I was reading the Zimbabwe Situation website, which is a great source of information on what is going on in Zim these days that collects all the stories about the situation in Zimbabwe and publishes them, when I found this very interesting little article. I have posted the entire piece here for you to make up your own minds but I find the whole thing both very worrying and very interesting, if what it says is true.

The problem with autonomous sources is that one never knows if what they are saying is true or if it is just subterfuge. In this instance I am inclined to believe that there is a strong element of truth in all of this as anyone with access to this sort of information would not want to openly put his/her name out there for fear of reprisals, something which has happened quite a few times before in South Africa.

A strange message..

Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 12:10 PM
Subject: Urgent Message - Must read!!!

Dear Friends:

I write you on a very urgent matter. Please read the attached document, which was sent to me by "O." I am not revealing his full name because I do not know if doing so would compromise his position (this is because I do not know who this person is). Prior to the SADC 'extraordinary summit' that President Mwanawasa called to address the situation in Zimbabwe, I sent an e-mail to Mukoni Ratshitanga (Mr. Ratshitanga is President Thabo Mbeki's spokesperson).

Today, I received this e-mail from "O" which had an attachment. When I opened that attachment, I found an attached e-mail that had been forwarded from Ratshitanga to "O". Attached to that message that Ratshitanga sent to "O," was a 22 page document. Ratshitanga's message to "O" was:

Dear "O"

It's been a long time since we spoke. I have just finished reading the attached paper by Eddy Maloka and Prof Magubane. Please read it and let's discuss - maybe I can come your way on May Day.

Regards
Mukoni

The forwarded document ("Document") is a position paper entitled "Zimbabwe an International Pariah! What are the Revolutionary Tasks of the South African Democratic Movement?" written by Edward Maloka and Ben Magubane. The Document purports to analyze the current situation in Zimbabwe through the lens and perspective of the African Liberation movement generally, and South Africa specifically. The authors argue that Zimbabwe's situation is being framed by the western media in such a way that it distorts the actual state of affairs there. While admitting that Mugabe/ZANU PF may have reacted in a repressive fashion against the population, the authors conclude that as a result of Africa's natural resources, western nations are opposed to any government stemming from the liberation struggle. In discussing the efforts of western nations to thwart liberation based governments, the Document states:

"With regard to the latter, this has already found expression in the attempt to persuade sections of our movement to repudiate the mediation work in which our Government has been engaged with regard to Zimbabwe, with the full support of our region, Africa and the rest of the non-aligned world.

Accordingly, in its own interest, our movement will have to abandon all illusion and understand that the sustained offensive to defeat ZANU PF is but a curtain-raiser to what will inevitably follow a sustained offensive to defeat our very own movement!"

Document p. 19 (emphasis in original)

In discussing how to react to this perceived threat, the Document's authors argue that the following steps must be taken:

* vigorously and unequivocally defend the gains of our Democratic Revolution;
* defend our country's democratically elected Government;
* defend ZANU PF in Zimbabwe; and,
* work to strengthen the African and global anti-imperialist movement.

Document p.19-20

I have no idea why "O" forwarded me this e-mail from Ratshitanga. It could be that : (1) "O" is somebody sympathetic to the plight of Zimbabweans; (2) the e-mail was inadvertently sent to me; or (3) some other reason unknown to me. However, I think that there are some very serious questions raised by the fact that President Mbeki's spokesperson is interested in discussing the viewpoint expressed in the Document.

Some of the questions that Mbeki needs to answer - especially in light of his position on the Security Council and as SADC's designated mediator -- are whether he agrees with the position taken by the authors of the Document. To whit: The West's current stance on Zimbabwe is but a stepping stone to turning South Africa into a "client state"? Does he believe that he must protect ZANU-PF?

I'm sending this Document to you in order that it may be distributed to as wide an audience as possible. My initial reaction is that this Document should be brought to the attention of as many journalists and politicians as possible. Mbeki needs to explain why people under his direct control find it necessary to disseminate and discuss a policy paper that clearly espouses protecting a repressive regime when he is supposed to be a neutral arbitrator.

Should it be necessary, I am willing to discuss disclosing the identity of "O". In addition, the Document was sent to me in Microsoft Word format. "Word" documents contain "metadata" that can be accessed to show when the document was created and every revision that was ever made to it. I do not know at this point how to access the metadata, but doing so may show a wealth of information about the authors' thinking. Please feel free to contact me with further questions.

