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Gwanda Man Dies In Mine Explosion

By A Correspondent- A man from Gwanda was found dead in a 20-metre deep mine shaft after an explosion at the mine.

Matabeleland South acting provincial police spokesperson, Sergeant Stanford Mguni, confirmed the incident which occurred at Bina Mine in Gwanda on Wednesday at around 10 PM.

He said Ndabezinhle Mpofu (20) of Thandanani Village was found dead in a shaft by mine workers. Sgt Mguni said the cause of the explosion was yet to be ascertained. “I can confirm that we recorded a mine accident which occurred at Bina Mine in Gwanda on Wednesday at around 10 PM. “Kholwani Mpofu who works at the mine and his other co-workers completed their work on Wednesday at around 8 PM and they retired for bed leaving no one at the mine shaft,” he said.

“While they were asleep at around 10PM, Mpofu and his workmates heard an explosion coming from the mine shaft and they went to inspect. “They found a local Ndabezinhle Mpofu’s body in the 20-metre deep shaft.

“The matter was reported to the police who attended the scene and Ndabezinhle’s body was retrieved from the shaft and taken to Gwanda Provincial Hospital. “Investigations are still underway to ascertain the cause of the explosion.”-StateMedia

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Chinese Firm’s Property Attached Over Salary Debt

By Own Correspondent- Chinese mining firm, San He Zimbabwe, had its property attached by the sheriff after it failed to settle over US$218 970 in salary arrears and non-payment of overtime.

The mine, based in Guruve, had failed to pay workers their full salaries, forcing employees to sue and eventually winning the case.

The award was registered at the High Court, paving way for the attachment of property such as dump trucks, tractors, irrigation equipment
and excavators.

After the attachment, the company, however, applied for stay of execution at the High Court, but lost the case.
“Applicant became aware of draft ruling and felt it was at peace. It was served to appear before the Labour Court, but failed to do so,
thinking it was at peace. (It) was served with application for registration of arbitral award, but did not file notice of opposition,
thinking it was at peace,” part of the judgment read.

“Now that the property has been attached, it wants to cry foul. I uphold the point in limine that this application is not urgent. It is
ironic that applicant only saw the writ of execution, but failed to see other notices of set down. The application is dismissed with costs, and without dealing with the merits,” the judgment read.

Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers’ Union (Zdamwu), which represented the workers, warned mining companies against labour
malpractices, saying the law would deal with them.

“Chinese chrome mine is in soup over underpayment of wages. We have attached property to recover US$219 000 or RTGS dollars equivalent,”
Zdamwu general-secretary Justice Chinhema said.

“This is a clear message to all violators of labour rights that the law will catch up with them. Zdamwu will fish you out and make you
comply in a painful way. The time for corrupt employers is over. They can bribe a few individuals for protection, but when we reach you,
we fish you and your protector,” he said.

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Canaan Banana’s Son To Republish His Late Father’s Work

By A Correspondent- Son of the late theologian and Zim’s first president Canna Banana has come out to say, he is working on republishing his father’s work including a case study of his controversial new bible.

Canaan Banana died in 2003, During the time of his career Banana had asked that the Bible be rewritten as a way of solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East. A move that was critiqued and criticized by many scholars in Zimbabwe.

16 years after his death, his son Nathan has come out to say, he will republish his father’s work.

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Mliswa Drags “Obedient Son” Obert Mpofu Down Memory Lane

By Own Correspondent| Independent legislator for Norton Temba Mliswa has dragged Zanu Pf politburo member Obert Mpofu Down Memory lane reminding him how he bragged about being the former President Robert Mugabe’s son.

Mliswa said:

Obert Mpofu forgets that when RGM (Robert Gabriel Mugabe) was in power, he declared he would never work under @Mnangagwa (President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Mpofu was the self acclaimed “Obedient Son” and his province the last to endorse ED……..”

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Lifeline For DIDG On NRZ Revival

By A Correspondent- GOVERNMENT has given the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) a new lifeline after it extended a six-month moratorium to prove its financial capacity to revive the ailing National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), failure of which the project would be handed over to other investors.

The group had indicated it would finance the revival of the NRZ by injecting about $400 million towards recapitalisation of the railway company, but has yet to deliver on its promise.

Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza recently announced that government had revoked the exclusivity clause in the DIDG/

Transnet/NRZ deal to allow other interested investors to pursue the deal.

While addressing Parliament, Matiza indicated there were other interested parties keen to take over from DIDG in the event it failed to get the deal off the ground.

The deal has been on the negotiating table for some time now, with officials insisting the logjam was necessitated by the need to verify claims that the
diaspora group did not have the funds it purported to for the NRZ deal.

Addressing captains of industry at the ongoing Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) annual congress in Victoria Falls on Thursday, NRZ board chairperson Martin Dinha said there had been a change in the circumstances.

“The position with regard to the NRZ/DIDG deal, according to Cabinet, is that DIDG have been given another six months to show government the colour of the money they intend to invest in the NRZ,” Dinha said.

“The government has always insisted that it wants DIDG to show proof that it, indeed, has the money and DIDG have been given a further six months to do just that,” he added.

Dinha told the delegates that it was high time the NRZ rose from comatose that it is in and play its role of facilitating traffic and transport of goods within the Sadc region.

The NRZ is regarded as the major link in the southern African region.
“The issue of the NRZ is, indeed, a big issue and not a small one that can just be sorted as simple as that. The NRZ has been on a decline in the recent years.

“This is a case of serious mismanagement of the affairs of the NRZ. Corruption has also affected the parastatal and it is high time that these things are dealt with,” Dinha said.

According to statistics provided by Dinha, the railway company’s capacity to move goods and passengers had drastically dropped from around 18 million tonnes per year at the attainment of independence in 1980 to the current 2,7 million tonnes a year.

“When we attained independence, the NRZ used to contribute about 11% of revenue to the tax authorities, in this case, that is the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.

But now, the NRZ is contributing less than 1% because of the collapse of the company and its inability to move goods.

“The company used to employ about 8 000 employees, but the situation has forced us to reduce these to about 4 000 employees. Like I indicated, the NRZ is in constant decline and over time, we have, as a result of all these issues, lost business,” he added.-Newsday

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Former Mines Secretary, Francis Gudyanga Accuses Gvnt Of Persecution

By A Correspondent- Mines and Mining Development secretary Francis Gudyanga, who is on remand on fraud allegations involving payment of US$1,6 million from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) coffers, into a private company’s account, has accused the government of persecuting him by continuously keeping him on remand without trial.

Gudyanga (69), who recently opened a Pandora’s box into the illicit dealings by the Mines ministry with an Israeli company believed to have links with the Arab nation’s secret services, Nikuv, said he has been on remand for over 20 months and the Prosecutor-General (PG)’s Office has postponed his trial on several occasions.

Gudyanga made the remarks in his application which he filed at the High Court this week, whereby he is seeking permanent stay of prosecution.

“It is now over 20 months before I could be tried. I wrote a letter to the second respondent (PG Kumbirai Hodzi) in order to assert my right to be tried within a reasonable time, but the second respondent ignored me,” Gudyanga said. The ex-mining boss was arrested on December 15, 2017 and charged with criminal abuse of office.

“I am convinced that the respondents have no case against me, which is why they just want to perpetrate these remands at my prejudice. My right to fair hearing has been grossly violated by the respondents,” he said, adding: “I feel being persecuted by the respondents.”

He is on $500 bail, and is being represented by Norman Mugiya.

The application is pending.-Newsday

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Gvnt Invests In Students’ Accomodation At MSU, Lupane University

By A Correspondent- Government has made an initial $23 million drawdown from the $150 million fund that is meant for infrastructure development at some of the country’s State universities.

The $23 million is earmarked for on-campus accommodation and learning facilities at Midlands State University (MSU) and Lupane University.

Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira said both MSU and Lupane had received their disbursements.

“I am very glad that there is work in progress and so far we have managed to drawdown $23 million from a loan facility of $150 million that we secured from CBZ Bank.

“From the $23 million, we gave $15 million to Lupane and $8 million to Midlands State Universities,” he said.

Government intends to build decent accommodation for students in tertiary institutions.

Prof Murwira said part of the funds will also be channelled towards facilities such as lecture rooms and laboratories.

“Government is concerned with inadequate accommodation at State universities. Over 15 000 of our students do not stay in campus accommodation.

“They are living in unfavourable conditions, hence the ministry has taken a new approach to the issue and we are engaging PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships) to build student housing,” he said.-StateMedia

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Zimbabwe Ranked 12 Our Of 14 On The Africa Media Index

By A Correspondent- ZIMBABWE has been ranked number 12 out of 14 countries in the Africa Media Index, a study which provides insights on trends and knowledge of the media sector and how it affects investment, governance, local business and economies.

The Africa Media Index, comprising data from Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Namibia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana, Angola and Ethiopia, identifies trends that are relevant to industry investors looking to increase their footprint and reach multiple audiences in a meaningful way across the continent.

It focuses on five key categories — economy and business, media landscape, media consumers, technology as well as governance and legislation.

On economy and business, Zimbabwe scored 41,63 points and became number 11; on media landscape the country scored 24,71 and became number 12; on media consumers the southern African nation got 43,94 points and became number 10.

Furthermore, on technology the country scooped 33,38 points, securing number 9 and on governance and legislation the country occupied number 12 after scoring 46,80 points.

South Africa tops each of the five categories and is first in the overall rankings.

Ghana comes in second in the overall rankings, followed by Botswana. Mozambique is last in the overall rankings.

For economy and business, various economic and business factors were weighed to achieve a country score that best reflects the status of economic performance.

For media landscape, a country score combines the availability of media and internet penetration with its prevalence geographically, to reflect how diverse and influential the media sector is in that country.

The third dimension is a measure of a country’s media consumer population in terms of access to and integration with local and international media.

Technology’s availability and penetration is ascertained to quantify a country’s capacity to provide the necessary infrastructure for media dissemination.

Governance and legislation is a numeric representation of a country’s governing and legislative framework and its interaction with media consumers, commerce, technology and the media landscape.

In a statement, GroupM sub-Saharan Africa chief executive officer Federico de Nardis said Africa was still struggling to attract significant advertising investments.

“Sub-Saharan Africa hosts 17% of the world’s population, but represents only 2% of the world’s gross domestic product. In terms of advertising investment, it represents only 0,47% of global investments,” he said.

“This is mainly because Africa is made up of many different countries with many different cultures and languages, unstable rules and regulatory environments, and a historic lack of data to help understand the marketplace.”-Newsday

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Provincial Peace Committee For Midlands Launched

By Own Correspondent- NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) chairperson Justice Selo Nare on Friday launched the Midlands provincial peace committee to spearhead peace-building initiatives in the province.

The committee will be chaired by Musasa Project executive director and NPRC commissioner Netty Musanhu, while Zanu PF Midlands provincial spokesperson Cornelius Mpereri and provincial police spokesperson Ethel Mukwende will serve as her deputy chairpersons.

Other committee members are Florence Guzha, Titus Mangoma, Tawanda Sibanda and Victoria Koke.

Speaking at the launch, Nare said he was confident that the committee would help maintain cordial relations in the province.

“This province is harmonious and people are going to work well to maintain the cordial relations enjoyed in this region,” Nare said.

“Midlands is diverse, so there is need to include all groups of people in this peace building initiative. The provincial committee should also establish peace committees at district level so that peace building cascades to and from the national, provincial, district and ward levels.”

Nare said the committee should mediate in disputes when they arise in the province to prevent the recurrence of violence and conflict in the future.

Musanhu said major issues the provincial committee would deal with include mining disputes, politicisation of mining activities, politicisation of social services as well as lack of tolerance among political parties and the underdevelopment of the province, given the amount of natural resources in the region.

Musanhu said the committee would also deal with the contentious Gukurahundi issue, since parts of the Midlands province were also affected by the 1980s genocide.-Newsday

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“A Fresh Team Is Needed To Take Zimbabwe Forward”: Mliswa

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Teenager Foils Prophet’s Miracle Annointing

By Own Correspondent- A self-proclaimed prophet from Mbembesi has been arrested after he allegedly ordered his 18 year old female client to undress before smearing her with lotion on her private parts.

It is said when the unsuspecting victim arrived at the said prophet’s homestead; he was in his bedroom hut. Ndlovu reportedly invited the teenager into his bedroom hut and instructed her to remove her t-shirt and she complied.

Ndlovu allegedly applied lotion on her stomach and bre@sts. It is said he started touching her and in the process he removed her skirt, leaving her with underwear.

The court is yet to prove that Ndlovu who has touched the victim all over her body instructed her to lie down facing upwards before he removed her undergarment and smeared lotion on her private parts.

In the process Ndlovu reportedly instructed the victim to position herself between his legs. It is alleged Ndlovu then ordered the teenager to touch his manhood.

