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Popular actor Lazarus Boora popularly known as Gringo is seriously ill.
According to The Herald Gringo is set to undergo a surgery at a Harare hospital this afternoon.
His sister Linda Boora said Lazarus had an appendix rapture.
Gringo rose to prominence alongside Enoch Chihombori (Toby Waters) John Banda, Gweshe Gweshe and Mbudziyadhura.
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More research is needed to confirm this, but one review found that dehydration reduces performance in activities lasting longer than 30 minutes.
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Water is essential for the kidneys to function.
If the kidneys do not function properly, waste products and excess fluid can build up inside the body.Medical News Today
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In what could be a sign of bad omen, a windstorm hit Bulilima district last week and destroyed solar panels at a San community irrigation project funded by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa.
According to NewsDay the panels were used to run a water pump to water vegetables tendered by the San people.
The windstorm, which hit Bulilima last Wednesday afternoon, left a trail of destruction in the area, including the solar panels sourced by Mnangagwa’s Angel of Hope Foundation.
A team led by District Development Fund officials went to the scene on Thursday to assess the damage and make repairs.
Bulilima district coordinator (formerly district administrator) Nyasha Majonga yesterday confirmed the damage, but said the problem had since been rectified.
“Yes there was some blowing off of solar panels, but as I speak to you, the problem has been rectified and it is business as usual,” Majonga told NewsdayNewsDay.
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By A Correspondent- Mbongeni Nxumalo (27) from Nketa suburb wept as he begged the court to grant the order and save him from further abuse.
“Your Worship, please save me from this evil woman. I now fear that she might end up killing me because she once stabbed me with a broken bottle. She was aiming at my neck and I blocked her with my hands. My two fingers are now gone,” he said tearfully.
Mr Nxumalo told Western Commonage magistrate Mr Urgent Mvundla that his ex- girlfriend Ms Mercy Zhou (23) was bitter that he ended their relationship.
He said Ms Zhou was in the habit of jumping over the precast wall to gain entry to his home to assault him and he has since lost two fingers.
Mr Nxumalo said he was living in fear because of his ex- girlfriend’s violent nature and was also afraid that she might kill him.
“I beg the court to shield me, we are having sleepless nights as she comes making noise and disturbing everyone. She also insults me whenever I meet her and she embarrasses me in front of my friends. I wish to live peacefully,” said Mr Nxumalo.
Last month Mr Nxumalo dragged Ms Zhou to court after she allegedly hit him with a brick on his face. He said he had told her that he no longer loved her and this did not go down well with her.
“She became violent shouting at me asking why I had cut ties with her. I told her that I no longer loved her. She pushed me to the ground and got on top of me holding a brick and attacked me with it. She also punched me all over my face,” said Mr Nxumalo.
Mr Vundla granted the peace order.
He warned Ms Zhou against verbally and physically abusing Mr Nxumalo and told her to move on.
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Zanu PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu has been sued for defamation by businessman, Frank Buyanga.
In summons filed with the High Court last Friday, Buyanga says Matutu named him on a list of corrupt individuals who had manipulated the country’s “land acquisition process.”
“The publication referred to the fact of the plaintiff (Buyanga) being on the list of fraudsters of the land acquisition process. The aforesaid publication wrongfully and maliciously, with injurious intent stated of the plaintiff that: the plaintiff has prejudiced the general public by manipulating and defrauding the country’s land acquisition process thereby portraying the plaintiff as a fraudster and an unethical businessman,” Buyanga’s lawyers Rubaya and Chatambudza Legal Practitioners said in court papers.
The allegations were according to the businessman, published in the media on August 7.
Buyanga says that the story also insinuated that he is “an individual who has benefitted from alleged lack of accountability in the (late) Robert Mugabe-led government and owns multiple farms acquired during the land reform programme.
“Furthermore, the allegations published as aforesaid, in the context of the story, were wrongful and defamatory to the plaintiff in that they were intended and understood by the readers to mean that the plaintiff is cruel and a dishonest individual who unjustifiably grabbed vast pieces of land at the expense of the generality of Zimbabweans,” the lawyers said.
Buyanga wants Matutu to retract his utterances by publishing an apology, as well as paying him $4 million for defamation.
The case is pending.
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Popular actor Lazarus Boora who rose to fame in the Gringo drama series is seriously ill and is set to undergo a surgery at a Harare hospital this afternoon.
His sister Linda Boora said Lazarus had an appendix rapture.
More to follow…
The current bank exchange rates for the ZWL$ today are as follows:
USD = ZWL$15.3525
ZWL$ = RAND0.9639
Data according to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
Black Market Rates:
USD = ZWL$19.10 zimrates
USD = ZWL$18.70 zwl365
USD = ZWL$18.50 bluemari
USD = BOND12.40 zimrates
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Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivhayo has roped in a United Kingdom based lawyer Advocate Adrian Phillip de Bourbon to fight his Zimbabwe Power Company case.
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By A Correspondent- It’s been seven years since Tankiso has been competing with a tokoloshe in bed, and he’s now tired.
Now the Mokones need help to get rid of the tokoloshe.
Tankiso (56) said at first his wife woke up wet and told him something poked her at night.
“I thought she was lying and was dreaming about another man,” said Tankiso.
He said this became a regular thing.
“It became worse because she’d sometimes wake up with a painful punani,” he said.
“I’m getting poked like nobody’s business. I can’t take it anymore.”
He said they consulted various sangomas, who confirmed a tokoloshe poked his wife.
“They all promised to help and gave us muthi, but the tokoloshe rests for a week and comes back with a bang,” he said.
Tankiso’s wife Nomvula told Daily Sun she had run out of ideas.
“I’ve prayed about it, looked for medical help and went to various sangomas, but I’m still getting poked like nobody’s business. I can’t take it anymore,” she said.
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Sangoma Ntombifuthi Dabulamanzi told the People’s Paper she never had a problem with removing tokoloshes, but this one was stubborn.
“We’ve been trying to get rid of it for months. I’m running out of ideas myself,” she said.
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By A Correspondent- Acting spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Hospitals Doctors Association (ZHDA), Dr Mthabisi Bhebhe, said that doctors will stay at home until the government pays them what they are owed.
Writing on microblogging site Twitter, Dr Bhebhe said that as doctors, they did not take oaths to be slaves.
He wrote:
Day 44. Hospitals remain desolate and without doctors across the country.
We shall remain in our homes no matter how long it may be until Dr Obadiah Moyo and his Ministry pay what is owed to us.
No doctor in Zimbabwe or any part of the world has ever taken an oath to be a slave.”
Doctors have been on strike since September 3 this year demanding salaries that are in line with the rate of inflation.
On Friday, the Labour Court ruled that the doctors’ strike was illegal and gave them 48 hours to return to work, a directive which the doctors refused to comply with.
Jesus Christ was able to conduct his Mission to the World in 3 short years. One of the most memorable incidents of this time, took place when he led his Disciples across a large lake.
Anyone who has owned a boat on Kariba knows very well how quickly a flat dead body of water can become a raging storm on a lake. The waves are not like those at sea, the tops of each wave are close together and the water can get very rough, very quickly. It was a small boat and although all on board knew the lake well, they were terrified that they would not survive.
Jesus had no such qualms and he slept in the boat, oblivious to the storm and the waves. Eventually, even though they knew he was tired, the Disciples got up their courage and shook him awake with the question ‘Lord, do you not care that we might perish in this storm?’
The Bible says he woke up, looked about him and then rebuked the wind and the waves and there was instant calm. The Disciples watched in awe and their reaction to this extraordinary event, was to ask among themselves in a whisper ‘Who is this man that the wind and the waves obey his instructions?’
Small boat, small sea, major lesson.
Zimbabwe is a tiny country with a GDP less than a third of the garbage collection budget of New York. This is both a weakness and a strength – storms come up fast, but they can fade away just as quickly. Because we are such a small country, it does not take much to change things.
The other lesson for me from the above story is that we are all in the same boat, no point in yelling at the wind and the rain, wake up the boss and get him engaged in trying to fix the problem. It would help of course if the ‘Boss’ was the Son of God and had unlimited power, but the principle still applies – solutions take leadership.
In the past month, after a brief respite and some stability, the exchange rate and the rate of inflation has suddenly exploded. Those of us who watch the situation closely and monitor statistics and events were taken by surprise, both by the speed of the changes and their magnitude. Suddenly we were in a storm, in a small boat and it looked as if we were all going to have to swim.
Just what happened and how do we restore calm so that we can make progress and reach the shore in one piece?
The first thing is to understand what happened in the years leading up to 2018. During the short time from the collapse of the GNU to 2018, we lived a lifestyle that was actually unsustainable – the things that made this so were in two main areas; one was the massive transfer of wealth and value from our exporters to consumers in the form of subsidies created by the false exchange rate being paid to exporters for their hard currency.
The second was the creation of vast sums of money by the Reserve Bank which they claimed was USD. By 2018 this mountain of false currency – in essence electronic air, reached 23 000 000 000 ‘dollars’.
We have had a program called ‘Command Agriculture’ for three years. To fund this program, the Reserve Bank has printed money – large sums of money, which have been used to buy inputs and then finance our new farmers – all one million of them so that they can become more productive.
The program has been only partly successful – in 2017/18, we saw agricultural output rise strongly and everyone thought this was the solution to chronic food shortages. But at a cost and less than 30 per cent of all farmers paid back their loans. Many just took them and used them for lifestyle maintenance.
But from a macroeconomic point of view they got away with it because they called the money so created ‘US dollars’ even though it was just credits created on a computer. It just added to the mountain of debt that was to haunt the new Minister of Finance in 2018. Because we had faith in the US dollar we lived as if this fountain of currency would never dry up.
Then the new Minister came into office and said that the currency mountain was not US dollars – it was not even closely related. What was it? It was air, no more, no less. When he did that the whole mountain collapsed and in 4 months we went from having US$23 billion in our accounts to the equivalent of US$4 billion. Was even that sum its real value? No one knew, and because there was no market for the stuff, value discovery was anyone’s guess.
So we get the ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ adage in February 2019 along with the ‘Interbank Market’ for hard currency. We all breathed a sigh of relief – now we had a real market which would show us just how rich or poor we are. The problem was that the market was never formalised and all the mechanisms used for many years to artificially establish exchange rates remained in place.
Eventually some sort of market emerged but so narrow it was easily influenced by small changes in supply and demand. But it was beginning to work. Business reported they could buy their foreign exchange needs off the market and our export industries, that had been going broke up to 2018, saw a dramatic turnaround in their fortunes.
The problem was that when it came to planting time again – the spectre of Command Agriculture put its head up and demanded to be fed – as had happened in previous years. As the regime dilly dallied, the deadline for planting drew ever closer, eventually they took the plunge and printed several billion dollars in RTGS dollars and transferred this flood of new money to those who had managed Command in previous years.
The problem was, the whole system had changed and there was no safety net to maintain the market value of the currency, which then simply crashed. In economic terms we refer to the correlation between different elements – in our case any increase in money supply has an immediate and direct impact on the exchange rate and this then in turn is translated to an increase in prices. One, two, three whammies, all in tandem and close behind each other.
The impact was immediate, after the first few breathes of wind, the wind picked up and in a very short space of time we were in a raging sea with all of us hanging onto the side of the boat and wishing we were elsewhere.
A few individuals went forward and shook awake the Minister of Finance and the President. We said you have to take some action or else this whole boat will sink. Action was taken and immediately the storm quietened down – rates fell back from 20 to 1 to 15 and stabilised – but it’s the stability of the aftermath of a storm at sea and we are all evaluating where we are and how much damage has been done. It is not pretty. We are all asking how long to landfall?
Several lessons come to mind about the miracle in the boat with Christ. The first is that we need faith, we need to think that if we go forward and shake his shoulder and get Him awake, He will do something. In my own life I have discovered what a Professor at Cambridge once described after his conversion to Christianity when he wrote a book about it and called it ‘Good God, it Works’.
The second is that we need to recognise that we are all in this boat together and we sink or swim, together. We need to work as a Nation to find our way forward and to solve our problems – right now is not the time for squabbles and fights, we need to discover each other and put our country first.
The third lesson is do not be surprised if things come back to normal much faster than we think possible. I still think we are on the right track, the fundamentals are all in place and because we are such a small boat, our problems can be solved relatively easily. But to get to the shore, we need to row together.
By Simba Chikanza| We have the best opportunity in national history since 1980 to not only show the world the truth of how Zimbabweans are suffering, but stop the abuses, once and for all. I am due to leave Serbia in 24 hrs. Help get me to stay longer here in Serbia so we together expose the abuse of Zim state resources to kill civilians by parliament itself. So far Speaker Of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has in an interview admitted the military was used to change 2018 election results (filmed LIVE at the IN Hotel, Belgrade 13th Oct). There is more that is needed to be done so that the IPU here discovers that even the fake police helmets were planted by ZANU PF to oppress civilians of whom 12 people so far have been arrested. On Sunday morning we got backing from the Serbian Police when Mudenda tried to cut the interview (click here to participate)…
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NewsDay|THE November 2017 coup brought new dreams and hopes among the citizens, many who believed the new regime would knock corruption off very high perch. However, after ad infinitum calls against the corruption cancer and no practical action, citizens’ hopes are fast fading away.
Corruption continues to hurt the economy, slowing down development and the fight against poverty is going off rails. It can only take a competent leadership and political will to stem corruption – and all that is in short supply in Zimbabwe at the moment.
Since coming to power through a coup, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been waxing lyrical about fighting corruption. In his quest to fight the scourge, Mnangagwa established a special anti-corruption unit in his office and dissolved the disgraced Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc). The President then appointed a new Zacc board, chaired by Loice Matanda-Moyo, after the previous Zacc body was accused of corruption and lacking the “teeth to bite”.
Last year, Mnangagwa gave us a long list of individuals and companies accused of externalising nearly US$1 billion. The list provided fodder for Zacc to start investigations and bring the culprits to book, but it seems the case has suffered a still-birth. In July, Matanda-Moyo said the commission had received Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri’s report and investigations had commenced in respect of ministries, parastatals and State entities involved in corruption and misappropriation of funds. Chiri’s report revealed that the government last year had a $2 billion budget overrun without parliamentary approval, when parastatals, State entities and local authorities unashamedly flouted accounting procedures. According to the AG’s report, the government was supposed to spend $4,6 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, but ended up spending $7,1 billion.
The Zacc boss said the report was fodder for investigations into corruption, theft, misappropriation of funds and abuse of power and or any other improper conduct committed in the public sector, adding that Zacc had received at least 38 corruption reports since assuming duty, of which a dozen were high-profile cases.
While we have not witnessed many arrests or convictions, other than catch-and-release shows, last week we were told Zacc was casting its nets wider to recover ill-gotten wealth stashed in foreign lands by engaging regional governments in the fight against corruption. Have we exhausted the AG’s report? What has happened to the externalisation list? What has happened to 15 top Zanu PF and government officials, including Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya, Cabinet ministers and business leaders who were accused by the ruling party youth league of running illegal foreign currency rings?
This lackadaisical approach is corruption in itself – it’s self-defeating. What Zimbabweans are expecting is action, not sloganeering and posturing. There is no excuse because evidence of corruption is readily available. What is now needed is for Matanda-Moyo to bite the bullet and descend on the big fish in high offices, not herrings.
This gung-ho approach in fighting corruption will not help the Zimbabwean cause. What we have seen so far is not a genuine anti-corruption campaign, but a pursuit of personal and political agendas and vendettas disguised as zero tolerance to graft.
A handful of people who have been arrested on corruption charges are either in the wrong basket or small fish. Former Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira is a good example. A fish rots from the head. The anti-corruption fight has gone to the dogs. At this rate, no one, including those in his inner circle, still take Mnangagwa’s anti-graft rhetoric seriously. It’s a case of all bark, no bite!
Zimbabweans must have a buy-in and own the fight against corruption. The fact that small fish and a few people perceived to be anti-establishment are the ones the corruption dragnet has caught raises questions. The command “ugly-culture” is one vehicle that well-to-do and connected individuals have been using to loot and self-enrich. This programme should be disinfected.
If he wants to be believed, Mnangagwa must urgently confront dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery, fraud and theft, as well as other criminal activities. What is needed is political will to tackle corruption in all its various manifestations. Granting Zacc prosecutorial powers will yield nothing if not accompanied by political will.
The judiciary is the last frontier in the fight against corruption with growing calls for this arm of government, charged with implementing the law, to be reformed.
In South Africa, judicial officers are performing much better than their counterparts in the region. Prosecution and trials of accused persons is conducted as quickly as legally permissible. Judges are expected to hand down written judgements that are automatically loaded online within 30 days of concluding a case. Zimbabwean courts can learn something from their colleagues from across the Limpopo River. They have to start delivering judgments soon after trials are concluded, not the current scenario where full judgments are only made available in many instances nearly two years later.
How does this help? Making full judgments available helps dispel the notion that the bench is captured or influenced as more often than not everyone can read for themselves the reasoning behind the judge’s decision. This would go a long way in making justice transparent and people could judge for themselves if justice is being done.
It seems Matanda-Moyo is biting more than she can chew. While Zacc has not hit the ground running on the local front in terms of recovering the local loot, she is already talking about recovering illegally-acquired assists in Sadc countries. Madam Matanda-Moyo, charity begins at home. Common criminals are occupying government offices, driving posh cars, building mansions in leafy suburbs, while the anti-graft body is engaging in catch-and-release shows. It is either the teeth that Zacc got have fallen off or the commission is now captured or both.
Paul Nyathi|The ruling ZANU PF party has gone to the mountains claiming that opposition MDC has been planning a major insurgency against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s failing government this after over 200 anti riot police helmets were found at a private building across the opposition party’s headquarters in Harare.
Police shockingly expressed ignorance of the huge loot of their own equipment.
