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Full Text Of Zanu Pf’s 17 Annual National People’s Conference Resolutions

17th Zanu PF Annual National People’s Conference

Esigodini, Matebeleland South 13-16 December 2018

RESOLUTIONS

Final resolutions for adoption by the Conference.

The Resolutions were in 5 main areas
1. Political
2. Economics
3. Historical
4. Local Governance and
5 War Veterans, Women, Youth

1. Political

-Reaffirmation of President Mnangagwa as the Party’s Presidential Candidate for 2023 Elections

-Restructuring of the Party from Cells to Provincial Structures in 2019 which will be prefaced by issuance of electronic membership cards

-Preparations for the 2023 Harmonised Elections to begin in earnest

-Translation of the Party’s Constitution into all local languages

-Secretary for Information and Publicity to be the only one to communicate messages from the Party

-Audit of Party investments and to look for new investment opportunities

– The Party must establish it’s own radio and television service to publish it’s own programs

2. *Economics*

-Zero tolerance to Corruption

– rehabilitation and mordenisation of all irrigation facilities in the country

-transparency and fair distribution of farming inputs

-need for creation of local and external markets for farm produces

-creation of an enabling environment for economic development founded on ease of doing busines

-Government must intervene to curb three tier pricing system

-revival of NRZ and Air Zimbabwe must be accelerated

-promotion of community based tourism for empowerment of communities

-Re engagement efforts must be continued with international community

-protection of intellectual property from piracy through strong legislation

3. *Historical*

-establishment of a liberation war museum and promotion of production to document liberation heritage

-The Party and Government must lead the process to thank ancestral spirits for Independence

-repatriation of body parts belonging to first and second Chimurenga heroes and heroines such as Chief Chingaira

4. *Local Governance*

-Local authorities must regularise the informal sector

-Metropolitan Provinces of Bulawayo and Harare must have separate Provincial Councils

-Capacitation of Office of the Minister of State and Provincial Councils to enable them to lead economic activities in the Province

5. *War Veterans, Women and Youth*

-All War Veterans must be allocated farmland

-The Party Constitution must be aligned to the National Constitution to enshrine the 50/50 representation in all leadership positions

-Ammendment of National Constitution to extend the propotional representation to continue.

  1. – National Youth Service program must be resumed in the first quarter of 2019

– government must develop a special fund for Students with disabilities

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SA Police Intercept Truck Heading To Zim With Stolen Range Rover Closed In As Cargo

LIMPOPO police on Sunday intercepted a closed truck transporting a stolen luxury vehicle, LED TVs and several other items in Polokwane, believed to be worth millions of rand.

A Zimbabwean and two Ugandan nationals have been taken into police custody.

The truck was impounded and is being stored at the Seshego police compound outside Polokwane.

Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said: “We can confirm the incident; we’ll provide more details later.”

It is understood the truck was travelling from Gauteng and was destined to cross the Beit Bridge border in Musina. It was stopped by police just outside Polokwane, and upon inspection, they found a stolen white Range Rover, several TVs and other goods.

During the 2017 festive season, police also disrupted a criminal operation in which donkey carts were used to transport stolen vehicles and goods across the Limpopo River into Zimbabwe.

The incident comes at a time when police and traffic officers in Limpopo are on high alert on the roads, especially on the N1, since the start of the 2018 festive season on Friday.

Late on Saturday, 16 motorists were arrested for drinking and driving, including a 22-year-old man found with the highest reading of 0.87mg/l.

Meanwhile, the N1 south near Kranskop has been opened after it was closed for several hours following an incident in which a sedan collided head on with another vehicle and overturned. No fatalities were reported.

— News24

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I Defeated Chamisa Cleanly And Fairly- Mnangagwa

ESIGODINI – With Zimbabwe’s economy continuing to tank — and long-suffering citizens now desperate for some respite -President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told thousands of Zanu PF delegates gathered in Esigodini for
the party’s annual conference that their focus must be solely on coming up with solutions to stem the rot.
He also vowed that his government would do everything in its power to turn the country’s burning economy around — an untenable situation which he readily admitted was causing immense suffering for Zimbabweans.
At the same time, Mnangagwa reminded the assembled ruling party bigwigs that elected officials were servants of those people who had
voted them into power.
However, the Zanu PF leader once again ruled out any chance of him forming a government of national unity (GNU) with opposition leader
Nelson Chamisa — whom he said he had defeated “cleanly and fairly”.Daily News

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Biti Court Case Takes New Twist

 

HARARE – The High Court yesterday declined to entertain a referral to the superior court for review of a case that was submitted by Harare magistrate Gloria Takundwa — who recently granted opposition kingpin Tendai Biti permission to have his trial live-streamed on media
platforms.
This comes after Takundwa had suggested to the High Court that she might have made a mistake by granting Biti the permission — a
decision which stirred controversy as it coincidedwith the eye-brow raising criticism that prosecutor Michael Reza had directed at her, describing her as either “very brave or very stupid or both” for making the referral.
High Court judge Joseph Musakwa told Takundwa yesterday to live with her decision, as he declined to review her earlier decision.
“It follows that where a magistrate errs or blunders, he or she must live with that error

unless one of the before the court moves
to take corrective action.Daily News

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Petrol Inferno Kills One Person

A mechanic (37) was burnt and later died after drums of petrol he was keeping at his workshop for resale on the black market caught fire in Victoria Falls.


Tapinda Whisper Muzvidzva who operated a panel beating shop but had turned the premises into a petrol warehouse feeding the black market was rushed to Victoria Falls Hospital and was later transferred to Mpilo
Central Hospital where he died last Friday.
The fire occurred on Thursday at Jeche Complex in the industrial area.
One of his colleagues at the shop and another man believed to be a Zambian citizen, escaped with minor injuries.
Property and a yet to be disclosed number of drums full of fuel were also destroyed. It is suspected that the fire occurred when Muzvidzva and his workmates were draining
petrol from one of the drums to fuel a client’s vehicle using an electric motor.
His father, Mr Morris Charles Muzvidzva, confirmed the death but denied that his son was dealing in fuel.

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FC Platinum Force Draw In Congo

 

WILLIAM STIMA scored a 48th minute stunner that secured a draw for FC Platinum against AS Otoho in a Total Caf Champions League first round first leg encounter at Stade Marien Ngouab in Owando, Congo
Brazzaville yesterday.
The game was, however, marred by Togolese referee Kokou Ntale whose shambolic and embarrassing show got even neutrals on the terraces shaking their heads in disbelief.
The referee clearly chose to defile the refereeing profession by his favouritism, unperturbed that Caf had sent in a referees’ assessor from Burkina Faso, probably after
having got wind of possible behind-the-scenes actions against FC Platinum.
“Everyone saw what was happening here and it’s sad. We are not going anywhere as Africa with such kind of officiating,” said FC
Platinum coach Norman Mapeza in a post- match interview.
Ntale awarded an incredible 16 free kicks to the hosts inside 20 minutes and only stopped when the hosts finally scored exactly in the
20th minute through Matheus Botamba.
A wise referee would, however, have ruled out the goal as the striker was offside when he attempted his first shot at goal which was punched by a diving Petros Mhari. Botamba
later pushed Mhari off the ball to eventually scramble the ball home.
To their credit FC Platinum, even though clearly hard done, kept their cool and stuck to the game plan of trying to catch the hosts against the run of play.Chronicle

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Mechanic Killed By Petrol Flames

A mechanic (37) was burnt and later died after drums of petrol he was keeping at his workshop for resale on the black market caught fire in Victoria Falls.

Tapinda Whisper Muzvidzva who operated a panel beating shop but had turned the premises into a petrol warehouse feeding the black market was rushed to Victoria Falls Hospital and was later transferred to Mpilo Central Hospital where he died last Friday.

The fire occurred on Thursday at Jeche Complex in the industrial area.

One of his colleagues at the shop and another man believed to be a Zambian citizen, escaped with minor injuries.

Property and a yet to be disclosed number of drums full of fuel were also destroyed.

It is suspected that the fire occurred when Muzvidzva and his workmates were draining petrol from one of the drums to fuel a client’s vehicle using an electric motor.

His father, Mr Morris Charles Muzvidzva, confirmed the death but denied that his son was dealing in fuel.

“It came as a shock to us as the whole family is yet to come to terms with the whole issue. It’s not true that he was selling fuel but he was refuelling his car at the workshop,” said Mr Muzvidzva.

Sources close to the incident said Muzvidzva was burnt while attempting to salvage the premises and drums of fuel inside.

“The now deceased was keeping fuel in drums and jerry cans at Jeche Complex in the industrial area. He would buy the fuel from service stations and stock it at his premises to later sell on the black market where he used an electric pump to drain from drums into a car.

“On the fateful day, one of his assistants switched on the electric pump to drain fuel for a client and there was a spark which set the premises alight,” said a source.

The Chronicle was told that Muzvidzva who was outside the shop, rushed inside intending to put out the fire to save his property. In the process a jerry can fell and spilt some petrol thereby fuelling the fire.

A crowd that had gathered watched helplessly as Muzvidzva was engulfed in fire while the two survivors bolted out to safety.

A businessman, Mr Evans Ncube from nearby premises rushed with a fire extinguisher and put out the fire in the shop but Muzvidzva had already been burnt.

“I wasn’t nearby and only heard noise. When I checked what was happening I saw fire and that’s when I rushed with a fire extinguisher. I only managed to extinguish the fire in the shop but could not save Muzvidzva as he was already burnt and was being rushed to hospital,” he said.

National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he was yet to receive the report.

He, however, warned members of the public against hoarding fuel and keeping it in houses or shops as this is dangerous.- state media

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WATCH: 1 Day Left, Will Mnangagwa Release Motlanthe Report Which Narrates That Chamisa Is The Real President Of Zimbabwe Or He’s Cooking Another One?

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Chiwenga Threatens to “Pay Back (for Illegitimate Verdict) in Hard Coin” – Shoot To Kill, No Doubt

Constantino Chiwenga
By Patrick Guramatunhu| “Cde President, you personally stretched out your hand to the opposition after Zanu PF’s July 30
landslide victory. But the opposition spurned that hand,” said VP Constantino Chiwenga at the Annual Zanu PF People’s National Conference.

“You have since withdrawn the well-stretched hand. All of us follow, principally those of us in Parliament are very happy that our Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs (Ziyambi Ziyambi), acting in his capacity as leader of the House (in Parliament), sent a clear signal of paying back the opposition in the hard coin they have tossed us. They have chosen to disrespect our leader who is the Head of State of our nation (President Mnangagwa).

“We have no reason to handle them with the respect they have voluntarily rejected.” This is just Zanu PF, the bid bad wolf, flexing big bully muscle!

The party blatantly rigged the elections denying over 3 millions Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote; refused to release the verified voters’ roll although this is a legal requirement; refused to free up the public media; in its affidavit submitted to the Con-Court, ZEC had three different vote tally results, proof the figures had been cooked up; etc.

All the international election observers have dismissed the elections as flawed and illegal. Even the British who had been bending over backwards to help Mnangagwa regime to be accepted back in the world community ever since last November’s coup, could not gloss over the blatant vote rigging.

The outgoing UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ms Catriano Laing’s, parting shot to the regime was “the electoral playing field was not level”!

“The electoral commission (ZEC) lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” EU Election Observer Mission
said in its final report.
 
“Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”

If the elections had “failed to meet international standard” there is only one conclusion: Zanu PF
rigged the elections, the party does not have the mandate and therefore the regime is illegitimate. 
MDC Alliance should have never agreed to participate in these elections without first implementing
the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. Nelson Chamisa et al are only
joining “Zanu PF is illegitimate” bandwagon for the selfish purpose of wringing gravy train concessions
from Zanu PF.
 
Even if Nelson Chamisa had acknowledged Mnangagwa as the winner of the recent elections without
the Con-Court challenge; that would not have made all the glaring flaws and illegalities go away. The

EU Observers’ conclusion that “the elections had failed to meet international standards” was based on
the observed glaring flaws and illegalities and not on what Chamisa did or didn’t do!
 
“We have no reason to handle them with the respect!” This is an ominous threat that all who knows
Zanu PF’s history would be very foolish to dismiss
.
Zanu PF’s hunger for absolute power and the political influence and wealth it has brought is
insatiable. The party has shown again and again that it will do whatever it dimmed necessary to
secure power be it rigging elections and even shedding innocent blood. Zanu PF has murdered over
30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship. 
The shooting of seven civilians on 1st August 2018 was to quell the protest against another rigged
elections and a timely reminder the regime would not hesitate to shed more innocent blood in its drive
to hang on to power, regardless of it being illegitimate.
 
Zimbabweans must now brace themselves for the double whammy of the economic hardships from
the worsening economic situation, on the one hand. By rigging the elections Zanu PF has just
confirmed Zimbabwe is still a pariah state and thus killed all hopes of any meaningful economic
recovery. Investors, local and foreign, do not do business in a pariah state.

On the other hand the nation will be subjected to increased political repression. The worsening
economic situation will force the people to protest their suffering and Zanu PF, fearful of losing its iron
grip on power will step up the political repression. 

Zanu PF blame MDC Alliance’s refusal to acknowledge Mnangagwa as the winner to justify its “shoot
to kill” against the nation, a case of collective punishment. As far as Zanu PF is concerned it is
“paying back the opposition in the hard coin they have tossed us!” This is just the classical case of the
bad wolf, up stream, accusing the lamb of mudding the water!
 
Like it or not, Zanu PF thugs now know they will never revive the economy and so they have given up
all hope of winning free, fair and credible elections. They are in power and are going to hold on to
power by rigging elections, period.
 
If we are serious about reviving the Zimbabwe economy then we must be firm and resolute in our
demand for good and accountable government. When we say we demand free, fair and credible
elections, we must mean it and there is no better way to show that than punishing those who rig
elections.
 
Zanu PF has rig elections for the last 38 years and we have allowed the party to get away with it.
There can be no better time to stop the rot than now. Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections
rewarding the thugs with high office is the most foolish thing we can ever do as the regime is now
abusing state power to impose itself and consolidating its dictatorial rule. 

Zanu PF rigged the elections, the party must be pressured to step down. This is the only way out of
the political and economic mess Zimbabwe finds itself in today.

Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess, a man-made hell-on-earth, because the nation has
blundered from pillar to post. Time and time again the nation has gone for the ease solution even
when it was clear as day it was the wrong solution. We are in a deep hole and there is no down-hill
way out.

Forcing Zanu PF to step down is the uphill solution and only solution! By allowing Zanu PF to get
away with vote rigging these last 38 years has only make it hard for us to these thugs to give up
power. Allowing them to stay in power till 2023 will make it even harder to stop Zanu PF rigging the
elections and to force them to step down afterwards.-SOURCE: zsdemocrats.blogspot.com

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Motlanthe Letter

Mr Kgalema Motlante
Chairman of The Zimbabwe Commission,
On 1st August 2018 Post Election Protest Public Executions
The Zimbabwe Kgalema Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry
Republic of South Africa
Dear Commission Chairman, Mr Kgalema Motlante,Re: Commission’s Failure To Protect Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Witnesses

 

This complaint letter, from the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights
Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), is in response to the way the victims of
Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide, who testified before your Commission of
Inquiry on the 26th October 2018 in Bulawayo, Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) in
Zimbabwe, were treated in front of your Commission. We thought it wise to deliver
this letter to you via the UK RSA Embassy as you are a citizen of South Africa.
We note with grave concern that on the 26th October 2018 at Rainbow Hotel, a
number of victims of the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide, whom you kindly
gave a greenlight to testify before your Commission of Inquiry about their
Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide experiences, were harassed, beaten and
arrested by the Zimbabwean police and possibly state agents in front of your
Commission without your Commission making any efforts to protect them. These
witnesses and victims of the Matebeleland Genocide were subsequently taken to
custody and eventually to court for trial on trumped up charges levelled against
them by the Zimbabwean state.

 

While the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement appreciates your
sound decision to allow the people of Matebeleland to testify before your
Commission about their experiences during the Matebeleland Gukurahundi
Genocide, the Movement however strongly condemns your Commission’s failure
to offer the surviving victim witnesses of this horrific state crime, protection,
security and support from beatings, arrests, threats to their lives and that of their
families and court trials on trumped up charges from the state of Zimbabwe. The
Commission has a duty to institute mechanisms for protection, security and safety
for witnesses who testify before it. This happens the world over. This Commission
seems to have failed to institute such mechanisms and therefore it has failed to offer
protection, security and safety of those who testified before it.

 

That this sort of thing or shenanigans happened in front of a supposedly
“Independent” Commission headed by your good self, a Commission whose duty
has been to investigate the extra-ordinary public execution of protesters in Harare
post the disputed Zimbabwean election of 2018, makes a mockery of the
Commission itself, its work and its outcomes. This event and a series of other events
that continue to unfold as court trials of Matebelaland Gukurahundi Genocide
witnesses in Zimbabwe, undermined and continue to undermine the Commission’s
integrity and credibility and the credibility of its individual Commissioners and for
all intents and purposes the integrity and credibility of a perceived statesman of
your calibre.

