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ZUPA Weekly Update - Issue 1
Zimbabwe
Unemployed People's Association (ZUPA)
February 10, 2012
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Editorial
Last August,
ZUPA in Sizinda ward, in Bulawayo, celebrated 101 years of uGogo
umaNdlovu's life. She told of how life had changed over the
years and thanked ZUPA for the assistance extended to her in food
handouts.
This week, we
were touched and saddened by her passing. Rest in peace Gogo. In
her memory, we will continue our work of assisting and protecting
the rights of pensioners and elderly people in Zimbabwe.
This week, the
ZUPA team has been busy engaging the communities and potential investors
on their views on the indigenisation and empowerment programme.
The feedback has been that foreign investors and many ordinary people
view Zimbabwe's indigenisation programme as highly politicised
with parties in the Government
of National Unity appearing to sit on different sides of the
island on how it should be implement, if at all.
ZUPA is encouraging
the Government of Zimbabwe to facilitate a mature and inclusive
debate on indigenisation in Zimbabwe in a way that takes a leaf
from resource economies like Australia, Saudi Arabia and Norway.
ZUPA is also
calling on total depoliticisation of the programme to enable all
Zimbabweans to participate and to give confidence to investors.
We call through
the ZUPA presidential weekly, for a public information portal in
libraries across the country to enable ordinary people to access
all the information necessary for participation.
We are humbled
by the support that the unemployed people of Zimbabwe continue to
get through ZUPA.
Following feedback
from the communities, this weekly will create a section on obituaries
and notices.
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