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		<title>Zimbabwe &#8211; when a run on the bank is a good thing</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/12/03/zimbabwe-when-a-run-on-the-bank-is-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be a tense day in Harare today as members of the ZCTU and other Zimbabwean civil society organisations assemble symbolically outside their banks to protest at the management of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe under governor Gideon Gono.
The Bank is limiting cash withdrawals to $500,000 a week, though under mounting civil pressure has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Left hanging</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/08/27/left-hanging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The labour movement in Zimbabwe is being kept silent for yet another critical month, as Zimbabwean Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders Wellington Chibebe and Lovemore Matombo turned up in court to face charges of &#8220;speading falsehoods prejudicial to the state&#8221;, only to find the prosecutor had again not turned up for the trial.
The human-rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swaziland and Zimbabwe: dark days for trade unionists</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/08/26/swaziland-and-zimbabwe-dark-days-for-trade-unionists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/08/26/swaziland-and-zimbabwe-dark-days-for-trade-unionists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Swaziland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Zimbabwe prepares to put its union leadership on trial for criticising the government&#8217;s violent excesses, a similar story is unfolding in neighbouring Swaziland. Jan Sithole, Secretary General of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU), was arrested on Friday, after 30 armed police stormed his house in the early hours of the morning.
The ITUC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad news and bad GNUs</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/08/01/bad-news-and-bad-gnus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/08/01/bad-news-and-bad-gnus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the news that the ZCTU&#8217;s Wellington Chibebe and Lovemore Matombo will need to wait another month for their trial in Harare, keeping them silenced on unfair bail conditions that prohibit their addressing public gatherings, there are now worrying reports of another way the Mugabe regime is trying to shut up the embattled Zimbabwean union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are ZCTU</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/07/28/we-are-zctu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/07/28/we-are-zctu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick, and getting rather late, plug for the new ITUC website, We Are ZCTU (www.wearezctu.org). It&#8217;s set up in support of Wellington Chibebe and Lovemore Matombo of the Zimbawe Congress of Trade Unions, who are due in court in Harare this Wednesday (30 July).
They&#8217;ve been charged with &#8220;spreading falsehoods prejudicial to the state&#8221;, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyperdoomed</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/06/17/hyperdoomed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/06/17/hyperdoomed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This vid looks to have been up on their site for months now, but I only just noticed it after I found myself thinking a lot of Morgan Tsvangirai and the terrible challenges he and the MDC are facing over the next days, and humming through this namechecking song about bravery and devotion, so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosaic, mo problems</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/06/17/mosaic-mo-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/06/17/mosaic-mo-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wellington Chibebe and Lovemore Matombo are the leaders of the Zimbabwean union federation, the ZCTU. They were arrested after a May Day rally for &#8217;spreading falsehoods prejudicial to the state&#8217; (ie: telling the truth) and Mugabe is trying to silence them in the run up to the run off of the presidential election, with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow boat to China</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/04/23/slow-boat-to-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/04/23/slow-boat-to-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mad Bob]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantastic demonstrations of solidarity with Zimbabwe from the Namibia Transport and Allied Workers&#8217; Union, and the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, where unions have stepped up when government failed to act. A great example.
Mad Bob&#8217;s guns are on their way back to China in an alternative international relay just in time for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s all go down the Strand&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2007/09/20/lets-all-go-down-the-strand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2007/09/20/lets-all-go-down-the-strand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
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A lunchtime spent in the company of union colleagues from TUC, ATL, NASUWT, PCS, Unite and the ZCTU, ACTSA  supporters and Zimbabwean expats outside Zimbabwe House on the Strand, protesting in support of the ZCTU&#8217;s 2 day stay away from work.

The ZCTU&#8217;s Thoko Siwela was there too, visiting the UK with ACTSA, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take your lunch to Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2007/09/20/take-your-lunch-to-zimbabwe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2007/09/20/take-your-lunch-to-zimbabwe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone work near Charing Cross in London? If so, pop down to the Strand for your lunch break to join in an ACTSA/PCS/TUC demo in support of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions&#8217; &#8220;stay away&#8221; from work.
Those that can stay away are now the lucky ones in a country where 80% are unemployed. But even [...]]]></description>
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