Best regards,

N

You can download and read the document in its entirety here.

If this document is genuine then it provides valuable insight into how the ANC, particularly Mbeki's faction of the ANC, view the world (which I must say is a pretty twisted and hypocritical way to look at the world). It also indicates that the ANC implicitly thinks of its self as having a genuine right, along with other 'liberation movements' in Africa, to rule their respective countries for ever regardless of what their people think.

Whilst we all now know that Zimbabwe was just a one time democracy (for one day in 1980), could this mean that South Africa was also just a one time democracy like Zimbabwe (for one day in 1994)?

Source:
*The Zimbabwe Situation: http://www.zimbabwesituation.com

I have some bad news, the Chinese government, in their infanate wisdom, decided to block access to international blogs (like blog.uk) again. As usual, no warning was given and neither was any reason. This is one of the things I least like about China. Is this constant monitoring, censoring and absolute control that the government has over the flow of information here; and I have it easy here as I am a foreigner. I actually have access to the international internet. Most Chinese citizens only have access to the national internet network.

In other news I am sure you have all been following the very interesting goings ons in the Zimbabwe elections these days. Whilst I have not been able, or around much, to comment on them much they certainly are worth keeping a close eye on. I maintain that the only way Mugabe is going to leave power is in a coffin and that he will work very had to make sure it ends that way for him. Its just that he wants it to happen from natural causes, which is a bit different to how many other Zimbabweans might wish to see it end for him.

In other news, that story about the Chinese cargo ship carrying arms to Zim and being forced to return because every one refused to off load it has not, in anyway that I can see, made the news here in China. I have seen one to two things on the Chinese news about the Zim elections but their reports are very minimal. I don't think most people in China are in anyway aware of their governments role in all of this. Neither do I think they would be all that interested to learn about it.

And I am back again!

Thats right, as a part of the Chinese governments attempts to open up for the Olympics I can finally access blog.uk and other blogging sites with out having to go through a proxy or an interface like that.

The documentary above is a very interesting account on how the Americans have been fighting the war in Iraq. While it gives no justification for the war in the first place it does give great insight into the rational and some of the actions of the Americans during the cause of the war. I found it very interesting and it is a great piece to watch with these days given the more recent anti-war protests in Europe and around the world.

link: http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=40540

Govt screws tighten on Madlala-Routledge's finances
Mail & Guardian Online reporter and Sapa | Johannesburg, South Africa
26 August 2007 09:39

A government assault on the finances of axed deputy minister of health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has left her broke, the Sunday Times reported.

She has been forced to accept money from her elderly mother after her salary was docked to reclaim the cost of her controversial trip to Spain.

Now, as the screws are being tightened on her finances, Madlala-Routledge on Friday received a third letter of demand, this time from the Department of Public Works.

Continue Reading here...

The South African government, or more precisely Thabo Mbeki, are so painfully predicable and petty. For those of you who have been following this story on this blog will no doubt remember when this story first broke here and I said:

The truthiness in this case being the truth (or more accurately, non-truth) that Mbeki wants every one to believe is going on. No doubt Mbeki will now try to make the deputy minister a pariah and 'make an example' of her in some way. One of those ways could be to bring a court case against her for her trip overseas, which she talks about in the video clip.
- South Africa: Sacked deputy health minister tells her side of the story

This is the petty retribution of Mbeki against Madlala-Routledge for not towing the line, his line. Namely that nothing is wrong with South Africa's health care system and every thing is fine.

This is despite such reports that South Africa has an alarming number of baby deaths, such as at Frere Hospital in Eastern Cape, and has had, and in many ways continues to have, a stupid pigheaded approach to HIV/AIDS which is almost entirely the fault of... you guessed it, Thabo Mbeki and his incompetent minister of health Tshabalala- Msimang.

Now the question is what will the parties involved do next? This action has no doubt made Madlala-Routledge a hero amongst those people, inside and out side of the ruling ANC, and it will most likely force her into their, very diverse, political camp. Mbeki will continue to persecute Madlala-Routledge and keep Tshabalala-Misimang as minister of health. He will only fire Misimang when he absolutely has to and every one thinks that he is an idiot for not doing it sooner.