The whole saga raises fears that ZANU PF might be going back to its old ways where it effected a brutal one sided war against then powerful opposition PF ZAPU led by Joshua Nkomo after claiming that the opposition party was hiding arms of war meant to destabilise the then Robert Mugabe government.
According to the Zanu-PF narrative of Zimbabwe’s post-independence history, the discovery of dozens of arms caches in early 1982 was the major event that led to the deployment of a “crack force” of the army – the Gukurahundi – in Matabeleland during 1983.
A year later, Zanu announced dramatically that Zapu and its leader, Joshua Nkomo, were at it. They had been caught red-handed, caching arms on strategically located properties as part of an elaborate coup plot.
The reality was different. The only secret plan in play was Zanu’s, and the “crisis” was a myth, an event staged by Mugabe as part of his bid for absolute power.
On 6 February 1982, Emmerson Mnangagwa convened a press conference in Bulawayo, telling journalists gravely that he felt “very low” about a statement he had to make: the government had discovered around 60 arms caches in Matabeleland, half of them at Gwaai, the main base of Zapu’s military wing, Zipra, and another 30 at a farm owned by a company connected with Zapu.
Over the next 10 days, a torrent of reports in the official media sought to portray Zanu-PF as having thwarted a colossal and imminent threat to state security.
The reports repeatedly emphasised the scale of the caches, and almost daily there were stories of new finds by the police, army and Central Intelligence Organisation.
Mugabe raged against “these people” who were “planning to overthrow and take over the government”. Zapu and “other elements who wanted to start a civil war … would be dealt with”.
As for Nkomo, he was like a “cobra in the house” – the “only way to deal effectively with a snake is to strike and destroy its head …
Nkomo and three of his party colleagues were dismissed from cabinet and – in an operation personally directed by Mugabe and Mnangagwa – senior members of Zipra and Zapu’s former intelligence wing were arrested. The government of national unity that Mugabe had created in April 1980 was practically dead from this point. (It was nominally revived in late 1987, though this second iteration was more a consequence of mass murder and political rape than it was a matter of unity.)
The arms caches “crisis” was undoubtedly a critical juncture in Zimbabwe’s turbulent early years, with the already dire relationship between Zanu and Zapu plunging yet further, accelerating towards the abyss.
Others condemn the indiscriminate violence wrought by the Gukurahundi – and lament the gigantic, festering wound it has bequeathed to the nation – but blame Zapu for producing (or contributing to) a situation in which Zanu was bound to react.
The problem with this view is that it is founded not on the truth but on Zanu-PF propaganda.
Many were fooled by the subsequent media blitz, including the South Africans. In a demonstration that the apartheid regime had little to do with the affair, South African intelligence assessments reflected surprise and deemed the Zimbabwean government’s statements to be largely accurate.
However, others who knew more about the political context and the disarmament process concluded that the crisis was a manipulation by Zanu-PF.
Mugabe himself put the matter beyond doubt a few weeks later when he told the visiting British foreign secretary, Peter Carrington, that “the last straw … had come when he mentioned his ideas regarding a one-party state to Nkomo, who refused even to talk about them”.
It was, then, not a further act of subversion by Nkomo that contributed to the unleashing of the Gukurahundi a year later, but his refusal to come to Mugabe on bended knee, seeking “unity” on Zanu’s terms.
The arms caches crisis was a cynical stunt, nothing more. As was so often the case during Zimbabwe’s early years, the most accurate guide to reality was to be found in turning Zanu-PF propaganda on its head.
Years later, well experienced Mnangagwa appears to be taking exactly the same lane he took with his erstwhile mentor Mugabe and could very well be taking the route to unleash another Gukurahundi blaming the non violent and non militant MDC for the possession of the police equipment.
A man from Mwenezi who separated from his wife in August 2018 caused drama at Matava Village under Chief Maranda when he impounded and drove away two beasts he paid as lobola after finding out that his wife was not at her parents’ home.
Kabalika Mukupe had come to reconcile and take his wife and children back home when he was told that his wife had since left and no one knew where she was.
Killion Dube, the father in law brought the matter before resident Magistrate Honesty Musiiwa claiming that his son in law drove away the cattle without his consent knowing that they now belonged to him since he paid them as pride price.
Mukupe’s mother in law said the two separated in August 2018 and the husband never bothered to follow his wife and settle their differences until their daughter went to an unknown place in December that same year.
Mukupe decided to come and claim his wife and children on February 20, 2019 and he was told that she was not there.
He demanded that they give him back his cattle but Dube told him to come with a go between.
It is alleged that, the accused opened the kraal and drove away with the cattle without anyone’s consent. Dube tried to stop him to no avail.
The matter will be heard again next week.
Paul Nyathi|In yet another very embarrassing incident for First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, villagers in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s farming area of Sherwood in Kwekwe declared that they did not know who she is.
Mrs Mnangagwa got the shock of her life from the villagers on Monday where she was the guest of honour at the launch of the Midlands Province Integrated Environment in the Sherwood farming community where President Emmerson Mnangagwa owns a huge farming and mining area
Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Larry Mavhima tried to introduce Mrs Mnangagwa before she could address the gathering saying that Auxillia was a well known individual in the farming block since she was a parliamentarian in the area before becoming First Lady.
“The person I am introducing to you is not new in this area. She has been working very hard for this community both as an MP and also as the First Lady.
“Our First Lady’s work ethic and hard work has earned her not only plaudits in the country but also accolades across beyond the borders that she was recently rewarded for being hardworking First Lady in America.
“Our First Lady is not new to any of us, is there anyone who doesn’t know her?” Mavhima asked.
But a section of the villagers said they did not know her.
“We don’t know her…” some villagers who were part of the programme responded, back leaving Mavhima amazed.
The First Lady however had a few words for the women who said they did not know her.
“I think those who said they did not know me are the newly married ones in this area because this is my community and I have worked for this community for a very long time.
“I can take those who did not know me as my new daughters-in-law who must start performing their customary duties and bring some water for me as their mother-in-law,” she said, tongue-in-cheek.
“You may be new in the area where you are married but where you come from you are taught manners to recognise and respect your mother-in-law and father-in-law,” she said.
Auxillia Mnangagwa, was early this year left with egg on her face when she was booed by a crowd of bystanders in Masvingo central business district.
The incident happened as she entered and exited a supermarket in the city.
She had visited Masvingo to assess the drugs situation at Masvingo General Hospital in her role as an ambassador for the Ministry of Health and Child Care.
Last week, Mrs Mnangagwa was turned into another mockery when ruling party members snubbed her Family Fun Day at Chipadze Stadium in Bindura.
The event was marred by low attendance, amid fears that the event could have fallen victim to Zanu PF factional fights for control of Mashonaland Central province.
The programme, which had been scheduled to start at 10am, started three hours later with mostly schoolchildren and a few bussed Zanu PF supporters in attendance,
allafrica.com|Daviz Simango, the leader and presidential candidate of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), has claimed that he can solve, within 90 days, the problem of the self-styled “Renamo Military Junta”.
The Junta is a breakaway from the main opposition party, Renamo, which claims Renamo leader Ossufo Momade is “a traitor”, and does not recognise the peace agreement he signed with President Filipe Nyusi on 6 August. The Junta claims that its leader, Mariano Nhongo, is the true President of Renamo.
Gunmen loyal to the Junta are believed to have carried out a series of ambushes against vehicles in the central provinces of Manica and Sofala.
Speaking in Beira, at a rally marking the end of his election campaign, Simango criticised the Nyusi-Momade agreement, claiming that it did not take into account the integration of Renamo’s armed men back into society
“Our brothers need to be integrated”, he said. “It is not enough to sign agreements just for the sake of signing them. If the MDM wins the elections we shall solve the problem of those men within 90 days”.
He said that the MDM, once in government, will also work to bring to an end the lengthy and contorted process of fixing pensions for veterans of the independence war, and other demobilised troops. “The MDM will not discriminate against anybody”, pledged Simango.
He attacked what he called “the bad policies of the government in education, health and agriculture”, stressing that, if the MDM is victorious, it will prioritise those sectors, since they form “the triangular base for the country’s development”.
In education, he said, the problem persists of children studying in the open air, or in classrooms built out of flimsy materials. In many cases, the children in these classrooms have no desks and sit on the floor.
Teachers, he said, work under extremely difficult conditions. “We want to improve the living and working conditions of teachers, of health staff, and of public employees in general”, said Simango.
He claimed there is still no real democracy in Mozambique, because “there is a great deal of exclusion of various kinds”
“The MDM will work to ensure opportunities for all, on all fronts of economic and social life”, Simango pledged.
Paul Nyathi|Polling opened across Mozambique on Tuesday, with 13 million voters registered to cast ballots in presidential, parliamentary, and provincial elections seen as key to consolidating peace in the southern African nation.
A ceasefire was signed in August between the government and the opposition Renamo rebels after years of skirmishes following a civil war, and acceptance of the election results is a key test of the agreement.
The ruling Frelimo party, which has governed since Mozambique’s independence from Portugal in 1975, is expected to be returned to power and President Felipe Nyusi, who voted as polls opened, is expected to win a second term in a vote where insecurity and political tensions might keep some people from the polls.
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Renamo’s candidate and new leader Ossufo Momade is expected to benefit from Renamo’s popularity, particularly in the countryside. Also seeking the presidency is opposition MDM candidate Daviz Simango, who is mayor of Beira city, which suffered badly in the devastating Cyclone Idai earlier this year.
The southern African nation of nearly 30 million people on the Indian Ocean was hit by Cyclone Idai which also hit eastern Zimbabwe and, weeks later, Cyclone Kenneth, raising fears about what climate change would bring to the country’s sprawling coastline in the decades to come.
Insecurity also poses a threat. At least 10 polling centers were not opening in northernmost Cabo Delgado province as Mozambique’s election authority said it cannot guarantee safety from attacks by shadowy Islamic extremists. That means some 5,400 people will not be able to vote.
More than 400 people have been killed by the insurgents over the past two years.
Vote counting will start after polls close at 6 p.m. local time and preliminary results are expected Wednesday, with full provisional results before the end of the week.
A runoff similar to the one provided for under Zimbabwean laws will be held if no presidential candidate wins a majority of the vote.
For the first time Mozambicans are also electing provincial governors, a key concession to Renamo. Previously all governors were appointed by the ruling party.
In 10 of the country’s 11 provinces, the governor will be the lead candidate of the party or list which wins the most votes in the provincial assembly election. Maputo, the 11th province and the capital, is both a city and a province and it was decided not to add a governor to the elected mayor.
However, Frelimo has established a new management layer, a provincial secretary of state, which will be appointed by the president and take on many of the powers that governors have had up to now.
Zimbabwe in its capacity as chair of Sadc’s Organ on Politics Defence and Security leads the regional body’s observer mission to oversee the elections.
Defence and War Veterans, Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri is the leader of the SEOM to Mozambique during the period 2nd to 22 October 2019 as mandated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is chairing the SADC organ.
Paul Nyathi|South African Law lecturer and Helen Suzman Foundation researcher Arvitha Doodnath, who led a campaign destined to President Cyril Ramaphosa against gender violence at the Vaal University of Technology, was shot dead in Johannesburg at the weekend.
Doodnath, who started the campaign after last month’s killing of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana, was killed on Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkview, near the Johannesburg Zoo, on Saturday night in a suspected hijacking. Her car, a Ford Figo, was found at the scene.
The 30-year-old was on her way home from a dancing event at the Hindu Temple in Mayfair, Johannesburg.
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) on Monday said its workers were devastated by the murder of one of its fellows.
Law lecturer at Vaal University of Technology Arvitha Doodnath was found dead inside her car in Parktown on Saturday in what appeared to be an attempted hijacking. Doodnath was a research fellow at the HSF. Police were investigating a case of murder.
HSF director Francis Antonie said Arvitha joined the foundation as a legal researcher in 2015, and her passion for health policy reform quickly saw her take over the HSF’s health desk.
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Paul Nyathi|President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s immediate next rival, G40 leader, Saviour Kasukuwere has charmed South African ANC supporters after he led the singing of Jacob Zuma made popular song Umshini Wami.
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The self exiled former Cabinet Minister charmed members of South Africa’s African National Congress during a Robert Mugabe lecture series which was delivered by former President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Mhlanganyelwa Zuma recently.
After the lecture, Kasukuwere took to the podium and sang Zuma’s signature song Umshini Wami.
Kasukuweere and Patrick Zhuwao have been instrumental in keeping the memory of Mugabe alive by organising lecture series in South Africa. The initial one was organised by the Economic Freedom Fighters and delivered by Julius Sello Malema.
Paul Nyathi|An undated video has surfaced on social media showing a long convoy of ZANU PF branded all-terrain vehicles queuing for fuel.
Team Pachedu, a social media group of activists critical of the government has questioned how the ruling party owns more cars than ambulances at the country’s hospitals.
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a murder suspect on their wanted persons list moments before his release from prison for another crime after discovering that he had been in jail while they searched for him thinking he was on the run.
The suspect skipped the country in 2013 after allegedly brutally killing a security guard at a flea market in the city centre with two other accomplices who are now serving life sentences.
Ignatius Mehluli Mhlanga (25) allegedly killed Vengai Murisi with Timothy Mathema and Isaac Nyakurerwa.
They brutally attacked him at his work place at a flea market by tying his hands, legs and neck using a wire coat hanger before strangling him to death using a jacket draw-string.
Mathema (30) and Nyakurerwa (35) were sentenced to life in prison for murder with actual intent and they implicated Mhlanga who had fled to South Africa.
Mhlanga was on the run for six years but came back to the country and was arrested and jailed for nine months for another robbery he committed upon his return.
However, police continued to search for him for killing the security guard while he was in fact in prison serving time for the robbery charge.
Mhlanga was arrested on Saturday at Bulawayo Prison moments before being released from jail after serving nine months for the robbery.
Bulawayo acting police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube yesterday confirmed Mhlanga’s arrest.
“The suspect together with two other accomplices allegedly killed a security guard at a flea market in 2013. His co-accused were arrested and sentenced to life in prison. The accused skipped the country to South Africa where he stayed and returned recently when his mother fell ill,” he said.
Insp Ncube did not provide the exact time when Mhlanga returned to the country.
He said during the time he was in the country, Mhlanga committed a robbery crime and was sentenced to nine months in prison.
“During the time he was serving in prison, police got a tip off that he was part of the trio that allegedly killed a security guard in 2013 before he skipped the country for South Africa. He was arrested on Saturday at Bulawayo Prison and was charged with murder and armed robbery,” said Insp Ncube.
“His arrest should serve as a strong reminder to criminals that the long arm of the law will catch up with you no matter how far you run. You can run but certainly you can’t hide forever.”
In convicting Mathema and Nyakurerwa last year, Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese said the two had killed Murisi in a callous manner and should be permanently removed from society.
“The deceased was brutally killed by the accused persons in furtherance of a crime of robbery. Under normal circumstances the two deserved capital punishment since the murder was committed in aggravating circumstances. However, this court notes that Mathema was affected by anti-social disorder at the time of commission of the offence,” ruled Justice Makonese.
“The accused persons must be permanently removed from society in order to make our society safer. For this heinous crime, the accused persons are accordingly sentenced to life imprisonment,” Justice Makonese.
NewsDay|A GROUPING of civic groups, under the banner Matabeleland Collective (MC), has threatened to disrupt nurse training lessons at Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to force government to address reports of unfair recruitment of student nurses at the two institutions.
This comes amid reports that at Mpilo, 20 out of the 24 trainee nurses recruited last week were not from Matabeleland. The same reads for United Bulawayo Hospitals where only four out of the 27 nurse trainees are from Matabeleland.
Mpilo clinical director Solwayo Ngwenya, who also heads the school of nursing, reportedly claimed that the selection process was done in Harare after the introduction of an online nurses’ application portal.
The MC said the move by the Health ministry flies in the face of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s promises, as outlined in the implementation matrix produced after the March engagement at the Bulawayo State House.
Mnangagwa, under the social services cluster, pledged to ensure that government devolves such processes by giving locals first preference in job training or in filling vacant posts.
“MC pledges to shut down some of these training centres if government does not intervene to reverse these unfair practices from these nursing training institutions. MC also urges government to immediately implement devolution of power in order to curb these unfair structural practices that favour other regions over the other,” the MC said in a statement.
On Sunday, Vice-President Kembo Mohadi, while promising redress, condemned the questionable nurse training recruitment at Mpilo and UBH.
“We are not happy and as government, we will address this issue. Government policy is that the recruitment must be done equitably. We don’t want bias in that regard.
“We are going to look into it so that it is rectified,” Mohadi said after a de-briefing on the issue by Bulawayo Metropolitan Affairs minister Judith Ncube at Zanu PF’s Bulawayo Davies Hall provincial offices. Ncube last week also threatened to force the reversal of the “unfair” nurse trainee selection process.
Full Statement By The Collective:
Matabeleland Collective Press Statement on tribal recruitment of student nurses in Matabeleland.
Matabeleland Collective strongly condemns the unfair, tribal motivated recruitment of student nurses at Brunapeg, Mangwe, Gwanda, only one student at St Lukes, over 95 % of student nurses at Mpilo School of Nursing and is disappointed and taken aback by glaring Institutionalised Discrimination in the Ministry of Health and Child Care.
Matebeleland Collective is shocked by findings revealed by the Chronicle Newspaper that UBH only recruited one student each from Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South but 10 from Harare. Only four are from Bulawayo and Midlands also contributed.“St Anne’s Hospital in Brunapeg, Mangwe recruited no students from Matabeleland South or North provinces. Gwanda hospital also in the same region recruited zero students from Matabeleland South where it is located just like St Luke’s Hospital. The mission hospital in Lupane only got one student from Matabeleland North,”
Matebeleland Collective calls for an investigation for this scandal that was also confirmed by Mpilo clinical director Dr Solwayo Ngwenya who also heads the school of nursing confirmed that this time around, the selection and interviews were done from Harare and none of them from Mpilo of Nursing was consulted. He told state owned Chronicle Newspaper of 06 October 2019 that they received the 24 names of the student nurses who started on Monday and all these were a recommendation from the head office in Harare.
