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Welcome to Kubatana.net! This web site improves the accessibility of human rights and civic information in Zimbabwe. You can browse over 12 900 articles, reports and other information. Use our Directory to contact a variety of NGOs, civil society organisations and social justice groups.
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The manual for despots
Robert Gabriel Mugabe and Morgan Richard Tsvangirai held hands. It is surreal, this orgy of grinning, this sudden, blinding flashing of teeth: barely a month ago the pictures of torture camps filled television and computer screens, photographs of burnt bodies illustrated the stories of horror from Zimbabwe. Read more from Petina Gappah

Words of caution on the MoU
There is a growing error by some of our fellows that are celebrating the 21 July Memorandum of Understanding. The danger of setting such a precedent will surely weaken the position of citizens in their relations with the state. Read more from Itai Zimunya

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NGO information management
Guidelines for helpers of injured victims of violence

Important questions for observers, monitors and election agents
Know your rights as a lodger/lessee

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Parties sign Memorandum of Understanding
Zanu PF and the two formations of the MDC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) committing them to a dialogue with each other with a view to creating a genuine, viable, permanent and sustainable solution to the Zimbabwean situation.
- Read the MoU
- Visit the index of articles and opinion on the MoU & negotiations

Politics & Governance

    Run up to 27 June 2008 Presidential Runoff Election: Human rights violations & food distribution - ZPP - Read more

    Desperately seeking sanity: What prospects for a new beginning in Zimbabwe? - Solidarity Peace Trust - Read more

    Demands in the transitional process of Zimbabwe - Women's Coalition - Read more

    MoU Dialogue delays Parliament - Bill Watch 30/2008 - Veritas -
    Read more

    NANGO responds to talks deal - National Association of Non Governmental Organisations (NANGO) - Read more

    MISA-Zimbabwe cautiously welcomes signing of MOU - MISA-Zimbabwe - Read more

    History making and historicity of political party MOU’s in Zimbabwe - Takura Zhangazha - Read more

    Robert Mugabe wins, democracy loses in any Zimbabwe power-sharing deal - David Blair - Read more

    ZCTU position on current political talks - Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) - Read more

“Let’s go,” growled Comrade Hondo shouldering his battered AK 47 and smashing his beer bottle against the wall of Mr Mutarara’s store. Their task that night was to put into effect Operation Vote Wisely. They were armed with iron bars, the kind used to reinforce concrete. They were drunk. Read more of John Eppel's short story

Opinion

    Government of National Unity? Ignore the lessons of history at your peril - Catherine Makoni - Read more

    Between a political rock and an economic hard place - Horace
    Campbell - Read more

    A good place as any to draw the line - Tajudeen Abdul Raheem -
    Read more

    Preparing for the likely consequences - John Robertson -
    Read more

    Zimbabwe: From hyperinflation to growth - Steve H. Hanke -
    Read more

    Haiti's Transitional Government: Lessons for Zimbabwe? - Colin
    Felsman - Read more

    Mobile development rings true - Ken Banks - Read more

Elections 2008

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Our home page carries only a few of the thousands of articles that we have in our Archive. The Archive is updated regularly. Please check out our Electronic Activism Page and get involved in our local campaigns. If you'd like to contact a Zimbabwean NGO please make use of our online Directory.

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