The teenager told the court that when she realised that she was being abused she pleaded with the prophet that she wanted to go home.

Ndlovu is alleged to have refused insisting that he was not yet done with the healing process.

The court further heard that the complainant managed to free herself from Ndlovu’s firm grip and bolted out of the bedroom hut in her birthday suit. She went and narrated her ordeal to her aunt. The aunt later reported the matter to the police leading to the prophet’s arrest.

Ndlovu appeared before magistrate Ulukile Mlea- Ndlovu facing a charge of indecent assault. He pleaded not guilty.

He was remanded out of custody to 18 June but he did not turn up to court on the day in question leading the magistrate to issue him with a warrant of arrest.-StateMedia

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Auditor General’s Report Exposes False ‘New Dispensation’ Song

GOVERNMENT last year overspent by more than $2 billion without seeking parliamentary approval, while various departments and local authorities flagrantly flouted accounting procedures, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has said.

Chiri, in a statement yesterday accompanying the 2018 audit reports for line ministries, State entities and local authorities, said according to the 2018 budget, government was supposed

to spend $4,6 billion from the consolidated account, but ended up blowing $7,1 billion.

“The excess expenditure was still to be regularised in terms of section 307 of the Constitution,” Chiri said in her statement.

She exposed a litany of gross accounting malpractices by government departments, parastatals and local authorities that gobbled millions of dollars.

In some instances, goods and services were paid for but remained unutilised for several years.

Chiri cited other cases where goods were paid for, but not delivered.More in Home

“There was no evidence that the ministries had followed up deliveries of the outstanding goods,” she said.

“Ministries processed payments amounting to $7 280 598 and $232 187 526 that were not adequately supported with receipts, invoices goods received notes and competitive quotations and this made it difficult for me to ascertain if these funds

were used for the intended purposes,” Chiri said.

The AG noted that government ministries were slow in debt collection, with the debts ballooning from $133 897 975 in 2017 to $416 852 415 in 2018.

She also noted that of the $100 000 released by Treasury to the Department of Social Welfare to pay old persons, only 39% of the amount was used for the intended purpose, with the bulk of the money spent on administration costs, hotel bookings and officials’ subsistence allowances.

On State entities, Chiri said governance shortcomings continued to dominate her findings.

She singled out entities such as the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) and the power utility firm, Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), of failing to put to good use public assets acquired.

“Despite acquiring a printing press in 2016, Zimsec was still outsourcing printing services for examination papers and in 2017, the council incurred a total cost of $2 million for the printing of June and November examination papers,” Chiri said.

“For example, Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has not taken delivery of transformers nine years after making a payment of $4,9 million to Pito Investment. The same contractor was also paid $561 935 in advance by the Zimbabwe Power Company in 2016 and has not delivered. The Grain Marketing Board also made an advance payment for maize worth $1 014 163 in 2016 and to date, this maize has not been delivered,” the statement read.

In the health sector, Chiri said while her asset register for the ministry revealed that it had 282 ambulances across the country, only 134 (48%) were functional and the rest were non-runners.

The government auditor said the Primary and Secondary Education ministry received $6 090 000 for the procurement of books for the Curriculum Development and Technical Services, but the money was diverted for other purposes.

The Harmonised Social Cash Transfer (HSCT), which is an unconditional transfer of cash entitlements to vulnerable households in order to enhance the livelihood of vulnerable children,

saw $9 759 722 being disbursed to the Social Welfare ministry, but the ministry failed to disburse the money, leading to its recall.

She also said ministries were not checking and reconciling the pay sheets against payments, resulting in variances of $3 012 861.

Her report also exposed that Allied Timbers operated eight bank accounts that were not registered in its name.

Turning to local authorities, Chiri said some municipalities, such as Gweru, could not reconcile their books, while Harare was hiring equipment at a cost of $22 950 for road maintenance when they could have spent $159 969 to repair their own equipment.

“Harare council borrowed $32,5 million to fund salaries and terminal benefits of employees without ministerial approval. Only six of the required 32 ambulances were available,” part of her statement read.

The Auditor-General said although most of her recommendations were being taken on board, the pace at which they are being implemented was very slow. She called on parastatals to improve their accounting systems.

“Governance issues have continued to dominate my report constituting 80% of my total findings, although there was a marginal decrease of 16% from 2017. Most governance issues centred on

absence of good stewardship over public resources,” she remarked.

“It is imperative that State enterprises and parastatals embrace provisions of the new Public Entities Corporate Governance Act Chapter 10:31 and incorporate these into existing structures and processes.”

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Gvnt Mum On ESKOM Statement As “Varakashi” Take Over ,What Is Going On?

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Zanu Apologist Blames Trump For Eskom Payment Boob

Jane Mlambo| A ruling Zanu PF apologist Kudzai Mutisi has blamed the United States of America for delays in paying South African power producer Eskom saying all payments from Zimbabwe are scrutinised by the Donald Trump administration.

Posting on Twitter, Mutisi said payments from Zimbabwe to outside the country are always scrutinised and delayed though he did not state the reasons for so called delays.

Yesterday Eskom went public refuting claims carried in the public media that it had received USD$10 million from Zimbabwe towards the power debt it is owed.

Zimbabas is experiencing the worst load shedding owing to obsolete equipment at its Hwange thermal station coupled with low water levels at the Kariba power station.

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Auditor General’s Report Exposes Rot In Education Ministry

By Own Correspondent- The 2018 Auditor-General’s Annual report tabled in Parliament on Thursday by Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has disclosed serious public finance mismanagement by government ministries.

One of the ministries highlighted in the report is the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.

In the report, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri said:

In the education sector, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education received funds amounting to US$6 090 000 to procure books for the Curriculum Development and Technical Services but the money was used for other purposes.

I was not able to ascertain how the curriculum was implemented without the required materials.

Some schools, particularly in the remotest of places, are still struggling to implement the new curriculum as they lack proper funding.

When the curriculum was introduced, there were some stakeholders who opposed it citing the unpreparedness of some schools to implement it.

The President of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, Dr. Takavafira Zhou, was on record saying that there was need to first bridge the digital space that existed between the haves and the have nots. He said that it would be unfair to some pupils to be writing the same examinations with those who would have had access to all equipment required by the new curriculum.-StateMedia

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Govt To Recruit 5000 Teachers

THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is negotiating with Treasury for the employment of 5 000 teachers to reduce the deficit of educators in schools which have almost 13 000 vacancies, a Cabinet minister said yesterday.

Primary and Secondary Education Minister Professor Paul Mavima revealed this during a Zimbabwe Congress of Students’ Union (Zicosu) public lecture at the United College of Education in Bulawayo.

The public lecture ran under the theme “Utilising teachers and education in achieving Vision 2030”.

The lecture is part of Zicosu’s thrust to bring Government officials to interact with students and explain how various departments are relevant to President Mnangagwa’s vision of turning the country into an upper middle income economy by 2030.

Prof Mavima said his ministry was committed to improving the country’s education sector and together with the PSC they were lobbying Treasury for the employment of an additional 5 000 teachers.

In January, Treasury gave the PSC the green light to recruit 3 000 teachers.

“So, what else are we doing in order to provide opportunities? The first thing is that we are continuing to push Treasury. Right now together with PSC, we have asked for 5 000 positions to be opened up. The Minister of Finance (and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube) is favourable, but I don’t know when they will give us the green light to recruit the 5 000,” said Prof Mavima.

He said the Government job freeze had resulted in a deficit of about 13 000 teachers.

“So that we solve these issues we must be honest with each other, isn’t it? We had 20 000 unemployed trained teachers until very recently. For a long period of time we have not had massive recruitment even though we have shortages,” said Minister Mavima.

“I think we have shortages within our current schools of about 12 000 to 13 000. But because of the fiscal situation, Government said you can’t recruit.

“We are not the only ministry that is affected. All ministries are affected including Health, there are many nurses who are still not employed. But in January we were given a little bit of a reprieve to say employ 3 000 and we have gone through that process.

“Of course, where you have high expectations from everyone but limited spaces you end up with lot of arguments and even conflicts as to how you go about it. And because of that it took us long to fill those 3 000, but I think the bureaucrats are now left with 500 to fill.”

Minister Mavima said some of the remaining positions are meant for Science and Mathematics teachers who are not available to take up the vacant posts.

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Mnangagwa Invests In Super Spyware For Citizens?

By Own Correspondent- The Zimbabwe government is reportedly working on a sophisticated algorithmic super surveillance system, said to be a first of it’s kind in Africa worth millions of dollars, with the help of China, Japan and Iran.

The development raises fears of a brewing police state, Spotlight Zimbabwe, has revealed.

Algorithmic surveillance, is the use of computer programs to identify data of interest from a population. Algorithms are recipes for the internet, and are mostly used in search engines, spam filters, video games, recommendation engines, social media, news feeds and maps.

They are often invisible, and have divided opinion, with some believing that they will be of benefit to humans and society, while others worry that it will be the opposite.

Opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime said, the fact that the internet can, through algorithms, be used to almost read peoples minds means there is risk for political and economic manipulation, including lack of privacy and self-determination.

According to intelligence sources working at the E-Government department or unit, which is basically a branch of the President’s Office, the Chinese are the backbone of the surveillance project, and have Artificial Intelligence (AI) firms that have signed agreements with Mnangagwa’s government, to enable Harare capabilities in setting up massive real-time video surveillance, facial recognition technology for the whole population, including other biometric identification programs.

“Zimbabwe is being used as an experiment for algorithmic surveillance in Africa and your government is receiving all the funding they need from big technology companies to implement trials of the system,” said a diplomat who represented a Scandinavian country in the capital before recently being moved to South Africa.

“There is a lot of business and money to be made. Forget about privacy and violation of human rights. Welcome to the brave new world. Zimbabwe will be used as a case study and template for other nations in Africa to follow suit. China, Japan and Iran are involved, and they will obviously get lucrative contracts for their firms to do business with Zimbabwe.”

In March 2018, the Zimbabwean government signed a strategic partnership with the Gunagzhou-based startup CloudWalk Technology to begin a large-scale facial recognition program throughout the country. The agreement, backed by the Chinese government’s Belt and Road initiative, will see the technology primarily used in security and law enforcement and will likely be expanded to other public programs, according to China’s Global Times daily tabloid newspaper.

“The Zimbabwean government did not come to Guangzhou purely for AI or facial ID technology, rather it had a comprehensive package plan for such areas as infrastructure, technology and biology,” CloudWalk CEO Yao Zhiqiang told the newspaper.

Also in August last year Mnangagwa gave the greenlight to another Chinese company, Hikvision, to start mounting high-tech surveillance cameras in the streets of Harare ostensibly to curb road accidents and crime.

“We must, as we move forward, be pro-active, bold and seek to chart new frontiers in our development,” Mnangagwa said during a launch ceremony of Hikvision’s security products.

“Let us all within our respective fields create a deliberate environment where talent is supported and promoted. Our quest to modernise the economy requires high-level security systems. In this regard, CCTV surveillance systems are, indeed, an important component of any modern society. Not only are these systems a forensic tool, but they can also be integrated with other monitoring devices, alarm systems and access control devices, thus helping security personnel to identify and interrupt security breaches as they occur or even before they take place,” he said.

Japan only last month, through her Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Toshiyuki Iwado, pledged to support Zimbabwe in areas of technology, and infrastructural development. The Asian technological powerhouse extended a $3.6 million grant to Zimbabwe last November, which will be used for the acquisition of “cyber security equipment”.

Iwado said some of the new equipment to be provided which includes digital forensic tools, face recognition systems and an information sharing platform, will contribute to upgrading the capacity of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, and help promote inter-regional cooperation of the responsible bodies under the auspices of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol).

Iran, another close ally of Harare has since 2007 been involved in a massive cyber training exercise of hundreds of Zimbabwe’s intelligence and military operatives. Under the leadership of former president, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is thought to have acquired state of the art software from Iran, which has been upgraded under Mnangagwa’s watch to snoop on the internet.

Tehran has developed one of the world’s most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the internet, enabling the regime to examine the content of individual online communications at a grand scale, after courting the assistance of some European telecommunications companies in developing its monitoring capabilities.

Through a technique called “deep packet inspection”, Iran’s sophisticated mechanisms of controlling the internet enables government authorities to not only block communication but to monitor it, to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for propaganda purposes, which is a dream come true for government’s egregious security law, The Interception of Communications Act passed in 2007 to allow government to wiretape all communications of the populace, without their consent or notification.

The law empowers the chief of defense intelligence, the director-general of the CIO, the commissioner of police and the commissioner general of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) to intercept telephonic, e-mail and cellphone messages 

Spotlight Zimbabwe, in giving weight to today’s report, was the first publication to reveal last March , that Mnangagwa’s administration was on the brink of launching a sophisticated national spying facility, said to be similar in function to the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S, aimed at boosting homeland security and to fight cyber crimes and cyber warfares, with the closet assistance of Beijing, Moscow and Tehran.

