By Own Correspondent- One worker died while four others were injured in a rock fall accident at How Mine on the outskirts of Bulawayo.

The accident, which occurred on Thursday afternoon during a shaft examination saw management shutting off the shaft to allow investigations into the accident.

In a memorandum to the workers on Thursday, the mine’s managing director, Demand Gwatinetsa informed them of Mr Kazembe’s death reportedly due to a rockfall in the shaft.

“It’s with a heavy heart that I inform you of the passing on of Mr Matola Kazembe, our shaft timberman. Mr Kazembe, together with his shaft crew were involved in an accident during shaft examination on our north shaft.

“He was in the company of Mr Michael Chaipa, Mr Julius Phiri, Mr Captain Singini and Mr Last Kakono. Mr Chaipa and Mr Phiri have been admitted to Mater Dei Hospital due to injuries sustained in the accident while Mr Singini and Mr Kakono were attended to and discharged for monitoring from home,” said Mr Gwatinetsa.

He said there was a reported rockfall onto the skip on which they were working, adding that investigations were underway. 

“The full details of the accident are still under investigation by ourselves as well as with the Government Inspector of Mines and we’ll communicate with you the findings.

“We have stopped operations on the north shaft until further notice and we’ll co-operate fully with the authorities in the ongoing investigations,” said Mr Gwatinetsa.

He assured the workers that the mine will put in place measures to ensure similar accidents never happen in future. 

Bulawayo acting police spokesperson Assistant, Inspector Nomalanga Msebele, confirmed Mr Kazembe’s death. She said no foul play was suspected.

“We received a sudden death that occurred at How Mine on Thursday at about 2.30PM. The victim, Mr Matola Kazembe aged 49 died following a mine accident.

“He entered a shaft with four other employees using a cage and when they reached level 29 rocks started falling hitting them,” said Asst Insp Msebele. 

She said Mr Kazembe who died on the spot after sustaining head injuries, fell out of the cage and landed on the ground.

“Police retrieved the body which has since been taken to United Bulawayo Hospitals for post mortem. His four colleagues were rescued by security officials after they screamed for help and were rushed to Mater Dei Hospital for treatment and are in a stable condition,” said Asst Insp Msebele.

PLUMTREE Zanu PF bigwigs have unanimously agreed that the late party’s deputy chief whip and Mangwe MP Obedingwa Mguni be conferred with national hero status, considering his history in the liberation struggle and contribution to government and the party.

They added that Mguni’s remains should be interred at the National Heroes Acre, if his family consented.
Minister of State in Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s office, Eveline Ndlovu, who is also Bulilima-Mangwe proportional representation legislator, yesterday said Mguni deserved national hero status.

“I would declare and agree that he’s a national hero. He was still learning the ropes as our new Zanu PF deputy chief whip. He was running around to make sure that there was no discord between Zanu PF and the MDC. He went to war a young man at the age of 15, and when he came back, he invested at home and created jobs in his home area. I wouldn’t decline that he be accorded national hero status because of the job he did. When he became Home Affairs deputy minister, he helped children without birth certificates nationally and until today, he was still doing that. He’s a national hero through his works,” Ndlovu told Southern Eye.
She said Zimbabwe had lost a future leader, who always led by example and wanted to see the country develop for the benefit of its citizens.

“He demonstrated in Mangwe that one can build a dream-house by building a plushy home – a double storey – at his Macingwane village. He wasn’t only a visionary, but a demonstrator,” she said.

Ndlovu’s sentiments were echoed by Bulilima West legislator, Dingimuzi Phuti, who said Mguni was a selfless leader.

“If the party and government respect us with according Honourable Mguni national liberation hero status, that will be the most befitting declaration to have been made this year in terms of burial of our deceased patriots and national leaders. He was a selfless leader, who dedicated his time to the party and government ever since he took office in 2013 as legislator for Mangwe,” Phuti said.

He said he was shocked yesterday at a meeting in Parliament after mostly MDC legislators clamoured for Mguni to be declared a national hero.

The former Home Affairs deputy minister died on Tuesday at the Avenues Clinic in Harare, where he was rushed after falling ill following a parliamentary session. He was 56.

Mguni is survived by wife Hlalani and three children.

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FORMER Home Affairs Deputy Minister and Mangwe MP, Obedingwa Mguni, who died on Tuesday has been declared a liberation war hero and will be buried at his homestead tomorrow.

Mguni (57), who was also the Zanu-PF deputy chief whip and the party’s Matabeleland South provincial treasurer, died at West End Clinic in Harare after a short illness on Tuesday.

He succumbed to diabetes.

The legislator started coughing while attending Parliament and was rushed to hospital where he later died.

In a statement yesterday, Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu confirmed that President Mnangagwa had conferred Mguni a liberation war hero status.

“His Excellency, the President and First Secretary to Zanu-PF, Cde Mnangagwa, has conferred a liberation war hero status to the late Cde Obedingwa Mguni who died on June 18, 2019,” said Cde Mpofu.