 

In light of the foregoing or aforementioned issues, the 1893 Mthwakazi Human
Rights Restoration Movement therefore calls on you Sir, as a Chair of the
Commission, to make guarantees in writing to the Movement and the people of
Matebeleland that the witnesses who testified before your Commission and their
relatives are not going to be further harassed and harmed by the state of Zimbabwe
or made to disappear. As you may well be in the know, Matebeleland, since the
1980s has been a land of “rivers of blood” of the people of Matebeleland as well as
a land of unaccounted disappearances of its sons and daughters as a result of the
5th Brigade of Zimbabwe under the command of Robert Gabriel Mugabe and the
current President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Therefore this sort of
treatment of the people of Matebeleland provokes the reliving of traumatic events
of the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide of the 80s.

 

The Movement also calls on you Sir, as the Chair of the Commission, to make
guarantees in writing to the Movement and the people of Matebeleland that your
Commission will intervene to stop, as a matter of urgency, the current and on-going
persecution and victimization of witnesses who testified before your Commission
by the state of Zimbabwe.

 

We would appreciate your attention and immediate resolution of this matter.
Yours Sincerely

The 1893 MHRRM-UK Leadership

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Sulumani Chimbetu Collaborates With Tongai “Greatman” Gwaze For Touching Song On Disability

By Own Correspondent| Tongai “Greatman” Gwaze has released a song featuring Dendera Musician, vocalist, guitarist and composer Sulumani Chimbetu titled “Pandakazvarwa”.

The song, which has become an instant hit speaks about the plight of a disabled child and how society stigmatises women who give birth to disabled children.

Watch the video of “Pandakazvarwa” on the link below:

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18 Families Left In The Rain, Following Eviction By Zanu Pf Bigwigs

By Own Correspondent| Anna Kwavakona held one of her one-year-old twin babies in her arms while her other children clutched to her dress as she stood in front of a tent shelter perched by the roadside on the outskirts of Bindura town along Mt Darwin highway.

Kuvakona was dressed shabbily and desperation was written all over her face.

Her clothes, apart from being a signature of time, were testimony of the distant relationship that has existed between the 24-year-old mother of four and water.

It was around 4pm and her face looked as if it was last scrubbed over a week ago and this is largely because of her family’s dire living conditions for the past three weeks.

Kuvakona’s face told a story of pain, neglect and dejection. She looked hungry and unable to bear the weight of her twin daughters, whose situation was as hopeless as hers.

“This one is called Kimberly and she has not been feeling well for some days. She has a running stomach and is very weak,” Kuvakona said, referring to the child in her arms.

“I think it is because of the water we are drinking, which is not safe. We fetch it from that well (pointing at a shallow and open well in a field just across the road). I am also having a challenge feeding them.”

The children looked underfed and scruffy – epitomising the hard realities that have confronted the family and 17 others since three weeks ago when they were thrown out of Claverhill North Farm, owned by Kingdom Community Church (KCC).

The families were dumped by the roadside by former Rushinga senator Damian Mumvuri (Zanu-PF), who says he is the new owner of the property.

“I have four children and I have asked a friend to temporarily take care of the other two,” Kuvakona said.

“My husband is not here, he has gone out to look for food. We do not have anything to eat.

“Our food was thrown away when we were chucked out of the farm. It was a nasty experience.”

The distraught mother nearly broke into tears as she narrated the harrowing experience at the hands of the police when they were violently evicted from the farm they had called their home all their lives.

“We are now living in the open, and we are in the rainy season. We were only given these tents by the district administrator two days ago. Imagine being in the open with these young children.”

Another villager, Conwell Matope (49), who is a father of six, said most of the villagers had been staying at the church-owned farm before Mumvuri “invaded” the property in 2005, armed with an offer letter from the government.

The families have been fighting Mumvuri’s seizure of the farm in the courts. Matope is an elder at the KCC.

The villagers claim the church, which employed most of them, owned the property, that they claim is now being leased to a white commercial farmer by the former Senator.

“The white man has been operating at the farm for the past three years,” Matope said.

“We were evicted by Mumvuri three weeks ago and dumped here. We don’t have water and we are using bush toilets. It is a matter of time before there is an outbreak of diseases.

“We have been exposed to rains and thank God that the children here (pointing to a one-month-old baby and a four-month-old baby in her teenage sister’s arms) are still alive, but I am sure it is only a matter of time.”

Matope said they had tried to get assistance from Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mavhunga without any joy.

“She told us that there was nothing she could do if we are evicted from someone’s farm,” she said.

“We don’t have anywhere to go. We were born and grew up at this farm and we know no other home. (The minister) uses this road every day, but has done nothing to assist us.

“She should have found us another place to go to. It is painful, our ancestors’ graves are at the farm, and we cannot leave them just like that.

“But even if we are to go back to the farm today, there is no more shelter for us because they destroyed our houses.”

Simbarashe Chingoka, a member of the same church, weighed in, saying more families faced eviction from the farm.

“Only 18 families are here out of the 46 that were settled at the farm,” he said.

“Others are still there because Mumvuri ran out of money to throw them out.

“He said he was using the money he gets from leasing the farm to a white farmer to evict us.”

Chingoka added: “They used force and threw away our foodstuffs. We don’t have food right now. Our livestock was also left at the farm.”

Another victim, Estery Banda (45), whose husband is aged 61 and has worked for the church for the past 24 years, said she had been forced to abandone her aged mother at the farm.

“My mother was born in 1944. She is old and ailing and can’t walk anymore. She could not come with us because of her condition. We left her and asked a neighbour to look after her,” she said.

“For three weeks I have not seen her, I can’t go back there, it will mean trouble for me and my mother.

“Our children are no longer going to school. We don’t have the money. We don’t have the food.

“We are here and our husbands are having to move around the surrounding communities to look for work in exchange for food.

“It is almost sunset and we have not eaten anything since morning as we are waiting for the men to come back so that we have something.”

She added: “We no longer have anything, even our property was destroyed by the rains.

“We only got these tents from the DA yesterday (Wednesday) and he promised to take our problem to higher offices.

“Even our MP (Kennedy Musanhi) has never been here, we don’t know if he is not aware of our predicament.

“We thought the land reform programme was for all of us, but we were wrong, it is for the powerful.

“Mumvuri seized the farm from the church, which has been here for many years helping communities, and here we are now – living in the open.”

Mumvuri refused to comment on the matter, referring question to his lawyer Zvidzai Kajokoto.

Kajokoto said Mumvuri was allocated part of the farm by the government in 2006 and the disputes that arose after the allocation were settled by the courts.

He said the farm workers refused to work for the Zanu-PF politician and they had initially promised to relocate before they changed their position.

“The issue started in 2016 and in November 2017, we had a consent order that they signed with their lawyer, Mr Gumbo,” he said.

“They signed the judgment, but they do not want to move now. They are the ones who actually proposed that they would move out in August this year.”

Farm workers were some of the biggest victims of Zimbabwe’s chaotic land reform programme that displaced over 4 000 white farmers and destroyed the country’s once thriving agriculture sector.

The workers, many of them of foreign origin, were left homeless after the new land owners evicted them.-TheStandard

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KOMBI ACCIDENT: 11 People Killed

the accident scene
11 people have died after two commuter omnibuses they were travelling in collided head on along the Harare – Nyamapanda highway in Murehwa this evening.

Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident, saying among the dead is a child.

He said one of the omnibuses burst a front tyre and encroached into the lane of oncoming traffic, resulting in a head on collision with the other omnibus travelling in the opposite direction.

Assistant Commissioner Nathi said police officers are currently attending the scene and are yet to establish the exact death toll, number of the people injured and the destinations the commuter omnibuses were headed to.- state media

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LIVE PICTURE- TEACHER’S CARAVAN SHOES GIVES IN

By Own Correspondent| A picture of one of the teachers’ pair of shoes has gone viral on social media amid revelations that nine members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) were arrested in Macheke (Saturday).

The teachers who have been marching from Mutare to Harare are demanding salaries in United States dollars.

According to ARTUZ spokesperson Macdonald Kondo, who escaped the arrests, police in Marondera called the marchers and ordered them not to proceed with their programme claiming it was in violation of the Public Order and Security Act (Posa).

The ARTUZ Salary Caravan is a protest march by teachers aimed at pushing government to pay teacher’s salaries in forex. The teachers are also demanding their bonuses in full among other grievances.

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Phillip Chiyangwa Elbowed Out Of ZIFA, Why Did He Lose?

By Own Correspondent| Felton Kamambo is the new Zifa president after his predecessor Phillip Chiyangwa withdrew from the rerun.

The vote for a new president was set to go for a rerun after Kamambo failed to reach the 2 thirds majority but Chiyangwa withdrew from the race.

In the first round of voting Kamambo got 35 against Chiyangwa’s 24. Gift Banda was also voted the new Zifa Vice President after beating Omega Sibanda.

The new Executive Committee consists of Sugar Chagonda, Philemon Machana, Chamu Chiwanza and Brighton Malandule.

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Philip Chiyangwa’s ZIFA Election Loss, “Sorry, You Can’t Take Case To Chief Justice Luke Malaba”

Stanley Goreraza: I am happy Philip Chiyangwa has lost the Zifa elections. Unfortunately for him, he can’t take his case to the Constitutional Court and hapana we kudira jecha. So it’s good bye and good riddance.

Michael Dube: But Phidza was doing well, you should give credit where it is due.

Charles Bvunyenge: As long as Chigumba asipo elections will be free and fair. Maybe the courts might rescue him.

Rastiel Mukaro: Very very good for our football we don’t want ZANU pf pferorists masquerading as ZIFA Chairman whilst enhancing ZANU pf policies,ngavapevo vamwe mabasa hinga ndi MP wani.

Kennedy kc Chikaka: Only because there was no chigumba counting the votes.

William Butau: No wonder he tried all manner of tricks to get his competitor out of the race. Football has won in the end, bravo!

 

 

 

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Reality Check: MDC Thumps ZANU PF In ZIFA Elections

Own Correspondent|The much awaited controversy filled Zimbabwe Football Association Elections have come and gone and its celebrations gallo in the opposition political party the MDC and gloom in the ruling ZANU PF.

Many could be wondering why this could be so.

It has been a hidden fact that the elections have been a ZANU PF versus MDC battle for the president and deputy of the country’s football body.

Outgoing President Philip Chiyangwa is a ZANU PF parliamentarian so is his deputy Omega Sibanda and were being challenged by MDC linked contestants.

Felton Kamambo who has suspected MDC links beat Philip Chiyangwa a ZANU PF parliamentarian and central committee member to become the association’s new president.

Kamambo amassed 35 votes against Chiyangwa’s 24 but a re-run was effected as neither of the candidates reached a two thirds majority mark. However, Chiyangwa withdrew his candidature and Kamambo was declared the new Zifa president.

Gift Banda an MDC legislator is the new Zifa vice-president after beating Omega Sibanda a ZANU PF parliamentarian by 37 votes to 22.

The victory marks an end to Chiyangwa’s three-year reign after taking over from Cuthbert Dube in December 2015.

Few days before the elections both Kamambo and Banda were suspiciously arrested and released in what was viewed as moves to frustrate their campaign.

While addressing the media after the polls, the new Zifa president said: ” I want to deliver what I promised to the people. I want to unite the football family and end suspensions and harassment.”

The committee members are Sugar Chagonda, Philemon Machana, Chamu Chiwanza and Brighton Malandule. Barbara Chikosi from Women’s football and Farai Jere from PSL are the two other members into the executive committee.

A delegation sent by FIFA observed the elections.

Newly elected ZIFA Executive Committee:

President: Felton Kamambo
Vice President: Gift Banda
Committee Members: Sugar Chagonda, Philemon Machana, Chamu Chiwanza, Brighton Malandule, Barbara Chikosi (Women’s football) and Farai Jere (PSL).

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Chiwenga’s Brother, Talent Announces His Own Bible Scriptures Which Lie Saying John The Baptist Didn’t Baptise Anyone

By A Correspondent| Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged preacher brother, Talent has been caught red handed communicating gross factual falsehoods from the Biblical passages.

In the below video (timeline 3minute), Talent Chiwenga who calls himself, Apostle Chiwenga says “John The Baptist did not baptise anybody.” Analyst and preacher, Howard Nyoni makes the below evidence layout-

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Kenyan Giants Too Hot To Handle For Pasiwa

Terrence Mawawa| Although Kalisto Pasuwa has won the Malawi Super League with Nyasa Big Bullets with two games to play his charges lost to Kenyan Giants Gor Mahia in the African Champions League.

Bullets registered a 3-0 win over Red Lions to attain an unassailable five-point lead ahead of second-placed BE Forward Wanderers.

The former Warriors gaffer joined the side in October and managed to maintain the momentum on top. He signed a two and a half month-deal and was tasked to win the title which he achieved today.

The 48-year-old is now likely to get a long-term contract which will see him guiding the club in 2019 season.

However Pasuwa’s charges failed to progress to the first round of the CAF Champions League after losing 4-3 on penalties to Kenyan side Gor Mahia.

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VIDEO: Chiyangwa Kicked Out

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By A Correspondent| ZIFA boss, Phillip Chiyangwa has been defeated in the elections for leadership of the Zimbabwe Football Association.

The development comes a day after his opponent, Felton Kamambo had been mysteriously and suddenly arrested yesterday.

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The new president is now Felton Kamambo. Felton Kamambo took the top post while Gift Banda beat Omega Sibanda for the position of Vice President.

Kamambo now starts a new 4 year term at the helm of Zim Football.

 

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Chamisa Tops Top One Hundred Persons List, Fuzwayo Closes It Off

A GROUP of political science students at the University of Zimbabwe has come up with a list of the 100 most influential persons in Zimbabwe for 2018.

The list is dominated by politicians, but also includes Zimbabweans in sports, media, business, civil society, music, religion among others. Guess who’s on number 1?

Here is the list: What do you make of the list?

2018 top 100 Zimbabwe’s Movers, Shakers, Finest and Most Influential People

100. Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo (Civil and Socioeconomic rights Activist)

99. Benard Manyenyeni (Former Harare Mayor)

98. Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa (Radio and TV talkshow host)

97. Prudence Mabhena (Musician)

96. Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga (MDC-T MP | Children and Women’s Rights Activist | Former Minister)

95. Happyson Nyasha Ncube (Politician | Pro- Democracy Activist) MHSRIP

94. Haru Mutasa (Broadcaster)

93. Nhlanhla Moyo – (Former Child President | Activist | Entrepreneur)

92. Evan Mawarire (Pastor| Pro-Democracy Activist)

91. Claris Madhuku (Youth and Environment Activist)

90. Lenin Tinashe Chisaira (Environmental Lawyer | Writer | Researcher & Activist

89. Prosper Ngomashi aka Comic Pastor (Comedian)

88. Yvonne Mangunda (Broadcaster)

87. Simba Mhuriro (Entrepreneur)

86. Soneni Thandeka Gwizi ( Broadcaster | Radio & TV Host | Disability Activist)

85. Farai Maguwu (Human Rights Defender)

84. Glanis Changachirere (Feminist | Human Rights and Democracy Activist | Founder of Institute of Young Women Development)

83. Oliver Mtukudzi (Musician)

82. Jessie Fungayi Majome (Lawyer | Former Harare West MDC-T MP)

81. Sally Dura-Ncube (Feminist and Human Rights Activist | Director at Womens Coalition of Zimbabwe)

80. Dumiso Dabengwa ( War Veteran | ZAPU President)

79.Jenny Williams (Human Rights Activist)

78. Briggs Bomba (Civic Rights Activist)

77. Cynthia Chirinda-Hakutangwi ( Motivational Speaker | Author | Pastor)

76. Albert Nyathi ( Musician | Writer | Poet)

75. Vongai Zimudzi ( Youngest Candidate in 2018 elections | Feminist | Politician)

74. Joice Mujuru ( Former Vice President of Zimbabwe | War Veteran | NPP President)

73. Sue Nyathi ( Author)

72. Jeys Marabini ( Musician)

71. Lewis Matutu (Politician | ZANU-PF Deputy Youth Chair)

70. Alex Tawanda Magaisa (Writer | Former Advisor to the late Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai | Academic and Lecturer of Law)

