Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Friday 26 October 2018 arrested a Bulawayo man, Wisdom Mkwananzi and charged him with undermining authority of or insulting President Mnangagwa as defined in section 33(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 after he allegedly stated during a public hearing conducted at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo by the Commission of Inquiry into the 01 August 2018 killing of civilians, that he had been orphaned because the ZANU PF party leader had masterminded the killing of his parents during the Gukurahundi mass killings in the early 80’s.

The law enforcement agents alleged that the 32 year-old Mkwananzi, allegedly pointed at President Mnangagwa’s portrait, which was pasted onto the wall during his testimony before the former South African leader Kgalema Motlanthe-led Commission of Inquiry into the
post-election violence and stated that “I am an orphan because of this man, he killed my parents.”

ZRP officers charged that by uttering such a statement, Mkwananzi, who was represented by Jabulani Mhlanga and Tinashe Runganga of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), engendered a feeling of hostility towards or caused hatred or ridicule of President Mnangagwa.

Mkwananzi was also charged with lying under oath as defined in section 10 of the Justice of Peace and Commissioners of Oaths Act Chapter 7:09.

The police officers claimed that Mkwananzi unlawfully and intentionally supplied a false name to the Commission of Inquiry after he allegedly told the probe team that his name is Siphatha Mandla, which is different from the name, which appears on his national identity card.

Mkwananzi also faces a third charge of assault as defined in section 89 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, where ZRP officers alleged that he intentionally bit Luckmore Dube once on the right hand intending to cause bodily harm.

Mkwananzi, who appeared in court on Saturday 27 October 2018, returns to court on Monday 29 October 2018 for a determination of his bail
application.

Mkwananzi becomes the second man to be charged with undermining authority of or insulting President Mnangagwa inside one month after ZRP officers arrested Alexander Samuel Chidzedzere of Kariba in Mashonaland West province early this month, and charged him with undermining authority or insulting President Mnangagwa after he alleged that the ruling ZANU PF party had won the 30 July harmonised elections through rigging.

Meanwhile, ZLHR lawyers on Saturday 27 October 2018 secured the release on bail of three Bulawayo men Marshal Sibanda, Welcome Moyo and Venat Ncube, who were arrested on Friday 26 October 2018 and charged with committing public violence as defined in section 36(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.

The trio was also charged with disrupting a public gathering as defined in section 44(a) Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 after they allegedly engaged in a disorderly and riotous conduct intending to disrupt the Commission of Inquiry proceedings.

Sibanda, Moyo and Ncube were granted $150 bail each and remanded to 13 November 2018 for commencement of their trial.

By Own Correspondent| Christopher Mutsvangwa, special advisor to President  has accused Sakunda Holdings owner Kudakwashe Tagwirei of receiving the bulk of the foreign currency allocations from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe yet he does not earn any forex himself.

Mutsvangwa said that Tagwirei’s business takes away money from the people who earn the actual foreign currency such as tobacco farmers and gold panners.

Mutsvangwa also alleged that Tagwirei of running a virtual monopoly in the fuel industry said that Tagwirei should source his own foreign currency and not rely on the RBZ.

Said Mutsvangwa:

State security agents are on high alert to deal with opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s threat to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a top government official warned yesterday.

This came after Chamisa on Saturday told thousands of his supporters at the opposition party’s 19th anniversary celebrations at Gwanzura Stadium in Harare that plans were afoot to pile pressure on Mnangagwa and force him out before year-end.

Mnangagwa won presidential elections in July with a 50,67% margin against Chamisa’s 44,3%, but the opposition leader rejected the presidential result, arguing Zanu PF and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission had colluded to give the ruling party candidate an undeserved “win”.

Chamisa challenged the result at the Constitutional Court, but lost the petition on a technicality after he failed to back his case with primary evidence.

But the youthful politician has insisted that he was the July 30 poll winner and, at the weekend, threatened to organise a march to Mnangagwa’s official residence to “unseat him”.

Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi warned of dire consequences if Chamisa carried out his threat.

“The State security apparatus is on high alert and is prepared to deal with any incidences of violence and public disorder,” Mutodi said.

“Let those mulling to cause anarchy and to disturb peace be warned that they will live to regret, as the full wrath of the law will catch up with them.”

Chamisa hinted that he was secretly plotting a march against Mnangagwa.

“We are going to be organising ourselves internally, then we go to programmes that we want to do throughout the country from next week,” the youthful leader said.

“I will be going to every area, where I will be setting out the plan, something big in this country — hold your cards on the intended march to State House from this venue.”

The protests, Chamisa told cheering supporters, would be modelled along the Arab Spring that toppled dictators in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria in 2011.
The opposition leader said once all was in place, there would be no holding back.