The facility, once in place is capable of monitoring landline phones, mobile and all internet communications, like the NSA located in Fort Meade, Maryland, high level sources within the Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security ministry disclosed last year.

Officials at the E-Government unit yesterday said the new algorithmic surveillance system expected to be up and running by 2023, will be married together with the spy facility established to fight cyber warfares internally and externally, and that the President’s Office is coordinating the project together with a new cyber division in the ministry of defence.

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Grandfather (65) Sprays Unknown Substance, Rapes 12yr Old Granddaughter

By Own Correspondent- A Chimanimani man allegedly sprayed an unknown substance on his Grade 5 granddaughter in order to drowse and rape her in the middle of the night.

This was revealed during the initial appearance of the 65-year-old man (who cannot be named to protect the identity of the minor) before Chipinge magistrate, Joshua Nembaware, facing one count of rape. He was remanded in custody to July 14.

Prosecutor Chipo Nyasha told the court that sometime between December 1 and December 31, the suspect sneaked into the victim’s bedroom at night with the intention to rape her, but the granddaughter heard some squeaking sound and woke up.

Upon realising that she had awakened her, the man allegedly sprayed an unknown liquid on the 12-year-old’s face, causing her to instantly feel dizzy, before s.e.xually assaulting her.

After the s.e.xual abuse, the court heard, the grandfather threatened the girl with death if she revealed her ordeal to anyone.

However, on June 22, the minor revealed the assault to her class teacher, who in turn advised the school head. The headmaster took the matter up with Education ministry officials, leading to the suspect’s arrest.-Newsday

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ZCTU Announce General Strike

Jane Mlambo| The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) has announced that a general strike is looming saying they will not watch as workers starve to death due to the current economic hardships bedevilling the nation

Posting on Twitter, ZCTU said dates for the strike will be announced soon.

GENERAL STRIKE IS COMING

DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED NEXT WEEK

“Workers are not going to starve to death, or continue to die in hospitals or homes without medical care in silence

“Workers are not going to continue to work for transport fares only, or to lose their pension savings,” said ZCTU.

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I Stand With The People Against Abusive Chinese Investors

Jane Mlambo| Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has vowed to intensify his fight against a Chinese investor accused of ill-treating workers in Norton saying he will not be silenced as he is keen on standing for the people.

In a Twitter thread posted early this morning, Mliswa alleged the Chinese investor in question is involved in gold mining under the pretext of tile making.

He further alleged that the tile making plant has a base where women are being raped and offered money.

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British Businessman Strangled To Death In Politically Troubled Malawi

Alan Fay

A British guest house owner has been found dead near his home in protests hit Malawi, according to reports.

Alan Fay, 57, suffered deep cuts to his head and face and is believed to have been suffocated with a plastic bag.

He was found dead in the early hours of Thursday morning, around 100 metres from the Lake View Resort.

Malawi Police in Mzuzu have arrested a manager at the resort for questioning.

Peter Kalaya, Northern Region police spokesperson told The Maravi Post that Mr Fay left the resort at around 8pm on Wednesday to escort the manager home on foot.

Kalaya said that Mr Fay’s wife Tina Kamanga became worried when he didn’t return home and formed a search party other staff and started looking for him.

Mr Fay was found less than 12 hours later in a bush not far up the road.

“The assailants also went away with his two mobile phones. Fay’s body has since been taken to Mzuzu Central Hospital where a postmortem is expected to be done,” Kalaya added.

Police have advised people in the area which is one of the most volatile protests hit to not walk around alone and have appealed to anyone with information about the killing to come forward.

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Eskom Says They Will Only Start Negotiations With Zim After Being Paid.

Switched off. The Eskom grid that supplies electricity to Zimbabwe.

Eskom South Africa says that they will only start engaging their Zimbabwean counterparts ZESA on releasing electricity into their troubled neighbours only after they have received payment on the $80m outstanding debt.

The giant power company which is also battling to sustain demand in its country said it has not received any payment from Zimbabwe as alleged by the Zimbabwean Minister of Energy Fortune Chasi this week.

“Eskom would like to state that no funds have reflected on its accounts for Zimbabwe’s outstanding debt as at 28 June at 15h00,” said the company in a statement.

“This is in response to the announcement made in Zimbabwe and queries that Eskom is receiving regarding this issue.”  

“Once Eskom has received the funds, we will then enter into further discussions with Zesa,” Eskom Group Chief Executive Phakamani Hadebe said. 

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Chiefs Grill Mnangagwa On Gukurahundi

President Mnangagwa addresses chiefs from the Matabeleland region and Midlands Province at State House in Bulawayo yesterday, while Deputy Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Jenipher Mhlanga and president of the Chiefs Council Chief Fortune Charumbira look on.

State Media|PRESIDENT Mnangagwa met chiefs from the Matabeleland region and the Midlands Province at State House here yesterday to discuss a number of issues, including traditional leaders taking a leading role in bringing closure to the Gukurahundi chapter.

Briefing journalists after the closed meeting, the President said he attended the indaba at the invitation of traditional leaders who wanted to share various challenges faced by their respective areas.

He said chiefs argued that it was important for them to play a role as it was their subjects who were affected by Gukurahundi.

“The two provinces have put forward similar methods of dealing with the issue of Gukurahundi,” said President Mnangagwa.

“The major point that has come out is the fact that Gukurahundi affected communities in which they preside as traditional leaders. They are directly affected by the incident of Gukurahundi.

“Therefore, they have made an argument that in its resolution, we should as Government create a platform where the chiefs should participate substantively because it is the communities which they preside over which were affected.”

President Mnangagwa said any other interest groups on the matter should have single platforms where the issues can be discussed and resolutions or way forward agreed.

He said the traditional leaders raised the need for equal opportunities in the recruitment of staff into Government and young people in the security sector.

“There are areas that have been pointed out which are not satisfactory, which I have assured our traditional leaders that the areas that are weak should be corrected so that there is fairness in recruiting people into the security sector,” said President Mnangagwa.

He said the chiefs shared the effects of drought in their areas which negatively impacted on food security.

The traditional leaders, the President said, raised social issues which needed urgent attention such as education, roads infrastructure and the availability or access to clean water.

“These challenges are not only found in these two provinces, they are also prevalent in other provinces, but we have done our best to look at how these issues will be addressed,” said President Mnangagwa.

“Not all will be addressed overnight, some issues lend themselves to quick solutions, others lend themselves to medium and long term solutions, but what is critical is the fact that these challenges have been put forward and I’m happy that the provinces have put their challenges and issues in priority order as to how they can be tackled.

“I think we had an open discussion and last but not least, we all pledge ourselves, Government and communities to unity”.

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Former MDC Parliamentarian To Lose Isuzu Van As Payment To His Campaign Manager

Brian Tshuma

State Media|FORMER MDC-T Member of Parliament for Hwange Central Mr Brian Tshuma has been taken to court by his erstwhile campaign manager for failing to pay him for services rendered during the 2008 and 2013 elections.

Mr Fednard Ncube, through his lawyers Mashindi and Associates, filed summons at the Bulawayo High Court citing the former MP, his sister Pretty Tshuma and their mother Ms Chamatama Shoko, as defendants.

Mr Ncube is accusing the former legislator of failing to give him a car, an Isuzu twin cab KB250, which he had offered as payment for managing his election campaigns.

He said he was engaged in 2007 as a campaign manager by Mr Tshuma for the 2008 and 2013 harmonised elections and was promised US$2 000.

“After securing a parliamentary seat, the first defendant (Mr Tshuma) failed to pay as per his undertaking. I worked again as his campaign manager in the 2013 elections and once again he promised me US$2 000, but nothing was paid despite the first defendant having retained his seat,” said Mr Ncube.

He said in 2016, Mr Tshuma then promised to give him a car in recognition of his services as a full and final payment of all his dues.

Mr Ncube said he took possession of the car, but Mr Tshuma refused to give him the vehicle registration book.

He said he was involved in an accident while driving the car and he took it to Minestores Garage for repairs.

Mr Ncube said when he went to the garage to check the vehicle, he discovered that Ms Shoko and her daughter had collected it acting on the orders of Mr Tshuma.

Mr Ncube said when he opened a criminal charge against the defendants, prosecution was denied on the basis that he did not have the car’s registration book. He said he therefore wants the court to order the defendants to return the car and surrender its registration book to him.

Mr Ncube also wants the court to order the deputy sheriff of the High Court to be authorised to sign all necessary papers to register the car under his name. “The defendants have despite numerous demands refused to return the car. Wherefore I pray for an order directing the defendants to deliver the car and its registration book within four days of the order,” he said.

The defendants are yet to respond.

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Mnangagwa’s Govt Can’t Even Keep Cash Books And Ledgers, So How Did Mthuli Know Of Surpluses?

Auditor-General Mrs Mildred Chiri

State Media|The 2018 Auditor-General’s Annual report tabled in Parliament on Thursday has exposed poor maintenance of accounting records in some ministries, with some diverting funds for non-intended purposes while other paid-for goods were not delivered.

The report was tabled in Parliament by Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi on behalf of his Finance and Economic Development counterpart Professor Mthuli Ncube. Yesterday, Auditor-General Mrs Mildred Chiri said there was need for attention and redress on issues she identified.

“Maintenance of accounting records remained a challenge in some ministries for both Appropriation and Fund accounts,” she said.

“Proper accounting and assets records such as cash books and ledgers to record revenue and expenditure and fuel and motor vehicle registers were in some cases not maintained. As a result, I could not confirm the completeness and accuracy of some financial statements which were compiled from the bank statements, payment vouchers and cash books instead of general ledgers.”

She said revenues and expenditures of some financial statements were either overstated or understated by $16 745 223 and $21 153 747 respectively while $21 725 598 could not be verified.

Some of the ministries involved include that of Health and Child Welfare, Defence and War Veterans Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure Development, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development.

“Expenditure totalling $2 368 932 was incurred on the purchase of vehicles, generators, excavators, syringe infusion pumps, a water bowser and biometric cards which were not delivered.

“There was no evidence that the ministries had followed up deliveries of the outstanding goods,” Mrs Chiri said.

She also said ministries processed payments of US$7 280 598 and $232 187 525 that were not adequately supported with receipts, invoices, goods received notes and competitive quotations making it difficult to ascertain if the funds were used for intended purposes.

“Variances of $3 012 861 were noted in some ministries between expenditure for employment costs show in the Appropriation Account and expenditure reported by the Salaries Services Bureau.

“There is need to reconcile employment costs reported in the Public Finance and Management System against that paid by SSB to ensure that salaries are paid to bonafide employees.

The ministries affected include that of Public Service and Social Welfare, Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Higher and Tertiary Education, Energy and Power Development, Industry and Commerce and the Public Service Commission and the Zimbabwe Gender Commission.

The ministries balance was $1 055 828 763 while that of the SSB was $1 059 163 623.

Mrs Chiri said in terms of service delivery the Ministry of Health and Child Care had 282 ambulances with only 134 (48 percent) of them functional affecting movement of patients.

“In the education sector, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education received funds amounting to US$6 090 000 to procure books for the Curriculum Development and Technical Services but the money was used for other purposes.

“I was not able to ascertain how the curriculum was implemented without the required materials,” she said.

“Similarly, on the welfare of citizens, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare did not disburse Harmonised Social Cash Transfer which is a transfer of cash entitlement to vulnerable households in order to reduce household poverty, protect and enhance the livelihoods of all vulnerable children so that they refrain from risky coping strategies such as child labour and early marriages.

“The $9 759 722 earmarked for HSCT programme was recalled by the Treasury on December 31, 2018 after realising that no disbursements were made thus depriving the beneficiaries of a better standard of living.”

She said the ministry had also disbursed $38 586 (39 percent) of the $100 000 allocated for the protection and welfare of the elderly with the bulk going towards administration expenses, hospitality and travel and subsistence allowances.

Mrs Chiri also said amount owed to various ministries rose from $133 897 975 to $416 852 415 saying it was doubtful whether the money would be collected as some had remained outstanding for long periods.

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RBZ Says You’ll Never Withdraw Your US Dollars Ever Again, Forget It

This is Zimbabwe, no, Mnangagwe…

…and its ruler says his government is greater than heaven’s.

By Business Reporter| If you hadn’t withdrawn your forex funds out of your FCA/ Nostro, you are too late, you will never get them, never ever- The Reserve Bank Of Zimbabwe has within 48 hrs changed the rules on withdrawals from Nostro/FCA accounts.

On Wednesday the RBZ’s position had no restrictions on withdrawals apart from a USD1000 a day cap.

But in a change of policy, the RBZ has changed its rules and now says that Cash Withdrawals can only be made by individuals who intend to settle foreign costs.

