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Theresa Makone, (above) of the MDC-Tsvangirai and now co-Minister of Home Affairs in Zimbabwe's Coalition Government, ganged up with her relative, the ZANU PF Minister in charge of the Secret Police to "intimidate" police officers and demand the release of the ZANU PF Minister's son, who is in police custody for invading and grabbing a white-owned company. He and an accomplice, Themba Mliswa, who is a nephew of the ZANU PF Minister, are still behind bars, with the Zimbabwe police making public complaints through the state media that the two ministers' actions are "tantamount to defeating the course of justice". The ZANU PF Minister says that is nonsense, while Makone has refused to comment. Harare, Zimbabwe, 05 July 2010 Theresa Makone, the newly-installed co-Minister of Home Affairs in the Coalition Government has already started using her new powers: to demand the release of the detained son of a senior ZANU PF Minister. Makone is wife to the Permanent...

Harare, Zimbabwe, 01 December 2009 The MDC-T co-Minister of Home Affairs has called "categorically" for the removal of "illegal sanctions" placed on Zimbabwe. Giles Mutsekwa, whose foot is now permanently housed in his mouth, told a send-off ceremony for policemen that they were all super chaps, who would be even more super had they not been operating in an environment "sadly characterised by illegal sanctions". "I wish to categorically call for the immediate removal of these illegal sanctions, as their continued existence is affecting the ZRP's ability to diligently discharge its mandate," Mutsekwa said. Perhaps the Minister could tell the country how exactly it is that the "illegal sanctions" are preventing the police from restraining themselves and not beating up protesters? This, of course, was a response to the calls by Mugabe for the MDC-T to call for the lifting of sanctions. Mugabe is getting what he wants. But will Tsvangir...

Zimbabwe riot police, seen here smiling as they beat up a protester while he is held from behind by one of their own, continue to behave pretty much as they please, enforcing draconian and undemocratic laws. Morgan Tsvangirai has said nothing about the Ministry of Home Affairs in his list of grievances against Mugabe. It has taken SADC Ministers to raise the issue and be bluntly honest about it. But that is all there will be to it. Harare, Zimbabwe, 15 November 2009 When Morgan Tsvangirai was asked recently how the Home Affairs ministry sharing arrangement with ZANU PF had worked out so far, he replied that the two co-ministers (one each from MDC-T and ZANU PF) were working "fantastically well" together. This he said even as his own party members continued to be treated unfairly by the police, being arrested for reporting violence against them by ZANU PF supporters, even as MDC-T MPs and officials were arrested, even as Tsvangirai's own close advisers like Gandhi Mudzingw...