“When we do this, we want to have a clear plan on what date we start and to the day we end. We will not go back home until we achieve the intended plan. We will show Mnangagwa the power that people have,” he threatened.

Mnangagwa has rejected Chamisa’s demands for a transitional authority to facilitate the reform agenda and level the political playfield.

According to Chamisa, Mnangagwa reneged on an agreement made with the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to set up a transitional government, a move that would have suspended the July 30 elections for an agreed period.

-Newsday

Authorities have stepped up their crackdown against perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa after arresting and charging a Bulawayo man with undermining authority of or insulting the ZANU PF party leader.

Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Friday 26 October 2018 arrested Wisdom Mkwananzi and charged him with undermining authority of or insulting President Mnangagwa as defined in section 33(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 after he allegedly stated during a public hearing conducted at Rainbow Hotel in
Bulawayo by the Commission of Inquiry into the 01 August 2018 killing of civilians, that he had been orphaned because the ZANU PF party leader had masterminded the killing of his parents during the Gukurahundi mass killings in the early 80’s.

The law enforcement agents alleged that the 32 year-old Mkwananzi, allegedly pointed at President Mnangagwa’s portrait, which was pasted onto the wall during his testimony before the former South African leader Kgalema Motlanthe-led Commission of Inquiry into the
post-election violence and stated that “I am an orphan because of this man, he killed my parents.”

ZRP officers charged that by uttering such a statement, Mkwananzi, who was represented by Jabulani Mhlanga and Tinashe Runganga of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), engendered a feeling of hostility towards or caused hatred or ridicule of President Mnangagwa.

Mkwananzi was also charged with lying under oath as defined in section 10 of the Justice of Peace and Commissioners of Oaths Act Chapter 7:09.

The police officers claimed that Mkwananzi unlawfully and intentionally supplied a false name to the Commission of Inquiry after he allegedly told the probe team that his name is Siphatha Mandla, which is different from the name, which appears on his national identity card.

Mkwananzi also faces a third charge of assault as defined in section 89 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, where ZRP officers alleged that he intentionally bit Luckmore Dube once on the right hand intending to cause bodily harm.

Mkwananzi, who appeared in court on Saturday 27 October 2018, returns to court on Monday 29 October 2018 for a determination of his bail application.

Mkwananzi becomes the second man to be charged with undermining

authority of or insulting President Mnangagwa inside one month after ZRP officers arrested Alexander Samuel Chidzedzere of Kariba in Mashonaland West province early this month, and charged him with undermining authority or insulting President Mnangagwa after he alleged that the ruling ZANU PF party had won the 30 July harmonised elections through rigging.

Meanwhile, ZLHR lawyers on Saturday 27 October 2018 secured the release on bail of three Bulawayo men Marshal Sibanda, Welcome Moyo and Venat Ncube, who were arrested on Friday 26 October 2018 and charged with committing public violence as defined in section 36(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.

The trio was also charged with disrupting a public gathering as defined in section 44(a) Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 after they allegedly engaged in a disorderly and riotous conduct intending to disrupt the Commission of Inquiry proceedings.

Sibanda, Moyo and Ncube were granted $150 bail each and remanded to 13 November 2018 for commencement of their trial.

Outspoken Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has castigated remarks made by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s warning fake prophets who hide behind the name of God to attack the national leadership and extort money from the public.

Bishop Magaya said the Vice President should be the last person to speak about prophets because he does not know how they operate.

“Vice President Chiwenga should know that he does not qualify to evaluate prophets, I do not think he knows three verses from the bible, he is not a Christian, he does not know God he does not know how Prophets operate” said Bishop Magaya

Quoting from the bible verse in the book of Amos (4:1) Bishop Magaya said government officials should not tell prophets what not to say or say.

“He needs to be reminded that when you read the book of Amos. The Prophet Amos told the rulers then that they were cows of Bashan and they were greed, flourishing and sleeping on ivory beds when they disregarded the property of the people and government officials should be the last people to actually warn prophets regarding what to say and what no to say. They should abandon murder, Vice President Chiwenga should regret the murder that the state has committed first before he touches servants of God”

Appearing in public for the first time since his return from South Africa where he was receiving treatment the Vice President Chiwenga warned Apostle Talent Chiwenga (Muzuva) of Jesus Revelation Ministries
“There are others who are now calling themselves prophets,” said VP Chiwenga.

“Aripo uyo anonzi ani, Talent (Muzuva) (there is this one called Talent Muzuva). That should come to an end today. Zvatoperera pano (It has ended here). We don’t have that culture where one moves around attacking leaders under the guise of preaching the word of God. God does not say move around attacking other people.

