By Own Correspondent| Government has opened up 204 posts nationwide for junior doctors.

The posts, seeks applications from students who have completed their five year programmes from either of the medical Universities in the country.

Government is also inviting foreign trained medical doctors who have also met local regulations and are ready for internship to also apply for these posts.

This is a developing story. More details to follow.

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Zimbabwean-born constitutional law expert and lecturer at Kent University in the United Kingdom, Alex Magaisa said that it is unconstitutional to
have a President and an Acting President at the same time.

Magaisa was responding to a report in today’s State-owned publications, The Herald and The Chronicle. The report reads as follows: And in any event, the style has always been that the Acting President consults with the substantive President. Now in
this particular case, we have a serious situation in the health sector involving lives and naturally, the President has to demonstrate concern and that concern comes by way of cutting short his leave in order to work closely with the Acting President so that consultations

are short-circuited.

Correspondent|Thirty-five passengers reportedly escaped death by a whisker when a bus they were travelling in overturned and landed on its side.

Preliminary investigations reveal that the bus’s brakes failed, which resulted in the driver losing control.

The Inter Africa bus was travelling from Masvingo to Zvishavane on Thursday morning.

The mishap occurred about 10km outside Masvingo.

By Own Correspondent| Spokesperson of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa, Jacob Mafume has called for an inquiry into the military chopper crash alleging that there is rampant abuse of state resources by public sector officials.

In a statement, Mafume said the Gutu military chopper crash is clear testimony that public officials are abusing state resources while conducting their personal and private business

Said Mafume:

Terrence Mawawa|Flamboyant Zimbabwean businessman Strive Masiyiwa is in the vortex of a storm following attempts to defend his wife Tsitsi Masiyiwa on social media.

Masiyiwa’s attempts to have Dewa Mavhinga dismissed from Human Rights Watch following what he described as “cyber-bullying” have hit a snag.

In a Facebook response to Masiyiwa’s remarks, HRW Director Ken Roth refused to be swayed by the influential business tycoon.

See below responses to Roth’s statement:Caston Matewu:”
Great response, those with money must not think everyone bows down to them.”

Tariro Daphne:”How social media maketh a man…or breaketh a giant…someone write a book on the latter.That’s the downfall of Strive Masiyiwa look at how Mugabe came down coz of Grace kkkkkk, not my handwriting.”

Mlungisi Dube:” Thank God you have a good boss anyway your response was far from being abusive.”

Terrence Mawawa|Cornered Zimbabwean business mogul Strive Masiyiwa has described the widespread criticism he has been subjected to as unfair and unwarranted.

In his response to Human
Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth’s statement on Facebook, Masiyiwa recounted how he personally assisted the MDC and hosted Morgan Tsvangirai in South Africa. PICTURES:

Masiyiwa is unhappy with the alleged
bullying of his wife on twitter.

Masiyiwa said he was present when the MDC made decision to join GNU.He also called on Roth to retire and recounted his proven philanthropic efforts.

By Own Correspondent| Senior doctors at the country’s public health institutions have joined the induatrial action by junior doctors who downed tools since December 1, 2018.

The senior doctors said consensus to join the strike was agreed by senior registrars at Parirenyatwa, Harare, United Bulawayo and Mpilo Hospitals with the aim of protecting patients.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the doctors said:

Following the continued industrial action by junior doctors and their subsequent suspension, we the senior registrars have become overwhelmed by the work-load and are no longer confident we can discharge our duties properly without compromising both our and patients safety.

Our work involves working as a team and so if the other crucial part is missing, then we are all rendered useless.

We share the same grievances as our juniors that of the need for the cost of living adjustment need for uninterrupted availability of essential drugs and sundries and need to address the vehicle status of all doctors.

We have resolved therefore as a group to protect our patients and ourselves to withdraw our services until an agreement is reached.

By Own Correspondent| Acting president who is the country’s vice president Constantino Guvheya Dominic Chiwenga has implored Zimbabweans to pull in one direction if the austerity measures initiated by government are to bear fruit.

VP Chiwenga said this in Kanyemba where he is touring the various projects initiated by government.

The State media reported that VP Chiwenga said:

“The development of Kanyemba has been given national project status to expedite mobilization of resources.

Government has identified other marginalized areas across the country for development.

The onus to develop the country lies among Zimbabweans and no one else.

The austerity measures adopted by government will bear fruits soon if we pull in the same direction.”StateMedia

By Own Correspondent| United Family International Church leader Emmanuel Makandiwa has told congregants that all men who are broke should not be given the title “Daddy”.

Makandiwa said that this title is reserved for people with money only while the broke ones should be called father.

Do you think that the “Man of God” is right?

By Own Correspondent| Former Zanu Pf cabinet minister whose current whereabouts have remained a mystery has issued his condolence message to former Local government minister and Zanu Pf politburo member Saviour Kasukuwere following the death of his mother.

Kasukuwere’s mother, Lucia was 79 years old.

Said Professor Moyo:

“Tyson and family, I am deeply pained by the conspiracy of unfortunate circumstances that leave me unable ti be with you today, tp lay our dear mother to rest. I am with you in prayer and thought hama dzangu. May God’s presence cover you and may his grace rest her in eternal peace.”

Tyson and family, I'm deeply pained by the conspiracy of unfortunate circumstances that leave me unable to be with you today, to lay our dear mother to rest. I'm with you in thought and prayer hama dzangu. May God's presence cover you and may his grace rest her in eternal peace! pic.twitter.com/hx8HSyvAJm

— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) January 3, 2019

The late Lucia is survived by 8 children of whom the former minister is number 5.

Impeccable sources revealed that she suffered a heart attack last year when ZANU PF militants threatened to kill “her son”, the then minister following the ouster of former president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

ZimEye is reliably informed that she will be buried in Mt Darwin today.

By Own Correspondent| Zanu Pf Manicaland Province has implored the party to accord prominent Mutare businessman Mr Hlanganiso Matangaidze, who died over the weekend, provincial hero status.

By Own Correspondent| Police boss Godwin Matanga has revealed that the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is set to adopt a new structure in the force’s hierachy aimed at rebranding the force to win back public confidence.

Commissioner Matanga said changes to the ZRP hierarchy will be effected in the “next few days”.

Said Commissioner General Matanga:

“Very soon I will be announcing a new ZRP structure which has since been approved by Government through the Police Service Commission (PSC).

In our old structure, we used to have the rank of commissioner and in the new structure we now have the ranks of Commissioner of Police but not the same as we had in the previous structure.

The new police commissioner who is coming is going to replace the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner.

In the new structure, if I could be allowed to come from the bottom, we will have the Constable, Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Assistant Inspector, Inspector, Chief Inspector, Superintendent, Chief Superintendent, Assistant Commissioner, Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner General and then Commissioner General.

I should have effected this new setup from December 18, 2018 but because of some logistical considerations I will definitely have to do it within the next few days. But officially it took effect from December 18, 2018.”- StateMedia

By Talent Gondo| Zanu Pf member and former minister of State for Masvingo Province Josiah Hungwe has distanced himself from statements attributed to him in a newspaper report that quotes him telling delegates at Gudo Clinic, Chiredzi, that Emmerson Mnangagwa will shoot to stay in power.

In an interview with ZimEye, Hungwe said while the newspaper report allegedly quoted him, he never read or said the statement that Mnangagwa will shoot to stay in power.

He said:

“I have had so many people ask that, so please don’t worry yourselves about that because I never read it, eeeh, that is what people told me that it was reported in the newspaper, and the newspaper was The Mirror, something like that. Yes. I never read that, I never saw it.”

Quizzed further on the statement since there is a full recorded speech of him speaking and saying so, Hungwe was at pains to explain himself.

