Farai Dziva|Controversial war veterans leader has vowed to attend former President Robert Mugabe’s funeral.

Addressing war veterans and church leaders at a Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches (ZACC) meeting in Bulawayo yesterday, Matemadanda, who is also the Zanu-PF National Political Commissar, said while it was not a big issue to him, the family had no right to stop him from attending the funeral.

“For as long as the family has agreed that Cde Mugabe is a national hero, they can’t stop me because Government protocol allows me to attend the funeral. They don’t know what they’re talking about.

“I will not join a fight over a dead man. Where I come from we don’t brag over the dead but we mourn them,” said Matemadanda.

He said in African culture, it was taboo to fight before a family member has been buried.

“I don’t know what the elders in Cde Mugabe’s community in Zvimba say about this. But this person whose funeral they’re refusing to let me attend forgave the people who jailed and tortured him during the liberation struggle,” said Matemadanda.

He said he was convinced that whatever he told Mugabe when they disagreed was not based on gossip or hearsay but the truth.

“For those who may not know, when I started resisting what our leader was doing, I did not just do it. We actually spoke about it. Unfortunately he’s gone and he’s not here to testify.

“I booked an appointment with him and I told him that I was not in agreement with some of the things he was doing. We spoke at length,” said Matemadanda.

“I worked under Cde Mugabe for a long time and people who are saying I should not attend his funeral don’t know when I started working with him. Although I was low in the party, I worked with Cde Mugabe at critical stages of the revolution where they didn’t come themselves to defend their own. We could not by principle allow him free rein when we knew that we had not agreed on some of the things that were now happening in the party”.

“Even when we disagreed on some issues, we never doubted his capacity, leadership qualities and his contribution to the liberation struggle and the development of the country. But when the truth has to be said, we should not bury our heads in the sand,” Matemadanda said.

He said after all has been said and done, Mugabe remains his leader together with those who served under him.

Farai Dziva|War veterans leader, Victor Matemadanda has claimed former President Robert Mugabe had a forgiving heart.

Matemadanda, who described Mugabe as a traitor has suddenly shifted his stance.

Addressing war veterans and church leaders at a Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches (ZACC) meeting in Bulawayo yesterday, Matemadanda, who is also the Zanu-PF National Political Commissar, said while it was not a big issue to him, the family had no right to stop him from attending the funeral.

“For as long as the family has agreed that Cde Mugabe is a national hero, they can’t stop me because Government protocol allows me to attend the funeral. They don’t know what they’re talking about.

“I will not join a fight over a dead man. Where I come from we don’t brag over the dead but we mourn them,” said Matemadanda.

He said in African culture, it was taboo to fight before a family member has been buried.

“I don’t know what the elders in Cde Mugabe’s community in Zvimba say about this. But this person whose funeral they’re refusing to let me attend forgave the people who jailed and tortured him during the liberation struggle,” said Matemadanda.

He said he was convinced that whatever he told Mugabe when they disagreed was not based on gossip or hearsay but the truth.

“For those who may not know, when I started resisting what our leader was doing, I did not just do it. We actually spoke about it. Unfortunately he’s gone and he’s not here to testify.

“I booked an appointment with him and I told him that I was not in agreement with some of the things he was doing. We spoke at length,” said Matemadanda.

“I worked under Cde Mugabe for a long time and people who are saying I should not attend his funeral don’t know when I started working with him. Although I was low in the party, I worked with Cde Mugabe at critical stages of the revolution where they didn’t come themselves to defend their own. We could not by principle allow him free rein when we knew that we had not agreed on some of the things that were now happening in the party”.

“Even when we disagreed on some issues, we never doubted his capacity, leadership qualities and his contribution to the liberation struggle and the development of the country. But when the truth has to be said, we should not bury our heads in the sand,” Matemadanda said.

He said after all has been said and done, Mugabe remains his leader together with those who served under him.

Jane Mlambo| Respected cleric and a key player in the negotiations between the late former President Robert Mugabe and the military element led by the now vice President Constantino Chiwenga during the November 2017 coup, Father Fidelis Mukonori has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to compromise saying failure will be a weakness.

In an interview with the Newsday, Mukonori said leadership required compromise saying those who do not compromise are not leaders.

“To be a leader is one who agrees to sit down with the others and talk, a leader who is uncompromising is not a leader. Leadership is to compromise. Compromise is not a sign of weakness, (but) it is a sign of strength,” Mukonori told NewsDay at the weekend

By A Correspondent- Zanu PF has changed the venue for the annual conference from Seke district to Goromonzi citing budget constraints.

This year’s annual gathering will be hosted by Mashonaland East province.

Addressing a provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) meeting held on Saturday in Marondera, party provincial chairperson Joel Biggie Matiza said:

“We presented about four budgets with the highest going for more than $30m and the party said it was too high.

This year is characterised by massive hunger following a drought as well as things like the Cyclone Idai effects, hence the party channelled funds towards that.

Even if we are to raise the money it means we were going to host the conference next year.

We are now behind time, hence we looked for an alternative venue in Goromonzi, which is less expensive because of the availability of infrastructure.

Initially, the party had chosen Murape Secondary School in Seke district but later condemned the poor infrastructure at the school, the lack of a thicket to provide cover for security details, and the overhead electricity cables that cut across the school were considered a danger to the people.

Mandedza High School, also in Seke district was chosen but logistic challenges and other factors put paid to the two choices.

“There was a need to widen the Harare-Wedza Highway from Chikwanha up to the venue to allow a smooth flow of traffic. This is costly and needs time.

We were expecting that the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration would chip in, but they have no money for such a project hence we moved to Goromonzi where we can only pitch tents.-Newsday

By A Correspondent- Former First Lady Grace Mugabe reportedly asked President Emmerson Mnangagwa to visit Singapore in former President Robert Mugabe’s final days so that she will be given safety guarantees.

According to sources, when Mugabe’s health deteriorated, the former first lady wanted Mnangagwa to visit so that he would guarantee her and her children’s safety after Mugabe was gone.

Said one of a local publication’s sources:

“In one of her calls, she was crying on the phone saying he (Mugabe) could no longer talk.