69. Maud Chifamba ( Academic )

68. Nigel Mugamu (Journalist | Blogger)

67. Nomathemba Primrose Ndebele ( Fashion Entrepreneur |Women Developmentalist | Socialiate)

66. Genius Kadungure (Businessman | Socialiate)

65. Innocent Netanyahu ( Politician | ZIPP spokesperson | Activist)

64. Linda Muriro ( Journalist | Producer)

63. Vangelis Haritatos (Politician | Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement)

62. Nyasha Nhau (Human Rights Defender)

61. Lynnette Karenyi ( Politician | MDCA MP)

60. Rebecca Chisamba ( TV Talkshow Host)

59. Michael Mdladla Ndiweni (Vendors Trust Activist)

58. Janet Manyowa ( Gospel Musician)

57. Larry Kwirirai ( Blogger | Radio & TV Presenter | Writer)

56. Tafadzwa Goliath ( Passenger Rights Activist : Founder of Passenger Association of Zimbabwe)

55. Blessing Kasiyamhuru (ZIPP President | Businessman | Prophet)

54. Regai Tsunga ( Human Rights Defender | MDCA Mutasa South MP)

53. Victor Matemadanda ( War Veteran | Politician | Deputy Minister of Defence)

52. Walter Magaya (Prophet | Patriot)

51. Morgan Dube ( Civic Rights Activist | Chairperson of Victoria Falls Combined Residents Association)

50. Mable Chinomona ( War Veteran | Politician | Senate President)

49. Nyaradzo Francisca Nhongonhema (Stage and screen actress | Radio Host & Producer)

48. Mathias Mhere ( Gospel Musician)

47. Duduzile Nyirongo ( Pastor | Politician | Entrepreneur)

46. Samm Farai Monro aka Cde Fatso ( Comedian | Poet | Innovator | Activist)

45. Rodwell Chinyengetere ( Footballer)

44. Kirsty Leigh Coventry ( Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation | Athlete | Speaker)

43. Monica Mutsvangwa (Politician | Minister of Information & Publicity)

42. Wallace Chirumiko aka Winky Dee ( Musician)

41. Peter Ndlovu ( Former Zimbabwe Captain | Football Legend )

40. Joseph Chinotimba ( Politician | ZanuPF MP Buhera South | Farmer)

39. Marry Chiwenga ( Former Model & Patron of the Miss Zimbabwe Trust | 2nd Woman of Zimbabwe)

38. Alfred Dzirutwe ( Politician | MDC-T Youth Spokesperson)

37. Mukudzeyi Mukombe aka Jah Prayzah ( Musician)

36. Mthokozisi Ncube ( Political Activist | Bulawayo Youth Arise Director)

35. Nhire Sekuru Mutimbanepasi ( Herbalist | Researcher In African Culture & Traditions | Radio Personality |Artist)

34. Tsitsi Masiyiwa (African philanthropist | Social Entrepreneur )

33. Trevor Ncube ( Businessman | Media Mogul)

32. Godfrey Tsenengamu (Politician | ZanuPF Youth Commissar)

31. Barbara Rwodzi ( Politician | Pan-African Entrepreneur | Philanthropist | ZanuPF MP for Chirumanzu)

30. Lucia Matibenga ( Former Trade Unionist | Former Minister if Labour | PDP President)

29. Norman Mapeza ( Football Legend | FC Platinum Coach)

28. Heath Streak ( Former cricket player | coach)

27. Geneva Sibanda ( Politician | Businessman)

26. Gift Ostallos Siziba (Pan-African fundamentalist | Academic | Political Activist)

25. Zenzele Ndebele ( Artist | Entrepreneur | CITE Founder | Journalist)

24. Mqondisi Moyo (Mthwakazi Republic Party President)

23. Doug Coltart ( Human Rights Lawyer | Activist)

22. Obey Shava ( Lawyer | Theologian | Human Rights Defender)

21. Rev. Anglistone Sibanda (Reverend, Human Rights Defender and Shalom Trust Director)

20. Jestina Mukoko (Human rights activist and the Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project)

19. Pupurai Togarepi ( Politician | ZanuPF MP for Gutu South)

18. Happymore Chidziva ( Politician | MDCA MP for Highfield West | Human Rights Activist)

17. Joana Mamombe ( Politician | Former Student Leader | Youngest MP in the 9th Parliament| MDCA MP for Harare West)

16. Peter Mutasa (President of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions | General Secretary of Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union)

15. Noah Manyika ( BZA President | Pastor | Businessman | Founder of War on Poverty Trust)

14. Fadzayi Mahere ( Constitutional Lawyer | Law Lecturer | African Development Enthusiast)

13. Acie Lumumba (Politician | ZanuPF Activist | Media Personality)

12. Kuda Musasiwa (Musician, Hip-hop producer, Entrepreneur and Socialite)

11. Samantha Kureya aka Gonyeti ( Actress | Standup Comedian)

10. Beatrice Mtetwa ( Human Rights Lawyer)

9. Violet Gonda (Journalist | Radio Personality | Moderator)

8. Shingi Munyeza (Businessman | Pastor)

7. Abigail Mupambi (Civic Society and Churches Joint Forum National Coordinater : Social Justice Advocate)

6. Thokozani Khupe ( Former Deputy Prime Minister | MDC-T President | Founder of Thokozani Khupe Cancer Foundation)

5. Temba Mliswa (Politician | Independent MP for Norton | Farmer)

4. Tendai Biti (Politician | Lawyer | Former Finance Minister | MDCA MP for Harare East)

3. Linda Tsungirirai Masarira (Politician | MDC-T Spokesperson Radical Feminist | Human Rights Defender | Founder of Zimbabwe Women In Politics Alliance)

2. Emerson Mnangagwa (Politician | President of Zimbabwe)

1..Nelson Chamisa ( Politician | Former Minister of ICT | MDCA President)

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ZIFA To Make Final Decision On Change Of PSL Calendar

Terrence Mawawa|The Zifa assembly will today decide whether the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season should adopt the August-May calendar.

The PSL came up with the proposal to align its calendar with that of CAF, and a decision will be made during the Annual General Meeting to be held in Harare. The local campaign usually starts around March and ends in December.

According to the League’s chairman, Farai Jere, a transitional plan is already in place and will see two tournaments hosted before the start of the next campaign. There would be a knockout competition and another mini-league tournament before the teams go for a break in May until August when the new season will start.

Jere added that the sponsors, as well as the Zimbabwe Football Association, have raised no objections to the change in the local football calendar ahead of the decisive meeting today.

“There is a plan in place, the sponsors have given it a thumbs up, Zifa has given it a thumbs up, so what is left now is to meet because it’s a constitutional matter,” said Jere in a local publication last week.

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BREAKING: Chiyangwa Kicked Out, Defeated In ZIFA Elections

Philip Chiyangwa

By A Correspondent| ZIFA boss, Phillip Chiyangwa has been defeated in the elections for leadership of the Zimbabwe Football Association.

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The development comes a day after his opponent, Felton Kamambo had been mysteriously and suddenly arrested yesterday.

The new president is now Felton Kamambo. Felton Kamambo took the top post while Gift Banda beat Omega Sibanda for the position of Vice President.

Kamambo now starts a new 4 year term at the helm of Zim Football.

 

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“Erect Zvobgo Effigy In Masvingo”

NATIONAL, BUSINESS, BREAKING

 

Terrence Mawawa|Seasoned political analyst Jeffryson Chitando has challenged the city council to remove Robert Mugabe’s name from street corners in ancient city of Masvingo and erect the late Edison Jonasi Mudadirwa Zvobgo’ s statue in the city centre.

See below Chitando’s statement:
Masvingo City must erect a statue of Dr Edison Mudadirwa Zvobgo in the City.

Masvingo City must name streets in recognition of people like Dr Edison Mudadirwa Zvobgo, NATIONAL NEWSProf E.Mukonoweshuro,Hamadziripi,Mukono,and other prominent political and social leaders of this province.

Great Zimbabwe University must name some of its schools after some prominent political and social leaders from this province for example Munhumutapa school of Heritage, Moderkai Hamutyinei School of Culture ,Dr Edison Mudadirwa Zvobgo School of law or Dr Simbi Mubako School of law ,Dr Simon Mazorodze School of Medicine,Engineer Chaimiti School of Local Government etc.

Mupandawana and Chiredzi Towns must as well be given the chance to honour some prominent political and social leaders from those area.

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Zanu PF Thought Zimbabweans Were Against Devolution

Jane Mlambo| President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed how his Zanu PF party has over the years shown to be out of touch with reality following his remarks that devolution had finally been embraced by citizens.

Unequal sharing of natural resources has always created a need for devolution especially in provinces such as Matebeleland and Manicaland but it appears Zanu PF was blind to their calls.

In his closing address at the 17th Zanu-PF Annual National People’s Conference in Esigodini, Matabeleland South, yesterday, President Mnangagwa said;

“I have been happily surprised by the reception and quick understanding of the concept of devolution and creation of provincial economies by our communities. We must work hard, with a renewed sense of urgency, to close the development gap between the urban and rural communities.

“The revitalisation of rural areas must be uttermost in our endeavours. The days of lopsided development must be a thing of the past. All our people are important to us, everybody must be on board, no one must be left behind,” said President Mnangagwa.

“The prosperity we seek to achieve by 2030 must be for all our people in very corner of the country. Our desire for better and more modern roads, schools, health facilities must be realised across the entire country. As we are determined to modernise, build and industrialise our beloved country, no one should be left behind.”

President Mnangagwa said conference resolutions would help his Government better serve people’s needs.

“We value all the constructive contributions, with regards to all the sub-sectors of the economy; agriculture, mining, manufacturing, tourism, infrastructure, energy, ICTs and social services.

“As conference has directed, we will accelerate the various strategies that will lead to the modernisation of our agriculture sector and ultimately increased production and productivity,” said President Mnangagwa.

He called on the ruling party to be at the forefront of communicating the development agenda and the actual work done to improve livelihoods.

“The relevant departments of the party must play a central role in publicising our policies, programmes and reform measures to allow for the tracking of progress, monitoring and evaluation by the people,” he said.

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Mnangagwa Impresses IMF Boss

Terrence Mawawa|Through his political antics Emmerson Mnangagwa has managed to win the admiration of an International Monetary Fund(IMF) official.

The International Monetary Fund has
said Mnangagwa’s current
economic plan is a comprehensive stabilization
and reform effort.

Responding to an online question during Friday’s edition of IMF’s weekly question-and-answer
session, the Fund’s director of communications, Mr Gerry Rice, said IMF can only work on a financial programme with Zimbabwe once the
country strikes a deal with bilateral creditors and clears its arrears with other international financial institutions.

Said Rice:’We think the policies, to answer the question, the policies of the new administration under the Zimbabwe transition and stabilization program, do
constitute a comprehensive
stabilization and reform effort in order to address Zimbabwe’s
macroeconomic situation.
And, you know, we see it as a fairly
ambitious program that the authorities
have requested the staff monitored
program. I’m differentiating that from
an IMF financial program which, of
course, discussion of that, as we’ve
said here before, would require the
clearance of arrears by Zimbabwe to
the other international financial
institutions as well as an agreement
with official bilateral creditors. So we
are looking at a staff monitored
program, but not at this point, the full
financial program for the reasons I just
mentioned.”

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ED Still Believes His Administration Is A Moving Train, Isn’t It Grounded?

Zanu-PF’s economy-focused conference, which ended here yesterday, has sent a loud message that the ruling party is “boldly on the move”, First Secretary and President Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.

In his rousing closing remarks at the party’s 17th Annual National People’s Conference in Esigodini, Matabeleland South, which was themed “Zimbabwe is open for business: Peace, unity towards an upper middle-income economy by 2030”, Cde Mnangagwa declared that Zanu-PF was unstoppable in its quest to deliver better livelihoods.

To huge cheers, Cde Mnangagwa — who is the Head of State and Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Forces — said: “Here is the message from Esigodini. Those who have ears listen, those with eyes see: Zanu-PF is boldly on the move.

“We have an appointment with our destiny and we will not miss our destiny. Zanu-PF will not be distracted or destroyed, it will prosper.

“Prosperity for our beloved country and a better quality of life of our people is inevitable and it is us who must achieve it.

“Musangano wedu, Zanu-PF, wava kufamba senzou. Ucharamba uchiongofamba, uchingofamba, unchingofamba.

“Hapana unoumisa; tinoziva kwatinoda kuinda; tichafamba, tigongofamba tichingofamba vanovukura vachingovukura.”

Cde Mnangagwa said the resolutions adopted by the Conference marked a new era of implementation and development.

“All the resolutions were unequivocal and will certainly strengthen and consolidate the correct line as well as our desire to grow and modernise or revolutionary mass party,” he said.

“Zvisungo zvataita zvose hapana chatawana chatigozhera. These will further stand as a guiding beacon as we implement our polices and programmes in the coming year. Zvisungo izvi uchava mwenje watichatevera tichienda mberi.

“The spirit of unity, love, loyalty, cooperation and discipline within the party, must remain the solid foundation upon which our structures are build and strengthened.”

Added Cde Mnangagwa: “Party leaders and members alike should continuously and consistently concern themselves with the state of the party and seek to improve it always.

“Hard work, integrity, unity of purpose, honesty, sensitivity to the plight of our people regardless of social status must be synonymous with the party line.”

The ruling party’s President and First Secretary urged Conference delegates — who numbered in the thousands — to share their fruitful deliberations with their constituencies so as to galvanise Zanu-PF’s momentum.

“As we close our Conference, allow me once again to thank you for the commitment, discipline and focus which has characterised this conference,” he said.

“This is the nature and character of true cadres of a true revolutionary party.

“As you go to back to your respective provinces, I wish you safe travels and ability to disseminate the decisions we have made at this defining 17th National People’s Conference.”

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Chiefs Hail ED Wife’s “Love For Zimbabweans”

Traditional leaders have applauded First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa for taking a leading role in ensuring citizens have access to quality and affordable healthcare.

On the sidelines of the 2018 World Aids Day Celebrations in Glendale yesterday, Mazowe district Paramount Chief Makope (Mr Jacob Mapirinjanja) said the First Lady was showing her dedication to improved health for the disadvantaged.

He said traditional leaders would assist her efforts, as well as Government programmes aimed at improving the health delivery.

“As traditional leaders, we are happy over the manner in which the First Lady is showing love for Zimbabweans. The previous First Lady did not have such a caring heart,” he said. “We have observed how she has taken time to visit our hospitals to appreciate how patients are being treated.”

Chief Makope said traditional leaders had a big role to play in the fight against HIV and Aids.

“We, traditional leaders, will work with the Government and other stakeholders such as the National AIDS Council and the Dreams Programme so as to fight HIV and Aids until we achieve our target to rid of the disease totally by 2030,” said Chief Makope.

“The programmes that are being implemented by NAC in the district are showing positive signs as we are witnessing a decrease of HIV in the District.”

The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (Dreams) Project seeks to reduce HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women in 10 African countries.

Mashonaland Central is characterised by farming and mining activities, with many people living in compounds where there are high incidences of STIs and HIV.

Mashonaland Central Provincial Chief’s Council Chair Senator Clemence Nembire (Chief Nembire) called on Zimbabweans to shun immoral sexual behaviour to curb the spread of HIV.

He hailed the First Lady’s health initiatives, adding: “Amai Mnangagwa is doing good because she is always on the ground taking a leading role. She hardly has time to rest and is always on the go attending to various issues for the betterment of our people’s lives.”

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“Clear What You Owe Us Before We Can Even Talk” IMF Tells Mnangagwa

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has put in place a viable plan to turn around Zimbabwe’s economic fortunes, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said, but called on the country to quickly clear its foreign arrears first.

The IMF said it was in talks with Zimbabwe to start monitoring the country’s programmes.

If Zimbabwe secures the deal to enter the so-called staff monitored programme, it would mark a major step towards normalising relations with the IMF, which suspended its voting rights in 2003 over policy differences with ex-president Robert Mugabe and non-payment of arrears.

“IMF staff is currently discussing with Zimbabwe the policies that might become the staff monitored programme which would aim to assist with fiscal consolidation and the reform agenda,” spokesperson Gerry Rice told a regular IMF media briefing on Friday.

“We think the policies, to answer the question, the policies of the new administration under the Zimbabwe transition and stabilisation programme, do constitute a comprehensive stabilisation and reform effort in order to address Zimbabwe’s macroeconomic situation.

“And, you know, we see it as a fairly ambitious programme that the authorities have requested the staff monitored programme.

“I’m differentiating that from an IMF financial programme which, of course, discussion of that, as we’ve said here before, would require the clearance of arrears by Zimbabwe to the other international financial institutions as well as an agreement with official bilateral creditors.

“So, we are looking at a staff monitored programme, but not at this point, the full financial programme for the reasons I just mentioned. …”

Zimbabwe faces a daunting challenge to clear at least $1,8 billion in arrears to the World Bank and African Development Bank before it can start accessing IMF foreign credit, especially for the private sector as well as foreign direct investment.

Mnangagwa has promised to revive the economy, pay foreign debts that the country has defaulted on since 1999 and end the international pariah status that Zimbabwe acquired under Mugabe’s nearly four-decade despotic rule.

But the economy remains in crisis with an acute shortage of cash, fuel, other basic goods, the collapse in the value of the country’s parallel “bond note” currency and many businesses struggling to operate.

Paying debt arrears could potentially open access to financing from the IMF, World Bank and other development institutions, but the United States, which is the bank and fund’s largest member country is an obstacle.

It still maintains sanctions on Harare and is unlikely to support financing for Zimbabwe until the new government makes progress on reforms, including changing laws restricting media freedom and anti-government protests.

At the heart of its economic problems is a $17 billion domestic and foreign debt, a $1,8 billion trade deficit that has worsened dollar shortages and lack of confidence in the ruling party by citizens still traumatised by hyperinflation.

The economic crunch is increasing political tension after a July vote that was supposed to lay the foundation for Zimbabwe’s recovery was instead followed by turmoil that left six people dead after an army crackdown.

The latest crisis was triggered by fiscal and monetary changes announced in October including a 2 percent tax on money transfers and separation of cash dollars and foreign inflows from bond notes and electronic dollars, that caused the collapse of the surrogate currency on the black market.

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We Are Using Condoms In Place Of Gloves- Doctors

 

Terrence Mawawa|Doctors at public health institutions have been on
strike since December 1 this year.

The doctors have decried poor working conditions were they have been forced to improvise for them
to attend to patients.