He said:

“Aaah, comrade, you don’t do that,” shortly before abruptly ending the telephone call (SEE VIDEO BELOW).

In August last year, Hungwe was quoted denying ever attending the Gudo Clinic function. The function was however covered far and wide by both the private and state media (including the Herald.)

He reportedly told the Daily News:

“You cannot make a story out of it. It is not fair because I was not there when what you are reminding me was allegedly said, it is your creation so look for other people to talk to not me,” he fumed as he hung his mobile phone before switching it off.

In the below recording of the speech revealed by ZimEye.com, Hungwe is heard clearly saying Emmerson Mnangagwa would shoot his way into power.

“Our leader Mnangagwa is a soldier and you know that a soldier is always equipped with a gun to do whatever he wants. If you want to run away from him he can shoot you so you should always know that,” Hungwe said, while commissioning the Gudo Clinic.

He also added:

“Do you know that I am the leader of the new dispensation here in Masvingo and I say ichi chinhu chedu chatakaita (this is our thing; it’s our creation).”

He added to statements by the then Deputy Minister Of Finance Terence Mukupe who said that the uniformed forces will not allow MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to rule if he wins the 2018 election.

Commenting on the development last night, Amnesty International activist and Masvingo Residents Association, Prosper Tiringindi told ZimEye the development presents an opportunity for citizens to take the Motlanthe Commissioners to court since their report “ignores” Hungwe’s statements.

By Talent Gondo| Zanu Pf member and former minister of State for Masvingo Province Josiah Hungwe has distanced himself from statements attributed to him in a newspaper report that quotes him telling delegates at Gudo Clinic, Chiredzi, that Emmerson Mnangagwa will shoot to stay in power.

In an interview with ZimEye, Hungwe said while the newspaper report allegedly quoted him, he never read or said the statement that Mnangagwa will shoot to stay in power.

He said:

“I have had so many people ask that, so please don’t worry yourselves about that because I never read it, eeeh, that is what people told me that it was reported in the newspaper, and the newspaper was The Mirror, something like that. Yes. I never read that, I never saw it.”

Quizzed further on the statement since there is a full recorded speech of him speaking and saying so, Hungwe was at pains to explain himself.

He said:

“Aaah, comrade, you don’t do that,” shortly before abruptly ending the telephone call (SEE VIDEO BELOW).

In August last year, Hungwe was quoted denying ever attending the Gudo Clinic function. The function was however covered far and wide by both the private and state media (including the Herald.)

He reportedly told the Daily News:

“You cannot make a story out of it. It is not fair because I was not there when what you are reminding me was allegedly said, it is your creation so look for other people to talk to not me,” he fumed as he hung his mobile phone before switching it off.

In the below recording of the speech revealed by ZimEye.com, Hungwe is heard clearly saying Emmerson Mnangagwa would shoot his way into power.

“Our leader Mnangagwa is a soldier and you know that a soldier is always equipped with a gun to do whatever he wants. If you want to run away from him he can shoot you so you should always know that,” Hungwe said, while commissioning the Gudo Clinic.

He also added:

“Do you know that I am the leader of the new dispensation here in Masvingo and I say ichi chinhu chedu chatakaita (this is our thing; it’s our creation).”

He added to statements by the then Deputy Minister Of Finance Terence Mukupe who said that the uniformed forces will not allow MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to rule if he wins the 2018 election.

Commenting on the development last night, Amnesty International activist and Masvingo Residents Association, Prosper Tiringindi told ZimEye the development presents an opportunity for citizens to take the Motlanthe Commissioners to court since their report “ignores” the Hungwe statements.

By Own Correspondent| Opposition MDC deputy president Elias Mudzuri has called on Parliament to hold President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to account over the deteriorating economic situation in the country.

In his New Year message, Mudzuri said the prevailing situation, where people sleep in fuel queues, have no cash and the country has no currency, apart from the ever-rising cost of living, was not acceptable.

Said Mudzuri in a statement:

“Having no designated currency, sleeping in fuel queues, and a shortage of foreign currency is unacceptable. The government must be taken to task and Parliament must seek an agenda to hold the government to account.

With schools opening against the high cost of living, how do you resource well to ensure that the education system delivers when parents have no viable income?

The government must be held to account and as legislators, we have a collective role to play to make this country work again. That is the most viable route for this nation. Leadership is about delivering socio-economic and political goods to the people.

To the youths, Zimbabwe is for you. Lead it from the front, it’s your everyday job to do so. The country needs a people-driven leadership. We are the people. Let us come forth and rebuild our nation for a better future for all.

The toxic politics of hate and violence will only takes us backwards as a country. Zimbabwe is for every Zimbabwean, regardless of race, tribe or social standing. Democracy derives all its strength from the rule of law and respect for other people’s rights.

Race or tribe should have no space in 2019. We are Zimbabweans together. Differences in skin colour, language or ideology are only, but a bonus because they build us.

Our differences must never come between us. Hate speech and violence do not build our country. They must, therefore, remain in 2018.”-Newsday

By Own Correspondent| Harare City Council has revealed plans to introduce water rationing as it fails to meet demand.

This means water supplies will be rationed in order to ensure that areas that have not received a drop of tap water for years also get water.

Harare’s main water treatment works, Morton Jaffray Waterworks is pumping about 350 megalitres a day to Harare, a drop from 540 megalitres in recent months due to a prolonged drought and shortage of water treatment chemicals.

This is less than half of Harare’s daily water requirements, which currently is at 1 200 megalitres of treated water.

Harare clerk Hosiah Chisango said that the Western suburbs, which have been getting most of the treated water, will receive less water.

Said Chisango:

“In terms of mitigation, we will have to move to water rationing and there are certain areas that have been getting most of the water like our western suburbs. We have to make sure that we start rationing.

Instead of five or seven days, we will have to take away some days and give it to the eastern suburbs. We will share it with other councils so that they appreciate what we want to do.”-Newsday

By Own Correspondent| Bread prices are expected to go up again as a result of rising production costs.

Last year, the price of bread rose three times, from 90 cents to $1,10 before shooting to $1,40.

In November 2018, Bakers unilaterally increased the price of bread to $2,20 a loaf and the government intervened to reverse the move.

The latest move is being pushed by the National Bakers’ Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ).

NBAZ vice-president Lucky Zinyama said that the RBZ is failing to meet their foreign currency requirements.

He said:

“We are currently getting pressure from our members, who are saying the cost of producing bread has gone (up) and they want to increase the bread prices. The major challenge now is forex, which is not available. Now, our members will have to go (to) the parallel market.

The initial agreement was that we get 80% allocation from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, but now we are getting just 30% of that. The difference, we have to source on other markets. So our members are giving us pressure to hike prices.”

The government announced that effective January 1, bakers will import raw materials duty-free. The bakers, however, bemoaned the unavailability of foreign currency.

NBAZ president Ngoni Mazango said:

“The biggest issue is not about free duty, but it’s the access to forex itself. Duty is a small component of our problem. Of cause, we appreciate the effort, but at the moment, we can’t get forex to import our raw materials.”-Newsday

By Own Correspondent| The Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has revealed that its members will go on strike starting Monday next week if the government fails to meet its demands.

The rural teachers have already informed the Civil Service Commission of their intention to engage in the job action.

ARTUZ has demanded that the government pay teachers’ salaries in United States dollars as well as removing the 2% tax on electronic transactions.

In a letter dated December 31, 2018, ARTUZ wrote:

“All ARTUZ members shall withdraw their labour beginning on January 7, 2018, as part of the industrial action. Regular updates shall be circulated to inform all members and stakeholders on any development regarding the strike action.”