The former first lady wanted ED to be in Singapore and to also guarantee her and her children’s safety after the death of the former president.

Of course, she was guaranteed of her safety but was told that it was not possible for ED to be in Singapore because he was seized with preparations for the World Economic Forum (Wef) on Africa.”

Mugabe’s close relatives revealed over the weekend that Mugabe died a bitter man. He was not only bitter because of the coup that ejected him from the high office in 2017, but also Mnangagwa’s failure to visit him in Singapore and also to apologise for the coup.

Mugabe’s nephew, Leo Mugabe, told a local publication recently that the Mugabe clan expected Mnangagwa to at least visit the late Mugabe’s Borrowdale residence.

Said Leo:

“We expected President Mnangagwa to go there (Blue Roof) and say I am sorry so that there is forgiveness, there is repentance.

What I can say is that I have no doubt that he will have been happy if Mnangagwa had gone there to apologise.

What I know also is that given the late’s (Mugabe’s) Christian background, we expected him to have said ‘I forgive them what they did’.

We were bitter as family, but we are working with the government and the party. Maybe that is how they are showing remorse.

Mugabe died on 6 September 2019 at the age of 95. He was receiving treatment at Singapore’s famous Glen Eagles Hospital for some time.-DailyNews

RESPECTED Roman Catholic Church cleric Father Fidelis Mukonori has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to start talks with MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, joining a growing chorus for inclusive political dialogue to save Zimbabwe’s economy from total collapse.

Father Mukonori, a Jesuit priest who was a close friend to former President Robert Mugabe who died on Friday morning in Singapore, mediated a graceful exit for the former guerrilla leader after the military grabbed power in a coup in November 2017.

“To be a leader is one who agrees to sit down with the others and talk, a leader who is uncompromising is not a leader. Leadership is to compromise. Compromise is not a sign of weakness, (but) it is a sign of strength,” Mukonori told NewsDay at the weekend.

Mukonori said the violence and abductions that have characterised Zimbabwe’s political environment, need to stop.

“God had a clash with the devil, but God never destroyed the devil, he is still there. You don’t have to destroy your enemy; you don’t have to destroy your political competitor; you don’t have to destroy your business competitor, no! You don’t have to destroy someone who does not belong to your party, no! You collect the positives that these people have, which you realise you don’t have.

“That is what leadership is about. But if you just swing with your jacket and say I am not going to talk to nobody, then nobody will not talk to you and you will never run a country if you don’t talk to nobody. We are the buddies that make Zimbabwe. You don’t go around with pride and pomposity, no; if you do that you are not a leader.”

Mukonori added that because of poverty many had lost self-worth and dignity. “If you look at a person and you say that man is failing to go to hospital because she cannot pay, she cannot buy the drugs, the drugs will be there, but she cannot buy, that husband is failing to be a successful husband because he has not been employed for the last 15 to 20 years, he is embarrassed to be a husband; he is embarrassed to be a father. You listen to that person, you give that person something to do, assist that person to do something that is what, in my view, we mean running a country,” he said.

The cleric said Zimbabwe’s current leadership lacked empathy and common sense.

“My mother used to say don’t laugh or criticise those behind you because, tomorrow it will be you. She said instead help them. She never went to school, but she had a good work ethic, better than some people today who swing with half dozen certificates and degrees and fail to run a country,” he said.

He called on citizens to also play their part in extracting the country from the jaws of collapse.

“It’s not the job of the Head of State, it is the job of you and I, he has to lead us, and we have to follow. If you lead an unleadable nation you have a problem. We have to learn to be led and to learn to be led is not a sign that we are just sheep, we are not sheep we are people.

“But when you lead an intelligent people you have to be sure you talk to people as much as possible, you listen, even to the ones you think are simple no matter how simple you think they are they have something to say, something that is reasonable, something that is sensible,” Father Mukonori said.

“You may be surprised that the people you speak least to are the people who give you the best ideas and factual issues than people who become professional speakers; professional orators whose faces want to appear on TV every day. We have a great country, but we are making ourselves a laughing stock.”

Meanwhile, The Elders, an independent group of global leaders who advocate for peace, justice and human rights met with Mnangagwa, Chamisa and opposition leaders in Harare over the weekend and said only real national dialogue was the way forward for the country.

“The Elders today called on Zimbabwe’s political leaders and all figures in authority to commit to a truly inclusive national dialogue and prioritise the economic and social needs of ordinary citizens over party politics, factionalism and self-interest,” they said in a statement yesterday.

Ireland’s first woman President, Mary Robinson, who chairs the body, lamented the sad state of affairs in the country.

“Last year, I visited Zimbabwe on the cusp of landmark elections to find people determinedly optimistic about the future. Today, that optimism has gone amid a worsening economic crisis, entrenched political polarisation and a culture of fear, paranoia and State violence.

“Yet, I have been heartened by courageous women and church leaders from across society who are meeting to nurture dialogue and re-imagine their country’s future. They offer an example that all Zimbabweans should follow,” she said in the statement.

-Newsday

By Cherriel Dzobo| As schools open on the 10th of September 2019, it is proving to be one of the hardest for both School Development Committees (SDCs) and parents especially with the biting economy.

A random survey done by Vemuganga Community Radio Initiative paints a sombre atmosphere of desperation by parents who are afraid that their children may not go back to school.

Most of the parents are making last minute rush to pay fees and buy uniforms and food of which the prices are becoming unaffordable everyday. Parents with children going to boarding schools are the most stressed as they are expected to ensure that their children, some of whom are candidates,are well catered to start the most crucial term on the school calendar.

Everything has become expensive from fees and transport to stationary.

There are serious worries that this environment will lead to many school dropouts.In most rural areas and in particular Chipinge and Chimanimani districts,there is still reconstruction going on as a result of the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai.Third term also experience the raining season and most parents are fearful that this will also affect their kids in those schools in Chimanimani and Chipinge.

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is being urged to support the school feeding schemes inorder to avert the drought induced hunger caused by Cyclone Idai.

Some of the teachers spoken to have indicated that they are aggrieved due to the paltry remuneration they are receiving as salaries.