In an interview with ZimLive, Prince Butau, the treasurer of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) said:”
People are dying under our watch. As
doctors, we’re also not psychologically in a good place because of the effects of the economy including price hikes
and fuel shortages.

There’s no personal protective
equipment. Sometimes we’re forced to wear condoms when checking
patients. Doctors are asking, until when shall we continue practising bush medicine?”

The doctors have since dropped one of their key demands, to be paid in United States dollars. They have, however, insisted that their RTGS
salaries should be commensurate with the cost of living.

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We Will No Longer Treat Opposition With Kid Gloves- Chiwenga

 

Terrence Mawawa|Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said the
Nelson Chamisa-led MDC rejected Mnangagwa’s offer for dialogue after the July 30 poll.

By rejecting the Presidential election results, MDC closed the door for dialogue with Emmerson Mnangagwa, declared Chiwenga.

” The MDC has chosen to disrespect President Mnangagwa, ZANU will continue to respond in kind.”

On November 22, MDC MPs were violently ejected from Parliament after they refused to rise when Mnangagwa entered the August House for the presentation of the 2019 budget by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube.
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has since warned the MDC MPs that cabinet ministers will not respond to their questions in Parliament as long as they refuse to accept Mnangagwa as the legitimate President of the country.

While addressing ZANU PF delegates at the Annual People’s National Conference in Esigodini, Umzingwane District, Matabeleland South Province on Friday, Chiwenga said:”Cde President, you personally
stretched out your hand to the
opposition after Zanu PF’s July 30
landslide victory. But the opposition spurned that hand.
You have since withdrawn the well-
stretched hand.All of us follow, principally those of us in Parliament are very happy that our Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs (Ziyambi Ziyambi), acting in his capacity as leader of the House (in Parliament), sent a clear signal of paying back the opposition in the hard coin they have tossed us. They have chosen to disrespect our leader who is the Head of State of our nation (President Mnangagwa).

We have no reason to handle them with the respect they have voluntarily
rejected.”

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Zanu Pf Establishes 11th “Diaspora” Province, Will It Allow Diaspora Vote In 2023?

By Own Correspondent| As part of the party’s resolutions at the just ended 17th Annual National People’s Conference, Zanu Pf resolved to establish a 11th province in the diaspora.

The party established the Diaspora province as part of the party’s mobilisation strategy which is aimed at increasing its support base and structures.

Said Simbarashe Mumbengegwi while giving a report on external affairs:

“…government should strengthen bilateral relations with the countries which stood by Zimbabwe.

Focus should be on intensifying re-engagement efforts to normalise all aspects of international relations.

The establishment of a province in the diaspora is also key towards mobilising for support from Zimbabweans living abroad.”

Zimbabweans living in the diaspora have in the past elections been disenfranchised despite their efforts to cast their ballot during elections.

In May 2018, the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) barred millions of Zimbabweans based in the diaspora from voting after it dismissed an application for amendment of provisions of the Electoral Act to allow them to vote from their respective bases.

In passing judgment, Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza said after considering all arguments before the court, it was agreed that it could not succeed.

The appeal had been filed by three Zimbabwean diasporans; Gabriel Shumba and Sibonile Mfumisi (both based in South Africa), and United Kingdom-based Darlington Nyambiya.

 

 

 

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“Why I Will Never Forgive Nelson Chamisa,” Opinion

Dear Editor|This morning when I saw the Zimbabwean Workers For Justice’s press conference, it all came flooding back. I was 15. My sisters were 8 and 6. My father, a humble man, a hard working man, lost his job.

We all felt the pain and the humiliation he felt. My mother went out to try and earn some money cleaning and cooking where she could. But his heart had already been broken. His pride had been crushed.

Amazingly, he had saved just enough to allow me to finish school. I always loved writing, and he was going to make sure that I finished my education so I could pursue my dreams. For all the problems Zim has, a passion for education has always been part of our very ethos.

I remember the discussions at home when the Supreme Court case was underway. Isn’t Chamisa a politician? Isn’t he supposed to be supporting us? Can it be the case that he is actually fighting against the worker?

I didn’t understand the significance of this talk back then. I do now.

Let us rewind a bit. At the time in 2015, his own party was calling for him to step down after the Supreme Court Case sent shockwaves through our nation. The decision had declared that all workers could be fired – en masse – if need be, with a mere three month’s notice. A simple letter of dismissal. Cue; a tidal wave of firings. Estimates suggest that as many as 30,000 employees were dismissed. Just. Like. That.

Now if you do the calculations, if each of those 30,000 employees had at least 3 dependents (probably more), we are looking at about 100,000 Zimbabweans who lost their livelihoods in one swoop. 100,000 Zimbabweans who could no longer put food on their table, afford education or basic healthcare to treat their sick.

We were one such family.

This is why when I saw that press conference, I rushed to borrow a friend’s computer and start typing. We cannot allow this injustice to succeed. We must support this new organisation whoever is behind it. Frankly, I don’t even care if it was politically motivated. Real people and real lives were destroyed by this case. And one of the leading components responsible for this national disaster is one of the leading candidates for president.

His disregard for the worker, the beating heart of this nation, and his decision to support big business is simply unforgivable. I understand of course if he was a private citizen, an average run of the mill advocate or simple lawyer, he could do what he wanted. But he was not. He was an MP at the time, an elected representative of the people, not supposed to be representing the rich foreign business owners. He was supposed to represent us.

And now he is running for president.

This is not a simple matter of forgiving and forgetting. This is serious. When I go to the polls in three weeks’ time and make that big decision which will decide the fate of a nation, I will not forgive and I will not forget.

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“Why I Attended The ZANU PF Conference,” Mthuli Ncube Speaks

Pictures of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube at the just-ended Zanu PF conference held in Esigodini in Matabeleland South got Zimbabweans talking on social media.

It was the first time the Cambridge University-trained economist was seen at a high-profile Zanu PF event since he was roped into President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s post-election Cabinet as one of the technocrats expected to help turn around the comatose economy.

Ncube (MN) told our senior reporter Obey Manayiti (OM) in an exclusive interview that questions about why he attended the conference were personal, but said there were no prizes for guessing what he was.

Ncube also spoke about growing demands by civil servants to be paid in foreign currency and the impact of his raft of austerity measures introduced a couple of months ago. Below are excerpts from the interview.

OM: Did you attend this Zanu PF conference as a member and if so, when did you join?

MC: Do not ask me personal questions like that. I am a government official. I am the minister of Finance. I was appointed by a Zanu PF government. I think there are no prizes for guessing what I am.

OM: What do you consider to be the key outcomes of the conference considering that it took place on the back of the austerity measures you introduced a couple of months ago and the 2019 national budget presented last month?

MN: At this conference, the party endorsed the budget proposals and adopted them as their own, equally they endorsed the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) and also endorsed Vision 2030 because those three are interlinked.

They also urged us to follow the recommendations and make sure that they are implemented. That is very important and that is very pleasing. But there are a lot of overlaps within the other recommendations of the party with what we see in the budget, the TSP and Vision 2030 such as, for instance, making sure that we live within our means in a way that preserves value, making sure that we eventually resolve the currency issue and remove price distortions by making sure that we support the productive sector so as to support job creation.

That came out very strongly indeed and also making sure that those who are profiteering from the exorbitant prices are sufficiently sanctioned, including withdrawal of licences, which really is the last resort.

We shouldn’t get there and I think they must heed the call that they shouldn’t profiteer.

They should run their business competitively, all those things are enshrined in what we have been trying to do within the budget and within the announcements that we have made.

Also what is very clear is that other measures such as the 2% transaction tax are very key to supporting and financing devolution because really, half of what we have raised from that 2% stake is actually financing devolution.

That $310 million that I allocated in the budget and the other half is going towards supporting social services, education and health, making sure that there are no potholes on our roads.

So this is very important going forward. Everything that was discussed here at least on the economic front is supportive of what we are trying to do.

If you look at agriculture, for instance, supporting agriculture, raising productivity, making sure that inputs for farmers are available and making sure that there is the right price that will support farmers.

In terms of provision of health services, all that came out very strongly is that we need to do our best to make sure that the quality of service delivery is right there, protecting the vulnerable in terms of our social service efforts.

OM: In brief, you are saying you are happy with the outcome of the conference and you feel it will make your job easier?

MN: Absolutely, I am very pleased with what was deliberated on at this conference for the past two days, but also prior to that, in terms of the central committee and politburo, it is in line with Vision 2030, in line with Transitional Stabilisation Programme, in line with the budget.

So I am very happy indeed that we have had that alignment with what government is trying to do.

OM: When you announced the austerity measures, Zanu PF complained that you did not consult them. Have you managed to find each other in that regard?

MN: Absolutely, we are on the same path. We are on the same page and the resolutions are testimony to that.

All our policies were endorsed here, were adopted here and now the party is urging us to make sure that its members, the nation, the citizenry understand what these policies are.

It is our duty to now make sure that we explain to them in simple words, in simple messages to the people.

OM: What is your assessment of the impact so far of the measures you introduced in your maiden budget?

MC: There is no resistance, people are complying. Of course, any major change in policy that impacts people will cause a reaction because they are adjusting.

I don’t think there’s any major negative reaction. Of course, we are hearing people requesting even salaries in US dollars.

Of course, government doesn’t, as you know, produce US dollars, all we know is that the US dollars are allocated at the central bank to productive sectors, to areas of need such as fuel, fertilisers and so forth, so there is no question of government providing salaries in US dollars.

I urge the leadership of those unions, who are pushing their members in that direction to desist from misguiding their members into believing that government is able to give them salaries in US dollars.

Government does not produce US dollars in the first place.

I urge them to desist from misleading their members, it is not fair that the enlightened leadership misleads their gullible members in this way.

OM: The conference specifically urged you to look into the multi-currency system, which they said was not working. Do you have any immediate solutions in your mind?

MC: The policies we have put in place are what we have in mind because you need strong policies, consistent policies, policies that begin to achieve results.

Before you resolve the multi-currency system, if you look at what we have done at the moment, we have first of all recognised that we don’t have monetary policy, we have no currency of our own, but we have fiscal policy.

We are using fiscal policy to stabilise monetary and value issues.

So by managing the budget deficit and curtailing expenditure — notice that the premium that we observe on the currency side has stabilised. Have you noticed that?

It is because we have closed the tap on the fiscal side. So we recognise this and we should continue to constrain ourselves in terms of expenditure, live within our means.

We are slowly creating the right environment for currency reform.

When we are ready, we will announce what we are doing, but we are aware that the multi-currency pricing system is prejudicing people but also legally, we have been telling people that it is illegal to practice a multi-currency pricing system. But we know people are practising it.

In fact, at this conference people were saying that you must implement the law, enforce it to make sure that it does not happen.

Really, we do not have to come to this where every time it is the strong arm of the law that is kicking in.

We are doing our part making sure that policies build up consistently to achieve the right results and steps toward the ultimate currency reform.

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Highlanders Battling To Extend Contracts Of Key Players

HIGHLANDERS are fretting over failure to tie down two of their most influential players ahead of the Castle Lager Premier League next season.

Two of Bulawayo giants’ most senior players, Peter Muduhwa (pictured) and Gabriel Nyoni are reportedly dilly-dallying to renew their contracts ahead of the forthcoming season amid revelations that the duo is anticipating a move from the former champions.

“We have managed to agree terms with virtually all the players but we are being frustrated by two players, (Peter) Muduhwa and Gabriel.

These two are giving us an anxious time. Imagine we have sought audience with them on a number of times to no avail as they are not showing up for discussion to deliberate on their contracts,” said a reliable source privy to the goings-on at the club.

Muduhwa and Nyoni are vital cogs to the former champions’ aspiration of winning the championship, which has eluded them since they last won it in 2006. Muduhwa is reported to be angling for a move to 2015 champions, Chicken Inn while Nyoni has been linked to Caps United amid revelations that he has secured employment in Harare.

“It’s becoming difficult to convince the two as they are being truant, going to the extent of even deliberately ignoring phone calls from the clubs’ officials from time to time. These players should, however, be grateful that the club gave them an opportunity to shape their careers and it will be folly for them to abandon Highlanders at such a crucial time when we are looking forward to winning the league after a long time,” said the source.

Bosso last week sealed deals with goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda who renewed his contract and also resigned midfielder Nqobizitha Masuku.

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Sad International Picture, Zimbabwean Athlete Runs Barefooted At Regional Competition

In a very sad and shocking development, a Zimbabwean athlete is reported to have competed at the 8th edition of the Region V Youth Under 20 Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana while barefooted.

However, the young lad, whose identity we are yet to confirm, did not let this deter him as he managed to win a bronze medal.

Towards the finish line. The yet to be identified Zim athlete in barefoot gets third place finish

At the time of publishing, it was not immediately clear whether the athlete competed barefooted because he had no alternative or whether it was his personal choice to do so.

ZimEye.com efforts to get a comment from the Zimbabwean delegation at the games were not successful at the time of writing.

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Pastor Anointed Himself All Over The Body Before Raping Young Boys

A 30-year-old pastor allegedly raped boys and young men after telling them they were the “chosen one” in his church.

The pastor from Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, in South Africa, is alleged to have been abusing a group of boys that were attending a ministry school at his church to graduate as pastors themselves.

A now 19-year-old victim said he was 16 years old when the abuse started. He said he had been staying and sleeping at the Hands of God International Ministries for three years to train as a pastor.

“It started in 2015 one night when he woke me up while I was sleeping with other boys in another bedroom that we shared as junior pastors,” the teen said. He said the pastor called him to his bedroom and told him that he was the “chosen one”.

“He said God had chosen me to be his (pastor) protector. He ‘anointed’ himself with oil all over his body and started kissing me while I was shocked. He then penetrated me.”

The teen said he was scared to tell his parents each morning when he got home because they were also members of the church and loved the pastor very much.

His mother said: “I’m angry at myself because I have missed out on three years of my son’s life and [not seeing] the signs that I could have noticed. However, I want justice for all these children that he has been taking advantage of because of our kindness as parents.”

Another boy said he did report the abuse to church after he was raped in 2014 but no one believed him.

“I remember the pain I felt when he first raped me, I could not even sit for three days but I kept quiet because he made me believe he was imparting supernatural powers to me as a servant.

“I am very angry that it’s only now that more guys have come out that I’m believed.”

He said he was now taking drugs to numb the pain the pastor inflicted on his life.

“This broke me and the past four years have been hell seeing him pass by my house after leaving the church.”

The third victim said the pastor demanded him to perform blow jobs on him every night.

He said he eventually ran away from the church because it was traumatising him.

The accused pastor appeared in the Soshanguve magistrate’s court yesterday, to face two counts of rape and one of sexual assault.

The matter was postponed to January 25 for further investigations.

— Sowetan

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Hanzi na Charumbira “I dont think kuti vaChiwenga vangada kuita imwe Operation Restore Legacy sezvo vari ivo vakagadza va Mnangagwa” | WHAT WAS HE TRYING TO SAY TRULY?

President of the Chiefs Council of Zimbabwe Chief Fortune Charumbira addresses Matabeleland South Province traditional leaders at a seminar held at a bBulawayo hotel yesterday.Listening (left) is his deputy Chief Mtshana Khumalo.
“Hanzi na Charumbira I dont think kuti vaChiwenga vangada kuita imwe operation restore legacy sezvo vari ivo vakagadza va Mnangagwa. Ndakatadza kunzwisisa kuti aida kurevei mambo uyu.”- COMMMENT

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Zim Football To Fall In Line With International Standards

The Zifa assembly will today decide whether the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season should adopt the August-May calendar.

The PSL came up with the proposal to align its calendar with that of CAF, and a decision will be made during the Annual General Meeting to be held in Harare. The local campaign usually starts around March and ends in December.

According to the League’s chairman, Farai Jere, a transition plan is already in place and will see two tournaments hosted before the start of the next campaign. There would be a knockout competition and another mini-league tournament before the teams go for a break in May until August when the new season will start.

Jere added that the sponsors, as well as the Zimbabwe Football Association, have raised no objections to the change in the local football calendar ahead of the decisive meeting today.

“There is a plan in place, the sponsors have given it a thumbs up, Zifa has given it a thumbs up, so what is left now is to meet because it’s a constitutional matter,” said Jere in a local publication last week.

Soccer24

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Pasuwa Wins League Championship In Malawi

Own Correspondent|Kalisto Pasuwa has won the Malawi Super League with Nyasa Big Bullets with two games to play.

Bullets registered a 3-0 win over Red Lions to attain an unassailable five-point lead ahead of second-placed BE Forward Wanderers.

The former Warriors gaffer joined the side in October and managed to maintain the momentum on top. He signed a two and a half month-deal and was tasked to win the title which he achieved today.

The 48-year-old is now likely to get a long-term contract which will see him guiding the club in 2019 season.

Meanwhile, Pasuwa’s charges failed to progress to the first round of the CAF Champions League after losing 4-3 on penalties to Kenyan side Gor Mahia.

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ZANU PF Conference Resolutions Emphasise Party Supremacy Over Government

THE Zanu-PF 17th Annual National Peoples Conference which ended at Esigodini yesterday came up with a number of resolutions among them that President Mnangagwa is the sole party’s candidate for the 2023 elections and that the revolutionary party has zero tolerance to corruption.