The rural teachers’ union has since written a circular to its members informing them of the planned job action:

“We have notified the employer of our intention to withdraw labour beginning January 7 if the issues are not addressed. The teachers and the members of the working class will camp at the Finance ministry on January 7 demanding either an end to austerity or Ncube’s resignation from the position of Finance minister.”

By Own Correspondent| Government is dismayed by the adoption of the three-tier pricing system by several businesses in recent weeks revealing that it will soon issue out a statement.

Chicken Inn adopted the practice a few weeks ago and Delta Beverages has followed suit.

On Wednesday Delta Beverages announced that starting this Friday, it will be selling its products in US dollars.

The three-tier pricing system is when businesses charge different prices for the same product or service depending on the mode of payment the customer is using. Goods are thus priced differently in US dollars, bond and electronic transfer.

This practice is illegal. The government through the Ministry of Information and Publicity said:

“Regarding the unlawful persistent use of a three-tier pricing system by some businesses, the Minister of Trade and Commerce who is also the Acting Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Hon Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu will issue a statement.”

By Own Correspondent| Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has revealed that the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is set to undergo major transformation this year as it adopts a new structure aimed at rebranding the force to win back public confidence.

Commissioner Matanga said changes to the ZRP hierarchy will be effected in the “next few days”.

He said

“Very soon I will be announcing a new ZRP structure which has since been approved by Government through the Police Service Commission (PSC).

In our old structure, we used to have the rank of commissioner and in the new structure we now have the ranks of Commissioner of Police but not the same as we had in the previous structure.

The new police commissioner who is coming is going to replace the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner.

In the new structure, if I could be allowed to come from the bottom, we will have the Constable, Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Assistant Inspector, Inspector, Chief Inspector, Superintendent, Chief Superintendent, Assistant Commissioner, Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner General and then Commissioner General.

I should have effected this new setup from December 18, 2018 but because of some logistical considerations I will definitely have to do it within the next few days. But officially it took effect from December 18, 2018.”- StateMedia

By Own Correspondent| Government has authorised the recruitment of an additional 3 000 teachers, Finance and Economic Development minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has said

Ncube said the recruitment aims at easing teacher shortages in the country.

He said:

“Treasury has authorised the recruitment of 3 000 additional teachers in Zimbabwe in order to ease teacher shortage. Treasury has also authorised  the recruitment of about 350 university teaching staff and personnel to bolster university capacity. Key to improving service delivery.”

Treasury has authorized the recruitment of 3000 additional teachers in Zimbabwe in order to ease teacher shortage. Treasury has also authorized recruitment of about 350 university teaching staff and personnel to bolster university capacity. Key to improving service delivery

— Prof. Mthuli Ncube (@MthuliNcube) December 31, 2018

In their one on one interaction with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in December 2017, the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) implored government to unfreeze teachers’ posts arguing that the teacher to pupil ratio was too high.

Said Dr Takavafira Zhou, the PTUZ president

“….We have teachers who are teaching up to 120 pupils. We told him that there is an excess of teachers that are not employed

“They have suspended the recruitment of new teachers and even those excess teachers after recruiting, we can still engage on a Government-to-Government (basis) with neighbouring countries and those teachers can get employed.

We have also highlighted that teachers are incapacitated. The basic salary of a teacher is $284 and from that $284, a mere uniform for a Form 1 pupil is ranging between $850 and $2 000.”

By Own Correspondent| Vice President Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga has warned striking junior doctors that government will not allow them to demonstrate at hospitals.

VP Chiwenga, released a statement on Tuesday saying that hospitals are for the treatment of patients.

He added that the government will not pay the doctors in foreign currency since the government does not print US dollars.

Said Chiwenga:

“The government will not allow any demonstrations at medical facilities whose purpose is to treat patients and ensure their full recovery.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Government will not remunerate any of its work-force in US dollars. The government does not print US dollars.

In particular, Government is disturbed by the fact that in spite of many concessions it made to the striking doctors, and the broad agreement reached on all but two issues, the striking health personnel continue to withhold their labour and negotiate in bad faith even though they are designated as an essential service under the Labour Act, and even though Government has bent over backwards to accommodate them.”-StateMedia

Mass protests have been lined up in the New Year as public disenchantment against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration continues to grow.

The main opposition party led by Nelson Chamisa revealed that it will engage in mass protests this month to force Mnangagwa out of power ostensibly because he has failed to stabilise the country’s economy.

Amos Chibaya, the MDC’s organising secretary, said the party will organise its supporters to march to State House in protests modelled along the Arab Spring which toppled dictators in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

“2019 is the year that we are going to send Mnangagwa packing. This month, unlike before, we are not going to toyi-toyi around the streets but straight to State House because that is where the person who stole our vote resides,” he said.

“We have a crisis of legitimacy in the country and we seek to correct that by installing the person who won the July 30, 2018 elections and that person is Chamisa.

People are suffering including, teachers, doctors, and ordinary Zimbabweans and we cannot continue like that when we all know the root cause of our suffering…”

The MDC has refused to recognise Mnangagwa as the legitimate president of the Republic despite a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) ruling last year to the contrary.

Mnangagwa rose to power in 2017 following a de facto military coup that toppled long time ruler Robert Mugabe and subsequently won the July 30 elections after he garnered 50, 6 percent of the vote against Chamisa’s 44, 3 percent.

Chamisa unsuccessfully lodged a Con-Court application, challenging the poll outcome, which was dismissed by the full bench with costs.

To make matters worse, teachers will also be taking to the streets as early as next week to demand better working conditions including being paid in United States dollars.

Yesterday, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) called for a civil service-wide strike and invited is members to Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s offices on Monday next week to “protest against austerity”.

“Our members are agitated … they want the government to pay their salaries in foreign currency. The cost of living has increased, and civil servants’ salaries have lost value three-fold in 2018.

“We therefore want salaries to be paid in foreign currency considering that most service providers now prefer payment for services in foreign currency,” Artuz said.

Strike calls by the MDC and Artuz come as the country is dogged by a myriad of challenges that have seen medical doctors downing their tools for over a month now.

Doctors are currently on strike demanding to be paid in US dollars as well as provision of adequate drugs and other equipment in the country’s hospitals and clinics.

The crisis in the health delivery system has reached calamitous proportions with the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) announcing that their negotiations with government have not yielded positive results hence their action continues unabated.

“We wish our members, members of the public and all stakeholders a happy new year. It is with sadness that we announce that no consensus has been reached in our negotiations with @MoHCCZim, and the industrial action continues whilst we await fair, honest and sensible negotiations,” ZHDA said on Twitter yesterday.

This also comes as recently-graduated doctors have thwarted government efforts to use them to replace the striking doctors. They said they are behind the industrial action by their seniors — effectively snubbing attempts by government to hire them as replacements.

In a letter addressed to the Health Services Board, the doctors said they were not prepared to be used as cover and instead called for dialogue between the striking doctors and their employer.

“We are greatly disturbed by the ministry’s efforts to undermine the genuine grievances raised by our fellow doctors and the move to try and recruit us to cover the gap created. We want to categorically state that we are in full support of our senior colleagues and believe in dialogue rather than duress,” they said.

As if that is not enough pressure for Mnangagwa’s administration, hospital pharmacists have also backed the doctors’ action as well as demanding to be paid in US dollars.

In a statement the Zimbabwe Association of Hospital Pharmacists demanded that government resolves the doctors’ issue as a matter of urgency as they could not work properly without them.

The pharmacists said the health care system comprises a multidisciplinary team reliant on one another for the provision of quality service and care.

“The association is thereby in support of the doctors’ demand for meaningful remuneration and provision of medical sundries and medicine in public health care facilities for effective care for our patients,” the pharmacists said.