The concerns by teachers are understandable and surely there is sympathy for these teachers and staff whose salaries are inadequate .However ,teachers are being encouraged to continue engaging with government for an amicable solution that allows our education system to remain the most admired in the region.

By A Correspondent- The South African Police Service (SAPS) has revealed that at least 12 people were killed in last week’s xenophobic attacks in Pretoria, Johannesburg and other places.

Though the nationalities of the deceased have not been revealed, SAPS said that the number may be reviewed later as investigations continue.

In a tweet, South Africa’s Eye Witness Report said:

“The police have now confirmed that 12 people have died as a result of the recent outbreak of xenophobic violence. This number may be reviewed later as investigations continue.”

By A Correspondent| The Hawks yesterday reportedly arrested a Businessman believed to be Zimbabwean who owns Sam Holdings for acquiring his citizenship fraudulently.

Trends Central wrote on their Twitter that Sam was arrested yesterday morning.

Sam Mshengu according to the Citizen is believed to be under investigations that were initiated by the home affairs surrounding his citizenship status.

Other reports are suggesting that he is actually from Zimbabwe and may have allegedly obtained his South African citizenship illegally.

Sam made headlines this year at the Durban July when he went to the event with a convoy of 72 flashy cars.

Trends Central Tweeted:

Jane Mlambo| Zanu PF National Commissar, Victor Matemadanda, yesterday said the late Robert Mugabe’s family had no right to bar him from attending the former leader’s funeral because Government protocol allows him to.

This comes after Mugabe’s family reportedly requested that Matemadanda and Defence and War Veterans’ Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri should not attend Mugabe’s funeral.

“For as long as the family has agreed that Cde Mugabe is a national hero, they can’t stop me because Government protocol allows me to attend the funeral. They don’t know what they’re talking about.

“I will not join a fight over a dead man. Where I come from we don’t brag over the dead but we mourn them,” said Matemadanda.

The Zanu PF Youth League made clear their position on former President Robert Mugabe’s decision that he should not be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare when he died.

The youth league made their position clear and announced it to Mugabe even before he died.

Speaking to the media shortly after reports of Mugabe’s decision, the youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu said the ruling party would not lose sleep over Mugabe’s decision indicating that the former President had denied numerous other people who deserved the status.

“That has got nothing to do with us and Mugabe is just an individual. Perhaps in my view, it is because he understands that he barred a lot of deserving heroes to be buried at this shrine.

“Talk of comrade Chinx (Dickson Chingaira) who amongst many other war veterans deserved to be laid to rest here, are lying elsewhere. I hope that the leadership will consider and perhaps rebury that fellow comrade who was working dearly for his country,” said Matutu.

“So, it’s not an issue that the former President says he does not want to be buried here. Neither is there anyone who is willing to see him buried here against his will,” he said.

The family of former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe does not want the late liberation war hero buried at the country’s National Heroes Acre, preferring a family shrine in keeping with his last wishes.

According to a government memo sent to diplomatic missions, Mugabe’s funeral will be in Harare’s National Sports Stadium on Saturday, though it didn’t specify where the burial would be on Sunday.

Mugabe, who died aged 95 in Singapore on Friday, did not want people behind his political downfall in November 2017 playing a role at his funeral, a relative said on Sunday.

Mugabe was removed from power in a coup after he fired Emmerson Mnangagwa as vice president at the instigation of his wife, Grace, and a faction of ambitious and young politicians loyal to the late leader.

Funerals for national heroes are officiated by a sitting president, which would be Mnangagwa, who is now Zimbabwe’s leader.

A close family member told international news agency, Al Jazeera, that discussions between top government officials and the family to change Mugabe’s final resting place were under way.

The relative, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mugabe’s relationship with his protege Mnangagwa had soured after the coup.

“He was not happy with the fact that Mnangagwa had not come to see him. He believed in dialogue and people finding each other. This did not happen. I believe this would have turned out differently if this meeting had happened,” the source said.

‘A people’s decision’

Close family members in Singapore were left with clear instructions on where he would be buried, and that was at his village of Zvimba, about 100 kilometres northwest of Harare.

“Grace can’t go against the wishes of her husband. It would be a dishonouring of his memory. As of two weeks ago, I heard expressions such as ‘principles cannot be sacrificed for political expedience’,” the relative said.

“He did not have a problem with being afforded hero status. He felt that this was a people’s decision and not his. He had a problem with who would officiate at the funeral after everything that had happened.”

An aircraft was chartered from Harare to pick up Mugabe’s body. According to the family, Vice President Kembo Mohadi is going to lead the delegation to Singapore along with selected relatives.

His nephew, Leo Mugabe, said he expected the body back in Harare on Wednesday.

A relative of the late Zimbabwean nationalist, Adam Molai, who is in Singapore with the Mugabes, told The Straits Times newspaper that Mugabe died peacefully surrounded by his family.

Grace, daughter Bona and grandchildren, and his niece, Sandra Molai, and her husband, Adam, were with him when he died.

Mugabe was conferred national hero status after his death by Mnangagwa, the highest posthumous honour in the southern African country, for his role in the liberation struggle against colonial ruler Britain and leadership after independence in 1980.

Albert Mugabe, a nephew of Mugabe, said there was a meeting at Mugabe’s rural home of Zvimba on Saturday night.

Ruling ZANU-PF party spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo would not comment on the disagreement of the burial site.

“If they are differences, we don’t get involved in such matters as a party. We stick with the statement we issued that he was a liberation icon and our leader. He led from the front,” said Moyo.

Al Jazeera

The price for fuel this week has been revealed by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority.

After going down for the first time this year in the last round of adjustments seven days ago, it has gone up this time.

Diesel now retails at a maximum price of $10.42 while petrol moves slightly up to $9.95.

The price change is as off 9 September 2019.

THE Deputy Minister of Defence and War Veterans’ Affairs, Victor Matemadanda, yesterday said Robert Mugabe’s family had no right to bar him from attending the former leader’s funeral because Government protocol allows him to.

This comes after Mugabe’s family reportedly requested that Matemadanda and Defence and War Veterans’ Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri should not attend Mugabe’s funeral.

