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RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: President Mugabe Urged To Uphold The Rule Of Law
Zimbabwe's rights groups, lawyers and journalists are exerting pressure on President Robert Mugabe to 'uphold' the rule of law, following the detention of a number of journalists by security forces in the past two months.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/02/rights-zimbabwe-president-mugabe-urged-to-uphold-the-rule-of-law/
MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Freed Journalists To Report To Police Once A Week
The two Zimbabwean journalists arrested Monday for publishing a "false" story were released Tuesday on bail by a magistrate court in the capital, Harare.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/02/media-zimbabwe-freed-journalists-to-report-to-police-once-a-week/
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS-ZIMBABWE: Tell It As It Is
Zimbabwean Shimmer Chinodya's new book 'Can We Talk and Other Sories' takes the reader through a soul- searching and sometimes bumpy road, presenting the reader with an assortment of swearings, hot gossip, rumours, cursing and foul language.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/02/arts-and-entertainment-books-zimbabwe-tell-it-as-it-is/
ZIMBABWE: Gays And Lesbians Hit Out At Former President
Gays and lesbians in Zimbabwe have lashed out at former president Canaan Banana over his remarks that homosexuality is "deviant, abominable and wrong according to the scriptures and according to Zimbabwean culture."https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/zimbabwe-gays-and-lesbians-hit-out-at-former-president/
RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: Gays And Lesbians Hit Out At Former President
Gays and lesbians in Zimbabwe have lashed out at former president Canaan Banana over his remarks that homosexuality is "deviant, abominable and wrong according to the scriptures and according to Zimbabwean culture."https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/rights-zimbabwe-gays-and-lesbians-hit-out-at-former-president/
CINEMA-ZIMBABWE: Film Producers Seek Foreign Funding
Film making in Zimbabwe is proving too costly for local producers who have began scouting for foreign funding.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/cinema-zimbabwe-film-producers-seek-foreign-funding/
RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: Lawyers, Journalists Protest Against Torture
Lawyers and journalists took to the streets Tuesday afternoon to protest the unlawful detention and torture of two Zimbabwean journalists by State security agents.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/rights-zimbabwe-lawyers-journalists-protest-against-torture/
RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: Detained Journalists Freed, For Now
Mark Chavunduka, editor of the 'Standard' newspaper, and journalist Ray Choto, also of the 'Standard', were Thursday released on bail from military detention where their lawyer said both had been "severely tortured".https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/rights-zimbabwe-detained-journalists-freed-for-now/
BOOKS-ZIMBABWE: Writer Finds The Right Publisher
Zimbabwe-based author, Kelvin Mason is no stranger to receiving letters of rejection from publishers, which, he says, should not frustrate fledging writers.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/books-zimbabwe-writer-finds-the-right-publisher/
HUMAN RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: Military And The Judiciary Lock Horns
Zimbabwe's military and the judiciary were on collission course Friday over a government defience of a High Court order calling for the immediate release of detained journalist, Mark Chavunduka.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/human-rights-zimbabwe-military-and-the-judiciary-lock-horns/
ZIMBABWE: Printing Costs Skyrocketed By More Than 300 Percent
Newsprint costs in Zimbabwe have skyrocketed by more than 300 percent over the past 12 months, forcing publishers to pass the increases on to the readers, most of whom are battling to make ends meet.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/zimbabwe-printing-costs-skyrocketed-by-more-than-300-percent/
ZIMBABWE: Independent Media And State Clash Over Alleged Coup Story
Zimbabwe's military police stormed the offices of 'The Standard' newspaper Wednesday afternoon demanding to know the whereabouts of the journalist who wrote the story of the alleged coup attempt against the government of President Robert Mugabe.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/zimbabwe-independent-media-and-state-clash-over-alleged-coup-story/
ZIMBABWE: Government Denies Coup Attempt, Detains Journalist
The Zimbabwean government has denied media reports of a coup attempt by the military to overthrow it and has detained the editor of the newspaper which carried the story.https://www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/zimbabwe-government-denies-coup-attempt-detains-journalist/
ZIMBABWE-OUTLOOK: Tough Times Ahead
1998 will go down in the history of Zimbabwe as a tough year but 1999 may have far worse to offer, analysts have warned.https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/12/zimbabwe-outlook-tough-times-ahead/
POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Revisiting The Fragile Peace Accord
Sound of gunfire and mortar has been silent in South Western Zimbabwe for eleven years now. Thanks to a Unity Accord sealed in 1987 by the country's two leading political parties, PF-ZAPU and ZANU-PF.https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/12/politics-zimbabwe-revisiting-the-fragile-peace-accord/
POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Banana Returns Home, Rumours of Pardon Rife
Former Zimbabwean President, Canaan Banana, who has been on the run for three weeks, has returned home to face his conviction on 11 counts of sexual assault and sodomy, but rumours of a possible pardon are rife in the country.https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/12/politics-zimbabwe-banana-returns-home-rumours-of-pardon-rife/
RELIGION BULLETIN-ZIMBABWE: Homosexuals Observe The UN Human Rights Anniversary
Zimbabwe's gays and lesbians marched in the capital Harare Thursday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/12/religion-bulletin-zimbabwe-homosexuals-observe-the-un-human-rights-anniversary/
ZIMBABWE: Homosexuals Observe The UN Human Rights Anniversary
Zimbabwe's gays and lesbians marched in the capital Harare Thursday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/12/zimbabwe-homosexuals-observe-the-un-human-rights-anniversary/
POLITICS: Draft Constitution To End ‘Totalitarianism’ In Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's opposition political parties have drawn a draft blueprint for a new constitution which they say will "forever eradicate the evils of totalitarianism and tyranny in all forms and at all levels" in the southern African country.https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/12/politics-draft-constitution-to-end-totalitarianism-in-zimbabwe/
BOOKS-ZIMBABWE: The Black Man’s Burden – Remembering the Colonial Police.
A book by the late Zimbabwean writer Gahadzikwa A. Chaza has shed light on an era long forgotten here - when a black colonial police force gave comfort to the white settlers of then Southern Rhodesia.https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/12/books-zimbabwe-the-black-mans-burden-remembering-the-colonial-police/
ZIMBABWE: Unions Describe Ban On Demonstration As ‘Dictatorial’
Zimbabwe's labour leaders and rights activists have described last week's banning of demonstrations by President Robert Mugabe as "dictatorial."https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/11/zimbabwe-unions-describe-ban-on-demonstration-as-dictatorial/
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