The sad truth is about Mbeki's cabinet is that the only way a minister ever leaves a cabinet position is if 1) they die, 2) they quit or 3) they aren't unquestioningly loyal to Mbeki. No matter how incompetent a minister or deputy minister may be and the country suffers for it, so long as they are loyal to Mbeki, they will keep their job.
A time line of the Madlala-Routledge controversy...

Refrences:

Mail & Guardian: Govt screws tighten on Madlala-Routledge's finances
Mail & Guardian: Madlala-Routledge was set up
Political Vuvuzela: South Africa: Sacked deputy health minister tells her side of the story
AllAfrica.com: South Africa: DA in Support of Cosatu On Frere Hospital Scandal

The clip above shows how Fox News in the US is using the same, now debunked and discredited, arguments it used to convince the US public for invading Iraq in 2003 to convince the US public today to attack Iran. Attacking Iran would be one of the worst mistakes the US could make, it would be devastating to their interests in the region and in the long run only plays into the hands of America's enemies. Iran's current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is not very popular these days with his own people, attacking Iran would change all that and rally the Iran people behind Ahmadinejad thereby undermining the US's ,in my view legitimate, objective to discredit that crazy little man. This blogger suspects that if Bush is planning to attack Iran he will do it next year in September, October, November when the US elections are being head. This way he could, in theory, get it through congress and the senate by using the presidential elections as a distraction. As half of congress will be running for election/re-election they will be to busy campaigning to stop it or fight it properly. Enabling Bush to push it through. For more information on the clip above or if you are interested in the Open Letter then check out this site: http://foxattacks.com/iran

This Commentary by UK MP Kate Hoey in the UK newspaper The Telegraph brings up some very good points. That the US and the UK are inadvertently propping up the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe by giving food aid to Zimbabwe; which on the face of it seems like the only humanitarian thing to do. That is if one does not take into account how Mugabe is using that food aid to cement his power by starving those against him into submission or death and rewarding his supporters.

To quote Didymus Mutasa, one of Mugabe’s cronies, which chillingly sums up the thinking behind this strategy:

“We would be better off with only 6 million people [out of a total of 12 million], with our own people who support the liberation struggle (ZANU-PF)."

- Foreign Secretary of Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party Didymus Mutasa

Hoey is absolutely right to demand that the UK, as well as the US, government look into how they spend their development aid money in Southern Africa when, judging from the great reception that Mugabe received from them at the last Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting, most SADC members openly support Mugabe.

This indicates that most of the government in SADC either don’t care about human rights and/or they are just so corrupt, both morally and economically, that all they care about is a leaders ‘struggle credentials’ no matter how bad they are. Either way, governments should not be giving development aid to such countries or at lease as much aid as they are currently giving them.

To give you an idea of how much aid a country like the US, for example, gives to a Southern African country in development aid here are some examples from USAID (the US government organisation that gives out international development aid).

South Africa, Africa’s wealthiest country will receive US$128 million this year (2007). Zambia, Zimbabwe’s northern neighbour, will receive US$113 million this year from USAID. Even the small nation of Namibia (population: 2 million), one of Mugabe’s closest allies in the region, will receive US$31 million this year.

These are large amounts of money, all of which the US taxpayer is providing and much of which the US government is giving to governments that are openly supporting Mugabe.

Sources:

The Telegraph: 'Cut aid to Robert Mugabe's apologists'
News at iafrica.com: SADC welcomes Mugabe like a hero

USAID South Africa: http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2007/afr/za.html
USAID Namibia: http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2007/afr/nm.html
USAID Zambia: http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2007/afr/zm.html

This article from the Zimbabwe Independent, and hosted on the net by allAfrica.com, details how the Mugabe regime is gearing up to fight a propaganda war against it’s (by that they want you to think the enemies of Zimbabwe but in reality it's just Mugabe's opponents) ‘enemies.’ It is reviled that the government has spent large amounts on Chinese surveillance equipment and hired Chinese and North Korean trainers to train some of Mugabe’s cronies in the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).

None of this is really news though as this has been going on for a while now. What is new however is that the Mugabe regime is setting up a propaganda arm of its ‘cyber warriors’ to try and convince people in the rest of the world of the lie that they are not as bad as every one makes out. So don’t be to surprised if you suddenly start seeing more people on the net supporting Mugabe. The chances are that they are employed by Mugabe to make him look good and cover up his inexcusable sins against the country.

