B r i t a i n  Z i m b a b w e  S o c i e t y

Previous BZS Events
(most recent first)

Afrika Eye Film Festival

(organised by Simon Bright & Ingrid Sinclair)

 Bristol 19th October - 2nd November

films, dance, music, workshops, discussions
following big launch party

For details click here

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BZS 2007 AGM
& MEMBERS MEETING
London: Saturday 20th October
For details click here
&
Hopes and Dreams - The Future for
Zimbabwe's Youth
A panel discussion - all welcome
Saturday 20th October 2007 3.30-4.30PM
For details click here

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Brian MacGarry SJ

The Current Situation in Zimbabwe

WEDNESDAY, 26th September at 8 pm

Oxford Quaker Meeting House
43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

For report click here

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BZS 2007 Research Day
Saturday 9th June 2007
St Antony's College, Oxford OX2 6JF
Theme: Urban Culture and Urban Crisis
For notes, provisional programme & a registration form click here

Preceded on Friday June 8th
in the Buttery at St Antony'sat 8 pm by
An Evening of Zimbabwean Urban Jazz on Video & CD
Joyce Jenje Makwenda, maker of the 1993 video 'Township Music, author of Zimbabwe Township Music (2006), and compiler of Zimbabwe.  Women's Voices (CD, April 2007) which features some of the legendary female jazz singers of Mbare and Makokoba.
Joyce will show her video and play her CD. Copies of her book will be on display All are invited to come and dance and sing.  Admission is free.

Joyce Jenje Makwenda was born in Mbare township in 1958, the 3rd generation of her family to live there.  Her paternal grand-parents were among the original in inhabitants of Mbare.  Joyce teaches at the Zimbabwe College of Music.

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BZS members were prominently involved in the
Centre of African Studies Conference (University of Edinburgh)

The Power of Water: Landscape, Water and the State
in Southern and Eastern Africa
March 28-29 2007

For details: click here

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MEMBERS MEETING AND 2006 AGM
Saturday 21st October 2006 2.30 to 3.30pm
Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
2.00pm            Doors open for registration
25th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
2-30-3.30pm
Welcome and introduction
A celebration of BZS’s 25 years – some words from Founder Members

1.         Apologies
2.         Minutes of 2005 AGM held at Friends House, London on 3^rd December. 3.         Matters arising
4.         Chair's report
5.         Treasurer's report and accounts
6.         Secretaries' reports
7.         Reports from other officers, national committees and regions
8.         Motions for debate
9.         Election of officers and executive committee members
10.       2007 Programme
11.       Any other business

NOMINATIONS ARE INVITED for officer posts and for non-officer members of the Executive Committee.
Click here for a nomination form and details of the present committee  Frances Chinemana, Secretary, 16 Longland, Salisbury SP2 7ET. E:mail: frances@chinemana.fslife.co.uk

 AFTER THE AGM
Refreshments and a programme of activities from 3.30 to 5.00pm
'Zimbabwe 1980-2005: a portrait through film' by Simon Bright

Simon Bright's powerful early films, working with a multinational crew from the SADC region, highlighted the positive achievements of the Frontline States during the last war-torn decade of apartheid rule in South Africa, and laid the foundations for an award-winning international reputation for work foregrounding an African Renaissance

 Launch of ‘The Unsettled Land: State-making and the Politics
of Land in Zimbabwe 1893-2003’ by Jocelyn Alexander

Joss Alexander, currently attached to Oxford University, has been working
on the politics of Zimbabwe for almost two decades.

Mbira music by Moses Bikishoni

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Open Forum 2006

University of London Union [ULU]
Malet Street, London WC1

Saturday, September 16th 2006
Zimbabwe: Skills & Reconstruction

Reports from the 2006 Open Forum
Zimbabwe: Skills & Reconstruction
(held 16 September)

  Full Report   click here
Brief Report  click here

Late News: Shock refusal to allow
Open Forum Speaker into Britain
For Press Release click here

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Research Day 2006
Displacement and Survival
17 June 2006
St. Antony's College, Oxford
click here for the programme

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AGM & Panel Discussion
3rd December 2005
Friends House, London, NW1
The discussion panel on organising women in Britain
& in Zimbabwe included Martha Chinouya,Yvonne Marimo
& Agaths Benyera from Zimbabwe Women's Network-UK

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Research Day 2005
Zimbabwe, Africa & the World
11th June 2005 St Antony's College, Oxford
for details & summary of proceedings click here

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Open Forum 2005
Zimbabwe, South Africa and the Region
Saturday 4th June 2005 London
Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, WC2

The Open Forum 2005 is a non-governmental, non-politically partisan forum to analyse and debate the crisis in Zimbabwe, and its relationship with South Africa and the wider African region. It will focus on the role of civil society in Africa in defending human rights, and the tools available for promoting change.

Email: zimsaforum2005@yahoo.co.uk
For Program details
For The Open Forum Concept
For Report on the Open Forum

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BZS Day and Annual General Meeting
'Harare North - Plans, Problems, Pespectives'
a non-partisan discussion & networking day
by, for & about Zimbabweans in the UK & organised
by the Britain Zimbabwe Society
20th November 2004, 12 noon to 6pm

National Children's Bureau
8 Wakley Street
London
EC1V 7QE

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Research Days, 2004

Saturday/Sunday, 12th-13th June
St Antony's College
Oxford

Theme: What History for Which Zimbabwe?
To read an early contribution on the Research Days theme
by the convenor, Professor T.O. Ranger, published in the
Journal of Southern African Studies, June 2004, click here

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OPEN FORUM on ZIMBABWE
& SOUTH AFRICA

SATURDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2004, 2PM-5.30PM

Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (nearest tube: Russell Square)

Organised by the Britain Zimbabwe Society in association with the Zimbabwe Association, Action for Southern Africa, the Centre of African Studies, London University, and the Royal African Society

For a full report of the Forum click here

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A Southern African Evening with Alexander McCall Smith

creator of Mma Ramotswe of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Friday 20th February 2004

7.30 p.m. St. Stephen's Church Centre, Howe Street, Edinburgh 3.
Tickets £6 and £4 minimum. For full information: email
scotzimgroup@hotmail.com or tel: 0131-466 0627

For further information on the Scotland Zimbabwe Group
click here

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Members Meeting & 2003 AGM

Saturday, 22nd November 2003
Friends House, Euston Road, London
(opposite Euston Station)

All members and friends of BZS welcome

1.40pm BZS 22nd Annual General Meeting

3.00pm 'The Media and the Crisis in Zimbabwe'.

Guest Speakers

Clayton Peel, ex Chronicle reporter, now researching on the internet;
Mduduzi Mathuthu. ex Daily News reporter;
Forward Maisokwodzo who was a journalist for the Independent.
Georgina Godwin, SW Radio Africa
Chair: Terence Ranger (President of BZS)

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Dayschool (Bristol) 2003

Saturday, 13th September 2003
11 - 5.30pm

The Empire & Commonwealth Museum
(next to Temple Meads train station)

Zimbabwe - Spirit of the People

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Research Day June 2003
Saturday, 14th June at
St Antony's College, Oxford 10 am to 6pm
Theme: Zimbabwean Diasporas

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