Key Zim Organisations
Bulawayo Agenda
Bulawayo Agenda provides a platform for different views of people through public meetings, workshops, seminars and conferences by engaging debate on topical and current affairs and engaging media and civic society to promote public rights to fair and accurate information and freedom of expression.
Suite 602, 6th Floor,Pioneer House
Corner 8th Avenue / Fife Street
Bulawayo
Tel : +263 (09) 888211
e-mail : info@agenda.org.zw
Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition
This is a coalition of more than 300 organisations focused on human rights and good governance.
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition -Head Office
Reception +263 91 2 471 669
website: wwww.crisiszimbabwe.org
Postal Adress P.O.Box CY 434, Causeway,HARARE
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition -Johannesburg Office
711 Khotso House, 62 Marshall Street,Marshalltown 2001,Johannesburg
Phone: +27 11 838 9642
Information: +27 73 849 6205/+27 78 645 4893/ +27 84 955 1323
National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations
The National Association of Non Governmental Organizations (NANGO) is a non-party political, non-profit making and non-denominational coordinating body of NGOs in Zimbabwe. NANGO has a leading role in facilitating the harmonization and collaboration between and among NGOs with their stakeholders including public and private sectors towards national development goals.
Some of its programs are training and capacity building, information and networking, research, analysis and development
Postal Address:P. O. Box CY 250, Causeway,Harare,Zimbabwe
Tel: 263 – 4 -703579, 708761, 794973 263 – 4 -794793
E-mail: fambai@nango.org.zw
National Constitutional Assembly
This is an organization working towards a new, democratic and people driven constitution.
Zimbabwe Congress Of Trade Unions
The ZCTU is the umbrella body of unions in various sectors that protects and promotes the interest of Zimbabwean workers. The union also runs a newspaper called ‘The Worker’
Tel:263-(0)4-794702, 794742, 793093
Fax:263263-(0)4-728484
Email: info@zctu.co.zw
Zimbabwe Election Support Network
ZESN is a network of 38 organisations specialized in election reporting monitoring and tabulation.
Tel +263 4 250735-6/791443
Fax +263 4 798193
Email: rindai@zesn.org.zw or zesn@africaonline.co.zw
Website: www.zesn.org.zw
Zimbabwe Lawyers For Human Rights
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights is a membership organisation which is open to all lawyers and law students in Zimbabwe. Its objectives are to protect, promote, deepen and broaden the human rights provisions in the Constitution of Zimbabwe.
To strive for the implementation and protection in Zimbabwe of regional and international human rights norms .
It also monitors proposed legislation which may affect human rights and submits commentaries on such legislation to relevant bodiesissues public statements on important human rights aspects, when appropriate arranges meetings, seminars and discussion groups on human rights issues
encourages and supports prospective litigators in cases which involve the protection, promotion, and expansion of the human rights provisions of the Constitution of Zimbabwe
Mail address: P O Box CY 1393, Causeway, Zimbabwe
email: zlhr@icon.co.zw
Telephone/fax: 263-04-251468
ZimRights NGO Forum
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum consists of Non-governmental organisations working in the field of human rights. Its activities are to assist victims of organised violence.
The Human Rights Forum currently has sixteen members and produces reports on human rights violations in Zimbabwe and provides free legal assistance to victims of organised violence and torture. The Human Rights Forum also provides psycho-social services to victims of organised violence and torture and documents all human rights violations, particularly politically motivated violence.
Blue Bridge 8th Floor, Eastgate, P O Box 9077, Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel (+263) 04-250 511
www.hrforumzim.com
admin@hrforum.co.zw
International Liaison Office, 56-64 Leonard St, London EC2A 4LT
+44-(0)20-7065 0945
Zimbabwe Peace Project
ZPP is focused on documenting acts of political violence and human rights abuses
Political Parties
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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front
Ideology State socialism,
Left-wing nationalism,
Official colours Black, Red, Yellow, Green
ZANU-PF is a Zimbabwean political party that was the ruling government in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, led by Robert Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the party simply known as ZANU, and then as President from 1988 after taking over ZAPU and renaming the party ZANU-PF.
ZANU-PF was founded by Ndabaningi Sithole, Herbert Chitepo, Edgar Tekere, Leopold Takawira and Robert Mugabe at the house of former Defence minister Enos Nkala in Highfield in August 1963. [1] The minority Ndau followed Sithole into the moderate Zanu (Ndonga) party (known later as ZANU Mwenje), who renounced violent struggle, while the majority Shona followed Mugabe’s ZANU with a more militant agenda.
During the 1980 independence elections, ZANU allied itself with the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) in the Patriotic Front (PF), the two parties adopting the names ZANU-PF and PF-ZAPU respectively, but they split after achieving majority rule.
In December 1987, after five years of low-level civil war termed Gukurahundi, the opposition ZAPU, led by Joshua Nkomo, was absorbed through the unity accord into ZANU-PF.
Officially, ZANU-PF is socialist in ideology, and is modelled on communist parties in other countries. The party maintains a politburo.[3] However, the party had abandoned much of the egalitarian aspects associated with conventional Communist Party practice, instead choosing to pursue a mixed economy. But Mugabe from the year 2 000 has since pursued a more populist approach on the issue of land redistribution: encouraging seizure of large farms – usually owned by members of the white minority – “for the benefit of landless black peasants.” Nevertheless, critics of this policy argue that it is to maintain his grip on power as supporters of his government directly benefit from their personal gains of land redistribution far more than the landless population.
Minor Opposition Zimbabwe African National Union – Ndonga (ZANU-Ndonga) – National Alliance for Good Governance (NAGG)- Zimbabwe People’s Democratic Party – Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance (ZYA)- International Socialist Organisation (ISO) – United People’s Party (UPP)
Movement for Democratic Change
MDC was founded 31 September 1999
Its political ideology democratic socialism,sociall democracy, centre left
Its colors are Red and black
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is a Zimbabwean political party. It was founded in 1999 as an opposition party to the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party led by President Robert Mugabe. The MDC was formed from many members of the broad coalition of civic society groups and individuals that campaigned for a “No” vote in the 2000 constitutional referendum, in particular the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. The party split following the 2005 Senate election, with one faction headed by Morgan Tsvangirai and the other by Arthur Mutambara..
Defunct Parties Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) – Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) – Rhodesian Front (RF)
President Robert Mugabe (ZANU-PF)
Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC)
Key People Ndabaningi Sithole (ZANU, ZANU – Ndonga) – Joshua Nkomo (ZAPU) – Arthur Mutambara (MDC) – Ian Smith (RF)
Armed Factions ZANLA (ZANU, ZANU-PF) – ZIPRA (ZAPU)
Portal:Politics – List of political parties – Politics of Zimbabwe
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