Mugabe passed away in Singapore at the age of 95 on Friday last week and will be buried at the National Heroes’ Acre on Sunday.

Addressing war veterans and church leaders at a Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches (ZACC) meeting in Bulawayo yesterday, Matemadanda, who is also the Zanu-PF National Political Commissar, said while it was not a big issue to him, the family had no right to stop him from attending the funeral.

“For as long as the family has agreed that Cde Mugabe is a national hero, they can’t stop me because Government protocol allows me to attend the funeral. They don’t know what they’re talking about.

“I will not join a fight over a dead man. Where I come from we don’t brag over the dead but we mourn them,” said Matemadanda.

He said in African culture, it was taboo to fight before a family member has been buried.

“I don’t know what the elders in Cde Mugabe’s community in Zvimba say about this. But this person whose funeral they’re refusing to let me attend forgave the people who jailed and tortured him during the liberation struggle,” said Cde Matemadanda.

He said he was convinced that whatever he told Mugabe when they disagreed was not based on gossip or hearsay but the truth.

“For those who may not know, when I started resisting what our leader was doing, I did not just do it. We actually spoke about it. Unfortunately he’s gone and he’s not here to testify.

“I booked an appointment with him and I told him that I was not in agreement with some of the things he was doing. We spoke at length,” said Matemadanda.

“I worked under Cde Mugabe for a long time and people who are saying I should not attend his funeral don’t know when I started working with him. Although I was low in the party, I worked with Cde Mugabe at critical stages of the revolution where they didn’t come themselves to defend their own. We could not by principle allow him free rein when we knew that we had not agreed on some of the things that were now happening in the party”.

“Even when we disagreed on some issues, we never doubted his capacity, leadership qualities and his contribution to the liberation struggle and the development of the country. But when the truth has to be said, we should not bury our heads in the sand,” Matemadanda said.

He said after all has been said and done, Cde Mugabe remains his leader together with those who served under him.

Matemadanda was in 2016 arrested with other war veterans on charges of undermining the authority of the then President Mugabe.

This was after he had shown solidarity with the then association’s spokesperson, Douglas Mahiya, who was facing similar charges.

In 2017, Cde Matemadanda told Mugabe to respect war veterans after the former President said that former freedom fighters were not special in the ruling Zanu-PF party.

Matemadanda said Mugabe and his wife Grace had no prerogative to “disrespect’’ other people, including the former liberation fighters and cautioned the leader not to divide people in the country through “insults.”

State Media|The body of national hero and former Zimbabwe National Army Chief of Staff, Major-General Trust Mugoba, who died last Friday, was yesterday airlifted from Commando Regiment to his farm in Featherstone ahead of burial at the National Heroes Acre on Wednesday.

Maj-Gen Mugoba had been in Ethiopia where he was serving as Chief of Staff in the office of the Commissioner for Peace and Security in Africa.

His health deteriorated when he had returned home while on leave.

He was 60.

Maj-Gen Mugoba was declared a national hero and Vice President Kembo Mohadi made the announcement at the family home in the capital on Saturday.

ZDF Senior Chaplain-General Colonel Joseph Nyakudya said from Featherstone, the body will be taken to his Wiltshire rural home today where his parents were buried.

He said Major General Chris Mupande accompanied the body to Featherstone.

“The body has today (yesterday) left Commando Regiment destined for Featherstone at his farm,” he said.

“Tomorrow morning (today) at 9am, they will leave the farm proceeding to their rural home in Wiltshire were Major-General Mugoba’s parents were buried.

“A church service will be held there and also mourners will have their lunch there.”

Col Nyakudya said today after the church service, the body will leave the Wiltshire rural home for One Commando Regiment in Harare, before a military parade is held tomorrow.

“At 2.15 pm, the body will leave Wiltshire and will be taken back to Commando Regiment mortuary.

“As for Tuesday, the body will leave Commando Funeral Parlour for Para Regiment where we are going to have a military funeral parade at 1400hrs.

“Soon after the parade, the body will lie in state at his Greendale home followed by the burial at the national shrine on Wednesday,” Col Nyakudya said.

In January 2015, Maj-Gen Mugoba was appointed Chief of Staff (General Staff) and it was during this time that he was appointed General Officer commanding a Sadc Special Forces exercise, which was held in Kariba.

In October during the same year, he led Exercise Amani Africa 2, which involved the whole African continent.

In 2017, he was seconded to the African Union headquarters as the Chief of Staff Africa Standby Force in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a post he held until the time of his death.

He is survived by his wife, Peggy, and nine children.

President Mnangagwa has expressed surprise that some members of former President Robert Mugabe’s family are not in the country allegedly fearing persecution and were worried about being barred from attending the funeral of the veteran nationalist who passed away on Friday morning, State Media heard yesterday.

Patrick Zhuwao, Mugabe’s nephew, is reportedly in “exile” fearing for his life.

This emerged at the weekend as the Mugabe family engaged President Mnangagwa on logistics to give the former President his final rest.

The family appointed Mr Leo Mugabe as its sole spokesperson.

Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr George Charamba, who is also the Presidential spokesperson,revealed that on Friday the Mugabe family and Zvimba chieftainship connected with the President through Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Phillip Chiyangwa at State House during which meetingthey expressed gratitude for the support which the President, in his personal capacity as well as Government, extended to the former President and his family.

The former Head of State, who died at the age of 95 at a Singaporean hospital, had been unwell for a long time.

The emissaries requested that the President extends the same assistance to the family to get more members of both the Mugabe and Marufu families to travel to Singapore both to share in the grief with the former First Lady and assist with the overall arrangement of the repatriation of the body of the late Mugabe.

Mr Charamba said the family wanted assurance from the President that family members who had either left the country on their own or had gone into self-exile could attend the funeral without any arrest.

In response, President Mnangagwa acceded to all the requests by the family.

Said Mr Charamba: ‘‘The President immediately gave instructions to the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr Misheck Sibanda to ensure that the delegation comprising both the Mugabe and Marufu and party officials and Government representatives depart for Singapore today to support the former First Lady and that a chartered plane must be secured to take them to and from Singapore.