Reading the consolidated resolutions at the end of the conference, Politburo member, Advocate Jacob Mudenda said the party was behind President Mnangagwa.

“All wings reaffirm that the President and First Secretary of the party, Cde Mnangagwa be the sole candidate for the 2023 harmonised elections. All structures will start preparations for the 2023 harmonised elections immediately,” said Adv Mudenda.

He said the nation was not going to tolerate any form of corruption or divisive elements.

“The party and Government adopt zero tolerance to corruption in the public and private sector. The party upholds the spirit of unity by putting in place deterrent penalties for perpetrators of factionalism, tribalism, regionalism and similar vices that seek to advance the individual’s interests at the expense of the unity of the party,” said Adv Mudenda.

The party also noted that its supremacy over Government should be effectively practised whereby it directs Government policies and programmes at central and provincial levels in the context of devolution.

Adv Mudenda also said the party should have completed its restructuring by 2019 from cell up to provincial organs and that prior to the restructuring exercise the issuance of electronic party cards should have been decentralised to provinces.

The party also reaffirmed its position on the involvement of the youth in its activities through attractive packages for the youth.

“The party must also create innovative and relevant mobilisation strategies to attract the youth to join the Youth League as well as to encourage young organisations including professionals and other interest groups to affiliate with Zanu-PF and the youth wing,” said Adv Mudenda.

The National Youth Programme would also be re-launched in the first quarter of 2019.

Party members were also told to be knowledgeable about the provisions for the party Constitution and adhere to them. It was resolved that the Legal Affairs Department translates the party’s Constitution to all indigenous languages and that all party members be taught the Zanu-PF Constitution.

In terms of official party communication, the spokesperson of the party is the one mandated to speak on behalf of the party.

“All communication protocol and channels be strictly adhered to by all party members and that the spokesperson of the party always be the Secretary for Information and Publicity. The Secretary must create a unit to propagate the party’s propaganda through all social media platforms,” read Adv Mudenda.

The conference also resolved that the existing party investments be audited in order to find out their viability and their contribution to the party coffers.

The party will also vigorously pursue additional investment opportunities to expand and diversify its revenue streams.

Adv Mudenda announced that the National Constitution be amended to extend the term of parliamentary women’s quota until a considerable level of empowerment has been reached.

There was also a resolution to hold the People’s Conference before the rainy season and budget presentation in Parliament in order to allow the party to have some input into the budget process.

Under the food security cluster, the Government was urged to modernise all existing irrigation infrastructure and develop new ones in order to utilise all water bodies existing to increase agricultural activities in the country.

The criteria of Command Livestock beneficiaries would be revised as it is said to segregate the underprivileged.

Adv Mudenda added that agricultural inputs were to reach beneficiaries timeously and that vulnerable communities benefit.

The Government pledged to implement the recommendations of the Land Commission on Land Tenure farm size and illegal occupation and allocation of land in forest estates particularly.

The Government was also urged to monitor the implementation of Vision 2030 and create an enabling environment including the ease of doing business for the development of the country.

Delegates agreed that the Government must review the tax system which is said to be punitive and that banks give meaningful interest on deposits accounts and avoid astronomical bank charges.

The Government was also tasked to intervene on the three-tier pricing system and decisively deal with economic malpractices being witnessed by coming up with thorough investigations and prosecution of perpetrators.

On the issue of social services, the Government was implored to have a special plan for students with disabilities and to stop the increase of tuition fees for tertiary institutions.

The revival of the National Railways of Zimbabwe and the airport was also noted to be of great importance to infrastructure development.

The Government was further urged to continue engaging and re-engaging the private sector, civil society and international financial institutions and the international community at large.

The party resolves to continue recognising war veterans and to set up war museums and construct other monuments as well as improve the welfare of the former freedom fighters. It was resolved that those that did not get land should benefit.

The Zanu-PF Constitution would be aligned to the national Constitution to allow 50-50 representation in party positions by 2030.

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Delta Beverages Having A Nightmare To Match Demand For Beer

DELTA Corporation Limited, Zimbabwe’s largest beverage marker, is making frantic efforts to ensure the availability of all its assortment of lager beers in the wake of the prevailing foreign currency shortages to import packaging material.

In an exclusive interview with Sunday News Business, after the commissioning of a $260 000 upgrade of a road junction that links its Fairbridge Chibuku Super plant with the Harare-Bulawayo Highway, Delta Corporation general manager — Lager Beer Business Dr Munyaradzi Nyandoro said unreliable foreign currency availability for the procurement of glass package was threatening production of its selected beer brands.

“We have one way glass. For some of our brands, which we put on what we call dumpies (disposable bottles), that’s a huge import bill. We get that from South Africa. You know your Castle Lite and others, so that’s a challenge because you know foreign currency is not easy to come by.

We spend about $12 million a year, which is quite something. We have obviously been running credits with our suppliers but they will obviously need to be paid at sometime, so if we don’t get support unfortunately it might mean that some brands might run out from time to time, as we depend on the formal channels to get forex, which is the RBZ or the banks themselves, but we will try ways of creating forex,” said Dr Nyandoro.

He, however, said there were little problems with regards to the availability of non-disposable bottles.

“A lot of our glass is returnable and so we take it from the bucket and then we wash it and then we package, that’s about 80 percent of our business for Lagers,” said Dr Nyandoro.

Delta needs between $60 million to $75 million to meet foreign obligations annually for procurement of various strategic raw materials and has been struggling to get that allocation from the central bank. Dr Nyandoro said the shortage faced three months ago was due to temporal unavailability of the appropriate barley for beer manufacturing.

“I do know that we ran out of barley in September. So we used new barley, which is always difficult to process so that was constraining in the factory. It’s a phenomenon called dormancy. You have to allow the grain about two-three months if you want it to perform maximally, otherwise you would be lengthening its processing time and also even in the brewing process so that was the main thing in September and October but now we are out of it and our plants are working 24/7 at maximum capacity,” he said.

Dr Nyandoro said production on the Lager business was at maximum capacity with the company producing 200 000 hectolitres per month, an equivalent of 20 million litres of beer a month. He allayed any fears of shortage of glass-bottled beer during the festive season.

“On the Lager side we are fully maxed at maximum capacity, there has been an upsurge in demand and we intend to invest again in expanding capacity. We have sufficient barley next season as you know barley is locally grown, we run contracts for barley so we are trying our best to ensure people have a good Christmas. We can’t say we will provide everything but I think people would have a good cheer over Christmas for Lagers,” Dr Nyandoro said.

He said due to an upsurge in demand for its Lagers, the company has made plans to set up an additional packaging time at its Harare plant.

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Taxi Driver Hijacked, Robbed And Killed

Correspondent|A TAXI driver from Gweru was allegedly kidnapped, robbed and brutally killed before his body was dumped in a dam with his hands and legs tied with an electric cable.

It is understood that Phillip Kuzorahunye (27) of Mkoba 5 high-density suburb was on Monday last week kidnapped, robbed and killed by unknown assailants who had allegedly hired him.

His body was later discovered after three days floating in Zaloba Dam on the outskirts of Gweru.

His father Mr Solomon Kuzorahunye told the police that on the said date, at around 7pm, Phillip, who operated a taxi, left home and went to town to look for clients.

It is alleged that while in town he was hired by unknown people and did not return home. Mr Kuzorahunye reported him as missing at Gweru Central Police Station.

“It is alleged that Phillip had a Honda Fit which he used as a taxi. He left home at around 7pm and went to town where he was hired by unknown people.

“Those people allegedly kidnapped, robbed and murdered him before dumping his body in a dam.

“When Phillip did not return home, his father Mr Kuzorahunye reported the matter to the police,” said a police source.

The source added that Phillip’s body was later discovered on Monday evening floating in Zaloba Dam on the outskirts of Gweru by two boys who were playing near the water body.

“On December 10, at around 5pm Phillip’s body was discovered floating in Zaloba Dam by two boys.

“The lads then informed one of the villagers who then reported the matter to Gweru Rural Police Station.

Phillip’s father came and positively identified the body as that of his son.

The body had bruises all over and his hands and legs were tied with an electric cable.

The body was taken to Gweru Provincial Hospital mortuary for post-mortem,” said the source.

Efforts to get a comment from police were fruitless as Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko was said to be out of office.

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ZRP Clears Mthwakazi Rally and March

Bulawayo Police Clear MRP Rally and March

Police in Bulawayo have given a green light to Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) to hold its end of Year rally and Gukurahundi March. The March will be held on Friday the 21st of December 2018 and people will gather at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo statue at 9am.

The Gukurahundi March is meant to compliment and support the call from our chiefs in finding closure on the genocide. Chief Maduna has, in his old age endeavoured to challenge the government to attend to Gukurahundi. He needs all our support.

On the 23rd of December, MRP will hold its End of Year Rally at Stanely Square, from 1pm to 6pm. The rally is meant to thank our electorate and membership, and to set the tone for next year.

We invite all to attend these momentous occasions and contribute to the freedom of our people.

Sisonke Sibambene Singu Mthwakazi Sizokulungisa

For Peace and Justice in Our Lifetime

MRP Information and Publicity Department

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Robert Mugabe Jnr Wanted In SA For Threatening Engels On Grace Mugabe Charges

Gabriella Engels says she is feeling under pressure from the Mugabe brothers to withdraw the case of assault against Grace.

OUSTED Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s son Robert Junior is facing a criminal case in SA after a case of intimidation was opened against him this week.

The case, opened by Gabriella Engels on Thursday, could set the stage for round two of the legal war between the all-powerful Mugabes and the Joburg model.

She is the same woman who was allegedly assaulted by Mugabe jnr’s mother Grace with an electric extension cord in a Sandton hotel in August last year.

Gabriella Engels, who claims that she was assaulted a few months ago by then Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe, says she is pursuing the court case in order to seek justice even if Mrs. Mugabe has fallen from grace.

Mrs Mugabe denied assaulting Engels with an electric cable, saying an “intoxicated and unhinged” Engels had attacked her with a knife.

South African advocacy group Afriforum, which represented Engels, dismissed the allegations as lies.

According to Engels, an irate Mrs Mugabe burst into the room where she was waiting with two friends in a Johannesburg luxury hotel suite to meet one of Mugabe’s sons last August, and started attacking her with an electric cable.

Photographs taken by Engels’ mother soon after the incident showed gashes to the model’s head and bruising on her thighs.

Willie Spies, a lawyer for Afriforum, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) should now take action to prosecute Mrs Mugabe and seek her extradition from Zimbabwe to South Africa.

Spies said if the NPA failed to take action, Afriforum would start proceedings against Mrs Mugabe.

“The ball is in their court now,” Spies said, adding that Afriforum had argued that Grace Mugabe committed the attack on Engles while she was on a private visit to South Africa and therefore did not qualify for diplomatic immunity.

NPA spokeswoman Phindi Mjnonondwana said the case was still in the hands of the police and had not yet been sent to the NPA for action.

However, NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku said South Africa and Zimbabwe had previously cooperated on extraditing suspects from one country to the other.

Following the judgement, International Relations and Cooperation Department under Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said they were still studying the judgment.

– Sowetan

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ZIFA Election D – Day For Chiyangwa Who Even Bunked ZANU PF Conference

It has been an unusually quiet campaign period for incumbent Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa ahead of the much-awaited Zifa elective annual general meeting at the Zifa Village today.

And the Harare businessman was yesterday in no mood to entertain any questions on his expectations ahead of the elections, while his main rival, former Zifa board member Felton Kamambo was confident of victory.

“I’ve got absolutely nothing to say at all about the elections and I will only speak after tomorrow. I have not said anything on the elections to your papers and I will continue not to,” an irate sounding Chiyangwa told Standarsport yesterday.

Although he has doggedly refused to publicly comment on the elections, Chiyangwa, who took over as Zifa boss in December 2015, is desperate to retain his post and has been accused of going to the extent of employing dirty tricks to try and block his rival’s participation.

Kamambo survived spirited efforts to bar him from participating in the polls after initially being “banned” by the incumbent in an effort to disqualify him from contesting before having his nomination papers thrown out only to be allowed to contest following Fifa’s intervention.

The former Central Region chairman was yesterday brimming with confidence despite having been given little time to campaign ahead of the elections.

“I’m expecting a landslide victory,” Kamambo told Standardsport yesterday. “The response that we have received from the Zifa councillors as well as other football stakeholders during our campaign has been extremely positive. I have been well accepted and I’m confident of victory,” he said.

Kamambo said he believed he was a better candidate than Chiyangwa, who he said had failed to deliver on his promises when he was elected to the helm of the local football mother body in December 2015.

“I believe I am better in every aspect of football management than Chiyangwa, who has failed to deliver what he promised to the Zifa councillors in 2015,” he said.

“I’m a man of action, everything I promise, I deliver and my record speaks for itself. I promise to usher in a new era of transparency, adherence to corporate governance and respect for the association’s constitution.”

The battle between Chiyangwa and Kamambo will be the major highlight of today’s elective congress, which will be supervised by world football governing body Fifa, who have reportedly despatched observers for the polls.

The elections will also see current Zifa deputy president Omega Sibanda and former Southern Region chairperson Gift Banda tussling for the vice-president’s post.

Banda has also been a victim of underhand tactics meant to kick him out of the race. He was arrested on Wednesday and released the following day on bail, after being picked up by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission.

Six candidates — namely Sugar Chagonda, Mlungisi Moyo, Chamu Chiwanza, Stanley Chapeta, Philemon Machana and Brighton Malandule — will be vying for the other four slots on the Zifa board.

Media practitioner Barry Manandi, who had initially set sights on one of the Zifa board spots, pulled out citing irregularities in the whole process.

A total of 60 members of the Zifa Council drawn from the Premier Soccer League, provinces, regions, women’s football, the National Association of Primary School Heads (Naph) and National Secondary Schools Heads (Nash), area zones, Futsal, beach soccer and tertiary (colleges and universities) are expected to vote during the elective annual general meeting.

While the major business of the day will be the election of a new board that will serve a four-year term, the Zifa congress will also decide on the change of season, aligning the local calendar with that of CAF competitions.

The Zifa financials will also hog the limelight after a report done by the association’s auditors Baker Tilly Gwatidzo Chartered Accountants without some pages, which contained crucial information was sent to Zifa councillors last week.

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“First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa Is Better Than Dr Grace Mugabe”: Traditional Chiefs

By Own Correspondent|  Traditional leaders here have hailed First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa for taking a leading role in ensuring citizens have access to quality and affordable healthcare adding that she is caring unlike her predecessor Dr Grace Mugabe.

On the sidelines of the 2018 World Aids Day Celebrations in Glendale recently, Mazowe district Paramount Chief Makope (Mr Jacob Mapirinjanja) said the First Lady was showing her dedication to improved health for the disadvantaged.

He said traditional leaders would assist her efforts, as well as Government programmes aimed at improving the health delivery.

He said:

“As traditional leaders, we are happy over the manner in which the First Lady is showing love for Zimbabweans. The previous First Lady did not have such a caring heart.

We have observed how she has taken time to visit our hospitals to appreciate how patients are being treated.

Amai Mnangagwa is doing good because she is always on the ground taking a leading role. She hardly has time to rest and is always on the go attending to various issues for the betterment of our people’s lives.”-StateMedia

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Govt In Highly Closed Buy Of Three New Planes For Troubled Air Zimbabwe

GOVERNMENT has dispatched five aviation experts to Texas, the United States of America, where they are understood to be inspecting three Embraer E145 aircraft purchased by national airliner, Air Zimbabwe, as it seeks to breathe life into the flag carriers’ comatose operations.

Nitty-gritties of the transaction could not be established by the time of going to print, but The Sunday Mail Business has gathered that two Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) airworthiness inspectors are currently in Texas reviewing paperwork and making a few checks on the aircraft before certifying them fit for delivery to Harare, potentially before the end of the first quarter of 2019.

Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Engineer Joel Biggie Matiza confirmed the developments last Friday but could not give more details.

“Yes, yes, they (Air Zimbabwe and Caaz officials) are there (in the US). We want to bring our aircraft; they are 180- seater (planes). I will call you later am in a meeting,” said Eng Matiza.

A Caaz source could not provide details of the transaction but intimated that a deal was in the works.

“I am not in office at the moment, why don’t you call the CEO (Mr David Chaota)? I don’t think it’s an issue he might not respond to” said the source.

Mr Chaota could not be reached for comment as he was reportedly in a meeting.

An official who answered his mobile, a P Govere, requested for questions in writing, which had not been responded to by the time of going to print.

A highly placed source at Air Zimbabwe, who declined to be named as he is not authorised to talk to the Press, confirmed that the parastatal had acquired three planes from the US.

“Yes, the planes have been acquired. I am surprised you only mention that there are two officials from Caaz who are in Texas, we also sent two or three.”

Pressed to reveal the cost and size of the aircraft, the source referred further questions to Air Zimbabwe administrator Mr Reggie Saruchera.

When contacted for comment, Mr Saruchera appeared to be in the dark over the deal but asked for questions in writing to be sent through Air Zimbabwe’s manager (for) corporate services, Mr Tafadzwa Mazonde.

The questions had not been responded to by the time of going to print.

Embraer SA is a Brazilian aerospace conglomerate which makes commercial, military, executive and agricultural aircraft and provides aeronautical services.

It is headquartered in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, and is the third-largest producer of civil aircraft, after Boeing and Airbus.