Source:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200708170606.html

Pyongyang's man in Harare

National Post, Canada

RW Johnson, National Post
Published: Saturday, August 11, 2007

For 30 years, Robert Mugabe has idolized north Korea's Stalinist leadership.
Predictably, the two nations now share the same disastrous fate;

Visitors to the offices of high-ranking officials in Robert Mugabe's beleaguered government in recent weeks have noticed the same book open for study: Juche! The Speeches and Writings of Kim Il Sung. "Some may actually believe this stuff, but it's more that they want to understand where the President is coming from," one insider told me.

It appears that those who have become anxious about Mugabe's Canute-like attempt to order inflation of 7,000% to be halved and to subordinate the economy in general to his political will, is not just acting wildly. He has a model:North Korea's Great Leader who, though he died in 1994, is still enshrined in that country's constitution as "president for eternity." (To this day, the current ruler, his son Kim Jong-Il, never actually uses the title of president.) Receiving the new North Korean ambassador in May this year, Mugabe told him that North Korea had been a guiding light and friend ever since it began to aid his ZANU guerrilla army, Zanla, in the 1970s, and that "everything in Zimbabwe is associated with the exploits of president Kim Il Sung."

Because Joshua Nkomo's rival ZAPU movement was aligned with South Africa's African National Congress during this period, and thus with the orthodox Moscow-led Soviet bloc, ZANU perforce had to find its foreign funders and arms-suppliers elsewhere, in Beijing and Pyongyang. This was a rare breakthrough for Kim Il Sung, so when Zimbabwe became independent in 1980, it immediately became North Korea's most ambitious diplomatic objective. Hundreds of North Korean military advisers arrived, not only training but equipping much of Mugabe's army, particularly the notorious Fifth Brigade. Indeed, for a few years North Korea even dreamt of emulating the Cuban model. From its Zimbabwean base, it deployed over 3,000 troops helping the Angolan, Mozambican and Ethiopian governments.

What particularly appealed to Mugabe, however, was that the North Koreans were not only experts in martial arts but in the far blacker art of political indoctrination, having honed their skills in the notorious "brain-washing" of U.S. and British prisoners in the Korean War. The essential principle was that if, by physical torture, isolation and relentless humiliation, you could break down someone's personality, it was then possible to re-mould it along more "acceptable" lines.

The full horror of such techniques, first glimpsed in Zanla's liberation war tactics, was fully revealed only in the mid-1980s when Mugabe ordered the Fifth Brigade to repress political opposition in the Matabeleland region. Using North Korean terminology, Mugabe explained that "The people there had their chance and they voted as they did. The situation there has to be changed. The people must be re-oriented."

Some 20,000 people died in the resulting campaign of torture and murder, but it was not just repression pure and simple. What the villagers grew to fear most was the dreadful all-night singing sessions in which they would have to sing ZANU songs with cheerful enthusiasm at the same time that they were savagely beaten; when they would not only have to watch as friends or family members were tortured or shot but would themselves have to assist in the process -- the emphasis always being on achieving their utter humiliation and incrimination so that they could re-emerge at the end as Mugabe loyalists.

One great focus of such loyalty would be the pilgrimage to Heroes Acre, the 140-acre site in the capital of Harare, which commemorates the heroes of the liberation war. Its huge granite obelisk and Stalinist architecture were North Korean-designed, such monuments being a regime speciality. (Kim Il Sung erected over 34,000 monuments to himself.)

Kim first announced his philosophy of Juche ("self-reliance") in 1972, whereafter North Korea cut itself off from almost all foreign trade and defaulted on all its foreign debts -- steps which Zimbabwe has now emulated. According to Juche, "man is the

master of everything and decides everything," and the most important work of "revolution and construction is moulding people ideologically as good Communists with absolute loyalty to the Party and Leader."

