Farai Dziva|MDC vice president Tendai Biti has said Emmerson Mnangagwa must resign with immediate effect.

“He(Mnangagwa) must step down or constitutional process must remove him,” tweeted Biti.

“The illegitimate government has gone nuts. How does a government change currency three times in a year? A fresh talk of adopting the Rand.

“They went through the original Zimbabwe Dollar, then they brought, then the bearer cheques which they again bastardised. Then they went through the USD, the bond note and the RTGS$.

They can bring 100 other currencies but it will not help. There is no confidence in them and no one trusts them,” he added.

“That a country can introduce three currencies in a year is criminal economics. The consequences from a planning, accounting and economic view point are catastrophic.”

By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in Botswana where he is attending the inauguration of Botswana’s fifth leader Mokgweetsi Nasisi.

Below are pictures at the University of Botswana Indoor Sports Arena in Gaborone.

Farai Dziva|MDC vice president Tendai Biti has said the Constitutional process must remove Emmerson Mnangagwa from office because he has dismally failed to revive the economy.

“He(Mnangagwa) must step down or the constitutional process must remove him,” tweeted Biti.

“The illegitimate government has gone nuts. How does a government change currency three times in a year? A fresh talk of adopting the Rand?

“They went through the original Zimbabwe Dollar, then they brought, then the bearer cheques which they again bastardised. Then they went through the USD, the bond note and the RTGS$.

They can bring 100 other currencies but it will not help. There is no confidence in them and no one trusts them,” he added.

“That a country can introduce three currencies in a year is criminal economics. The consequences from a planning, accounting and economic view point are catastrophic.”

By A Correspondent- In a lawsuit that can apparently act as a cautionary tale to other women who are dating married men who are seeking relief outside marriage, a Bulawayo woman was sued by her lover’s wife who is demanding $10 000 as damages for sleeping with her “estranged” husband.

Soneni Khumalo from Bellevue suburb came to realise that sex with a married man is never a good thing after Thandeka Sibanda issued summons at the Bulawayo Civil Court under case number 2305/ 19 claiming adultery damages from her. 

Soneni fell in love with Thandeka’s husband Themba after his wife reportedly kicked him out of their matrimonial home.

Thandeka decided to take legal action against Soneni after she sued her two months ago claiming she was disturbing her peace by constantly visiting her place in search of her husband.

Thandeka married Themba in 1982 in terms of the Marriages Act Chapter 5:11 and the marriage still subsists.

While the marriages still subsisted, it is alleged that Soneni and Themba had an adulterous affair. Disturbed by the development, Thandeka instructed her lawyers to sue for adultery.  

“The claim is for the payment of $10 000 being in respect of damages for adultery, contumelia and loss of consortium suffered by the plaintiff (Thandeka) as a result of the defendant (Soneni)’s illicit and adulterous affair with the plaintiff’s husband.

“Defendant has been fully aware of that fact but has been involved in a shameful adulterous relationship with plaintiff’s husband. The marriage was blessed with four children and was very rosy until defendant started having an adulterous affair with plaintiff’s husband,” reads Thandeka’s claim in part.

According to the plaintiff’s declaration, Soneni had even been shameless to an extent that she applied for a peace order against the plaintiff as she was afraid that she (plaintiff) was going to stalk them.

“Sometime in September 2018, the plaintiff’s husband ran away from his matrimonial home due to the adulterous relationship he was having with the defendant”.

Thandeka, according to the papers, suffered a huge blow as her marriage was now on the brink of collapse as a result of the adulterous affair. 

“Plaintiff has suffered great emotional trauma, heartbreak and mental distress as a result of her husband leaving her. This shameful behaviour has continued regardless of defendant’s knowledge of the marriage existing between plaintiff and her husband. 

“Owing to the illicit and adulterous relationship, plaintiff suffered damages as follows: $5 000 for contumelia and $5 000 for loss of consortium”.

The matter which was supposed to be heard on 21 October was deferred by the presiding magistrate Tinashe Tashaya who instructed Thandeka to bring her original marriage certificate.

The magistrate instructed her to obtain it from the Registrar of Marriages after Thandeka indicated that it was stolen together with her birth certificate from their matrimonial bedroom sometime in December 2016 while she was in South Africa. 

-StateMedia

By A Correspondent- The two-month-long doctors’ strike has not affected the cancer screening section at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, a development which has brought relief to cancer patients.

In an interview yesterday, Mpilo clinical director Solwayo Ngwenya said the hospital has not suspended cancer screening despite the prolonged doctors’ strike.

There were fears that the strike would cripple cervical cancer screening and treatment services, putting the lives of the patients at risk.

“Although the doctors are on strike, screening for cervical cancer is not affected. We are screening. We also encourage women to go for screening all the time,” he said.

-Newsday

By A Correspondent- An O- level pupil at Arundel School in Harare was recently denied access to sit for her Cambridge examination after school authorities claimed she had fees arrears amounting to $44 000 although she had fully paid the examination and centre fees.

The move by the school has now prompted the girl’s mother, Mavis Jakarasi to file an urgent chamber application through Justice for Children, seeking the court’s intervention, arguing that the school had no authority to prevent her child from sitting for examinations. She cited trustees of Arundel School as respondents in the matter.

In her founding affidavit, Jakarasi said her daughter had been a student at the school since the beginning of 2019 and had registered to sit for her Cambridge final Ordinary Level examinations that are currently underway.

However, Jakarasi said due to fees being owed to the school, her daughter was barred from attending lessons since the beginning of the third term.

“Being a trust school, I do understand and accept that the respondent has such a right. The problem arose when my child appeared to sit for her first examination on October 15, 2019, English Paper 2. The respondent (Arundel) school official, the headmistress Pauline Makoni and her officials refused to allow the child to sit for her examination,” Jakarasi said, adding she then approached Justice for Children for assistance and the lawyers issued a letter of demand for the school to allow the child to sit for her examinations, but she was still prevented from doing so.

The woman said she was told that the tuition fee had been raised to $44 000 for the third term and that the amount she owed the school had equally increased on the day her daughter missed her second exam.

Jakarasi said after paying $18 000, her daughter was then allowed to sit for her History examination on October 18, 2019, but on Monday October 21, 2019, she was again barred from writing Mathematics by the headmistress who demanded that she pays the balance first.

“Though I owe the school in arrear tuition, for the school to then bar my child from writing examinations that are not property or a programme of Arundel School, but an independent external examinations body, on the basis of fees I owe to the school is unacceptable,” Jakarasi said.

“Cambridge Examinations is an independent body to which I made full payment. That payment includes the examination fee and the centre fee. The child is thus fully paid to use Arundel School as an examination centre. This fact is independent from the child’s registration at Arundel as a student. It is for her studentship at Arundel School that the respondents can bar my child from accessing the school facilities. However, that is not the case with the Cambridge examinations.

All the school is providing and required to provide, is an examination centre with the requisite facilities and personnel.”

The matter is pending.

-Newsday

By A Correspondent- Addressing the Zanu PF youth league national assembly in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa said G40 elements remained in the ruling party and needed to be flushed out from all structures of the party to entrench loyalty to his leadership.

He said:

“Unity, unity is key in Zanu PF and in the country. The party cannot fit in the pockets of the President, but the President fits in the pocket of the party.

I, however, commend those who have remained loyal and faithful to the party and its leadership, especially these moments of manifestations by those we perceive to be one of us. I encourage you all to continue to work hard for the good of the party and guard against the whims of the enemies of our party. We still have elements of the G40 participating among us as wolves in sheep’s clothing. These must be flushed out, not only in the youth league, but also within the rank and file of the party in general.”

The love for chicken cost a guard his job!

A  Security guard at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) wore a mask and allegedly raided a fridge at the institution where he stole two chickens. 

Simbarashe Zimi was shown the red card by the learning institution authorities last week on Thursday after he was found guilty of stealing two chickens which belonged to a lecturer.

A source at Nust said while Zimi was on duty a fortnight ago he devised a plan to steal two chickens which belonged to one of the lecturers.

“At around 10pm Zimi wore a mask and left his site and headed to the Maths Department where the chickens were kept. 

He took two chickens from the fridge. Unfortunately, he was spotted by another security guard who then tried to apprehend him but he fled and threw the chickens on the ground,” said the source. 

The source said Zimi ran back to his site.