Mguni’s daughter, Simphiwe yesterday said her father will be buried at his homestead at Macingwane in Plumtree tomorrow.

Mguni did his primary education at Matole and Silima primary schools in Plumtree and Regina Mundi.

He attended Empandeni Secondary School in Plumtree and Matope as well as Mkushi in Zambia.

Mguni joined the liberation struggle at the age of 15.

In 1976, he went to Zambia and completed his lower sixth at Mkushi College before going to Libya for military training.

In 1980, he left army integration and joined teaching until 1986 before he went to South Africa where he worked for the South African government.

In 2011 he was back in the country and served as Zanu-PF chairman for Marula Ward. In 2013 he sponsored the Zanu-PF revival drive and was elected Member of Parliament for Mangwe constituency in 2013.

During that year, Mguni was also the party’s secretary for Higher and Tertiary Education in Matabeleland South province.

He was also a member of the Mines and Energy and the Industry and Commerce Parliamentary Committees.

In 2015 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and was also elected war veterans’ chairperson in Matabeleland South before being elected secretary for finance last year and Member of Parliament for Mangwe constituency

From last year, Mguni also served as the Zanu-PF Deputy Chief whip in Parliament and chairperson of the Democratisation and Governance in Sadc Parliament.

Professionally, Mguni began his career as a teacher at Makhulela and Zuzaphi Primary Schools from 1981 to 1989.

He left the teaching profession in 1990 and worked for different companies in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

He had been a businessman since 2005.

Mguni leaves behind his wife Caroline, a son Bongani and a daughter Simphiwe.

Minister of State for Matabeleland South Abednico Ncube on Friday afternoon had a torrid time trying to bring sanity at a fuel queue in Gwanda.

ZimEye.com sources from the town indicated that Minister was called by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police to come and use his authority in trying to put order at a local filling station after queing motorists rejected police orders to reorganize the long fuel queue.

According to the sources, the town had gone almost eight days without delivery of fuel and all the four filling stations had run out of fuel. When eventually one of the fuel stations got delivery on Friday mid morning, nearly all the cars in the small town needed fuel resulting in a huge stampede and long queue stretching for over five kilometres.

Authorities at the filling station could not control the stampede and summoned police to sort out the matter. The motorists would not have any of the police instructions to reorganize themselves resulting in police summoning the Minister to come and sort the matter.

Minister Ncube tried to address the drivers ordering those who were already inside the garage forecourt to drive out. The drivers again would not have any of the Minister’s orders.

“He tried hard to order the drivers out of the forecourt with no success as they all vowed that they would not leave unless they get fuel.

The embarrassed Minister had to leave the filling station after over half an hour trying to impose his authority on the motorists. Before he left he instructed the filling station authorities not to serve the fuel until the motorists adhere to his orders.

The ZimEye.com sources said that the filling station remained closed through the night with the motorists still unmoved.

Addressing the crowd of about 200 motorists at the filling station, Ncube acknowledged that the government had failed to solve the fuel crisis asking Zimbabweans to corporate with government and offer ideas on how to solve the crisis.

“He all but agreed that government was battling to solve the fuel crisis and called on all citizens to bear with the government a little longer,” said the sources.

Efforts to contact Ncube for a comment on the incident were not successful.

Meanwhile, the sources indicated to ZimEye.com that they were extremely disappointed with the Minister’s intervention on a matter that is always solved between the motorists and filling station authorities.

“That was too low for the Minister, ” said one of the sources.

“There was no need for the Minister to leave his office and come down to interfere in such trivial issues. “

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has elevated a senior Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officer Senior Assistant Commissioner Shepherd Mpofu to the position of Deputy Commissioner-General.

He replaces Deputy Comm-Gen Huggins Machingauta, who retired early this year. In a statement, ZPCS national spokesperson chief correctional officer Meya Khanyezi said the appointment was effective from June 13 this year.

“The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has in terms of Section 9(1) (b) of the Prisons Act (Chapter 7:11) promoted Senior Assistant Commissioner Shepherd Mpofu to the rank of Deputy Commissioner-General with effect from 13 June 2019,” reads the statement.

Deputy Commissioner-General Mpofu was the officer commanding Matabeleland South Province before his recent promotion. Deputy Commissioner Mpofu becomes the fourth Deputy Commissioner-General.

Comm-Gen Retired Major General Willings Paradzai Zimondi works with four deputies responsible for human resources, administration, correctional services and audit, and the Inspectorate department.

Deputy Comm-Gen Mpofu joined ZPCS in 1996 and rose through the ranks to the current position.

He was born on June 12, 1973 in Bulawayo where he attended Mbizo Primary School and Emakhandeni Primary School in Bulawayo. He did his secondary education at Emakhandeni Secondary School

Deputy Comm-Gen Mpofu holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Management) degree from Solusi University.

