By President Emmerson Mnangagwa|I am honoured to be representing my country at the UN, and I am strengthened by the warm wishes from the people of Zimbabwe.

Tonight I will be addressing the UN General Assembly and updating the world on our progress.

You can watch on ZimEye.com at 1am (Zim time)

By A Correspondent- Pensioners from the Public Service Commission (PSC) will not access their dues this Friday as was initially expected, as there are efforts to review them.

In a statement on Monday, the PSC said the pensioners would now be paid by October 3.

“The public service commission regret to inform all public service pensioners that we are unable to meet the scheduled Friday 27 September pay out date.

“The change has been necessitated by the granted approval to review pensions in line with the cost of living adjustment given to serving members.

“We are working flat out to finalise the process and we should be able to pay by the 3rd of October 2019. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused and kindly as all our pensioners to bear with us,” read the statement.

I am issuing this statement to make the public and also those who are outside to be fully aware of the full facts of the issues surrounding Dr Magombeyi’s abduction.

The alleged abduction was reported to have taken place on the 15th of September 2019. It was his roommate and colleague who made the report to the police. According to his room mate’s report, Dr Magombeyi had left home informing him that he was going for an all night prayer.

He advised him to lock the door since he was not coming back that night. He did not disclose the church nor the place where he was going to. Dr Hove reported Dr Magombeyi as abducted 12 hours later after he received a text message from him reporting that he had been forcibly taken by three men. Police put up a highly experienced and skilled team with a view to establish the whereabouts of Dr Magombeyi as well as safeguard his well being.

Public appeals for information were made in different platforms that is in both social media and traditional media. On the 19th of September, police received a report that Dr Magombeyi had been located. They tried to call him and he answered the phone stating that he was in Nyabira.

Police assembled a team to go and collect him as well as continue investigations over his alleged abduction. They found him jovially speaking on the phone, he was lucid and coherent and he gladly came with the police.

He was well kempt and well groomed indicating self care. At this point Dr Magombeyi has lucidly given interviews in three languages interchangeably.

Part of his version was that he was unharmed and he had generalised body pain. During his journey to the police station, he remained on his phone throughout talking to different people.

When Dr Magombeyi got to the police station, he made a statement with the support of his two lawyers and his father was also present. In his statement he said he had left home to go for a drink with the boys. He refused to state where he was abducted and the circumstances to his release which to this point he has not disclosed to the police. Dr Magombeyi signed his statement to the police in the presence of his lawyers and his father.

After signing the statement, Dr Magombeyi was taken to the Avenues Clinic by his father for medical checkups . His father Mr Kingstone Magombeyi expressed concerns for his son’s security and hired a private security firm.

The ZRP saw it fit to deliver on their constitutional mandate and provide Dr Magombeyi’s protection. He was assessed by government doctors and his own private doctors and other different medical specimen were obtained for further medical examination.

On the 24th of September 2019 15 unidentified individuals tried to take Dr Magombeyi from his hospital bed but the police who were concerned for his safety stopped them They stopped the individual on the basis that he was a victim of an alleged previous abduction. They called for reinforcement.

The police is keen to apprehend the alleged abductors so as to bring them to justice and protect the public. They therefore sought the court’s assistance to delay Dr Magombeyi’s departure to South Africa before getting the vital leads they need to advance their investigations.

It is duty of the police to protect the safety of its citizens. The police will not ask for this delay beyond a few more sensible hours. By that time the other information that they are waiting for is expected to have been availed.

The government would like to assure the nation that Dr Magombeyi is not being held against his will. Once the police are satisfied that his personal security is guaranteed government will ensure that Dr Magombeyi is free to travel to a place of his choice without hindrance.

By A Correspondent- One of the country’s largest ferrochrome producers, African Chrome fields (ACF), has shut down its mining operations in Kwekwe, laying off over 500 workers.

The company is owned by South African businessman Zunaid Moti, with the Zimbabwe National Army believed to be dormant partners in the company.

Moti told Southern Eye that he was under pressure to pull out of Zimbabwe because of the country’s negative image and the collapsing economy which was affecting operations at ACF. The business mogul had sunk over US$250 million in the project.

The drastic drop of chrome price in China has also impacted the company, established five years ago amid pomp and fanfare, with then Vice-President President Emmerson Mnangagwa and army general Constantino Chiwenga officiating at the event.

“Some people would not want to do business with us because we are in Zimbabwe. But the economic meltdown in the southern African country has also caused a negative impact as well,” Moti said.

ACF became a force to reckon with in the chrome mining sector, competing with Zimasco, after it invested over $200 million in the construction of an aluminothermic plant and six other plants that were set to generate 10 000 tonnes of ultra-low carbon ferrochrome monthly within 11 months.

Its establishment in 2014 came as a reprieve to the Kwekwe community, after a Chinese investor had failed to run the country’s largest chrome smelting company, Zimasco, laying off thousands of workers.

ACF, situated along the Kwekwe-Mvuma Highway, has the largest smelting ferrochrome plants after Zimasco.

Workers’ representative Chaipa Magura said company management in a meeting held on September 6 agreed to stop further retrenchments and pay outstanding salaries. However, only security details will be at the premises.

“After consultation between all present, the parties agreed that management pays outstanding salaries and workers shall be called to work when need arises with a seven-day notice. As for now, security details are to remain at the sites,” he said.

Efforts to get a comment from Mines and Development minister Winston Chitando were fruitless as he continuously said he was busy.

A senior official in the Mines ministry said the drop of chrome price in China — the country’s sole market — had affected many chrome companies’ operations in Zimbabwe.

“It’s not only ACF that has been affected, but we have big companies such as Nelson in Gweru that have been hammered by the drop in chrome price. We currently have China as our major market and they recently announced the drop in price with over 40%,” said the official who could not be named for security reasons.

-Newsday

By A Correspondent- National Secretary for Administration ZANU (PF) Youth League, Tendai Chirau has blasted EFF leader Julius Malema accusing him of being used by the G40 cabal to push their anti Emmerson Mnangagwa agenda.

Said Chirau in a statement:

It’s unfortunate and an absurdity of the highest level of obstinacy that Malema has turned himself to be a paid willing implement of the fallen and discredited G40 clique whose majority of members are walloping in different countries dreading arrest for various crimes.

Contrary to what Mr Malema says, the wishes of the family are being esteemed by the leadership of the government and President ED is on record of confirming this. It was the family which suggested the idea of a mausoleum and the wish was granted.

The respect for the wishes of the family is indeed a new development, considering that RGM as a matter of not judging him did not respect the wishes of those families who did not want their relatives interred at the shrine.

The following heroes come to mind, Cephas Msipa, Edgar Tekere just to mention just but a few. This is highly important information that your G40 handlers hid from you. Indeed RGM was our leader of note whom we voted for several terms and the ideology which he nurtured was not his own individual ideology per se but that of the Party which shepherded him to office which is the gigantic ZANU PF.

This party is a product of a long-drawn-out liberation struggle whose accomplishment cannot be credited to an individual’s effort but rather the imperturbable collective effort of the slogging sons and daughters of the land some fallen and some still living.

President ED and many others are some of these living Cdes who are marshalling the legacy of the liberation struggle forward. The struggle transcends individuals.

We are cognizant of a group of the cabal who iniquitously attempted to skyjack the revolution by exploiting the advanced age of the RGM during his last days in office which led to the party structures to expel such characters.

Surprisingly it is the same characters that you are dining and wining with who are misinforming you so that they gain political capital.

It was during the last days of RGM rule that the party followed due procedures by instituting the process of his recall in order to reinstate the legacy of the liberation struggle which was under threat. This is not tormenting as you allege, but putting the party’s legacy on track and righting the wrongs.

Even after his resignation the ED led Government ensured that the former President is well looked after. His security was intact, and medical bills were paid by the state (refer to statements by his children). Even his extended relatives were taken care of (refer to Grace’s mother assistance).

During your days in the ANC and your new arrivarist party EFF you recalled Zuma and none said that it was excruciating since you were bringing normalcy.

If it was a necessary thing to be done then your assertions which paint a gory picture of torment are uncalled for at a time when we are supposed to building the nation.