Experts say for Air Zimbabwe to fully recover, it requires smaller aircraft that carry about 50 people so that they ply regional and domestic routes and eventually move to international routes.

Air Zimbabwe, which is saddled with a massive legacy debt of about US$334 million, requires sound management if it is to become a profit-making entity.

State Media

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Is Mthuli The Worst Finance Minister In Africa?

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ZANU PF Pass Resolution To Eliminate Chamisa From Contesting Next Two Presidential Elections

Own Correspondent|In a move flooded with political selfishness and abuse of power, the ruling ZANU PF has agreed to shut opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa out of the 2023 presidential election.

The party which enjoys a two thirds majority in parliament passed a resolution at its 17th annual conference to push for a constitutional amendment raising the minimum age requirement for the presidency to fifty two years from forty years.

Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda who is a senior member of the party read out the resolutions at the close of the conference which ordered Zanu PF parliamentarians to push for the amendment of the country’s constitution.

“Party should amend the national Constitution to include a requirement for a 50-year age limit for presidential candidates,” read the resolution in part.

Chamisa turned 40 earlier this year and will turn fifty two after the 2028 elections.

The ZANU PF aligned War Veterans have been at the forefront of the call for a constitutional amendment in a desperate bid to stop Chamisa.

Secretary general Victor Matemadanda told State radio that the party was talking the deliberate move to deal with Chamisa.

“The problem with the opposition is that they only shout without providing an alternative view. We must engage because we have a reason to push for the changes. It’s allowed in a democratic state. Shouting at me does not stop the amendment.

“We have realised that the youths are giving us problems. We had the G40 in Zanu PF that almost sunk our party and now the person giving us grief Chamisa is within the same generation. So, we will push the party to adopt the age limit resolution,” said Matemadanda.
Commenting, analysts Tawanda Dzvokora and Chiwoneso Mpofu said the development speaks more of desperation by zanu PF which claims to have won the 2018 elections. VIDEO LOADING BELOW….

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“Do Not Force Parents To Buy Uniforms From Chosen Retailers”: Gvnt Tells Schools

By Own Correspondent| Deputy Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Edgar Moyo, said schools should not force parents to buy uniforms from those institutions or specific retailers as this opens floodgates of price distortions.

He also said it was illegal and creates a situation of monopoly while at the same time exploiting buyers.

Said Moyo:

“The act of forcing parents to buy uniforms from specific retailers is illegal and corrupt. It creates a situation of monopoly in the market structure.

Parents should be allowed to buy from anywhere as long as it is the correct uniform.

Market competition is healthy because prices will come down. To demand that people should buy uniforms either from school or specific retailers creates room for price distortions and poor quality.

As a Ministry we do not subscribe to that, we need the names of such schools and we will take action against them. We want them in our books.

There is no law or policy which allows any school whether private or public to force parents and guardians to buy uniforms from a particular shop because this country is a free market economy.-StateMedia

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Muchinguri’s Lies Over Mohadi Exposed, As Mnangagwa Confirms He Is Sick

By Own Correspondent| Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri was on Saturday left with an egg in the face after President Emmerson Mnangagwa revealed the real truth behind the absence of Vice President Kembo Mohadi from the party’s 17th Annual National People’s Conference.

Zanu PF chairperson, Muchinguri-Kashiri had earlier on lied to delegates concerning Vice President Mohadi’s absence from the conference telling the 6,000 Zanu PF officials gathered at Mzingwane High School in Esigodini that Mohadi, was away on assignment.

Mohadi, who was conspicous by his absence at one of the most important events on the party’s calender, according to Mnangagwa could not attend the conference due to ill health.

Said Mnangagwa:

“(Vice President Mohadi) is not here. The chairperson has said we sent him on assignment, no, that’s not correct. He’s not feeling well. He said if he gets better he might join us for the conference. He’s in Harare.”

VP Mohadi,  has been in and out of hospital ever since the Bulawayo explosion at White City Stadium earlier this year. Mohadi had to be airlifted to South Africa for treatment after he sustained some injuries in the explosion.

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Chinese Miners Lose 8kgs Gold At Fake Roadblock

FOUR men believed to be part of an organised syndicate of seven that robbed a Chinese mining company of more than seven kilogrammes of gold after masquerading as police officers and setting up a roadblock have appeared before a Kwekwe magistrate facing robbery charges.

The four, Munyaradzi Guruve (36), Tatenda Chiposi (29), Admire Rusmas Shereni (36) and Yosia Yose (35) were all arraigned before Kwekwe magistrate Mr Tayengwa Sangster after they masqueraded as members of the uniformed forces and mounted a fake roadblock where they stole the gold belonging to Ching Chang Mining Company.

The four, in the company of three others who are still at large, allegedly wore Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniforms before mounting the roadblock along Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway which they used to stop the vehicle that was carrying the gold to Harare and robbing the mine vehicle of 7,681 kilogrammes of smelted gold.

The four, who were represented by Mr Wisdom Mehlo of Mugabe, Mehlo and Partners Legal Practitioners, were granted $300 bail each and will return to court on 20 December.

The State led by Mr Divine Chakombera had consented to the granting of bail to Shereni who was driving the car but had conspired with the robbers while the others remain in custody, but Mr Mehlo said the accused persons should be treated equally.

Mr Mehlo argued that all the four, and not Shereni alone, had been over-detained hence they all deserve their freedom which the magistrate agreed to.

In granting bail, Mr Sangster ordered the four accused to continue residing at their given addresses and report once every week at their nearest police stations.

Mr Chakombera told the court that, on 30 November around 7.40am, Guruve, Chiposi and Yose together with three others, Shepherd Gweshe, a Clayton and a Dadi who are still at large, hatched a plan with Shereni, who works at Ching Chang Mining to rob the company of gold ore.

Guruve, Chiposi, Yose and the other three accused then wore ZRP and army camouflages before they proceeded to the five-kilometre peg along the Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway where they mounted a makeshift roadblock.

Shereni, who was driving the complainant, Mr Jiao Guohao carrying the smelted gold ore destined for Harare, flashed three times as he approached the roadblock to alert the other accused that he was approaching. The accused manning the roadblock then flagged down the vehicle to stop.

As Shereni stopped the vehicle, the other accused took a pepper spray chemical which they used to spray Mr Jiao and the security guard, leaving out Shereni.

They then took a back pack which contained four bars of smelted gold and drove off in the vehicle, leaving the complainant stranded.

They were later arrested by police detectives at their respective homes in Chitungwiza, Mount Darwin and Shamva.

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Hospitals Set For Shut Down As Senior Doctors Join Strike

SENIOR doctors have joined the strike by their juniors citing increased workload as the Labour Court spurned government attempts to declare the crippling industrial action by the medical professionals illegal.

Low-level doctors went on strike on December 1 demanding to be paid in United States dollars and improved working conditions.

The strike forced public hospitals throughout the country to significantly scale down operations, leaving patients stranded.

On Friday, senior doctors that had helped to ensure that critically ill patients received treatment threw in the towel as the negotiations between the government and the striking medical professionals had reached a deadlock.

According to a Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association letter dated December 14, 2018 and addressed to the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals clinical director and copied to the Health Services Board, the senior doctors said they were no longer able to cope with the workload.

“Due to the ongoing industrial action by junior doctors, we as registrars are now overwhelmed by the workload and we are now unable to effectively discharge our services. We are, therefore, withdrawing our services immediately,” read part of the letter which was signed by Mthabisi Bhebhe, the secretary-general of the association.

Last week, the government tried in vain to declare the strike by doctors illegal after acting Labour minister Kazembe Kazembe issued a show cause order.

Kazembe’s order was not given to the doctors who are on strike or their representatives.

The order was filed on December 13 and the parties were immediately invited by Labour Court judge Justice Euna Makamure. Makamure ruled that the order was defective.

The doctors’ lawyers led by Munyaradzi Gwisai challenged the order by the minister arguing that there was nothing before the court and that they had appeared out of courtesy.

“Effectively what it then means is that the strike by the junior doctors continues and has not been dealt with by the court. “There is nothing that can be used to adjudge the strike illegal,” said Gwisai after the ruling.

“Our understanding of the law is that the papers so filed from the very outset are that it is the application for show cause order and the application for the disposal is legally invalid.

“They are incurably bad that they cannot be amended or regularised. The whole process followed was legally flawed. And the best solution is to address the grievances of the concerned junior doctors and not unnecessary legal battles that are clad with flaws and errors.”

The doctors also want the government to provide drugs and proper equipment at hospitals.

This is the second strike by doctors in 2018 after another crippling job boycott in March.

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3 000 “Green Bombers” Officially Kicked Out Of Govt Service

Correspondent|THE Civil Service Commission has initiated the process of retiring the 3384 Youth Officers.

They will be given their full retirement benefits and post-retirement opportunities such as vocational training and access to empowerment programmes, the government has announced.

In a statement issued by Public Service Commission Secretary, Ambassador Jonathan Wutawunashe, some of the empowerment options available to the retired youths include access to loans and business start-up finance.

He however emphasized that these empowerment will be driven by demand, and those willing to take up opportunities should approach Kirsty Coventry’s ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation district offices.

The measures were announced by the Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube while presenting the 2019 budget statement on 22 November.

Each of the former National Youth Service graduates was getting $446 in basic income and other monthly benefits.

Former Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa intended to fire these youths officers popularyly know as Green Bombers in January 2018, but government shelved the idea apparently for fear of becoming unpopular ahead of the July 30 elections.

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Majongwe Asked To Hand Over To A Younger Person And He Replies: “Elect A New Husband At Your House And Move On To Another House Ikoko!”

By Farai D Hove| There was drama when one of Emmerson Mnangagwa’s angry critics, the Progressive Teachers Union leader, Raymond Majongwe was asked to consider stepping down and handing over to a younger leader and he replied on Twitter saying,

“Elect a new husband at your house and move on to another house ikokoBye.”

Many allege that Majongwe is no different to Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and other old leaders who refuse to step down to the younger generation and below were some of the live reactions:

 

 

 

 

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Bleak Christmas For Civil Servants As Finance Minister Confirms Gvnt Can’t Pay Salaries In Forex

By Own Correspondent| Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has dismissed hopes that Government will pay civil servants their salaries in US dollars.

He said unions, who are pushing their members to ask for US dollars should stop misguiding their members into believing that government is able to give them salaries in US dollars.

In an interview with The Standard, Ncube said because government does not produce US dollars, it had no capacity to pay its workers in forex.

Below is an excerpt of the interview between The Standard (OM) and Ncube (MC):

OM: What is your assessment of the impact so far of the measures you introduced in your maiden budget?

MC: There is no resistance, people are complying. Of course, any major change in policy that impacts people will cause a reaction because they are adjusting.

I don’t think there’s any major negative reaction. Of course, we are hearing people requesting even salaries in US dollars.

Of course, government doesn’t, as you know, produce US dollars, all we know is that the US dollars are allocated  at the central bank to productive sectors, to areas of need such as fuel, fertilisers  and so forth, so there is no question of government providing salaries in US dollars.

I urge the leadership of those unions, who are pushing their members in that direction to desist from misguiding their members into believing that government is able to give them salaries in US dollars.

Government does not produce US dollars in the first place.

I urge them to desist from misleading their members, it is not fair that the enlightened leadership misleads their gullible members in this way.

 

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ZANU PF Resolves To Change Presidential Age Limit To 50 Pushing Chamisa Out

By Farai D Hove| Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party, ZANU PF has resolved to change the age limit for Presidential qualification.

The resolution was read out by the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda yesterday.

Mudenda said in part: “Party should amend the national Constitution to include a requirement for a 50-year age limit for presidential candidates.”

Mudenda is now to push for the amendment in the country’s laws. Commenting, analysts Tawanda Dzvokora and Chiwoneso Mpofu said the development speaks more of desperation by zanu PF which claims to have won the 2018 elections. VIDEO LOADING BELOW….

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“Hitler’s” Wife Dies

Correspondent|JENNY Hunzvi, the wife of the late war veterans leader Chenjerai “Hitler” Hunzvi, has died.

News of her passing on was announced by Zanu-PF National Chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri yesterday during the close of the party’s 17th Annual National People’s Conference in Esigodini.

“I have been asked to make an announcement; a very sad announcement. But that is how God works and we have to accept it as it is.

“Yesterday we lost the wife to a national hero who is interred at the Heroes Acre, Chenjerai Hunzvi,” said Muchunguri-Kashiri.

“She passed on yesterday while we were here. We have been advised that she has been declared a provincial hero and she will be buried on the 18th. So for those who can travel to Mashonaland East, they can do so and mourn with others.”

Chenjerai Hunzvi was chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association and was a key figure in the chaotic Fast-Track Land Reform programme of the early 2000’s.

Chejerai Hunzvi died on 4 June 2001.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Jenny Hunzvi as been declared a provincial heroine by the ruling party.

She will be buried at the Mashonaland East Provincial Heroes Acre on Tuesday.

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“Chinhu Chedu” Dominates Zanu Pf Conference While The Nation Burns

As the long suffering Zimbabweans continue to carry the burden of an economy that is on free fall, rampant food shortages, unemployment and widespread demonstrations, ZANU PF continues to exhibit its exclusionary politics of “Chinhu chedu” at the Conference in Matebeleland South Province writes Walter Nyabadza.

The slogans and resolutions at the ZANU PF Conference clearly reflect the politics of entitlement where supporters want to convey a message that they will not give a chance to anyone else besides their candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Enshrined in these slogans are messages of absolute and unwavering support for Mnangagwa and it seems to the supporters that there is no one else who can take the throne other than their candidate.

“Chinhu chedu” or :our thing” is a self-enrichment system of power and business deals within the Zimbabwe body politic, mainly within the ruling ZANU PF party.

It is generally accepted that Mnangagwa is the author and architect of” Chinhu chedu”. Former President, Robert Mugabe, was ousted by the military in order to protect this concept.

Presidential spokesperson George Charamba is widely known for having said to former Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Professor Jonathan Moyo, “Chinhu chedu chine vene vacho” meaning this is ‘our thing and it belongs to its rightful owners’.

There are visible elements of possessiveness, belongingness and ownership in the concept of “Chinhu chedu”.

Professor Douglas Mpondi of African Studies Association, Atlanta defines “Chinhu chedu” as, ” an opinion by a specific group of people in a political party or in a country’s political battlefield that ‘them’ or an individual they want has the absolute right to lead the party or the Country.

Walter Nyabadza is a Zimbabwean lawyer and  and legal advisor for the National Reclamation Assembly.

He writes in his personal capacity. His contacts are: 0771 725 704/

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VIDEO: Apostle Chiwenga Caught Red Handed Lying That “John The Baptist Didn’t Baptise Anybody!”

By A Correspondent| Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged preacher brother, Talent has been caught red handed communicating gross factual falsehoods from the Biblical passages.

In the below video (timeline 3minute), Talent Chiwenga who calls himself, Apostle Chiwenga says “John The Baptist did not baptise anybody.” Analyst and preacher, Howard Nyoni makes the below evidence layout-

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MNANGAGWA CAUSES A STIR AT ESIGODINI: No Even One Word About All The Challenges People Are Facing, Rushes To Talk About 1 August Massacre And Destroying The Opposition

“No even one word about all the challenges people are facing, only talking about election held in July we are now DEC sure sure. So the mandate is to talk about how you “won” the elections.” – COMMENT

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By A Correspondent| ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa speaking at the party’s Esigodini conference Friday morning said he destroyed his opponents as he spoke about the 1 August 2018 military violence.

Mnangagwa said, “I thank you all in all your provinces that you did everything in peace and even up to this day we are peaceful and we are united…

“After the voting and process of announcing elections, we experienced violence in Harare. We condemn that violence and we then appointed a commission of inquiry.

“I have since received the report of the commission of inquiry in the post-election violence of August 2018 and I will be making it public next week…

“I thank you all, we destroyed (takavarakasha)those who were competing against us. We destroyed (takavarakasha) those who were competing against us. We should be extremely proud of ourselves…

“We were given a fresh mandate to govern Zimbabwe… full stop!

“No GNU.

“The votes came from all four corners of the country and it was a resounding victory… I say to you all thank you all, siyabonga, ndinokutendai…

“In spite of our convincing win, one out of the 22 presidential contestants took me to court…

“Do not be troubled or lose sleep as you hear noises going up and down. I urge members of the party do not be perturbed by those who continue to make noises: as ZANU PF we have no agenda for a GNU… let us continue…economy… for our country.”

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JULY 17 VIDEO: Nkosana Moyo While Fighting MDC Announced That Mnangagwa Will Stabilise Zimbabwe

By Simba Chikanza| In July 2017, businessman turned politician, Nkosana Moyo appeared on ZimEye where he announced his argument that Emmmerson Mnangagwa, then deputy President of Zimbabwe must be given a chance.

Nkosana Moyo whose brainchild is the Econet brand, did not stop there, but went forward to say that if Mnangagwa takes over from Robert Mugabe, he would stabilise Zimbabwe. Nearly 2 years later now, we this weekend carry out a review of his claims. The video is below:

https://youtu.be/7IEv8LLR_Pg

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Mnangagwa Speaks Like Grace Mugabe, Says “We Are Unstoppable!”

