperately to leave our mark on this world before the Grim Reaper comes tweeting @you.. I iz in yer reality takin ur soul.
Whatever the case, this couple is really into the facebook that all the kids are using. It was a normal wedding ceremony until the groom pulled out his phone and changed his relationship status on Facebook to 'married' right there at the altar. The bride followed suit, and the crowd gets a good laugh. Then the preacher says "If it's official on Facebook, it's official in my book," he says.