“We want people to go to church and pray to God. This habit of using the name of the church to extort money is not good. How can you say that on the one hand you are practising Satanism and on the other you say you are a prophet, what kind of a prophecy is that? It’s not good and we don’t want that.

Following the warning Apostle Talent Chiwenga (Muzuva) said he now fears for his life and that of his family.

Apostle Chiwenga had given a prophecy that he saw two important people die in quick succession in Zimbabwe and the death would have a bearing on the future of the country.

Government’s Command Agriculture benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei reportedly splashed millions of scarce United States dollars on luxury vehicles for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies, Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi, as well as their spouses and several other top government officials, NewsDay has learned.

Tagwirei reportedly bought the top-of-the-range Lexus vehicles for Mnangagwa, First Lady Auxillia, Chiwenga and his wife, Marry, as well as Mohadi, while several government officials received V8 Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles ahead of the disputed July 30 elections won by Zanu PF.

It is understood that the vehicles were brought into the country under the government’s ambitious Command Agriculture scheme and were reportedly exempted from paying import duty.

Tagwirei, the owner of Sakunda Petroleum, which is in a 50-50 partnership with Trafigura, a Singaporean company with vast interests in the fuel industry across the globe, allegedly seized the opportunity to also import three Lexus vehicles for himself, while two of his business allies also capitalised on the avenue.

-Newsday

The State Media reports claiming that: MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has set himself on a collision course with his supporters and Victoria Falls residents who have rejected the Mayor he forced on them and demanded that he reinstates the elected Mayor that he fired last week.

The below state media article however, does not at all reveal how many so called residents have made these calls, a factor which casts serious doubt on the allegation that Chamisa has fallen out of favour with the town.

The article continues:

Angry residents convened a meeting on Friday where they castigated Chamisa and his party for meddling in council business.

The residents have demanded the reinstatement of Mayor Councillor Somvelo Dlamini who Chamisa fired and installed his favorite, Margaret Valley, as Mayor.

The Nelson Chamisa led party fired Clr Dlamini on Wednesday on allegations of bringing the party into disrepute by defying directives and undermining protocol among other charges.

Clr Dlamini contested and won the mayor’s post against the party preferred candidate Clr Margaret Valley.

Residents said the resort town council had been ‘captured’ by a cartel of councillors with personal interests.

They resolved to stage a peaceful march this week to force for the reinstatement of Clr Dlamini.

“We voted for councillors so they can vote for a mayor which they did. Now we have three councillors and some people who want him out. Victoria Falls has been ‘captured’ by a few evil and greedy people and we need to stand up and fight for our rights,” said a resident Mr Trymore Ndolo.

Another resident concurred, accusing ‘outsiders’ of pushing a selfish agenda to take over Victoria Falls.

“We want a person with our interests at heart not a foreigner to lead us. That is why we rallied behind Dlamini because he is a local. If Chamisa thinks whoever they want to impose will occupy that office he has to think twice,” he said.

The residents association was tasked to organise the demonstration.

“We didn’t go to vote in Harare and why should we be ruled through a directive from Chamisa. We got to know Chamisa through Dlamini and all we want now is for Chamisa to reinstate him,” said one of the residents.

State Media

By Paul Nyathi|Hundreds of people from across Matabeleland provinces are expected to throng the Bulawayo magistrate’s court at Tredgold Building on Monday when arrested Mthwakazi Republic Party activist Wisdom Mkhwananzi appears in court in a landmark case on Gukurahundi for a determination on his bail application.

The country’s authorities stepped up their crackdown against perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa after arresting and charging Mkhwananzi with undermining authority of or insulting the ZANU PF party leader.

Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Friday arrested Mkhwananzi and charged him with undermining authority of or insulting President Mnangagwa as defined in section 33(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 after he allegedly stated during a public hearing conducted at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo by the Commission of Inquiry into the 01 August 2018 killing of civilians, that he had been orphaned because the ZANU PF party leader had masterminded the killing of his parents during the Gukurahundi mass killings in the early 80’s.

The law enforcement agents alleged that the 32 year-old Mkwananzi, allegedly pointed at President Mnangagwa’s portrait, which was pasted onto the wall during his testimony before the former South African leader Kgalema Motlanthe-led Commission of Inquiry into the post-election violence and stated that “I am an orphan because of this man, he killed my parents.”

ZRP officers charged that by uttering such a statement, Mkwananzi, who was represented by Jabulani Mhlanga and Tinashe Runganga of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), engendered a feeling of hostility towards or caused hatred or ridicule of President Mnangagwa.

Mkwananzi was also charged with lying under oath as defined in section 10 of the Justice of Peace and Commissioners of Oaths Act Chapter 7:09.