This is all happening at a time when the government is battling a failing economy characterised by inflation, fuel shortages, foreign currency shortages and serious price increases against eroded bank balances and salaries.

— Daily News

By Simba Chikanza| Contradicting the Motlanthe Commission report, the former minister of State for Masvingo Province Josiah Hungwe yesterday denied knowledge of a newspaper report that quotes him verbatim telling delegates at the commissioning of Gudo Clinic, in Chiredzi, that Emmerson Mnangagwa will shoot people from behind in order to stay in power.

Speaking to ZimEye, Hungwe said:

“I have had so many people ask that, so please don’t worry yourselves about that because I never read it, eeeh, that is what people told me that it was reported in the newspaper, and the newspaper was The Mirror, something like that. Yes. I never read that, I never saw it.”

He was then asked for a comment since there is a full recorded speech of him speaking and saying so and he replied saying:

“Aaaah, comrade, you don’t do that,” shortly before abruptly ending the telephone call (SEE VIDEO BELOW).

In August last year, Hungwe was quoted denying ever attending the Gudo Clinic function. The function was however covered far and wide by both the private and state media (including the Herald.)

He reportedly told the Daily News in an interview:

“You cannot make a story out of it. It is not fair because I was not there when what you are reminding me was allegedly said, it is your creation so look for other people to talk to not me,” he fumed as he hung his mobile phone before switching it off.

In the below recording of the speech revealed by ZimEye.com, Hungwe is heard clearly saying Mnangagwa would shoot his way into power.

“Our leader Mnangagwa is a soldier and you know that a soldier is always equipped with a gun to do whatever he wants. If you want to run away from him he can shoot you so you should always know that”; Hungwe said, while commissioning the Gudo Clinic.

He also added:

“Do you know that I am the leader of the new dispensation here in Masvingo and I say ichi chinhu chedu chatakaita (this is our thing; it’s our creation).”

Hungwe’s sentiments added to statements by the then Deputy Minister Of Finance Terence Mukupe who said that the uniformed forces will not allow MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to rule even if he wins the 2018 election.

Commenting on the development last night, Amnesty International activist and Masvingo Residents Association, Prosper Tiringindi told ZimEye the development presents an opportunity for citizens to take the Motlanthe Commissioners to court since their report “ignores” the Hungwe statements.

“We must take them to the courts, all of them,” Mr Tiringindi said. VIDEO BELOW:

DELTA Corporation yesterday said it would start selling all its products in foreign currency with effect from tomorrow, a decision described by the Government as unacceptable and illegal. Analysts also warned that the decision by Delta could backfire as most Zimbabweans were paid in Bond notes or RTGS.

In an interview yesterday following a statement released by Delta earlier on, the beverage manufacturer’s company secretary Mr Alex Makamure said selling its products in “multiple foreign currencies” such as the rand, pula, Euro, British pound and US dollars would also enable it to access key raw materials.

Responding to the announcement by Delta yesterday, Industry and Commerce Minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu said business must “stop forthwith” dollarising the economy.

“We have noted with concern a proliferation in the number of companies and businesses engaging in preferential currency practices. This is not only against the spirit of fairness, but it is also an illegal practice. Government is very clear that this practice is unacceptable and has to stop forthwith and if not, the law will take it’s course.”

Minister Ndlovu said Government had tried to ensure businesses operate in a free atmosphere, but companies were now acting in bad faith.

“The Government has supported business to operate liberally within the economy without interference but giving an intervening hand whenever it has been called upon to assist. In return, Government has expectations that business will operate in good faith and responsibly,” the minister said.

“At the centre of the relationship between Government and business is the spirit of engagement and a two-way communication between all parties. That spirit is defeated when one of the parties decides to unilaterally pronounce decisions against both the text and spirit of agreed principles,” he said.

Delta said in a statement yesterday its business had been “adversely affected” by shortages of foreign currency, which had resulted in the company failing to meet orders, and “in the case of soft drinks, being out of stock for prolonged periods”.

It said the fiscal and monetary policy frameworks announced by the Government in October last year did not provide for “easy access to foreign currency by non-exporters”.

“The company has only received limited foreign currency allocations from the banking channels, which have not been adequate to fund the import requirements,” said the statement.

“Resultantly, all our foreign suppliers are unable to continue providing credit or meet new orders as some of them have not been paid for extended periods.

“In order to sustain its operations, the company advises the retail and wholesale customers that its products will be charged in hard currency with effect from Friday 4th January 2019,” reads the statement.

Mr Makamure said Delta stopped making some of its products, particularly soft drinks, in November.

He said no deliveries were made throughout November last year while it released some soft drinks on December 24.

Some supermarkets were still selling soft drinks, principally Coke, on Christmas Day with some having the product even yesterday.

The company requires US$2 million per month to buy raw materials such as concentrates and granules used to manufacture plastic bottles.

Delta said its products were fairly priced in US dollars and had remained generally unchanged since 2013, and the new prices for soft drinks announced yesterday show that a 300ml bottle will sell for 50c; a 330ml can (60c) while 500ml PET will be US$1.

Lager beer prices are 80c for 375ml returnable bottles; 750ml returnable (US$1,50); and 340ml returnable (US$1).

“We trust that our customers will continue to charge recommended retail prices in USD or equivalent currencies based on the multi-currency framework,” said Delta Beverages.

Delta said it had invested over US$600 million in plant and equipment, vehicles and ancillary services since 2009, and there was need to “protect this investment and ensure sustenance of all value chain partners”.

The company called for wider consultations on policy interventions to build consensus and market confidence among stakeholders to stabilise the macro-economic environment.

Chairperson of the department of economics at the University of Zimbabwe Professor Albert Makochekanwa said it was incomprehensible that Delta wanted to sell in forex when almost all employees’ salaries were in Bond notes and/ or RTGS.

“More than 99 percent of people living in Zimbabwe earn their income in Bond and/or RTGS.

“Charging in USD will likely mean reduced customers, which may affect their sales (and) there maybe upward demand for USD, which will cause an upward increase in (the) buying (of) USD on black market,” said Prof Makochekanwa.

Economist and Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) chief executive officer Takunda Mugaga, said the move by Delta indicated the economy was “redollarising faster than we can catch up”, which would have an impact on pensions.

“Delta, being a market leader as well as industry on its own due to the monopolistic nature of its being, the result is expedited redollarisation which will have enterprise-wide impact from the farm to the salary of an employee directly and indirectly employed by Delta,” said Mr Mugaga.

“This stance by Delta means all players, including very small ones in the beverage sector, will follow suit (and) it will also send a message to bankers given Delta’s significant presence locally when it comes to facilities and deposits with banks,” he said.

But Prof Makochekanwa does not see the move by Delta speeding up redollarisation considering that Simbisa Brands, the owners of Chicken Inn, Pizza Inn, Fish Inn and Bakers Inn, is already charging in US dollars, together with some fuel retailers, but this has not had an “impact on redollarisation as of now”.

Simbisa accepts RTGS and Bond notes based on the parallel market rate for US dollars.

Industry and Commerce Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu said he was aware of Delta’s decision, but said he would engage the company to see if that can be reversed.

“I have seen it (the letter to customers advising of new pricing structure) but I think we should be meeting them on Friday (tomorrow). That cannot be allowed,” said Minister Ndlovu.

But Mr Mugaga said if Government blocked Delta from charging in forex, this could lead to “job losses”, arguing the company could no longer afford to “continue looking for forex outside the formal means”.

He also said Government would be a beneficiary since the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has started collecting taxes in forex from companies trading in hard currencies.

Delta would have to start paying corporate tax, excise tax, PAYE and VAT in foreign currency, he said.