“Zimi removed the mask and threw it away and went to where he was stationed,” said the source.

His chaser and Zimi’s superiors checked CCTV footage and they found that it was him. 

Zimi was called for a hearing and he was found guilty and was subsequently fired from work.

Contacted for a comment Zimi admitted saying: “No, it was not chickens that I stole, that’s what most people thought but I stole 3kg beef. I was fired after a hearing. 

“They wanted to set an example by terminating my contract because a lot of stealing is happening at the institution. 

“I’m not regretting it. I know I will secure another job.” 

-StateMedia

The MDC is in full support of next week’s proposed work-stoppage by government workers in light of the paltry average monthly salary of
$475 for civil servants, which can hardly buy 26 litres of fuel.

The illegitimate Zanu PF government has already criminalized the hard working doctors and medical personnel who are incapacitated to
come to work due to their measly salaries and despicable working conditions.

This government is in fact responsible for the slow genocide taking place in the country’s dysfunctional health institutions, where Zimbabweans are dying due to lack of drugs and poor remuneration for our dedicated medical staff.

As a party borne out of the sweat, toil and tears of the working people of Zimbabwe, the MDC is in full support of the legitimate right of civil
servants to peacefully express themselves against this uncaring government.

In the villages, in the mining towns and across the urban areas, Zimbabweans can barely afford a full meal due to the cluelessness of the
illegitimate Mnangagwa regime. Prices of fuel and basic commodities are going up every week while the politically connected ravenous elite engages in unbridled corruption as in the massive rot exposed in the murky Command Agriculture programme, where US$3 billion disappeared without trace while our courts have become waiting rooms for  rapacious well-heeled top politicians  appearing on corrupt charges. The point must be made that the real culprits in this massive game of corruption remain scot free.  

We reiterate that until and unless the crisis of legitimacy arising out of the stolen election of 2018 is resolved, the country will remain mired
in the current economic challenges, which challenges are symptomatic of the illegitimacy crisis afflicting this regime.

As a party borne out of the blood of labour, we are therefore in full support of the decision by government employees to express themselves against an uncaring employer.

Luke Tamborinyoka
Deputy National Spokesperson

By Own Correspondent| MDC Senator Douglas Mwonzora has responded to the below allegations passed by Harare Councillor Denford Ngadziore at the recent Supreme Court hearing pitting MDC President Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe.

Speaking to ZimEye.com on Thursday night, Hon Mwonzora said he does not have a desire to recall MPs even if he had the power to do so.

“Why should I recall people I mean for what reason?,” he asked.

He continued saying, ” I do not intend to victimise anyone and any reason, even if I had the power to do it. I do not want to do it because I simply I’m not a vengeful person. I want a united MDC. ”

He then added saying his preoccupation is to see the party preserved or restored to its position as the late leader Morgan Tsvangirai left it.

“The enemy is ZANU PF… The party is not doing well in the elections right now. We need to preserve it to the days of glory.. The party as left by Morgan Tsvangirai must be preserved and that is my preoccupation.…,” he said.

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By Denford Ngadziore| My name is Denford Ngadziore, the Harare Province Youth Secretary and on the 17th October during a court hearing between our Party MDC vs Mashavave of Thokozani Khupe, I attended the court together with other leaders at the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe at corner. of Third and Kwame Nkrumah Avenues.

While inside the court, soon after Advocate Thabani Mpofu withdrew the case between the Party vs Mwonzora and Mudzuri, Mr Mwonzora said to me “you (MDC people) including your President who claims to be an Advocate of Law, are silly. Look, you are going to give me legal fees because of your stupidity. After you give me my legal fees I can assure you it is going to be a long battle which I will win. ”

He said this in the presence of Warship Dumba, Rice, Cephas Makuyana and James Makore.
Again, when we went outside the court, he asked one Mufambi from Drivarazekwa (who defected to Khupe’s Party) why they brought in few people given the money they had been given to boost the numbers.

Mufambi responded by saying others were at Africa Unity Square and soon after the Judgement they would do as earlier agreed. It also happened that during and after the court process, Sen. Mwonzora was interacting and being praised by the Khuphe people who include the recently defected Rhino Mashaya.

Soon after the court hearing, Senator Mwonzora, in the company of Warship Dumba and Mashaya Rhino told one of our Harare Province Youth Executive member Tangai Magava, Tinei and Dumisani Makwanya that he felt pity that I and other Councillors and MPs would be recalled from their public offices soon after Khupe had won her case. He further said that he will do this in order to isolate President Nelson Chamisa from Members of Parliament and Councillors so that if they feel the possibility of losing positions, then they will dump president Chamisa.

There are many people in the structures who were at court who saw and heard Mr Mwonzora saying these words and I hope, if given opportunity to testify before the Party disciplinary committee, would corroborate my submissions.

By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa is under increasing pressure from senior ZANU PF officials and the top military brass to reshuffle his cabinet.

A local publication quotes an unnamed senior government official as saying that Mthuli Ncube and Fortune Chasi, Ministers for Finance and Economic Development and Energy and Power development respectively, are in the line of fire due to the economic implosion and debilitating energy and power crises.

Said the official:

Although Mthuli (Ncube) is liked by Mnangagwa, he appears to be the one targeted the most by Zanu PF officials. They seem to have lost all faith in him.

The army has also been giving out very negative reports about his economic policies of late. He however enjoys support from the President himself as of now.

Chasi has reportedly been summoned by the President a few times to explain his plans even though he was not in Mnangagwa’s original post-election cabinet.

Transport Minister, Joel Biggie Matiza is also thought to be under pressure to deliver on key projects such as the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation and the rehabilitation of the Beitbridge-Chirundu highway.

-TheIndependent

By A Correspondent- The congestion in a Zupco bus could not stop a man’s se_xual hormones from surging at the sight of a 32-year-old woman in front of him.

Even Dube (55) was allegedly left with nowhere to hide after attention from the busy bus shifted to him when Nothabo Moyo screamed and exposed him for allegedly rubbing his huge erect manhood on her butt0cks and care_ssing her privates with his hands.

Record has it that on 21 October at around 7am in Nkulumane 12, Dube and Moyo boarded the same bus and couldn’t get seats so they were standing next to each other facing the same direction headed for the city centre.

Moyo, it is alleged, suddenly felt Dube’s huge anaconda rubbing her butt0cks but she tried to ignore it since the bus was full, leaving no space for one to freely move.

“He went on to caress the top of my privates with his hand and I instantly rebuked him and asked what he was doing,” stated Moyo.

Dube reportedly apologised to Moyo who was already fuming at the old man.

When the bus got to town, it is reported, Dube had already dropped off along the way, making it difficult for Moyo to locate him to initiate legal action.

However, he was spotted the following morning by Moyo in a bus queue and she quickly reported Dube for indecent assault to a police officer that was patrolling the bus queue leading to his arrest.

Appearing before Bulawayo magistrate Jokoniah Ncube last week, Dube denied the charges of indecent assault and said he never saw Moyo in the bus on the day of the incident although he confirmed being in the bus going to town at that time.

He was remanded out of custody on $300 bail and is set to appear in court on Friday for continuation of trial.

-StateMedia

By A Correspondent- Commissioner General of Police Godwin Ntandabantu Matanga has reassigned the deputy commissioner generals of police with effect from November 1, 2019.

Deputy Commissioner General Stephen Mutamba has been moved from crime to operations, DCG Mind Elliot Ngirandi from Human Resources to Crime, DCG Leny Ncube from operations to administration and DCG Lorraine Chipato from administration to human resources.

National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said:

“The transfers have been effected in order to maximise the utilisation of relevant skills and mentoring of senior officers in the Zimbabwe Republic Police with a view of improving performance with regards to the ZRP constitutional mandate of preventing, detecting and investigating crime. ”

-StateMedia

Military czar Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga and Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, reportedly made a secret pact to hand Zimbabwe power to each other in the aftermath of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s downfall.

According to a report by an online publication, Spotlight Zimbabwe Defence officials close to ZDF chief Sibanda’s office this week claimed Chiwenga and the ZDF Commander reached the gentleman’s agreement a few years before the military putsch of November 2017, which resulted in former leader Robert Mugabe’s ouster.

Below is the full report by the publication:

 “It is also coming to light that the military had long planned Mugabe’s departure from office before the coup, and that Mnangagwa’s installation as president had also been premeditated by Chiwenga and Sibanda, to give their operation a civilian face, while crafting a pathway for their own passage to State House.