The move by the Ministry of Health and Child Care also flies in the face of what President Mnangagwa promised in the Implementation Matrix produced at the 21 March engagement meeting. The Head of State in number 9 – Social Services pledged to ensure that his government will devolve government processes by prioritising local businesses in the awarding of local tenders and GIVING LOCALS FIRST PREFERENCE WHEN FILING POSITIONS”
This is also a violation of:
Section 3 (f) recognition of the equality of all human beings (Founding Principles),
Section 13 (4) “The State must ensure that local communities benefit from the resources in their areas.”
Section 18 (2) reads” The State and all institutions and agencies of the State and government at every level must take practical measures to ensure that all local communities have equitable access to resources to promote their development.”
Section 56 (3) Every person has the right not to be treated in an unfairly discriminatory manner on such grounds as their nationality, race, colour, tribe, place of birth, ethnic or social origin, language, class, religious belief, political affiliation, opinion, custom, culture, sex, gender, marital status, age, pregnancy, disability or economic or social status, or whether they were born in or out of wedlock.”
Section 264 (d) to recognise the right of communities to manage their own affairs and to further their development; (e) “To ensure the equitable sharing of local and national resources;..”
Matabeleland Collective pledges to shutdown some of these training centres if government does not intervene to reverse these unfair practice from these nursing training institutions. Matabeleland Collective also urges government to immediately implement devolution of power in order to curb these unfair structural practices that favour other regions over the other.”
Matebeleland Collective also invite legislators and other political players from this region to take note of such divisive actions/ discrepancies and assist in the broader collective to nip them in the bud.”
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State Media|The ruling ZANU PF party says that it has finalised arrangements for the October 25 SADC initiated anti sanctions day where they will hold marches throughout the country against sanctions imposed on some ZANU PF leaders by the Western countries.
Harare hosting the biggest protest that will culminate at the National Sports Stadium where President Mnangagwa is expected to give an address.
After President Mnangagwa’s address, there will be a soccer match between some of the biggest football clubs in the country, and an all-night musical gala where top musicians will perform.
The events follow the declaration of October 25 by SADC as solidarity day against the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, with member states pledging to conduct various activities in their own countries to resoundingly call for the immediate removal of the embargo.
Director of Media Services in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Dr Anywhere Mutambudzi said yesterday that all was set for the day.
“The march will start at the Africa Unity Square where people from all walks of life are expected to start gathering as early as 6am, they will then embark on the march around 8am heading to the National Sports Stadium,” he said.
“We expect that other people who will not be able to join the march from the city centre will make their way from their areas to the stadium for this important event.”
Dr Mutambudzi said other activities around the anti-sanctions day will include a schools competition in poetry and drama on the theme of the removal of the sanctions.
He said academic papers will also be presented as part of the call against the sanctions.
“We are calling on musicians and artists to join a competition for composing the best anti-sanctions song that will get a prize,” said Dr Mutambudzi.
Source: State Media
Paul Nyathi|President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a battalion of advisers says that he has only just recently discovered that just about ten percent of graduates produced at the country’s institutions of Higher Education are absorbed into formal employment.
Accordingly, Mnangagwa has asked his lieutenants to organise probably the most hostile gathering he will ever have, where he has instructed the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare to call for an indaba between him and the unemployed graduates.
The Deputy Minister of Public Service Labour and Social Welfare Lovemore Matuke confirmed the development.
“We have been sent by the President to compile a database for unemployed graduates countrywide.
“The President has realised that every year he goes around capping graduates at tertiary institutions, but only about 10 percent manage to secure employment.
“Now we are coming up with a programme around Zimbabwe of mobilising graduates from certificate level to honours degrees from all tertiary institutions,” said Deputy Minister Matuke.
He said the programme will be held on Thursday.
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State Media|Government has made considerable progress in implementing reforms under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), especially on the alignment of laws, currency reforms and infrastructure development, setting the stage for economic rebound from next year.
This was said by Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube in a document titled, “Key milestones and progress on policy reforms”.
“Implementation of reforms outlined in the TSP is on course, with notable milestones on fiscal consolidation, monetary policy restoration, liberalisation of the foreign exchange market, structural and governance reforms, re-engagement, investment promotion and support for the productive sectors.
“These reforms are at different levels of implementation, but all present a strong foundation for economic rebound in 2020 and beyond,” said Prof Ncube.
He said Government recognises the importance of transforming governance systems including the rule of law, freedoms of expression and association, respect for human and property rights, and zero tolerance to corruption, among others.
Prof Ncube said progress has been made in the areas of aligning laws to the Constitution, with 159 laws out of 206 having been aligned.
The process is aimed at guaranteeing constitutional provisions, fundamental rights and freedoms.
Further, Government has set up and operationalised all independent constitutional commissions mandated to promote good governance.
The commissions are Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, National Peace and Reconciliation Commission, National Prosecuting Authority, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Zimbabwe Gender Commission, Zimbabwe Land Commission, Zimbabwe Media Commission, and the Judicial Service Commission.
The 2019 Budget has allocated $202 million to the institutions “for their operations and capacitation”.
“Establishment of these commissions have seen some progress in the areas of fighting corruption with many cases now being dealt with by ZACC, robust systems for planning and executing elections as demonstrated during the 2018 harmonised general elections, reconciliation and bringing together of different political parties to discuss national issues, through the political dialogue,” said Prof Ncube.
As part of efforts to reform the political environment, the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill that repeals the Public Order and Security Act (Posa), awaits Presidential assent.
Government has also enforced the retirement policy by retiring staff that had reached 65 years and those without required qualifications, among other measures.
State Media|Government and striking doctors are now heading for arbitration following the expiration of the 48-hour ultimatum given by the Labour Court last Friday.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare yesterday, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo said the Labour Court had a provision for arbitration, which Government was now pursuing.
He said the process should be done within 14 days.
“The Labour Court ruling allows for arbitration; it makes life easy for everyone. There would be an arbitrator, who will be able to oversee negotiations.
“As part of that arbitration, we should be able to come up with results,” said Dr Moyo.
The minister said Government was still open for negotiations and hoped the arbitration process would break the deadlock.
“The process has to be completed within 14 days from the ruling. We had our team approaching the court to ensure that the process takes place, so this is the best form of negotiation for both parties and I think within 14 days, this whole process should have been completed,” said Dr Moyo.
For continuity of service provision, Government has made provisional arrangements for patients to be seen at local authority health facilities.
The arrangements include beefing up stocks and associated support for the clinics to be able to attend to the overwhelming number of patients, some of whom could have otherwise been treated at central hospitals.
Dr Moyo said Government had extended the free blood policy to local authority institutions for access by pregnant mothers in need of it.
“We have planned that we will empower the hospitals belonging to local authorities, especially in Harare and Bulawayo, and give them as much support as possible because they are becoming overwhelmed,” said Dr Moyo.
Speaking at the same occasion, Health Services Board (HSB) chairperson Dr Paulinus Sikosana said
Government was hoping the junior doctors were going to take heed of the court order and resume their duties.
Meanwhile, Dr Sikosana said the 60 percent adjustment recently awarded by Government to health all workers will not reflect on today’s payslip owing to some delays in the implementation process.
“By the time the adjustments were approved, the Salaries Services Bureau (SSB) had already shut down their payroll for October. We were then advised to seek supplementary funding from Treasury.
“The adjustment will however be paid before the end of October and will not reflect on tomorrow’s (today) payslip,” said Dr Sikosana.
Doctors downed tools on September 3 citing incapacitation.
Efforts by Government to lure them back to work have been in vain as the doctors demand a salary adjustment they say should be in line with the rate of inflation.
Economic sanctions that were imposed on Zimbabwe are detrimental to economic growth as they negatively affect the living standards of its people, Zaka District war veterans leader Handei Mufundisi has said.
Addressing Zanu-PF supporters here recently, Mufundisi said it was important for every Zimbabwean to stand tall and march against illegal sanctions imposed on the country.
“As war veterans, we are appealing to the Government to make October 25 a public holiday so that everyone takes part in a solidarity march against illegal sanctions,” he said.
“The anti- sanction campaign is a very important move and we are calling for everyone to demonstrate so that the whole globe can see how Zimbabweans are being affected by these sanctions,” he said.
He described the opposition MDC-Alliance and its leaders as a misguided elements who are bent on destabilising the country’s economy and cause disharmony amongst peaceful citizens.
“There are some misdirected political elements who still want to give the white man support to suppress Zimbabweans,” he said.
“Sanctions are meant to punish us as a nation for these imperialists to take charge of the economy,” he said.State media
ZIMBABWE’S participation at the Africa Netball Championships, which get underway this Friday in Cape Town, hangs in the balance.
The national association is still to finalise logistics regarding the team’s preparations and travel arrangements.
The tournament runs until October 22 with eight countries, grouped into two pools, taking part. Zimbabwe were drawn against Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in Pool B.
Pool A features hosts South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Lesotho.
But the Zimbabwe Netball Association secretary-general, Barbara Rice, yesterday said they were not certain on the team’s preparations and travel arrangements as they were still working on the logistics.
“I will come back to you tomorrow morning (today) because we are still working on logistics,” said Rice.
It would be a sad development if the Gems, who punched above their weight to finish eighth at the Vitality Netball World Cup on their maiden appearance, miss the continental tournament.
Coach Lloyd Makunde has said he is targeting a podium finish at the event and believes they stand a good chance of making it beyond the group stages.
“On paper, the draw is the best that we could have wanted. Personally, I am very happy with the draw, so it actually increases our chances of a podium finish,” said Makunde.State media
LOCAL cricket heaved a huge sigh of relief yesterday after the International Cricket Council (ICC) reinstated Zimbabwe as a full member of the global cricket family, ending its three-month banishment.
The ICC said Zimbabwe had complied with all conditions for reinstatement, which included the reversal of the decision by the Sports Commission to suspend the ZC board.
ICC chairman Shashank Manohar was particularly impressed by the commitment by Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry.
She led a delegation that also included ZC chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani, and SRC chairman Gerald Mlotshwa.
“I would like to thank the Zimbabwe Sports Minister for her commitment to the reinstatement of Zimbabwe Cricket,’’ Manohar said.
“Her desire to work in support of Zimbabwe Cricket was clear and she has unconditionally complied with the conditions set down by the ICC Board.
“Funding to Zimbabwe Cricket will continue to be on a controlled basis as part of a collective effort behind getting the game in Zimbabwe back on an even keel.’’
Zimbabwe was suspended in July following boardroom bickering which resulted in the suspension of the ZC board by the Sports Commission on the back of a number of allegations.
The ICC ruled that the SRC were in breach of their statutes regarding “government interference” and voted unanimously to suspend Zimbabwe until the decision was reversed.
Zimbabwe national teams, players and officials were barred from taking part in all ICC sanctioned events.
Funding was also stopped.
Players, officials and staff have not received salaries since June while both men and women senior national teams were kicked out of the 2020 T20 World Cup qualifiers.State media
ZimEye is investigating the source an article that was published late last night by a Harare based journalist containing an allegation that helmets dicovered at Robinson House were within the vicinity of the MDC HQ.
We spotted this very serious error early morning just after midnight.
The seriousness of this matter is that the contents are false and misleading. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused. – Editorial Moderators
Farai Dziva|Brian Banda and Prince Dube grabbed late goals as Highlanders beat TelOne 2-0.
Bosso dominated possession for the majority of the game and created some good chances which could have broken the deadlock early.
TelOne only controlled the opening minutes of the match, forcing two corner-kicks inside the first five minutes.
The Wifi Boys drew back in the following moments when Tshilamoya came knocking on the quarter-hour through Dube who had his two successive efforts going wide.
Ray Lunga also caused problems from the right flank while Banda got an opportunity just after the half-hour mark but struck over from inside the box.
The game went to the break goalless with Highlanders on top in terms of possession.
The hosts continued to waste chances in the second half with Lunga, Dube, Adrian Silla and substitute Peter Nyirenda all lacking precision in front of the goal.
TelOne, on their side, relied on sporadic raids and they never came alive after the break.
However, as the game seemed heading for a draw, Banda fired home from inside the box to break the deadlock in the 84th minute.
Dube followed up four minutes later to kill the contest from the spot as Highlanders cruise to another victory.
Armed police have laid siege at the MDC headquarters starting early this morning in what is clearly a choreographed attempt to clamp-down on the peaceful people’s movement.
First was a story in the Zanu PF-controlled media in which the police said they had discovered anti-riot and municipal helmets at Robinson House in Harare which they are surprisingly trying to link to the party headquarters.
For the record, the MDC is a peaceful and non-violent political movement with a Constitution that clearly stipulates the peaceful manner in which the party will always prosecute its democratic struggle.
A few months ago, the police purported to have discovered catapults and stones again near the MDC headquarters. Today’s attempt is the second attempt in the past few months to link the people’s peaceful movement with a primitive, barbaric and Stone Age political script that involves stones, bricks and catapults.
The illegitimate regime is getting desperate and all these are frantic attempts to ban and proscribe legitimate political activity; just as they have done with peaceful demonstrations. For the record, we are a peaceful, law-abiding political party that poses no danger to human life. Available evidence points to the fact that in the past 12 months, it is the Mnangagwa regime that has killed people, both in August 2018 and in January 2019 and the perpetrators have not been brought to book.
It is this regime that poses a threat to the safety of citizens and any attempt to implicate the MDC will not wash. Zimbabweans know that it is Zanu PF that is violent and it is Zanu PF that has a blood-soaked history.
Instead of clamping down on prices, a deteriorating economy, unemployment and power and fuel shortages, the ED regime has thought it prudent to clamp down on a legitimate political party going about its business.
MDC@20: Celebrating courage, growth and the people’s victories.
Luke Tamborinyoka
Deputy National Spokesperson
Farai Dziva|The MDC has described claims that the police discovered old helmets near Morgan Tsvangirai House as a desperate attempt by government to stop the struggle for democracy.
Below is the party’s full statement :
Armed police have laid siege at the MDC headquarters starting early this morning in what is clearly a choreographed attempt to clamp-down on the peaceful people’s movement.
First was a story in the Zanu PF-controlled media in which the police said they had discovered anti-riot and municipal helmets at Robinson House in Harare which they are surprisingly trying to link to the party headquarters.
For the record, the MDC is a peaceful and non-violent political movement with a Constitution that clearly stipulates the peaceful manner in which the party will always prosecute its democratic struggle.
A few months ago, the police purported to have discovered catapults and stones again near the MDC headquarters.
Today’s attempt is the second attempt in the past few months to link the people’s peaceful movement with a primitive, barbaric and Stone Age political script that involves stones, bricks and catapults.
The illegitimate regime is getting desperate and all these are frantic attempts to ban and proscribe legitimate political activity; just as they have done with peaceful demonstrations. For the record, we are a peaceful, law-abiding political party that poses no danger to human life. Available evidence points to the fact that in the past 12 months, it is the Mnangagwa regime that has killed people, both in August 2018 and in January 2019 and the perpetrators have not been brought to book.
It is this regime that poses a threat to the safety of citizens and any attempt to implicate the MDC will not wash. Zimbabweans know that it is Zanu PF that is violent and it is Zanu PF that has a blood-soaked history.
Instead of clamping down on prices, a deteriorating economy, unemployment and power and fuel shortages, the ED regime has thought it prudent to clamp down on a legitimate political party going about its business.
MDC@20: Celebrating courage, growth and the people’s victories.
Luke Tamborinyoka
Deputy National Spokesperson
Zivanai Nyikavanhu
The Weakness of the rising Opposition Groupings.
‘Dictators like Mnangagws are impervious to reason. The only voice a dictator like him listens to is his own voice.
Political repression is an effective weapon in the hands of Zimbabwe despots.
Opposition parties are either outlawed or accorded very little political leeway. Key opposition leaders are arrested, intimidated and even killed.
Cowed into submission, some intellectuals in the opposition tend to switch camps. In other words, they become political prostitutes eg (Khupe). Though highly educated with PhDs, a multitude of them have sold off their consciences, integrity and principles as they kowtow to the diktats of barbarous dictators.
As prostitutes, they have partaken of the plunder, misrule and repression of their people’,
A dictator is a dictator. “The only good dictator is a dead one like Mugabe”.
The crux of my argument in this article is that Zimbabweans and other people chaffing under the yoke of despotism should steer clear of confusing ideological with systemic dictatorship -dictatorship that emerges from faulty institutions and systems. Any political system that concentrates power in the hands of one person, will inevitably degenerate into a dictatorship same like what ZanuPf is doing in our country. The culprit is the system—not ideology or culture.
“It takes an intelligent or smart opposition party or leader to make a democracy work”, not the pamberi – pamberina noisy type that simply chants ‘ ED or Chiwenga or Mohadi or ZanuPf must go!’. Dictators have triumphed mainly because the opposition parties are fragmented, lack focus and prone to squabbling.
All too often, opposition parties that set out to liberate their countries from tyranny wind up selling out, fighting among themselves, and sowing seeds of discord.
Some opposition leaders are themselves closet dictators, exhibiting the same dictatorial tendencies they so loudly den.
By Jeffryson Murisi David Chitando
Ian Douglas Smith was under sanctions and for your information he was only able to travel to two countries namely Malawi and South Africa.
Smith’s Rhodesian dollar and economy for all those years he was under economic sanctions grew to be one of the strongest in Africa.In fact the Rhodesia dollar was at one time trading 1:1 with the British pound and 1: 2 to the American dollar on the exchange rate .
One wonders what’s wrong with the so called sanctions on Zanu PF leaders as they are allowed to globetrotte.Its said they just close their eyes and point on the world map ,any country which or place they touch is their next 24 hour destination.
One is baffled by the fact that they are able to travel daily but the local currency is at its weakest in living memory.
