Tatenda Chirusa
February 4, 2005 11:16 AM | Permalink
Hi!
I’m really excited about this opportunity to be working with the Willamette World News team this semester. My name is Tatenda and this is my second semester here at Willamette University as a 1st-year MBA student at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management. I’ll be representing the whole continent of Africa, and thought it was my responsibility to share with the school news from this part of the world. It’s not that I don’t have anything to write on Zimbabwe, Harare being the city I come from.
What you missed in Zimbabwe:
Actually there is a whole lot to talk about especially recently with Condoleezza Rice mentioning during her recent inauguration speech that Zimbabwe was one of the spots of tyranny that President Bush had to deal with during his second term
I just think there is more I can let people know about Africa too, a places I have close to heart. Alright before I get all emotional and mushy about how much I love Africa and all that, I have to introduce the first article I have, which is on Zimbabwe. This coming March is parliamentary elections, and that’s as hyped as the country can ever get. With the last presidential elections still being disputed in court for rigging and electoral fraud, I can bet you the next elections will have similar squabbles and ruckus. With the government already being accused of going through a delimitation process (redrawing the parliamentary lines) which has already dissolved three parliamentary seats held by the opposition, there is likely going to be far more out-cry during the next elections. Also not to be forgotten will be all the opposition members and all the innocent civilians that were killed in the violence and intimidation of the last elections. We all hope and pray it will be a free, fair and peaceful election, we hope.
Now something I thought would be good news to you all that have been paying high gas prices. The oil supply has just been increased, by how much I don’t know but I think it should be significant. Libya the biggest oil producer in Africa wasn’t able to export oil since sanctions were imposed in the 1980s. So since those sanctions have now been removed, Chevron Texaco and Occidental, American oil companies have already won bids to go and explore for oil there.