This publication reported last month, that Chiwenga is now increasingly set to finish off Mnangagwa’s presidential term, through another vicious military coup said to likely involve foreign hands and players.

The revelations come on the back of vain attempts by a clique of ruling Zanu PF members who have been reported to be pushing for Chiwenga’s exit on grounds of incapacitation, due to his mysterious and complex health woes.

Spotlight Zimbabwe, can however authoritatively disclose that Chiwenga is out of the woods, and has been fairly well for over a month in China, where he has received an antidote for multiple poisioning attacks from his enemies in government and Zanu PF, thought to have been administered through his food and home drinking water. The VP’s security is now a close guarded secret of the Chinese government and an elite unit of the country’s military intelligence.

“Many people out there have no idea of what’s really going on, but I can tell you that there is a secret power deal between Chiwenga and PV (Sibanda’s first names) dating as far back as 2014,” said the defence officials based at Defence House in the capital.

“This power deal was made around the time when Mnangagwa was promoted to vice president by Mugabe. You see these two military men have learnt from the past mistakes of other ZDF leaders before them, such as the late Solomon Mujuru and Vitalis Zvinavashe, who ended up going into political oblivion despite holding the powerful office of leading the military. General Mujuru could have risen further, but he decided to go into business and retire without gaining enough political muscle. The same thing happened with General Zvinavashe, such a decorated soldier ended up being tricked by Mugabe to step down as military commander, in exchange of the vice president position left vacant by former VP Simon Muzenda, which never happened.”

Another senior official at the defence ministry headquarters, said Chiwenga and Sibanda through their pact have deviced a plan that will result in each one of them becoming president, after being appointed by the other into the presidium.

 “After the Mugabe coup, Mnangagwa had wanted to appoint Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri as one of his two vice presidents, but the army blocked him and demanded that Chiwenga becomes first VP instead. Mnangagwa was going to nominate Chiwenga as defence and war veterans minister only, a position that would result in Chiwenga losing power and political influence. So he ended up becoming both VP and defence minister, and it was on that basis that he agreed to retire as ZDF commander leaving Sibanda to succeed him. Now Sibanda is going to make sure that Chiwenga becomes president, because he has the power and guns to do so. Chiwenga on the other hand, will then return the favour by appointing Sibanda to become one of his vice presidents, clearing the way for Sibanda to takeover, and without doubt leave a VP slot in the presidency for another trusted high ranking general in the army.”

 There were unconfirmed reports this week, that Sibanda held a breakfast meeting with Mnangagwa for almost 2 hours at his Munhumutapa office, where the military boss warned Mnangagwa about the comatose economic situation and disgruntlement of soldiers over his leadership.

 Chiwenga is now expected back in the country before the end of December, and is likely going to be acting president, while Mnangagwa takes an annual Christmas holiday for a month.

Mnangagwa has however previously opted to stay in the country during his annual vacation, amid speculation that he fears being barred to fly back home, and that his absence would make any possible coup easier to execute.

Only early this year, at the turn of the new year Mnangagwa cut short his annual vacation under the pretext of trying “to resolve” an impasse with doctors who had been on strike for a month. During that period Chiwenga was in charge, and Mnangagwa wanted to remain “in constant contact” according to the information permanent secretary.l

Chiwenga has also made it a public secret that Sibanda and himself were the power brokers and kingmakers behind Mnangagwa.

In July 2018, while addressing mourners in Gokwe South at the burial of Sibanda’s mother, Yowana Kubvoruno, the VP revealed that together with Sibanda, they had come to Mnangagwa’s aid by ensuring his safety from harm and arranged for his escape into exile, after his abrupt and humiliating removal from office as vice president by Mugabe, who accused him of “consistently and persistently exhibiting traits of disloyalty, disrespect, deceitfulness and unreliability”.

“Today I want to say something I have never told anyone, a secret that has been kept between me and General Sibanda. General Sibanda is truly a brave hero,” Chiwenga said.

“When the then Vice President (Mnangagwa) was fired from government in November last year I was in China on national duty. General Sibanda called me to advise me of the sad development. I told him Cde Mnangagwa’s life could be at stake, please make sure he is safe.”

“General Sibanda is the one who orchestrated our President’s escape through the Mozambique border and he sent two soldiers one of them had no passport. They managed to safely whisk him away through the border and left him in Mozambique. They came back using the same border. When I came back we sat and insisted we want this to be a peaceful operation. Sibanda coined the name Operation Restore Legacy.”

Intelligence sources confirmed that Chiwenga and Sibanda have a good shot at landing the highest office in the land, because they jointly run the Joint Operations Command (JOC), which has long been considered to be the real power behind government.

“General Sibanda has been the acting head of JOC since Chiwenga started leaving the country for medical treatments in South Africa, India and now China, where he directly reports after JOC meetings,” the sources said

By A Correspondent- The Apex Council organising secretary Charles Chinosengwa said that all civil servants will stage a demonstration on Wednesday next week in protest over the government’s failure to increase their salaries.

Speaking to a local publication on Thursday, Chinosengwa reiterated civil servants’ demand to have the lowest-paid public worker paid US$475 equivalent at the prevailing interbank market bank rate. He said:

Yesterday, we then wrote to his counterpart the Minister of Labour Nzenza telling her that it is now two weeks after they said they will commit to our salary adjustments.

As a result, Apex Council has resolved to engage in a demonstration next Wednesday in Harare, which will include all civil servants, and right now, we are in the process of notifying the police.

However, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has already said the government cannot afford to peg civil servants’ salaries at the prevailing US-RTGS interbank rates.

Ncube was speaking to reporters during the anti-sanctions rally at the National Sports Stadium on Friday where he said the government will go “bust” if it attempted to do so.

-Newsday

By A Correspondent- Senator Douglas Mwonzora, who is the former Secretary General for the opposition MDC has called for unity among party stalwarts warning party youths against being used to divide the party and push factional agendas.

Mwonzora said this in an exclusive interview with ZimEye on Thursday following the leaking of a letter purportedly written by Denford Ngadziore, the Harare Province Youth Secretary alleging that Mwonzora was plotting to topple the current leader of the MDC Nelson Chamisa.

According to the letter, Mwonzora allegedly said that the MDC leadership was “silly” as they would lose the case against Thokozani Khupe in a development which would grant him powers to recall legislators and councilors from office in a move that would alienate Chamisa.

However, Mwonzora dispelled the allegations arguing that he never said what Ngadziore was alleging arguing that he was a staunch party supporter whose only enemy was Zanu Pf and not anyone from the party.

He said:

“My eyes are on the ball… and all i want is to see the party retain its former glory as it was before… I would never recall the members of parliament from office, why would i do that? I do not have the powers nor the aspirations to do it… Party youths should not be used to push certain agendas against my person. Focus should be on mobilising people and solving why we are losing by- elections….”

Watch the full live interview in the video downloading below:

Paul Nyathi|Former MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora insists that he has no feud with incumbent President Nelson Chamisa.

In an interview in the video downloading below with ZimEye.com Mwonzora says he is concerned with the way opposition party continues to lose elections.

Watch the full interview below:

State Media|SOUTH African police are pursuing two Zimbabweans and three South Africans who escaped from a remand prison in Limpopo province on Monday evening.

It is understood that the five prisoners aged between 19 and 39, escaped through a hole inside the cells at around 10PM in Witpoort under Lephalale policing area.

The five were awaiting trial for murder, rape and business burglary. Limpopo Police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafhala Mojapelo identified the suspects as Jappie Shiko (29), Lesiba Frans Machaba (27) and Paul Madira (19), all South Africans as well as the two Zimbabweans; Bongani Sibanda (31) and Sipho Mpofu (39).

He said Sibanda has gunshot injuries sustained during a business burglary incident.

“Additional charges of escaping from lawful custody were opened. The circumstances around their escape are still being investigated.

“Police are appealing to community members to assist with any information that can lead to the re-arrest of these escapees to urgently contact Detective Warrant Officer Ratlou Morudu at +27 82 468 8931, the Crime Stop number +27 860010111 or the nearest police station,” said Brig Mojapelo.

Over 20 people including Zimbabweans have escaped from prisons in Limpopo province in the last six months.

State Media|SEVEN masked armed robbers pounced on a family in Bulawayo’s Morningside suburb and beat them up before getting away with US$39 000 and R118 000 using their victims’ car.

