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News stories for Wednesday 17 March

Government principals meet with Zuma
South African President Jacob Zuma kick-started his three day visit to Zimbabwe Wednesday by holding talks with the coalition government’s three leaders. He held one-on-one talks with Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in the morning and a lunch break was followed by joint talks with all the leaders, including Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara.

No election possible without major reform
There are growing concerns over the holding of elections next year, as announced recently by both the leaders of ZANU PF and the MDC-T. Robert Mugabe even went further saying ‘elections will be held next year with or without a new constitution’. The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition has warned against the holding of elections before real reforms have been made in the country.

Concern over upsurge of political violence in rural areas
A leading Zimbabwe Human Rights lawyer on Wednesday called for urgent regional action to save the country from sliding back into chaos, amid growing fears of a major upsurge in violence and tension in the rural areas.
Dewa Mavhinga said the escalation of violence should be one of the central issues discussed by President Jacob Zuma and the three principals to the Global Political Agreement.

Huge crowds throng burial of Sam Mtukudzi
Hundreds of mourners thronged Warren Hills Cemetery in Harare on Wednesday to witness the burial of Sam Mtukudzi, son of legendary musician Oliver Mtukudzi, who died in a car crash Monday morning.
Government ministers from across the political divide, family and friends, including fellow musicians like Alick Macheso, Tongai Moyo, Mechanic Manyeruke, Charles Charamba and other celebrities, came to support the Mtukudzi family.

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Human Rights Abuses in Marange (pdf)
The Kariba draft constitution document
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US Human Rights report on Zimbabwe
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Physicians Report - A Man-made Disaster in Zimbabwe
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Hundreds of mourners thronged Warren Hills Cemetery in Harare on Wednesday to witness the burial of Sam Mtukudzi (right) , son of legendary musician Oliver Mtukudzi (left), who died in a car crash Monday morning.
Government ministers from across the political divide, family and friends, including fellow musicians like Alick Macheso, Tongai Moyo, Mechanic Manyeruke, Charles Charamba and other celebrities, came to support the Mtukudzi family.
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Tinepi says the situation is now explosive in Mutoko, resembling the violent situation in 2008 as Zanu PF terrorises villagers about the new constitution. Mercy says the GNU never changed anything for the majority of poor Zimbabweans. It only helped those already employed. Thabani is worried about the forthcoming elections. He says that Tsvangirai needs a strategy to avoid people being beaten. Thabani was himself beaten in 2008.

Zimbabwe’s sharp political divisions were laid bare in front of the visiting South African President Jacob Zuma at the Harare international airport on Tuesday. In a clearly stage managed event, scores of ZANU PF supporters wearing party regalia openly chanted anti-MDC and anti-Tsvangirai slogans in front of the MDC leader, Robert Mugabe and Arthur Mutambara who had gone to meet Zuma at the airport. Our correspondent Simon Muchemwa says the provocative chants showed a lack of respect for the Prime Minister and were meant to embarrass him in front of the dignitaries.

Zimbabwean NGOs are arguably the strongest in South Africa given their effective lobbying against human rights abuses which raised the crisis to international levels. But in response ZANU PF created repressive laws against NGOs and arrested and abducted many of their activists. This harassment has continued and Getrude Hambira and Okay Machisa are currently on the run even though there is a GNU. Cephas Zinhumwe, the CEO of the National Association of NGOs, discusses how the NGOs are coping.

Violet presents Hot Seat where she speaks to Elinor Burkett, the producer of the Oscar winning documentary, Music by Prudence, the inspiring tale of a group of handicapped Zimbabwean musicians. Burkett explains why she stormed the stage on Oscar night, and how she hopes the film will put the spotlight on the plight of the physically impaired in Zimbabwe.
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