Their police announced on Friday reads:
“An exporting entity that wishes to pay salaries in foreign currency from their export receipts, will need to seek prior Exchange Control approval.

“The salaries are payable into the individual foreign currency accounts, which are treated as free funds.

“Payment of salaries in foreign currency
“Under the newly announced policy measures, salaries for NGOs remain payable in foreign exchange where funding for such NGOs, International Organisations, is from offshore.

“In cases where the holders of such funds intend to settle domestic transactions, the funds shall be liquidated at the prevailing interbank market to facilitate payments in ZWL, which is now the legal tender.

“All the other funds remain available to holders of such accounts and the balances can be utilised for purposes of settling international transactions.

“Funds currently held in all Nostro accounts will not be subjected to any involuntary liquidations, except in the case of FCA Exports, which are subject to the 30-day liquidation period.

“If individuals want their money but do not have proof that they will be travelling outside the country, they will receive the money as Zimbabwe Dollars at the prevailing rate instead.”

On Wednesday, the RBZ policy was as follows:

“The current withdrawal limit for individuals remains US$1000 per day.

“Individuals are still able to withdraw their cash from their individual accounts and banks are, in line with international best practice, expected to apply the AML/CFT principles.

“Further to our Directive, the Reserve Bank wishes to advise that contrary to certain information being circulated on social media, cash withdrawals by individuals are still permissible and the policy position hasn’t changed.”

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Mthwakazi Demonstrates Against Mnangagwa Meeting With Chiefs On Gukurahundi

Media Statement|Today the 28th of June 2019 , MRP members held a mini demonstration outside Rainbow hotel where all the Mthwakazi Chiefs have been booked for the past two days ahead of this morning Gukurahundi Indaba at State House in Bulawayo. Emerson Mnangangwa, the butcherer of our more than 20 000 innocent Ndebeles will be meeting the Chiefs.

The placards by the MRP members were clear that Mnangangwa is not qualified to chair the Gukurahundi emotive Indaba because of his direct involvement on the Genocide.

The meeting with the Chiefs comes barely three months after Emerson Mnangangwa met the so called CSOs at the same venue at State House in Bulawayo. MRP President is on record saying the Chiefs are the custodians of the people hence anything to do with Gukurahundi redress without Chiefs is null and void. Two months back the MRP President stated that the Chiefs are the ones who had their subjects killed by Zanu PF through Emerson Mnangangwa, Robert Mugabe, Perence Shiri, Constantine Chiwenga, and Sydney Sekeramayi.

The demonstrators targeted the Chiefs early this morning before they could meet Emerson Mnangangwa and expressed their disgruntlement that Mnangangwa as the perpetrator should not preside over this matter as his proper place is the international Court of Justice.

It is now clear that Mnangangwa and his Zanu PF government will not come clean on this matter due to the insincerity and dilly dallying considering that two months back he met the CSOs whom through reliable sources and other members of the so called CSOs, Emerson Mnangangwa paid the CSOs $ 2.3 Million as a away of making sure that they sell out on Matebeleland people. The Same Mnangangwa now calls the Chiefs at the same venue. We also hope that some of these chief’s haven’t been bought as most of them have not raised a voice against the Shonalisation of Mthwakazi which makes us doubt whether they understand what made them to be chiefs as we feel most of them believe that their chieftainship is because of Zanu PF. They are forgetting that they became chiefs because of King Mzilikazi Khumalo and later under King Lobengula Khumalo.

Most of these chief’s are mum on the land invasions by shonas in Mthwakazi, the deployment of Shona teachers in all Mthwakazi schools, the looting of Mthwakazi resources by shonas.

On the other hand we believe as MRP that the Genocide is still in place but this time it’s economic Genocide where our people are not controlling anything in Mthwakazi. We wonder whose interests are those chiefs defending when their subjects wallow in poverty whilst Harare people do as they wish in Mthwakazi.

We also gather from our reliable source that Chief Siansali of Binga is working together with Emerson Mnangagwa and Chief Charumbira to derail Matabeleland Progress. We are told yesterday night during the chiefs meeting at the Rainbow hotel, chief Siansali was against any voice that defended Matabeleland. He even went further to say his area of chieftainship is Zambezi not Matabeleland. The time is now, nothing for us, without us.

MRP Information department.

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WATCH: Apostle Chiwenga Accident – 60km Speed Limit, Did Mnangagwa’s CIOs Force Apostle To Accelerate To 120km Per Hour In Bending, Meandering Strip Road?

NATIONAL, BUSINESS, BREAKING

VIDEO LOADING BELOW…

The following is Talent Chiwenga’s his exact narration of from his hospital theatre video shot a day after the accident: As I drove I was using an average speed of 100km [per hour]. The maximum speed I drove for was 120 [km]. I did this because the fan belt that we had replaced was not a new one, so it was not wise to drive at a faster speed than that. So the fan belt was also going to get broken.

We only wanted to arrive to Harare so that we can buy [a] stronger brand new fan belts. So while I was driving I saw a car coming from the opposite direction, (I was going to Harare) it was coming from Harare side. That car swerved into my lane and I flashed him with my headlamps to show him that he was doing something wrong. So he went back to his lane. He drove for about 10 metres towards me, but this time he just swerved back onto my lane, appearing like he wanted to have a head on collision with me. I flashed him several times, I horned.
I rang my hooter, but he didn’t show any signs that he was going back to his line, to his lane. Instead of going to his lane, I was afraid that he was going to come back to my lane and he was going to hit me by my side and the car was going to overturn more times. I also wanted to avoid a head-on because it would have been more fatal. The car’s front looked like a Toyota, one tonne truck, or a Toyota Hilux, or a Ford T6, I don’t know. We were driving so we, we were facing each other… so I couldn’t see the exact details concerning the car but it had a bumper on it. I remember the bumper.
It had round head lamps, and some few yellow lamps on top of the roof. It could not have been a smaller car. When I tried to avoid him by going extreme left outside the road, there was no road there, so both my wheels front and rear left caught into something that looked like a hump or a ditch, so the car had a great noise, bummm!, and then it went back to the road. At that point I realised that I was no longer in control, the steering was more loose that it usually is.
When we went into the road, it crossed the road again to face directly to a tree, which I knew that if I don’t do something, we were going to hit against that tree and it was also not going to safe for us, so when I tried to turn the car to come back, avoiding that tree, because of whatever had happened, I think one of those wheels was no longer in its right shape, the car overturned. That was the last time I remember what happened, I think it was about an hour later when I woke up. A lot of people were gathered around the car. The person close to me was Baba Kanyuchi, my wife and Mai Vhurumuku I didn’t see them . Baba Kanyuchi said to me Apostle don’t mention your name, they are still here.

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Tribalism Takes Centre Stage In Mnangagwa – Chiefs Meeting

(From left) Chiefs Ngungumbane, Siansali-Binga,Nyangazonke-Kezi, and Mzimuni Masuku-Gwanda follow proceedings during a chiefs meeting with the President at State House in Bulawayo yesterday

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa met chiefs from the Matabeleland region and the Midlands Province at State House in Bulawayo yesterday but was left fuming after claiming that Chiefs from his Midlands province were invited for the meeting on tribal bases.

Mnangagwa burst out to speak on the issue before his time to speak in the programme heavily condemning organisers of the meeting for tribal discrimination.

The chiefs had also requested for the removal of Chiefs Council Chairman Chief Fortune Charumbira from the meeting on claims that he was not friendly to the causes of the region.

President Mnangagwa declined the requests to have deliberations in the absence of Charumbira.

“First, I was requested that the president of the chief’s council, when you give your grievances, should be absent,” he said. “I am saying as President of the Republic of Zimbabwe we need transparency, accountability and no secrets and the president of the chiefs’ council Chief Charumbira will remain here.

“Secondly, I received a letter from some two chiefs requesting me to meet them here in Bulawayo, chiefs from Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South, I’m now informed that chiefs from my province, Midlands have been picked, selected on the basis of tribe. I don’t like that.

“We in the Midlands are united, we will not accept to be divided, so the chiefs from Midlands will remain in this indaba, but they will not speak because of the basis in which they have been brought here.”

Speaking in his opening remarks, an embarrassed Charumbira pleaded for unity amongst the chiefs. He said traditional leaders played an important role in the development and unity of communities.

“What’s more important is the issue of unity in the country,” said Chief Charumbira. “As a country, we can’t afford disunity, other countries have paid highly and when you see the experiences of other countries you see that it is important that we should work towards unity everywhere you are.”

Giving a vote of thanks, chief’s council deputy president Chief Mtshane Khumalo a close ally to Charumbira said the attempt to exclude Chief Charumbira was not the stance of the generality of chiefs from Matabeleland, but just one or two individuals.

He said it would have been unfair had the meeting been allowed to exclude Chief Charumbira as leader of traditional leaders in the country.

The meeting was also attended by Provincial Affairs Ministers for Bulawayo Judith Ncube, Matabeleland North Richard Moyo, Matabeleland South Abednico Ncube, Midlands Larry Mavima and deputy minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Jennifer Mhlanga.

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Mushekwi To Pay Warriors Outstanding Allowances?

China-based striker, Nyasha Mushekwi, has pledged to personally pay the Warriors’ outstanding money to prevent a potentially catastrophic withdrawal from the Total 2019 Africa Cup of Nations tournament that is ongoing in Egypt.


The former Caps United forward, who has since been ruled out of the tournament, reportedly urged the players to play the remaining match or matches reminding them that withdrawing from the tournament would have an adverse impact on both the players and the country. One of the players who spoke to the Chronicle said:
Mushekwi said he was prepared to use his own funds and asked that we rethink about our threat not to fulfill the DRC game on Sunday.


Zimbabwe head of delegation Farai Jere confirmed that there were issues over allowances for the players but refuted allegations that there was a suggestion to withdraw from the tournament.

Jere said:
I want to assure the nation that we are going to play our final group game on Sunday and are looking forward to a positive result.

These boys are aware of the impact that qualification will have on their footballing careers but we are also cognisant that we don’t have to turn a blind eye to their concerns, the association will always have an ear on issues to do with the welfare of the team, we are a listening association.


Meanwhile, Zimbabwe need an outright win over DRC and Egypt has to beat Uganda for the Warriors to proceed to the knockout stages.State media

Warriors
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Soldier Bashes Wife For Asking For Money

A soldier has been very explosive to the extent that the wife reported him to the police.


Lorrain Ndou and Nixon Zimutsa’s marriage seemed to be going smoothly for the first few years as Zimutsa would provide for the family well.


However, trouble began when Zimutsa who is a soldier stationed at Khumalo Barracks abandoned his normal duties of providing monthly for the family.


Every time Ndou asks for money she gets bashed.
Their relationship has become so sour such that Ndou sometimes moves out of her matrimonial home after being bashed.


“I am customarily married to Nixon Zimutsa and my problem with my husband is that he is violent and physically assaults me whenever I ask for money. On top of that every time we have problems he chases me out of the home.


“He always destroys property when he gets angry and does not financially support the family,” said Ndou.


In his ruling presiding Western Commonage magistrate Lungile Ncube granted Ndou a protection order in which he ordered Zimutsa to refrain from verbally and physically assaulting Ndou.B-Metro

Soldiers
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Fake Cop Nabbed

A Bulawayo man landed himself in trouble after he impersonated a police officer and demanded money from a man he allegedly caught having sex with a prostitute in a sanitary lane.


Circumstances are that on 06 June, an imbiber Tatenda Dambure (22) allegedly hired a sex worker from a city night spot.


Dambure reportedly led the sex worker to a sanitary lane where they allegedly had sex.


While enjoying themselves, Patrick Hlohla (24) spotted them before he approached them and introduced himself as a police officer.


It is said that Hlohla demanded cash and in fear of being arrested Dambure allegedly gave Hlohla $6.
Hlohla is alleged to have demanded more and as a result an argument ensued.


The altercation reportedly caught the attention of police officers who were on patrol.
When confronted by the patrol police officers, Dambure reportedly spilled the beans leading to the arrest of Hlohla and subsequent recovery of $6 which Dambure had paid Hlohla.


For the offence Hlohla appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Ulukile Ndlovu facing a charge of impersonating a police officer.
He pleaded not guilty.


In his defence he said: “ Your
worship, I spotted Dambure having sex with a lady of the night in a sanitary lane.


“When I approached them Dambure tried to flee but I caught up with him. I told him, I was taking him to Central Police Station since what he was doing was wrong and as a result an argument ensued between us.”


“I never presented myself as a police officer. Dambure lied to the police so that I could get arrested. I never demanded cash from him, the whole story is a fabrication,” he said.B-Metro

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“Prophet” Strips Teenager To Anoint Her Private Parts

A self-proclaimed prophet from Mbembesi has been arrested after he allegedly ordered her female client to strip naked before smearing her with lotion on her private parts.