From Tendai Chirau
National Secretary for Administration ZANU (PF) Youth League.

By A Correspondent- Rumors of adultery and infidelity circulating on social media about the former Upper Room Ministries preacher have been dispelled by close people who witnessed circumstances leading to the death.

Dambaza’s maid, who stayed with the family for almost two years at their Borrowdale home, revealed how she lived under the now-deceased pastor.

“I don’t know what to say about this but I will tell you that for all the time I have lived with them, I have never seen any sad day because they were always happy.

“They are a happy family, all the children seemed happy around him and since the time I’ve been here, I learned a lot from them.

“Pastor Dambaza and his wife changed my life and I don’t know how to repay them.

“To tell you the truth, I’ve never seen them fighting or quarreling and I’m forever grateful to them,” she said.

Dambaza’s last born son Oracle was devastated and could not even bring himself to talk to H-Metro.

Neighbors who spoke to H-Metro said they often interacted with the late pastor when he went out to do his work.

“It’s so sad because we were like friends with the pastor, I think people should regularly have counseling services when facing life challenges,” said Moses the neighbor.

“Some two weeks ago I heard others saying the pastor was having some issues and people noticed a change in him but he was just a good person,” said another neighbor who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A relative who spoke to this publication confirmed the death of the mother to the late preacher who died yesterday at around 8 am.

Dambaza was married to Sithembeni Dambaza an assistant pastor at the church.

They have two daughters (Oreen and Oretha) and two sons (Osborne and Oracle).

Unconfirmed reports circulating suggest the suicide is attributed to financial issues emanating from debts or misappropriation of funds.

-HMetro

By A Correspondent- The real location of Robert Mugabe’s corpse has remained a mystery the nation might have to endure for a thousand years.

The late 95 year old’s nephew, Leo, says Mugabe ‘s is a chief whose resting place and its dating cannot be known. Everything is meant to confuse and upset both his close family and the nation at large.

Recent reports however indicate that the late former president’s widow Grace Mugabe has petitioned the city of Harare requesting that the late former Zimbabwean leader be buried at his Blue Roof residence.

The development comes as usually reliable sources told reporters Mugabe was secretly buried in Zvimba last week, linking well with several video recorded statements by the Mugabe family spokesman, Leo who clearly said that at the heroes acre, the government will bury something else that is not his boss.

They even provided photographic evidence of the burial site. So confusing is the matter that Leo Mugabe himself acknowledged, leading to him altogether cancelling the government imposed heroes burial function previously slated for the 15th Sept 2019. In other interviews he categorically announced that the public would never know either when or where Mugabe’s remains will be interred.

The Mugabe burial site and its dating should thus be just like that of King Lobengula whose remains since the 1890s, have remained a mystery. Is the latest twist a deliberate pile up to the confusion, so people will be forever continue in derision? Reporters are investigating.

By A Correspondent- Multi-talented creative Vimbai Zimuto trending in entertainment following her decision to bare all through her nud3 art, she has become the tonic for many show organizers keen to cash in on her popularity.

Shoko Festival is the next in line after roping her in for their Peace in the Hood Concert, where she will make a deadly combination with fellow vixen Kikky Badass at the arts and culture fete running under the theme, Return of the Zim dollar.

Zimuto, however, will only be baring her under-rated music prowess on stage.

“With the theme Peace in the hood @shokofestival, I and my sister @kikkybadass will be sharing the mic. This theme is directed at finding peace with each other and me and kiki had our own share of media catfights,” wrote Vimbai on her Facebook wall.

The longest-running urban culture jubilee is set to kick off on Friday and Vimbai as well as musician Nutty O, will bring the curtain down in Chitungwiza on Sunday.

By A Correspondent- Two people, one of them a renowned football administrator, died on the spot when a vehicle was hit from the back by a haulage truck as it slowed down to turn right near Masue River Bridge in Victoria Falls yesterday.

The drivers of both vehicles died while a passenger who was in the haulage truck was seriously injured in the accident which occurred just after 1PM.

Mkhangeli Moyo, once chairperson of Division One outfits Amagagasi FC and Mosi Rovers FC was driving the smaller vehicle.

Moyo was working at leading tour operator Shearwater Adventures in Victoria Falls at the time of his death.

The other deceased was a Zambian haulage truck driver whose vehicle was carrying a corrosive substance from DRC to South Africa.

The haulage truck landed on its right side after overturning on impact.

The driver of a third vehicle survived by quickly pulling off the road after noticing that the haulage truck driver was not slowing down to allow the vehicle in front to turn right.

Witnesses said the three vehicles were all going due south from Victoria Falls town.

“Mkhangeli Moyo was driving a small truck and he indicated that he was intending to turn right at the Stanley and Livingstone Lodge turn-off just after the bridge. Behind him was another car and a haulage truck. It seems the driver of the other car which was between Moyo’s and the truck noticed that the truck driver was not slowing down and he suddenly pulled off the road and in a wink of an eye the truck hit Moyo’s vehicle from the driver’s side,” said a witness.

The truck landed on its side on the western side of the road killing the driver on the spot while Moyo’s vehicle was also thrown on the side of the road killing him on the spot.

The driver of the truck was reportedly trapped for about two hours. A fire brigade crew battled in vain to pull the body out while a haulage truck team tried to use a chain to pull up the truck but failed after the chain broke.

The body was finally retrieved after 3PM through concerted effort by various stakeholders.

Acting Matabeleland North police spokesperson Sergeant Namatirai Mashona could not comment as she said she had not been furnished with details of the crash.

StateMedia

Construction of a mausoleum for the late former President Robert Mugabe is expected to take longer than expected.

Mugabe, who died on September 6 and was declared a national hero, is yet to be buried as his final resting place at the National Heroes Acre is still under construction.

Initially, reports were rife that he would be buried after a month, but work on the actual mausoleum is yet to begin, with civil works at the shrine still underway.

Sources close to the on-site work have revealed that the ground was still being leveled in preparation for the construction.

Sources told the Zim Morning Post that civil construction works began last week.

“Work at the site began a week ago and so far civil works on top of the mountain where the mausoleum will be built is underway,” sources said.

“There is need for construction of the retaining walls before the real construction can take place. The Chinese company, Shanghai Construction Group, which has the capacity to carry out this project in terms of adequate equipment, is yet to give a time frame for the completion of work, but a month is not enough.

“Chances that the one-month deadline will be met are slim, and it does not seem that Mugabe will be buried anytime soon.”

“The contractors have to cut into the mountain and build the retaining wall. They will then construct the steps and all this is being done

Mugabe was declared a national hero and was honoured with a 21-gun salute. There were a series of meetings between Mnangagwa’s government and the Mugabe family in regard to his final resting place, ultimately leading to the idea of the mausoleum.

The Mugabe family wanted the national hero to get a befitting burial like most African leaders of his calibre do, with just a distance from the grave of his first wife Sally, but it is proving to be a costly affair.

It is now 17 days after Mugabe’s death and there are fears the state-of-the-art mausoleum would require three months to be fully constructed. 

Zim Morning Post

The Community Water Alliance led by Hardlife Mudzingwa has mounted a High Court challenge to assert the human right to water following erratic water supplies by the City of Harare.

This was revealed by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights late Wednesday afternoon.

Below are the reliefs sort by the rights lobby group.

ZimLive|The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced Wednesday that it had frozen the accounts of five companies as it battles to suppress illegal foreign currency trading on the parallel market.

The RBZ last Friday froze the accounts of four companies accused of fuelling parallel market trading and devastating the local currency which traded as low as 1:27 to the United States dollar.

The exchange rate on the parallel market stabilised at around 1:14 to the United States dollar over the weekend into Monday, almost converging with the interbank rate. But the Zimbabwe dollar quickened its decline again on Wednesday with the rate climbing to 1:19.

In a notice to banks, the RBZ said it was ordering a freeze on the accounts of Bill Height Investments, Landela Investments, Rimosa Trading, Fossil Agro and Traverze Travel.

Zanu PF MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena identified three of the companies – Landela Investments, Rimosa Trading and Fossil Agro – as being owned by petroleum tycoon, Kudakwashe Tagwirei.