A Zvishavane businessman has been dragged to the Civil Court for allegedly bedding his friend’s wife.

The friendship between the two men has since gone sour following the “great” betrayal.

Norris Sibanda, a gold dealer, is demanding $1 400 from his friend Reuben Mangoma, who allegedly slept with Sibanda’s wife, Tendai Sibanda, on several occasions.
The matter was heard before Zvishavane magistrate Shepherd Munjanja, who postponed the case to 2 July.

Sibanda told the court that he felt betrayed by his friend, who slept with his wife when he trusted him.
“Mangoma is my friend and my business partner. We have worked together for years and l am pained by how he decided to betray me. As a result, l have suffered embarrassment, and my wife and l are not on speaking terms,” he said.

In his defence, Mangoma denied the allegations saying Sibanda just wanted to make money out of him.
“Your worship, l am not in a relationship with his wife. Sibanda brought this case to court just to make money out of me. Contrary to his claims, he is actually in good books with the wife, they are on speaking terms and they are staying together,” he said.

Tendai admitted that she had an affair with Mangoma, and that they had sexual intercourse countless times.

“Your worship, it’s true that l was in a relationship with Mangoma, but we ended the relationship when my husband found out about it.

“I had sex with him several times. At times we would sleep at Mangoma’s place, and at times we would sleep in my matrimonial home, while my husband was away. At one point we had sex at a local hotel where we had booked,” she said.B-Metro

Gracious Moyo (24) of E20 Sinderela Village owed a six-weeks pregnant Thandolwenkosi Ndlovu but seemed to be taking too long to pay back.

As such, Ndlovu’s constant demand for her money became an annoying jingle in Moyo’s ears and she beat her up leading to the miscarriage.

For that, Moyo appeared before Hwange provincial magistrate Gift Ntando Dube facing assault charges.
“Your worship, I did not mean to hurt the complainant. I was angered by the words she spoke to me when I tried to reason with her over the money I owed her. I got upset and lost control, resulting in my assaulting her. I’m really sorry,” she pleaded.

The court heard that on 24 December 2018 at around 8pm, Ndlovu proceeded to house number E20, Sinderela Village where Moyo stays intending to collect $6 which she owed her. Moyo refused to give her the money and a misunderstanding arose between the two.

She then began to slap a stunned Ndlovu with open hands several times all over the face before assaulting her further with fists all over the body. As if it was not enough Moyo lurched for Ndlovu’s chest before sinking her teeth into her right breast.

She was restrained from further assaulting Ndlovu who was now lying on the floor by other neighbours who had been alerted by the commotion. The incident was reported to the police leading to Moyo’s arrest. Ndlovu sustained bruises on the face as a result of the assault and revealed in court that she had miscarried her six-weeks old pregnancy.State media

SADC executive secretary Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax has formally briefed President Mnangagwa who is taking over the chair of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation at the regional Summit slated for August in Tanzania.

President Mnangagawa is replacing outgoing chairman and Zambian President Edgar Chagwa Lungu.
Dr Tax briefed the President at State House in Harare yesterday.

She also brushed off the opposition MDC-Alliance’s bid to push Sadc to have Zimbabwe on its agenda.
Dr Tax said her visit was for purposes of briefing President Mnangagwa on the obligations of the country in guiding the region on issues of politics, peace and security.

“I am here to brief the President of Zimbabwe. As you are all aware, he is our incoming chairman of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security and that he will be taking over in August 2019,” she said.

“That being the case, he is expected to guide the region in terms of politics, peace and security issues. So, that is my purposes of being here. We had a very fruitful meeting. We touched on several issues in terms of Zimbabwe’s obligations as the incoming chairperson of the organ, the responsibilities and the issues that need to be followed up.”

Dr Tax said she had a productive meeting with President Mnangagwa and was grateful that she received incredible guidance from the veteran politician.

This year’s Sadc Summit is taking place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on August 17 to 19 when President Mnangagwa will formally take over as the chair of the organ.

In line with Sadc practices, Dr Tax said, a report will be submitted by the current chairperson of the organ, whose contents will be tabled for consideration.State media

A 20-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for having sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl and impregnating her.

The man (20) had sex several times on different occasions with the minor.
The man pleaded guilty to having sexual intercourse with a young person before Bulawayo magistrate, Mr Legeso Ngwenya and was sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Mr Ngwenya said: “You have been sentenced to 12 months in prison, two months suspended on condition of good behaviour and the remaining 10 months suspended on condition that you complete 350 hours of community service at Lupane Police Station.”

The prosecutor, Mr Leonard Chile told the court that in January 2019, the man proposed love to the girl.
“During the same month, the girl visited the man at his place where he requested to have sex with her and the girl agreed,” he said.

The minor and the man would thereafter have sex on different occasions until the girl fell pregnant.
The matter came to light when the girl’s mother found out that her daughter was pregnant.
The man was arrested after the mother reported the matter to the police.State media

FRESH divisions have emerged in the MDC Alliance in Bulawayo with reports that some officials raided offices belonging to Professor Welshman Ncube’s old MDC demanding keys and an inventory of property at the premises.