Kim had realized that to achieve this, he needed to isolate North Korea from all outside influences --crimes such as singing a South Korean pop song or reading a foreign newspaper carry a life sentence. Kim would have strongly approved of Mugabe's recent expulsion of foreign media, his crackdown on the independent press and his slavish broadcast outlets. Indeed, Mugabe's Herald newspaper has carried laudatory articles about Juche.
After independence, Mugabe was at first prime minister. But his first visit to North Korea had an enormous impact on him. "He came back almost a different man," one of his former party stalwarts told me. "He was tremendously impressed by the stadiums full of people doing mass callisthenics and colour displays spelling out Kim's name or even depicting his face. He came back wanting to change the constitution so that he could become president, like Kim."

Nicolae Ceaucescu, the Romanian dictator, was similarly affected by his visit to Pyongyang, and returned to Bucharest to launch his "systematization" program, knocking down old buildings and churches in order to build marching lines of

apartments, North Korean style. Mugabe and Ceaucescu became close to one another so that the downfall and assassination of the Ceaucescus in 1989 were a trauma in Harare, and all news of the event was snatched off TV screens. The fall of Cambodia's Pol Pot, who had also embraced Juche, was similarly unwelcome news in Harare.

When Kim, the Great Leader, died in 1994, the Gregorian calendar was abolished in North Korea, and a new calendar installed in which Year One is 1912 (Kim's year of birth), and in which the first day is April 15, Kim's birthday. Zimbabwe set up its own Committee to Honour the Memory of Kim Il Sung, chaired by Vice-President Joseph Msika. This holds a special month of mourning for Kim every year, with lectures, seminars and a memorial service "praying for his eternity."

The birthday of Kim's son, Kim Jong-Il, "the dear leader," is effectively celebrated as the North Korean Christmas: he is "the central brain," "a genius of 10,000 talents" and "the morning star."

Mugabe, whose birthday (Feb. 21) falls only five days later, has now copied this: He too is celebrated as "our dear leader" with the same mass synchronized dancing by women in traditional dress and army parades. Feasts are also staged--even though, as in North Korea, the faithful celebrants are often near starvation.

"The central idea is also the same: Everything, including the economy, can be commanded and made to fall into line with the Leader's will," one close Mugabe-watcher told me. "In North Korea, anyone unable to live with that ended up in the gulag or fled as refugees to China, so you ended up with a country where everyone left was totally obedient. This is undoubtedly Mugabe's model." In both countries, regimes starting out as Marxist have both ended up as apostles of extreme monarchical authority.

Juche, like Mugabe's radical socialism, was a fraud. In reality, North Korea depended utterly on Soviet aid, just as liberated Zimbabwe's economy depended completely on a few thousand white farmers. When Soviet aid ceased in 1991, North Korea's income halved and mass starvation ensued, just as it has in Zimbabwe following the eviction of the white farmers. Anywhere up to three million North Koreans died, but Kim Jong-Il simply denied the facts of starvation and at first turned away food aid. Mugabe did exactly the same. When the World Food Programme offered to help Zimbabwe's starving in 2004, he asked "Why foist this food upon us? We do not want to be choked, we have enough." In the end, both regimes have become massively dependent on foreign food aid.

This week, Zimbabwe's Parliament faces Mugabe's proposed constitutional amendment enabling him to choose his own successor and impose him without an election. This, too, exactly imitates the way in which Kim Il Sung designated his own successor; and it allowed Kim to continue to be celebrated long after his death.

But there is something else to which Mugabe might pay heed. Although Kim Jong-Il declared three years of mourning for his father, spent nearly $1-billion on his mausoleum and declared two national flowers for the country, Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia, his father's death from a heart attack and "heavy mental strains" followed a bitter argument with his son and is still clouded with suspicion. Kim Jong-Il would not allow doctors to enter his father's room till long after the death. And all the doctors, as well as his father's bodyguards, were immediately killed in a series of helicopter "accidents." Other functionaries who had been close to his father all quickly disappeared without trace.

So while North Koreans are encouraged to believe that Kim Il Sung still rules and watches over the country, it seems likely that the great man's end was more like the usual tyrant's exit.

-RWJohnson is emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Southern Africa correspondent for the Sunday Times.

Read full article on the Zimbabwe Situation...

Zanu PF plans cyber warfare against online publications

Zim Independent

Itai MushekwePF has blacklisted 41 online publications, including websites for
American-owned Cable News Network (CNN) and the United States Embassy in
Harare, which it claims have launched a cyber war to promote a regime change
agenda against President Robert Mugabe's government, the Zimbabwe
Independent can reveal.