Why can’t Zanu PF apply to the International community to put us under Ian Smith type of sanctions rather than these?During Smith we rarely heard of price hikes!We only knew the country had fuel problems but not to this levels.Doctors would not strike for salary increments. Teachers and others civil servants would not threaten to strike daily.
Mnangagwa must admit that he has failed .If we are to compare Ian Smith managed the economy far much better than Mnangagwa.
Farai Dziva|Econet has hiked tariffs again
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Farai Dziva|The former First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe is set to lose part of the Blue Roof yard.
According to Daily News, the High Court ordered Grace to surrender part of her Blue Roof yard.
The Sherriff reportedly issued Grace with a warrant of ejection that she should surrender the property she is holding onto by Wednesday.
The warrant of ejection sent to Grace on 4 October reads:
Now therefore you are required and directed to eject … all persons claiming through it, its goods and possessions from and out of all occupation and possession whatsoever of the said premises, and to leave the same, to the end that the said Farai Nigel Chitsinde and Nyasha Amanda Chitsinde duly represented by Constance Tsitsi Chitsinde may peaceably enter into and possess the same, and for so doing this shall be your warrant.
Farai Dziva|The former First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe has been ordered to surrender part of her Blue Roof property by Wednesday.
According to Daily News, the High Court ordered Grace to surrender part of her Blue Roof yard.
The Sherriff reportedly issued Grace with a warrant of ejection that she should surrender the property she is holding onto by Wednesday.
The warrant of ejection sent to Grace on 4 October reads:
Now therefore you are required and directed to eject … all persons claiming through it, its goods and possessions from and out of all occupation and possession whatsoever of the said premises, and to leave the same, to the end that the said Farai Nigel Chitsinde and Nyasha Amanda Chitsinde duly represented by Constance Tsitsi Chitsinde may peaceably enter into and possess the same, and for so doing this shall be your warrant.
By A Correspondent- In a development likely to inspire changes in the proposed Marriages Bill that seeks to have unregistered customary law unions itemised, a High Court judge has called for a countrywide database of married individuals to reduce bigamy.
Bigamy occurs when a legally married person enters into a second marriage contract with another without dissolving the first.
Currently, individuals wishing to marry are required to provide passport size colour photographs of their images and fingerprints to discourage bigamy.
However, Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba said this was not enough in this era of technology.
She said there was nothing that prohibited the Registrar of Marriages from having a real-time online database for all married persons.
“Every marriage officer must be mandated to search the database whether or not the person intending to marry is free from other legal impediments,” said Justice Chirawu-Mugomba.
“Additionally, or alternatively, every person who intends to marry must produce a certificate of ‘present status’ obtained from the Registrar of Marriages as a form of clearance.”
The judge made the remarks while handing down judgment in the case in which a widow, Ms Susan Mobape, was suing Master of the High Court Mr Manyadzwa Kamuchira N.O. and Ms Cynthia Chaitezvi, over maintenance from the deceased estate.
Justice Chirawu-Mugomba’s remarks come against the backdrop of the proposed Marriages Bill and even proposed criminal sanctions for those found lying under oath.
She said the Registrar of Marriages could also consider obtaining affidavits from intending spouses declaring that they are nor married to anyone else under customary law (including unregistered customary law unions) or general law in addition to a certificate of present status.
“Those found to have lied under oath about their marital status must face the wrath of the law,” the judge said. “Perhaps these measures will reduce the number of bigamous marriages.”
Ms Mobape had approached the High Court seeking a review of the Master of High Court’s decision to dismiss her application for maintenance in the estate of her late husband Lovemore Mobape.
The Master of High Court threw out Ms Mobape application on the basis that she lacked the required legal footing in terms of Section 2 of the Deceased Persons Family Maintenance Act.
She was asking for a combined US$1 380 maintenance to cover herself for groceries, salaries for drivers, two security workers, church meetings, car maintenance and licensing fees.
The couple had lived together as husband and wife for 42 years under unregistered customary law union until the demise of the former in November 2017.
During the subsistence of their unregistered customary law marriage the couple had founded a church, New Gospel Church of God. But at the time of his death, Mr Mobape was still married to Ms Chaitezvi under civil law (Marriage Act (Chapter 5: 11).
The Master of the High Court had ruled that Ms Mobape was not entitled to an award of maintenance from the deceased estate in question.
In her ruling, Justice Chirawu-Mugomba upheld the decision by the Master of High Court saying Ms Mobape was not qualified to be a dependent in the estate of the deceased.
“In the final analysis, the applicant (Ms Mobape) has failed to show that she is dependent as contemplated in Section 2 of the Deceased Persons Family Maintenance Act,” she said.
Justice Chirawu-Mugomba directed the registrar of the High Court to distribute her judgment to the attention of the Master of the High Court, executive secretary of the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ)and chairperson of the Estate Administrators Council of Zimbabwe as well as the registrar of marriages.
-StateMedia
By Wilbert Mukori- Up to now, many Zimbabweans have not fully appreciated the negative role the country’s opposition politicians have played in our struggle to end the Zanu PF dictatorship.
It is pleasing to note that many people are now opening their eyes and asking the opposition leaders the hard questions.
“You attended the funeral of former President Robert Mugabe, a man you spent half your life fighting, but at the funeral wake, you spoke glowingly about him, what motivated you?” asked NewsDay senior reporter, Blessed Mhlanga.
“Well, opposition was not to Robert Mugabe the person, but opposition was to the politics of Zanu-PF and Mugabe merely happened to be the leader of the party,” came the feeble reply from Professor Lovemore Madhuku, leader National Constitutional Assembly (NCA). “We were making a distinction between Mugabe the person and the Zanu-PF system that was led by Mugabe.”
Each time Madhuku opens his mouth, he has left no one in any doubt that he is a sell-out, a dimwitted sell-out at that!
The only political dialogue that counted for anything is the elections.
Madhuku cannot deny that Mnangagwa did not keep his promise to hold free, fair and credible elections.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Election Observer Mission final report.
“Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
ZEC failed to produce something as basic a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake. A verified voters’ roll is a legal and common sense requirement. How anyone; much less a candidate contesting the elections, to say nothing of the said candidate being a Law Professor as is the case with Madhuku; would participate in an election in which they do not know who is on the voters’ roll and so cannot trace and verify anything, beggars belief!
The only rational reason why Nelson Chamisa, Lovemore Madhuku and all the other 20 presidential candidates, the 130 political parties, and God knows how many independent candidates participated in the flawed and illegal elections last year is greed. They all knew that Mnangagwa and Zanu PF would rigged the elections but they also knew the party would give away a number gravy train seats as bait to entice the opposition to participate.
Worse still, the opposition knew that by participating in the flawed and illegal elections they gave the process the modicum of credibility, as David Coltart, MDC senator, readily admitted in his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the (2013) elections,” explained Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
Of course, Nelson Chamisa and his MDC party, Lovemore Madhuku and NCA party and all the other opposition candidates who participated in last year’s flawed and illegal elections sold-out. As long as Zanu PF news there are sell-out like Chamisa, Madhuku, etc. who will participate in elections even if the ZEC fails to produce something as basic as a voters’ roll Zimbabwe will never ever have free, fair and credible elections.
And without free, fair and credible elections, the country will never ever have a competent and accountable government.
“Of late, you have been accused of dinning with Zanu-PF, the party you have fought against all these years. This has seen some people describing you as a sell-out. Can you comment?” Blessed Mhlanga followed up, driving the point home.
“I don’t know what is meant by dining with them, but I am sure you are referring to being in Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD). It is not about dining with anyone. POLAD is a national dialogue process where political players come together to debate issues to do with Zimbabwe; that is nothing to do with Zanu-PF,” came the reply.
It is parliament that should conduct all national dialogue and not for some extra numeral body like POLAD with no legal basis or power to discuss anything. By participating in flawed and illegal elections the opposition has made it impossible for the nation to elect competent leaders as president, MP, senator, etc. and are offering the superfluous POLAD to govern!
So we are have an opposition busy destroying democracy and replacing it with autocracy and we are expected to view that as progress. How nauseating!
Zimbabwe has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for the last 40 years because the party rigged elections. How much longer Zimbabwe sell-out opposition’s political credibility will last!
“Kana muonde wodonhedza mashizhe, chirimo chazvika!” (When the fig tree start shedding its leaves, it is autumn!) as one would say in Shona.
People are now openly calling Madhuku, Chamisa et al “sell-outs”; proof the opposition’s political credibility is wearing thin and fast.
Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections rendering the regime illegitimate. Mnangagwa’s legitimacy is still a big issue because he has failed to sell the election as credible process because the opposition was not credible!
By A Correspondent- A report has claimed that government is aware of clandestine plans by rogue opposition activists and the civil society to infiltrate and capitalise on the anti-sanctions campaign scheduled for October 25 to engage in criminal activities.
Speaking during a Zanu-PF rally at Stanley Square in Bulawayo’s Makokoba suburb yesterday, Vice President Kembo Mohadi said police will be deployed in numbers to maintain law and order and ensure public safety during the march.
“As Government, we have got information that there are covert plans by some members from the opposition and the civil society who want to take advantage and infiltrate. In fact, they want to engage in acts of violence and looting shops like what happened in January. It is therefore important for police to be ready and they should be out in full force to deal with such elements,” he said.
Sadc has declared October 25 as the solidarity day against illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe and resolved to conduct various activities in their respective countries on the day to resoundingly call for the immediate removal of the sanctions.
Zanu-PF national political commissar Cde Victor Matemadanda said the party has lined up a number of programmes to accommodate all political parties.
VP Mohadi said the United States, the UK and their allies imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe because of the land reform programme.
“We took back our land because it is our wealth. The land is the anchor of our nationhood and that is why we repossessed our land, which is why the British decided to impose sanctions against us,” he said.
“As long we are still there as your leaders, we will overcome the sanctions because we liberated this country without any help from the West. I therefore urge the people of Zimbabwe to be patient because I know we have so many doubting Thomases. We are going to turn around this economy whether they like it or not on our own volition.”
VP Mohadi said the Government has started engaging and re-engaging other countries to drive the economy in line with President Mnangagwa’s Vision 2030 of achieving an upper middle-income status.
“Things are going to change economically because through our re-engagement and engagement efforts we are raking in billions through foreign investments hence we want every citizen to live a better life by 2030. We want our per capita to be at least US$1 000 or more a month and we are going to do that. We have got all the plans in place to achieve that,” he said.
VP Mohadi said the Government anticipates to rake in US$12 billion from the mining sector in the next four years.
He said the Government is aware of the plight of citizens and efforts were underway to address economic challenges.
He urged Zimbabweans to unite and shun tribalism, saying Zimbabwe is a unitary State under one flag and National Anthem.
-StateMedia
By A Correspondent- National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku (LM) has justified why his party joined POLAD arguing that opposition parties should engage new tact in fighting Zanu Pf.
Said Madhuku in an interview with a local publication:
“The system has to be fought and we continue to fight it, but we have to change the methods. So there are people who are totally lost when they look at us adopting a different method as if we have given up. Why would we give up? We have created massive movements.
Those in MDC Alliance believe that the person who is fighting for democracy is the person in the MDC Alliance. That is nonsense. What you have to take into account is what are people doing in their various stations. When we fought against Zanu PF, we were fighting against one-party domination and we will also fight against a two-party domination.
Domination and oppression does not change because you have increased the number of players. Where I stand, I am contributing to a situation where we have a real genuine multi-party environment of more than three parties.”
— NewsDay
By A Correspondent- The government has come under fire for allegedly awarding magistrates with large salaries and allowances when health workers are on strike over paltry salaries and poor working conditions.
For some analysts including Alex Magaisa, a former adviser to the late Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, increasing salaries and allowances of members of the judiciary at this particular moment in time is indicative of a government that does not care about the health sector. Magaisa posted on Twitter saying:
Revelations that government clandestinely awarded magistrates hefty wage increases as opposed to its treatment of doctors & other civil servants are signs of a desperate & paranoid regime which is obsessed with buying justice & preparing for repression.
The regime doesn’t care much for doctors & nurses because the leadership does not use the local health system. But it needs the magistrates on its side because they are in charge of the justice system. It’s typical of authoritarian regimes to want to capture the justice system.
Doctors have been on strike since the 3rd of September this year asking the employer to increase their salaries which they say were eroded by inflation long ago.
Nurses have also joined the strike also citing incapacitation.
-NewsDay
By A Correspondent- A Harare woman got the shock of her life after she discovered that she was registered as dead at the registrar general’s office.
The woman, identified as Mirriam whose identity was reportedly stolen by one Innocent Chitauro, who works in the Defence ministry after he processed his late wife’s death certificate using the woman’s identity card narrated to ZimEye how the development had left her traumatised
She revealed that she discovered this when she visited the registrar general’s office seeking to renew her passport. She also said she is currently without any identity documents as her national ID and birth certificate were with held at the registrar general’s office pending investigations.
Said Mirriam, while narrating her ordeal to ZimEye:
“The man who processes his wife’s death certificate using my name is called Innocent Chitauro of 2323 St Marys in Chitungwiza and he works in the ministry of Defence. Chitauro is currently stationed in Gutu. The deceased woman was named Pauline Dzakata who died on March 20 2010 and she reportedly died at Chitungwiza General Hospital.
She was reportedly buried in Makoni district, Rusape under Chief Tandi. On the death certificate there is a phone number belonging to one Alice Manjera who revealed that she is based in Masvingo.
The death certificate bearing my name was issued at Makoni registry offices in Chitungwiza.
Innocent Chitauro is busy enjoying his life after he ruined my life by stealing my identity to process his wife’s death certificate. The same for his dead wife who is resting in peace while i am suffering to reclaim my stolen identity.
I want to know why they did this to me…but before that i want my identity back.”
watch the video loading below for the full details of how Mirriam discovered that she was “dead”.
By A Correspondent- A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) sergeant stationed with the Masvingo Provincial Legal Services is on the run after revelations that he repeatedly rap_ed his now 16-year-old daughter since 2017.
The 36-year-old police officer, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victim, was staying at ZRP Zimuto Camp and is now understood to be now on the run.
Efforts to get a comment from Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Chief Inspector Charity Mazula were fruitless as she was said to be out of office and busy with preparations for the agricultural show.
Sources said in March 2017, the police officer rap_ed the girl at their one-roomed Rujeko lodgings after her mother went to their rural home, leaving her and her younger sibling in the care of their father.
The police officer went on to rap_e his daughter six more times on different occasions between April and May 2017, all the time threatening the victim against revealing the abuse to anybody.
During the previous school holidays (August 2019) the girl’s mother again went to the rural areas and left the victim with her father at their Zimuto Camp house where they now stayed.
The cop then asked the girl to accompany him to fetch some firewood in the bush along the Masvingo-Mutare Road where he rap_ed her again.
The victim, however, gathered enough courage this time around and revealed the abuses to her two uncles who stay at 4 Brigade army barracks but again cannot be named here to protect the identity of the victim.
A police case under RRB Number 4150566 has since been opened against the offending officer and the victim was referred to Masvingo Provincial Hospital for medical examination.
A few weeks ago, another senior police officer who stayed at Phoenix Base fled after many years of rap_ing his step-daughter who is still in secondary school.
-TellZim
By A Correspondent| Mitchel Chibwe, a man who reportedly bought the recently discovered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) helmets has allegedly finished a meeting with the police.
Reports suggest that the police on Monday 14 October had seized opposition MDC Headquarters, Morgan Tsvangirai House formerly Harvest House) over the matter since the Robinson House where the helmets were discovered is within the HQ’s vicinity.
Posting on Twitter, Kudzai Rangarirai a lawyer who is representing Chibwe said:
Leaving Central Police now with my client Mitchel Chibwe. We had a meeting with Law and Order team in connection with 210 police helmets found at Robinson House. The meeting was cordial but too long. We started at 14:30. Mr Chibwe has not been charged and is heading home now.
Now that the so called Zimbabwe Heroes Acre has been exposed as a satanic ritual site, starting with Joshua Nkomo and uMama uMafuyane who was poisoned by Zanupf Women’ s League members, all Matabeles buried there against their will or otherwise, must be urgently exhumed and reburied in Matabeleland.
Thanks to Mugabe it has come to light that Heroes Acre is not a holy place as many are made to believe. Corpses buried there are mutilated for the purpose of harvesting body parts to be used by Zanupf top leaders to appropriate power through black magic to exercise control over the masses.
The cult cum political party, Zanupf, has been painting Zimbabwe red with human and animal blood since the days of the struggle through its blood letting rituals that involve slaughtering of human beings and animals to use blood and body parts to feed the demons in exchange of black magic generated power to control the masses. They even composed a song “Zimbabwe Ndeye Ropa” Zimbabwe was born of blood.
Regardless of this senseless and inhuman spilling blood, Zimbabwe remains a cursed country facing an imminent split that would give birth to the Republic of Matabeleland. It remains a failed state without its own currency and the blood of innocent people and animals has failed to resuscitate the economy that remains in the ICU.
These pure acts of barbarism which are imbedded in the Shona culture of witchcraft are usually performed in secrecy. But if you want to know each and every detail of them, just wait still and patiently until a fight breaks out between Shonas. Before you know it the very people who perform these bizarre rituals under the cover of darkness will run one by one to the media to reveal everything.
The disintegration of Zanupf into three political splinter groups ie NPP, NPF, ZANUPF and multiple factions that do not see eye to eye has provided the mine field to those who are patient.
Joyce Mujuru bare- breasted rituals.
It was late President Mugabe who revealed this one at the height of G40, Lacoste and Gamatox factional battles.
To boost her chances of becoming the first female President of Zimbabwe, Joyce Mujuru consulted Nigerian witch- doctors. They asked her to kill 10 chickens and these were named after top Zanupf leaders. Mugabe, Grace and Mnangagwa topped the list. The witch- doctors told Mujuru that when the chicken bearing the name of Mugabe is slaughtered, he will automatically fall to his death and the others who had their names given to chickens were to face the same fate as the birds were slaughtered. Mujuru, it is said, performed the rituals while in a semi- nude state, with her breasts uncovered. Poor Chickens died a painful death but Mugabe and others did not die and Mujuru was unceremoniously fired from Zanupf.