Emmerson Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF’s economy-focused conference, which ended here yesterday, has sent a loud message that the ruling party is “boldly on the move”, First Secretary and Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.

In his rousing closing remarks at the party’s 17th Annual National People’s Conference in Esigodini, which was themed “Zimbabwe is open for business: Peace, unity towards an upper middle-income economy by 2030”, Mnangagwa declared that Zanu-PF was unstoppable in its quest to deliver better livelihoods.

To huge cheers, Mnangagwa said: “Here is the message from Esigodini. Those who have ears listen, those with eyes see; Zanu-PF is boldly on the move.

“We have an appointment with our destiny and we will not miss our destiny. Zanu-PF will not be distracted or destroyed, it will prosper.

“Prosperity for our beloved country and a better quality of life of our people is inevitable and it is us who must achieve it.

“Musangano wedu, Zanu-PF, wava kufamba senzou. Ucharamba uchingofamba, uchingofamba uchingofamba.

“Hapana unoumisa; tinoziva kwatinoda kuinda; tichafamba, tigongofamba tichingofamba vanovukura vachingovukura.”

Mnangagwa said the resolutions adopted by the Conference marked a new era of implementation and development.

“All the resolutions were unequivocal and will certainly strengthen and consolidate the correct line as well as our desire to grow and modernise or revolutionary mass party,” he said.

“Zvisungo zvataita zvose hapana chatawana chatigozhera. These will further stand as a guiding beacon as we implement our polices and programmes in the coming year. Zvisungo izvi uchava mwenje watichatevera tichienda mberi.

“The spirit of unity, love, loyalty, co-operation and discipline within the party, must remain the solid foundation upon which our structures are build and strengthened.”

Added Mnangagwa: “Party leaders and members alike should continuously and consistently concern themselves with the state of the party and seek to improve it always.

“Hard work, integrity, unity of purpose, honesty, sensitivity to the plight of our people regardless of social status must be synonymous with the party line.”

Mnangagwa urged Conference delegates — who numbered in the thousands — to share their fruitful deliberations with their constituencies so as to galvanise Zanu-PF’s momentum.

“As we close our Conference, allow me once again to thank you for the commitment, discipline and focus which has characterised this conference,” he said.

“This is the nature and character of true cadres of a true revolutionary party.

“As you go back to your respective provinces, I wish you safe travels and ability to disseminate the decisions we have made at this defining 17th National People’s Conference.”-state media

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Mnangagwa Telephones Himself Over Devolution In Mat’land

ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday literally telephoned himself over the subject of devolution in Matebeland.

Mnangagwa said he has been happily surprised by the quick understanding and reception by Zimbabweans on the concept of devolution and creation of provincial economies saying the days of lope-sided development must be a thing of the past.

In his closing address at the 17th Zanu-PF Annual National People’s Conference in Esigodini, Matabeleland South Province, Mnangagwa said there was an urgent need to close the development gap between the urban and rural communities to achieve prosperity for all the people by 2030.

“I have been happily surprised by the reception and quick understanding of the concept of devolution and creation of provincial economies, by our communities. We must work hard, with a renewed sense of urgency, to close the development gap between the urban and rural communities.

“The revitalisation of rural areas must be uttermost in our endeavours. The days of slope sided development must be a thing of the past. All our people are important to us, everybody must be on board, no one must be left behind,” said Mnangagwa.

“The prosperity we seek to achieve by 2030 must be for all our people in every corner of the country. Our desire for better and more modern roads, schools, health facilities must be realised across the entire country. As we are determined to modernise, build and industrialise our beloved country, no one should be left behind.”

Mnangagwa said the resolutions at the conference will help the Government to be more focused guided by the will of the people.

“We value all the constructive contributions, with regards to all the sub-sectors of the economy; agriculture, mining, manufacturing, tourism, infrastructure, energy, ICTs and social services. As conference has directed, we will accelerate the various strategies that will lead to the modernisation of our agriculture sector and ultimately increased production and productivity,” said Mnangagwa.

He called on the party to be at the forefront in communicating the programmes to modernise Zanu-PF and the Government structures, policies and systems.

“The relevant departments of the party must play a central role in publicising our policies, programmes and reform measures to allow for the tracking of progress, monitoring and evaluation by the people,” he said.

Speaking during the official opening of the conference on Friday, Mnangagwa said his Government is serious about implementing devolution and decentralisation in the running of national affairs as a strategy to revitalise the economy and improve the people’s standards of living.

He took a swipe at those he said were divisive elements in the country calling for cessation, saying Zimbabwe is a unitary nation rich with diversity. “In implementing devolution, let us always remain mindful that we are a unitary state, with diverse cultures, languages, beliefs and religions. We must therefore use this concept for economic advancement as a vehicle to propel development. Devolution must improve the quality of life of all our people, in every corner of the country, as we strive to become a middle-income economy by 2030,” said Mnangagwa on Friday.- state media

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Embarrassing Moment As 70y Old ZANU PF Beauty Model Gogo Collapsed Before The Cameras

The beauty contest
Own Correspondent|In a very scary moment an aged ZANU PF member estimated to be over sixty appeared on ZBC live Television broadcast collapsing after winning a beauty contest in Esigodini.

The member who ZimEye.com sources have identified as ZANU PF primary elections losing senate candidate Margarine Kumalo from Gwanda fell in a very worrysome manner shortly after being named as the second princess in the party beauty contest.

The national broadcaster immediately went off air after the incident which has raised concerns from critics on social media.

Details on the condition of the old lady after the fall have not been confirmed.

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VIDEO: Will The Army Strike A Coup On Mnangagwa? | READER COMMENTS

Anything can happen in Zimbabwe I can’t rule the fears out.

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By Patience Olivier| A coup to give ZANU eternal life or to change the whole face of Zimbabwe status quo?

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Military government will not work because the economy is in its dying moments. It would make it even more catastrophic to have a military government. Unless the military is thinking of restoring sanity in the country? But who leads the coup and what’s in it for him and the army? Anything can happen in Zimbabwe I can’t rule the fears out.

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ED Blames “Donald Trump” Sanctions Yet 13 Months After Using Guns To Remove Mugabe, Mnangagwa Watches As A Well Known Convicted Fraudster Continues To Own $700mln Govt Money Projects | WHAT DO INVESTORS LEARN?

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Mnangagwa Just Can’t Believe That Wicknell Is Not In Prison

Correspondent|Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed his shock over the judgement issued on Thursday by High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi declaring the contract between Wicknell Chivayo’s Intratrek Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe Power Company valid.

Speaking at the just ended ZANU-PF annual conference in Esigodini, Matebeleland South, President Mnangagwa said: “There is a person who was given a contract to come and erect a solar plant here in Matabeleland South. The person came and erected some shacks and left.

“I was shocked to read in the papers that the same person has won a court case. I don’t understand how our courts work to permit the granting of an order of $25 million in favour of a person who received $5 million advance payment and did nothing.”

The High Court declared the contract signed between the parties for the Gwanda solar project valid.

ZPC was ordered to engage Intratrek and discuss progress on the Gwanda solar project in the next 60 days or alternatively pay $25 million damages to Intratrek.

Chivayo had been hauled before a magistrate to answer charges of fraud on the way he handled the 100 megawatt (MW) Gwanda Solar Project contracted by ZPC.

The State case was that Chivayo received $5 million advance payment for the project from ZPC without a bank guarantee, but ZPC stated on court record that they were not a complainant in the matter.

Chivayo and Intratrek then turned the heat on ZPC and told the court that the power utility was in fact, in breach of contract by wantonly causing delays and impediments to the implementation of the solar project.

But in an opposing affidavit to Intratrek’s High Court application, ZPC denied causing Chivayo’s arrest, technically meaning there was no complainant in the Gwanda Solar Project case.

In his judgment, Justice Tawanda Chitapi said ZPC had acted unlawfully and in bad faith, possibly under external influence from parties who were not part of the contract.

In October, boastful Chivayo warned on Twitter that he was going to win lawsuit against Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) and still make more money.

Wicknell also said the ZPC charges aganist him were fabricated and driven by pure malice and jealousy.

“ZPC fabricated fraud charges against me are an embarrassment to the police and Prosecutor General’s office,” said Wicknell, writing on Twitter on 28 October.

“Baseless and nonsensical to say the least. Pure abuse of their constitutional function. Kurwadziwa ne mupfana wechi diki ane chipo chake che mari.”

Wicknell has also boasted that he will still be contracted to complete the Gwanda Solar project which he could not start off after being paid $6m by ZPC in 2015.

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Chamisa Outshines Mnangagwa In Zim Top 100 Personalities Of 2018

Correspondent|A GROUP of political science students at the University of Zimbabwe has come up with a list of the 100 most influential persons in Zimbabwe for 2018.

The list is dominated by politicians, but also includes Zimbabweans in sports, media, business, civil society, music, religion among others. Guess who’s on number 1?

Here is the list: What do you make of the list?

2018 top 100 Zimbabwe’s Movers, Shakers, Finest and Most Influential People

100. Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo (Civil and Socioeconomic rights Activist)

99. Benard Manyenyeni (Former Harare Mayor)

98. Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa (Radio and TV talkshow host)

97. Prudence Mabhena (Musician)

96. Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga (MDC-T MP | Children and Women’s Rights Activist | Former Minister)

95. Happyson Nyasha Ncube (Politician | Pro- Democracy Activist) MHSRIP

94. Haru Mutasa (Broadcaster)

93. Nhlanhla Moyo – (Former Child President | Activist | Entrepreneur)

92. Evan Mawarire (Pastor| Pro-Democracy Activist)

91. Claris Madhuku (Youth and Environment Activist)

90. Lenin Tinashe Chisaira (Environmental Lawyer | Writer | Researcher & Activist)

89. Prosper Ngomashi aka Comic Pastor (Comedian)

88. Yvonne Mangunda (Broadcaster)

87. Simba Mhuriro (Entrepreneur)

86. Soneni Thandeka Gwizi ( Broadcaster | Radio & TV Host | Disability Activist)

85. Farai Maguwu (Human Rights Defender)

84. Glanis Changachirere (Feminist | Human Rights and Democracy Activist | Founder of Institute of Young Women Development)

83. Oliver Mtukudzi (Musician)

82. Jessie Fungayi Majome (Lawyer | Former Harare West MDC-T MP)

81. Sally Dura-Ncube (Feminist and Human Rights Activist | Director at Womens Coalition of Zimbabwe)

80. Dumiso Dabengwa ( War Veteran | ZAPU President)

79.Jenny Williams (Human Rights Activist)

78. Briggs Bomba (Civic Rights Activist)

77. Cynthia Chirinda-Hakutangwi ( Motivational Speaker | Author | Pastor)

76. Albert Nyathi ( Musician | Writer | Poet)

75. Vongai Zimudzi ( Youngest Candidate in 2018 elections | Feminist | Politician)

74. Joice Mujuru ( Former Vice President of Zimbabwe | War Veteran | NPP President)

73. Sue Nyathi ( Author)

72. Jeys Marabini ( Musician)

71. Lewis Matutu (Politician | ZANU-PF Deputy Youth Chair)

70. Alex Tawanda Magaisa (Writer | Former Advisor to the late Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai | Academic and Lecturer of Law)

69. Maud Chifamba ( Academic )

68. Nigel Mugamu (Journalist | Blogger)

67. Nomathemba Primrose Ndebele ( Fashion Entrepreneur |Women Developmentalist | Socialiate)

66. Genius Kadungure (Businessman | Socialiate)

65. Innocent Netanyahu ( Politician | ZIPP spokesperson | Activist)

64. Linda Muriro ( Journalist | Producer)

63. Vangelis Haritatos (Politician | Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement)

62. Nyasha Nhau (Human Rights Defender)

61. Lynnette Karenyi ( Politician | MDCA MP)

60. Rebecca Chisamba ( TV Talkshow Host)

59. Michael Mdladla Ndiweni (Vendors Trust Activist)

58. Janet Manyowa ( Gospel Musician)

57. Larry Kwirirai ( Blogger | Radio & TV Presenter | Writer)

56. Tafadzwa Goliath ( Passenger Rights Activist : Founder of Passenger Association of Zimbabwe)

55. Blessing Kasiyamhuru (ZIPP President | Businessman | Prophet)

54. Regai Tsunga ( Human Rights Defender | MDCA Mutasa South MP)

53. Victor Matemadanda ( War Veteran | Politician | Deputy Minister of Defence)

52. Walter Magaya (Prophet | Patriot)

51. Morgan Dube ( Civic Rights Activist | Chairperson of Victoria Falls Combined Residents Association)

50. Mable Chinomona ( War Veteran | Politician | Senate President)

49. Nyaradzo Francisca Nhongonhema (Stage and screen actress | Radio Host & Producer)

48. Mathias Mhere ( Gospel Musician)

47. Duduzile Nyirongo ( Pastor | Politician | Entrepreneur)

46. Samm Farai Monro aka Cde Fatso ( Comedian | Poet | Innovator | Activist)

45. Rodwell Chinyengetere ( Footballer)

44. Kirsty Leigh Coventry ( Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation | Athlete | Speaker)

43. Monica Mutsvangwa (Politician | Minister of Information & Publicity)

42. Wallace Chirumiko aka Winky Dee ( Musician)

41. Peter Ndlovu ( Former Zimbabwe Captain | Football Legend )

40. Joseph Chinotimba ( Politician | ZanuPF MP Buhera South | Farmer)

39. Marry Chiwenga ( Former Model & Patron of the Miss Zimbabwe Trust | 2nd Woman of Zimbabwe)

38. Alfred Dzirutwe ( Politician | MDC-T Youth Spokesperson)

37. Mukudzeyi Mukombe aka Jah Prayzah ( Musician)

36. Mthokozisi Ncube ( Political Activist | Bulawayo Youth Arise Director)

35. Nhire Sekuru Mutimbanepasi ( Herbalist | Researcher In African Culture & Traditions | Radio Personality |Artist)

34. Tsitsi Masiyiwa (African philanthropist | Social Entrepreneur )

33. Trevor Ncube ( Businessman | Media Mogul)

32. Godfrey Tsenengamu (Politician | ZanuPF Youth Commissar)

31. Barbara Rwodzi ( Politician | Pan-African Entrepreneur | Philanthropist | ZanuPF MP for Chirumanzu)

30. Lucia Matibenga ( Former Trade Unionist | Former Minister if Labour | PDP President)

29. Norman Mapeza ( Football Legend | FC Platinum Coach)

28. Heath Streak ( Former cricket player | coach)

27. Geneva Sibanda ( Politician | Businessman)

26. Gift Ostallos Siziba (Pan-African fundamentalist | Academic | Political Activist)

25. Zenzele Ndebele ( Artist | Entrepreneur | CITE Founder | Journalist)

24. Mqondisi Moyo (Mthwakazi Republic Party President)

23. Doug Coltart ( Human Rights Lawyer | Activist)

22. Obey Shava ( Lawyer | Theologian | Human Rights Defender)

21. Rev. Anglistone Sibanda (Reverend, Human Rights Defender and Shalom Trust Director)

20. Jestina Mukoko (Human rights activist and the Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project)

19. Pupurai Togarepi ( Politician | ZanuPF MP for Gutu South)

18. Happymore Chidziva ( Politician | MDCA MP for Highfield West | Human Rights Activist)

17. Joana Mamombe ( Politician | Former Student Leader | Youngest MP in the 9th Parliament| MDCA MP for Harare West)

16. Peter Mutasa (President of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions | General Secretary of Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union)

15. Noah Manyika ( BZA President | Pastor | Businessman | Founder of War on Poverty Trust)

14. Fadzayi Mahere ( Constitutional Lawyer | Law Lecturer | African Development Enthusiast)

13. Acie Lumumba (Politician | ZanuPF Activist | Media Personality)

12. Kuda Musasiwa (Musician, Hip-hop producer, Entrepreneur and Socialite)

11. Samantha Kureya aka Gonyeti ( Actress | Standup Comedian)

10. Beatrice Mtetwa ( Human Rights Lawyer)

9. Violet Gonda (Journalist | Radio Personality | Moderator)

8. Shingi Munyeza (Businessman | Pastor)

7. Abigail Mupambi (Civic Society and Churches Joint Forum National Coordinater : Social Justice Advocate)

6. Thokozani Khupe ( Former Deputy Prime Minister | MDC-T President | Founder of Thokozani Khupe Cancer Foundation)

5. Temba Mliswa (Politician | Independent MP for Norton | Farmer)

4. Tendai Biti (Politician | Lawyer | Former Finance Minister | MDCA MP for Harare East)

3. Linda Tsungirirai Masarira (Politician | MDC-T Spokesperson Radical Feminist | Human Rights Defender | Founder of Zimbabwe Women In Politics Alliance)

2. Emerson Mnangagwa (Politician | President of Zimbabwe)

1..Nelson Chamisa ( Politician | Former Minister of ICT | MDCA President)

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Bomb Scare At ZBC

A SUSPECTED explosive device has been found at the ZBC Bindura offices. What started as a suspected case of burglary has turned out to be more sinister after an undetonated explosive device and unused matches were discovered at the complex housing ZBC offices in the Bindura Central Business District.

The explosive device was logged in the wall at the back of the ZBC offices, while a neighbouring hair salon was ransacked and groceries stolen.