MDC Alliance, a coalition of parties including Prof Ncube’s MDC ahead of the 2018 elections, amalgamated after the polls to form one party under Mr Nelson Chamisa.

However, the party has failed to gel particularly in Bulawayo with sharp divisions laced with tribal undertones between a pro- Chamisa faction pitted against members of Prof Ncube’s old MDC.

According to insiders, a group of MDC Alliance members purporting to be from the security department raided the former MDC offices along Herbert Chitepo and 13th Avenue claiming that they were being used to hold parallel programmes to the MDC Alliance.

“There is general mistrust between members formerly from Ncube’s MDC and those found under Chamisa. About three weeks ago, some members claiming to be from the security department met an official locking gates to the premises and accused him of holding secret meetings involving members of the former MDC,” said a source.

It is said the mistrust has been heightened by clashes in the election of provincial executive members and the recent selection of national executive council members with allegations of tribal bias.

The officials from Prof Ncube’s former MDC are said to have been systematically shut out hence the suspicion that they are holding parallel meetings at the offices.
The source said the officials returned twice last week and on the second occasion demanded keys to the premises.

“They came on Thursday and milled around the premises. They were in the company of a man whom they said was from the security department in Harare. They left and returned the following day claiming that they had been sent by secretary general, Charlton Hwende, to seize keys to the offices as they now fall under the MDC Alliance following the amalgamation of the two parties.

They also demanded an inventory of the property in the offices,” said the source.
“After they were denied the keys, the group left saying they would return on Monday with paper work from Hwende sanctioning their actions but they did not return.”
MDC Alliance Bulawayo provincial spokesperson, Mr Swithern Chirowodza, yesterday dismissed the reports.

“Everything is in harmony, the source is trying to plant seeds of discord. Everyone is happy, there is no discord in the province, that (the reports) is the work of detractors through rumour mongering,” he said.
However, insiders insisted that things were not well in the party over a number of hanging issues.
“There is the hot issue of tribalism in the province that affected the provincial congress and the recent selection of members to the national executive council. The party is divided along tribal lines and until Chamisa acts decisively on the matter, these tensions will explode in his face one of these days,” said the source.State media

ONE worker died and four were injured in a rock fall accident at How Mine on the outskirts of Bulawayo on Thursday afternoon during a shaft examination.

Management at the mine has since shut off the shaft to allow investigations into the accident.

Mr Matola Kazembe (49) who was the shaft timberman died on the spot while his four colleagues sustained injuries following the tragic incident.
Two of the workers are admitted to Mater Dei Hospital while the other two were treated and discharged.

In a memorandum to the workers on Thursday, the mine’s managing director, Mr Demand Gwatinetsa informed them of Mr Kazembe’s death reportedly due to a rockfall in the shaft.

“It’s with a heavy heart that I inform you of the passing on of Mr Matola Kazembe, our shaft timberman. Mr Kazembe, together with his shaft crew were involved in an accident during shaft examination on our north shaft.

“He was in the company of Mr Michael Chaipa, Mr Julius Phiri, Mr Captain Singini and Mr Last Kakono. Mr Chaipa and Mr Phiri have been admitted to Mater Dei Hospital due to injuries sustained in the accident while Mr Singini and Mr Kakono were attended to and discharged for monitoring from home,” said Mr Gwatinetsa.

He said there was a reported rockfall onto the skip on which they were working, adding that investigations were underway.

“The full details of the accident are still under investigation by ourselves as well as with the Government Inspector of Mines and we’ll communicate with you the findings.

“We have stopped operations on the north shaft until further notice and we’ll co-operate fully with the authorities in the ongoing investigations,” said Mr Gwatinetsa.
He assured the workers that the mine will put in place measures to ensure similar accidents never happen in future.State media

By Nqobile Tshili| Police in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for an allegedly serial land fraudster who pretended to be a village head and sold plots and residential stands to home seekers in Kensington on the outskirt of the city.

Obvious Nyika (33) allegedly sold land belonging to MacDonald Bricks to an unknown number of unsuspecting land seekers pretending that it belonged to him.

“Police in Bulawayo are investigating a case of fraud which occurred in Kensington on the outskirts of Bulawayo between April 1, 2016 and May 14, 2019.

“The accused Obvious Nyika aged 33 of last known address 6B Kensington Extension Bulawayo misrepresented himself to the complainants as the village head and allocated them plots and residential stands measuring 50 to 100 square metres knowing that the land belonged to MacDonald Bricks. The complainants were made to pay US$350 each and they started to construct structures on the allocated plots,” said Asst Insp Msebele.

She said last month MacDonald Bricks started demolishing the structures that Nyika’s victims had constructed on its land.

Asst Insp Msebele said that is when it became clear to the victims that they had been defrauded.