Zanupf keeps witch- doctors and other occultists at its party headquarters.
This juicy story came via exiled Patrick Zhuwao who wrote in his weekly column:
“Furthermore, it is important to note that liberation movements such as UNIP of Zambia, MCP of Malawi and KANU of Kenya have not been able to survive the departure of their founding fathers. In the case of ZANU PF, the violent and humiliating ouster of President Mugabe makes it even worse as explained to one Vera, whose job description at ZANU PF Headquarters includes consulting spirit mediums and the occult. The poor lady is currently grappling with how she can inform Mnangagwa that, on her latest visit to the spirit medium, he was given only five months to go”. Patrick Zhuwao, Mike Kasukuwere and Jonathan Moyo are main G40 strategists that were forced into exile after the Zimbabwe coup.
Zanla forces killed white people to extract blood to give to spirit mediums.
The commander of the first wing of Zanla known as Crocodile Gang, Enock Muteveri Sithole, once told the The Sunday News that his gang killed white people to extract fresh blood which was put in bottles which were then sealed and taken to spirit mediums.
“We were told to kill a white man touya nemusiya wake ( and extract some blood). If I have the opportunity to meet President Mnangagwa, I will tell him of certain rites that we undertook before we killed the white man. For now all what I can say is that we performed a short traditional ceremony under a certain tree in Chimanimani after bringing the white man’s blood.” said Enock Muteveri Sithole.
The above gory stories which are just a tip of the iceberg, confirm the culture of witchcraft which was brought by Shonas from Burundi where they were chased away for performing the same satanic rituals. It is the same reason that Sekuru Kaguvi, a spirit medium who killed innocent people with lightning was hanged by white colonists. The dark culture is passed from one Shona generation to another.
The above events strongly support the latest humiliating occasion where late President Mugabe refused to be buried at National Heroes Acre fearing that ritualistic Mnangagwa would remove his teeth, nails and other body parts to use them to enhance his political fortunes as well as to obtain power to control people.
We urge Matabeles who have relatives that are already buried at the Heroes Acre to exhume the bodies and rebury them in Matabeleland. They will never rest in peace as their body parts and souls are used to oppress Matabeles. No one in Matabeleland must allow their relatives to be buried at Heroes Acre as the bodies that are buried there are mutilated by Zanupf “madzura moyo”, spirit mediums and witches to run the country and oppress Matabeles.
We implore all Matabeles to unite and restore the statehood of Matabeleland and leave Shonas alone to practice witchcraft which is their special gift from the devil himself. Let them slaughter each other in the name of rituals until the whole population is wiped out, who cares Their farther in hell will reward them with political positions and riches which they value more than human life.
Izenzo kungemazwi!
MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
By A Correspondent- Eleven constables from different police stations, were last week arrested in Borrowdale while trying to extort money from a businessman they accused of illegally dealing in foreign currency and gold.
One of the 11 was on suspension for misconduct, but had just been roped in to execute the plan. The gang reportedly stormed the premises of Mr Vaya Sanjay Keshavji (48) in Borrowdale on Thursday afternoon, while driving in two unregistered vehicles.
The 11 are: Tafadzwa Chidawa (31) who is currently on suspension, Prosper Chimbumu (28), John Gwinyai Matandaware (34), Thomas Nyika (35), Archby Mano (26), Daniel Mwanadi (31), Simbarashe Ndungwa (31), Doit Kunyumbe (33), Levison Nhongo (34), Walter Mapfumo (30) and Francis Kudzai Munatswa (25).
Three of them were wearing riot police uniform while eight were in plain clothes.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he was still checking the details of the case.
Sources close to the investigations yesterday said on Thursday at around 1400 hours, the 11 teamed up and went the premises while driving in two unregistered vehicles, a Black Nissan Caravan and a cream Nissan Sunny.
They reportedly introduced themselves as officers from Harare Central operations section.
They allegedly indicated to him that they had received information that he was illegally dealing in gold and foreign currency before demanding to see documentation authorising him to operate.
It is alleged that the businessman became suspicious and told the suspects to remain at the reception before he went into his office where he alerted the police.
A reaction team comprising of a strong team from the Criminal Investigations Department and Support Unit then swooped in where they arrested the 11.
The 11 policeman contended that they had received information from Chidawa that there was a person who was dealing in ivory in the CBD. They then reacted to the information using Chidawa’s vehicle and made a follow up to the businessman’s premises.
According to police, the 11 further alleged that they demanded to carry out a search within the businessman’s premises, but they were prevented from doing so.
The matter is being investigated under case number RRB 4105407.
Police investigations established that there was no special operation of that nature and that the team had not been assigned to investigate the case. It was also established that the businessman had all the relevant papers needed to trade in gold.
The 11 are likely to be charged with extortion and face disciplinary action for the conduct.
Chidawa was stationed at ZRP Highlands, Chimbumu (ZRP Harare Central Operations), Matandaware (ZRP Harare Central Patrol Unit), Nyika (ZRP Harare Magistrates’ Court), Mano (ZRP Harare Central Operations), Mwanadi (ZRP Warren Park attached, but Harare Central Operations), Ndungwa (ZRP Harare Central Operations), Kunyumbe (ZRP Harare Central Pec Admin, but on suspension), Nhongo (ZRP Harare CBD Traffic), Mapfumo (ZRP Harare Central Operations) and Munatswa (ZRP Harare Central Patrol Unit).
Investigations are still in progress.
— StateMedia
By A Correspondent- Opposition National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku (LM), who is accused of dining with Zanu PF for financial gains, said he is working to ensure that come 2023, neither Zanu PF nor the MDC will be anywhere near the corridors of power.
Below are some of the excerpts of the interview.
ND: You attended the funeral of former President Robert Mugabe, a man you spent half your life fighting, but at the funeral wake, you spoke glowingly about him, what motivated you?
LM: Well, opposition was not to Robert Mugabe the person, but opposition was to the politics of Zanu PF and Mugabe merely happened to be the leader of the party. We were making a distinction between Mugabe the person and the Zanu PF system that was led by Mugabe.
ND: Of late, you have been accused of dinning with Zanu PF, the party you have fought against all these years. This has seen some people describing you as a sell-out. Can you comment?
LM: I don’t know what is meant by dining with them, but I am sure you are referring to being in Political Actors Dialogue (Polad). It is not about dining with anyone. Polad is a national dialogue process where political players come together to debate issues to do with Zimbabwe; that is nothing to do with Zanu PF
ND: It’s not only Polad, but you have been in the Motlanthe Commission of inquiry into the August 1, 2018 shootings, is that not dining with Zanu PF when you are getting financial benefits?
LM: There were no financial benefits in the Motlanthe Commission. The commission was very important for our country; it was the commission that found out that the army and police were responsible for killing six civilians on August 1 2018. That was a point that was made by the commission. We recommended that it should never happen again that government is irresponsible in terms of how it deals with demonstrations. We even recommended compensation, so why should the Motlanthe Commission be seen as dining with Zanu PF? The commission was the building block to the future of the country.
ND: You said you were fighting the system. Has the system shifted since Mugabe was removed as President in 2017?
LM: There is no shift, but what has changed is the method of how to deal with the system, dialogue is now the way to go. When we fought the system 15 years ago, we focused more on massive engagements and demonstrations, those things no longer work at this particular time. We need dialogue.
The system has to be fought and we continue to fight it, but we have to change the methods. So there are people who are totally lost when they look at us adopting a different method as if we have given up. Why would we give up? We have created massive movements. Those in MDC Alliance believe that the person who is fighting for democracy is the person in the MDC Alliance. That is nonsense. What you have to take into account is what are people doing in their various stations. When we fought against Zanu PF, we were fighting against one-party domination and we will also fight against a two-party domination.
Domination and oppression does not change because you have increased the number of players. Where I stand, I am contributing to a situation where we have a real genuine multi-party environment of more than three parties.
ND: Is there a new dispensation in Zimbabwe?
LM: There is no new dispensation. Currently, there is a dispensation that has been going backwards. They have gone behind what we had in the 1980s. Our current leaders are trying to learn the bad portion of their old days. The bad portion of the old days were characterised by the mysterious disappearance of people, the heavy deployment of police and army at the smallest excuse; the old days where you found people in government who had no clue on how to turn around the economy, which is what we have at the moment. We don’t have a new dispensation.
ND: What can be done to change this facade as you call it?
LM: We must invest heavily in conscientising the majority of the people. The way forward is to make people alert of our situation. Those in government still have supporters, you go into a by-election you find out that the majority of the people who turn up to vote still vote for them notwithstanding the economic hardships, notwithstanding political repression – that is the problem we have in the country. It is not just about turning around and making this work, but it is about educating and conscientising our people so that they realise that they have a solution when the election comes.
ND: There are people who thought that burying Mugabe would also be burying the old habits, do you agree?
LM: Not at all. We buried Mugabe the individual, not the system. We know that his departure has no relationship whatsoever with the changing fortunes of our country. The change of fortunes of our country depends on how we deal with the system.
ND: Some say that the opposition is too divided – we have a lot of opposition parties – this is why they cannot dislodge Zanu PF; talk of a multiplicity of parties, how do we reconcile that?
LM: That is ignorance, it is not about the number of political parties, it is not about divisions; divisions take place when people cast their votes. But that again depends on the campaign. When people are given four, five or six choices and they have convincing arguments, they will be able to vote correctly. You need parties so that we avoid only having Zanu PF and its policies that are not working and the MDC Alliance, on the other hand, that is made up of arrogant leaders.
ND: Do you think Zanu PF is capable of solving Zimbabwe’s socio-economic problems?
LM: Zanu PF is not capable of solving the current socio-economic problems; we are only talking with Zanu PF because we have a fact of elections that places Zanu PF in the leadership of the country. We are working with Zanu PF in Polad not because we believe Zanu PF has the solution, but because the people have forced us to work with them.
— NewsDay
By A Correspondent- Opposition NCA President Lovemore Madhuku has said Zanu Pf has no capacity to solve the country’s economic woes adding that his party was only in POLAD because the people had forced the party to work with Mnangagwa’s administration.
Said Madhuku in an interview with a local publication:
“Zanu PF is not capable of solving the current socio-economic problems; we are only talking with Zanu PF because we have a fact of elections that places Zanu PF in the leadership of the country. We are working with Zanu PF in Polad not because we believe Zanu PF has the solution, but because the people have forced us to work with them.”
-Newsday
By A Correspondent- In a development likely to inspire changes in the proposed Marriages Bill that seeks to have unregistered customary law unions itemised, a High Court judge has called for a countrywide database of married individuals to reduce bigamy.
Bigamy occurs when a legally married person enters into a second marriage contract with another without dissolving the first.
Currently, individuals wishing to marry are required to provide passport size colour photographs of their images and fingerprints to discourage bigamy.
However, Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba said this was not enough in this era of technology.
She said there was nothing that prohibited the Registrar of Marriages from having a real-time online database for all married persons.
“Every marriage officer must be mandated to search the database whether or not the person intending to marry is free from other legal impediments,” said Justice Chirawu-Mugomba.
“Additionally, or alternatively, every person who intends to marry must produce a certificate of ‘present status’ obtained from the Registrar of Marriages as a form of clearance.”
The judge made the remarks while handing down judgment in the case in which a widow, Ms Susan Mobape, was suing Master of the High Court Mr Manyadzwa Kamuchira N.O. and Ms Cynthia Chaitezvi, over maintenance from the deceased estate.
Justice Chirawu-Mugomba’s remarks come against the backdrop of the proposed Marriages Bill and even proposed criminal sanctions for those found lying under oath.
She said the Registrar of Marriages could also consider obtaining affidavits from intending spouses declaring that they are nor married to anyone else under customary law (including unregistered customary law unions) or general law in addition to a certificate of present status.
“Those found to have lied under oath about their marital status must face the wrath of the law,” the judge said. “Perhaps these measures will reduce the number of bigamous marriages.”
Ms Mobape had approached the High Court seeking a review of the Master of High Court’s decision to dismiss her application for maintenance in the estate of her late husband Lovemore Mobape.
The Master of High Court threw out Ms Mobape application on the basis that she lacked the required legal footing in terms of Section 2 of the Deceased Persons Family Maintenance Act.
She was asking for a combined US$1 380 maintenance to cover herself for groceries, salaries for drivers, two security workers, church meetings, car maintenance and licensing fees.
The couple had lived together as husband and wife for 42 years under unregistered customary law union until the demise of the former in November 2017.
During the subsistence of their unregistered customary law marriage the couple had founded a church, New Gospel Church of God. But at the time of his death, Mr Mobape was still married to Ms Chaitezvi under civil law (Marriage Act (Chapter 5: 11).
The Master of the High Court had ruled that Ms Mobape was not entitled to an award of maintenance from the deceased estate in question.
In her ruling, Justice Chirawu-Mugomba upheld the decision by the Master of High Court saying Ms Mobape was not qualified to be a dependent in the estate of the deceased.
“In the final analysis, the applicant (Ms Mobape) has failed to show that she is dependent as contemplated in Section 2 of the Deceased Persons Family Maintenance Act,” she said.
Justice Chirawu-Mugomba directed the registrar of the High Court to distribute her judgment to the attention of the Master of the High Court, executive secretary of the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ)and chairperson of the Estate Administrators Council of Zimbabwe as well as the registrar of marriages.
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By A Correspondent- Doctors here have ignored government’s calls to return to work instead calling on their employer to address their plight urgently adding that failure to address their plight would worsen the already crippled health delivery system.
Speaking at Parirenyatwa hospital Monday morning, Zimbabwe Hospitals Doctors Association Dr Masimba Ndoro urged their employer to be forthcoming with a solution to the doctors’ genuine grievances.
He said in an interview with ZimEye:
“It’s unfortunate that the 48 hour ultimatum has lapsed but doctors have not been able to return to work. They remain incapacitated.
It’s unfortunate that the employer has ignored doctors’ genuine grievances.”
Speaking on whether the doctors would appeal a Labour Court ruling which gave striking doctors a 48 hour ultimatum to return to work, Dr Ndoro said his association was still consulting their legal team on the way forward.
He said:
“…..regarding whether we will appeal or not, we will make consultations with our legal advisors with how to make the next step forward.
…However, let me hasten to say that, if they fire us, it won’t solve the health crisis. But we must be confident with our employer that he will capacitate us. If they do decide to fire us, they will be firing approximately 1600 doctors who work in public hospitals.”
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Paul Nyathi|MDC vice president Welshman Ncube says President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party are not in total control of the country but the military was calling the shots.
Speaking during victory celebrations for Mutasa South legislator, Regayi Tsunga in Tsvingwe, Penhalonga on Sunday, Ncube said young people in the country led by MDC president Nelson Chamisa will have the responsibility to take the army back to the barracks where it belongs.
Tsunga defeated Zanu-PF candidate Misheck Mugadza during last year`s harmonised elections with a landslide margin.
“There is need to strengthen the party at all levels including the branches,” Ncube said. “We need unity, unity, unity. As long there is no unity in the party you cannot defeat, not just Zanu-PF but the military.
“Zimbabwe is not governed by Zanu-PF but military, never forget that. Never forget that you are now required to defeat the military because you defeated Zanu-PF and Mugabe long back. What you need to do now is to defeat the military.” Ncube said the MDC old guard will not be responsible for removing the military but the youths in the country led by Chamisa.
“The late Joshua Nkomo (ex State VP) many years ago said this country will never die but young people will save it. The process of saving this country has started because we chose President Nelson Chamisa as our leader at the congress. This country is not going to die no matter how we will suffer because you as young people you are going to save it.
“Cde Gonese, isusu abadala (we the older ones), we are not the ones who will defeat the military. The young people led by President Nelson Chamisa will defeat the military and take them to the barracks so that the politics will come to the civilians,” said Ncube.
He pointed that the party lost a considerable number of house of assembly seats to Zanu-PF in Manicaland during the 2018 elections due to infighting as cadres jostled for positions. In 2008, MDC won 20 out of 26 parliamentary seats in the province but now controls only seven constituencies.
“Cde Mutseyami, in 2008 you had 20 seats and Zanu-PF was reduced to just six. Today we are now seven we have reversed, the challenge why we are seven is we forgot who the enemy was.
“We started to think the fight was about positions. Everyone wanted to grab a position. Going forward, this must stop. You can fight for position when the military is back in the barracks,” said the vice president.
Ncube said by strengthening party structures, it was the only way to ensure that Chamisa goes to State House to stop poverty and hunger.
He also told the party supporters that it was their responsibility to inform people in their communities that Mnangagwa was the source of their current economic misery.
“I know in your communities there are people who still support Zanu-PF despite the hardships we are facing.
“It does not make sense when someone says Pamberi naED (President Mnangagwa) when the economy is collapsing. Some of them behave as if they were bewitched. It’s your responsibility to remind them that ED was their source of misery,” said Ncube.
He said Mnangagwa was a conductor in former President Robert Mugabe bus but stole it without a valid driver`s license and the country was now stagnant.
“We are not going anywhere because ED doesn’t possess a valid driver’s licence for him to be eligible to drive the bus he stole from his boss. The bus does not have wheels and even a steering wheel to control it,” said Ncube.
Source – Bulawayo 24 News
Zanu-PF bigwigs fighting over Mnangagwa-Chamisa talks. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWA), Chris Mutsvangwa, has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to bury the hatchet for the sake of the country’s economy.
Outspoken Zanu-PF youth league national political commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu, has accused unnamed party bigwigs of working to derail President Emmerson Mnangagwa and stopping him from engaging in much-needed political dialogue with opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.
And in making this sensational claim, Tsenegamu joins a plethora of voices from within and outside Zanu-PF who are pressing for direct talks between Mnangagwa and Chamisa, seen as the only sure way of extricating Zimbabwe from its deepening political and economic crises.