A court heard that on Monday last week at around 5pm the mother of the 18-year-old girl who cannot be named for ethical reasons reportedly instructed her daughter to proceed to prophet Khawulani Ndlovu to heal her for an undisclosed ailment.


It is said when the unsuspecting victim arrived at the said prophet’s homestead; he was in his bedroom hut.


Ndlovu reportedly invited the teenager into his bedroom hut and instructed her to remove her t- shirt and she complied.


Ndlovu allegedly applied lotion on her stomach and breasts. It is said he started caressing her and in the process he removed her skirt, leaving her with underwear.


The court is yet to prove that Ndlovu who was caressing the victim all over her body instructed her to lie down facing upwards before he removed her undergarment and smeared lotion on her private parts.


In the process Ndlovu reportedly instructed the victim to position herself between his legs.
It is alleged Ndlovu then ordered the teenager to touch his manhood.


The teenager told the court that when she realised that she was being abused she pleaded with the prophet that she wanted to go home.
Ndlovu is alleged to have refused insisting that he was not yet done with the healing process.


The court further heard that the complainant managed to free herself from Ndlovu’s firm grip and bolted out of the bedroom hut in her birthday suit. She went and narrated her ordeal to her aunt. The aunt later reported the matter to the police leading to the prophet’s arrest.


Ndlovu appeared before magistrate Ulukile Mlea- Ndlovu facing a charge of indecent assault.
He pleaded not guilty.


He was remanded out of custody to 18 June but he did not turn up to court on the day in question leading the magistrate to issue him with a warrant of arrest.B-Metro

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Bakers Divert Bread To Parallel Market

Bakers are diverting bread from the official market by creating cartels of their sales representatives and vendors who sell the basic commodity on the streets across Harare at exorbitant prices of between $5 and $6 a loaf.


Most supermarkets and registered tuckshops in the city centre, Chitungwiza, Mabvuku, Mbare, Budiriro, Kuwadzana and Warren Park are no longer selling bread because of the practice.


Investigations by The Herald have shown that salespersons who deliver bread early in the morning are offloading it on the black market, instead of shops, where they charge between $4 and $4,50 per loaf.


Most bakeries are now officially selling bread to retailers at the price of $3,65 a loaf, although the increase was not announced. But the salespersons are now snubbing conventional shops in favour of the illegal vendors who are made to obtain the bread at up to $4, 50 a loaf.


The sales representatives then pocket the difference. They demand payment in strictly cash. The burden will then be passed on to the consumers who are forced to buy a loaf of bread at $6 cash from the vendors.


Bakers Association of Zimbabwe chairperson Mr Dennis Wala said bread should be sold on the formal market and at the recommended price.


He said the recommended retail price of a loaf of price should not exceed $4 and whoever is caught selling it beyond $4 should be answerable for the illegal actions.


“As far as we are concerned, the retail price of a 700g loaf of bread should not exceed $4,” said Mr Wala. “Bread must be sold on the formal market. If one sells a loaf of bread over and above $4, they should be answerable for their actions.”State media

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Command Health Implications?Government Bars Doctors From Hiking Tarrifs

Government has ordered doctors to follow stipulated procedures when hiking medical tariffs, describing any other practice outside the expected processes as unfair.

This followed a unilateral increase of medical fees by physicians on Tuesday, which saw new rates of consulting the specialists pegged between $900 and $3 750.


In a statement yesterday, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said by unilaterally increasing the costs, the doctors were violating provisions of the medical services regulations.


“The ministry is greatly concerned with the unilateral increase of tariffs by the Physicians’ Association of Zimbabwe following the announcement of the SI 142 of 2019,” said the ministry.


“This amounts to unfair practice by providers to members in terms of the Medical Services (Medical Aid Societies) (Amendment) ReguIations, 2004.”


The ministry said, according to the regulations, service providers, physicians included, should agree on a common tariff with health funders, which are medical aid societies.


It said if the two parties fail to agree on a common tariff, Government will gazette a tariff that both parties must abide by.


“According to these regulations, it is deemed unfair practice when a health care provider demands from any person any payment by way of consultation fee or deposit or other similar payment howsoever described in excess of:-


“The amount agreed between the association recognised by the minister as representing the interest of medical aid societies, AHFoZ in this case, and the body recognised as representing interests of provides, ZIMA or its affiliate in this case or:
“The amount specified by the minister in the gazette, in the absence of the agreement between the funders and the providers association,” further reads the statement.State media

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Shocking Increase In Suicide Cases

Mental illness and suicidal thoughts can affect anyone, of any age, from any background, at any time.


Similar to physical illnesses, people do not choose to have mental health problems and need the appropriate care to get better.


On Monday, police revealed some chilling statistics on the number of people who have taken their own lives so far this year.


According to police, 129 people are reported to have committed suicide in the first three months of 2019, a 42 percent increase from the same period last year, when 94 suicide cases were recorded.


National Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the statistics were worrying and showed that many people were suffering from social problems.


“Between January and March in 2018, a total of 94 people are recorded to have committed suicide. Of that figure, 74 people took their lives by hanging, while 20 ended their lives by poisoning with substances such as pesticides and overdosing medication.

In 2019, the figures of people who committed suicide ballooned to 129, with 87 people ending their existence on earth by hanging, while 42 people committed suicide by poisoning with drugs and other poisonous substances,” said Asst Comm Nyathi.State media

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Government To Recruit 5000 Teachers?


THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is negotiating with Treasury for the employment of 5 000 teachers to reduce the deficit of educators in schools which have almost 13 000 vacancies, a Cabinet Minister said yesterday.


Primary and Secondary Education Minister Professor Paul Mavima revealed this during a Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu) public lecture at the United College of Education in Bulawayo.


The public lecture was running under the theme: “Utilising teachers and education in achieving vision 2030.”


The lecture is part of Zicosu’s thrust to bring Government officials to interact with students and explain how various departments are relevant to President Mnangagwa’s vision of turning the country into an upper middle income economy by 2030.


Prof Mavima said his Ministry is committed to improving the country’s education sector and together with the PSC they are lobbying Treasury for the employment of an additional 5 000 teachers.


In January, Treasury gave the PSC the green light to recruit 3 000 teachers.
“So what else are we doing in order to provide opportunities? The first thing is that we are continuing to push Treasury. Right now together with PSC, we have asked for 5 000 positions to be opened up. The Minister of Finance (and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube) is favourable but I don’t know when they will give us the green light to recruit the 5 000,” said Prof Mavima.


He said the Government job freeze had resulted in a deficit of about 13 000 teachers.


“So that we solve these issues we must be honest with each other isn’t? We had 20 000 unemployed trained teachers until very recently.

For a long period of time we have not had massive recruitment even though we have shortages. I think we have shortages within our current schools of about 12 000 to 13 000. But because of the fiscal situation, Government said you can’t recruit,” said Prof Mavima.State media

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Man Killed In Mine Explosion

A MAN from Gwanda was found dead in a 20-metre deep mine shaft after an explosion at the mine.


Matabeleland South acting provincial police spokesperson, Sergeant Stanford Mguni, confirmed the incident which occurred at Bina Mine in Gwanda on Wednesday at around 10PM.


He said Ndabezinhle Mpofu (20) of Thandanani Village was found dead in a shaft by mine workers. Sgt Mguni said the cause of the explosion was yet to be ascertained.


“I can confirm that we recorded a mine accident which occurred at Bina Mine in Gwanda on Wednesday at around 10PM.


“Kholwani Mpofu who works at the mine and his other co-workers completed their work on Wednesday at around 8PM and they retired for bed leaving no one at the mine shaft,” he said.


“While they were asleep at around 10PM, Mpofu and his workmates heard an explosion coming from the mine shaft and they went to inspect.
“They found a local Ndabezinhle Mpofu’s body in the 20-metre deep shaft.


“The matter was reported to the police who attended the scene and Ndabezinhle’s body was retrieved from the shaft and taken to Gwanda Provincial Hospital.
“Investigations are still underway to ascertain the cause of the explosion.”State media

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Man Killed In Mine Explosion

A man from Gwanda was found dead in a 20-metre deep mine shaft after an explosion at the mine.

Matabeleland South acting provincial police spokesperson, Sergeant Stanford Mguni, confirmed the incident which occurred at Bina Mine in Gwanda on Wednesday at around 10PM.

He said Ndabezinhle Mpofu (20) of Thandanani Village was found dead in a shaft by mine workers. Sgt Mguni said the cause of the explosion was yet to be ascertained.

“I can confirm that we recorded a mine accident which occurred at Bina Mine in Gwanda on Wednesday at around 10PM.

“Kholwani Mpofu who works at the mine and his other co-workers completed their work on Wednesday at around 8PM and they retired for bed leaving no one at the mine shaft,” he said.

“While they were asleep at around 10PM, Mpofu and his workmates heard an explosion coming from the mine shaft and they went to inspect. “They found a local Ndabezinhle Mpofu’s body in the 20-metre deep shaft.

“The matter was reported to the police who attended the scene and Ndabezinhle’s body was retrieved from the shaft and taken to Gwanda Provincial Hospital.

“Investigations are still underway to ascertain the cause of the explosion.” Chronicle

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Warriors Not Pulling Out Of AFCON

ZIFA have said they won’t pull out of the Afcon finals, after agreeing terms with the Warriors, which was expected to see the association yesterday pay each member of the team, at least, US$2 500, while a further US$3 000 is expected to be channeled into the players’ and technical staff’s accounts by the fundraising committee.


The association believed the latest developments ensured that the Warriors trained last night and continue their preparations for the final Group A game against the Democratic Republic of Congo tomorrow night where a win could take them into the knockout stages of this tournament for the first time in their history.


A stalemate between Zifa and the players on Thursday night had resulted in the association exploring the possibility of pulling the Warriors out of the tournament.


The players wanted to be paid US$12 050 each by yesterday, which would include their final US$5 000 appearance fee for the match against the DRC, before they could commit themselves to fulfilling that game.


However, the team’s head of delegation, Farai Jere, who is also a Zifa board member, told our Harare Bureau yesterday that a follow-up meeting late on Thursday night cracked that impasse and the Warriors agreed to fulfill their remaining commitments here if they were paid US$5 500 yesterday.


“Like in any negotiations, positions change now and again and after another meeting last night, we were told that if we could source the US$5 500, which is split between the US$2 500 which we committed to pay as Zifa, and the US$3 000 which they were told will be paid by the fundraising committee, the players will fulfill their Afcon commitments,’’ Jere said.State media

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Ginimbi Gets Passport, Off To Mzansi

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Harare businessman Genius Kadungure, who is facing charges of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, yesterday successfully applied for the temporary release of his passport and suspension of reporting conditions to enable him to travel to South Africa to attend business procedures.

Through his lawyer Mr Jonathan Samkange, Kadungure said he needed the temporary release of his passport from yesterday to August 28 so that he could travel to South Africa for business. Mrs Mateko granted the application in Kadungure’s favour and ordered him to return back the passport on the agreed date.

The businessman was recently granted $1 000 bail by Justice Tawanda Chitapi
Allegations against Kadungure are that between February 2009 and May 2016, his company Piko Trading Private Limited misrepresented to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) that it made total sales of $2 777 678, inclusive of Value Added Tax, when in actual fact the company had made $9 092 951.

To that end, Zimra suffered a prejudice of $417 940. Kadungure is also being accused of evading tax, with Zimra suffering a total prejudice of $3 468 949. – state media

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Warriors To Pull Out Of AFCON?

Farai Dziva|Zifa and Warriors have reportedly reached a payment deadlock.

ZIFA wants the team to withdraw from the 2019 Afcon tournament.

According to Chronicle, the national team players are demanding to be paid US$12 500 each by today or else they would not train for their final Group A against DRC on Sunday.

A meeting was held last night and Zifa could not agree on the demands, and a decision was made to send the players home before the end of the team’s campaign.

Zifa had promised to give US$2 500 and US$3 000 from the fundraising committee to each player.

And after the match against Uganda, another US$5 000 appearance fees and US$3 000 bonuses for managing a draw in the encounter was to be paid ahead of the match against the DRC.

However, things deteriorated sharply during the night and the Warriors ended demanding their entire dues by today.

The Zifa officials were then left with no option, and they sent spokesman Xolisani Gwesela to check with Caf the cost of withdrawing from the tournament.

The newspaper says a number of players confirmed they had told the Zifa officials they were ready to abandon camp and fly back home.

“We were called in and told of the developments about the possible withdrawal from the tournament, and we told them that we were ready to go home because we believe they haven’t fulfilled our contracts,” one of the players said.

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Mnangagwa Meets Chief Ndiweni, Doesn’t Apologise For Mass Murders And Dangles Money

Below are Emmerson Mnangagwa’s official talking points after meeting Chief Felix Ndiweni. FULL TEXT:

Chiefs asked for a meeting with HE. They presented a paper with 3 major talking points:
1-Food security,
2- Infrastructure
3- Gukurahundi.
1-Mat Region facing imminent hunger. President said Zunde ramambo/ Isiphala senkosi concept will be fully funded by the Govt.