Tagwirei, a benefactor of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party whose Sakunda Holdings is the funder of the government’s controversial Command Agriculture programme, was on last week’s freeze list with Sakunda.

Traverze used to handle the government’s foreign travel bookings before the tender was awarded to East Town Holdings owned by Mary Chiwenga last year. Traverze is owned by Zodwa Mkandla.

President Mnangagwa had hailed the impact of last week’s accounts freeze, telling an audience in New York on September 21: “We have people who found ways to fight that (stability of the currency) and undermine it, but yesterday (Friday), we also became smarter than them and so we took some action.

“We have now arrested the galloping rate which was galloping from about eight, within few days it had gone up to 10, and 20. By the time we left, it had gone down and I think today it is about 14.”

Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank has denied that it had lifted the freeze on the accounts of Access Finance, Croco Motors, Spartan Security and Sakunda Holdings which were affected by the directive issued last week to facilitate a money laundering investigation.

Mirirai Chiremba, the RBZ’s Financial Intelligence Unit head, said in a statement Wednesday that the accounts remained frozen until the probe was done.

“We have become aware of false media reports suggesting that a directive has since been issued unfreezing some or all of the said accounts. We advise that the said accounts of the named entities in the directive remain frozen, pending finalisation of our analysis,” Chiremba said.

Spartan Security is owned by Tarisai Mnangagwa, a nephew of the president.

Issued by the Minister of Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services Honourable Senator Monica Mutsvangwa

Good afternoon, I have seen it proper to update the nation on the alleged abduction of Dr Peter Magombeyi. The alleged abduction was reported to have taken place on 15 September 2019. It was his roommate and colleague who made the report to the police. According to his roommate’s report Dr Magombeyi had left home informing that he was going for an all-night prayer. He advised him to lock the door since he was not coming back that night. He did not disclose the church or the place he was going.

The colleague reported Dr. Magombeyi as abducted 12 hours after he received a text message from him reporting that he had been forcibly taken by three men. Police put up a highly skilled and experienced Team to investigate the case with a view to establish the whereabouts of Dr Magombeyi as well as to safeguard his well being. Public appeals for information were made on different platforms, traditional and social media.

On the 19′ of September 2019 Police received a report that Dr. Magombeyi had been located. They tried to call him and he answered the phone stating he was in Nyabira. Police assembled a Team to go and collect him as well as continue with the investigation over his alleged abduction. They found him jovially speaking on the phone. He was lucid and coherent and gladly came with them. He was well-kempt and groomed indicating very good self-care. It is also important to note that by this point Dr. Magombeyi had lucidly granted interviews in three languages interchangeably. Part of his version was that he was unharmed and had “generalized body pain”. During his journey to the police station, he remained on his phone throughout talking to different people.

When he got to the police station he made a statement with the support of his two lawyers and his father.

In his statement, he said he had left home to go for a drink “with the boys”. He refused to state where he was abducted at and the circumstances of his release which to this point he has not disclosed to the police. Dr Magombeyi signed his statement to the police in the presence of both lawyers and father. After signing the statement, Dr. Magombeyi was taken by his father and lawyers to the Avenues Clinic for medical check-ups.

His father, Mr. Kingstone Magombeyi, expressed concerns for his son’s security and hired a private security firm. The ZRP saw it fit to deliver on their constitutional mandate by providing their own details for Dr. Magombeyi’s protection.

Dr. Magombeyi was assessed by Govt doctors and his own private doctors and different medical specimen were obtained for further examinations. On the 24th of September 2019, 15 unidentified individuals tried to take out Dr Magombeyi from his hospital bed but the police were concerned for his safety. They stopped the individual awake to the fact that he was a victim of an alleged previous abduction. They called for reinforcements.

The police are keen to apprehend the alleged abductors so as to bring them to justice and protect the public. They, therefore, sought the court’s assistance in delaying Dr. Magombeyi’s departure to South Africa before giving the vital leads they needed to advance their investigation. It is a duty of the police to protect and guarantee the safety of all its citizens. The Police will not ask for this delay beyond a sensible few more hours. By that time the other information they are waiting for is expected to have been availed.

The Government assures the nation that Dr. Magombeyi is not being held against his will. Satisfied that his personal security is guaranteed Government will ensure that Dr. Magombeyi is free to travel to a place of his choice without hindrance.

I thank you

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By Own Correspondent| Zanu PF Youth Secretary Lewis Matutu has again hit a new low by publicly supporting the move to have certain accounts being frozen on suspected money laundering and fuelling the foreign currency parallel market.

Matutu was speaking at an interview on national television last night saying the move would go a long way in curbing parallel market rates that had gone owl last week.

However economists have slammed him saying he was ill advised as there are illegal gold dealers and some parrastatals that were buying foreign currency from the streets.

Accounts from or Croco Motors, Sakunda, Access Finance, Spartan Security and Croco Motors after they suspected them of engaging in money-laundering activities and fuelling the foreign currency parallel
market.

However a day after the accounts were frozen the parallel rate market has gone up to 1, 9 making the situation even worse than last week.

Several economists said Matutu was ill advised as there are several gold dealers who are fuelling the rates.

Some said it is not about those above mentioned companies but there are several gold dealers who are causing all the confusion.

“There are several gold dealers those white guys who are fuelling apparel market rates so freezing accounts for Croco motors does not help because it is one of the companies we expect to be very vibrant.

“Surely you cannot say Croco motors are into buying and selling of money,” one economist said.

Most of them slammed Matutu for being reckless saying there was need for him to be reprimanded.

“Matutu needs to be reprimanded because his statements are very reckless, let him understand what is going on first before he goes public with his dubious rants.”

I am issuing this statement to make the public and also those who are outside to be fully aware of the full facts of the issues surrounding Dr Magombeyi’s abduction.

The alleged abduction was reported to have taken place on the 15th of September 2019. It was his roommate and colleague who made the report to the police. According to his room mate’s report, Dr Magombeyi had left home informing him that he was going for an all night prayer.

He advised him to lock the door since he was not coming back that night. He did not disclose the church nor the place where he was going to. Dr Hove reported Dr Magombeyi as abducted 12 hours later after he received a text message from him reporting that he had been forcibly taken by three men. Police put up a highly experienced and skilled team with a view to establish the whereabouts of Dr Magombeyi as well as safeguard his well being.

Public appeals for information were made in different platforms that is in both social media and traditional media. On the 19th of September, police received a report that Dr Magombeyi had been located. They tried to call him and he answered the phone stating that he was in Nyabira.

Police assembled a team to go and collect him as well as continue investigations over his alleged abduction. They found him jovially speaking on the phone, he was lucid and coherent and he gladly came with the police.

He was well kempt and well groomed indicating self care. At this point Dr Magombeyi has lucidly given interviews in three languages interchangeably.

Part of his version was that he was unharmed and he had generalised body pain. During his journey to the police station, he remained on his phone throughout talking to different people.

When Dr Magombeyi got to the police station, he made a statement with the support of his two lawyers and his father was also present. In his statement he said he had left home to go for a drink with the boys. He refused to state where he was abducted and the circumstances to his release which to this point he has not disclosed to the police. Dr Magombeyi signed his statement to the police in the presence of his lawyers and his father.

After signing the statement, Dr Magombeyi was taken to the Avenues Clinic by his father for medical checkups . His father Mr Kingstone Magombeyi expressed concerns for his son’s security and hired a private security firm.

The ZRP saw it fit to deliver on their constitutional mandate and provide Dr Magombeyi’s protection. He was assessed by government doctors and his own private doctors and other different medical specimen were obtained for further medical examination.

On the 24th of September 2019 15 unidentified individuals tried to take Dr Magombeyi from his hospital bed but the police who were concerned for his safety stopped them. They stopped the individual on the basis that he was a victim of an alleged previous abduction. They called for reinforcement.

The police is keen to apprehend the alleged abductors so as to bring them to justice and protect the public. They therefore sought the court’s assistance to delay Dr Magombeyi’s departure to South Africa before getting the vital leads they need to advance their investigations.

It is duty of the police to protect the safety of its citizens. The police will not ask for this delay beyond a few more sensible hours. By that time the other information that they are waiting for is expected to have been availed.