Speaking in Harare on Thursday at a discussion forum on the role of the State in safeguarding human rights convened by Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), Mutsvangwa said: “Why can’t Nelson (Chamisa) and Mnangagwa say we can quarrel about our differences but let’s get on a plane, go to London, Beijing, Washington and Tokyo and seek capital as Zimbabweans.
“Never in one day do they want to talk about that. I want to tell you that this economy does not wait for our quarrels … we are continuing to slide into poverty. Ironically, both Mnangagwa and Chamisa have reiterated the need for dialogue but the bone of contention has been the platform for, and convenor of the talks.
Mnangagwa said Chamisa should join the “losers’ club” the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), while the latter has insisted on bilateral talks mediated by a neutral convenor. The European Union (EU) is also ramping up pressure on President Mnangagwa to hold much-needed talks with opposition leader Chamisa.
This comes as Mnangagwa is battling to put back on track his re-engagement efforts with western powers, following growing concerns about human rights violations in the country, which are blamed on the government.
Mnangagwa, whose legitimacy has been questioned by the opposition MDC since he was announced winner of the presidential election by a water-thin 50,6 %, has indicated that an all-inclusive national dialogue was imperative in addressing Zimbabwe’s unrelenting economic crisis.
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said Mnangagwa was sincere in his invitation for dialogue with the opposition, among other stakeholders, but warned that organising violent protests could blight the prospects for dialogue to discuss the economic crisis gripping the country.
“President Mnangagwa’s concept for dialogue is wider. Soon after elections, he asked for dialogue,” Charamba said.
“What Zanu-PF and this government will not countenance is someone who asks for dialogue while pointing a gun at the head of the government. And metaphorically the gun in this sense is queuing hooligans on the streets to terrorise and destroy property and cause mayhem.”
He said the onus was upon MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to formally engage Mnangagwa on the need for dialogue while spelling out issues that needed to be thrashed out at the negotiating table. “The first interlocutor for dialogue would have been Chamisa. For the first time, we saw ED referring to Chamisa by his first name. So now Chamisa is now ripe for dialogue. For now, he (Chamisa) is really pushing for it,” Charamba said.
“He is the one who has the issues, so he must tell us about those issues. He is the one who is feeling discomfort so he is the one who has to tell us about why he wants us to dialogue.” MDC has since crafted a framework to guide the direction of the dialogue if the talks ever materialise.
The “five-point plan” spells out the need to address Mnangagwa’s legitimacy, the unrelenting economic crisis, and atrocities committed in the past, nation building as well as crafting a shared common national vision.
It also entails discussing a “comprehensive reform agenda and platform with a view to constructing both a sustainable state with a culture which serves the interests of the masses as opposed to serving a few presiding elites and those connected to them.”
MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora said the five-point plan was endorsed by the party’s national executive council last year. He, however, said the envisaged dialogue would not only be restricted to discussing the five points raised by the MDC.
“The national executive council resolved that MDC will explore dialogue to address Zimbabwe’s problems,” Mwonzora said. “As MDC, we have raised five issues which should guide the dialogue which include legitimacy and national healing, among others. The dialogue must be genuine and unconditional. We are not saying these are the only issues to talk about.”
He said there was consensus within the MDC for the need to engage in dialogue, amid reports that some top party officials were opposed to unconditional talks with Mnangagwa. “There is consensus on the need to engage in dialogue. No one has approached us for the need for dialogue,” he said, noting that the talks should not exclusively feature MDC and Zanu-PF.
Source – Bulawayo 24 News
Paul Nyathi|The South African Department of Home Affairs will scrap its controversial birth certificate rules for travellers.
The regulation requires all people travelling with minors (under the age of 18) to produce an unabridged birth certificate, and a letter of parental consent if the child is not travelling with both parents, when departing from and arriving in South Africa.
Speaking in a radio interview with Moneyweb, Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said that unabridged birth certificates will no longer be required for overseas tourists to South Africa travelling with children.
“We have given the instruction that, look, it’s no longer wanted. You don’t have to carry it, you don’t have to produce it,” he said.
In a separate Fin24 report, both the Airline Association of Southern Africa and the Tourism Business Council of SA confirmed that they had been briefed about the changes.
Chair of Tourism Business Council of SA, Blacky Komani, said that the change should be announced officially on 16 October, including timelines for implementation.
The revision to the travel regulations comes as president Cyril Ramaphosa moves to find ways to boost the local tourism industry, as part of his bid to reinvigorate South Africa’s stagnating economy.
Other changes in the sector include granting visa-free entry to several new countries – including New Zealand, the UAE and Saudi Arabia – as well as the introduction of a new e-visa system.
Billions lost
The birth certificate rules were introduced by home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba in 2015 under the banner of preventing instances of child trafficking.
However, by 2016, after many complaints and a huge knock to South Africa’s tourism numbers, the department said it would rework the laws.
According to data compiled by the DA, the rules cost South Africa as much as R7.5 billion, due to lost business from blocked tourists.
In a 2018 survey, travel company Travelstart found that 30% of respondents had been denied boarding because of the birth certificate regulation, while 67% of respondents said they needed to apply for an unabridged birth certificate to travel.
Furthermore, 41% of those respondents who applied for an unabridged birth certificate said that their application took more than 6 weeks to process, adding hassle, stress and cost implications to travel outside South Africa.
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By Wilbert Mukori- Up to now, many Zimbabweans have not fully appreciated the negative role the country’s opposition politicians have played in our struggle to end the Zanu PF dictatorship.
It is pleasing to note that many people are now opening their eyes and asking the opposition leaders the hard questions.
“You attended the funeral of former President Robert Mugabe, a man you spent half your life fighting, but at the funeral wake, you spoke glowingly about him, what motivated you?” asked NewsDay senior reporter, Blessed Mhlanga.
“Well, opposition was not to Robert Mugabe the person, but opposition was to the politics of Zanu-PF and Mugabe merely happened to be the leader of the party,” came the feeble reply from Professor Lovemore Madhuku, leader National Constitutional Assembly (NCA). “We were making a distinction between Mugabe the person and the Zanu-PF system that was led by Mugabe.”
Each time Madhuku opens his mouth, he has left no one in any doubt that he is a sell-out, a dimwitted sell-out at that!
The only political dialogue that counted for anything is the elections.
Madhuku cannot deny that Mnangagwa did not keep his promise to hold free, fair and credible elections.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Election Observer Mission final report.
“Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
ZEC failed to produce something as basic a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake. A verified voters’ roll is a legal and common sense requirement. How anyone; much less a candidate contesting the elections, to say nothing of the said candidate being a Law Professor as is the case with Madhuku; would participate in an election in which they do not know who is on the voters’ roll and so cannot trace and verify anything, beggars belief!
The only rational reason why Nelson Chamisa, Lovemore Madhuku and all the other 20 presidential candidates, the 130 political parties, and God knows how many independent candidates participated in the flawed and illegal elections last year is greed.
They all knew that Mnangagwa and Zanu PF would rigged the elections but they also knew the party would give away a number gravy train seats as bait to entice the opposition to participate.
Worse still, the opposition knew that by participating in the flawed and illegal elections they gave the process the modicum of credibility, as David Coltart, MDC senator, readily admitted in his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the (2013) elections,” explained Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
Of course, Nelson Chamisa and his MDC party, Lovemore Madhuku and NCA party and all the other opposition candidates who participated in last year’s flawed and illegal elections sold-out. As long as Zanu PF news there are sell-out like Chamisa, Madhuku, etc. who will participate in elections even if the ZEC fails to produce something as basic as a voters’ roll Zimbabwe will never ever have free, fair and credible elections.
And without free, fair and credible elections, the country will never ever have a competent and accountable government.
“Of late, you have been accused of dinning with Zanu-PF, the party you have fought against all these years. This has seen some people describing you as a sell-out. Can you comment?” Blessed Mhlanga followed up, driving the point home.
“I don’t know what is meant by dining with them, but I am sure you are referring to being in Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD). It is not about dining with anyone. POLAD is a national dialogue process where political players come together to debate issues to do with Zimbabwe; that is nothing to do with Zanu-PF,” came the reply.
It is parliament that should conduct all national dialogue and not for some extra numeral body like POLAD with no legal basis or power to discuss anything. By participating in flawed and illegal elections the opposition has made it impossible for the nation to elect competent leaders as president, MP, senator, etc. and are offering the superfluous POLAD to govern!
So we are have an opposition busy destroying democracy and replacing it with autocracy and we are expected to view that as progress. How nauseating!
Zimbabwe has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for the last 40 years because the party rigged elections. How much longer Zimbabwe sell-out opposition’s political credibility will last!
“Kana muonde wodonhedza mashizhe, chirimo chazvika!” (When the fig tree start shedding its leaves, it is autumn!) as one would say in Shona.
People are now openly calling Madhuku, Chamisa et al “sell-outs”; proof the opposition’s political credibility is wearing thin and fast.
Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections rendering the regime illegitimate. Mnangagwa’s legitimacy is still a big issue because he has failed to sell the election as credible process because the opposition was not credible!
Paul Nyathi |Despite eulogies by Cyril Ramaphosa and Thabo Mbeki after his death, the historical records show Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF even collaborated with the old apartheid government to keep the ANC’s military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) out of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF and South Africa’s old National Party government were publicly sworn enemies. Privately, their relationship was a bit more complicated.
On 7 and 8 February, 1983, for instance, Emmerson Mnangagwa, then Zimbabwe’s minister of state security, and his intelligence officials met secretly with their counterparts in the South African Defence Force (SADF) in Harare. They wanted to discuss a common problem.
Mnangagwa’s avowedly Marxist Zanu-PF under its leader, Robert Mugabe, had come to power three years earlier and proclaimed itself as being on the front line of the regional campaign to topple the apartheid government in Pretoria.
Behind closed doors, Harare evidently had a rather different agenda, one which dovetailed with Pretoria’s interest in thwarting the ANC’s armed struggle.
The SADF notes of that February 1983 meeting, still in the archives of what is now the Department of International Relations and Cooperation in Pretoria, record that the two governments agreed that, “Zimbabwe does not consider political support of the ANC in the same category as military support. For this reason, they provide office facilities to the ANC in Harare but do not allow them to infiltrate over the RSA/Zimbabwe border.”
According to the SADF report, Mnangagwa – now Zimbabwe’s president, having toppled Mugabe two years ago – took personal credit for obtaining permission from his then-boss, Prime Minister Mugabe, for the SADF visit to Harare and for similar future intelligence meetings.
Mnangagwa also claimed at the meeting that he had initiated the similar clandestine dialogues which South Africa was having with the Angolan and Mozambique governments, also Marxist and publicly hostile to Pretoria.
Timothy Scarnecchia, history professor at Kent State University, recounts this meeting in his paper “Rationalizing Gukurahundi: Cold War and South African Foreign Relations with Zimbabwe, 1981-1983”, which describes the complex diplomatic relations between Zimbabwe, South Africa and major powers at the time of the Gukurahundi, the massacre of thousands of Zimbabweans in Matabeleland by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the Zimbabwe Defence Force.
Scarnecchia presents a very different picture of relations between Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and the ANC from the one projected by President Cyril Ramaphosa and former president Thabo Mbeki in their eulogies after Mugabe’s death in September.
Ramaphosa told the crowd in the Harare stadium at Mugabe’s official memorial service, “Mugabe was a friend of the ANC, a friend of the people of South Africa, who stood by us during our darkest hour and was unwavering [in] support when our people were suffering under the yoke of apartheid.”
And at a later memorial service for Mugabe in Pietermaritzburg he said Mugabe had been prepared to sacrifice much for the freedom of South Africa.
“He was prepared to risk the fortunes and infrastructure of their own country so we in South Africa could be free. He was prepared to give free passage to Umkhonto we Sizwe soldiers to come through Zimbabwe and launch operations in Zimbabwe knowing well he would risk reprisals from the apartheid government.
“Did he flinch or hesitate? Not Mugabe, he was prepared to support us to the end. He was an African patriot, [he] believed [in the] right of self-determination of African people.”
At another ANC memorial service for Mugabe, in Durban, Mbeki praised Mugabe as a great Pan-Africanist; “one of the cadres and comrades we should always value as one of the combatants for the liberation of South Africa”.
The historical record suggests instead that relations between Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and the ANC were tense, even hostile, during most of the latter’s liberation struggle. The main reason for the tensions – and for those secret meetings between the Zanu-PF government and the apartheid government – was Joshua Nkomo’s Zapu.
Once Zanu-PF’s former liberation war ally, Zapu later became its bitter political rival, and Zanu-PF’s grievance with the ANC was that it was an ally of Zapu rather than Zanu-PF. Both the ANC and Zapu had received their political and military support from the Soviet Union while Zanu-PF and the ANC’s own South African rival in the liberation war, the PAC, got its support from the People’s Republic of China.
In his history, External Mission: The ANC in Exile, Stephen Ellis recalls that the National Party government in Pretoria had been hoping for a victory for the moderate Bishop Abel Muzorewa in the first democratic elections in 1980. When Mugabe’s Zanu-PF instead won handsomely, Pretoria had to accept the outcome, although it was “privately shocked”.
That’s hardly surprising. More surprisingly, Ellis adds that “initial reactions from the ANC and the SACP were almost as negative as in Pretoria as they had hoped for a victory of their allies in Zapu.
“South African communists were at first inclined to regard Mugabe’s victory ‘as a conspiracy with international capital’,” Ellis writes, quoting from the minutes of an SACP meeting in Lusaka on 18 April, 1980.
The ANC and SACP eventually came to accept the truth that Zanu-PF had won “not by collusion with international imperialism but by a ruthless use of intimidation” – and of course the fact, which the ANC found harder to acknowledge, that Zanu-PF and Zapu were both largely ethnic-based and that Zanu-PF’s Shona base was vastly larger than Zapu’s Ndebele base by a ratio of some 70% to 20% (with other tribes and racial groups making up the rest).
In March 2019, Dumiso Dabengwa, who had been intelligence chief of Zapu’s military wing Zipra during Zimbabwe’s liberation war, disclosed more about the historic relations among Zanu-PF, Zapu and the ANC/MK, at an MK veterans’ conference at Liliesleaf centre in Rivonia, Johannesburg.
Dabengwa, who died just two months after the conference, was then leader of the revived Zapu. After crushing Zapu and Zipra during the brutal Gukurahundi, Mugabe had absorbed Zapu and its liberation war leader Joshua Nkomo into Zanu-PF to achieve his goal of a one-party state.
Dabengwa had become leader of Zapu when it re-emerged as a separate party in 2008.
At Liliesleaf in 2019, he told the MK veterans that, “Zanu were openly hostile towards the ANC at that time [the 1980s] and they were assisted in their efforts to block the ANC/MK presence in Zimbabwe by former Rhodesians and the many South African agents operating in the Zimbabwe security services…
“Prime Minister Mugabe had publicly stated his opposition to Umkhonto we Sizwe establishing any presence in Zimbabwe,” Jeremy Brickhill, himself a former Zipra commander, reported him as saying, in an article for the Zimbabwe Independent.
“Those members of the ANC and MK who operated from Zimbabwe during this period know that it was trusted Zapu and Zipra members who arranged their safe houses, safe passage and provided weapons and other facilities to support the armed struggle inside South Africa. It was not Zanu.”
Dabengwa said because of this opposition from Zanu-PF to their presence, MK guerillas had been hidden within Zipra units operating inside Zimbabwe.
Brickhill told Daily Maverick Zipra had about 250 MK guerrillas operating inside Zimbabwe integrated into Zipra units by 1980, “getting battle experience”.
Dabengwa told the MK conference that after apartheid agents disclosed to the Zanu-PF government that there were MK guerrillas hidden among Zipra forces, Mugabe’s government ordered the ANC to remove the MK soldiers from Zimbabwe.
“What has remained a closely guarded secret for many years was that we did not remove all the MK guerrillas,” Dabengwa said.
“We made a show to Zanu of removing some of them, but others were hidden and provided with assistance by Zipra to establish themselves in our own towns and villages. So, the first MK presence was established secretly in Zimbabwe with support from Zipra.”
Brickhill explained that these MK guerrillas were given false identity documents.
Retired Zimbabwe Defence Force Major Irvine Sibhona has corroborated this account. He was a Zipra commander at independence and was put in charge of the Sezani assembly point where guerrillas of Zipra and Zanu-PF’s military wing Zanla were gathered before being demobilised.
He recently told Zenzele Ndebele, director of Bulawayo’s Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE), on the latter’s TV show that he also had 112 ANC guerrillas in Sezani. Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation found out and asked him how many. He told them he had only 84. The 84 were transferred to the ANC in Zambia but Zipra helped the rest to disappear into the Zimbabwean population, as Dabengwa described.
Ellis has written similarly that after it came to power, Zanu-PF released from prison 32 MK soldiers who had been captured in the Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns of 1967/8 when MK, including Chris Hani – helped by Zipra not Zanu – tried, largely in vain, to infiltrate South Africa through Zipra’s Matabeleland stronghold. Some were killed, and many were arrested by Ian Smith’s Rhodesian forces.
After the Zanu-PF government released the 32 Wankie/Sipolilo captives in 1980, the ANC decided to keep them in Zimbabwe as a clandestine unit. It didn’t tell Zanu-PF.
When Zanu-PF officials found out “that armed forces allied to their fiercest rival” had been secretly deployed in Zimbabwe, they were furious and expelled the MK guerrillas. However, 14 managed to evade detection and set up a secret military hub in Zimbabwe on orders of the ANC in Lusaka.
Ellis also notes the collaboration between Zipra and MK went back a lot further than independence. Even before the joint Wankie/Sipolilo campaigns, MK and Zipra had trained together in Zambia in the late 1970s. MK learned the high-stepping toyi-toyi military drill, later to become a militant township dance, from Zipra.
Dabengwa told the MK vets that, conversely, Zipra had actively participated in several MK operations in SA, including the sabotage of the Koeberg nuclear power plant near Cape Town in 1982, hitherto attributed to MK alone.