The police officers claimed that Mkwananzi unlawfully and intentionally supplied a false name to the Commission of Inquiry after he allegedly told the probe team that his name is Siphamandla Mafu, which is different from the name, which appears on his national identity card.

Mkwananzi also faces a third charge of assault as defined in section 89 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, where ZRP officers alleged that he intentionally bit Luckmore Dube once on the right hand intending to cause bodily harm.

Mkwananzi, who appeared in court on Saturday, returns to court on Monday for a determination of his bail application.
Mkwananzi becomes the second man to be charged with undermining authority of or insulting President Mnangagwa inside one month after ZRP officers arrested Alexander Samuel Chidzedzere of Kariba in Mashonaland West province early this month, and charged him with undermining authority or insulting President Mnangagwa after he alleged that the ruling ZANU PF party had won the 30 July harmonised elections through rigging.

The leaders of the Mthwakazi Republic Party have called on people from the region to throng the courts in support of Mkhwananzi who they claim spoke on behalf of the entire Matabeleland region.

“A plea to all Mthwakazi people to come to Tredgold court 2 tomorrow the 29th at 08:30am and give solidarity support to our brave son and brother, Wisdom Terrence Mkhwananzi, who was arrested for giving a testimony on Gukurahundi before the Motlante led Commission, and for fingering the State President as the murder suspect.

Mkhwananzi represented all the silent voices that mourn for justice for Gukurahundi,” said the b party in a statement.

“The time has come for all of us to rise and show the world that we are not satisfied with this brutal system.
Those in the diaspora send transport money so we can fill up Tredgold.”

Meanwhile, ZLHR lawyers on Saturday secured the release on bail of three Bulawayo men Marshal Sibanda, Welcome Moyo and Venat Ncube, who were arrested on Friday and charged with committing public violence as defined in section 36(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.

The trio was also charged with disrupting a public gathering as defined in section 44(a) Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 after they allegedly engaged in a disorderly and riotous conduct intending to disrupt the Commission of Inquiry proceedings.

Sibanda, Moyo and Ncube were granted $150 bail each and remanded to 13 November for commencement of their trial.

Correspondent|VILLAGERS in the diamond rich area of Marange in Mutare West will soon be allocated claims to extract gems as part of government plans to empower the communities through mining, Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has revealed.

Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya said this during a recent meeting with members of the Manicaland Miners Association (MMA) at Odzi Country Club.

She said her association approached the State-owned Zimbabwe Consolidation Diamond Company (ZCDC) regarding the allocation of mining claims to their membership in Marange.

“We engaged ZCDC and they invited us for further discussion in Marange,” said Rushwaya.

“We want our local artisanal miners to be allocated diamond claims so that the local communities can benefit from their natural resources.

“The diamonds are (currently) benefitting illegal panners from Shurugwi, Buhera
and Matabeleland who are coming to mine during the night.

“We are only negotiating for local communities and if you are from Gutu please don’t bother to come and apply for a claim because we are not there to negotiate on your behalf.”

Villagers in Marange and civic organization such as Farai Maguwu-led Centre for Natural Resources Governance (CNRG) have lately been up in arms with ZCDC over the company’s failure to help develop the district.

Meanwhile, Rushwaya revealed that government through Fidelity Refinery has availed $150 million towards the development of artisanal mining in the country.

She said $103 million has already been disbursed but lamented the fact that just 33 women across the country have applied for the funding which translates to 11%.

“You should go and borrow the money via Fidelity Printers and Refiners. Women usually face collateral challenges, but Fidelity is saying your claim is your collateral,” said Rushwaya.

She said her organisation had also engaged government and they were issued with 21 gold buying licences.

“In Manicaland province, there will be three licences to cover Odzi, Mutare, Penhalonga, Nyanga and Chimanimani. One licence will encompass five buyers.

“Get organized as local miners and select those who are responsible to go around and buy gold for the government. Panners are not selling gold not because they don’t want but we don’t have buyers to make follow ups and buy gold.

“Our gold should go to Fidelity Refiners so that government can have revenue to procure fuel,” said Rushwaya.

The federation also wants a review of what it described as “prohibitive” fees charged by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA).

“EMA was charging us over $3000-$5000 for EIA but as ZMF we engaged them and the fee has been reduced to $150,” said Rushwaya.

“As artisanal miners let’s be responsible and do some land reclamation after mining so that protect our livestock and prevent loss of human life.”

Government yesterday said there was no reason for maize seed producers to hike prices as its promise’s to take measures to protect farmers against the unwarranted behaviour by the manufacturers.
Industry and Commerce Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu said there was no justification for seed producers to increase prices.
Seed producers have increased the price of a 10kg bag of maize seed to above $100, from $25 last farming season, while a 25kg bag is being sold for about $250 from $70 last
season. The increases come just as Zimbabweans are finalising

preparations for the summer
cropping season.The Herald

SINGER and actress Sandra “Sandy” Ndebele has threatened a civil suit against a Bulawayo woman she accuses of defrauding her of US$8 330 and $80 000 bond notes in a recent deal that went sour.