She said Nyika vanished as his victims opened a fraud case at Hillside Police Station.

“At the present moment 11 counts of fraud have been reported and there is a possibility for more cases coming. We are also appealing to members of the public with information which may lead in the arrest of the accused person to contact CID Commercial Crime Division Southern Region on landline 09-78446 or the investigating officer Detective Sergeant Bekimpilo Nhlabano on 0772610607 or visit any nearest police station,” Asst Insp Msebele said.

She urged members of the public to avoid buying land from unscrupulous persons or unregistered property dealers as this exposes them to fraudsters.

Asst Insp Msebele said home seekers should visit registered property agents as well as local authorities to verify ownership of properties they intend to buy.

Scores of people were recently evicted from the MacDonald Farm in Umguza. The Chronicle

FULL TEXT: SADC –

The Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Her Excellency Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax paid a courtesy call on His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa of the Republic of Zimbabwe, at State House in Harare on 21st June, 2019.

President Mnangagwa is the Incoming Chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, and he will become the Chairperson after the August 2019 SADC Summit of Heads of States and Government. The Chairperson of the SADC Organ is rotated on an annual basis, and currently, his Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu of the Republic of Zambia is the Chairperson, while Angola’s President, H.E João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço is the Outgoing Chairperson.

During the meeting, the SADC Executive Secretary, briefed the Incoming Chairperson of the SADC Organ on several issues including; the political and security situation in the region; initiatives that SADC has undertaken since the last Summit held in August 2018; as well as on the requirements, and Minimum Standards for hosting the SADC Organ meetings.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has talked about new modalities to introduce a new local currency.  The new tender is expected to be launched within weeks.

Mnangagwa said that the new currency will be the sole legal tender for domestic transactions and fundamentals have now been put in place.

Mnangagwa told the business media outlet, Bloomberg, on the sidelines of the 12th US-Africa Business Summit in Mozambique, on Thursday, that it was imperative for Zimbabwe to have its own currency.

He said, “we must have a domestic currency so that will be the currency which we will use for transactions in the country. Anybody who has US dollars or a tonne of pounds must go to the bank and change and transact . . . the money supply will relate also to our GDP; it will relate to the volume of assets we have; to development of infrastructure in the country.”

The president further said that the increasing growth in key economic sectors such as mining and tourism would easily support the anticipated currency.

Separately, Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, also said that the government has successfully reduced its domestic debt and narrowed the current account deficit by sharply reducing imports.

Zimbabweans are still haunted by the 2008 hyperinflation and fears abound over the possibility that the new currency might go the same way. The soaring inflation is doing less to help the situation.
Read More: The Chronicle.

Farai Dziva|A Rusape man brutally killed his uncle for allegedly stealing his mbanje plants.

The man assaulted his uncle with sticks after catching him stealing mbanje -which he was illegally cultivating in his farm.

Mizilamu Maseko appeared in court for contravening Section 47 (1)(a) or (b) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act.

See part of the state outline below :

“The deceased Taurai Christopher Makarutse was with the accused person and his wife at the garden when the crime was committed.

Janepha Murewa who testified that the accused is her husband said on the day in question she was with the accused at the garden and she saw him leaving the garden going to the next garden.

The accused person was following the deceased to see what he was doing in that garden.

Murewa said that after about 30 minutes her husband came back and told her that he had assaulted the deceased for stealing his mbanje.

She asked her husband to go back and fetch the deceased and the duo came back with the deceased walking slowly showing signs that he was in great pain.

He was taken to hospital where he later died from the injuries.”

By Prosper Dembedza

Former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri reportedly stole number plates of a broken down Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Mercedes Benz which he used to fraudulently get the State to service his personal vehicles, a court heard.

Chihuri’s alleged shenanigans were revealed by Detective Assistant Inspector Thomas Mabgwe while testifying in a matter in which a former police officer, Senior Assistant Commissioner Robert Tendero Masukusa (47), is facing charges of using State funds to repair his personal car.

Det Asst Insp Mabgwe told the court that Masukusa was in the habit of having his personal vehicles fixed at various garages using police funds.

He said they discovered that Chihuri was also using the police account to service his Mercedes Benz after they requested a print out from Zimoco while investigating Masukusa’s case.

“We discovered that there was a certain vehicle which was being fixed at (Zimoco’s) garage which had the same number plates with that of a police vehicle that was under breakdown and had been long parked in Chitungwiza,” he said.

Det Asst Insp Mabgwe said he proceeded to Chitungwiza and discovered that the vehicle in question was parked and had never been moved.

He further stated that the chassis number of the vehicle which was being serviced at Zimoco was totally different from the one parked in Chitungwiza.

“We discovered that the same number plate was also being used on several occasions to fix vehicles belonging to Chihuri,” he said. Det Asst Insp Mabgwe told the court that it was unlawful for Masukusa to service his private vehicle using the police account.