‘‘Secondly, President Mnangangwa expressed surprise that there were some members of the Mugabe family who had left the country without any indication that they were facing any charges. In any event, if this had been made clear to the President, the Mugabe family would be protected against undue victimisation.

“In particular the President could not understand why Patrick Zhuwao had left the country except, possibly, in solidarity with his colleagues, one of whom had in fact been in and out of the country,’’ he said, in apparent reference to another “G40” kingpin Saviour Kasukuwere.

Mr Charamba explained thatin respect to travel documents of Mugabe family members who are currently undergoing trail in the courts, the President instructed the Minister of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi together with the courts to look into the matter, stressing that travel documents were not held by the Government but by the courts.

Vice President Kembo Mohadi, has been tasked to lead a ZANU PF delegation of predominantly G40 faction members to join members of the Mugabe family and the family of the former First Lady — the Marufus to facilitate the repatriation of the national hero’s body from Singapore where he died last Friday.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is reportedly in the list of people Mugabe ordered not to have a part in his burial cleared Mohadi to lead the delegation.

Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, who is also the Presidential spokesperson, Mr George Charamba, said on Friday morning President Mnangagwa and his Government assigned Vice President Mohadi to lead the delegation.

“The President gave instructions to the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda, to ensure that the delegation comprising both the Mugabe and Marufu families; party officials and Government representatives departs for Singapore today to support the former First Lady and that a chartered plane be secured to take them to and from Singapore.

“The delegation comprises of the Mugabe and Marufu family, from the party there is Zanu-PF Secretary for the Women’s League, Cde Mabel Chinomona; and Politburo members Cde Edna Madzongwe, Cde Sydney Sekeramayi and also a representative from the Youth League and the whole delegation is led by Vice President Kembo Mohadi.’’

The senior ZANU PF members are known members of the G40 faction that supported Mugabe through the fierce factional fights within the party in the run up to the coup against Mugabe in November 2017. Sekeramayi was actually Mugabe’s preferred successor over Mnangagwa.

The delegation leaves today and is expected back in Zimbabwe on Wednesday.

President Mnangagwa has expressed surprise that some members of former President Robert Mugabe’s family are not in the country allegedly fearing persecution and were worried about being barred from attending the funeral of the veteran nationalist who passed away on Friday morning.

Patrick Zhuwao, Mugabe’s nephew, is reportedly in “exile” fearing for his life.

This emerged at the weekend as the Mugabe family engaged President Mnangagwa on logistics to give the former President his final rest.
The family appointed Mr Leo Mugabe as its sole spokesperson.

Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr George Charamba, who is also the Presidential spokesperson,
revealed that on Friday the Mugabe family and Zvimba chieftainship connected with the President through Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Phillip Chiyangwa at State House during which meeting they expressed gratitude for the support which the President, in his personal capacity as well as Government, extended to the former President and his family.

The former Head of State, who died at the age of 95 at a Singaporean hospital, had been unwell for a long time.

The emissaries requested that the President extends the same assistance to the family to get more members of both the Mugabe and Marufu families to travel to Singapore both to share in the grief with the former First Lady and assist with the overall arrangement of the repatriation of the body of the late Mugabe.

Mr Charamba said the family wanted assurance from the President that family members who had either left the country on their own or had gone into self-exile could attend the funeral without any arrest.

In response, President Mnangagwa acceded to all the requests by the family.

Said Mr Charamba: ‘‘The President immediately gave instructions to the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr Misheck Sibanda to ensure that the delegation comprising both the Mugabe and Marufu and party officials and Government representatives depart for Singapore today to support the former First Lady and that a chartered plane must be secured to take them to and from Singapore.

‘‘Secondly, President Mnangangwa expressed surprise that there were some members of the Mugabe family who had left the country without any indication that they were facing any charges. In any event, if this had been made clear to the President, the Mugabe family would be protected against undue victimisation.

“In particular the President could not understand why Patrick Zhuwao had left the country except, possibly, in solidarity with his colleagues, one of whom had in fact been in and out of the country,’’ he said, in apparent reference to another “G40” kingpin Saviour Kasukuwere.State media

By Own Correspondent|  Why has this Zim government rushed to block foreign leaders from attending Robert Mugabe’s burial? By midnight last night the Mugabe family was supposed to have revealed Bob’s burial place. 

As the burial place of the late Head Of State Robert Mugabe was still to be decided Sunday evening, government has moved to bar foreign leaders from attending his burial next Sunday.

The foreign affairs ministry literally said, we will be busy after the National Sports stadium function on Saturday. Their announcement is in the official notice below.

This comes as President Robert Mugabe’s nephew, Leo told ZimEye in an interview the decision on the burial place was still to be decided as late as Sunday night.

He said the chiefs are the ones who will pass the decision.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Zimbabwe presents its compliments to all Diplomatic Missions accredited to Zimbabwe and has the honour to convey the following arrangements for the funeral of the late former President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe:

1. The State Funeral Service will be held on Saturday 14 September 2019, in the morning at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. The times will be advised.

2. Heads of State/Government wishing to attend the Ceremony are advised to arrive in Harare on Friday 13 September 2019. 3. Heads of State/Government are expected to depart Immediately after the ceremony taking into consideration that Government au-thorities will be fully occupied with preparations for the burial ser-vice/ceremony reserved for Sunday 15 September 2019. 4. The full programme for the funeral service will be made available in due course. 5. The Government has block booked accommodation for 1+2 per delegation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Zimbabwe avails itself of this opportunity to renew to all Diplomatic Missions accredited to the Republic of Zimbabwe the assurances of its. highest consideration.

Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday described Robert Mugabe as an “iconic leader of African emancipation”, who empowered the nation through the land reform programme “at the risk of his own life and position”.

In a condolence message to President Mnangagwa, Mugabe’s family and the people of Zimbabwe, VP Chiwenga, who is presently receiving treatment in China, said the former founding President prosecuted the liberation struggle with distinction after taking over the reins of the party in 1977.

“It is with a deep sense of sorrow and shock that I learnt of the untimely passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President Cde RG Mugabe, on 6 September 2019.