Lindiwe Moyo claimed she was last week robbed of the money by two men and a woman when they stopped at the Collen Bawn cement-producing town for a recess on their way from Beitbridge to Bulawayo.

She claimed that when she re-emerged from a convenience store, the car had sped off with her suitcase full of money.

Although the incident reportedly occurred on Monday, she only filed a police report on Wednesday.

Moyo told police that Sandy was an illegal foreign currency dealer and a runner for a top intelligence boss in Bulawayo, but later claimed the stolen money belonged to an influential businessperson of Indian origin.

Ndebele is, however, not buying the story, and has accused Moyo of defrauding her before dismissing claims she was a runner.

“It’s my money. All I want is my money that they stole from me,” Ndebele told NewsDay Life & Style.

“They stole my money and now they are working with State security agents to intimidate me from demanding my money. I am not an illegal money changer, but an actress, singer and a businesswoman who was looking for forex for my pending travels to China and Dubai.”

She said the police now seemed more interested in where she got the money from rather than investigating its disappearance.

“I am now left with no option, but to approach the civil court to seek recourse to attach her (Moyo) house to recover the money,” she said.

Ndebele’s case comes after police launched raids against illegal money changers in the city.

Newsday

The High Court has come to the rescue of a 15-year-old Form Four pupil who was barred from sitting for her Ordinary Level examinations because she does not have a national identity card.

The court ordered the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) to allow Shelter Chisiri to write the examinations using her birth certificate.

Authorities at the Vista Vision College in Harare had threatened to bar her from writing the examinations based on Zimsec’s requirement taat exam candidates must produce a national identity card.

In terms of the law, one can be issued with a national identity card upon reaching the age of 16.

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), who were acting for the minor, wrote a letter to Zimsec explaining the law, but there was no response.
The child, who was being represented by her mother, had no other option but to approach the High Court for recourse.

High Court judge Justice Davison Foroma set aside the decision and directed that Shelter be allowed to sit for the examination using her birth certificate without any hindrances.

“The decision to bar the applicant’s minor child, Shelter Chisiri, from sitting for her November 2018 Ordinary Level examinations be and is hereby forthwith suspended,” said Justice Foroma.

“The applicant’s minor child, Shelter, is entitled to sit and write her Ordinary Level examinations for November 2018 at Vista Vision College upon the mere production of her birth certificate.

“The respondent or any third party acting at the special instance and request of the first respondent are interdicted from barring the applicant’s minor child from sitting for her examinations commencing October 15 2018.”

The girl, who was a pupil at Vista Vision College, registered to write her examinations with Zimsec at the institution.

Despite being registered at the institution, in addition to possessing a birth certificate, the authorities demanded a national identity card, driver’s licence or passport from the girl. Being a minor, she was neither a holder of a national identity card, nor a driver’s licence.
She also did not have a passport.

In the court application, the girl’s mother argued that her child’s right to administrative justice had been violated.

She also argued that the girl would be seriously prejudiced. The mother further argued that since the girl was known at the school, there was no risk of impersonation or fraud. – state media

Indian Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaihah Naidu is visiting Zimbabwe this week during which a number of Memoranda of Understanding are expected to be signed in various sectors.

The Indian Embassy’s Secretary for Economic Relations, Mr Tirumurti Tirumurti, confirmed the visit, the first by a high-ranking Indian official to Zimbabwe in 21 years.
The last high-ranking official from India to visit Zimbabwe was then Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda in 1996.

“Several MoUs, including in areas of mining, power and culture, are expected to be signed during the visit,” said Mr Tirumurti.

Mr Naidu leads a delegation which comprises Minister of State for Social Justice Mr Krishan Pal Gurjar, four Members of Parliament and other senior officials.

The delegation will also visit Malawi and Botswana between October 31 and November 6.
“During the last four years, there has been an unprecedented 26 visits to Africa by the Indian president, vice presidents and prime minister apart from several ministerial visits to Africa,” said Mr Tirumurti. “This is in keeping with our continuous enhanced engagement with Africa.”

Mr Tirumurti pointed out that during the JUly 30 harmonised elections, an eight-member delegation from his country’s election commission was in Zimbabwe to observe the polls.

He said measures being taken by the Government of Zimbabwe to revive the economy were being received with keen interest by Indian investors.

Vice President Naidu will address the India-Zimbabwe Business Forum and the Indian community in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe and India enjoy cordial relations. The Asian country has provided assistance in various areas, including the health sector.