State Media

GWERU – The Midlands State University (MSU) has dismissed as fake reports circulating on social media alleging that the institution has hiked tuition fees.

In a statement, the MSU said it noted with concern false statements circulating on various social media platforms to the effect that it has
increased tuition fees for the 2019 academic year and that local students will also be required to
pay part of their fees in hard currency.
“We wish to advise our valued stakeholders that the university has not increased its tuition fees
and that any increase or revision in tuition fees would be subject to government approval through the ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development,” said the university’s registrar, Erasmus Mupfiga.

Mupfiga said the university channels its official communication through its website, official Facebook page and notices in the print media
and urged all individuals who have queries regarding the matter to contact the public relations office.
This comes after social media was awash with information that the state university has hiked fees from $564 to $1 916 for the 2019 academic year.

ZANUPF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba has said the Joint Operations Command (JOC) met this week to discuss the health sector, adding that extraordinary decisions will be taken in the coming days to stop further loss of life. Charamba said, “When you see levers of State security coming into the game then you know it is no longer child’s play. Government is treating this matter as a serious one because it involves lives.

“Because it is serious, we are set to see extraordinary decisions being taken to put an end to this issue once and for all. We will not have any such development ever again in this country. We have had enough and the time has now come for us to take a very definitive position on the matter. We have a whole raft of measures that we are going to take and to the extent that some of the measures will have budgetary implications, it means the President has to be back.

“Yesterday (Tuesday), the Acting President briefed the President right into close to midnight. They were working and this is where most of the decisions were taken.”- state media

Emmmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba has claimed his boss had to cut his leave short because there are decisions that Chiwenga could not make as Acting President.

Charamba told the state media: “Administratively and legally, there is a limit to powers which an Acting President can wield. And in any event, the style has always been that the Acting President consults with the substantive President. Now in this particular case we have a serious situation in the health sector involving lives and naturally, the President has to demonstrate concern and that concern comes by way of cutting short his leave in order to work closely with the Acting President so that consultations are short circuited. It’s really for purposes of quick decision making given that there has to be constant consultation between the two.

“In fact, barely a day passes without telephone communication between the Acting President and the President. Now the President has come to deal with a situation in situ and that is meant to demonstrate seriousness of Government’s approach to issues.

“It (coming of the President) is also meant to send a clear signal to the striking doctors that this is not a Chiwenga issue. It is an issue for the Presidency. They are at one on this one because the matter is a serious one.”

By Farai D Hove| The Executive Director Of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth has responded to Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa’s allegations that the NGO’s Zimbabwe leader Dewa Mavinga bullied his (Masiyiwa’s) wife, Tsitsi.

Roth took a sharp swipe at Masiyiwa appearing to say his Facebook screamer was a “cheap shot.”

Writing on Wednesday afternoon, Roth said, “Defenders of Zimbabwe Pres Mnangagwa don’t want to hear criticism of his government’s persistent repression so they pretend all critics are foreign sponsored.

“A cheap shot. Why not address the reality? ”

Below was a screenshot of his full response:

Own Correspondent|Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga has called on the UN – and greater western world – to give Zimbabwe a chance, and due recognition in global politics, “as it was on a solid path to reform.”

The private initiative not only comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has vowed to vigorously pursue re-engagement efforts, but is pretty much in line with calls for the west to loosen its trade embargo on the Harare regime.

“…Africans need your support on many issues, including being able to voice their views on matters of security, those deliberated by the UN Security Council (UNSC),” Buyanga said in his letter to UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres.

He added the key organ “has never been more important to the continent, given the numerous interventions in conflicts around the region and undemocratic selection of representatives on the council, and where ‘smaller nations’ are left out”.

“The African Union (AU) is leaving the selection of who will represent Africa… to be determined by foreigners. This, Mr Guterres, opens a gap for manipulation and only the ‘big’ countries will forever be selected to sit on this powerful council …it is from this background that… Zimbabwe think(s) it is time our country be given a chance to be part of the UNSC,” he said.

“There is no threat to peace and security in Zimbabwe.
Secretary-general, with your help and guidance we hope and trust that Zimbabwe will get the recognition it deserves. We recommend that you support our recommendation that ‘smaller’ African countries… have a seat on the UNSC,” Buyanga said, adding “the recommendation must not only hold ground, but also be debated at the next general assembly (GA)”.

While the maverick businessman has welcomed the selection of South Africa, Belgium, Dominican Republic, Germany and Indonesia on the global organ, he says Africa must follow up on the Ezulwini Consensus – a 2005 pact and – whereby two permanent seats with veto powers were to be reserved for the continent.

Correspondent|ZIMBABWE can win one of five UN Security Council seats up for election in the next two years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman has said, although analysts doubted the southern African country would win approval by two-thirds of the world body’s General Assembly members to secure a term.

The General Assembly has just elected Germany, Belgium, South Africa, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia for a two-year term in the Security Council starting on January 1, 2019.

Presidential spokesman George Charamba told the Daily News that Zimbabwe needs the backing of the continent to earn the Security Council seat.

“The UN is an intergovernmental institution. He is a citizen expressing a wish for his own government. It has to be taken to an inter-governmental event,” Charamba said. “There are due processes that are followed.”

Charamba said the proposal was feasible given that Zimbabwe has previously held a seat in the UN Security Council, when it voted in 1990 to authorize the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait by force if President Saddam Hussein, now late, did not withdraw his forces.

Charamba said Zimbabwe was part of the Security Council members who came up with a plan to observe “a pause of good will” until a January 15 deadline date by taking no further actions against Iraq and concentrating on diplomatic efforts to promote a peaceful settlement.

Zimbabwe was part of the rotating members of the Security Council who supported the resolution, and the action was a success, he said.

“We have been in the UN Security Council when Saddam was kicked out of Kuwait, the first time,” Charamba told the Daily News.

“We have been there. Its not a novel idea, Africa will have to have permanent seats. We have to proffer ourselves, backed by the continent to be on the UN Security Council. We should have the attitude to handle it on rotational basis. At some point it must become an entitlement. We are a paid up member of the UN. You can vie for any space, for any opening. Its a right that comes with membership. He is just wishing the best for his country,” Charamba said of the maverick businessman, who is also a director of the continental lobby Pan African Business Forum.

Set up in 1946 after the World War II, the UNSC comprises 15 members, five of them – Britain, France, China, the United States and Russia – are permanent, while 10 are non-permanent members that serve for two years.

Correspondent|BILLIONAIRE telecoms magnet Strive Masiyiwa is funding the wife of former Masvingo ZANU PF Chairperson Daniel Shumba, it has been alleged.

The revelations came when exiled businessman Mutumwa Mawere had a wide ranging interview with Daniel Shumba.

In the interview Shumba alleges that Masiyiwa is funding his wife to divorce him because Shumba has recordings of how Strive Masiyiwa stole Econet Wireless shares in cahoots with banker Nigel Chanakira.

The interview was posted by Gambakwe Media on YouTube.

Masiyiwa responded by sending his lawyers to sue Mawere and the journalists who posted the videos online.

The lawyers demanded that by the 7th of January 2019 Mawere and his accomplices pull down the videos from YouTube and offer a public apology or risk having a 20 million dollar lawsuit.

The video was pulled down from YouTube but Mawere has refused to apologize and has been defiant saying he wants to meet the Telecommunications guru in court if he is served with papers.

Recently Temba Mliswa wrote a Twitter thread saying Mawere and Shumba were jealousy of Strive Masiyiwa because they failed to influence succession within ZANU PF and ended up losing their businesses.

Temba further alleged that Mawere and Strive obtained their businesses through political patronage being supported by the later Vice Presidents Simon Muzenda and Joshua Nkomo respectively.