The government would like to assure the nation that Dr Magombeyi is not being held against his will. Once the police are satisfied that his personal security is guaranteed government will ensure that Dr Magombeyi is free to travel to a place of his choice without hindrance.

Farai Dziva|The burial of former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is shrouded in secrecy and mystery.

The real location of Mugabe’s corpse has remained a mystery the nation might have to endure for a thousand years. The late 95 year old’s nephew, Leo, says Mugabe ‘s is a chief whose resting place and its dating cannot be known.

Everything is meant to confuse and upset both his close family and the nation at large.

The development comes as usually reliable sources told reporters Mugabe was secretly buried in Zvimba last week, linking well with several video recorded statements by the Mugabe family spokesman, Leo who clearly said that at the heroes acre, the government will bury something else that is not his bosy.

They even provided photographic evidence of the burial site.

So confusing is the matter that Leo Mugabe himself acknowledged, leading to him altogether cancelling the government imposed heroes burial function previously slated for the 15th Sept 2019.

In other interviews he categorically announced that the public would never know either when or where Mugabe’s remains will be interred.

The Mugabe burial site and its dating should thus be just like that of King Lobengula whose remains since the 1890s, have remained a mystery. Is the latest twist a deliberate pile up to the confusion, so people will be forever continue in derision?

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The real location of Robert Mugabe’s corpse has remained a mystery the nation might have to endure for a thousand years. The late 95 year old’s nephew, Leo, says Mugabe ‘s is a chief whose resting place and its dating cannot be known. Everything is meant to confuse and upset both his close family and the nation at large.

The development comes as usually reliable sources told reporters Mugabe was secretly buried in Zvimba last week, linking well with several video recorded statements by the Mugabe family spokesman, Leo who clearly said that at the heroes acre, the government will bury something else that is not his body. They even provided photographic evidence of the burial site. So confusing is the matter that Leo Mugabe himself acknowledged, leading to him altogether cancelling the government imposed heroes burial function previously slated for the 15th Sept 2019. In other interviews he categorically announced that the public would never know either when or where Mugabe’s remains will be interred. The Mugabe burial site and its dating should thus be just like that of King Lobengula whose remains since the 1890s, have remained a mystery. Is the latest twist a deliberate pile up to the confusion, so people will be forever continue in derision? Reporters are investigating.

RE:SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

It’s unfortunate and an absurdity of the highest level of obstinacy that Malema has turned himself to be a paid willing implement of the of the fallen and discredited G40 clique whose majority of members are walloping in different countries dreading arrest for various crimes.

Contrary to what Mr Malema says, the wishes of the family are being esteemed by the leadership of the government and President ED is on record of confirming this. It was the family which suggested the idea of a mausoleum and the wish was granted.

The respect for the wishes of the family is indeed a new development, considering that RGM as a matter of not judging him did not respect the wishes of those families who did not want their relatives interred at the shrine. The following heroes come to mind, Cephas Msipa, Edgar Tekere just to mention just but a few. This is highly important information that your G40 handlers hid from you.

Indeed RGM was our leader of note whom we voted for several terms and the ideology which he nurtured was not his own individual ideology per se but that of the Party which shepherded him to office which is the gigantic ZANU PF.

This party is a product of a long-drawn-out liberation struggle whose accomplishment cannot be credited to an individual’s effort but rather the imperturbable collective effort of the slogging sons and daughters of the land some fallen and some still living.

President ED and many others are some of these living Cdes who are marshalling the legacy of the liberation struggle forward. The struggle transcends individuals. We are cognizant of a group of the cabal who iniquitously attempted to skyjack the revolution by exploiting the advanced age of the RGM during his last days in office which led to the party structures to expel such characters.

Surprisingly it is the same characters that you are dining and wining with who are misinforming you so that they gain political capital. It was during the last days of RGM rule that the party followed due procedures by instituting the process of his recall in order to reinstate the legacy of the liberation struggle which was under threat.

This is not tormenting as you allege, but putting the party’s legacy on track and righting the wrongs. Even after his resignation the ED led Government ensured that the former President is well looked after. His security was intact, and medical bills were paid by the state (refer to statements by his children). Even his extended relatives were taken care of (refer to Grace’s mother assistance).

During your days in the ANC and your new arrivarist party EFF you recalled Zuma and none said that it was excruciating since you were bringing normalcy. If it was a necessary thing to be done then your assertions which paint a gory picture of torment are uncalled for at a time when we are supposed to building the nation.

From Tendai Chirau
National Secretary for Administration ZANU (PF) Youth League.

Farai Dziva|Three MDC members have been convicted and sentenced for killing a Zanu PF supporter.

According to Chronicle, the three members of the opposition MDC were sentenced to a combined 10-year jail term for killing a ZANU PF member who was celebrating presidential election victory in 2008.

Former president, the late Robert Mugabe had won the run-off election which was instituted after all candidates failed to attain 50+1% of the votes cast.

Former Prime Minister, the late Morgan Tsvangirayi (MDC) had won the first round of the election.

The trio, Cleopas Ngwenya (70), Owen Ngwenya (37) and Gilbert Nkomo (65), all of Jamu village under Chief Chireya in Gokwe North, appeared before Bulawayo High Court Judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva, sitting in Gweru and pleaded guilty to culpable homicide.

In passing the sentence, Justice Takuva said that the court had considered a number of issues including the ages of the accused.

“In passing the sentence, the court considered that the accused persons are first offenders and they pleaded guilty. The accused persons also have families to look after. The first accused person is 70-years-old while the second accused person is now 65. Both are in the twilight of their lives.

We also considered that there was a delay in the prosecution of the matter. We also want people in the rural areas to learn to be able to live with their neighbours who also support other political parties,” said the judge.

Ngwenya and Nkomo were sentenced to four years each that were wholly suspended on condition of good behaviour while Owen was sentenced to two years in jail of which one year was also suspended on condition of good behaviour.

Farai Dziva|Legal experts have pointed out that the State’ s argument in Dr Peter Magombeyi’s case is fraught with inconsistencies.

The State, in its application to have the acting president of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Peter Magobeyi kept at Avenues Hospital, has argued that the doctor is unfit to travel.

The State is blocking his release despite the High Court giving Magombeyi the greenlight to go.

Paragraph 3.2 of the State’s “correction” application, reads:
“The Respondent’s son underwent medical examination and the government doctors indicated that he is unfit to travel.”

The real location of Robert Mugabe’s corpse has remained a mystery the nation might have to endure for a thousand years. The late 95 year old’s nephew, Leo, says Mugabe ‘s is a chief whose resting place and its dating cannot be known. Everything is meant to confuse and upset both his close family and the nation at large. The development comes as usually reliable sources told reporters Mugabe was secretly buried in Zvimba last week, linking well with several video recorded statements by the Mugabe family spokesman, Leo who clearly said that at the heroes acre, the government will bury something else that is not his bosy. They even provided photographic evidence of the burial site. So confusing is the matter that Leo Mugabe himself acknowledged, leading to him altogether cancelling the government imposed heroes burial function previously slated for the 15th Sept 2019. In other interviews he categorically announced that the public would never know either when or where Mugabe’s remains will be interred. The Mugabe burial site and its dating should thus be just like that of King Lobengula whose remains since the 1890s, have remained a mystery. Is the latest twist a deliberate pile up to the confusion, so people will be forever continue in derision? Reporters are investigating.

By A Correspondent- In a move to tame the foreign exchange black market the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is reported to have frozen another group of bank accounts linked to Kuda Tagwireyi and Traverze Travel which is owned by Ginimbi’s Ex Wife.

Zodwa Mkandla is the Founder and Managing Director of Traverze Travel, one of the leading leisure and corporate travel management companies in Zimbabwe.

This is the second time in less than a week that the RBZ’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has frozen bank accounts.

Last week the FIU froze another set of bank accounts belonging to Kuda Tagwirei, a close ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.

In the latest action taken by the FIU, the accounts which have been frozen are as follows.

By A Correspondent- Speaker of Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda has said that he will engage Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr Sibusiso Moyo over alleged abuse of diplomatic passports by some legislators.

Mudenda told Parliamentarians that the red passport carried a huge responsibility.

He said:

The holding of a diplomatic passport carries with it some heavy responsibility.