He further stated that Masukusa intentionally committed the offence since he was the Chief Staff Officer in charge of the Transport and Logistics Department.

“As a result of that misrepresentation, Zimoco fixed Masukusa’s car under the ZRP account, thereby prejudicing the organisation,” said Det Asst Insp Mabgwe.

Harare magistrate Mrs Rumbidzai Mugwagwa deferred the matter to July 5 for trial continuation. Prosecutor Francesca Mukumbiri alleges that Masukusa used over US$7 000 after he took his car for servicing at Isoquant Investments Trading as Zimoco under the guise that the car belonged to the ZRP. It is alleged that he committed the offence between 2015 and 2016.

According to the State, Masukusa bought the car, an ML 320 Mercedes Benz, at an auction carried out on behalf of ZRP by KM Auctions on January 17, 2015.

He reportedly deceived Zimoco by claiming his vehicle belonged to the police. Acting upon the misrepresentation, Zimoco renewed rear shocks on Masukusa’s vehicle, right rear driveshaft, brake pads and camber strut.

Full wheel alignment services were also done to the vehicle, among other repairs. The Herald

Farai Dziva|They say language is dynamic.

Newly-appointed ZANU PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has virtually admitted that the ruling party is totally divorced from the people.

In his message yesterday Matemadanda vowed to “return the party to the people” literally implying that Zanu PF is divorced from the people of Zimbabwe.

Matemadanda replaced retired army officer, Engelbert Rugeje who remains a politburo member without portfolio.

“Any person can become a king in a political party. ZANU PF is a mass party and if people are not educated they will think that authority is vested in people they find in the structures.

Yet this is misleading; a party becomes a people’s party when people have complete ownership.

Our immediate task is to take the party from individual ownership to the people using the philosophy of democratic centralism where everyone is equally important,” said Matemadanda.

Farai Dziva|MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said the opposition party is ready to deliver meaningful change to the people of Zimbabwe.

Addressing a news conference at Morgan Tsvangirai House in Harare yesterday, Chamisa said members of the MDC National Executive Committee were ready to work tirelessly to deliver the much anticipated change to the people of Zimbabwe.

“We are the only credible team in the country and we are ready to deliver change to the people of Zimbabwe.

We are deeply concerned about the current economic crisis in the country and as the winning team, we have the capacity to deliver the results,” said Chamisa.

“Our thrust is to defend our late founding president Morgan Tsvangirai’s legacy,”he added.

Farai Dziva|Addressing a news conference in Harare yesterday MDC leader Nelson Chamisa scoffed at claims that Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government “brought a new dispensation.”

Chamisa said:”Let me say as a party we are deeply concerned about the gross violation of human rights by the government.

How can they say they have brought a new dispensation while innocent citizens are being harassed.

It is disturbing to note that we are receiving reports of arbitrary arrests and harassment of human rights activists.

Political activists are also being persecuted for no reason.We are saying this cannot be tolerated.”

Farai Dziva|MDC Secretary for Public Service and Social Welfare, Maureen Kademaunga has bemoaned the pathetic state of the public service system in the country.

See Kademaunga’s statement
:Following my election into the MDC National Executive Council as Mashonaland East representative, I am grateful to have been further appointed to a key portfolio of the party, to represent and defend the interests of the working people and the marginalized.

The appointment comes at a time when Zimbabwe’s Public Service is in shambles and the Social Welfare system incompetent and abandoned.

Public servants are working for a song and the poor are vulnerable with no social safety nets.

The MDC has in the SMART Policy Blue Print placed at the fore labour rights and committed to a huge social agenda.

In line with those policies,the MDC portfolio of Public Service and Social Welfare will design a program of action focusing on the following:

1. De-politicisation ,de-militarisation and professionalisation of the Public Service.
2. Employment reforms including a minimum wage,a 42 hour working week,paid overtime,paid annual leave,paid maternity leave,employer contribution to medical aid and NSSA reform for secure pensions.
3. Administrative and fiscal decentralisation of the Public Service.
4. Combating corruption in the Public Service to ensure effective,timely and courteous service delivery.
   5.Rehabilitation of Victims of Political violence including psycho-support and welfare for political prisoners
   6.A comprehensive welfare for special constituencies including ophans, war veterans and the elderly.

This agenda will in part fulfill the obligation to Define A New Course for Zimbabwe,we will place the citizen at the centre of our endevour to seek a fair and just society.

In Service of Humanity,

Maureen Kademaunga
Secretary for Public Service and Social Welfare

Farai Dziva|The MDC has lambasted Emmerson Mnangagwa’ s government for wasting scarce foreign currency on unnecessary luxuries.

See the MDC statement :
We are seriously concerned that the broke Mnangagwa regime has the temerity to hire an American firm for over $US1 million to spruce up its image even as the nation struggles to procure basics such as medicine and fuel.

The regime has hired Avenue Strategies Global CC, a US firm to lobby Washington to drop sanctions against Zimbabwe.