Writing in his weekly column in The Sunday Mail, President Mnangagwa said discussions during VP Naidu’s visit would include supply of medicines to the country.

India has the world’s third largest pharmaceutical industry in terms of volume.
President Mnangagwa said the visit presented an opportunity to tap into the Asian emerging economic giant’s globally recognised achievements in the pharmaceuticals industry.

“This week we will host the Vice-President of India,” the President said. “India is a key drug supplier to us. Government hopes to take full advantage of this fraternal visit to explore possibilities on pharmaceutical supplies on the back of government-to-government arrangements,” he said.

“Likewise, we will engage other governments with supply capacity at good value for money. Our scope of engagement with friendly governments will go beyond drug imports.

“We will explore ways to reboot our capacity for the local production of essential drugs as before.”
The country is facing a shortage of essential medicines attributed to the scarcity of foreign currency. – state media

Correspondent|Ghanaian actress Jackie Appiah and British-Nigerian actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim are currently on set in Zimbabwe shooting a movie on Sally and Robert Mugabe.

According to reports the movie is set to be about the rise and fall of the former president through the eyes and interviews of his fellow comrades as well as highlighting on his celebrated relationship with his late wife Sally Mugabe.

– A controversial Harare preacher followed by thousands has on Sunday claimed he has found the elusive cure for HIV..

Walter Magaya, known to followers as a prophet of God, told a congregation of his Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries that he had made the discovery two years ago – but had waited “because I wanted it to be chemically proven, scientifically proven”.

“God has given me a revelation, we tested it and it’s perfect. God showed me a certain tree and certain people. We have found the cure for HIV and Aids,” Magaya announced to an ecstatic church.

The service was watched by millions on TV and the internet.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus that over time causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States. The initial cases were a cluster of injection drug users and gay men with no known cause of impaired immunity who showed symptoms of pneumonia, a rare opportunistic infection that was known to occur in people with very compromised immune systems.

According to the World Health Organisation, 70 million people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 35 million people have died of HIV. Globally, 36.9 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2017.

A cure for HIV has never been found, although researchers have managed to manufacture medicines to keep the disease suppressed and stop it from developing into full-blown AIDS.

Magaya said he was prepared for the Zimbabwe government, through the Health Ministry, to scientifically test his HIV cure.

The cure, he announced, was developed from a plant called Aguma which is found in Zimbabwe. This was mixed with a different herb from Mozambique.

With the help of Indian partners, with whom he has formed a company, Aretha Medical, Magaya said they had developed the cure to be administered on patients in the form of tablets and capsules. The medicine is kept in powder form.

“Right now, my team is working on dosages for the different strains of HIV,” he said.

Scientific breakthrough or hot air? … Prophet Walter Magaya claims plant can cure HIV
Following the church service, Magaya addressed a news conference where he gave more information on his find.

“The company name is called Aretha, which means ‘vicious’. Our medicine is vicious, our discovery is vicious,” he said

“It has been my dream to help believers and non-believers. I have been hiding this secret after I found it two years ago because I wanted it to be chemically proven, scientifically proven.

“My main concern was finding a cure for HIV and cancer. Components of our plant starves cancer cells. Chemicals in Aguma are enough to make your immune system strong so that it can fight any foreign invasion.

“I know the world will dismiss it, but they will eventually agree. I’ve tested it fully on human beings and a lot of these human beings have gone negative. At this stage, we’re 100 percent organic because we find that there’s no side effect. We’re mixing plants from here in Zimbabwe another one from Mozambique.

“The government is free to summon our own research board and test this medicine for themselves. As for me, I’ve my own testimonies but people will listen to a minister rather than a mere prophet.”

Magaya said they had made effort to get legal protection for their find.

“I was offered $56 million by an American company for me to point them to the tree. We are the first people to discover this plant, so we have intellectual rights. This plant is not in any botanic records,” he claimed.

HIV was “an African problem which was waiting for an African solution”, he said. Two thirds of the world’s HIV positive people are in Africa.

The preacher said he had secured a clinical licence and was building a laboratory, “which could be the biggest in Africa.”

He intends to donate 29,000 tablets to people living with HIV in Hurungwe district, his birth place.

Terrence Mawawa|Social commentator Nanette Allmark has said Emmerson Mnangagwa is a “heartless” leader who is unconcerned about the plight of suffering Zimbabweans.

Responding to opposition figure Barbara Nyagomo’s comments on the MDC Anniversary Celebrations Allmark said:” I think Barbara’s questions are really interesting. Yes
it was MDC@19 and it made one heck of a statement, reflecting where the hearts of the people lie.