It’s a privilege and, therefore, cannot be abused, especially in international relations.

I shall therefore have to converse with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo) and deal with the matter accordingly.

Mudenda was responding to a report by Chimanimani West legislator, Joshua Sacco who had said that there were people who were speaking badly about both president Emmerson Mnangagwa and the country yet they possessed the red passport.

For Sacco, denigrating the President and the country constituted treason.

-StateMedia

By A Correspondent- Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity, Simon Khaya Moyo, has said that the ruling party was disturbed by Malema’s recent attack on the government.

Malema had come to Zimbabwe to pay his last respects to the late founding leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe whose body lies in state at the Blue Roof Mansion.

Malema described government officials as “chancers” and also attributed the high unemployment rate in the country to the leadership, not business.

Khaya Moyo said Malema’s comments were not appropriate at a funeral as they do not embody the spirit of ubuntu.

He added:

“Whilst it is everyone’s democratic right to mourn and pay respect on the sad note of the founding father former President Robert Mugabe, including the restless and careless South African opposition party EEF leader Julius Malema, it is an abomination and unAfrican to use such a platform to denigrate virtues which define Ubuntu.

In that regard, the party finds it reprehensible for Mr Julius Malema to use such a solemn occasion to spew political propaganda and score cheap political mileage.

Zanu-PF Secretary for War veterans, Douglas Mahiya, said that Malema was being used by the Generation 40 party to insult the government.

He added that Malema was a “small boy” who does not understand regional politics and will “never rule South Africa”.

Malema recently invited members of the Generation party, including Saviour Kasukuwere and Jason Zhuwao to Mugabe’s memorial service that was held in Soweto, South Africa.

At the same event, he remarked that it was not outrageous for Kasukuwere to have succeeded former President Mugabe.

By A Correspondent- The real location of Robert Mugabe’s corpse has remained a mystery the nation might have to endure for a thousand years. The late 95 year old’s nephew, Leo, says Mugabe is a chief whose resting place and its dating cannot be known. Everything is meant to confuse and upset both his close family and the nation at large. The development comes as usually reliable sources told reporters Mugabe was secretly buried in Zvimba last week, linking well with several video recorded statements by the Mugabe family spokesman, Leo who clearly said that at the heroes acre, the government will bury something else that is not his body. They even provided photographic evidence of the burial site. So confusing is the matter that Leo Mugabe himself acknowledged, leading to him altogether cancelling the government imposed heroes burial function previously slated for the 15th Sept 2019. In other interviews he categorically announced that the public would never know either when or where Mugabe’s remains will be interred. The Mugabe burial site and its dating should thus be just like that of King Lobengula whose remains since the 1890s, have remained a mystery. Is the latest twist a deliberate pile up to the confusion, so people will be forever continue in derision? Reporters are investigating. Traditional leaders from Zvimba were on Friday reportedly kicked out of the late former President Robert Mugabe’s Blue Roof mansion by the ex-leader’s widow Grace as the feud over the final resting place of her husband rages on.

Highly-placed family sources told NewsDay that Grace was livid after it emerged that it was the Zvimba chiefs led by Chief Zvimba who approached President Emmerson Mnangagwa pushing for Mugabe to be declared a national hero and interred at the national shrine.

“There was a stand-off after it became clear that the chiefs were pushing their own interests and prepared to alter Mugabe’s deathbed wishes not to be buried at the National Heroes Acre, but at his boyhood village in Kutama,” the source said.

The source said the chiefs who had camped at the Blue Roof since Mugabe died early this month were reportedly given their marching orders on Thursday night after a meeting between the traditional leaders, Grace’s sisters and Mnangagwa. They then left the lofty home on Friday morning.

Grace has not set foot at the national shrine where government is constructing a mausoleum for her husband, whose body was claimed to be still holed up at the family’s imposing mansion in Borrowdale.

She has allegedly refused to let the veteran nationalist’s body lie in state at One Commando Barracks or at private mortuaries, a development which has further strained her relations with other family members.

“What I know is that it’s the Zvimba chiefs who marked that grave (mausoleum) and Grace has not even set her foot there, so clearly that feud is not a lie. The people who have been taking the lead are Zvimba chiefs and they have not been at Blue Roof since weekend,” a government source said.

“If she can’t allow them to keep the body and preferring to stay at home with her dead husband, what makes you think she will let them bury him at the National Heroes Acre where the army and his enemies in government have access?” a close family member asked.

Contacted for comment yesterday, Mugabe family spokesperson Leo said: “Ummm, I am not aware of any stand-off. I am currently at my farm. I hope most of the people have gone back to their homes or farms. As far as I know, there are no changes. We are waiting on the government to finish working at the Heroes Acre,” he said.

Mugabe died in Singapore on September 6 after being pushed out of power in a coup in November 2017, and replaced by his former long-time aide, Mnangagwa.

Shortly before his death, Mugabe reportedly told his close family members that he did not wish to be buried at the national shrine and for his “tormentors” to pontificate over his demise.

On Friday, South Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema visited the Mugabe family home to pay his condolences where he urged Grace to stand firm and resist attempts to force her to defy her late husband’s deathbed wishes.

“We respect the last wishes of President Mugabe and that in our African tradition the words of the deceased cannot be undermined by anyone it doesn’t matter how powerful you think you are,” Malema said.

“If the current dispensation believes in President Mugabe, they should protect his legacy. Part of protecting his legacy is first and foremost respect his last wishes and the wishes of his family.

“It’s an absolute nonsense that you think declaring a person a national hero takes away the right of the family over the deceased. The family, especially the surviving spouse, has got the last word. It doesn’t matter whether you have declared a person a national hero; whether you are doing a State funeral, every little detail of what you want to do around the dead body should be consulted with the family, particularly when we are African and there is a very strong surviving spouse here who is not easily shaken by arrivalists, so they ought to really respect her and respect the wishes of this family,” he added.

— NewsDay

By A Correspondent- Scores of supporters of the MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe are reportedly seeking readmission into the MDC-A led by advocate Nelson Chamisa.

MDC A Matebeleland North Provincial organising secretary, Goshen Zhou, who is also Victoria Falls councillor for ward 11, said that they have since received phone calls from those who wanted to defect. Zhou said:

We have received a number of calls from MDC-T supporters who want to defect from the party to MDC Alliance. They have expressed their desire to come back.

Some of them have approached the provincial leadership begging to be allowed back into the party. We have requested that they put their applications in writing and we are still waiting for their letters.

News Day reports that some highly placed sources claimed that those who wanted to desert the party were citing lack of direction and the party’s participation in President Mnangagwa-led political dialogue, POLAD.

The claims have however been refuted by MDC-T national chairman, Abednico Bhebhe, who described them as blatant lies. Bhebhe said:

“The first mistake, have they shown you the letters of those people whom they are claiming to be joining MDC Alliance? Two, who are those people? Three, they must be celebrating that Zanu PF, the party that has caused us all problems are joining them, not another opposition party.”

-Newsday

The ZRP is aware of social media reports referring to the results of the medical examination carried out on Dr Magombeyi, some of them stating that he is wheelchair bound and others stating that he is unable to walk as a result of severe torture to sensitive parts of his anatomy.

The ZRP would like to ensure the public that whilst the results of his examination cannot be published on the grounds of the observance of the doctor/patient confidentiality and the fact that investigations are still in progress, these reports are mischievous, false and baseless. Consequently, they should be disregarded.

The ZRP is still carrying out investigations into this matter and members of the public with information that they consider relevant to this investigation are invited to approach the police with their evidence.

In the meantime, Dr Magombeyi has unfettered access to his family, friends, and a plethora of lawyers and he enjoys the full protection of the Zimbabwe Republic Police.

Paul Nyathi|Late former President Robert Mugabe family spokesperson Leo Mugabe has failed to explain categorically the uncultural continuous changing of caskets that have been seen as carrying Mugabe’s body.

Mugabe’s body arrived from Singapore in a wooden casket and it lied in state at Rufaro and National Sports Stadium in the original casket.

When the body was finally taken to Mugabe’s rural home mourners were shocked to discover that the casket had been changed.

“That is not the casket that we saw on Saturday at the National Sports Stadium,” said one of the mourners.