When his wife was hounded out of Facebook by trolls, Masiyiwa had a long message to say.

The Higher Life Foundation has provided scholarships for 200,000 children in Zimbabwe over the last 20 years. With a permanent staff of more than 200 people, it works in every single province of Zimbabwe.

Every year the foundation gives scholarships to 100 gifted children (10 from each province, including 50 girls). This 18 year program which we call Joshua Nkomo Scholarship prepares students to go to some of the best universities in the world. This program has produced a Rhodes Scholar 5 years in a row. There are currently 354 Joshualites studying in the United States.

Now here is something I want to put on record:
#1. Higher Life Foundation and the Joshua Nkomo Scholarship program, is entirely the brain child of my wife Tsitsi Masiyiwa.
She is the one who set them up and EVERY OTHER PROGRAM and manages them on a full time basis.

She just comes to me for the money.
She is also the one who finds all the donor partners who we work with throughout Africa.

I have never seen the foundation, and I have never participated in any of its activities, beyond providing the money. I am not even a board member.

I have not been to Zimbabwe for 18 and half years, but in all those years my wife insisted she would continue to go there, and was once detained and questioned by Mugabe police for an entire day.

She travels the length and breadth of Zimbabwe every year supporting orphaned and vulnerable children,

#2. When the Cholera outbreak began in Zimbabwe a few months ago. It was my wife who showed me the World Health Organization presentation that predicted that it could kill 10,000 people, if it went unchecked:
She demanded that I put up $10m to cover the cost. Subsequently she asked for another $10m. Now she has asked that I commit $60m to help restore water and sewage piping in Harare.

She is the one who drafted the letters that I had to sign to donors around the world.

To paraphrase the Apostle Jude, we must contend, and fight for that which is good.

I would like to thank all those friends like Trevor Ncube, who have stood up for my wife whilst she was being cyber bullied, shouted down and stalked on platforms like Twitter.

Sadly one of the foremost bullies is a Zimbabwean who works for an international organization that is highly respected for its work on human rights. The founder, now 95 is a close family friend. I hope my human rights friend is happy now that he has stopped her from using Twitter. Maybe now he and others like him will stop this pathetic misogyny.

What about the rights of women like my wife to also express an opinion?

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Terrence Mawawa|Deputy Information Minister, Energy Mutodi has dismissed the Cabinet performance ratings presented by a leading daily publication, claiming the findings are baseless.

“Cabinet performance ratings show how the media misunderstand government.The findings are fake, unrealistic & based on fiction. The President, his Deputies & most Ministers deserve a 10/10 for working hard under difficult conditions. 2019 sanctions must go!”Mutodi argued.

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Press Statement by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum & Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights on the Collapse of the Health System and Withdrawal of Labour by the Doctors in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe has been plunged into a major health crisis following the revelation that the country’s health system is in a coma due to non-attention by the government to key essential health priorities.

This situation has been exacerbated by the withdrawal of labour by the medical practitioners at government health facilities across the country since the 1st of December 2018. The medical practitioners are protesting this state of affairs and are pushing for a review of their conditions of service.
The doctors want the government to invest in health facilities to ensure that they are able to safely and effectively serve the country’s needs without endangering the patients or themselves.
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) and the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) are greatly disturbed by this situation which goes to the core of the right to life which is guaranteed by section 48 of the Zimbabwean Constitution, as well as the right to basic health care which is guaranteed by section 76 of the Constitution.
The tragedy of this matter is not that the doctors have gone on strike, but rather, the state of health care facilities, infrastructure and the conditions of service for health care personnel, which make it impossible for the people of Zimbabwe to enjoy the right to basic health care, as enshrined in the constitution.
The medical practitioners who serve government health facilities are disgruntled and protesting poor health facilities including unavailability of pharmaceutical drugs, lack of protective equipment; and the erosion of their salaries due to hyperinflation. In a callous display of insensitivity to the plight of the people who are affected by this state of affairs, the government decided to fire the over 500 medical practitioners who are involved in the industrial action, apparently under the mistaken belief that they were firing students. This has triggered an outcry from senior doctors and consultants who have threatened to join in the strike in support of the demands by the medical practitioners.
The Forum and ZADHR consider the demands by medical practitioners to be legitimate and in line with the legitimate expectations of any citizen who expects to enjoy the right to health which is key to the enjoyment of the right to life. The demands by the medical doctors must indeed be the demands and expectations of every citizen of Zimbabwe.
The Forum and ZADHR remind the Government of Zimbabwe that it is the obligation of the Government to ensure that every Zimbabwean should be able to access basic healthcare. The failure by the Government to address the concerns of the doctors infringes upon the basic right to health care (Section 76) that every citizen or permanent resident of Zimbabwean seeking medical services must be able to access (Section 76:1).
The Forum and ZADHR highlight that those who are greatly affected by this state of affairs are not doctors or government officials but the ordinary citizens reliant on the government to not only resolve the strike but provide adequate access to health care including ensuring availability of affordable pharmaceutical drugs. Government officials, who are notorious for flying out to neighbouring countries for health care, may find it difficult to appreciate the importance of attending to the issues raised by the medical practitioners.
The Forum and ZADHR thus recommend the following:
For the government of Zimbabwe to:
1. Protect the right to health through attending to the issues raised by the medical practitioners with immediate effect
2. Initiate an emergency health system resuscitation plan to ensure that the country’s health facilities are equipped with all the necessary facilities including equipment, drugs and protective clothing for personnel working in the health sector
3. Develop a sustainable health care reform strategy to ensure that every Zimbabwean enjoys the right to basic health care as enshrined in the Constitution.
4. Develop a conflict transformation strategy for government in dealing with grievances to avoid a disastrous unilateral approach to conflict as witnessed in handling the strike by medical practitioners.
For the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission:
5. In its capacity as the public protector, carry out a thorough investigation into the state of health care in Zimbabwe clearly documenting the full effect on the enjoyment of the right to health and the right to life and make recommendations for redress, accountability and reform
6. To further investigate and document the use of resources in the health care sector and identify any possible leakages and abuses that are costing the nation.

By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s interim team within government has been struck by various mysterious ailments with several government officials in and out of the hospital since the formation of the current government.

A South African prophet Alph Lukau last year said Vice President Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga stepped on a lion’s tail hence he became sick.

Citizens here however interpreted the statement to mean that he was being punished through some form of witchcraft for his role in the removal of the former President Robert Mugabe.

Since the formation of the new government, Vice President Kembo Mohadi, VP Chiwenga, foreign affairs minister Sibusiso Busi Moyo and Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa among others have been regular patients at various health institutions locally and internationally.

The list balloons if service chiefs and judges who have been in and out of the hospital are included on the list above.

Zanu Pf stalwarts are popular for seeking spiritual and traditional interventions especially towards elections and their party’s elective congress. Analysts say such behaviour is a reflection of how the party stalwarts would do whatever it takes to stay at the helm of power.

By Own Correspondent| MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe has revealed that her party will attend the memorial service for the late MDC founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai.

The Zimbabwean Prime Minister and ex trade unionist died of colon cancer on Valentine’s Day in 2018.

His family revealed that Tsvangirai’s memorial service will be held on 14 February 2019.

Khupe had sought for security guarantees for her to attend the memorial service after she was brutally assaulted by suspected MDC Alliance activists during Tsvangirai’s funeral.

Khupe’s party spokesperson Linda Masarira said:

“Yes, we received the invitation and we debated about it. There were people with reservations about attending considering the violence that took place during the funeral.

(However) we have accepted the invitation and we are still trying to find out how tight the security is since the family promised us that there will be tight security.

Considering how violent people from MDC can be, we are waiting to hear about the security issue which is critically important.”