The scarce foreign currency is being splurged even as nurses and other key government services have threatened industrial action for poor working conditions and the absence of working tools.

It is our belief that there is no reason to waste scarce foreign currency on political cosmetology when all the regime in Harare should do is to stop repression, the clampdown on civil society and democracy activists and the wanton killings of its citizens, among other issues. The improvement of the government’s human rights record will go a long way in improving the country’s image among the society of nations.

And the immediate cessation of violence and repression does not cost a single cent to a nation already reeling heavily under huge external and internal debt.

While the government has wasted scarce foreign currency hiring Avenue Strategies, the proper avenue to take to improve the country’s image is to stop bad behavior, particularly the callous clampdown on innocent citizens.

Zimbabwe cannot afford to lose scarce foreign currency on issues that can simply be addressed by behaviour change. The cheapest and most affordable consultancy firm is a deep soul searching by those in government whether they can really afford to procure multi-million dollar armory aimed at their own citizens at a time millions of Zimbabweans are facing starvation.

MDC: Defining a new course for Zimbabwe.

Luke Tamborinyoka
Deputy National spokesperson

Farai Dziva|Zanu PF hardliners are not happy with party youth league leader Lewis Matutu’s threats to expose their “shenanigans.”

ZANU PF politburo member and deputy youth league chairperson, Lewis Matutu, says he has received death threats from party hardliners following his threats to expose their dubious manoeuvres.

Matutu has threatened threatened to expose corruption in the ruling party.

“They call at night saying Zanu PF kills, they are threatening me, but I will not be moved. The only person I will listen to is President Emmerson Mnangagwa. I made a personal decision to join Zanu PF and will not be pushed or silenced by anyone,” said Matutu.

“I know children of ministers who are selling foreign currency on the black market, I can give you names and numbers of these people and you can go and change money with them. I am giving them up to Sunday to come clean and if they fail we will name them.”

Farai Dziva|They say language is dynamic.

Newly-appointed ZANU PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has virtually admitted that the ruling party is totally divorced from the people.

In his message yesterday Matemadanda vowed to “return the party to the people” literally implying that Zanu PF is divorced from the people of Zimbabwe.

Matemadanda replaced retired army officer, Engelbert Rugeje who remains a politburo member without portfolio.

“Any person can become a king in a political party. ZANU PF is a mass party and if people are not educated they will think that authority is vested in people they find in the structures.

Yet this is misleading; a party becomes a people’s party when people have complete ownership.

Our immediate task is to take the party from individual ownership to the people using the philosophy of democratic centralism where everyone is equally important,” said Matemadanda.

Farai Dziva|Zanu PF hardliners are not happy with party youth league leader Lewis Matutu’s threats to expose their “shenanigans.”

ZANU PF politburo member and deputy youth league chairperson, Lewis Matutu, says he has received death threats from party hardliners following his threats to expose their dubious manoeuvres.

Matutu has threatened threatened to expose corruption in the ruling party.

“They call at night saying Zanu PF kills, they are threatening me, but I will not be moved. The only person I will listen to is President Emmerson Mnangagwa. I made a personal decision to join Zanu PF and will not be pushed or silenced by anyone,” said Matutu.

“I know children of ministers who are selling foreign currency on the black market, I can give you names and numbers of these people and you can go and change money with them. I am giving them up to Sunday to come clean and if they fail we will name them.”

They never knew each other existed until they crossed paths on social media. Initially, they mistook each other for online identity frauds. They cut off communication until they bumped into each other at a bus stop.

Sharon Mathius, Melon Lutenyo and Mevis Imbaya were born within 24 hours in the same hospital in 1999. At birth, one of the twins was swapped with the third girl born to a different couple.

The twins ended up being raised by different parents until 2018 when they found themselves. In April 2019, both families resorted to solve the mystery by seeking professional help. Lancet Kenya then offered to carry out a DNA test at a subsidised cost.

The DNA tests conducted by Lancet Kenya was released on Saturday. It showed that Sharon Mathius and Melon Lutenyo shared identical DNA profiles.

The test proved that Ms Rosemary Khaveleli Onyango, who raised Melon and Mevis, is the biological mother of Sharon and Melon while Mevis Imbaya, who was raised as Melon’s twin is the biological child of Ms Angeline Omina and Mr Wilson Lutah Maruti who raised Sharon.

Sharon has said that she wants to stay with Rosemary.

By A Correspondent| Prof Jonathan Moyo must be extradited from Kenya, Norton MP Temba Mliswa has said.

Speaking in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday, Mliswa told Prof David Matsanga, Moyo must come back and must also face the justice like any other person in a proper manner.

He said, “at the same time there is the aspect of those were outside Zimbabwe, prof Moyo was part of the Mugabe regime and he is also facing allegations of having been corrupt which he must answer to.

