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Gugulethu Moyo’s guest on the programme In the Balance is Kenyan lawyer Donald Deya, who is executive director of the East African Law Society. Deya discusses the electoral crisis that led to large scale violence in Kenya. He analyses the causes of the violence and the alleged rigging that the incumbent government has been accused of. With elections due in Zimbabwe this year, does the Kenyan experience hold any lessons?
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Tererai’s guest is the Mutambara MDC’s secretary for information and publicity, Gabriel Chaibva, who says it would take nothing short of a miracle to conduct next year’s elections in March. Chaibva described Robert Mugabe’s statement last week that elections would be in March without fail as just simple “macho rhetoric.”  He said they would “drag Mugabe kicking and screaming to elections” under conditions agreed to at the regionally initiated negotiations. The MDC spokesperson said there was a need for a people driven constitutional process ahead of elections, plus time to implement changes to oppressive legislation that were worked out in South Africa. Chaibva also discussed the Tsvangirai MDC faction, which he said has not yet formally acknowledged its willingness to form a coalition to face Mugabe in the elections. Hear more, In The Balance.
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Tererai talks to Nora Tapiwa about the Global Diaspora Conference that is to take place in South Africa this coming weekend. Nora said the main problem for Zimbabweans in the diaspora is that many are in limbo and exist without legal documents. She explained that the main focus of the conference is to redefine the role of civil society in assisting those in the diaspora. With familiar Zimbabweans such as Solomon Chikohwero, Grace Kwinjeh, Daniel Molokele and Professor Stan Mukasa presenting on different subjects, the conference is bound to be quite informative. Get the details In The Balance.
 
GLOBAL DIASPORA CONFERENCE “Building a Lasting Legacy!” 7 – 9th December 2007 BRAAMFONTEIN RECREATION 
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Tererai talks to Geoff Hill, writer and correspondent for the Washington Times in South Africa, who was the last journalist to interview Ian Smith when he visited him in hospital last Friday. Smith died in Cape Town on Tuesday, aged 88. Hill said he had lost a lot of weight and looked like a shadow of his former self.

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The appalling treatment of students at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo is discussed. Tererai talks to McDonald Lewanika, a coordinator with the Student Solidarity Trust, who explains how student leaders from the Zimbabwe National Students Union were dragged from exam rooms and thrown off campus without as much as a disciplinary hearing.

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Geoffrey Nyarota, former editor of The Daily News talks to Tererai Karimakwenda about his new book titled “Against the Grain”. Nyarota said there are many lessons in it, the most important being that Zimbabweans should never again allow a situation where we have an all powerful leadership that is not answerable to the people.

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Lawyer Dumisani Hwacha is representing the student leader Edison Hlatshwayo, Secretary General of the Great Zimbabwe University Students Executive Council, who has been in detention since 27 September on charges of criminal damage to property. Hlatshwayo is due to be released on bail Wednesday, after the State vigorously opposed his release on numerous occasions claiming that he faces very serious criminal charges and is likely to abscond.
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In recent months a growing number of lawyers have said that they were assaulted by police officers as they tried to represent their clients. The latest victim is Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Tafadzwa Mugabe. He says that he was assaulted and forcibly removed from Harare Central Police Station on Monday when he went there to assist his clients. Tafadzwa speaks to Gugulethu Moyo
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The ruthless military campaign known as Gukurahundi, in which between 1982 and 1988 an estimated 20 000 civilians were killed in Matebeleland and Midlands, is revisited. This year marks ten years since a report was first published about Gukurahundi and commemorations are being held around the world to remember those tragic events. Mike Auret was at that time with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and Eileen Sawyer was with the Legal Resources Foundation of Zimbabwe, the two groups that compiled the report. They were reunited at an event in London recently where they spoke about the grave events of the 80’s.
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