The Zimbabwe Information Centre (ZIC) informs Australians about current developments in Zimbabwe. We support organisations in Zimbabwe advocating for good governance, embracing diversity, and building an inclusive society, with fair distribution of wealth and benefits, equality for all and human rights for all.
We work in partnership with the Zimbabwe Peacebuilding Initiative (ZimPI). Working with government and with member organisations of around 750,000 people, ZimPI fosters ‘synergies for peace with justice, safety, security, green entrepreneurship, happiness and prosperity for all’. Peacebuilding is a tool to bring Zimbabweans together and resolve intergenerational challenges as one society, building on traditional values of Ubuntu.
"Africans have this thing called Ubuntu... the essence of being human. It is part of the gift that Africans will give the world. It embraces hospitality, caring about others, willing to go the extra mile for the sake of others. We believe a person is person through another person, that my humanity is caught up, bound up and inextricable in yours. When I dehumanise you I inexorably dehumanise myself. The solitary individual is a contradiction in terms and, therefore, you seek to work for the common good because your humanity comes into its own community, in belonging." Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Photo: Panganai Sithole, Board Member of ZimPI, at the ZimPI sponsored 2019 Matebeleland National Healing eve
Photo: In the Charter House office of Hon Engineer Oliver Chidawu, Minister for Provincial Affairs and Devolu
Photo: In October 2019 Hon Helen Clark was guest of Honour at the University of Zimbabwe at the FairGo4Kids l
2019 is ending in Zimbabwe with huge frustration at the lack of progress for the people, with both Prof Jonathon Moyo of G40 and VP Chiwenga engaged in high stakes public drama.
November 2019 has been marked by violent clashes on the streets between MDC Alliance and police, which is continuing to inform the international community that the Mnangagwa ZANU-PF government is much more a continuation of the Mugabe dictatorship than an opening to change for the better.
Following the abject failure of the October 25 Anti-Sanctions Day, it is crystal clear that neither the people of Zimbabwe nor the international community can swallow the claims that “Western Sanctions” are the reason for the ongoing collapse of Zimbabwe’s economy and society.
The prospect of a 30-day wait for the final burial of former president and dictator Robert Mugabe was short-circuited when the government abruptly abandoned the proposed Heroes Acre ceremony and the immediate family buried Mugabe at his Zvimba homestead on September 28, 2019.
There was a relatively strong attendance of ordinary Zimbabweans at the public viewing of deceased former President Robert Mugabe, but far fewer at the formal ceremony attended by African leaders.
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