The robbers who were armed with a pistol raided the home belonging to a businessman on Wednesday at about 8pm.

Two of the robbers allegedly tied up their two victims while five others ransacked the house in search of cash.

In an interview yesterday, Mr Walter Mbizi who runs a hardware shop said he was not at home when the robbers attacked his family.

“I had gone to the gym when they raided my house. I received a phone call from a friend who told me that seven armed robbers had raided my house and had gotten away with cash. They were armed with a pistol and wore balaclavas. I rushed home to discover that they had assaulted my brother and our maid before they got away with a substantial amount of money,” said Mr Mbizi.

“They got away with US$39 000 and R118 000, two cell phones and a power bank and escaped from the scene using our Nissan Bluebird car. The robbers had gained entry through an unlocked kitchen door, which they forced open as it can only be opened from inside.”

He said his brother and the maid were however not seriously injured during the robbery. Mr Mbizi said they recovered the car which was dumped in the city centre together with the cellphones and the power bank.

“In the car the robbers left about R150, ZW$8 and US$4. I think they purposefully left the money hoping that someone would enter the car and contaminate the crime scene,” said Mr Mbizi.

He said the incident has traumatised him as it would be difficult to recover the stolen money.

“This will definitely hurt my business. But again, there is low confidence in the banking sector forcing small businesses like mine not to bank money. Not banking also exposes us to criminals. We are basically in a fix,” he said.

Mr Mbizi said he suspected the robbers knew his movements before they raided his home. Bulawayo police spokesperson Chief Inspector Precious Simango said investigations in the armed robbery case were underway.

“We are investigating an armed robbery case which occurred in Morningside suburb on Wednesday. We are concerned as we are continuously recording these armed robbery cases where victims risk losing their lives. We strongly appeal to members of the public to avoid keeping large sums of money in their homes,” said Chief Insp Simango.

She said police could not rule out a possibility of an inside job in the robbery.

“We are appealing to anyone who might have information regarding the armed robbery to come forward. They can report to their nearest police station or contact us on our hotline number 09-885479, toll free 110 or 999,” she said.

NewsDay|FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and his Labour ministry counterpart Sekai Nzenza are in a quandary as civil servants yesterday declared a massive demonstration next Wednesday over unfulfilled promises by government.

The Apex Council leadership said yesterday they have had enough of unfulfilled promises by government on salary demands.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s broke government has repeatedly said it could not afford the demand while the International Monetary Fund warned that a civil servants’ salary hike would trigger inflation.

Apex Council organising secretary Charles Chinosengwa told NewsDay that the
workers’ body had already given notice to the police of the strike, where they also expect all 16 civil service unions, including the health professions to join in.

Currently, Ncube is in Victoria Falls where he is discussing 2020 budget proposals with legislators and other stakeholders.

The civil servants plan to march to his offices on Wednesday next week.

Chinosengwa said civil servants now want the lowest paid to be remunerated US$475 equivalent at the prevailing intermarket bank rate in the face of the spiralling cost of living, where the bread basket for a family of six is now pegged at $4 000.

“The Apex Council met yesterday (Wednesday) and the main agenda was to discuss on lack of feedback by government on our demands, whereby the employer promised to come back to us within two weeks, but there has been no response,” he said.

“We met with different civil servants’ unions to discuss the issue of incapacitation and we were not amused that the Finance minister (Ncube) went to the Press to announce that we, civil servants, will get cost of living adjustments — which we have not yet got, but immediately after his statement prices of basic commodities began to shoot up.

“Yesterday, we then wrote to his counterpart the Minister of Labour Nzenza telling her that it is now two weeks after they said they will commit to our salary adjustments. As a result, Apex Council has resolved to engage in a demonstration next Wednesday in Harare, which will include all civil servants, and right now, we are in the process of notifying the police.”

Chinosengwa said the demonstrators will gather at Public Service House and then march to Ncube’s Finance ministry offices with a petition.

“We want them to adjust our salaries to the interbank rate so that they are in tandem with the October 2017 salaries of US$475 for the lowest paid worker. The reason why we are demanding rating of salaries with the interbank rate is because the food bread basket has gone up to $4 000 for a family of six,” he said.

“We have given notice to all 16 civil servants’ unions to join us. We are also planning to invite the Health Apex to also join us in the demonstration.”

The Apex Council organising secretary said civil servants were struggling and heavily indebted as they were borrowing money to report to work.

He said if government does not heed their call, then they will embark on weekly demonstrations or sit-ins.

Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe president Takavafira Zhou said he hoped that the demonstration by the Apex Council was a sincere move.

“We were not part of the meeting, but all along, we believed that the Apex Council is part of the problem and if there are going to be demonstrations, then we say ‘welcome to our world’ to them.

Ours had been incapacitation, whereby our members are currently on strike and reporting to work only two days in a week, on Monday and Friday with effect from October 21,” he said.

“All along, we were trying to extend our hands to our colleagues the Apex Council and Zimta [Zimbabwe Teachers Association], but now we welcome them and we hope they are sincere and that they are not being sent by government to disturb the process that we had already begun.”

Zhou said the PTUZ perceived demonstrations as useless and they favoured stayaways as there will be no services rendered.

“We want real action. This government will not listen to demonstrations and petitions. It is just firefighting and buying time. There is need for action for government to take action,” he said.

A few individuals have sought to tarnish the ZIMPARKS image in a bid to derail the growth of the tourism sector.

Recently social media has been awash with all sorts of falsehoods, exaggerations and mischief regarding the sell of elephants.

The truth of the matter is that ZIMPARKS sold a total of 101 Elephants for the period 2026 to 2019. The table attached clearly demonstrates the number of elephants sold, the sales and expenses thereof.

The tabulated figures are authentic and will dispel the malice perpetuated by misguided elements.

The table also demonstrates the number of elephants sold by ZIMPARKS since 2016 and revenue realized thereof and how the funds were utilized.

Claims that elephant sale proceeds were misappropriated by politicians are false and unfounded because ZIMPARKS can not afford that luxury when it’s not even getting enough to fund conservation.

Funds generated from live sales are used in conservation of elephants in the protected area and its immediate surroundings.

ZIMPARKS does not get funding from fiscus so such funds go a long way in addressing the conservation requirements. Zimparks relies on internal commercial  business and on public private partnership arrangements to generate financial resources to support all its operations.

Zimparks finances are audited by both internal and external auditors. For transparent purposes, Zimparks has gone further starting this year to hold annual general meetings with its shareholders, stakeholders and the general public.

The sale of elephants abroad is a transaction that has to pass through the board, be recommended to the minister for approval by the Permanent Secretary and get approval from the minister.

The transaction has to further get a nod from the Office of the President and Cabinet. The transaction is done according to national law in particular the Parks and Wildlife Act: Chapter 20:14 and International laws, especially CITES.

Both receiving and giving properties are assessed based on national and international guidelines. The giving population is assessed in terms of its biological sustainability. Thus zimbabwe has a surplus of elephants and sustainable removals are being done without damaging the intrinsic biological capacity of the population to self replace.

The receiving site is subjected to suitability assessment by a Zimbabwean team. Elephants only go to facilities that have been cleared by the importing country. The captured elephants are those at weaning age and above.

The capture of the elephants is done under humane conditions , and upholding animal welfare aspects by qualified veterinarians.

Elephants are transported to insitu  bomas where they are acclimatized and get used to management in bomas and preparation for long distance transportation. They are fed, watered and given veterinary care for at least 3 months.

Security in bomas is 24 hours. The animals are screened of diseases to the requirements of the importing country.

Animals are airlifted to destination country following IATA regulations and are accompanied by qualified veterinarians and capture experts. It’s a process and there is no way this type of transaction can be a secret.

Payments for the animals is done through official channels and in foreign currency, if they are to be exported. Completed CD1 form is proof of payment showing the right amount of money coming into the country through commercial banks as payment for the elephants. So ZIMPARKS has no secrets, it’s working with various stakeholders is open to all.

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My name is Denford Ngadziore, the Harare Province Youth Secretary and on the 17th October during a court hearing between our Party MDC vs Mashavave of Thokozani Khupe, I attended the court together with other leaders at the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe at corner. of Third and Kwame Nkrumah Avenues.