“Cde Mugabe was the liberator of Zimbabwe, who upon taking the reins of leadership of Zanu in 1977, led the prosecution of the liberation struggle with distinction until the attainment of national independence in 1980,” he said.

“He will remain our founding father and iconic leader of African emancipation.”

He applauded Mugabe for leading Zimbabwe to become the country with one of the highest literacy rates in Africa, as well as law-abiding people, who respect the Constitution and electoral processes.

Mugabe, he added, was a selfless leader, who put the national interest ahead of his own.

“He leaves behind a legacy of a country with respect for constitutionalism, whereupon elections are held as prescribed in the Constitution and the highest literacy rate in Africa.

“At the risk of his own life and position, Cde Mugabe courageously empowered the nation, through the land reform programme. . .

“As I extend my condolences from China, my heartfelt sympathises are with his beloved family, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde E.D Mnangagwa and the nation at large. May his dear soul rest in eternal peace,” said VP Chiwenga.State media

Farai Dziva|Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has described Robert Mugabe as ” her mentor and father of many.”

Mujuru posted the remarks on her Facebook page.

“My mentor, a father to many, founder of the republic, a pan africanist, a champion of black empowerment, an icon of the liberation struggle. Rest in Power Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe.

My deepest condolences to Amai Mugabe and family. We have lost an icon. A true son of the soil,” wrote Mujuru.

Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa is so afraid of being poisoned by rivals that he no longer eats in public, sources have said.

The extreme precautions being taken emerged as Zimbabwe prepared for the funeral of Robert Mugabe, its former liberator whose 37-year rule left a legacy of grinding poverty and vicious political in-fighting.

It underscores the paranoia at the highest level and the fears of a coup less than two years after Mugabe was ejected by the military-backed current regime.

The body of Mugabe, who died in Singapore last week aged 95, was due to be flown back to Zimbabwe this weekend for burial in the National Heroes Acre – a graveyard for the heroes of the struggle against white rule built by North Korean architects.

There was scant evidence of mourning in the capital Harare yesterday.

Mnangagwa seized power in a bloodless coup from Mr Mugabe in November 2017 just five months after Mnangagwa was allegedly poisoned during a rally in southern Zimbabwe causing him to be airlifted to South Africa for emergency treatment. Rumours abounded that he had been poisoned by an ice cream from a dairy owned by Grace Mugabe, the former first lady of Zimbabwe who was widely believed to be plotting her own ascent to power. Grace Mugabe strenuously denied the accusations at the time.

Since taking office, Mnangagwa has done nothing to arrest Zimbabwe’s economic slide. His fears are understood to have been heightened in July after his vice president, Constantino Chiwenga, fell ill and was flown to China for emergency treatment.

“Chinese contacts have told us that Chiwenga is being treated for poisoning in China but they have not given us the name of the substance. We are told he is unlikely to survive,” said a family source.

A highly-placed source said Mnangagwa had decided to stop eating at public engagements in the last two months, not long after Chiwenga was taken ill. “He no longer goes to restaurants,” added a second well-informed source in Harare last night.

“Sometimes he goes to the OK Bazaars for takeaway food, as that is random, and he will eat that food and sometimes from other takeaways.”

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The government has shared updates with the diplomatic community on funeral arrangements for the late former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.

The advisory is as follows:

1. The State Funeral Service will be held on Saturday 14 September 2019, in the mowing at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. The times will be advised.
2. Heads of State/Government wishing to attend the Ceremony are advised to arrive in Harare on Friday 13 September 2019.
3. Heads of State/Government are expected to depart immediately after the ceremony taking into consideration that Government authorities will be fully occupied with preparations for the burial service/ceremony reserved for Sunday 15 September 2019.

Mugabe died on Friday in Singapore where he was receiving treatment. His body is expected back home on Wednesday.

He was declared a national hero and days of mourning until he is buried have been set aside. It is not yet clear where he will be laid to rest.

NetOne recently announced that today they would be reviewing the pricing of their data bundles and as expected the new tariffs are more expensive.

New daily bundles:

2GB of mobile data might be a good deal to some but for most this is just overkill and NetOne could do with a bundle between the 200MB offering and the one for 2000MB.

New Weekly Bundles:

New Monthly Bundles:

Anyone care to explain why someone would need 12MB for 30 days? As always weekly and monthly bundles have offered less value to subscribers but now it seems even daily bundles are fast becoming pipedreams for consumers. Remember the $1 for 10 MB days? We might be headed back there.

The Grain Millers’ Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) yesterday said government had increased maize and wheat prices to millers by 86% and 38% respectively .

In a statement, GMAZ said maize grain is now at ZW$1 300 per tonne from ZW$700 per tonne with wheat going up from ZW$1 600 per tonne to ZW$2 200 per tonne.

“In as much as we (millers) have no problem with these price increases, we, however, foresee maize-meal and flour-related products going up in the near future as a result of these margins,” GMAZ media and public relations manager Garikai Chaunza.

Prices of basic commodities have been going up rapidly as the local currency continues to lose value.

It is little wonder Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe’s sport minister, looks at her counterparts in other countries and thinks: “Man, you have it easy.”

Over the past two months alone, Zimbabwe’s cricket teams have been suspended from global competition, country’s football association has been put in danger of disbandment, and the men’s football team have been banned from next year’s southern African championship after Coventry pulled the plug on Zimbabwe hosting this year’s edition just three months ahead of time.

There is more. Zimbabwe’s male footballers threatened to walk away from a dismal Africa Cup of Nations campaign after a pay dispute, their female counterparts refused to play their recent Olympic qualifier for the same reason, and having overcome major financial troubles to punch far above their weight on their World Cup debut, the nation’s netballers are still waiting on promised bonuses.

“I do feel like we’re just trying to put fires out,” admits Coventry. Such is a politician’s life in one of the world’s more unstable countries in the aftermath of the long regime Robert Mugabe, who died on Friday, two years after he was deposed. It is a position Coventry never had any aspirations to fulfil. In fact, politics is a world she still has little desire to be part of. But she is here now, so she is going to do all she can to make a positive difference.

Coventry, 35, is arguably Zimbabwe’s greatest ever sporting star, with her seven swimming medals making her Africa’s most decorated Olympian. Having only retired after Rio 2016, her exploits were recent enough for her fame to endure in a country short on truly world-class sporting talent.