“This is something we have never seen. How can a coffin be changed. There must be something happening.

This week, pictures of South African opposition party Julius Malema showed him purportedly “viewing” Mugabe’s body in a completely different casket.

“I cannot answer that particular question. The safety of the corpse was taken into cognisance,” was all that Leo Mugabe could say.

Leo Mugabe further failed to commit on the current situation around the body of his late uncle following revelations that the former statesman was actually buried a couple of days ago.

Speaking to state run online media ZTN on Tuesday night, Mugabe said his last knowledge of the body was on Thursday last week when it was scheduled to leave Zvimba for Harare.

Initially, the Mugabe family announced the body would be preserved at a private mortuary after public parades in the capital, Harare, and the former leader’s rural home, Zvimba. This was to allow the body to await its purported burial inside a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre.

Mugabe told ZTN News on Tuesday that he was specifically not aware where the body is at the moment though indicating that it had been extensively embalmed in Singapore to last a while before burial.

“When I left Harare on Thursday (last week after returning with the body from Zvimba), the general understanding was that the body would be taken to a mortuary or a place to be preserved.

“However, I have since been told that the preservation process was done in Singapore and the body can last for a month without going to the mortuary.

Leo Mugabe further hinted at a possibility that Mugabe may have indeed been buried as a cultural chief whose body needs to be dried extensively before burial which is what the embalming in Singapore could have achieved.

“If a chief were to be buried in a cave, for instance, they would have to be dried up first. Can you imagine how long it would take for the person to dry up? It is not a day’s job.

“So, culturally, they would have to spend days with the body. So, I don’t see a problem there myself. But, in any case, the fact is that we are waiting for the mausoleum to be finished. (Therefore), we still have to keep the body.”

ZimEye.com has been on top of the current situation around Mugabe’s burial with highly placed family members confirming in confidence that Mugabe was indeed buried in a cave in his rural Zvimba home as suggested by Leo Mugabe on his dicing answers on the body’s whereabouts.

According to a close relative of the Mugabe family, the late veteran politician was laid to rest last week, during a night burial ceremony at a hidden location in Zvimba only known to traditional chiefs, his wife Grace and immediate family.

“The whole thing about a mausoleum construction was a tactical diversion,” said the relative, who also served in Mugabe’s administration at one point.

“The president made it clear that he wanted to be buried in his rural home, and that his body be interred by chiefs in the area, at a location only known to them and his immediate family.

“Yes, there shall be a private event at Heroes Acre in Harare, when the mausoleum is complete, but it’s all going to be symbolic. That is not Mugabe’s final resting place, but as a founding father of our country, it made sense to have a mausoleum built for him on top of the hill at the national shrine.” 

Paul Nyathi|Zimbabwe Republic Police have refuted claims that the acting president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Peter Magombeyi was “electrocuted”, “wheelchair-bound” and “unable to walk”.

The police said that Magombeyi could actually walk.

The police statement released on Wednesday reads as follows:

The ZRP is aware of social media reports referring to the results of the medical examination carried out on Dr Magombeyi, some of them stating that he is wheelchair bound and others stating that he is unable to walk as a result of severe torture to sensitive parts of his anatomy.

The ZRP would like to ensure the public that whilst the results of his examination cannot be published on the grounds of the observance of the doctor/patient confidentiality and the fact that investigations are still in progress, these reports are mischievous, false and baseless. Consequently, they should be disregarded.

The ZRP is still carrying out investigations into this matter and members of the public with information that they consider relevant to this investigation are invited to approach the police with their evidence.

In the meantime, Dr Magombeyi has unfettered access to his family, friends, and a plethora of lawyers and he enjoys the full protection of the Zimbabwe Republic Police.

Magombeyi’s actual condition remains unclear after the state on Tuesday refused to let him leave Avenues Hospital albeit against a court order claiming that he was “unfit to travel”.

Watch video of police refusing to release Dr Peter Magombeyi from hospital on Tuesday evening.

Paul Nyathi|The State yesterday shocked the world when through its lawyer, Nathaniel Chigoro filed an application at the High Court seeking to legalise the illegal hostage of the acting president of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Peter Magombeyi at the Avenues Clinic.

The state argues in its application that the Court ought to consider that there were reports suggesting that Magombeyi was abducted. Therefore, the state would like to ensure that the doctor, like any Zimbabwean citizen, was safe and that could be done when he is within Zimbabwe.

Full script of the state outline below:

Paul Nyathi|President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday held talks with Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland as the country presses ahead with efforts to re-integrate itself into the global family of nations after two decades of isolation.

Zimbabwe pulled out of the Commonwealth, a 53-nation group of mainly former British colonies, in 2002 after sharp differences with London over its land reforms.

Britain strongly opposed the reforms, under which excess white-owned farmland was compulsorily acquired to resettle landless blacks, and led an international campaign to diplomatically isolate its former colony in a bid to force the southern African country to relent on the issue.

Zimbabwe stuck to its guns, and pressed ahead with the land reform program. But shortly after taking office in 2017, Mnangagwa made overtures to the country’s friends and foes alike, including the Commonwealth, with an offer to re-open a new page in relations.

It sought to re-join the Commonwealth, and Monday’s talks between Mnangagwa and Scotland – on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York – are part of the re-admission process.

After the talks, the Commonwealth chief said the negotiations were proceeding smoothly, and expressed optimism that the country could re-join the club soon, state news agency New Ziana reported Tuesday.

Before withdrawing, Zimbabwe was one of the Commonwealth’s key members in Africa, and hosted its summit in 1991.

“We had a very good discussion. We were looking at the issues that are still outstanding. There is a process and the process is underway, it is by no means complete. There are some really interesting areas which we are going to continue to discuss. It was a good meeting,” Scotland said.

She said the Commonwealth has a laid down process which every applicant has to go through.

“So this is a process which is being accelerated as quickly as possible. If you look at our process, it is a step by step and Zimbabwe is going through all the steps just like any other country,” she said.

She said there are a number of areas where Zimbabwe has made real reforms.

Last weekend, President Mnangagwa said the quest to return to Commonwealth would be underpinned on the basis that they had not been expelled from the club of former British colonies.

Addressing Zanu-PF supporters from Canada and the US, President Mnangagwa said it was high time that Zimbabwe rejoined the Commonwealth since the reason that led to Harare withdrawing was now behind it.

He said Zimbabwe had withdrawn from the Commonwealth over issues to do with the land reform programme which had since been a completed.

Paul Nyathi|MDC @20 party deputy spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka speaks on the journey the Late Morgan Tsvangirai to Chamisa right here on The Situation Now with Blessed Mhlanga.

NewsDay

Paul Nyathi|Acting Herald Editor Tichaona Zindoga has alleged that the late Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe funded South Africa’s Julius Malema with some 1 Million worth of an unnamed currency.

Zindoga was commenting after Malema launched an attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa for seeking to hijack the burial of Mugabe.

Said Zindoga, “How much has the moribund G40 paid Malema for recent Mugabe funeral histrionics here & in SA? By the way, a sore point with ANC cadres I met in SA in the immediate aftermath of Malema breakaway is how he was funded by Mugabe some cool million or so.”

The Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Ambassador Cain Mathema says the Registrar General’s Department is now targeting to surpass the production of passports from 800 per day to a much bigger figure as government continues on its drive to improve access to the document.

Source – zbc

State Media|THE Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) says it will conduct another diamond auction before the end of the year targeting to sell between 400 000 and 500 000 carats.

Two weeks ago, MMCZ conducted its third auction this year, which saw 316 000 carats being auctioned.

The value of diamond sold under the third auction is yet to be established as reconciliation is still in progress.

MMCZ general manager Mr Tongai Muzenda said they anticipate better returns in the short-term on account of the level of pricing systems that would prevail in the market.

“We are looking forward to conducting another diamond auction where we are targeting to sell between 400 000 and 500 000 carats by the end of November,” he said.

The country expects to produce 4,1 million carats of diamonds this year, up from 2,8 carats last year. At the peak of production in 2012, Zimbabwe’s output was 12 million carats.

Presently, Zimbabwe only has two diamond producers — Murowa and the State-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), which was formed in March 2016 after Government evicted all diamond mining firms in the Chiadzwa fields following the expiry of their licences.