By Own Correspondent|  Founder of Faith In God Eagle Life Assembly Prophet Blessing Chiza has urged the country’s top leadership to be born again adding that President Emmerson Mnangagwa must pray and humble himself for the sake of Zimbabweans.

In a controversial prophesy issued recently, prophet Chiza said that for Zimbabwe to be prosperous God is going to install Nelson Chamisa as President of the country.

In the same prophecy he said God wants President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Kembo Mohadi and Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga to be born again.

He said:

I was given verses James 4vs6/ James 4vs17 and the Lord said President E.D Mnangagwa must pray and humble himself for the sake of Zimbabwean people he is leading and have a dialogue with Advocate Nelson Chamisa for this economy to change, because if there is no dialogue the people of Zimbabwe will continue to suffer. It’s a spiritual thing. They must stop saying that Chamisa is young.

Be humble our honourable President and do the right thing says the Lord. “They know”, says the Lord that it is the right thing to do and are simply resisting. It’s a sin. As a prophet God shows me that Chamisa has a small key that he was given by God which is very powerful in the spirit.

They must know that he is spiritually deep/mature; a born again and spirit filled Christian and he is an anointed man of God. Once they start dialoguing, we will start to see things changing in this country. If that dialogue does not happen the baby that I saw in that previous prophecy, will be taken deeper into the sea- Zimbabwe will go to a point of no return.

I think Ramaphosa understands what I am saying. Once God sees that happening, you will see fuel coming back among other negative things being corrected. There is something powerful that is of God in him. If the presidium does not heed this instruction, I saw Zimbabweans becoming very impatient, and protests that have never been seen in Zimbabwe arising which shall bring the whole nation out and they will send the government resigning because some of the people will not leave the streets demanding food from the president.

No soldier/police will be able to stop that because the multitude will be beyond human control and measure. I saw people marching and staying in streets for 3-5 days saying, “We will not leave until the president resigns”. If this does not happen by June, Zimbabwe will stand still. The poverty will be worse than 2008. Food will be there but poverty will be attacking people. Especially the youth; I saw them running with empty plates that are rusted saying, “give us food”. A point where this country will be ungovernable.

I am not giving the time frame but you will see it happening, a wave that is going to come into Africa of new young presidents and it’s of God. God was removing old presidents, it was like their era in the spirit has passed, countries like Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

It shall be a revival, they will improve Africa and will run countries with digital E-Government, these countries shall be a marvel again. They will remove systems of rigging of elections and Africa shall be respected again. I see this happening soon in God’s time and season. I see the Lord saying, “tell my people in Zimbabwe to believe in Me, to go to church more in 2019 and listen to my word, they shall survive with my grace, from the pulpit and not from the parliament because nothing shall come from there for now. I repeat again, nothing shall come from there for now”.

The Lord says His Excellency President E.D Mnangagwa, Vice-President Chiwenga and Vice-President Mohadi must be born again and start to learn to love God in 2019. I received (Proverbs 9vs34/ James 4vs8). This must be done to attract righteousness, you must start to love God and to attend church, Pentecostal and not maspostori.

Be born again, not maZion. I repeat again ED, Chiwenga & Mohadi be born again in 2019. If you think we are young go to elderly Men of God like Baba Guti.”

Founder of Faith In God Eagle Life Assembly Prophet Blessing Chiza has issued a controversial prophesy that for Zimbabwe to be prosperous God is going to install Nelson Chamisa as President of the country. In the same prophecy he said God wants President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Kembo Mohadi and Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga to be born again. Chiza also said the country will be ungovernable unless there is dialogue between Chamisa and Mnangagwa.

We publish the unedited prophecy below:
1. What’s happening in Zimbabwe is spiritual judgement that needs to be solved spiritually because the elections were not handled well, especially in the area of fairness/ credibleness, though there was a certain degree of peacefulness and freeness during elections. So, God is not happy with the way elections were done. This election had God inside and four words were supposed to be carried out (peaceful, free, fair and credible). The throne of Zimbabwe has a curse sitting on it right now and it needs to be cleansed spiritually. No matter which systems they use. Plagues are judgements. So, until that is sorted we will continue seeing Zimbabwe moving in circles. No matter how much you dream or wish for Zimbabwe to change, there are some things that need to be done to cleanse the throne. Zimbabwe will still be in the same position until certain spiritual measures are taken to cleanse the throne. Many other things have been there for a long time but what is striking Zimbabwe right now is what I am telling you.

2. The Lord says, Top Government Officials of Zimbabwe must stop consulting traditional healers/ witchdoctors/ mapostori (James 4vs8). If they want transformation, they must go to Pentecostal Churches/ Anointed Man of God (Deuteronomy 18vs9-14). You are buying poverty and curses on top of curses that were already there. I hope this message will go to the leadership of this nation, they must stop consulting witchdoctors and going too much to mapostori. This country is experiencing a spiritual problem and you cannot solve a spiritual problem using economics. You can try and try but nothing will change.

3. I was given verses James 4vs6/ James 4vs17 and the Lord said President E.D Mnangagwa must pray and humble himself for the sake of Zimbabwean people he is leading and have a dialogue with Advocate Nelson Chamisa for this economy to change, because if there is no dialogue the people of Zimbabwe will continue to suffer. It’s a spiritual thing. They must stop saying that Chamisa is young. Be humble our honourable President and do the right thing says the Lord. “They know”, says the Lord that it is the right thing to do and are simply resisting. It’s a sin. As a prophet God shows me that Chamisa has a small key that he was given by God which is very powerful in the spirit. They must know that he is spiritually deep/mature; a born again and spirit filled Christian and he is an anointed man of God. Once they start dialoguing, we will start to see things changing in this country. If that dialogue does not happen the baby that I saw in that previous prophecy, will be taken deeper into the sea- Zimbabwe will go to a point of no return. I think Ramaphosa understands what I am saying. Once God sees that happening, you will see fuel coming back among other negative things being corrected. There is something powerful that is of God in him. If the presidium does not heed this instruction, I saw Zimbabweans becoming very impatient, and protests that have never been seen in Zimbabwe arising which shall bring the whole nation out and they will send the government resigning because some of the people will not leave the streets demanding food from the president. No soldier/police will be able to stop that because the multitude will be beyond human control and measure. I saw people marching and staying in streets for 3-5 days saying, “We will not leave until the president resigns”. If this does not happen by June, Zimbabwe will stand still. The poverty will be worse than 2008. Food will be there but poverty will be attacking people. Especially the youth; I saw them running with empty plates that are rusted saying, “give us food”. A point where this country will be ungovernable.

4. I am not giving the time frame but you will see it happening, a wave that is going to come into Africa of new young presidents and it’s of God. God was removing old presidents, it was like their era in the spirit has passed, countries like Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. It shall be a revival, they will improve Africa and will run countries with digital E-Government, these countries shall be a marvel again. They will remove systems of rigging of elections and Africa shall be respected again. I see this happening soon in God’s time and season. I see the Lord saying, “tell my people in Zimbabwe to believe in Me, to go to church more in 2019 and listen to my word, they shall survive with my grace, from the pulpit and not from the parliament because nothing shall come from there for now. I repeat again, nothing shall come from there for now”.

5. The Lord says His Excellency President E.D Mnangagwa, Vice-President Chiwenga and Vice-President Mohadi must be born again and start to learn to love God in 2019. I received (Proverbs 9vs34/ James 4vs8). This must be done to attract righteousness, you must start to love God and to attend church, Pentecostal and not maspostori. Be born again, not maZion. I repeat again ED, Chiwenga & Mohadi be born again in 2019. If you think we are young go to elderly Men of God like Baba Guti.