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“Mnangagwa, Chiwenga Are Not Suitable To Lead This Country “

Farai Dziva| Murdered MDC official Tonderayi Ndira’s younger brother has related how family members were devastated by the opposition activist’ s death.

Barnabas Ndira revealed how his brother was brutally murdered at an event held to remember slain opposition members in Harare.

See below a statement released by the MDC Youth Assembly yesterday:

The MDC Youth Assembly today(yesterday) gathered for a night candle lit vigil at Pfukwa shops, Warren Park opposite Warren Hills Cemetery to remember and commemorate the horrendous murders of MDC activists who were murdered in 2008 state sponsored post election violence.

Youth Assembly National Chairman, Obey Luther Sithole who attended the vigil in company of fellow youth assembly national executive members said the heroic efforts of 2008 victims of organized state sponsored violence will continue to spur young people in the fight for justice and democracy in Zimbabwe.

Sithole said Emmerson Mnangagwa and Constantine Chiwenga’s hands are dripping with blood and as such they are not suitable to lead this country.

Cde Luther as Sithole is affectionately known said even the killing revolutionary icons of change can never dent the people’s desire and hope for freedom.

Younger brother to one of the victims, Tonderai Ndira, Clr Barnabas Ndira narrated a heart rending ordeal about how his brother was gruesomely murdered in cold blood by state security agents.

Today’s(yesterday) event was also attended by Harare province youth leadership.

Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Youth Assembly National Spokesperson

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Mnangagwa Is Behind Illegal Mining Deals In Kwekwe-MDC

Farai Dziva|The MDC youth assembly has described the “anti-corruption drive” launched by the Zanu PF youth wing as mere flattery meant to cajole the international community.

The MDC youth assembly said at a news conference today, Emmerson Mnangagwa’s secret business deals in Kwekwe must be exposed to prove the sincerity of the programme.

“Mnangagwa owns virtually all gold mines in Kwekwe and we all know that a fish rots from the head so the Zanu PF youth wing must confront their leader over his secret business concerns in Kwekwe.

Mnangagwa is filthy rich and he is behind all illegal mining activities in Kwekwe.

Mnangagwa and his front man Owen Ncube are collecting millions from illegal mining activities.

The illegal gold panners around Kwekwe are enjoying maximum protection from Mnangagwa -yet the so called anti-corruption drive is not addressing such a grave matter,” said the MDC youth assembly in a statement.

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Leave Me Alone, Tamborinyoka Tells Mutodi

Farai Dziva|MDC deputy spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka has lashed out at Energy Mutodi for dragging his name into Zanu PF battles in Domboshava.

Tamborinyoka hails from Domboshava.

Said Tamborinyoka :You see mpfanha Energy( look young man) kuDomboshava ndiko kumusha kwangu kwandinogara, kwandakazvarirwa uye kwandakakurira.

Leave my name out of your wars neshamwari dzeZanu—the Chinese and the Chinese Mining firm. I don’t know them. Handimo zvachose.”

Mutodi accused MDC officials of fraudulently acquiring land in his constituency.

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Teenager Runs Away As “Prophet” Attempts To Cure Her Using Manhood

Farai Dziva|A self declared prophet’ s bid to use his manhood to “heal” an 18 year- old girl was unsuccessful as the teenager hurriedly bolted out of the room.

There was drama at the self-proclaimed prophet’s homestead in Mbembesi when the female congregant bolted out of his house naked in a case of a foiled sexual healing miracle.

According to B-Metro the 18-year-old girl was instructed by her mother to proceed to prophet Khuwalani Ndlovu to heal her of an undisclosed ailment.

Ndlovu reportedly invited the teenager into his bedroom and instructed her to remove her top and she complied to his demands.

Ndlovu allegedly applied lotion onto her stomach and breasts and he started caressing her.

The accused then went further to remove the complainant’s skirt, leaving her only with her underwear.

After undressing her, Ndlovu reportedly removed her underwear and smeared her privates with lotion, purporting to be healing her.
In the process, Ndlovu asked the teenager to lie down facing upwards.

Upon realising that she was being abused the complainant then objected and pleaded with Ndlovu to stop.

Ndlovu then refused, telling the girl that he was not yet done with the healing.

The teenager managed to wrestle herself out of Ndlovu’s firm grip and bolted out of the hut.

The matter only came to light after the teenager narrated the incident to her aunt who later reported the case to the police.

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ZESA Paid $4,9mil For Transformers Yet To Be Delivered 9yrs On

By Own Correspondent| A report by the auditor general Mildred Chiri has revealed that the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) paid US$4.9 million 9 years ago to a firm for transformers which have not been delivered to date. 

The report reads:

“ZESA 9 years ago paid US$4.9m to a firm called Pito Investments for transformers. They were never delivered.

The Zimbabwe Power Company also paid $560K to the same firm, and again no equipment was delivered.”

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Solomon Mujuru’s Tell All Biography To Be Launched

By A Correspondent- Miles Tendi the official biographer of the late ZANLA Military Chief and former Zimbabwe Defence Force Boss General Solomon Mujuru has announced that he will soon launch the much awaited tell-all biography.

The book titled The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe; Solomon Mujuru the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker will leave no stone unturned in chronicling the life of the man who lost his life in an inferno.

General Mujuru died in an unexplained inferno at his Beatrice farm on August 15, 2011. Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has always insisted that her husband was killed by his political foes, after he had been handpicked by the ruling Zanu-PF committee to work on a Mugabe succession plan.

Dr Blessing Miles Tendi is part of the African Studies Centre and his is a joint appointment with the Department of Politics and International Relations. Before moving to African Studies, he held a Departmental Lectureship in African Politics in the Oxford Department of International Development (QEH) from 2011 to 2017. Prior to joining the Oxford Department of International Development (QEH), he worked as a risk consultant for Control Risks (London).

He has keen interest on Intellectuals, Society and the State, Civil-Military Relations, The Existence and Uses of ‘Evil’ in Politics, Intelligence Studies, Security Sector Reform and Biographical Research

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Man Kills Self Over Hooker Wife

By Own Correspondent- A Magwegwe man in Bulawayo hanged himself from a roof truss at his rented home after his self-confessed sex worker wife of two years allegedly fell in love and ran off with one of her clients.

The incident happened on Monday.

Residents of the suburb yesterday said Anele Titosi Moyo (23) met his wife, Simelinkosi Luphahla (19), at a bar in the city centre when she was six months pregnant with a client’s baby and married her.

They alleged he was pimping her out to other men for a living.

In an interview, Ms Luphahla said she left home because her late husband was abusive. She also confirmed that she was the breadwinner and worked as a prostitute.

“On Sunday in the afternoon, Anele contacted me and told me to collect my belongings at his sister’s home in Hillside.

“His sister squabbled with me. Anele assaulted me on the same day at Hillside. I told him that I can’t stay with him and I’m no longer interested in our relationship because he was abusive. The deceased was unemployed and I was the breadwinner of the family”.

She said Anele would inexplicably complain that their 18-month-old son was not his.

“I’m not fully employed. I do some piece jobs in town and also work at night as a prostitute in order to make a living. I was responsible for rent and basic needs because we were renting in New Magwegwe suburb. I had separated with him by the time of his death,” said Ms Luphahla.

Moyo was found by a fellow tenant who only identified herself as NaShantel who was checking up on him as she had not heard from him or his wife for the whole day, which she said was unusual.

Another fellow tenant Ms Patience Moyo said the couple did not keep their source of income a secret.

“They met at a night club in town and he married her when she was six months pregnant with another man’s child but he loved her still. She told us that he did not mind that she was a sex worker and the money sustained them as a family.

“He would escort her to the bus stop every night when she was going for ‘her shift’ and he would do all household chores during the day when she was asleep after shifts as she would be tired from working all night,” said Ms Moyo.

The fellow tenants said problems started between the couple after Ms Luphahla started getting fond of one of her clients who became a regular.

They said the couple fought over the said client, leading to Ms Luphahla running off with the man.

Bulawayo acting police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident yesterday.

“I can confirm that we are dealing with a case of sudden death where a man was found hanging from a roof truss in his bedroom in Magwegwe suburb. The matter is being treated as suicide by hanging. He was hanging from a roof truss and had used an electric cord,” said Insp Ncube.

Police attended the scene and the body was taken to Mpilo Central Hospital at around 7PM on Monday.

The late Anele’s sister, Ms Tapiwa Moyo, narrated the events which led to the tragic incident and expressed her shock at her brother’s decision to end his life.

“My brother was a quiet person and a man of few words. He had a dispute with his wife. They were always fighting. Their domestic problems started when the wife told him that the child they were raising did not belong to my brother after living together customarily for almost three years. My brother was greatly troubled because the wife had left him claiming to have found someone better. My brother loved his wife and I think he was heartbroken and this led him probably to commit suicide because he was lonely and felt rejected,” said a sobbing Ms Moyo.

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300RTGs Bail For Man Who Beat Wife To Death After Seeing Her With Another Man

By A Correspondent- A 39-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo allegedly beat his wife to death after he saw her with another man.

Enock Sibanda of Luveve 5 suburb allegedly killed his wife who was only identified as Mrs Sibanda, on May 23 this year. 

Sibanda was represented by Mr Tanaka Muganyi from Tanaka Law Chambers when he appeared before Western Commonage magistrate, Mr Stephen Ndlovu. He pleaded not guilty to murder and was remanded out of custody on $300 bail to July 10 for trial.

Prosecuting, Ms Steward Madzore said on May 23, Sibanda allegedly saw his wife with a man that he suspected to be her lover and the man ran away.

“He ordered his wife to get into his car so that he takes her to her parents. The couple drove to their house and Sibanda slapped her several times before attacking her with a log,” she said.

Mrs Sibanda was ferried to Mpilo Hospital where she was admitted and died on the following day.-StateMedia

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Eskom Never Received Payment From Zim- Why Is The Energy Minister Lying?

By A Correspondent- Zimbabwean authorities were today left with an egg in the face after Eskom issued a statement rejecting claims that they had received payment for Zimbabwe’s electricity debt.

Zimbabwe’s Energy Minister Fortune Chasi, recently revealed that the country had made a significant payment to Eskom in order to clear the country’s debt.

Chasi told the media that the country has made a payment of R144-million to the power utility, after impending engagements that would see Eskom allowing the passage of 400 megawatts into the country’s grid.

Eskom however trashed the claims saying that the power utility had not received a penny from Zimbabwe.

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“Arrest The Rapist Prophet”: Netty Musanhu

By Netty Musanhu| This rapist they call Prophet shall surely fall. I have listened to many testimonies from young women and girls he raped and infected with the deadly disease. Dear daughters and sons of the prophet your hard earned money is being used to silence young women and buy his freedom. Surely this can not continue!! Where are the police?? Ndati mapurisa batai munhu!! Please stay away from my wall if your intention is to defend a murderer and a rapist!!

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Ngozi Tormented Man Confesses To Murder 17 Years Later

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The vengeful spirit of a Zimunya man who was allegedly food-poisoned in 2002 is now tormenting its killer by following and appearing to him wherever he goes which made him confess his crime to the victim’s family

The self-confessing killer Gilbert Mapisa, who is in his 60s, shocked many when he finally claimed responsibility for the death of Samuel Makarange in 2002.

However, when Mapisa was dragged to Chief Zimunya’s traditional court, he could neither confirm nor deny the offence.

Chief Zimunya ordered the two families, together with his aides, to approach a traditional healer of their choice for necromancy.

The Mozambique-based traditional healer (name withheld) stirred and communicated with the spirit of the late Makarange, who demanded to know why Mapisa had killed him.

Initially, Gilbert had hesitantly refused, but later admitted after the traditional healer gave a detailed account of how Makarange, who consumed poisoned beer died eight days later.

With tears on his cheeks, Mapisa later confessed and pleaded for forgiveness.

The traditional healer ordered the two families to remain calm and organise a cleansing ceremony.

According to reports by Manica Post, the cleansing ceremony was conducted last Saturday at Makarange’s homestead in Chikukurume village.

“He appears to me daily, I see him at my house everyday; it is true that I see him on daily basis. Wherever I go, be it to the beer hall, he appears, even if I sleep away from home, in the bush, he still appears. He keeps appearing, even if I try to avoid him, he keeps appearing. I cannot hide away from him,” Mapisa said.

“It just happened as we were drinking beer. Forgive me, I killed you and I plead your case. I will comply and fulfil the penalty metted on me by the Makaranges to have peace between our families. I admit, I was wrong and I will pay all the dues,” said Mapisa.

Chief Zimunya ordered him to pay seven cattle.

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While Other Nations’ Players Would Offer To Play At AFCON For Free, Warriors Wanted Out After Playing 2 Games.