Yes it made a statement to the people of Zimbabwe and most definitely one to Zanu PF : one they didn’t like. Those who accuse the MDC of ruining the economy through sanctions are incorrect.

The USA provided ED with a list of requirements to be fulfilled to have sanctions lifted. What’s stopping
them? The EU clearly stated that our elections did NOT meet international standards.

I don’t think the MDC Gwanzura meeting affected the economy.If our politicians are not prepared to sacrifice and climb down from their
arrogant high horse then the situation in the country will degenerate into chaos.

A group of former liberation war fighters, led by ZNLWVA’s Mazowe district chairperson Efanos Mudzimunyi, descended on the party headquarters around mid-morning yesterday pushing for the ouster of Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, finance secretary Patrick Chinamasa, secretary for health David Parirenyatwa, former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi and party administrator Dixon Dzora.

Other officials targeted by the boisterous war veterans include Munyaradzi Machacha, the leader of the Chitepo Ideological College, who is accused of staffing the college with elements aligned to the Generation 40 (G40) faction, annihilated by the military when it ousted Robert Mugabe in November last year.

The ex-combatants sensationally claimed that the beleaguered party honchos were undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa and engaging in corrupt activities.

They made a beeline into the ruling party’s headquarters intending to confiscate keys to Mpofu and Dzora’s offices, but found them under tight lock and key.

They later trooped into the party’s conference room to deliberate on their next course of action.

ZNLWVA spokesperson Douglas Mahiya, who is among the officials assigned to work full time for the party, was at the Zanu PF headquarters when the drama occurred.

Mudzimunyi told the Daily News yesterday that the war veterans would want to see listed senior officials relieved of their party duties.

“….there are people on this list who are engaging in corrupt activities thereby digging a trench that we feel is meant to trap out president hence we want them out as soon as possible,” he said, adding that Zimbabweans have had enough of corruption.

“Our people are suffering; there is no fuel, prices of basic goods are going up every day while these people are here seated and doing nothing. All they do is (to) plot against the president to advance their agenda.

“They should be reminded that Zanu PF is a big fish that cannibalises other fish. It is not an individual’s property, it is the people who are called Zanu PF not the leadership so these people must just go and pave way for this country to prosper. It is now 38 years of economic deterioration because of such individuals in the party and we are saying we are fed up and cannot continue with people sabotaging the president,” Mudzimunyi said.

Contacted for comment, Mahiya said he was unaware of what was taking place.

“I am actually going out to look for fuel and I don’t even know what is happening,” Mahiya said.

Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo told the Daily News yesterday that as the mouthpiece of the war veterans, Mahiya should know what his colleagues were up to.

“If Mahiya does not know then who should know? I am not (the) war veterans’ spokesperson so it is him who should confirm if they are bona fide members of the ZNLWVA.
Maybe they are not war veterans after all,” Khaya Moyo said.

The former combatants of the country’s guerrilla war of liberation fought in the 1970s and ended with independence from Britain in 1980 have previously issued a petition pleading with Mnangagwa to give named party officials their marching orders.

In the petition, which was addressed to Zanu PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and signed by war veterans representatives from 10 provinces, the former fighters accused Mpofu and others of sabotaging Mnangagwa’s efforts to turn around the country’s economic fortunes.

At the height of the factional fights that erupted in Zanu PF over Mugabe’s succession, ZNLWVA members backed Mnangagwa against the G40 faction which was doing the bidding for former first lady Grace Mugabe to succeed her 94-year-old husband.

Mugabe had harshly punished the association’s executive through expulsions from the ruling party and government only for ZNLWVA to emerge even stronger after the military stepped in mid-November last year through an operation that vanquished G40 and hoisted Mnangagwa into the top office in the land.

Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a run-off against MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa in the July 30 polls after registering a 50,6 percent victory. Chamisa has, however, refused to concede defeat saying the election result was manipulated in favour of Mnangagwa.

Although the Constitutional Court dismissed Chamisa’s electoral challenge, the post-poll ructions have muddied the waters for the Zanu PF leader, who was hoping to gain domestic, regional and international support which is critical in turning around the country’s fortunes.

The result has been a biting economic meltdown that has now resulted in finger-pointing among Zanu PF cadres who not so long ago fought on the same side to depose Mugabe and his G40 backers.

-Daily News

A group of former liberation war fighters, led by ZNLWVA’s Mazowe district chairperson Efanos Mudzimunyi, descended on the party headquarters around mid-morning yesterday pushing for the ouster of Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, finance secretary Patrick Chinamasa, secretary for health David Parirenyatwa, former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi and party administrator Dixon Dzora.

Other officials targeted by the boisterous war veterans include Munyaradzi Machacha, the leader of the Chitepo Ideological College, who is accused of staffing the college with elements aligned to the Generation 40 (G40) faction, annihilated by the military when it ousted Robert Mugabe in November last year.