6. 1 Chronicles 28vs2/ Deuteronomy 28vs2-3. All men of war stop fighting for presidium because you will never prosper Zimbabwe if you just hear someone with a title of ‘war something’ know that it will be difficult to have prosperity with that person. Zimbabwe, you must know that if these people come it will be poverty after poverty. You will not build Zimbabwe because you have been a man of war. Give young people who did not fight war. So intercessors pray so that God may shine His light into their hearts so that they understand that the people of Zimbabwe have suffered too much.

7. Pray against suicide. I saw an increase of suicides in 2019. Prophet instructed the church to pray against the spirit of suicide. It will be too much, many people hanging themselves, drinking poison, shooting themselves and taking drugs because of economic hardships. God was saying, “pray in a serious way because it can attack your family member”. I was seeing a lot of people hanging on trees and some being put in metal coffins, no matter how much you suffer, never commit suicide. You would rather pray under a bridge having nothing, suicide is demonic and it’s the easiest way to hell.

8. Then the Lord said to me in about five visions and they came continuously to me. The Lord said, there is a man whom God is raising; a young president who shall bring economic and spiritual revival in Zimbabwe in God’s time and the Lord showed me his inauguration in the National Sports Stadium. For God to confirm, when it is the time for that inauguration, heavy rain is going to fall. And this man’s first name starts with an N and a surname which starts with a C. Initials are N.C. He shall be put by God. Demons will try many things to stop his presidency, trying to change presidential age limit/ to arrest/ death/ but finally he shall be inaugurated. Demons can sense his favour and moment hence they will panic. President Mnangagwa has his time and we honour them and their dispensation with his Vice-Presidents but this N.C’s time is coming just as their time came. (Zechariah 4vs6) Read it to people. He is going to come by God’s power. I hear some say this N.C will never rule Zimbabwe, because he is young. But the Lord is saying they are saying out of their fleshly desires but God Himself shall shock many. When God says yes, no-man can say no. He will be in power. Not by might/ not by the barrel. “His hands are clean”, says the Lord and God says I have anointed him for his time and his hands are clean. Coated in Minerals. Visionary leader 2020 mind. Anointed of God/ God fearing. People shall leave diaspora to return to Zimbabwe when he begins ruling. In this time we shall see spaghetti roads, forex, nice buildings that you see in Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia. The main reason the man N.C is coming is for a spiritual revival which will see many people coming to Christ. He will make Zimbabwe great again and he will break demonic altars in Zimbabwe and we shall be the bread basket of Africa. There shall be a spirit of prayer in Zimbabwe that will sweep over the whole country. You shall not hear of bloodshed again in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe shall be a united, loving and peaceful country. His other name shall be Solomon and he shall reduce gold to be common stones (1st Kings 10vs27). During his reign, Zimbabwe shall discover a lot of minerals, employment rate will go above 70% (2nd Chronicles 1vs15/ 9vs27). Soldiers, police, nurses, doctors, teachers and all people shall be smiling. There is a wave of peace that shall sweep over Zimbabwe. God has not forgotten Zimbabwe the question is when is his time, it can be any time, though it might be sooner, or nor sooner or later, or next election or before. But what I am simply saying is that God said to me it shall be in My time and right time. Why not now? Why not last year? Number= There are still numerous animals-there are still animals, corrupt animals that are big that this person was not going to be able to deal with but God put these people so that they deal with each other and it creates a highway for N.C. There were too many beasts in the field, its Gods way (Exodus 23vs29-30). Now I know many people will criticise and speak, but isn’t it time is available, let’s wait for time and see if I didn’t hear from God. Now, let’s pray, but I said the main reason is for a revival, a spiritual revival that must come to Africa through Zimbabwe. It shall come like a veld fire and Zimbabwe will start to prosper in way that shall shock many people. Everyone has his time. Now you are allowed to argue with me and I as a prophet I am allowed to argue and say my prophecy will come to pass. And I am not saying this to please anyone, to attack anyone but I am just transmitting what God wants me to say. I have been criticised before, but people still see my prophecies coming regardless of their criticism. The same way we were shocked how Mugabe left power is the same way some will be shocked how he got into power. It has its time.

God bless you as you enter the year 2019, lead by God’s word and prophetic direction.

Source – Byo24News

By Own Correspondent| The New Year is associated with happiness and renewal yet for street vendors and informal traders in major cities and towns, 2019 has started with a nightmare as they are being viciously attacked by council police and Zimbabwe Republic Police.

Said the VISET:

“The joint attack on our members commenced some 3 days ago and is reminiscent of the attacks which befell vendors in August and September 2018 when they were forced out of Harare central business district.

Police are indiscriminately attacking the vendors with booted feet, fists, baton sticks wooden clubs and teargas is wantonly being spew in the streets. Wares and money is being stolen with impunity by the law enforcement members.

Women vendors are the most affected as they are more vulnerable to violence and constitute the majority of the vendors.

As Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) we condemn the callous action by police and council authorities. These despicable actions are a flagrant violation of human rights set out in the Constitution of Zimbabwe.

Everyone has a right to a fair hearing and administrative justice and the actions of the police and council authorities clearly violate this right.

Further, we call for an immediate end to these illegal acts targeting innocent vendors who are seeking a livelihood in this harsh economic environment.

Vendors like the generality of Zimbabweans are victims of the government engineered economic morass.

Thus, for the same government to attack people seeking to get a decent life is a double insult.

As VISET we are documenting all the ongoing violations and will soon engage our lawyers to seek recourse so far 15 of our members have been illegally arrested by the police and demand their immediate and unconditional release.”

Released by;

*VISET Information Department*

By Own Correspondent| ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa took time out to sit and interact with the elderly and his kith and kin in his rural home while he was on leave during the festive holidays.

Mnangagwa, however ended up cutting short his leave in order to come and assist his deputy Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga in resolving the doctors’ strike.

He said:

“”I have cut short my leave to be in immediate and active consultation with the Acting President in resolving the situation in the Health Sector.”

The government says it has met almost all the demands by junior doctors who withdrew their services at beginning of last month, but will not concede to payment of salaries in US dollars.

Briefing journalists late this Tuesday night at Munhumutapa Offices, Acting President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga said the government is gravely concerned with the situation in the hospitals as it is patients who are suffering.

“In particular, government is disturbed by the fact that in spite of the many concessions it made to the striking doctors, and the broad agreement reached on all but two issues, the striking health personnel continue to withhold their labour and negotiate in bad faith even though they are designated as an essential service under the Labour Act, and even though government has bent over backwards to accommodate them,” said the Acting President.

Acting President Chiwenga who met some stakeholders in the health sector on this Tuesday to find solutions to the ongoing impasse says the government does not generate foreign currency.

“For the avoidance of doubt, government will not remunerate any of its work- force in United States dollars, a position it made very clear to the striking doctors. The government does not print United States dollars,” said Retired General Chiwenga.

He said the hard-earned foreign currency will be committed to, among other areas, importing essential medicines for use in hospitals and clinics, and to facilitate the recovery of economy, in line with the Transitional Stabilisation Programme.

Acting President Chiwenga further said government has resolved in line with the court order, to request the Health Services Board to take appropriate action against the striking doctors whose conduct has been declared unlawful by the courts.

“International best practices which govern doctors and interns, provide that doctors should not abandon patients and posts; and that, instead they should bring forward their grievances while making sure loss of life or unnecessary pain and suffering is avoided,” he said.

Retired General Chiwenga said government has noted with concern the political overtones which the labour issue has now assumed, including attempts by the striking doctors to appeal to constituencies which have nothing to do with health delivery or their employment contracts.

He expressed gratitude to senior doctors and doctors in private practice and private health institutions for offering services in the interest of patients.

Zbc News online