[Reader-list] Zimbabwe: Beyond the Vote.

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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Patrice Riemens wrote:

> Editorial of The Financial Gazette, Harare, March 14, 2002.
> original: http://www.fingaz.co.zw/fingaz/2002/March/March14/752.shtml
> 
> (The Financial Gazette, usually lambasted by the Mugabe regime as the 
> mouthpiece of the white business community, is one of the very few 
> independent media left in ZANU-PF ruled Zimbabwe. At the moment it 
> provides the most extensive and immo reliable coverage of events in that 
> wretched country) (http://www.fingaz.co.zw) 

According to many reports on 

http://zimbabwe.indymedia.org

the difference between ZANU-PF and MDC is between fascism and
neoliberalism. So even better than a media source independent of
government, how about one that's independent of both government *and* 
of corporations/IMF/WB/WTO...?

Here's the Zim Indymedia central column feature:

> What is to be done?  Despite the fact that the state media repeats
> the election results every hour no one is celebrating (apart from
> Mugabe - see picture).  Morgan Tsvangirai annouced yesterday that he
> doesn't accept the result and that he was going away away to
> 'consult' with the leadership of the MDC on the way
> froward. zimbabwe.indymedia have recently heard that the Zimbabwe
> Congress of Trade Unions are planning to call a stayaway. Are these
> the answers? How do Zimbabweans build the resistance?Zimbabwe now
> faces a major decision: accept the results that are widely regarded
> as a joke or find another way to get rid of the ruling party. The
> army has been deployed in city centres and high density areas,
> waiting for the opposition. In this situation there is only one
> certainty today: Zimbabweans will not accept another six years of
> Mugabe.