It was not immediately apparent what measures, if any, the party can
take against offending websites.

The list of the websites was tabled at a recent politburo meeting and
is said to have caused alarm among party members during a heated debate on
the media, sources said. Various download print-outs from the websites were
distributed at the meeting.

The development comes against the backdrop of Mugabe's outburst in
Malaysia on Monday alleging journalists lacked objectivity and were writing
"subjective views" in their reports.

Mugabe made the attack on scribes when taking part in the Langkawi
International Dialogue aimed at fostering closer ties between Asia and
Africa and between governments and business.

"The press and journalists, are they driven by the sense of honesty
and objectivity all the time? Or are they swayed from objectivity and truth
by certain notions arising from their own subjective views?" said Mugabe.

One of the downloads seen by this paper was extracted from ZimUpdate
Forums and shows a reader on the forum giving seven reasons why he thinks
Mugabe does not want to step down. "Is it because he is afraid of being
hanged just like Saddam (Hussein); or extradited just like Charles Taylor,"
the reader asks. "Is it because he is afraid that the party will
disintegrate? Is it because he is intoxicated with power? It is because he
does not trust anyone in Zanu?"

The reader added that Mugabe was afraid of the Americans and British.

Government has been struggling to counter what it terms "negative
publicity" by Western media organisations. Among a cocktail of strategies to
counter bad publicity from various international media, the state has set up
a short-wave propaganda radio station, Voice of Zimbabwe (VOZ) operating
from Gweru.

However, the radio project appears to have suffered a stillbirth amid
reports of self-jamming as a result of gagging equipment installed to block
broadcasts from foreign radio stations such as Voice of America's Studio 7.
The project has also been unpopular with state media journalists.

ZBC's Sports FM manager Methuseli Moyo recently left the station after
he refused to be deployed to VOZ, saying he was not a propagandist but a
journalist. Government has also splurged over US$1 million in an
image-making campaign with New African magazine.

Zanu PF secretary for science and technology, Olivia Muchena,
presented a report on the role and importance of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) on July 26, arguing that the ruling party
had no choice but to embrace ICTs to remain "politically relevant".
"Comrades, we are all aware that Zanu PF is at war from within and outside
our borders," said the report. "Contrary to the gun battles we are
accustomed to, we now have cyber-warfares fought from one's comfort zone, be
it bedroom, office, swimming pool, etc but with deadly effects."

Muchena said Zanu PF must pause and think who is behind the creation
of "these websites", the target market of the websites, the influence and
impact they have on Zimbabweans and what the image of Zanu PF and its
leadership looks like "out there as portrayed".

Muchena said websites, the Internet and cellphones had become daily
weapons used to fight Zanu PF, adding that ICTs were now vogue platforms for
high-tech espionage -hardware, software and infrastructure that peddles
"virulent propaganda" to delegitimise "our just struggle against
Anglo-Saxons".

President Mugabe recently signed into law the Interception of
Communications Act which empowers government to snoop on messages
transmitted through the telecommunications system, cellphones and the
Internet.

Below is the list of the blacklisted websites:

www.zvakwana.org

www.newzimbabwe.com

www.zwnews.com

www.zimvigil.co.uk

www.zimbabwesituation.com

www.zimddays.com

www.allzimbabwe.com

www.crisisgroup.org

www.zimbabwe.8m.com

www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.com

www.zimonline.co.za

www.changezimbabwe.com

www.thezimbabwetimes.com

www.wozazimbabwe.org

www.zimupdate.com

www.zimpundit.blogspot.com

www.thegreatzimbabwe.com

www.zimdaily.com

www.thezimbabwean.co.uk

www.gozimbabwe.com

www.zimobserver.com

www.zimbabwepost.com

www.insiderzimbabwe.com

www.africantears.netfirms.com

www.hrforumzim.com

www.amnesty.ca

www.dfat.gov.au

www.abyznewslinks.com

www.worldpress.org

www.topix.net

www.harareusembassy.gov

www.technorati.com

www.delzwe.ec.europa.eu

www.globalvoiceonline.org

www.usip.org

www.ipsnews.net

www.washingtonpost.com

www.uk.oneworld.net

www.pbs.org

www.msnbc.msn.com

www.cnn.com