In June this year, the country invited seven international buyers to participate in a private sale of nearly two million carats.

Under a private sale arrangement, selected buyers are invited for valuations of diamond parcels available for sale. The price the buyer offers will then be compared with the valuations that would have been done by the producer.

And if there is a variance in what the producer is asking for and what the buyer is prepared to pay, the parties negotiate.

If the parties fail to reach consensus, the parcel will be rolled over and other buyers will be invited.

Private sales are a new model since consolidation of the diamond industry.

In the past, the marketing of diamonds was only done through scheduled auctions where buyers were publicly invited.

Zimbabwe, which has in the past not realised expected earnings since the formalisation of diamond mining operations in Manicaland, is ramping up output and negotiations are ongoing with some global investors.

In July this year, the Government signed a joint venture agreement with one of the world’s top diamond producer by volumes, Alrosa Overseas for the exploration, extraction and marketing of Zimbabwe’s diamonds.

NewsDay|DOZENS of MDC-T supporters in Victoria Falls have reportedly crossed the floor to Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance.

The Matabeleland North party leadership yesterday claimed the defectors were citing lack of direction in the former MDC vice-president and ex-Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe-led party.

The supporters backed Khupe after the split of the MDC following the death of its founding president, the late Morgan Tsvangirai, in February last year.

MDC Alliance provincial organising secretary Goshen Zhou, who is also Victoria Falls councillor for ward 11, yesterday confirmed the new development. 

“We have received a number of calls from MDC-T supporters who want to defect from the party to MDC Alliance. They have expressed their desire to come back,” he said.

“Some of them have approached the provincial leadership begging to be allowed back into the party. We have requested that they put their applications in writing and we are still waiting for their letters.”

A source close to the matter said the supporters were planning to leave Khupe’s party en masse after being irked by the party’s “lack of direction” and participating in the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-sponsored dialogue, which they said would not bring any meaningful results.

“They said the dialogue by Mnangagwa and other small parties has failed to change anything because the situation has been deteriorating with each passing day. Their hope is in MDC Alliance, which they view as a party which has the medicine to heal the ailing economy,” the source said.

He said MDC-T structures were now in shambles in the province.

“Many people are disgruntled with the direction the party has taken which they said was a departure from the opposition politics of wanting to bring food on the tables of the suffering masses. The leaders have been accused of now waiting for crumbs from Mnangagwa’s table,” the source added.

Khupe joined Mnangagwa’s dialogue with other leaders of fringe opposition parties which participated in last year’s harmonised elections, but Chamisa has boycotted the process.

State Media|Government has taken over Morton Jaffray Waterworks to ensure residents access potable water after Acting President Kembo Mohadi yesterday facilitated the clearance of water treatment chemicals at the border while the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) and District Development Fund (DDF) chipped in with technical assistance.

Pumping of water at Morton Jaffray was expected to resume by midnight following Government’s intervention, with Acting Harare Mayor Councillor Enock Mupamawonde also announcing that the city had secured seven days’ supply of water treatment chemicals from a local company.

Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Acting Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said Government had lost faith in Harare city fathers as they have failed to provide basic services that led to the cutting of water supplies for the entire Harare metropolitan area yesterday.

Minister Ziyambi said the Government set up a committee of technocrats that will assist council in handling the $37,4 million that was availed by Treasury last week for capital projects, amid reports thatprevious grants and loans were grossly abused.

“The Government has facilitated priority clearance for the lorry carrying chlorine gas from South Africa. The consignment should arrive within the next 36 hours. The council has secured enough calcium hypochlorite granules, also known as HTH, for the next 36 hours.

“We met with the Acting President and immediately we set up mechanisms to ensure that South African and Zimbabwe revenue authorities expedite the clearance of those chemicals so that they can arrive within the next 36 hours.

“Morton Jaffray Waterworks commenced operations earlier today. The conveyance of the water in trunk lines will commence anytime now and people can start to expect water in their taps around midnight. A further 35 tonnes of HTH has been secured to provide a stockpile to ensure that this shut down of the water works does not recur,” he said.

Minister Ziyambi warned not to get into council in order to secure deals for themselves without providing services.

“We are giving them money for capital projects, but what we have decided to do is to have a committee to support them, we no longer trust them, we have in the past given them monies, loans and they bought vehicles so we want this money to be used for the specific purpose it has been released hence we are setting up this committee to assist them do that.

“We believe that Harare City Council is not doing its job and Government cannot continue bailing out the city. It used to be one of the richest councils and in fact they prioritise other things as opposed to service delivery and we are now demanding that they become accountable to residents and we are going to ensure that happens and be strict in terms of the way they conduct themselves,” he said.

On technical experts, ZINWA acting chief executive officer Engineer Taurayi Maurikira said the team was already on the ground working at Morton Jaffrey which was reopened yesterday after getting some local supplies of chemicals.

“Under the section 5(e) and (i) of ZINWA Act it is empowered to intervene when there are challenges in local authorities. We hold the mandate to supply water but it is the local authorities that that have the powers to distribute it.

“We are part of the technical committees set up by Government that are looking at Morton Jaffrey by providing technical knowledge from the production line to the distribution water points,” he said.

District Development Fund (DDF)’s Water Supplies and Maintenance director Mr Edwin Toriro said it was in process of drilling more boreholes in Harare to alleviate the water crisis after Government allocated $60 million for projects.

“Government allocated $60 million for this year which is meant to cover borehole drilling and installation, irrigation development, small scale irrigation scheme, small piped water system rehabilitation and hand pumping rehabilitation,” he said.

The Government’s agency recently drilled 15 boreholes in Glen View.

Paul Nyathi|ZANU-PF yesterday made yet another rhetoric on South Africa opposition leader Mr Julius Malema’s visit to mourn with former first lady Grace Mugabe this time claiming that he is a hypocrite seeking to use former President Robert Mugabe’s funeral for political mileage.

Malema who leads the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) was in the country on Monday to pay condolences to Mugabe’s family following his death early this month.

The EFF leader went on a tirade accusing Sadc and African Union of not serving their members’ interests. He further blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa for tormenting the late former President Robert Mugabe after taking over government from him through a military coup.

Zanu-PF national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said Mr Malema’s desperation had pushed him to use Mugabe’s death for political relevance. 

“While the late Cde RG Mugabe has always been the national, regional and continental and globally esteemed revolution icon, who relentlessly fought the machinations of the oppressor, it is sad to have a puppet of the same colonisers Cde RG Mugabe fought, in the form of Malema demeaning all that he solidly stood for. It would be interesting to all and sundry if they would replay Malema’s past where he vilified the same late Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe he now wants to befriend in death,” said Khaya Moyo.

He said the late former President needs no charlatans and controversial figures to uphold his legacy as his life speaks volumes for his Pan Africanist beliefs even at death.

Khaya Moyo said it was sad that Mr Malema wanted to use a funeral to gain political relevance. 

“In our African culture it is taboo for anyone despite their station in life to use the occasion of a funeral to demean fellow African brothers and sisters. In that regard, the party finds it reprehensible for Julius Malema to use such a solemn, sombre occasion to spew political propaganda and to score cheap political mileage,” said Khaya Moyo.

“Malema needs to be reminded that his illusion to equate youthful exuberance and verbosity for wisdom and grounded intellectuality exposes him for the political novice which he is. That Malema is now a decorated stooge at the mercy of our yesteryear colonisers is now a public secret as exhibited by his constant verbiage against African leaders and their respective countries. It is sad that he used Zimbabwean soil, the bastion of revolutionary mantra and the fortress of black conscientiousness to lampoon the regional body, Sadc leadership and its ethos.”

He said Mr Malema should take his attention seeking antics elsewhere.

Khaya Moyo said instead of attention seeking, he and his party should seek to convince the South African electorate that has continuously rejected them.

Khaya Moyo’s sentiments come after his fellow ZANU PF spin doctor Energy Mutodi went wayward claiming that Malema was being too nice to Grace Mugabe to probably win him into a relationship.

Source: State Media

Paul Nyathi|Late former President Robert Mugabe family spokesperson Leo Mugabe has failed to commit on the current situation around the body of his late uncle following revelations that the former statesman was actually buried a couple of days ago.