A life of charity work, television appearances and growing her own swimming foundation beckoned until one day last September when president Emmerson Mnangagwa suddenly announced Coventry as the country’s new sports minister. Until that moment, Coventry had no idea. Welcome to Zimbabwean politics.

“The president announced it on TV and some friends called me to tell me I was minister,” she says.

“I had seen a few things on social media before the announcement and thought it was strange, but the list the president was working off had been leaked. They were in the process of reaching out and talking to people, but when it got leaked I think he felt it was necessary to make the announcement so we had conversations after that.

“The position came as a surprise – I really wasn’t expecting it. I had only found out I was pregnant five days before, so when I say there was a lot of emotion, there was a lot of emotion!”

Even without the added distraction of the birth of her first child Ella in May, Coventry is the first to admit adjusting to her new life has been no easy ride. With the country in the midst of an economic crisis that has caused chronic food and water shortages, as well as huge rises in inflation, Zimbabwe’s government has recently been accused of state-sponsored brutality after an increase in violence against protesters.

As the only independent member of the cabinet, unattached to the governing ZANU-PF party, Coventry faces frequent calls to resign. Her position as the only white face in the cabinet has also prompted suggestions she is being used as a pawn by the government to placate the country’s white population.

“I really don’t think so,” she counters. “I know from the conversations I’ve had that I was appointed because of my career. I’ve also been involved in the International Olympic Committee, so because of my understanding of international sport and young people there’s a lot of things the president looked at to decide I was qualified to do this position.

“If we look at any government, you can say, ‘He was put here for this reason’ or, ‘She was put here for this reason’. But I have stopped listening to those inputs. As long as we can achieve something, move forward and it is positive, that’s all I really care about.

“I am independent and I am Zimbabwean, and being Zimbabwean to me means you don’t have to belong to a party, you just have to want to do better for your country.”

It is this determination to make a real long-term difference for sport in Zimbabwe that forces Coventry to admit she “can’t say whether things will get better over the next few months”. But after five sports ministers in the 18 months before she took charge, she is adamant she can be the one to bring much-needed change.

If that involves the short-term collateral of tearing down the established regimes – and she is certain it does – then so be it.

“I want to try and be as open and honest with everyone as I can because that’s the only way we can create change,” she says. “It is a challenge and it is frustrating, and we do hit a wall every now and again. We have to be honest with where we are right now – and sport is a challenge.

“With sports like cricket and football, there’s a lot of baggage there. There has previously been corruption and mismanagement of funds, there hasn’t been transparency and good governance. We are honing in on where the good governance is and getting audits done because we need a clean up. I don’t think some of our boards have been strong enough, so then you have people with individual intentions instead of for the good of the sport or the country.”

They are bold words for someone who has little political experience, but Coventry is not afraid to upset people to make a real impact. She remains critical of the International Cricket Council for banning the country’s cricketers for what was deemed to be political interference – “I was very adamant that’s not what happened,” she insists – but says the fallout will prove beneficial for the sport in Zimbabwe.

“Cricket is one of those sports with a long history, a lot of baggage and a lot of mismanagement,” she says. “It needed to happen because it shook the tree and allowed me to get everyone around the table to figure out how to move forward. But it was heartbreaking; it impacted our players in a very negative way.”

She says the Zimbabwe Football Association also has “a lot of baggage and is known for doing terrible deals”. On its money troubles, she adds: “It just comes down to being proactive and not reactive, having proper structures in place and professionalising our sport.”

As with everything Coventry wants to achieve, her motivation comes from those at the heart of the sport in mind. She likens the hardship and upheaval to the decade she spent training as a swimmer before Olympic medals arrived. And she desperately wants to halt the talent drain that means some of the country’s best sportspeople leave Zimbabwe to represent other nations.

“If I get to the point where there’s too many roadblocks or I just don’t feel I’m being supported, then maybe my mind would change to say I’m not achieving anything – so I would resign,” she says. “But that’s not what I’ve experienced so far – I’ve had full support from everybody. It’s been an interesting journey. We keep going and see where it takes us.”

One athlete’s unlikely quest to succeed where the politicians have failed.

Power generation at the country’s power plants was depressed as of September 5, 2019.

According to the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), Munyati and Bulawayo Thermal Power Stations were producing 0 MW between them while generation at Kariba and Hwange had fallen significantly.

Here are power generation outputs at Zimbabwe’s power plants:

1. Munyati – 0 MW

2. Bulawayo – 0 MW

3. Harare – 16 MW

4. Kariba – 250 MW

5. Hwange – 254 MW

TOTAL – 520 MW

ZPC

Robert Mugabe’s nephew said Sunday that a delegation was expected to leave Zimbabwe on Monday to collect the hero-turned-despot’s body from Singapore where he died two days ago.

Mugabe, a guerilla leader who swept to power after Zimbabwe’s independence from Britain and went on to rule for 37 years, died on Friday, aged 95.

His health took a hit after he was ousted by the military in November 2017, ending his increasingly tyrannical rule. He had been travelling to Singapore for treatment since April.

“I can’t give an authoritative day, all I know is people are leaving tomorrow Monday to go and pick up the body,” Leo Mugabe told AFP.

“So assuming they get there on Tuesday and the body is ready, logically you would think they should land here on Wednesday,” he said, adding that a list of accompanying family members was being finalised.

Once praised as a liberator who rid Zimbabwe of white minority rule, Mugabe soon turned to repression and fear to govern.

He is widely remembered for crushing political dissent and ruining the economy, prompting mixed reactions to his passing.

At Sacred Heart Cathedral, Mugabe’s parish in the capital Harare, the priest encouraged congregants to pray for their founding leader.

“I know some of us may have different feelings about it, but it’s our duty to pray for one another,” Father Justin Jagaja told AFP.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a period of “national mourning” on Friday, without providing further detail.

The government is expected to announce when Mugabe’s body will be returned to Zimbabwe and provide details of the funeral in coming days.