While inside the court, soon after Advocate Thabani Mpofu withdrew the case between the Party vs Mwonzora and Mudzuri, Mr Mwonzora said to me “you (MDC people) including your President who claims to be an Advocate of Law, are silly. Look, you are going to give me legal fees because of your stupidity. After you give me my legal fees I can assure you it is going to be a long battle which I will win. ”

He said this in the presence of Warship Dumba, Rice, Cephas Makuyana and James Makore. 
Again, when we went outside the court, he asked one Mufambi from Drivarazekwa (who defected to Khupe’s Party) why they brought in few people given the money they had been given to boost the numbers.

Mufambi responded by saying others were at Africa Unity Square and soon after the Judgement they would do as earlier agreed. It also happened that during and after the court process, Sen. Mwonzora was interacting and being praised by the Khuphe people who include the recently defected Rhino Mashaya.

Soon after the court hearing, Senator Mwonzora, in the company of Warship Dumba and Mashaya Rhino told one of our Harare Province Youth Executive member Tangai Magava, Tinei and Dumisani Makwanya that he felt pity that I and other Councillors and MPs would be recalled from their public offices soon after Khupe had won her case. He further said that he will do this in order to isolate President Nelson Chamisa from Members of Parliament and Councillors so that if they feel the possibility of losing positions, then they will dump president Chamisa.

There are many people in the structures who were at court who saw and heard Mr Mwonzora saying these words and I hope, if given opportunity to testify before the Party disciplinary committee, would corroborate my submissions.

Independent|AS Zimbabwe slides into hyperinflation, there has been mistrust between government and business. Forget the much-hyped Tripartite Negotiating Forum which was revived early this year—prices in Zimbabwe are now rising weekly, even daily in some cases.

The manufacturing sector, which is operating sub-optimally due to antiquated equipment, high production costs and erratic power supplies, is in limbo and cannot match regional peers.

During a mock survey carried out by Econometer Global Capital, we observed that most businesses are now in survival mode and have adopted the cost recovery pricing model in this inflationary environment.

For instance, a 900-watt generator for home use which would cost US$100 was last priced at ZW$2 500 at a time the parallel market exchange rate was hovering around 1:19. That has been the case in supermarkets where prices indexed in Zimbabwe dollars are now twice as expensive as those in neighbouring South Africa.

This points to an unstable and rising cost structure, frequent repricing of goods and a subsequent decline in the quality of earnings for business.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently met local retailers over price hikes but the blame-game prevailed. Manufacturers blamed retailers and vice versa.

All this points to structural deficiencies in the economy.

Local industry cannot export due to some of the factors alluded to above and hence their pricing model has been designed to ensure that they do not trade out of business. Yesteryear memories of consumers becoming bargain hunters, a development that resulted in retailers failing to restock, remain fresh. Unlike in the past, Zimbabwe’s inflation is not being driven by excessive money supply (notes in circulation) but an unstable currency, government’s fiscal indiscipline and a general lack of confidence.

While doing so, inflation has been heading northwards, tracking foreign exchange movements and price of fuel.Resultantly, buying power has diminished. With low exports and high production costs, this will be a vicious cycle for the economy.

SO much has happened in our economy in the past week. The state media went to town about…

Officially, month-on-month inflation has slowed down but our analysis shows otherwise. A kilogramme of commercial grade beef which used to cost US$5 is costing ZW$120 for the same quantity.

In the past, the price of a dozen eggs would track US dollar movements but now low buying power has made this benchmark inaccurate. So in the final analysis, we can conclude that while business is in survival mode, it has also taken two extra steps to ensure that it continues to restock and retain the going concern status. Authorities and business will not have a convergence point unless the macro-economic environment is stabilised.

Doing so requires Zimbabwe to go beyond the “open for business” mantra and overhaul the business climate for both domestic and foreign investors. — Econometer Global Capital.

Paul Nyathi|The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwehas lifted a freeze on Croco Motors’ bank accounts, following investigations which absolved the company of any wrongdoing.

RBZ Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) director-general Mirirai Chiremba on October 29, 2019, wrote a letter to Croco Motors in which he said that no irregular transactions were observed. He wrote:

“With reference to the above, we wish to advise that the FIU has concluded its analysis of your company’s bank accounts. The analysis did not reveal any irregular transactions.”

“You are, therefore, advised to continue with your normal operations as the directive has now been lifted.”

In September this year, the FIU sent a directive to all banks to freeze the accounts of several companies to facilitate investigations after there was a sudden spike in the exchange rate.

Croco Motors was one of the companies that were under the RBZ’s radar.

The RBZ said it had frozen all outgoing transactions on bank accounts held by Access Finance, Croco Motors, Spartan Security and Sakunda Holdings to facilitate a money laundering investigation.

Sakunda, which has now diversified after starting off as a petroleum company, is owned by Kudakwashe Tagwirei, an ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and now part owner of the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe.

Spartan Security is linked to the Mnangagwa family through one of his sons.

A memo sent to all banks by the central bank acting head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, Wonder Kapofu, said: “The FIU is carrying out analysis on the above-named entities and their sister group companies. As we carry out further analysis, you are directed to freeze, with immediate effect, all accounts held in the names of the listed entities until further notice.

“You shall not process any withdrawals or transfers from the accounts. You should however allow deposits or other flows into the accounts.”

Source: Daily News

Paul Nyathi|As Zimbabweans continue to find alternatives to morning bread, one of the country’s top bakers, Bakers Inn has been forced to bring down the price of the basic commodity.

The bakery reduced the bread prices by around $1 a loaf after the Government started supplying millers with cheaper wheat to try and make bread affordable.

The National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) chief executive Mr Ngoni Mazango confirmed the new prices in a Press statement yesterday and said Bakers Inn had already reduced the price.

“The Government has supplied millers with subsidised wheat which by and large reduced the price of flour. In response to this development, Bakers Inn Bakeries has decided to extend the benefit to the consumer despite the escalating costs of other inputs like power, diesel, local and imported raw materials,” he said.

Mr Ngoni Mazango said that the wholesale price of a loaf has been reduced from $14 to $13.

“Baker’s Inn as from Tuesday 29 October, 2019 reduced its wholesale price from $14 to $13. The recommended retail price is between $14 and $14,50. Consumers were having to pay as high as $15,75 in the last weeks. This price will hold for as long as Baker’s Inn Bakeries have subsidised flour.”

State Media|Police Commissioner-General Tandabantu Godwin Matanga has reassigned four deputy Commissioners-General with effect from today.

In an interview last night, police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the changes were with immediate effect.

Deputy Commissioner-General Stephen Mutamba moves from crime to operations, while Deputy Commissioner-General Mind Elliot Ngirandi takes over crime from human resources.

Deputy Commissioner-General Learn Ncube moves from operations to administration, while Deputy Commissioner -General Lorraine Chipato leaves administration for human resources.

Assistant Commissioner Nyathi said the transfers have been effected to utilise relevant skills and mentoring senior officers with a view of improving the ZRP performance in terms of the prevention, detection and investigation of crime.

“The transfers have been effected in order to maximise the utilisation of relevant skills and mentoring of senior officers in the Zimbabwe Republic Police with a view of improving performance with regards to the ZRP constitutional mandate of preventing, detecting and investigating crime. ”

State Media|By doubling the amount of cash in circulation, the RBZ hopes to ease pressures that have seen high premiums for cash, yet by keeping the top denomination at $5, it is hoped that significant payments in the formal sector will remain digital rather than see people shovelling coins out of wheelbarrows.

That should ease demand for cash, making it flow better through the system.

Taking into account the inflation of the past year, the latest move puts the total value of all local currency notes and coins, including those still to be issued, back roughly where it was a year ago.

Many, though, still think that some people will continue to sleep outside banks to head the queue for small daily allocations of cash and that the market for notes and coins will continue, although premiums will fall significantly because of extra supply.

But as long as there is even a tiny premium, some will find it worthwhile to queue overnight.

Economists here thought the RBZ should think of ways to stop all the new cash being almost absorbed into the informal sector, as has happened with earlier allocations.

They also dismissed fears that the cash injection would trigger inflation, arguing that price hikes were a result of many internal and external factors within an economy and that at 10 percent of deposits, the amount of cash in circulation was still below by international standards.

