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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 11 500 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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Article 21: Everyone has the right to vote and choose a government of his/her country. Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

We Shall Not Sleep
No-one is going to sleep a wink this year
till we fix this whole mess
No-one is going to close an eyelid
till we get to the bottom of this
Read Chirikure Chirikure’s poem We Shall Not Sleep

Pisa in Bikisa
I am in a tiny place called Bikisa, deep in rural Masvingo, where Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party has won every election that has ever been held. (Ian Smith did not believe in elections for black folk). So my assumption is that the big pile is Mugabe’s. But I am wrong. Read more from Philip Barclay


Powerlessness and silence go together. We...should use our positions not as a shelter from the world's reality, but as a platform from which to speak. A voice is a gift. It should be cherished and used.
- Margaret Atwood


Beaten by the police (even waiting isn’t safe)
Beating… beating… beating. One day had passed since the polls and still I got beat. Beat for nothing. Carrying home my vegetables in a small plastic bag. Minding my own business and still I was beaten. For what? I say. Read more on Kubatana blogs

Important links for Development News & Information
Balancing Act
Fahamu
Kabissa
OneWorld
The Communication Initiative
Open Directory Project
Human Rights Internet

Useful resources
Strategic social marketing for nonprofits
An introduction to NGO credibility and legitimacy

Everyone's guide to by-passing internet censorship

DancingMy heart

Multiple channels of resistance
Participation in a nondemocratic regime’s channels of political participation is not likely to succeed unless combined with noninstitutional pressure. In the Philippines, segments of the opposition participated in Marcos’s institutionalised channels, yet they continued to exert noninstitutional pressure as well.
Read more

Breaking News - Apr 11 . . .
ZBC reported that Robert Mugabe will not attend a regional summit on Saturday to discuss the country's election stalemate. Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga said the summit was called without consulting Zimbabwe. Read more

Zimbabwe police bans all political rallies-radio. - Read more from Reuters

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission says its hands are tied with regard to the release of the presidential poll results because the matter is still before the High Court. - ZEC - The Herald - Read more

Index of articles - March 29, 2008 elections

Results

Zimbabwe Lawyers' for Human Rights - recent statements

  • Further confirmed arrests of ZEC personnel - Read more
  • Current arrests of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission personnel - Read more
  • Request for recount of presidential ballots before results announced unprocedural & premature - Read more
  • Legal position on challenging election results/outcome - Read more
  • Delaying presidential result an attempt to subvert electoral processes and people's will - Read more

Veritas - recent updates

  • Recounts, petitions, possible run-off - Read more
  • Presidential election count - Read more

Other election news

Still waiting.
Why not wait somewhere visible? - Brian MacGarry

  • Is there any reasonable suspicion that votes were stolen from Mr Mugabe? - Read more
  • Defending the victory - Read more
  • Be patient, stand back and watch - Read more
  • De facto coup in Zimbabwe - opposition leader - Reuters
    - Read more
  • Call for immediate release of presidential election result - Civil society organisations - Read more
  • Serious concerns over closure of ZEC National Command Centre - ZESN - Read more
  • Women can do it! - Election results - Women's Trust - Read more
  • Zim election commission comes under fire - AFP - Read more
  • Zimbabwe's razor edge - Morgan Tsvangirai - Read more
  • Zimbabwe opposition leader meets S Africa's Zuma - Reuters
    - Read more
  • Zimbabwe opposition claim victory - BBC News - Read more
  • Delay in the announcement of the election results - Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum - Read more
  • Delay in Election Results & the National Political Environment - Zimbabwean Civil Society Orgs - Read more
  • Analysis of the election results so far (Apr 3) - Sen David Coltart
    - Read more

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