Burial tensions

Mugabe’s family and Mnangagwa appear to disagree on whether the former president will be buried in his rural homestead Zvimba in a ceremony involving local chiefs, or at the National Heroes Acre — a hilltop shrine in Harare commemorating guerillas killed during the liberation struggle.

Leo Mugabe refused to comment on the feud. “All I know is (that) we are closer to an agreement if the chiefs meet up with the president and discuss the issues,” said the nephew.

He explained that his uncle would have been appointed chief of Zvimba had he not become president.

Zimbabwe’s deputy information minister Energy Mutody said the body would rest in Harare.

“His Excellency President ED Mnangagwa has declared former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe a National Hero,” Mutody tweeted on Saturday.

“The former President will be buried at the national heroes acre at a date to be announced.”

The 57-acre site, presided over by three bronze guerilla soldiers, was later opened up to national heroes in the arts and academia.

The family of Zimbabwean Afro-jazz icon and human rights activist Oliver Mtukudzi also refused to bury him at the shrine.

Mtukudzi, who succumbed to diabetes in January, was declared national hero for his social and political influence.

Reuters|In the church where Zimbabwe’s founder Robert Mugabe used to worship, people prayed on Sunday for his forgiveness following his death two years after he was toppled in a coup.

Mugabe, who had been receiving treatment in a Singapore hospital for months before he died on Friday aged 95, dominated Zimbabwe politics for almost four decades from independence in 1980 until he was removed by his own army in November 2017.

Revered by many as a liberator who freed his people from white minority rule, he was vilified by others for wrecking one of Africa’s most promising economies and ruthlessly crushing his opponents.

At the packed Sacred Heart Cathedral in downtown Harare, where Mugabe used to attend Catholic Mass with his first wife Sally and second wife Grace, congregants remembered him as a devout man who played a role in the church’s upkeep.

A plaque in the church commemorates Sally’s death in 1992.

“We are praying for our relatives who have died. Without forgetting to pray for our former president, Comrade Robert Mugabe, we bring him forward to God, we are asking God if there is anything that he did wrong in his life that he be forgiven,” the priest told the congregation, speaking in the local Shona language.

Chris Sambo, a former soccer administrator who used to arrange matches for Mugabe in his home village of Kutama, said the southern African country’s Catholic community had lost one of its most important members.

“To me he was a father figure. We are so saddened. … He was a very staunch Catholic,” Sambo told Reuters.

Tsitsi Samukange, another churchgoer, said that when Mugabe attended mass with Grace, people could not park nearby for security reasons. She praised him as a resolute leader who fought for his country.

“As our former president I think everyone can admit that without the work he did we would not be as independent as we are,” she said.

“You know when you fight, in a fight sometimes you lose your teeth, (right)? And we became poorer. But that’s a fight and he did it, and we should give him that.”

Many in downtown Harare said at the weekend that they were saddened by Mugabe’s death because of his central role in the struggle against colonial rule and because he had broadened access to education.

But his ousting in 2017 was accompanied by celebrations across the country of 13 million. His critics at home and abroad viewed him as a power-obsessed autocrat who unleashed death squads, rigged elections and ruined the economy to keep control.

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Farai Dziva|Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has described Robert Mugabe as ” her mentor and father of many.”

Mujuru posted the remarks on her Facebook page.

“My mentor, a father to many, founder of the republic, a pan africanist, a champion of black empowerment, an icon of the liberation struggle. Rest in Power Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe.

My deepest condolences to Amai Mugabe and family. We have lost an icon. A true son of the soil,” wrote Mujuru.

The late Major-General Trust Mugoba who passed on on Friday morning on the same day former President Robert Mugabe died will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Wednesday, state media has reported.

Mugoba’s body departs for Featherstone today at 3pm.

On Monday, it will leave the Wiltshire family farm for One Commando Barracks in Harare, before a military parade is held at Parachute Regiment the following day.

He will be buried at the National Heroes’ Acre on Wednesday.

— State Media

Farai Dziva|The main opposition party in Zimbabwe, MDC has accused Zanu PF of attempting to “rig Robert Mugabe’s vote in last year’s presidential plebiscite.

The opposition party has also accused Emmerson Mnangagwa of “seizing” Mugabe’s funeral programme.

The Director-General in the President’s Office, Isaac Moyo, claimed Mugabe could not sleep the night he held a press conference endorsing Chamisa.

“Of course, here and there, there were also moments we had our tensions.

I remember when I first went to see him after his Press conference, where he announced he was going to vote for Chamisa.

We really had an exchange that day, but what then emerged was that he said despite having threatened to vote for Chamisa, he actually did not vote for Chamisa and I was told on how on the eve of the elections, he had agonised, he could not sleep.

According to the former First Lady, he had woken up around 2 am somewhere and he said he could not sleep and the idea that he would go and vote for Chamisa was rebuffed, he could not do that.

And the former First Lady said she then encouraged him to follow his real wishes and to vote for comrades he has always been with and not to worry about the small matters between them, and so the former First Lady, with the concurrence of Cde Mugabe himself, said he had not voted for MDC, but he had voted correctly, I found that funny and I enjoyed the story,” claimed Moyo.

Responding to Moyo’s remarks MDC Secretary General Chalton Hwende said :
Some people have no shame this attempt to rig Mugabe’s vote is ludicrous.

Mugabe told the whole world that he was going to Vote for @nelsonchamisa.
Gvt must allow RG’s family to mourn and bury him in peace.”

“Now they start again! What we will here next time is that RGM never said anything about the HEROES ACRE burial – I guess RGM’s vote was changed, they followed it in the ballot box – they rigged his vote,”said Nkululeko Sibanda, the MDC Presidential spokesperson.

Below is the video of the Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri which has angered Robert Mugabe’s family, as preparations for the late president’s burial drew nigh. Muchinguri shifted her colours before and after the November 2017 coup labeling him a traitor. The Mugabe family says it does not want to see Muchinguri anywhere near Zvimba for this reason.

Final Glen View South results,
MDC 3474,
Zanu PF 1534,
Independent 64,
Lead 58,
UANC 34,
Freezim Nyamayedenga 31,
ZAPU Retiwa 17,
Independent B Kasema 14,
The UANC Pallington 8,
Spoiled 16.