Addressing Members of Parliament attending the 2020 National Budget seminar at Elephant Hills Resorts here, Dr Mangudya said the cash will entail new $2 bond coins, $2 and $5 notes of the new Zimbabwean dollar reintroduced in June this year. During the same address, the central bank governor said fundamentals were showing that the local currency, renamed Zimbabwe dollar in June after the Government outlawed the use of multi-currency adopted in 2009, should exchange at $5-$8 against the US dollar.

The central bank is seeking to eliminate the prevailing cash shortages, which the country experienced since 2016 as well as huge premiums being charged for cash.

Dr Mangudya said the regional average of the total cash to deposit ratio was 12 percent, but countries such as Tanzania have up to 15 percent of their deposits in the form of cash.

At the moment, Zimbabwe has about $19 billion in circulation, with only 4,5 percent being cash.

The actual money supply is skewed, with about half being funds held in foreign currency accounts, while the balance are local dollars, which have not been expanding in number since the Government moved to a primary budget surplus a year ago.

“Zimbabwe has the lowest (cash to deposits) ratio,” Dr Mangudya said. “Zambia has 10 percent, Tanzania 15 percent, Rwanda 9,65 percent, Uganda 17,65 . . . We want to increase to 10 percent over the next six months on a drip feed basis.”

Dr Mangudya said if the total deposits were converted into US dollars at the ruling interbank rate of 15,5, the country essentially had US$1,2 billion deposits, which is very little to sustain the economy, stressing the need to enhance forex generation.

“Fifty percent is foreign currency, the amount held in foreign currency accounts (FCAs) is about US$700 million,” he said. “Fifty percent of Zimbabwe’s money supply is foreign currency and $9-10 billion is real domestic currency.”

The central bank chief said the local currency, which has lost ground against the United States dollar since February when the 1:1 pegging to the greenback was abolished, had depreciated extensively due to lack of confidence in it as store of value.

He said while the interbank exchange rate stands at 15,5, “the real exchange rate should be $5-$8. The balance is confidence and risk premium,” he added.

Measures were underway to enhance confidence in the local currency, including floating exchange rate system and allowing a willing-buyer, willing-seller trading system.

“We believe in a free market system,” said Dr Mangudya.

“If we close the free market, we create the parallel market. Between July and September there was consistency between parallel and official exchange rate of 15-20 percent disparity.

“Our wish is to narrow the gap, which is why the RBZ adopted the willing-buyer, willing-seller exchange rate system. This would also be enhanced through formalisation of the economy, which currently is about 60-40 informal to formal.”

The volatility in the currency was to be expected following currency reforms that resulted in the country de-dollarising after outlawing the multi-currency system, said Dr Mangudya.

Zimbabwe had faced relentless instability from its reform agenda due to the absence of external funding support unlike countries like Argentina, which got US$57 billion and Greece, which received US$360 billion from the IMF for their reforms.

“We do not have a lifeline, we are by ourselves,” he said.

As such, Dr Mangudya said, the solution lay in being productive and addressing structural rigidities in the economy.

The central governor reiterated his remarks on Tuesday when he said 50 corporates in Zimbabwe held half the country’s $19 billion total money in circulation, meaning all the rest of us “share $9 billion and need to grow entrepreneurship.”

Economist Persistence Gwanyanya said the introduction of cash was part of transition to a normal economy, since all other countries use their own fiat money currency.

“Money was being sold at premiums as high as 50 percent, which is not desirable and which is also inflationary in nature, so that issue needs to be sorted out with the coming of a new fiat currency,” he said.

“In my view it’s not going to cause inflation, inflation is a function of many other factors like confidence, like manipulation of the market, so we should be wary of those things as this fiat money is introduced.

“Our people are enterprising on currency, that’s what it is because there are no jobs. That’s a source of livelihood for our people, so you also need to know the circumstances that confront us that any weakness can be taken advantage of by the market which is largely informalised and experiences high levels of unemployment.”

Mr Gwanyanya said currency was not a permanent solution to the country’s problems.

“We should start to seriously produce, otherwise we will not get out of our currency crisis,” he said. “If we don’t produce, so what we are doing are only short-term solutions, what is really important is to tackle the issue of production head-on and tackle the issue of confidence head-on so that our currency becomes stable.”

Paul Nyathi|Former MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has warned young people involved in political leadership never to agree to be used in factional fights.

Mwonzora said this in an interview with ZimEye.com on Thursday apparently responding to members of the MDC Youth wing who have been issuing statements to the effect that he is not loyal to party President Nelson Chamisa.

Watch the full live interview in the video downloading below:

State Media|President Mnangagwa will today witness the historic inauguration of Botswana’s fifth post-independence leader when president-elect Mokgweetsi Masisi takes the oath of his second term in office this morning at the University of Botswana Indoor Sports Arena here in Gaborone.

The swearing in ceremony will be the first to be held in public and away from the Botswana Parliament building where the previous four presidents all took the oath of office.

The President will join his counterparts — President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique and President Edgar Lungu of Zambia and representatives of other Sadc Heads of State and Government who are also here to witness the historic ceremony.

President Mnangagwa arrived last night at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport where he was welcomed by the Batswana secretary for Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services Ms Bonolo Khutmotaka and Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Botswana Batirai Henry Mukonoweshuro.

President Masisi’s Botswana Democratic Party romped to victory during the October 23 elections, claiming 38 of the 57 elected seats in the National Assembly.

The main opposition, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) secured 12 seats while the Botswana Patriotic Front won three.

Over 760 000 people out of the 924 000 registered voters went to cast their ballots during the hotly contested election to choose members of the National Assembly and local authority representatives.

No country can develop without its own currency, President Mnangagwa said yesterday while defending economic policies adopted by the Government to revive the economy.

The President was speaking at the Second Zanu-PF National Youth League Assembly meeting at the party’s headquarters in Harare.

Giving a brief economic overview, he urged the youths to embrace the journey to Vision 2030, stressing that success could only come through hard work.

“The course we have taken as a party and Government to resuscitate and reform our economy is the correct one, never doubt that,” he said.
“We must strengthen our resolve to correct wrong decisions we made with regards to our economy. No country can succeed, grow or modernise without its own currency.

The issue of a basket of currencies we introduced towards the end of 2009, the culprits were me and (Patrick) Chinamasa and a few others. It worked for the purposes it was created but now under the Second Republic we want to move forward and be a sovereign State with its own currency.”

He said Government reintroduced the Zimbabwe dollar in June as part of wider efforts to grow the economy after its collapse, largely due to illegal sanctions.

“So we are in transition. It can never be an event, but a process. I am happy that process is stabilising and we continue to be focused on the goals we have set for ourselves to have our economy back on its feet and that all the fundamentals required to support our currency are put in place to achieve our desired goal of having the Zimbabwe we want,” President Mnangagwa said.State media

MDC Senator Douglas Mwonzora has responded to the below allegations passed by Harare Councillor Denford Ngadziore at the recent Supreme Court hearing pitting MDC President Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe.

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My name is Denford Ngadziore, the Harare Province Youth Secretary and on the 17th October during a court hearing between our Party MDC vs Mashavave of Thokozani Khupe, I attended the court together with other leaders at the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe at corner. of Third and Kwame Nkrumah Avenues.

While inside the court, soon after Advocate Thabani Mpofu withdrew the case between the Party vs Mwonzora and Mudzuri, Mr Mwonzora said to me “you (MDC people) including your President who claims to be an Advocate of Law, are silly. Look, you are going to give me legal fees because of your stupidity. After you give me my legal fees I can assure you it is going to be a long battle which I will win. ”

He said this in the presence of Warship Dumba, Rice, Cephas Makuyana and James Makore.
Again, when we went outside the court, he asked one Mufambi from Drivarazekwa (who defected to Khupe’s Party) why they brought in few people given the money they had been given to boost the numbers.

Mufambi responded by saying others were at Africa Unity Square and soon after the Judgement they would do as earlier agreed. It also happened that during and after the court process, Sen. Mwonzora was interacting and being praised by the Khuphe people who include the recently defected Rhino Mashaya.

Soon after the court hearing, Senator Mwonzora, in the company of Warship Dumba and Mashaya Rhino told one of our Harare Province Youth Executive member Tangai Magava, Tinei and Dumisani Makwanya that he felt pity that I and other Councillors and MPs would be recalled from their public offices soon after Khupe had won her case. He further said that he will do this in order to isolate President Nelson Chamisa from Members of Parliament and Councillors so that if they feel the possibility of losing positions, then they will dump president Chamisa.