Speaking to state run online media ZTN on Tuesday night, Mugabe said his last knowledge of the body was on Thursday last week when it was scheduled to leave Zvimba for Harare.

Initially, the Mugabe family announced the body would be preserved at a private mortuary after public parades in the capital, Harare, and the former leader’s rural home, Zvimba. This was to allow the body to await its purported burial inside a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre.

Mugabe told ZTN News on Tuesday that he was specifically not aware where the body is at the moment though indicating that it had been extensively embalmed in Singapore to last a while before burial.

“When I left Harare on Thursday (last week after returning with the body from Zvimba), the general understanding was that the body would be taken to a mortuary or a place to be preserved.

“However, I have since been told that the preservation process was done in Singapore and the body can last for a month without going to the mortuary.

Leo Mugabe further hinted at a possibility that Mugabe may have indeed been buried as a cultural chief whose body needs to be dried extensively before burial which is what the embalming in Singapore could have achieved.

“If a chief were to be buried in a cave, for instance, they would have to be dried up first. Can you imagine how long it would take for the person to dry up? It is not a day’s job.

“So, culturally, they would have to spend days with the body. So, I don’t see a problem there myself. But, in any case, the fact is that we are waiting for the mausoleum to be finished. (Therefore), we still have to keep the body.”

ZimEye.com has been on top of the current situation around Mugabe’s burial with highly placed family members confirming in confidence that Mugabe was indeed buried in a cave in his rural Zvimba home as suggested by Leo Mugabe on his dicing answers on the body’s whereabouts.

According to a close relative of the Mugabe family, the late veteran politician was laid to rest last week, during a night burial ceremony at a hidden location in Zvimba only known to traditional chiefs, his wife Grace and immediate family.

“The whole thing about a mausoleum construction was a tactical diversion,” said the relative, who also served in Mugabe’s administration at one point.

“The president made it clear that he wanted to be buried in his rural home, and that his body be interred by chiefs in the area, at a location only known to them and his immediate family.

“Yes, there shall be a private event at Heroes Acre in Harare, when the mausoleum is complete, but it’s all going to be symbolic. That is not Mugabe’s final resting place, but as a founding father of our country, it made sense to have a mausoleum built for him on top of the hill at the national shrine.” 

Leo Mugabe further failed to explain categorically the uncultural continuous changing of caskets that have been seen as carrying Mugabe’s body.

Mugabe’s body arrived from Singapore in a wooden casket and it lied in state at Rufaro and National Sports Stadium in the original casket.

When the body was finally taken to Mugabe’s rural home mourners were shocked to discover that the casket had been changed.

“That is not the casket that we saw on Saturday at the National Sports Stadium,” said one of the mourners.

“This is something we have never seen. How can a coffin be changed. There must be something happening.

This week, pictures of South African opposition party Julius Malema showed him purportedly “viewing” Mugabe’s body in a completely different casket.

“I cannot answer that particular question. The safety of the corpse was taken into cognisance,” was all that Leo Mugabe could say.

State Media|Two new members of the National Assembly were yesterday sworn in following their victories in by-elections held last month.

The two are Zanu-PF’s Hlalani Mguni, who won the Mangwe seat that fell vacant following the death of her husband Obedingwa Mguni and Vincent Tsvangirai who won the Glen View South by-election, replacing his late sister, Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java.

The new MPs took their oaths before Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda in terms of Section 128 (1) of the Constitution.

Obedingwa Mguni, who was Zanu-PF’s deputy chief whip, died from diabetes complications, while Mrs Tsvangirai-Java succumbed to injuries sustained in a road accident in May.

Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday notified the House that Zanu-PF selected Dingumuzi Phuti, the representative of Bulilima West to replace the late Mguni as the party’s Deputy Chief Whip.

Meanwhile, Government has reviewed the Constituency Development Fund allocated to MPs for developmental projects in their constituencies.

“Following the Budget Review Statement and Supplementary Budget presented by Honourable Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube, I wish to inform honourable members that the CDF for 2019 has been reviewed upwards from $80 000 to $175 228,” said Adv Mudenda.

He urged parliamentarians to present their project proposals for funding.

Paul Nyathi|Renowned Harvard University is facing immense pressure to rescind a title of “honorary ambassador” given to Auxillia Mnangagwa, the wife of Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for “exemplary work” in the field of public health.

In a release last week, the Global Health Catalyst programme, which fights cancer and other diseases through outreach, collaboration and high-profile international initiatives, announced it was honouring the Zimbabwean first lady for her work in increasing access to cancer prevention and control and would organise a major conference in the former British colony.

Zimbabwe’s first lady founded a charity last year dedicated to public health work. Its website says it is “a foundation built of the strong African traditional and Christian values of love and unity.”

Some media outlets in Zimbabwe reported the award would lead to investment in Zimbabwe’s health sector and had been prompted by cancer-screening programmes that had benefited thousands of women.

However the university’s decision has surprised some observers.

In addition to a poor human rights record and allegations of electoral malpractice, Zimbabwe’s public health service is suffering an acute lack of investment while an economic crisis, blamed by many analysts on the policies of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has led to acute medicine shortages.

Members of the political elite are routinely treated overseas.

In a letter addressed to the director of global health catalyst at Harvard medical school, Prof Wilfred Ngwa and more than a dozen former US diplomats, including several former ambassadors to Zimbabwe, have expressed their “profound concern over [the] decision to honour the first lady of Zimbabwe”.

They wrote: “To be blunt, your well-intentioned work in these areas are tainted by the affiliation with Ms Mnangagwa and her direct personal connection to an increasingly corrupt and abusive administration in which tolerance for dissent is non-existent and democratic rights are violently denied.

“In light of the concerning situation in Zimbabwe, we implore your institution to … consider rescinding this honour to first lady Mnangagwa … Too often, repressive regimes will use prestigious international institutions, like Harvard University, to launder their oppressive practices and reputations.”

Mnangagwa took power in 2017 when the late veteran ruler Robert Mugabe was forced to resign after a military takeover in November 2017. He promised to bring foreign investment to avert a deepening economic crisis, overhaul government and rehabilitate the former British colony’s international image.

Zimbabwe is crippled by massive debts incurred during Mugabe’s rule and needs a multibillion-dollar bailout to prevent economic collapse. However, the continuing repression and a lack of tangible political reform means there is little chance of international institutions offering major aid packages.

THE revolutionary party, Zanu-PF, has warned South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters leader Mr Julius Malema to stop interfering in Zimbabwe’s internal politics.

Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Simon Khaya Moyo said Zanu-PF was disturbed by Mr Malema’s provocation.

“Whilst it is everyone’s democratic right to mourn and pay respect on the sad note of the founding father former President Robert Mugabe, including the restless and careless South African opposition party EEF leader Julius Malema, it is an abomination and unAfrican to use such a platform to denigrate virtues which define Ubuntu,” said Khaya Moyo.

In the African culture, said Khaya Moyo, it was taboo for anyone, despite their station in life, to use the occasion of a funeral to demean fellow African brothers and sisters.

“In that regard, the party finds it reprehensible for Mr Julius Malema to use such s solemn occasion to spew political propaganda and score cheap political mileage,” he said.

Khaya Moyo said Mr Malema needed to be reminded that his illusion to equate youthful exuberance and verbosity for wisdom and grounded intellectuality exposes him for a political novice which he is.State media

The appropriate exchange rate between the Zimbabwean dollar and the United States dollar should hover around US$1:ZWL$5,6 based on “founded quantitative estimates”, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube, has said.

While acknowledging the prevailing speculation and attendant exchange rate distortions in the market, Minister Ncube, in a public notice on exchange rate determination, suggested that the devaluation of the local currency was being exaggerated by unscrupulous elements.

As a result, this has seen exchange rate level spike above US$1: ZWL$20 within a few days last week, compared to a stable ratio of between 1:8.5 to 1:10 on the interbank market, since the re-introduction of the Zimbabwean dollar in June this year.

The Treasury boss said a lower exchange rate was appropriate for Zimbabwe but noted several limitations exist, both conceptual and concerning the availability of data when trying to establish the appropriate exchange rate level for the country.State media