Jeremy Brickhill, the former Zipra commander still living in Zimbabwe, has since revealed that he led Zipra’s involvement in that operation.
Dabengwa told the MK veterans, “Whilst we of Zapu and Zipra were under direct threat and facing a wave of terror unleashed against us by the Zanu government, we continued to provide support and assistance to Umkhonto we Sizwe and to underground ANC operatives in Zimbabwe.”
That wave of terror was, of course, Gukurahundi, which also complicated life for the ANC and MK, but played into the hands of the apartheid government.
Scarnecchia writes in the same article that the South African Department of Foreign Affairs files for 1983 reveal “a sense that the Gukurahundi was viewed as a ‘success’ from the South African point of view.
“It offered a number of ‘benefits’, first and foremost making it difficult for the ANC’s Umkhonto we Sizwe (The Spear of the Nation) (MK) to use Matabeleland as a base for training and attacks across the border into South Africa.
“It also worked to discredit Mugabe’s international reputation as a prime minister representing a party committed to national reconciliation. It also, paradoxically, pushed Zimbabwe to cooperate with South Africa on military and intelligence issues, however tentatively and mistrustingly.”
Scarnecchia quotes historian Sue Onslow as saying the apartheid government supplied a small number of weapons to Zipra dissidents (so-called “Super-Zipra”) and this rebounded on Zapu/Zipra forces in the Gukurahundi “as the Mugabe government… was able to stigmatise the disaffected Zipra combatants as stooges of the apartheid state, manipulated by a malevolent and oppressive foreign power”. This helped the Zanu-PF government rationalise Gukurahundi.
Despite the heavy obstacles, MK did launch attacks on South Africa from Zimbabwe, MK sources recount. It established arms caches in Zimbabwe and crossed the border a few times to plant land mines and conduct raids, though these were largely thwarted by very close surveillance of the border area by the SADF.
An MK source told Daily Maverick that while Zanu-PF was frustrating MK operations, it was trying to help the PAC.
“Zanu-PF would drive PAC operatives to the South African border and encourage them to cross,” he said. “Not many did.”
If Ramaphosa and Mbeki are, shall we say, rather ahistorical in enthusing about the huge sacrifices which Zanu-PF made to help the ANC’s liberation struggle, they are not completely off the mark in saying Zimbabwe did nonetheless suffer at the hands of the apartheid government.
South African special forces, their intelligence about the country sharpened by many recruits from the old Rhodesian security forces and spies inside the country, hit Zimbabwe government and ANC targets in Zimbabwe several times, at will. They destroyed a large ammunition dump near Harare in August 1981, bombed Zanu-PF headquarters in Harare in December 1981 and attacked Zimbabwe’s main airbase at Gweru in July 1982, damaging and grounding about one-fifth of the country’s combat aircraft. They also assassinated Joe Gqabi, the ANC’s chief Zimbabwe representative in Harare in July 1981, evidently helped by the lack of protection offered to him by the Zimbabwe government.
So one could argue that these raids conducted by Pretoria’s special forces against Mugabe’s government also deterred him from providing support to MK.
However, Angola, Mozambique and even Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland (now Eswatini) also suffered at the hands of Pretoria because of their readiness to harbour MK operatives.
The latter three countries experienced minor losses, Mozambique substantially more and Angola most of all, through a series of major military incursions by the SADF, starting in late 1975 and only ending in 1988.
The MPLA was then hosting a major military presence, not only of MK but also of Swapo, which Pretoria was fighting in Namibia, then still occupied by South Africa.
The MK sources say the ANC felt a closer affinity to Frelimo in Mozambique and the MPLA in Angola than to Zanu-PF and that this also partly accounted for MK’s greater presence in those countries.
MK sources say it was only after Mugabe had crushed Nkomo and Zapu and absorbed them into Zanu-PF in 1987 that relations between the ANC and Zanu-PF finally improved. But, by then, the ANC’s liberation struggle was effectively almost over as it soon switched its tactics towards secret negotiations with the National Party government.
Brickhill told Daily Maverick, “We kept the secrets of Zipra support for ANC and MK for nearly four decades, not to protect ourselves but to protect the ANC. We knew the ANC had to build a relationship with the Zanu government and that meant repudiating Zapu and Zipra. So we kept our secrets.
“But it is important now that the true histories are revealed because this false story of Zanu support for the ANC after 1980 is preventing the ANC from speaking out about injustice and oppression in Zimbabwe today.
“As Comrade Dabengwa said before he died: we expect those South African comrades who know about these events to speak up and stop spreading falsehoods and tell the true history.” DM
DailyMaverick
Armed police have laid siege at the MDC headquarters starting early this morning in what is clearly a choreographed attempt to clamp-down on the peaceful people’s movement.
First was a story in the Zanu PF-controlled media in which the police said they had discovered anti-riot and municipal helmets at Robinson House in Harare which they are surprisingly trying to link to the party headquarters.
For the record, the MDC is a peaceful and non-violent political movement with a Constitution that clearly stipulates the peaceful manner in which the party will always prosecute its democratic struggle.
A few months ago, the police purported to have discovered catapults and stones again near the MDC headquarters. Today’s attempt is the second attempt in the past few months to link the people’s peaceful movement with a primitive, barbaric and Stone Age political script that involves stones, bricks and catapults.
The illegitimate regime is getting desperate and all these are frantic attempts to ban and proscribe legitimate political activity; just as they have done with peaceful demonstrations. For the record, we are a peaceful, law-abiding political party that poses no danger to human life. Available evidence points to the fact that in the past 12 months, it is the Mnangagwa regime that has killed people, both in August 2018 and in January 2019 and the perpetrators have not been brought to book.
It is this regime that poses a threat to the safety of citizens and any attempt to implicate the MDC will not wash. Zimbabweans know that it is Zanu PF that is violent and it is Zanu PF that has a blood-soaked history.
Instead of clamping down on prices, a deteriorating economy, unemployment and power and fuel shortages, the ED regime has thought it prudent to clamp down on a legitimate political party going about its business.
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Luke Tamborinyoka
Deputy National Spokesperson
Now that the so called Zimbabwe Heroes Acre has been exposed as a satanic ritual site, starting with Joshua Nkomo and uMama uMafuyane who was poisoned by Zanupf Women’ s League members, all Matabeles buried there against their will or otherwise, must be urgently exhumed and reburied in Matabeleland.
Thanks to Mugabe it has come to light that Heroes Acre is not a holy place as many are made to believe. Corpses buried there are mutilated for the purpose of harvesting body parts to be used by Zanupf top leaders to appropriate power through black magic to exercise control over the masses.
The cult cum political party, Zanupf, has been painting Zimbabwe red with human and animal blood since the days of the struggle through its blood letting rituals that involve slaughtering of human beings and animals to use blood and body parts to feed the demons in exchange of black magic generated power to control the masses. They even composed a song “Zimbabwe Ndeye Ropa” Zimbabwe was born of blood.
Regardless of this senseless and inhuman spilling blood, Zimbabwe remains a cursed country facing an imminent split that would give birth to the Republic of Matabeleland. It remains a failed state without its own currency and the blood of innocent people and animals has failed to resuscitate the economy that remains in the ICU.
These pure acts of barbarism which are imbedded in the Shona culture of witchcraft are usually performed in secrecy. But if you want to know each and every detail of them, just wait still and patiently until a fight breaks out between Shonas. Before you know it the very people who perform these bizarre rituals under the cover of darkness will run one by one to the media to reveal everything.
The disintegration of Zanupf into three political splinter groups ie NPP, NPF, ZANUPF and multiple factions that do not see eye to eye has provided the mine field to those who are patient.
Joyce Mujuru bare- breasted rituals.
It was late President Mugabe who revealed this one at the height of G40, Lacoste and Gamatox factional battles.
To boost her chances of becoming the first female President of Zimbabwe, Joyce Mujuru consulted Nigerian witch- doctors. They asked her to kill 10 chickens and these were named after top Zanupf leaders. Mugabe, Grace and Mnangagwa topped the list. The witch- doctors told Mujuru that when the chicken bearing the name of Mugabe is slaughtered, he will automatically fall to his death and the others who had their names given to chickens were to face the same fate as the birds were slaughtered. Mujuru, it is said, performed the rituals while in a semi- nude state, with her breasts uncovered. Poor Chickens died a painful death but Mugabe and others did not die and Mujuru was unceremoniously fired from Zanupf.
Zanupf keeps witch- doctors and other occultists at its party headquarters.
This juicy story came via exiled Patrick Zhuwao who wrote in his weekly column:
“Furthermore, it is important to note that liberation movements such as UNIP of Zambia, MCP of Malawi and KANU of Kenya have not been able to survive the departure of their founding fathers. In the case of ZANU PF, the violent and humiliating ouster of President Mugabe makes it even worse as explained to one Vera, whose job description at ZANU PF Headquarters includes consulting spirit mediums and the occult. The poor lady is currently grappling with how she can inform Mnangagwa that, on her latest visit to the spirit medium, he was given only five months to go”. Patrick Zhuwao, Mike Kasukuwere and Jonathan Moyo are main G40 strategists that were forced into exile after the Zimbabwe coup.
Zanla forces killed white people to extract blood to give to spirit mediums.
The commander of the first wing of Zanla known as Crocodile Gang, Enock Muteveri Sithole, once told the The Sunday News that his gang killed white people to extract fresh blood which was put in bottles which were then sealed and taken to spirit mediums.
“We were told to kill a white man touya nemusiya wake ( and extract some blood). If I have the opportunity to meet President Mnangagwa, I will tell him of certain rites that we undertook before we killed the white man. For now all what I can say is that we performed a short traditional ceremony under a certain tree in Chimanimani after bringing the white man’s blood.” said Enock Muteveri Sithole.
The above gory stories which are just a tip of the iceberg, confirm the culture of witchcraft which was brought by Shonas from Burundi where they were chased away for performing the same satanic rituals. It is the same reason that Sekuru Kaguvi, a spirit medium who killed innocent people with lightning was hanged by white colonists. The dark culture is passed from one Shona generation to another.
The above events strongly support the latest humiliating occasion where late President Mugabe refused to be buried at National Heroes Acre fearing that ritualistic Mnangagwa would remove his teeth, nails and other body parts to use them to enhance his political fortunes as well as to obtain power to control people.
We urge Matabeles who have relatives that are already buried at the Heroes Acre to exhume the bodies and rebury them in Matabeleland. They will never rest in peace as their body parts and souls are used to oppress Matabeles. No one in Matabeleland must allow their relatives to be buried at Heroes Acre as the bodies that are buried there are mutilated by Zanupf “madzura moyo”, spirit mediums and witches to run the country and oppress Matabeles.
We implore all Matabeles to unite and restore the statehood of Matabeleland and leave Shonas alone to practice witchcraft which is their special gift from the devil himself. Let them slaughter each other in the name of rituals until the whole population is wiped out, who cares Their farther in hell will reward them with political positions and riches which they value more than human life.
Izenzo kungemazwi!
MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
We write to you as concerned party members from Mashonaland Central. We have tried to seek an audience with your office to no avail. ZANU PF Mashonaland Central is burning and the current provincial executive is inexperienced to put out the fire.
Mashonaland Central is Saviour Kasukuwere territory, the divisions in Mash Central are causing us a lot of embarrassment. The Kazembe Kazembe executive was given the task of uniting the party and has failed dismally at this complex task. People on the ground are now begging for the readmission of Saviour Kasukuwere, Dickson Mafios and others into the party as they were the engine and glue that held Mashonaland Central together.
In 2013 ZANU PF secured a total of 335 895 votes from a total 568 600 registered voters under the Webster Shamu Commisariat.
Saviour Kasukuwere and Dickson Mafios worked hard to ensure that the party had more registered voters and it was their hardwork and effort which saw Mash Central increase its votes to 366 785 in 2018 up from 335 895.
However, the Kazembe Kazembe leadership is squandering these numbers and failing to mobilise people for party programs. The turnout at grassroot meetings has been pathetic.
The Kazembe executive’s failure to mobilise supporters had resulted in President Emmerson Mnangagwa dumping at the last- minute two important events, a “Thank You Rally” in Bindura in February and the highly-anticipated smart agriculture conference, where he was supposed to officiate in May. We are embarrassed as a province and call upon your office to intervene immediately.
Kazembe Kazembe is sabotaging the work of Political head of the Province retired Air Marshall Perence Shiri. The poor leadership displayed by Kazembe has a negative impact on the political head of the province in the Politburo.
We seek your intervention and a restructuring exercise is necessary before the Annual People’s Conference. We have young capable cadres who understand the intricacies of the Province such as Godfrey Tsenengamu who can lead the province and mobilise people far much better than the political novice Kazembe.
Matemadanda we implore you to tour Mashonaland Central and consult the people before you make a case to the Politburo. Claudius Mswaka is a more popular candidate for Provincial Chairman who doesn’t have the financial muscle yet has the Charisma and needs of the people at heart to rejuvenate Mashonaland Central. Fortune Chasi is another popular horse that is suitable and well positioned to replace Kazembe Kazembe.
The party has 2 options in Mashonaland Central, either we readmit Saviour Kasukuwere and allow him to start at branch level and help us rejuvenate Mash Central or we replace Kazembe Kazembe with a more capable and experienced provincial chairman who is equal to the task. If your office ignores these calls then you will wake up to dwindling support in Mashonaland Central. Kazembe Kazembe will cost you crucial votes in 2023. We have suffered enough humiliation from an executive that is divisive and incompetent. Dissolve them now.
War veterans have written to you and the National Chairperson over Mash Central several calls have been made and yet there is no action to remedy the issues.
Mwana asingachemi anofira mumbereko. We are now writing to you through the media and hope that you will respond and take action to unite, and rebuild ZANU PF Mashonaland Central.
Utete
Muzarabani
Mashonaland Central
MDC Secretary General Charlton Hwende has reported that the Morgan Tsvangirai House has been sealed by police officers who have blocked the officials from accessing it.
The move by the police comes a day after the police arrested 12 suspected MDC members who were engaged in a fight with police.
Said Hwende, “Our head office has been sealed by riot police. Our staff unable to access it to do their work. The MDC as a party that is represented in Parliament must be allowed to operate without State interference. This is the reason why the country is isolated internationally.”
On Sunday Professor Jonathan Moyo warned that the police and the military might be all over the Harare CBD after 256 police helmets were discovered at a Harare building.
“Word from the deep-state is that a massive crackdown by police with embedded army units is set for Harare tomorrow. The pretext is to pre-empt anticipated protests; the objective is to show force to instil fear, given rising tensions. Take care vanhu vamwari in Harare tomorrow.”Moyo posted on Twitter on Sunday.
ZLHR is legally assisting the arrested persons
Paul Nyathi|Former First Lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly been issued with a court order to cede part of the land under her family Blue Roof Mansion.
According to the reports, the Deputy Sherriff’s office issued Grace Mugabe with a warrant of ejection on part of the property in favour of Farai Nigel Chitsinde and Nyasha Amanda Chitsinde by Wednesday this week.
Zanu PF bought the land and donated it to Mugabe in 1999 who in turn bought 5 other adjacent properties to make his vast residence. The Chitsindes who made the court application were evicted when construction at the blue roof began to pave way for the construction.
The Chitsindes demanded return of their property through court in June this year and were awarded return of the land an order the Mugabes ignored.
The warrant of ejection sent to Grace on 4 October reads:
Now therefore you are required and directed to eject … all persons claiming through it, its goods and possessions from and out of all occupation and possession whatsoever of the said premises, and to leave the same, to the end that the said Farai Nigel Chitsinde and Nyasha Amanda Chitsinde duly represented by Constance Tsitsi Chitsinde may peaceably enter into and possess the same, and for so doing this shall be your warrant.
The International Cricket Council on Monday afternoon lifted sanctions it had imposed on Zimbabwe Cricket over the alleged government interference.
Posting on Twitter, Zimbabwe Cricket said:
BREAKING NEWS: @ICC has lifted @ZimCricketv‘s suspension, restoring all our rights as a Full Member. The decision was made at @ICC board meeting in Dubai on Monday after @ZimCricketv had fully complied with the conditions for reinstatement.
The suspension meant that Zimbabwe was barred from participating in any ICC sanctioned event and was also no longer eligible to receive funds fro the Council.
The suspension of Zimbabwe affected careers of Zimbabwe cricketers with Solomon Mire and captain Hamilton Masakadza resolving to resign from international cricket.
There were female cricketers who were also blocked from the global development squad as a result of the suspension.
Alex Magaisa|They think we are fools. Perhaps we are.
Recall they said Sakunda’s accounts were frozen? Now The Herald on Command Agriculture, “Shiri said CBZ through its co-operative partner Sakunda has started distributing inputs to the various parts of the country…
Where such facilities may not be available then Sakunda can move inputs to GMB depots …” adds The Herald. So we have a company allegedly being investigated by the government for suspected money-laundering but it’s still a big partner in the same government’s flagship program?
Of course, some of us knew the government was playing mind games and was never serious about pursuing Sakunda.
It was all for a show, a corporate-washing exercise to then claim these entities were clean after all. Yet some still fervently believe the anti-corruption drive is genuine.
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The IMF, from whom the government is seeking respite, has already raised issues about Sakunda and how the Command Agriculture deals were financed.
How does a government command respect when it deals with entities it claims to be investigating for money laundering and corruption?
Farai Dziva|Econet has hiked tariffs again
“Dear Customer. Please take note, bundle prices for Data & SMS will be reviewed effective 15 October 2019. Dial *143# or *151# to buy Data or *140# to buy SMS Bundles,” reads the message from the company
By Jeffryson Murisi David Chitando
Ian Douglas Smith was under sanctions and for your information he was only able to travel to two countries namely Malawi and South Africa.
Smith’s Rhodesian dollar and economy for all those years he was under economic sanctions grew to be one of the strongest in Africa.In fact the Rhodesia dollar was at one time trading 1:1 with the British pound and 1: 2 to the American dollar on the exchange rate .