You will not believe why ONE nation wants to withdraw from AFCON 2019 after playing two games

The Warriors of Zimbabwe have revealed their desire to withdraw from the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt after playing two games at the tournament.

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Zimbabwe were drawn in Group A at the tournament alongside the hosts Egypt, the Cranes of Uganda, and DR Congo. Zimbabwe lost on opening night to the Pharaohs of Egypt and played a 1-1 draw with Uganda. They are set to play with the Leopards of Congo on Sunday but the team players are looking to boycott the rest of the tournament until their bonuses are paid.

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The national team players are demanding to be paid US$12 500 each by today or else they would not train for their final Group A against DRC on Sunday.
A meeting was held last night and Zifa could not agree on the demands, and a decision was made to send the players home before the end of the team’s campaign.

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ZIFA had promised to give US$2 500 and US$3 000 from the fundraising committee to each player and after the match against Uganda, another US$5 000 appearance fees and US$3 000 bonuses for managing a draw in the encounter was to be paid ahead of the match against the DRC. However, things deteriorated sharply during the night and the Warriors ended demanding their entire dues by today.

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The Zifa officials were then left with no option, and they sent spokesman Xolisani Gwesela to check with Caf the cost of withdrawing from the tournament.
The newspaper says a number of players confirmed they had told the Zifa officials they were ready to abandon camp and fly back home.

However, the Zimbabwean Football Association denied that the team will withdraw from the ongoing tournament via a tweet from their official Twitter account.

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Land Barons Nabbed Over Fake Title Deeds


Suspected land barons were yesterday dragged to court charged with fraud involving US$16 000.

Lovemore Chinobva 54, and Enos Gwangwadza, 23, were not asked to plead when they are appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko.

Allegations are that on June 2, the complainant saw an advertisement in a local newspaper to the effect that Chinobva was selling a residential stand in New Marlborough measuring 2222 square meters for USD25 000.

On Jun 13, he saw again an advert that the same stand was being sold for USD19 000.

The complainant got interested and called on the supplied contact number and Chinobva confirmed that he was the owner of the stand and agreed to sell the stand at $16 000.

Chinobva called him and asked to meet at Chicken Inn Msasa to sign the agreement of sale upon payment of the stand, the complainant was suspicious as to why Chinobva wanted to meet him outside the premises fearing that he may be robbed so he informed the police.

On June 25, the meeting was held at the agreed place but complainant was in the company of ununiformed police where Gwangwadza produced the title deeds for the stand which he said he would release upon payment.

The complainant signed the agreement of sale and made the payment then were arrested as they had produced a fake title deed, agreement of sale, duplicate of the real stand owner’s national ID who was tracked and confirmed that he wasn’t selling his stand.

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ZESA Paid US$5m For Transformers That Have Still Not Been Delivered 9 Years Later

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Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has exposed another case of corruption and mismanagement at struggling power utility ZESA.

In her latest report, the Auditor General revealed that 9 years ago, ZESA subsidiary ZETDC paid US$4.9m to a firm called Pito Investments for transformers. Up till now, the transformers were never delivered.

She went on to expose another transaction in which the other ZESA subsidiary the Zimbabwe Power Company again paid well over US$560 000 for the same company to supply another set of transformers.

Unsurprisingly, the company did not deliver again.

According to The Herald, Pito Investments is owned by Alexio Chideme.

It also shares a physical address and PO box with Enleaver Investments, whose General Manager is Herbert Paradza, according to LinkedIn.

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Mnangagwa And Ndiweni Finally Meet

Mnangagwa comes face to face with Ndiweni
Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, on Friday met controversial Matabeleland traditional leader and arch-government critic Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni but details of the closed-door indaba were not yet made public.

Ndiweni has openly criticised Mnangagwa and last month attended the opposition MDC congress in Gweru where he came short of describing the Zanu PF leader as “illegitimate”.

The traditional leader also effectively endorsed MDC leader Nelson Chamisa as the “people’s president”. Mnangagwa was meeting traditional leaders from the Midlands and Matabeleland regions on Friday.

The westerns regions of the country that bore the brunt of the early independence atrocities commonly referred to as Gukurahundi in which some 20 000 civilians are said to have lost their lives.

Addressing journalists after the meeting, Mnangagwa said the Gukurahundi issue had been top of the agenda with chiefs demanding “a truth and reconciliation commission” that the Zanu PF leader described as a platform for people to tell all.

“The other issue was the issue of Gukurahundi. The provinces have put forward methods of dealing with the issue of Gukurahundi. The issue affected many communities over which they preside and we need to deal with it,” said Mnangagwa.

At the end of the indaba, Ndiweni left the venue without saying a word, leaving Mnangagwa to do all the talking after the meeting.

The President added that the traditional leaders demanded a “platform” that will allow stakeholders to freely speak about the issue.

“They (chiefs) in their resolutions want us as government should create a platform where people will participate substantially because it is the communities which they preside over that were affected.

“We should not have a solo dialogue but we should have a single platform where this issue can be discussed,” said Mnangangwa.

The President said the traditional leaders also raised concerns around employment into the security services along tribal lines.

“The other issue relates to employment or recruitment of staff into government, as well as young people in the security sector. These are areas that have been pointed out which they are not happy with. I have assured our traditional leaders that the areas that are weak should be corrected so that there is fairness in recruiting people in the security sector,” Mnangagwa said.

The issue of food insecurity in the perennially dry western regions of the country also came up for discussion.

“The lack of food security in the provinces was also discussed and the traditional leaders wanted to make government aware of the situation. There are other social issues discussed like education and roads infrastructure,” added the President.

The meeting was also attended by Chiefs Council president Fortune Charumbira, Deputy Local

Government Minister Jennifer Mhlanga and traditional leader from Matabeleland North, South, Bulawayo Metropolitan province and the Midlands.

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Colbro Gonyet “Crushes” Kombi, Killing 19 On The Spot

By Own Correspondent| The accident occurred near the same area where the late veteran MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Susan died along the Masvingo Harare Highway.

Ngezi bridge, which is at the 89 km peg in Featherstone according to witnesses is now known as a black spot because of the many lives that have been lost around the area in tragic accidents.

Said a witness at the scene of the accident:

“The accident happened about 9am. The Colbro Truck encroached into the oncoming traffic lane and the kombi was in this lane travelling in the opposite direction.

The truck literally rode on top of the kombi and the unfortunate thing is that this happened at a bridge.

The truck crushed the kombi because the kombi went underneath the gonyet and this is why it was crushed to a pulp. People have died. It is sad, a lot of people have died.”

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident and said they were still carrying out investigations.

“The haulage truck was travelling from Harare behind another commuter omnibus. The omnibus driver suddenly applied brakes resulting in the truck driver swerving to the right to avoid hitting it. This resulted in a head on collision with another kombi that was going the opposite direction,” he said

A video doing the rounds on social media showed several bodies lying at the accident scene.

Below are pictures of the kombi crash.

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Banks Sitting On US$1 Billion While Economy Suffers

Minister Ncube

E-Business|Zimbabwean banks are currently sitting on nearly a billion United States dollars while the economy is being ravaged by the impact of a US dollar crunch and the pass through effects of steep parallel market foreign currency premiums on prices, according to Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube.

Given this scenario, the Treasury chief believes that Zimbabwe has adequate foreign currency for its external payments obligations, but it is the inefficiency of the nascent interbank market that is causing acute shortages, which have fueled price volatility.

Until early 2016 and following dollarisation of the economy in February 2009, Zimbabwe had no US dollar liquidity issues under the multi-currency regime, which allowed the use of the British pound, Botswana pula and South African rand, even as the country did not have a forex trading market to facilitate efficient distribution.

Amid the dollar crunch, the escalating parallel market rates have torched a wild run of price increases since the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe directed banks to separate balances of foreign currency (nostro) accounts and balances in real time gross settlement (RTGS) accounts starting from October last year, although officially the exchange rate remained at parity between the two currencies.

RBZ governor Dr John Mangudya said back then that intermingling of balances in FCAs and RTGS accounts was discouraging inflows of foreign currency into the economy when the country faced a crippling US dollar crunch.

At that point, Zimbabwe had a policy position that prescribed that the United States dollar ranked at par, that is to say exchanged 1 to 1, with the local currency, made up of electronic dollars (RTGS and mobile money balances), bond notes and coins.

Minister Ncube told Business Weekly early this week that banks were holding US$888 million, which was not finding its way on to the interbank market fast enough to whet the appetite of local importers of a wide range of foreign products.

In desperation, importers have alternatively resorted to getting hard currency on the parallel market where the money, due to overwhelming demand, sees the greenback exchanging hands at huge premiums, passed on to consumers in the form of high prices.

The extremely high demand for foreign currency and speculative trading in the currencies has seen the parallel market exchange rates changing constantly in a development that has driven inflation through the roof; 97,8 percent for May 2019.

However, Minister Ncube said while the country had enough foreign currency, an inefficient interbank market was the reason the country was experiencing shortages of forex, a structural flaw the Government said it was working relentlessly to correct.

With such a scenario, Zimbabwe’s major industries lobby group, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industry (CZI), has started pushing for an independent foreign currency exchange market in the wake of a runaway exchange rate, the threat of re-dollarisation and rapid depreciation of the RTGS dollar value.

“There is the normal FACs, then there is the domestic corporate FACs and then the individuals (domestic) FCAs. The domestic corporate FCAs there is US$888 million. They have it in there, so there is no shortage of foreign currency,” Minister Ncube said.

Minister Ncube said the acute shortage of hard currency being experienced in the country was because the forex was not being offloaded on the interbank market fast enough for use by needy importers.

The Finance minister said that efforts were currently being made to fine tune the interbank market to ensure transparency and efficiency in the trading of foreign currencies in the country.

“That’s what we are fine tuning, the market needs to be fined tuned to get better; that is exactly what we are doing,” he said.

This also comes as industry has demanded that an independent body separate from banks, manages the interbank for better transparency.

This comes as there have been reports that banks were pairing a few particular clients outside of the interbank platform in the trading of foreign currency, which was shutting out the majority of customers seeking hard currency from the interbank market.

“They (industry) are demanding that let it be more transparent and more efficient,” he said.

In a draft paper prepared by the CZI’s economists’ roundtable, the business member organisation said Zimbabwe immediately needed a mechanism that allowed bankers to freely trade in a market administered by an independent person or body following challenges on the official foreign exchange market, the interbank market.

“It’s about efficiency, efficiency and efficiency and that is a good thing. By the way, things have been improving; more corporates have been able to access US dollars now from the interbank market.

“It’s still not 100 percent efficient, but we are making progress and now with this move, the mono-domestic currency, we will see a package around the currency being put in place by the central bank, such as raising interest rates to protect the value of the currency,” the minister said.

Through statutory instrument 142 of 2019, Government renamed local currency, which has since February 2019, been known as RTGS dollar, Zimbabwean dollar. The new measures form part of ongoing reforms, including of the currency, by Government under its transitional stabilisation programme (TSP). Through the same instrument Government also announced the abolishment of the multi-currency and restriction of transactions to the domestic unit, Zimbabwean dollar, to avoid redollarisation of the economy when there is no adequate supply of forex.

“That’s progress; that is what countries do. Why should Zimbabweans remain behind and hang on to the US dollar, the US dollar is not our currency,” the Finance minister said.

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EFF And DA Members Walk Out Of Legislature On Zuma Entry

EFF and DA members walk out on Zuma

Representatives from the Economic Freedom Fighters and Democratic Alliance walked out of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature on Friday due to the presence of former president Jacob Zuma.

The Pietermaritzburg legislature was packed to the rafters with MP’s eager to hear KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala’s state of the province address. However, just before Zikalala was due to start, the DA objected to Zuma’s presence, saying he was not a member. This was backed up by the EFF.

However, speaker of the house Ntobeko Boyce dismissed the issue and continued with proceedings, cuing a walk out by the DA and EFF.

The Inkatha Freedom Party – the official opposition in the province following the May elections –  remained in the house.

TimesLive reported that the provincial department of agriculture had included Zuma on their stakeholder’s list “due to his passion for agriculture”.

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Allan Wilson Pupils Go On A Rampage, Head Accused Of Personalizing Generator

…poor diet, practical subjects banned

…Head personalising school generator

H-Metro|Allan Wilson Boys High pupils yesterday protested against the school headmaster for alleged maladministration of the school.

Some concerned parents joined the pupils and said the headmaster and the school committee were not being fair and change was needed.

The demonstrations started at the assembly point close to the headmaster’s office were students were throwing tantrums and war cries to express their anger.

The school headboy Ian Mhonderwa an Upper Six Sciences student said they were no longer learning according to the syllabus as they were banned from doing practical subjects by the school head.

“We are no longer learning towards the syllabus and it is disadvantaging most students.

