Browsing Tag Patrick Chinamasa
By-elections deadline extended
By Our reporter at August 31, 2012 | 9:12 AM | 0 Comment
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday had his application to extend the deadline to proclaim dates for disputed by-elections by a month granted. He has up to October 1 to announce dates for the by-elections. Judge President George Chiweshe granted the application that was brought under a certificate of urgency with the consent of both parties’ lawyers. The President had more...
Zim by-elections to be held in 38 constituencies: Chinamasa
By Our reporter at July 20, 2012 | 1:22 AM | 0 Comment
ZIMBABWE will hold by-elections in ALL vacant seats, not just the three ordered by the Supreme Court last week. This was announced by Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday in Parliament. The minister twas responding to a question from Rushinga Senator, Damian Mumvuri (Zanu-PF) who sought to know the implications of the Supreme Court more...
EU gesture on sanctions is useless: Zanu-PF
By Our reporter at July 16, 2012 | 7:15 PM | 7 Comments
ZANU-PF says the European Union has no role in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe and any conditional lifting of sanctions is a useless gesture. Justice Minister and EU-Zimbabwe Reengagement Team member, Patrick Chinamasa, dismissed as 'unintelligible' reports that the EU wanted to suspend sanctions it imposed on Zimbabwe after the country met certain conditions. An more...
No state-sponsored violence in Zimbabwe – Chinamasa
By Our reporter at May 22, 2012 | 12:47 AM | 1 Comments
JUSTICE minister Patrick Chinamasa has rejected allegations that Zimbabwe has state-sponsored violence and reminded people that there were no gay rights in Zimbabwe. He made these statements after meeting with the visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. Ms. Pillay is in Zimbabwe to assess the human rights situation and was invited by more...
UN human rights chief arrives in Zimbabwe
By Our reporter at May 20, 2012 | 8:46 PM | 1 Comments
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay arrived Sunday in Zimbabwe on the first mission to the southern African nation by the world rights chief. Officials said Pillay's weeklong trip is at the invitation of three-year inclusive Government formed in 2009. "I am here to assess the human rights situation," Pillay told reporters at the Harare airport late more...
‘Constructive step’ in Zim-EU talks
By Our reporter at May 11, 2012 | 1:33 AM | 0 Comment
THE European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton hailed ongoing political reforms in Zimbabwe and indicated that the western bloc is on the way to further easing of sanctions. She was in talks with a delegation from Harare on Thursday, comprising Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa (Zanu-PF), Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma (MDC-T) and more...
Zanu-PF dismisses SA court ruling
By Our reporter at May 10, 2012 | 3:32 AM | 1 Comments
PRESIDENT Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has dismissed the ruling by a South African court that authorities in that country can probe and prosecute 'crimes against humanity' committed in Zimbabwe, or anywhere in the world. South Africa was obliged to investigate and prosecute international crimes under the Rome Statute and under its own international criminal laws, said North more...
Zim-EU re-engagement talks resume in Brussels
By Our reporter at May 10, 2012 | 2:39 AM | 0 Comment
THE Zimbabwe team involved in re-engagement talks with the European Union arrived in Brussels, Belgium yesterday ahead of talks scheduled to begin today. The dialogue seeks to find ways of mending relations with the EU bloc which imposed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe in 2002. The Zimbabwe team is being led by Energy and Power Development Minister, Elton Mangoma more...
Lustig on the road in Zimbabwe
By Robin Lustig at April 4, 2012 | 1:44 AM | 1 Comments
I've spent the past five days in Harare, on a rare, officially-approved reporting trip to Zimbabwe. So I thought you might be interested in my impressions, ahead of my radio report, which we hope to broadcast next week. (And by the way, there were no restrictions on where we could go or whom we could talk to, nor were we accompanied at any point by government more...
Chinamasa, Mumbengegwi still on EU sanctions list
By Our reporter at February 23, 2012 | 12:20 AM | 1 Comments
TWO Zanu PF Ministers, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Patrick Chinamasa are still among the 112 individuals that are still on the European Union sanctions list, despite claims to the contrary. The EU's European Union Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr. Aldo Dell’ Ariccia last Friday claimed that the two ministers had been removed from the illegal embargo. However, Foreign more...
