What you may have missed September 11-15

Sanctions will not destroy Zimbabwe- President Robert Mugabe today said Zimbabwe will not be destroyed by Western sanctions and will rely on its natural resources and friendly countries for survival. “Zimbabwe will never fall. Yes, they (sanctions) can be an impediment but we will find ways to make progress. We have friends who want to work with us,” he said at the swearing in of his new cabinet.

Bennett wants Tsvangirai to quit
Exiled Movement for Democratic Change treasurer and chief fund-raiser Roy Bennett today called for a new leadership suggesting that Morgan Tsvangirai’s continued stay in power did not reflect the will of the people. “Tsvangirai has served two terms and is nearly completing a third,” Bennett said. “Deep introspection needs to be undertaken by our national collective leadership, not for purposes of looking for scapegoats, but for our party to reinvigorate its leadership with a leadership which reflects the will of our people.”

Mugabe’s cabinet “an expensive pension scheme”
President Robert Mugabe’s cabinet is nothing more than a pension scheme for his cronies, Nixon Nyikadzino of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition said today. “This Cabinet is more of an expensive pension scheme for ZANU PF sympathisers who have been plundering the national fiscus. Just thinking about what this will mean for the economy is scary. To start with, there is no indication that this is a Cabinet that will be mending relations with the international community. We are saddled with a huge debt and I do not see this government engaging with international institutions to try and have our huge debt cancelled,” Nyikadzino said.

Zimbabwe claim historic win
Zimbabwe today scored a historic cricket win over Pakistan when Tendai Chatara snared five wickets to draw the Test series in Harare. Chasing 106 runs for victory and with five wickets in hand on the final day, the tourists were relying on Misbah-ul-Haq to carry them home and he did not disappoint with a battling half-century. However, Chatara stole the limelight with a superb show of bowling to help dismiss Pakistan for 239 shortly after lunch as Zimbabwe wrapped up a first Test victory over an established full-member nation since beating India in 2001.

MDC to summon Bennett
Movement for Democratic Change chairman Lovemore Moyo today said his party was going to summon its treasurer Roy Bennett to explain why he said that party leader Morgan Tsvangirai must quit. “As the party chairman I am going to summon and ask him to explain these statements… We have internal processes which we use to discipline our members who make statements that bring the party into disrepute. Bennett is a senior member of party and should know better, and he has to explain to us what he meant in the interview he made about the party leadership.”

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