One wonders what’s wrong with the so called sanctions on Zanu PF leaders as they are allowed to globetrotte.Its said they just close their eyes and point on the world map ,any country which or place they touch is their next 24 hour destination.
One is baffled by the fact that they are able to travel daily but the local currency is at its weakest in living memory.
Why can’t Zanu PF apply to the International community to put us under Ian Smith type of sanctions rather than these?During Smith we rarely heard of price hikes!We only knew the country had fuel problems but not to this levels.Doctors would not strike for salary increments. Teachers and others civil servants would not threaten to strike daily.
Mnangagwa must admit that he has failed .If we are to compare Ian Smith managed the economy far much better than Mnangagwa.
By A Correspondent- Doctors here have called on their employer to address their plight urgently adding that failure to address their plight would worsen the already crippled health delivery system.
Speaking at Parirenyatwa hospital Monday morning, Zimbabwe Hospitals Doctors Association Dr Masimba Ndoro urged their employer to be forthcoming with a solution to the doctors’ genuine grievances.
He said in an interview with ZimEye:
“It’s unfortunate that the 48 hour ultimatum has lapsed but doctors have not been able to return to work. They remain incapacitated.
It’s unfortunate that the employer has ignored doctors’ genuine grievances.”
Speaking on whether the doctors would appeal a Labour Court ruling which gave striking doctors a 48 hour ultimatum to return to work, Dr Ndoro said his association was still consulting their legal team on the way forward.
He said:
“…..regarding whether we will appeal or not, we will make consultations with our legal advisors with how to make the next step forward.
…However, let me hasten to say that, if they fire us, it won’t solve the health crisis. But we must be confident with our employer that he will capacitate us. If they do decide to fire us, they will be firing approximately 1600 doctors who work in public hospitals.”
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Farai Dziva|The Vice President of Guinea Conakry has described the shooting of civilians by the military as totally unacceptable.
In the video footage below the Guinea VP clearly points out that killing of civilians should not be tolerated in any African country…
Watch video below. .
The Vice President Of Guinea Conakry’s parliament has advised African presidents to sit down and serve as volunteers. He was directly responding to questions of the struggles Zimbabwe is going through…..
Watch video below. ..
Farai Dziva|Newly appointed Bafana Bafana coach Molefi Ntseki got off to a winning start after his charges defeated the Eagles of Mali 2-1 in the Nelson Mandela Challenge in Port Elizabeth today.
The 50-year-old coach fielded a strong team which included Thulani Serero, Dean Furman, Thembinkosi Lorch and Bradley Grobler. Club Brugge’s Percy Tau was sidelined through injury.
Themba Zwane and Kermit Erasmus’ first half goals were all that Bafana Bafana needed to sail past Mali in front of a respectable crowd at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
The West Africans got their goal from Sekou Koita in the 74th minute.
Opposition MDC Treasurer-General, David Coltart, has revealed the owner of police and municipal helmets unearthed at a basement office in the city centre.
According to Coltart, the helmets were bought at an auction with the owner allegedly planning to start a security company.
Below is Coltart’s Twitter thread;
It has been alleged that the owner of the helmets is a man called Mitchel Chibwe. His company – so it is alleged – lawfully bought them at an auction conducted by ABC Auctioneers wanting to start a security company. It is alleged the ZRP instructed ABC auctioneers to sell them.
Perhaps @nickmangwana@ZBCNewsonline@HeraldZimbabwe & indeed the ZRP would like to investigate these allegations & confirm whether they are true or not. If the allegations are true perhaps they would like to put the record straight & end the ZRP siege of the #MDC HQ.
By A Correspondent- Former Education Minister (during GNU era) who is also the treasurer-general of the opposition MDC Alliance, David Coltart, has posted on twitter saying it has been alleged that the police helmets which were recently discovered near Morgan Tsvangirai House in Harare CBD were bought from the ZRP at an auction.
See Coltart’s twitter thread below.
It has been alleged that the owner of the helmets is a man called Mitchel Chibwe. His company – so it is alleged – lawfully bought them at an auction conducted by ABC Auctioneers wanting to start a security company. It is alleged the ZRP instructed ABC auctioneers to sell them.
Perhaps @nickmangwana@ZBCNewsonline@HeraldZimbabwe & indeed the ZRP would like to investigate these allegations & confirm whether they are true or not. If the allegations are true perhaps they would like to put the record straight & end the ZRP siege of the #MDC HQ.
By A Correspondent- Imagine waking up and finding out that you are registered as dead at the registrar general’s office.
This was the shock a 51 year old Harare woman experienced as she visited the registrar general’s offices to renew her old passport.
The woman, who told ZimEye that the development has left her traumatised said she is currently without an identity as all her particulars have been with held at the registrar general’s office pending investigations.
Said Mirriam, while narrating her ordeal to ZimEye:
“The man who processes his wife’s death certificate using my name is called Innocent Chitauro of 2323 St Marys in Chitungwiza and he works in the ministry of Defence. Chitauro is currently stationed in Gutu. The deceased woman was named Pauline Dzakata who died on March 20 2010 and she reportedly died at Chitungwiza General Hospital.
She was reportedly buried in Makoni district, Rusape under Chief Tandi. On the death certificate there is a phone number belonging to one Alice Manjera who revealed that she is based in Masvingo.
The death certificate bearing my name was issued at Makoni registry offices in Chitungwiza.
Innocent Chitauro is busy enjoying his life after he ruined my life by stealing my identity to process his wife’s death certificate. The same for his dead wife who is resting in peace while i am suffering to reclaim my stolen identity.
I wonder why the late Pauline Dzakata’s family agreed to have their daughter’s death certificate processed using my name. Why did Chitungwiza hospital, the national registry office issue a death certificate bearing my name for someone with a totally different name? What really happened, I need answers. But above all, i just want my identity back.”
Listen to Mirriam telling her story….
Farai Dziva|New Chippa United coach Norman Mapeza has reportedly snatched Daniel Vherumu from FC Platinum.
Vheremu will work as Mapeza’s assistant at Chippa United.
The two coaches worked at FC Platinum, and after Mapeza’s appointment at the ABSA Premiership side a few weeks ago, he has decided to take the former centre-back with him.
According to Chronicle, Vheremu bade farewell to the players on Friday soon after training ahead of their 3-1 victory over Yadah.
The departure leaves FC Platinum coach Lizwe Sweswe with one deputy – Patrick Mandizha.
Sweswe who was the assistant coach during Mapeza’s tenure took over the reins in September.
Farai Dziva|Brian Banda and Prince Dube grabbed late goals as Highlanders beat TelOne 2-0.
Bosso dominated possession for the majority of the game and created some good chances which could have broken the deadlock early.
TelOne only controlled the opening minutes of the match, forcing two corner-kicks inside the first five minutes.
The Wifi Boys drew back in the following moments when Tshilamoya came knocking on the quarter-hour through Dube who had his two successive efforts going wide.
Ray Lunga also caused problems from the right flank while Banda got an opportunity just after the half-hour mark but struck over from inside the box.
The game went to the break goalless with Highlanders on top in terms of possession.
The hosts continued to waste chances in the second half with Lunga, Dube, Adrian Silla and substitute Peter Nyirenda all lacking precision in front of the goal.
TelOne, on their side, relied on sporadic raids and they never came alive after the break.
However, as the game seemed heading for a draw, Banda fired home from inside the box to break the deadlock in the 84th minute.
Dube followed up four minutes later to kill the contest from the spot as Highlanders cruise to another victory.
OPPOSITION National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku (LM), who is accused of dining with Zanu PF for financial gains, last week told NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Blessed Mhlanga that he is working to ensure that come 2023, neither Zanu PF nor the MDC will be anywhere near the corridors of power. Below are some of the excerpts of the interview.
ND: You attended the funeral of former President Robert Mugabe, a man you spent half your life fighting, but at the funeral wake, you spoke glowingly about him, what motivated you?
LM: Well, opposition was not to Robert Mugabe the person, but opposition was to the politics of Zanu PF and Mugabe merely happened to be the leader of the party. We were making a distinction between Mugabe the person and the Zanu PF system that was led by Mugabe.
ND: Of late, you have been accused of dinning with Zanu PF, the party you have fought against all these years. This has seen some people describing you as a sell-out. Can you comment?
LM: I don’t know what is meant by dining with them, but I am sure you are referring to being in Political Actors Dialogue (Polad). It is not about dining with anyone. Polad is a national dialogue process where political players come together to debate issues to do with Zimbabwe; that is nothing to do with Zanu PF
ND: It’s not only Polad, but you have been in the Motlanthe Commission of inquiry into the August 1, 2018 shootings, is that not dining with Zanu PF when you are getting financial benefits?
LM: There were no financial benefits in the Motlanthe Commission. The commission was very important for our country; it was the commission that found out that the army and police were responsible for killing six civilians on August 1 2018. That was a point that was made by the commission. We recommended that it should never happen again that government is irresponsible in terms of how it deals with demonstrations. We even recommended compensation, so why should the Motlanthe Commission be seen as dining with Zanu PF? The commission was the building block to the future of the country.
ND: You said you were fighting the system. Has the system shifted since Mugabe was removed as President in 2017?
LM: There is no shift, but what has changed is the method of how to deal with the system, dialogue is now the way to go. When we fought the system 15 years ago, we focused more on massive engagements and demonstrations, those things no longer work at this particular time. We need dialogue.
The system has to be fought and we continue to fight it, but we have to change the methods. So there are people who are totally lost when they look at us adopting a different method as if we have given up. Why would we give up? We have created massive movements. Those in MDC Alliance believe that the person who is fighting for democracy is the person in the MDC Alliance. That is nonsense. What you have to take into account is what are people doing in their various stations. When we fought against Zanu PF, we were fighting against one-party domination and we will also fight against a two-party domination.
Domination and oppression does not change because you have increased the number of players. Where I stand, I am contributing to a situation where we have a real genuine multi-party environment of more than three parties.
ND: Is there a new dispensation in Zimbabwe?
LM: There is no new dispensation. Currently, there is a dispensation that has been going backwards. They have gone behind what we had in the 1980s. Our current leaders are trying to learn the bad portion of their old days. The bad portion of the old days were characterised by the mysterious disappearance of people, the heavy deployment of police and army at the smallest excuse; the old days where you found people in government who had no clue on how to turn around the economy, which is what we have at the moment. We don’t have a new dispensation.
ND: What can be done to change this facade as you call it?
LM: We must invest heavily in conscientising the majority of the people. The way forward is to make people alert of our situation. Those in government still have supporters, you go into a by-election you find out that the majority of the people who turn up to vote still vote for them notwithstanding the economic hardships, notwithstanding political repression – that is the problem we have in the country. It is not just about turning around and making this work, but it is about educating and conscientising our people so that they realise that they have a solution when the election comes.
ND: There are people who thought that burying Mugabe would also be burying the old habits, do you agree?
LM: Not at all. We buried Mugabe the individual, not the system. We know that his departure has no relationship whatsoever with the changing fortunes of our country. The change of fortunes of our country depends on how we deal with the system.
ND: Some say that the opposition is too divided – we have a lot of opposition parties – this is why they cannot dislodge Zanu PF; talk of a multiplicity of parties, how do we reconcile that?
LM: That is ignorance, it is not about the number of political parties, it is not about divisions; divisions take place when people cast their votes. But that again depends on the campaign. When people are given four, five or six choices and they have convincing arguments, they will be able to vote correctly. You need parties so that we avoid only having Zanu PF and its policies that are not working and the MDC Alliance, on the other hand, that is made up of arrogant leaders.
ND: Do you think Zanu PF is capable of solving Zimbabwe’s socio-economic problems?
LM: Zanu PF is not capable of solving the current socio-economic problems; we are only talking with Zanu PF because we have a fact of elections that places Zanu PF in the leadership of the country. We are working with Zanu PF in Polad not because we believe Zanu PF has the solution, but because the people have forced us to work with them.
— NewsDay
Farai Dziva|MDC deputy spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka has said the opposition party has nothing to do with the old police helmets that were reportedly found in the basement of a building near Morgan Tsvangirai House on Saturday.
Said Tamborinyoka : It’s all choreographed. They are desperately trying to link the so-called discovered helmets with the MDC.
This illegitimate regime is just getting desperate.
Police have laid siege at the MDC headquarters in Harare. We are a peaceful people’s movement and we see a desperate attempt by this regime to clamp down on legitimate political activity in the country.”
Armed police have laid siege at the MDC headquarters starting early this morning in what is clearly a choreographed attempt to clamp-down on the peaceful people’s movement.
First was a story in the Zanu PF-controlled media in which the police said they had discovered anti-riot and municipal helmets at Robinson House in Harare which they are surprisingly trying to link to the party headquarters.
For the record, the MDC is a peaceful and non-violent political movement with a Constitution that clearly stipulates the peaceful manner in which the party will always prosecute its democratic struggle.
A few months ago, the police purported to have discovered catapults and stones again near the MDC headquarters. Today’s attempt is the second attempt in the past few months to link the people’s peaceful movement with a primitive, barbaric and Stone Age political script that involves stones, bricks and catapults.
The illegitimate regime is getting desperate and all these are frantic attempts to ban and proscribe legitimate political activity; just as they have done with peaceful demonstrations. For the record, we are a peaceful, law-abiding political party that poses no danger to human life. Available evidence points to the fact that in the past 12 months, it is the Mnangagwa regime that has killed people, both in August 2018 and in January 2019 and the perpetrators have not been brought to book.
It is this regime that poses a threat to the safety of citizens and any attempt to implicate the MDC will not wash. Zimbabweans know that it is Zanu PF that is violent and it is Zanu PF that has a blood-soaked history.
Instead of clamping down on prices, a deteriorating economy, unemployment and power and fuel shortages, the ED regime has thought it prudent to clamp down on a legitimate political party going about its business.
MDC@20: Celebrating courage, growth and the people’s victories.
Luke Tamborinyoka
Deputy National Spokesperson
Farai Dziva|The MDC has described claims that the police discovered old helmets near Morgan Tsvangirai House as a desperate attempt by government to stop the struggle for democracy.
Below is the party’s full statement :
Armed police have laid siege at the MDC headquarters starting early this morning in what is clearly a choreographed attempt to clamp-down on the peaceful people’s movement.
First was a story in the Zanu PF-controlled media in which the police said they had discovered anti-riot and municipal helmets at Robinson House in Harare which they are surprisingly trying to link to the party headquarters.
For the record, the MDC is a peaceful and non-violent political movement with a Constitution that clearly stipulates the peaceful manner in which the party will always prosecute its democratic struggle.
A few months ago, the police purported to have discovered catapults and stones again near the MDC headquarters.
Today’s attempt is the second attempt in the past few months to link the people’s peaceful movement with a primitive, barbaric and Stone Age political script that involves stones, bricks and catapults.
The illegitimate regime is getting desperate and all these are frantic attempts to ban and proscribe legitimate political activity; just as they have done with peaceful demonstrations. For the record, we are a peaceful, law-abiding political party that poses no danger to human life. Available evidence points to the fact that in the past 12 months, it is the Mnangagwa regime that has killed people, both in August 2018 and in January 2019 and the perpetrators have not been brought to book.
It is this regime that poses a threat to the safety of citizens and any attempt to implicate the MDC will not wash. Zimbabweans know that it is Zanu PF that is violent and it is Zanu PF that has a blood-soaked history.
Instead of clamping down on prices, a deteriorating economy, unemployment and power and fuel shortages, the ED regime has thought it prudent to clamp down on a legitimate political party going about its business.
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Zivanai Nyikavanhu
The Weakness of the rising Opposition Groupings.
‘Dictators like Mnangagws are impervious to reason. The only voice a dictator like him listens to is his own voice.
Political repression is an effective weapon in the hands of Zimbabwe despots.
Opposition parties are either outlawed or accorded very little political leeway. Key opposition leaders are arrested, intimidated and even killed.
Cowed into submission, some intellectuals in the opposition tend to switch camps. In other words, they become political prostitutes eg (Khupe). Though highly educated with PhDs, a multitude of them have sold off their consciences, integrity and principles as they kowtow to the diktats of barbarous dictators.
As prostitutes, they have partaken of the plunder, misrule and repression of their people’,
A dictator is a dictator. “The only good dictator is a dead one like Mugabe”.
The crux of my argument in this article is that Zimbabweans and other people chaffing under the yoke of despotism should steer clear of confusing ideological with systemic dictatorship -dictatorship that emerges from faulty institutions and systems. Any political system that concentrates power in the hands of one person, will inevitably degenerate into a dictatorship same like what ZanuPf is doing in our country. The culprit is the system—not ideology or culture.
“It takes an intelligent or smart opposition party or leader to make a democracy work”, not the pamberi – pamberina noisy type that simply chants ‘ ED or Chiwenga or Mohadi or ZanuPf must go!’. Dictators have triumphed mainly because the opposition parties are fragmented, lack focus and prone to squabbling.
All too often, opposition parties that set out to liberate their countries from tyranny wind up selling out, fighting among themselves, and sowing seeds of discord.
Some opposition leaders are themselves closet dictators, exhibiting the same dictatorial tendencies they so loudly den.
Farai Dziva|The former First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe has been ordered to surrender part of her Blue Roof property by Wednesday.
According to Daily News, the High Court ordered Grace to surrender part of her Blue Roof yard.
The Sherriff reportedly issued Grace with a warrant of ejection that she should surrender the property she is holding onto by Wednesday.
The warrant of ejection sent to Grace on 4 October reads:
Now therefore you are required and directed to eject … all persons claiming through it, its goods and possessions from and out of all occupation and possession whatsoever of the said premises, and to leave the same, to the end that the said Farai Nigel Chitsinde and Nyasha Amanda Chitsinde duly represented by Constance Tsitsi Chitsinde may peaceably enter into and possess the same, and for so doing this shall be your warrant.