“We no longer have sufficient laboratories, the school is left with only two labs for both A’ and O’ Levels which is not fair. Most laboratories were turned into classrooms and students are complaining because the classrooms have bad ammonium smells.

“We are forced to bath using cold water in the morning whilst our parents are paying huge amounts of school fees. What is the purpose of saying Alan Wilson is a (former Group A) when we can’t even have hot water in the winter season?” said Mhonderwa.

Another Upper Six Commercials student who is a prefect, Debrian Mugarapanyama, said pupils were being ordered to produce school fees receipts when entering the dining hall before getting meals.

“How can we be ordered to produce fees receipts to eat sadza and beans every day, most days the beans will be half cooked.

“The school generator was taken to the head master’s house and ever since load shedding started we are being forced to study with candles, and then consider Alan Wilson as an A school whilst our parents are struggling to pay exorbitant fees.

“School fees was $750 and it doubled yet they aren’t any developments made by the school,” said Debrian.

The school headmaster Njitimana could not be reached for comment as he was locked in his office while the demonstrations were in progress.

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Mnangagwa’s Nephew The Brains Behind SI142 Not Mthuli Ncube

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s nephew Edwin Manikai is the man behind the banning of the  use of foreign currency in Zimbabwe Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged.

Manikai is a member of the 21 member Presidential Advisory Committee.

Moyo who said the PAC was now a de facto cabinet said, “It was not drafted by 21, in fact the number is not the original and some indications are that they are now 18.

“They work through subcommittees. The SI was done by the subcommittee that does legal stuff and it is headed by Edwin Manikai, a lawyer and Mnangagwa’s nephew.”


Oh, could it be the reason why there was this hashtag on twitter the day the SI was announced? #PricesMustFall?

If it’s true then I’m worried cause it means we are in big trouble. Nothing on that document addressed prices. To imagine 21 man drafting such.

It was not drafted by 21, in fact they number is not the original and some indications are that they are now 18.

They work through subcommittees. The SI was done by the subcommittee that does legal stuff and it is headed by Edwin Manikai, a lawyer & Mnangagwa’s nephew!

Award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono posted on Twitter recently that the SI142/2019 was written without Mthuli Ncube’s knowledge and he was forced to defend it.

Confirming  Chin’ono statement Prof Moyo said, “The PAC which is full of Mnangagwa’s cronies has become his defacto cabinet. PAC and not Mthuli Ncube drafted the SI142 and engineered ZANU PF corruption probe.”

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ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE: RBZ Suddenly Bans Withdrawal Of US Dollars From Nostro, FCAs, Says You Can Only Get Mnangagwa Dollars

This is Zimbabwe, no, Mnangagwe…

…and its ruler says his government is greater than heaven’s.

By Business Reporter| If you hadn’t withdrawn your forex funds out of your FCA/ Nostro, you are too late, you will never get them, never ever- The Reserve Bank Of Zimbabwe has within 48 hrs changed the rules on withdrawals from Nostro/FCA accounts.

On Wednesday the RBZ’s position had no restrictions on withdrawals apart from a USD1000 a day cap. But in a change of policy, the RBZ has shifted its rules and now says that cash withdrawals can only be made by individuals who intend to settle foreign costs.

Their policy announced on Friday reads:
“An exporting entity that wishes to pay salaries in foreign currency from their export receipts, will need to seek prior Exchange Control approval.

“The salaries are payable into the individual foreign currency accounts, which are treated as free funds.

“Payment of salaries in foreign currency
“Under the newly announced policy measures, salaries for NGOs remain payable in foreign exchange where funding for such NGOs, International Organisations, is from offshore.

“In cases where the holders of such funds intend to settle domestic transactions, the funds shall be liquidated at the prevailing interbank market to facilitate payments in ZWL, which is now the legal tender.

“All the other funds remain available to holders of such accounts and the balances can be utilised for purposes of settling international transactions.

“Funds currently held in all Nostro accounts will not be subjected to any involuntary liquidations, except in the case of FCA Exports, which are subject to the 30-day liquidation period.

“If individuals want their money but do not have proof that they will be travelling outside the country, they will receive the money as Zimbabwe Dollars at the prevailing rate instead.”

On Wednesday, the RBZ policy was as follows:

“The current withdrawal limit for individuals remains US$1000 per day.

“Individuals are still able to withdraw their cash from their individual accounts and banks are, in line with international best practice, expected to apply the AML/CFT principles.

“Further to our Directive, the Reserve Bank wishes to advise that contrary to certain information being circulated on social media, cash withdrawals by individuals are still permissible and the policy position hasn’t changed.”

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ZIFA And Warriors Break Impasse, AFCON Campaign Back On Track

ZIFA president Felton Kamambo

ZIFA have said they won’t pull out of the AFCON finals, after agreeing terms with the Warriors, which will see the association today pay each member of the team, at least, US$2 500, while a further US$3 000 is expected to be channeled into the players’ and technical staff’s accounts by the fundraising committee.

The association believe the latest developments will ensure the Warriors will train tonight and continue their preparations for the final Group A game against the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday where a win could take them into the knockout stages of this tournament for the first time in their history.

A stalemate between ZIFA and the players on Thursday night had resulted in the association exploring the possibility of pulling the Warriors out of the tournament.

The players wanted to be paid US$12 050 each by today, which would include their final US$5 000 appearance fee for the match against the DRC, before they could commit themselves to fulfilling that game.

However, the team’s head of delegation, Farai Jere, who is also a ZIFA board member, told The Herald today that a follow-up meeting late last night cracked that impasse and the Warriors agreed to fulfill their remaining commitments here if they were paid US$5 500 today.

‘’Like in any negotiations, positions change now and again and after another meeting last night, we were told that if we could source the US$5 500, which is split between the US$2 500 which we committed to pay as ZIFA, and the US$3 000 which they were told will be paid by the fundraising committee, the players will fulfill their AFCON commitments,’’ Jere said.

‘’We have already paid our US$2 500 to each player today and the good thing is that they have confidence in that assurances they have received from the fundraising committee that whatever they have been assured from that side will be paid and, these developments, change everything.

‘’You will appreciate that we are not the only team that is currently seized by such issues here because it’s the nature of such a tournament but, what is important right now, is to assure the nation that we have moved significantly from the positions that were there last night and we have now changed focus towards the game.

‘’We respect our players, they are the most important asset that we have, and we will always try to ensure that we provide conditions that enable them to do very well and what is important right now is that we have a very important game on Sunday and we have to try and win it and make history.’’

Jere revealed they had paid, at least, US$12 050 to each player and members of their technical staff by yesterday and the payment of a further US$2 500 today, and the US$3 000 expected from the fundraising committee, would take the payments to each member of the team to, at least, US$17 550.

‘’I think, we have done quite well in terms of trying to meet the financial obligations to the players and their coaching staff and, if you include the bonus for the draw against Uganda, which is US$3 000, we would be left with a balance of about US$6 650, to each of them, after today’s payments.

‘’From a sum of, at least, US$24 200 for each member of the team, if you factor in the US$3 000 draw bonus and the US$5 000 appearance fee for the upcoming game against the DRC, you can see that we haven’t done as badly as we are being portrayed in some circles in terms of our commitments to the team.’’

Jere said the most important thing today was ‘’to tell the nation that we will fight to do well in this AFCON finals and we are singing one song with our players even though, now and again, the negotiations can be very difficult, we always get a way to find each other and fight for our country.’’

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RBZ Changes Rules On FCA Nostro Accounts Again, Just A Day Later | BREAKING

THE RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE has again changed the rules on withdrawals from Nostro/FCA accounts.

On Wednesday the RBZ’s position had no restrictions on withdrawals apart from a USD1000 a day cap.

But in a change of policy, the RBZ has changed its rules and now says that Cash Withdrawals can only be made by individuals who intend to settle foreign costs.

Their police announced on Friday reads:
“An exporting entity that wishes to pay salaries in foreign currency from their export receipts, will need to seek prior Exchange Control approval.

“The salaries are payable into the individual foreign currency accounts, which are treated as free funds.

“Payment of salaries in foreign currency
“Under the newly announced policy measures, salaries for NGOs remain payable in foreign exchange where funding for such NGOs, International Organisations, is from offshore.

“In cases where the holders of such funds intend to settle domestic transactions, the funds shall be liquidated at the prevailing interbank market to facilitate payments in ZWL, which is now the legal tender.

“All the other funds remain available to holders of such accounts and the balances can be utilised for purposes of settling international transactions.

“Funds currently held in all Nostro accounts will not be subjected to any involuntary liquidations, except in the case of FCA Exports, which are subject to the 30-day liquidation period.

“If individuals want their money but do not have proof that they will be travelling outside the country, they will receive the money as Zimbabwe Dollars at the prevailing rate instead.”

On Wednesday, the RBZ policy was as follows:

“The current withdrawal limit for individuals remains US$1000 per day.

“Individuals are still able to withdraw their cash from their individual accounts and banks are, in line with international best practice, expected to apply the AML/CFT principles.

“Further to our Directive, the Reserve Bank wishes to advise that contrary to certain information being circulated on social media, cash withdrawals by individuals are still permissible and the policy position hasn’t changed.”

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KFC In Shocking Price Increases Due to Zim Dollar Introduction

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Quick service restaurant KFC has revealed its new pricing following the introduction of the Zimbabwean dollar on Monday.

The new prices in Zimbabwe Dollars are ridiculously high as a Streetwise 2 Meal ( 2 Pieces of Chicken with Chips) is going for $57.16. The equivalent of such a meal at rivals Chicken Inn, the Two-Piecer is going for $25.00. Using the interbank rate of $6.5: US$1, a foreigner would need to convert almost US$9.00 for the meal or R130.00. The same meal costs R30.00 in South Africa.

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BREAKING: Escom Says Zimbabwe Has Not Paid Anything Contrary To Fortune Chasi’s Claim

Claims by minister of Energy Fortune Chasi that Zimbabwe has paid South Africa power utility Eskom have been denied.

In a statement Friday, Escom denied receiving any payment to from the Zimbabwe government or Zesa.

2 days ago Chasi said “US$10m has been paid to Eskom this is expected to alleviate the power shortages.”

Further to that, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said Cabinet was advised by the Minister of Energy and Power Development that Treasury has now fully paid off Government’s debt obligation to Zesa, which was around RTGS$20 million.

A further RTGS$20 million was due to be advanced to Zesa by Treasury, in order to boost power generation by the utility.

This, together with the payment of US$10 million to Eskom, should help alleviate the current power supply situation.

But in their statement, Escom said,

ZimEye was at the time of writing at pains to obtain a comment from Minister Chasi.

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“Prophet” In Failed Bid To Use Manhood To Exorcise Demons As Teenager Runs Away Naked

Farai Dziva|A self declared prophet’ s bid to use his manhood to “heal” an 18 year- old girl was unsuccessful as the teenager hurriedly bolted out of the room.

There was drama at the self-proclaimed prophet’s homestead in Mbembesi when the female congregant bolted out of his house naked in a case of a foiled sexual healing miracle.

According to B-Metro the 18-year-old girl was instructed by her mother to proceed to prophet Khuwalani Ndlovu to heal her of an undisclosed ailment.

Ndlovu reportedly invited the teenager into his bedroom and instructed her to remove her top and she complied to his demands.

Ndlovu allegedly applied lotion onto her stomach and breasts and he started caressing her.

The accused then went further to remove the complainant’s skirt, leaving her only with her underwear.

After undressing her, Ndlovu reportedly removed her underwear and smeared her privates with lotion, purporting to be healing her.
In the process, Ndlovu asked the teenager to lie down facing upwards.

Upon realising that she was being abused the complainant then objected and pleaded with Ndlovu to stop.

Ndlovu then refused, telling the girl that he was not yet done with the healing.

The teenager managed to wrestle herself out of Ndlovu’s firm grip and bolted out of the hut.

The matter only came to light after the teenager narrated the incident to her aunt who later reported the case to the police.

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Gumbi Eyes Zaka East Parliamentary Seat

Farai Dziva| MDC Masvingo Provincial chairperson James Chafungamoyo Gumbi is eyeing the Zaka East Parliamentary Seat following the death of Zanu PF Member of Parliament for the constituency, Caston Gumbwanda on Tuesday, June 25.

Gumbwanda died at a medical centre in Harare where he had been admitted after suffering from pneumonia.

In 2018, Gumbwanda beat Gumbi in the race for the parliamentary seat.Gumbi also lost to Zanu PF’ s Samson Mukanduri in 2013.

“If Zaka East MDC members elect me, l am ready to serve them. Additionally, l want to be chosen through a primary election. I am a democrat,” said Gumbi.

However, there are other Zaka East district members who feel that Advocate Derrick Charamba, the current MDC Masvingo provincial information and publicity secretary should be given a chance to contest Zanu PF in Zaka East.

James Gumbi