People who use the complex which also houses shops, a restaurant and a bar expressed shock and called on law enforcement agencies to step up measures which ensure their safety.

“We woke up to find the gates open and the doors smashed and we discovered that our groceries had been stolen, later on we saw this dynamite and now we are even afraid,” said one of the complex users.

Another complex user said; “The police should do something to protect us”.

Police attended the crime scene with Mashonaland Central acting police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Petros Masikati highlighting investigations are in progress.

— zbc

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Family Of Late MDC Councillor Arrested For Accusing Rival Of Witchcraft

The late MDC Councillor Happyson Nyasha Ncube

Correspondent|The family of the late MDC Bulawayo Ward 28 Councillor Hapson Ncube has been arrested on allegations accusing former councillor Collet Ndlovu of witchcrafty.

The family claimed Ndlovu as being the one behind the death of their son.

A source close to the development revealed that the arrest was effected on Thursday.

“Former ward councillor Collet Ndlovu reported the late Happy’s mother and his two siblings for bringing a corpse to his business compound and accusing him of killing their son.” Said the source.

“As you are aware that on Wednesday during the funeral procession mourners were singing anti-Collet songs and claiming that he bewitched Happy. Throughout the funeral speeches that were made suggested that Collet killed Happy. This did not go down with him and he reported the matter to the police. As I speak to you now, the mother and the two siblings have been arrested under the Witchcraft suppression Act.”

On Thursday state media reported that MDC suporters sang songs at the business premises in Cowdray Park suggesting that Happy, who died on Sunday was killed through witchcraft.

They passed through the business premises enroute to Bulawayo Amphitheatre where a service was held before burial at Lady Stanley Cemetery.
The crowd chanted slogans denigrating Mr Ndlovu, saying “Phansi ngo Collet, phansi (down with Collet)” before breaking into song, “Ndiwe wakauraya pahukama, hazvina mhosva pahukama.”

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Vice President Claims Government Wants To Assassinate Him

Malawi’s Vice-President and president of the new party UTM said on Friday that he has uncovered a government plot to assassinate him and his party leaders.

Saulos Chilima told a mammoth crowd in Mwanza where he held a political rally on Friday under the banner of UTM that there is a plan by the ruling party Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government to assassinate him.

“Actually, I have seen one of the assassins at Tsangano. When he saw that I have seen him, he disappeared. Let me warn the intelligence agents and the Home Security ministry officials that I know that I am their target for assassination but they will not succeed, these are amateurs,” he said.

Chilima said it was a “fact” that he and UTM top brass are on a hit list, but said the source of the information was confidential.

He told the police in Lilongwe that they should not write him over the matter, saying he will not respond to the letter.

“I have the list of the assassins and I have shared it with my friends so that if anything happens to me, they should know who have done it,” he said.

The UTM leader said he has credible information that the DPP has hired assassins from within Malawi to assassinate him through poison, staged accident or bullet.

“People like John Chilembwe shed their blood for the good of Malawi and I am ready to die for my Malawi. They can kill us and eat our flesh anywhere they want. After all, they are known for killing those with dissenting views,” he said.

Chilima also said he is vying for the presidency in order to stem graft, nepotism, tribalism, regionalism, cronyism, favouritism, plunder of public resources, arrogance and impunity.

He received an outstanding ovation throughout out his speech.

Nyasa Times

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Chief Charumbira Insults High Court Judges | INVESTOR WATCH: DOES ZIMBABWE HAVE A FUNCTIONING JUDICIARY?

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MDC Says Arthur Mutambara Is Missing The Point On Dialogue

MDC Spokesperson Jacob Mafume

Media Statement|The MDC would like to set the record straight that the call for dialogue is not a clamor for a GNU, but a call to return this country to legitimacy, pursue a trajectory of growth, peace and economic relief.

The Herald’s celebration of Mutambara’s statement to the effect that there cannot be dialogue in a situation where some party has a Parliamentary majority is therefore premature. For the avoidance of doubt, dialogue must focus on a programmatic agenda whose implementation has not been prescribed by the MDC. We have made it clear that implementation mechanisms must be a product of dialogue in which we propose a National Transitional Authority.

This is, however, a last point of discussion, only following an agreement on a program over the following issues.

1. Resolution of the legitimacy crisis arresting our country.
2. Political and Institutional reforms.
3. Dealing with the urgent economic issues to give the people of Zimbabwe a break from the current suffering.
4. Outlining a program of National Unity and Transitional Justice.
5. Setting a strategy for International re-engagement.

These are issues that the two-thirds majority being referred to have failed to resolve beyond reasonable doubt.

We place it on record that the MDC did not only challenge the Presidential results, but several petitions were filed in respect of the House Assembly including one in which ZEC admitted to calculation failure.

We want to correct the idea that dialogue only takes place in a situation of a hung parliament. There was dialogue in Zimbabwe in 2007 leading to amendment number 18 of the previous Constitution. Zanu PF back then had a majority.

Anyone who means well for this country would agree that only dialogue can serve our people from the unpalatable suffering, preserve peace and avoid yet another elite implosion.

Behold the New. Change that Delivers.

Jacob Mafume
MDC National Spokesperson

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USA Challenges Mnangagwa To Engage Chamisa To Prove His Worth

THE United States government has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to show his statesmanship by urgently engaging his political nemesis MDC leader Nelson Chamisa for reforms needed to restore political stability and rescue the country’s free-falling economy.

US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian A Nichols told NewsDay Weekender in Bulawayo on Wednesday ahead of the Zanu PF national conference in Esigodini that Mnangagwa stood to gain more international respect if he initiated dialogue on reforms with the youthful opposition leader.

“I hope that our political forces will work towards promoting the reforms that are necessary to make Zimbabwe more democratic, more prosperous, and successful and more open to the world. I think there are a number of very strong proposals that have been put forward by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition parties,” Nichols said.

He said the two leaders should work together to repeal repressive legislation like Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Public Order and Security Act and also open up broadcasting space.

Nichols also emphasised peace-building and reconciliation mechanisms, particularly for Gukurahundi victims.

Early this week, both leaders gave conflicting signals on the proposed talks, with Chamisa saying he was ready for dialogue, while Mnangagwa declared he would not talk to losers.

This comes amid reports that former Kenyan chief justice Willy Mutunga was in the country to broker talks between the two protagonists.

Mnangagwa yesterday dug in, telling delegates at the ongoing Zanu PF party conference at Mzingwane High School in Matabeleland South province that he had effectively shut the door on Chamisa and would go it alone, buoyed by his “resounding victory” in the July 30 presidential race.

His deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, told the same gathering that his boss had extended an olive branch to the opposition, but they had spurned it.

“We won the elections resoundingly. The two-thirds parliamentary majority and the 50,6% victory in the presidential election was by no means a small victory. The law requires one to get 50% plus one vote to be declared a winner of the poll. However, our revolutionary party won resoundingly. The victory is testimony of our party’s popularity,” Mnangagwa said.

“We were given the mandate to govern the country for the next five years, full stop. No GNU [government of national unity],” he declared, drawing wild applause from delegates.

Mnangagwa described recent protests held against him by the MDC as “irritating noise” from sore losers.

“Results came from all corners of the country, for which I am truly grateful. One of the 22 presidential candidates took us to court refusing to accept the majority vote. This culminated in a Constitutional Court ruling, which confirmed me as the winner, as was decided by the people of Zimbabwe.

“Do not despair or lose sleep. I urge all party members not to be deterred by those making irritating noises. As Zanu PF, we have no agenda for GNU. Let us, instead, focus on rebuilding the economy and improve the quality of life for our people,” Mnangagwa said.

The Zanu PF leader also disclosed that he would next week release findings of the August 1 post-election fatal shootings inquiry. Mnangagwa received an executive summary of the findings from the commission of inquiry led by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, two weeks ago.

The Zanu PF leader, who has since been endorsed as the party’s presidential candidate for 2023, told his party members to redirect their energies towards restoring economic stability in the country.

“This conference is being held against the backdrop of an economy which is characterised by fuel shortages, high cost of drugs, medicines, farming inputs and fertilisers as well as a wide range of basic commodities,” he said.

“We condemn the opportunistic and gluttonous triple pricing regime practices by some business persons that have resulted in untold suffering to the majority of our people. “Government along with industry continues to dialogue and interrogate the … build-ups towards finding lasting solutions which will bring permanent relief to consumers and greater stability to the economy.

We also need to address the question of our own domestic currency, once the correct economic fundamentals are in place.” Turning to devolution, Mnangagwa cautioned that the governance system must not fragment the nation.

“In implementing devolution, let us always remain mindful that we are a unitary State with diverse cultures, languages, believes and religion. We must, therefore, use this concept for economic advancement and as a vehicle to propel development.

Devolution must improve the quality of life of all our people in very corner of the country as we strive to become a middle income economy by 2030,” he said.

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Mnangagwa’s Government Not Moved By SA Court Ruling Resuscitating The Sadc Tribunal

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is unfazed by a damning judgment delivered by the South African Constitutional Court early this week that could signal the resuscitation of the Sadc Tribunal, Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi said yesterday.

Created as a court of last resort for the region in August 2000, the tribunal made a ruling against Zimbabwe’s land expropriation policy in 2008, a move which triggered a chain of events which led to regional leaders disbanding it in 2014 and creating a separate protocol to only deal with inter-State disputes.

The South African court said the move to disband the tribunal was instigated by former President Robert Mugabe.

The South African top court ruled that the country’s then President Jacob Zuma’s participation in the disbandment of the Sadc Tribunal and the establishment of the protocol was “irrational, unlawful and unconstitutional”.

While pressure groups have welcomed the possible resuscitation of the tribunal, Mnangagwa’s government said it remained unshaken, as the tribunal serves no purpose.

“Basically, the disbandment of the Sadc Tribunal was as a result of the need to stop the court from interfering with the sovereignty of member States. Sadc is not a State itself, but a grouping of States with a common objective to achieve economic development,” Mutodi said.

“That, however, does not take away the fact that each member State must determine its own destiny based on its own constitution. The South African Constitutional Court ruling to compel the South African government to re-institute the tribunal is, therefore, a nullity and of no force or effect [in Zimbabwe], as South Africa alone cannot decide for Sadc as a whole,” said Mutodi, adding Zimbabwe’s land reform was irreversible.

He said the re-establishment of the tribunal would just be a duplication of the role played by apex courts in different Sadc countries on issues of the protection of the rights of citizens.

He said Zimbabwe would oppose a move to re-introduce the tribunal.

“Blacks had to take up arms to re-claim the land and on that basis, Zimbabwe will not support any attempt to re-introduce a Tribunal that tries to interfere with her sovereignty and hard-won independence. That would be a duplication of the roles played by apex courts of member States and their parliamentary bodies,” Mutodi told NewsDay Weekender.

“Without imposing our will on any Sadc member State, we believe our situation is more or less similar and, hence requiring a common position that we took when the Tribunal was disbanded.”

Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi also dismissed the judgment as “academic”.

“I am not sure what the South African government is supposed to do with that judgment because the institution has been disbanded. The only thing they can ratify is the protocol. South Africa is not Sadc. Heads of the State met and agreed, signed the treaty withdrawal and now, the only way out is for the South African government to persuade other leaders to do the same,” he said.

“The demand that we respect the Sadc Tribunal judgments is also very academic in my view because there is no institution whose judgments we must then abide by.”

The opposition MDC called for immediate steps to re-establish the tribunal, describing Mutodi as an excitable character who is failing to grasp Harare’s policy shift.

MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume said Mutodi was out of sync with Mnangagwa’s public pronouncements and new policy thrust.

“This government has told everyone who cares to listen that it wants to change the way it has been doing things. Mnangagwa has told the world that he wants to respect human rights, so it would be folly for anyone to listen to Energy Mutodi, who has a propensity to energetically fail to appreciate issues,” Mafume said.

He added that the South Africa Constitutional Court had shown the way in the region regarding independence of the Judiciary.

“The tribunal was put in place not for the convenience of governments, but for the protection of the rights of Sadc citizens. It must, therefore, be restored immediately with full powers and its judgments respected,” the MDC spokesperson said.

He added that South African courts would have no choice, but to enforce the judgments of the Sadc Tribunal, “which should raise anxiety among our leaders who have an insatiable appetite for everything foreign, including property”.

Constitutional law expert Munyaradzi Bwanya said the South African ConCourt judgment sets President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government on a collision course with other Sadc member States and exposes his country’s lower courts to litigation from aggrieved regional citizens.

“The judgment opens up the South African Courts to litigation from Sadc citizens who have failed to get justice in their own countries and sets Ramaphosa on a collision course with other member states, in particular Zimbabwe,” said Bwanya, adding if Ramaphosa agrees with the judgment, he would have to navigate a political minefield to persuade other regional heads of State to move in the same direction.

He said the judgment was also a potential banana skin for Mnangagwa.

“Mnangagwa has told the world that he wants to compensate white farmers because they were treated unfairly, but his government does not want the same farmers to access justice. The existence of disbandment of the Sadc Tribunal and the veracity of its judgments cannot exist exclusive of each other. Mnangagwa cannot accept that the disbandment was the correct thing to do, while telling the world that its judgments were correct,” Bwanya said.

The ruling and possible re-establishment of the Sadc Tribunal will likely create a fresh flash-point between Zimbabwe and Western countries, particularly the United States.

Under its sanctions regime on Zimbabwe, the US has demanded respect of the Sadc Tribunal’s judgments, among other issues related to the rule of law.

NewsDay

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VIDEO: ZRP Cops Attack Teachers On A Peaceful March From Mutare To Harare | ARTUZ MARCH LATEST

By Farai D Hove| Police officers today moved to attack teachers who are on a march from Mutare to Harare complaining about better livelihoods and better working conditions.

The union of rural teachers’ leaders, Obert Masaraure and Robson Chere were arrested in the raid.

Commented Makomborero Haruzivishe: ” Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police have moved in to crush a peaceful march by teachers who are merely demanding better livelihoods and better working conditions.

“Anti-riot squads have been deployed on peaceful and harmless teachers. President Masaraure Obert, SG Robson Chere and other teachers now in police custody.

“There is nothing new about this stinky dispensation.”

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Zimbabwe Peace Walk to Celebrate Mahatma Gandhiji`s 150 Birth Anniversary Around The World

the late …Mahatma Gandhiji

By Nitin Sonawane| World Peace and Friendship Movement started from India for efforts to spread the message of Peace and Non Violence, which is the way given by Mahatma Gandhiji , In this Mission a young engineer Nitin Sonawane from Pune, India, travelling around the world on a Bicycle and by Foot to Celebrate 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhiji, spreading his message of Non-violence and Peace.

Nitin is an engineer turned Peace activist, inspired by seeking truth of life and work for peaceful world mean peace for all living and nonliving being on planet.

The World Peace Journey was started on Bicycle, on the 18th of November 2016 from Gandhi Ashram in Wardha, India, then followed it up with South East Asia, North and South America and finally concluding it with a peace walk in South Africa marking the ‘150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and 100th Birth Anniversary of Nelson Mandela’. This peace journey ends on 2nd Oct 2020 in Lahor Pakistan while covering Whole Africa, Europe and Middle East by foot.

Recently done 1200km Peace Walk in South Africa , from Johannesburg (Place where Mahatma Gandhi was did his Life Experiment) to Mvezo, (Birth place of Nelson Mandela), This Peace Walk was joined by 6 people from across India and 1 person from Japan, Rev. Kanshin Ikeda, the Buddhist monk of Niponzan Myohoji, who earlier did his Peace walk in Europe and America.

After this Epic peace walk in South Africa, I aim to continue this mission in Zimbabwe, by the crossing the South Africa-Zimbabwe border, on foot. I will begin in Bulawayo on 19th Dec 2018 and I shall end my walk in Zimbabwe in Harare on the 6th of Dec, 2019.
The Walk in Zimbabwe is with the intention to promote values and Ideas of Mahatma Gandhi to motivate today’s youth, thus keeping keep his legacy alive.

On the way I am planning to visit and spread this message in Schools, Colleges, Universities, Public Places, Community Centers , Religious Places and Social organisations.
I sincerely hope that you accept our proposal try to cover the News of Peace Walk which will be helpful for us to Spread the word about the Peace and Non- Violence for making this world a better place.

Here is the contact details of Peace Walker Nitin Sonawane who will reach to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe with Buddhist Monk Kanshin Ikeda on 17th December 2018 and will start the walk on 19th December 2018 –

You can reach to Peace Walker Nitin Sonawane by following contact details-

Nitin Sonawane

World Peace & Friendship Movement

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Zanu Pf Resolves To Amend The Constitution

By Own Correspondent| Zanu Pf has resolved to amend the  Constitution for the extension of the women’s quota in parliament.

The resolution came out at the just ended 17th Annual National People’s Conference in Esigodini Matabeleland South (Saturday).

Said Speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda while presenting the overall resolutions from the conference:

“The party has adopted to amend the constitution regarding the clause that speaks about the sixty seats for women members of parliament expiring on 2023 to increase its life spine until a considerable level of empowerment has been reached.”

Section 124 (1) b of the constitution says: “For the life of the first two Parliaments after the effective date, an additional sixty women members, six from each of the provinces into which Zimbabwe is divided, elected through a system of proportional representation based on the votes cast for candidates representing political parties in a general election for constituency members in the provinces.”

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