“So at times don’t hate a country because you also have allegations, I was arrested Dr Matsanga, over 70 times. And acquitted 70 times, and you know that I never run away from the country, I never ran away from the country because I believed I was innocent at the end of the day.

“And this was when the regime was tough but I still went through that. So what is important is that we also don’t want a situation where people who are in power, steal resources, when they are said to be corrupt they run away and they start attacking the country from outside professor Jonathan Moyo must come back and must also face the justice like any other person in a proper manner.”

Members of Parliament have blamed the ill equipped Parliament clinic for the death of Zanu-PF Mangwe legislator Obedingwa Mguni, saying had it been properly stocked, his life could have been saved.

Mguni died on Wednesday from diabetes related illness.

“The issue of Mguni is very painful but there is a thing that we did not understand clearly.  I think that we should be notified.  A Member of Parliament is someone one who is respectable.  I was asking and it should be known what happened when Mguni started not feeling well in this House and his journey from the House to the clinic then to the hospital,” said MDC Alliance MP Willias Madzimure.

“There are many of us and I think our clinic should be well resourced so that life is saved.  I am not very happy about how we are treated when we are ill here at Parliament.  When we are transported from here to the hospital, I think that there should be an investigation on the illness of Mguni and the time of his death to the time when he was ferried to the funeral parlour.  Who was there with him?  I think that it is not good that we should die like that.”

Mdzimure said MPs are important people who should be treated with respect.

“Mguni was a Deputy Chief Whip and he was also on the Government side.  So, it is very important that we should have known before we left this place.  I therefore say that there be an investigation into the death of Mguni,” he said

Source – Byo24News

President Mnangagwa has sent a message of condolences to the Mguni family following the death of Obedigwa Mguni who died at Avenues Clinic on Tuesday.

Mguni was the Zanu-PF deputy chief whip. In his condolence message, President Mnangagwa expressed deep sense of shock on the untimely death of Mguni. He said while he knew that he was unwell, he always wished and hoped for his speed recovery.

“What a great loss to his family, his constituency of Mangwe, the legislature, his party and above all to his country whose liberation he fought for alongside other cadres,” he said.

“On that fateful Tuesday when he passed on Cde Mguni had always religiously showed up to fulfil his administrative and legislative chores inspire of the fact that he was not well. Such was the character of this humble man who had a firm commitment to serving his country and people unreservedly.”

The President said Mguni had demonstrated the hallmark of patriotism, a lasting legacy that he will always be remembered for.

“On behalf of Government and the party Zanu-PF, on my own behalf and that if my family i wush to extend our deepest condolences to Cde Mguni’s family especially his wife Hlalani and her children following the death of a beloved husband, father and mentor.

“May they take comfort from the knowledge that the whole nation share in their deep grief and pain,” said the President.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that the US company General Electric Co. and Power Construction Corp. of China will build a US$4 billion Batoka Gorge hydropower project on the Zambezi River.

Speaking on the sidelines of the US Africa summit in Mozambique, Mnangagwa said the project will be done jointly by Zimbabwe and Zambia and upon completion is expected to generate 2 400 megawatts.

Mnangagwa said, “Zambia and Zimbabwe have agreed on this project. We have all agreed that we give it to GE — China Power and GE together.

“It’s critical that we move fast on that front because it’s necessary that as we industrialize that we need electricity.”

The envisaged Batoka Gorge Hydropower Plant will be built upstream of Lake Kariba whose water level has receded alarmingly reducing electricity generation fro the two countries leading to crippling power cuts.

The last time General Electric toured Zimbabwe looking to invest, early last year, they flew out of the country without leaving a penny.

Farai Dziva|They say language is dynamic.

Newly-appointed ZANU PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has virtually admitted that the ruling party is totally divorced from the people.

In his message yesterday Matemadanda vowed to “return the party to the people” literally implying that Zanu PF is divorced from the people of Zimbabwe.

Matemadanda replaced retired army officer, Engelbert Rugeje who remains a politburo member without portfolio.

“Any person can become a king in a political party. ZANU PF is a mass party and if people are not educated they will think that authority is vested in people they find in the structures.

Yet this is misleading; a party becomes a people’s party when people have complete ownership.

Our immediate task is to take the party from individual ownership to the people using the philosophy of democratic centralism where everyone is equally important,” said Matemadanda.

Farai Dziva|They say language is dynamic.

Newly-appointed ZANU PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has virtually admitted that the ruling party is totally divorced from the people.

In his message yesterday Matemadanda vowed to “return the party to the people” literally implying that Zanu PF is divorced from the people of Zimbabwe.

Matemadanda replaced retired army officer, Engelbert Rugeje who remains a politburo member without portfolio.

“Any person can become a king in a political party. ZANU PF is a mass party and if people are not educated they will think that authority is vested in people they find in the structures.

Yet this is misleading; a party becomes a people’s party when people have complete ownership.

Our immediate task is to take the party from individual ownership to the people using the philosophy of democratic centralism where everyone is equally important,” said Matemadanda.