There are many people in the structures who were at court who saw and heard Mr Mwonzora saying these words and I hope, if given opportunity to testify before the Party disciplinary committee, would corroborate my submissions.

Farai Dziva|Professor Jonathan Moyo has indicated that Herald editor Tichaona Zindonga was fired for “being a sellout.”

According to Moyo Auxillia accused the journalist of being a sellout as he sought her protection.

See Moyo’s presentation below :
Word from @HeraldZimbabwe is that many at @Zimpapers are celebrating the fall of a dwarf in giant robes. When @TichZindoga was summoned by the Wing Commander, the Zimpapers board chair, he was told that he had been fired because he was incompetent, inexperienced and a sellout!

After telling @TichZindoga that he had been fired, Wing Commander Tommy Sithole ordered him to “take 15 minutes to clear your office. Take what is yours & never comeback. You failed to do your job”. Shaken, Zindoga started crying; begging to be retained as deputy editor!

When the Wing Commander told him that he could not be retained as deputy editor, @TichZindoga begged to be demoted to his earlier position of political editor. An irritated Sithole then barked at him: “Chief you are not listening to me. You are not wanted here. Just go!”

Earlier, Sithole had assigned his 1980s @Zimpapers editorial colleague, Davison Maruziva, to assess @TichZindoga as #Herald editor. Maruziva’s report was a big NO. He found that Zindoga had no capacity and that he referred everything to @nickmangwana, who also has no capacity!

After Sithole told @TichZindoga to go and clear his office where his dismissal letter would be sent in 15 minutes, the sun fell down on him. He phoned @nickmangwana who said he was in Egypt and could not help. Nick later texted some officials calling Zindoga “stupid and reckless”!

When he did not get any joy from @nickmangwana, a devastated @TichZindoga phoned information minister, Monica Mutsvangwa, asking her to intercede for him. Monica expressed indignant surprise: “Uchiripo ikoko? Awusi kudiwa. Kana vakuru varamba. Chienda. Chibva ipapo iwe”

As a backdrop, @TichZindoga had read the writing on the wall and saw the trouble coming. He sought help from Auxillia Mnangagwa who hit the roof and said “urimutengesi iwe”. Shocked, Zindoga went to Isaac Moyo, CIO Director General, to ask for “protection”. It was a long shot!

Zanu PF Youth League Secretary Lewis Matutu has said his party is ready to take the fight to the US Embassy.

Matutu said it’s time to go inside the US embassy and request them to leave because Zimbabweans are reportedly not benefiting from their presence.

Matutu was speaking at the Anti Sanctions March held on 25 October 2019.
Credit: Open Parly

Farai Dziva|Controversial Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity Broadcasting Services, Energy Mutodi has warned that striking doctors risk being blacklisted.

Mutodi also warned that once they have been blacklisted they will not be employed anywhere in the world.

“Striking doctors can be rest assured that once dismissed there will be no re-hiring. No one is above the law no-matter the profession and if the court says go back to work you must comply. Gvt will also blacklist the money mongering doctors so they are not employable elsewhere,” Mutodi wrote on Twitter.

Paul Nyathi|Shortly after coming into power in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa gained himself a nickname, “Mr Mega Deals” as he went around the world meeting some fairly unknown investors and claiming to have clinched mega deals with them.

To date, virtually NONE of those mega deals have come to fruition.

ZimEye.com on Thursday managed to hook up with one of the brokers of these mega deals who expressed his dismay on how these fake investors loot money from Africa and leaders like Mnangagwa who rush to “clinch” these unscrupulous deals.

On May 17, 2018, Mnangagwa endorsed a $5,2 billion coal-to-liquid project deal signed between Verify Engineering and South Africa’s Nkosikhona Holdings.

The joint venture was to see a coal to fuel plant being established in Zimbabwe.

Speaking at the signing ceremony in Harare, Mnangagwa said the project was to help Zimbabwe become self-sufficient in fuel manufacturing.

“I am confident that this project will contribute to our energy security and self-sufficiency in terms of liquid fuels, fertiliser and a range of other chemicals,” he said.

The $5,2 billion deal between the government and Nkosikhona Holdings to turn coal into liquid fuels raised eyebrows from the onset with analysts saying the South African company’s credentials were suspect.

Critics also alleged Nkosikhona Holdings did not have known history in extractives according to the company’s online profile.

The company did not appear among South Africa’s liquid fuel producers, but Mnangagwa signed. The deal like all others flopped.

Watch full ZimEye.com interview with the businessman who brokered the mega deal that never materialised.

By A Correspondent- Disciplinary hearings for striking doctors will start today, with the Health Services Board (HSB) set to pass default judgments on doctors that abscond the process.

Doctors have been threatening not to attend the hearings claiming that they did not have transport fares to travel.

The hearings follow revelations that Government would need not less than $4 billion a month in salaries for the health sector only, if it were to give in to the striking doctors’ demands.

HSB board chairman Dr Paulinus Sikosana told our Harare Bureau yesterday that in the event doctors snub the hearings, the Labour Act provided for default judgements.

“Yes, they have indicated that they will not turn up for hearings, however the Labour Act provides for disciplinary hearings to proceed even in absentia by those that are supposed to appear before the hearings,” said Dr Sikosana.

He said the HSB had tried to negotiate with the striking doctors on several occasions but to no avail as they adopted an “uncompromising” stance.

Dr Sikosana said the sticking issue has been pegging their on-call allowances to the interbank rate, a position Government has said was unaffordable.

“The salary bill for the Ministry of Health (and Child Care) is $430 million per month, if we were to use the minimalist interbank rate of USD1:$10, that would translate to $4 billion per month. The Government will go broke, they can’t afford it. 

“So what is needed is a compromise stance,” said Dr Sikosana.

He said the situation has also been the same with senior doctors.

Although our Harare Bureau could not immediately establish the number of doctors who are set to undergo the disciplinary hearings, sources said almost half of the country’s 1 600 public sector doctors have not been reporting for duty, a majority of whom are from central and provincial hospitals.

Dr Sikosana said Government approached the courts as a “last option and in terms of the Labour Act”, which says that any employee who decides not to report for work without authority for at least five days, should be subjected to legal and disciplinary action “and that’s what we are following”.

By A Correspondent- Police in Botswana have since January this year arrested more than 4 000 Zimbabweans for attempting to illegally cross into the neighbouring country. 

The border jumpers, 2 479 men, 1 521 women and children were intercepted at the border while attempting to cross into Botswana. 

Addressing delegates during a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) mass crime awareness campaign at Dingumuzi Stadium in Plumtree on Tuesday, Botswana senior police officer, assistant superintendent Mothokomedi Ponyane from Tshesebe police crime office, said the increase in cases of illegal border crossing have become a cause for concern. 

He said border jumping posed a security threat to both countries hence the need to fight it from both ends.

The campaign ran under the theme “Join hands in fighting crimes of passion.”

 “The most problematic issue in Botswana is illegal border crossing. Betweeen January and September this year, statistics show that we arrested 4 387 Zimbabwean nationals crossing into Botswana through border jumping. Out of this total number 2 479 are males and the remaining comprise of both women and children,” said Asst Supt Ponyane. 

He urged members of the public to obtain the required travel documents to avoid arrests.

Botswana together with the ZRP are carrying out border crime meetings and patrols along the border to combat incidents of border jumping. 

Ass Supt Ponyane said through the patrols they have not only addressed border jumping issues but have managed to recover smuggled goods. 

“We have forums where the two countries meet to discuss issues of cross border crime. In our meetings we also share information regarding the arrest and release of criminals both in Botswana and Zimbabwe. After sharing information on criminal issues, we set aside days when we conduct patrols along the border. Through these exercises we managed to recover property that was smuggled into Botswana. In one incident I understand it was a case where dagga was smuggled into our country,” he said. 

“Let me confirm that so far we are enjoying a good working relationship with the ZRP. I want to appeal to all Zimbabwean citizens to join hands with the ZRP to fight crime along our borders particularly illegal border crossing and smuggling of goods. We must work together for the betterment of our two countries and ensure our borders are safe”. 

Industry and Commerce Minister, Mangaliso Ndlovu said police in Plumtree have recorded more than 1 000 criminal cases this year. 

In a speech read on his behalf by the Member of Parliament for Mangwe Constituency Cde Hlalani Mguni, Minister Ndlovu expressed concern over the increase in cases of crime in the area, saying it has destroyed the spirit of ubuntu. 

Police in Plumtree continue to record crimes such as rape, robbery, murder, assaults and unlawful entry and theft. 

“Our crime situation is not good in Plumtree. Our statistics reflect an upward trend in cases of crime.  Between  January and December 2018 we recorded a total of 771 cases compared to 1 124 cases recorded between January and September this year reflecting a huge increase,” he said. 

Minister Ndlovu said most of the perpetrators were deportees and measures should be taken to ensure their movement is monitored. 

“Some of the crimes are committed by our deportee brothers and sisters who are desperate to raise money to take them to their destinations. Authorities will continue to gather intelligence through stakeholder liaison to ensure that when deportees are released their movement is monitored,” he said. 

The other stakeholders that attended the crime awareness campaign include Environmental Management Agency (EMA) officials, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) workers and officials from Plumtree town council.

-StateMedia

By A Correspondent- An 80-year-old Magunje grandpa allegedly killed his 60-year-old wife over infidelity.

The incident was reported by police national spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi who revealed that the case was one of numerous murder cases related to love. 

He said:

In Magunje, a male adult aged 80 killed his wife, 60, with an axe, accusing her of having an extramarital affair. The victim was discovered lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen by relatives on October 26, 2019, at around 0600hours.

Nyathi urged members of the public to engage third parties to resolve issues amicably. He also warned that the law shall take its course in the event that one takes the law into their hands.

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By A Correspondent-Disciplinary hearings for striking doctors will start today, with the Health Services Board (HSB) set to pass default judgments on doctors that abscond the process.

Doctors have been threatening not to attend the hearings claiming that they did not have transport fares to travel.

The hearings follow revelations that Government would need not less than $4 billion a month in salaries for the health sector only, if it were to give in to the striking doctors’ demands.

HSB board chairman Dr Paulinus Sikosana told our Harare Bureau yesterday that in the event doctors snub the hearings, the Labour Act provided for default judgements.

“Yes, they have indicated that they will not turn up for hearings, however the Labour Act provides for disciplinary hearings to proceed even in absentia by those that are supposed to appear before the hearings,” said Dr Sikosana.

He said the HSB had tried to negotiate with the striking doctors on several occasions but to no avail as they adopted an “uncompromising” stance.

Dr Sikosana said the sticking issue has been pegging their on-call allowances to the interbank rate, a position Government has said was unaffordable.

“The salary bill for the Ministry of Health (and Child Care) is $430 million per month, if we were to use the minimalist interbank rate of USD1:$10, that would translate to $4 billion per month. The Government will go broke, they can’t afford it. 

“So what is needed is a compromise stance,” said Dr Sikosana.

He said the situation has also been the same with senior doctors.

Although our Harare Bureau could not immediately establish the number of doctors who are set to undergo the disciplinary hearings, sources said almost half of the country’s 1 600 public sector doctors have not been reporting for duty, a majority of whom are from central and provincial hospitals.

Dr Sikosana said Government approached the courts as a “last option and in terms of the Labour Act”, which says that any employee who decides not to report for work without authority for at least five days, should be subjected to legal and disciplinary action “and that’s what we are following”.

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Own Correspondent|Controversial Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity Broadcasting Services, Energy Mutodi has warned that striking doctors risk being blacklisted.

Mutodi also warned that once they have been blacklisted they will not be employed anywhere in the world.

“Striking doctors can be rest assured that once dismissed there will be no re-hiring. No one is above the law no-matter the profession and if the court says go back to work you must comply. Gvt will also blacklist the money mongering doctors so they are not employable elsewhere,” Mutodi wrote on Twitter.

Both the Minister of Health, Dr Obadiah Moyo and his deputy, Chamunorwa J. Mangwiro (MP) are reportedly outside Zimbabwe at a time when the health sector is on its knees.

Public health institutions do not have adequate medicines and equipment and health caregivers are on day 60 of their industrial action over unsustainable salaries and poor working conditions.

The decision to leave this essential ministry under the leadership of an acting Minister particularly when there are unresolved issues has been viewed by some as a lack of concern to address the issues. Posting on Twitter, Dr Bhebhe said:

Doctors day 60 incapacitated

The confusion is shocking.

The Minister at @MoHCCZim is out of Zim, galavanting in foreign lands. The Deputy Minister also has been out for months on some unknown foreign mission. They left the Minister of Information as the Acting Minister @MoHCCZim

Health caregivers have vowed not to return to work until their grievances have been addressed. They have since rejected a number of offers which the government had offered arguing that the offers were insignificant given the inflationary nature of the economy.

Public health institutions are reportedly engaging personnel from the Zimbabwe National Army to save the situation.

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President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba has hinted on the launch of a new newspaper organisation which he has linked to a project by the G40 cabal that is pushing for a Savior Kasukuwere presidency.

In a cryptic Tweet, Charamba who has admitted ownership of the @Jamwanda2 handle, alleged that the project is funded by the Ford Foundation through OSISA.

It is also rumoured that a European country has poured money into the project.

“Masikati maZimbo!! Maswera sei? Just what is the link between the forthcoming Zimbabwe Times, Ford Foundation, OSISA, Sipho Malunga and resurgent NPF? Just wondering hangu!,” said Charamba.

It is believed that foreign donors feel that Zimbabwe no longer has an independent media organisation after Alpha Media Holdings owner Trevor Ncube reportedly sold part of his stake in the company to Mnangagwa’s son in law Gerald Mlotshwa.

State Media|Government has discouraged the dissemination of fake news on media platforms as it results in panic among citizens. International Communications Services Director in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Dr Ivanhoe Gurira, made the remarks yesterday during a public discussion forum on the impact of fake news and disinformation on society.

The event was organised by Perch Media and had panellists comprising Dr Gurira, Mr Cris Chinaka from ZimFact, Ms Koliwe Majama, a media consultant, and Ms Debra Katswe from Katswe Sisterhood.

Dr Gurira said it was the responsibility of media institutions to report issues based on facts and they should shun the habit of breaking unverified news.

“Fake news erodes the trust and confidence of citizens in the Government,” he said.

“The fake news also disturbs the democratic process of any nation and as such it should be eradicated.”

Dr Gurira said Government was putting mechanisms in place to ensure that information on social media and online platforms was regulated through the Cyber Security and Protection Bill, which will be gazette soon.

He said the ministry was developing a National Media Information Policy.

He said the new dispensation made tremendous efforts in disseminating information to the public through the introduction of post-Cabinet media briefings.

Journalists raised concern of some institutions such as Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority, which usually denounces social media claims of fuel price increases and few days later announce the same figures.

Mr Chinaka said there was need to educate the public on digital literacy.

“As Zimbabweans, we brag about being learned and literate, but in terms of digital literacy we are actually one of the worst people because we easily believe everything that is circulated on social media,” he said.

“Therefore, there is need to educate our people on how to use the internet and how to verify information before spreading it to others.”

Media practitioners recommended that Government allows licensing of more community radio stations and other channels of communication to increase official channels.

Zanu PF Youth League Secretary Lewis Matutu has said his party is ready to take the fight to the US Embassy.

Matutu said it’s time to go inside the US embassy and request them to leave because Zimbabweans are reportedly not benefiting from their presence.

Matutu was speaking at the Anti Sanctions March held on 25 October 2019.
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Farai Dziva|Controversial Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity Broadcasting Services, Energy Mutodi has warned that striking doctors risk being blacklisted.

Mutodi also warned that once they have been blacklisted they will not be employed anywhere in the world.

“Striking doctors can be rest assured that once dismissed there will be no re-hiring. No one is above the law no-matter the profession and if the court says go back to work you must comply. Gvt will also blacklist the money mongering doctors so they are not employable elsewhere,” Mutodi wrote on Twitter.

An 80-year-old Magunje grandpa has allegedly killed his 60-year-old wife over infidelity.

The incident was reported by police national spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi who revealed that the case was one of numerous murder cases related to love.

He said:
In Magunje, a male adult aged 80 killed his wife, 60, with an axe, accusing her of having an extramarital affair. The victim was discovered lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen by relatives on October 26, 2019, at around 0600hours.

Nyathi urged members of the public to engage third parties to resolve issues amicably. He also warned that the law shall take its course in the event that one takes the law into their hands.Daily News