The ex-combatants sensationally claimed that the beleaguered party honchos were undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa and engaging in corrupt activities.

They made a beeline into the ruling party’s headquarters intending to confiscate keys to Mpofu and Dzora’s offices, but found them under tight lock and key.

They later trooped into the party’s conference room to deliberate on their next course of action.

ZNLWVA spokesperson Douglas Mahiya, who is among the officials assigned to work full time for the party, was at the Zanu PF headquarters when the drama occurred.

Mudzimunyi told the Daily News yesterday that the war veterans would want to see listed senior officials relieved of their party duties.

“….there are people on this list who are engaging in corrupt activities thereby digging a trench that we feel is meant to trap out president hence we want them out as soon as possible,” he said, adding that Zimbabweans have had enough of corruption.

“Our people are suffering; there is no fuel, prices of basic goods are going up every day while these people are here seated and doing nothing. All they do is (to) plot against the president to advance their agenda.

“They should be reminded that Zanu PF is a big fish that cannibalises other fish. It is not an individual’s property, it is the people who are called Zanu PF not the leadership so these people must just go and pave way for this country to prosper. It is now 38 years of economic deterioration because of such individuals in the party and we are saying we are fed up and cannot continue with people sabotaging the president,” Mudzimunyi said.

Contacted for comment, Mahiya said he was unaware of what was taking place.

“I am actually going out to look for fuel and I don’t even know what is happening,” Mahiya said.

Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo told the Daily News yesterday that as the mouthpiece of the war veterans, Mahiya should know what his colleagues were up to.

“If Mahiya does not know then who should know? I am not (the) war veterans’ spokesperson so it is him who should confirm if they are bona fide members of the ZNLWVA.
Maybe they are not war veterans after all,” Khaya Moyo said.

The former combatants of the country’s guerrilla war of liberation fought in the 1970s and ended with independence from Britain in 1980 have previously issued a petition pleading with Mnangagwa to give named party officials their marching orders.

In the petition, which was addressed to Zanu PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and signed by war veterans representatives from 10 provinces, the former fighters accused Mpofu and others of sabotaging Mnangagwa’s efforts to turn around the country’s economic fortunes.

At the height of the factional fights that erupted in Zanu PF over Mugabe’s succession, ZNLWVA members backed Mnangagwa against the G40 faction which was doing the bidding for former first lady Grace Mugabe to succeed her 94-year-old husband.

Mugabe had harshly punished the association’s executive through expulsions from the ruling party and government only for ZNLWVA to emerge even stronger after the military stepped in mid-November last year through an operation that vanquished G40 and hoisted Mnangagwa into the top office in the land.

Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a run-off against MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa in the July 30 polls after registering a 50,6 percent victory. Chamisa has, however, refused to concede defeat saying the election result was manipulated in favour of Mnangagwa.

Although the Constitutional Court dismissed Chamisa’s electoral challenge, the post-poll ructions have muddied the waters for the Zanu PF leader, who was hoping to gain domestic, regional and international support which is critical in turning around the country’s fortunes.

The result has been a biting economic meltdown that has now resulted in finger-pointing among Zanu PF cadres who not so long ago fought on the same side to depose Mugabe and his G40 backers.

-Daily News

A fierce war is brewing behind the scenes for control of Zimbabwe’s fuel industry pitting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s allies following a bid by a South African firm to break the Sakunda monopoly, it has been revealed.

By Paul Nyathi|MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will this week begin his promised country wide meetings with party supporters to formulate a way forward for the party in the wake of a collapsing economic situation in the country.

Chamisa made the undertaking to tour the country when he addressed thousands of MDC supporters who filled up Gwanzura Stadium on Saturday for the party’s nineteenth year celebrations.

“Starting next week, I will go area by area. We are planning something big. We’ll tell you when the time has come, We’ll give you the dates, and we’ll not be backing down,” said Chamisa.

His first of call will be Matabeleland South province where he will have two rallies in Beitbridge and Gwanda on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

Organisers of the two rallies indicated to ZimEye.com that the province is ready to host Chamisa and all logistics have been made.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered Zanu PF bigwigs who are employed at the party headquarters to wear party regalia when on official duty.

He told the Zanu PF central committee meeting on Thursday that it was disconcerting to note that former Cabinet ministers and other ruling party bigwigs who were given full time jobs at the party headquarters were not wearing Zanu PF regalia as the party’s brand ambassadors.

To stress his point, he requested former Cabinet ministers Simon Khaya Moyo; Patrick Chinamasa; Obert Mpofu; Chris Mushowe; Edna Madzongwe; Paul Mangwana; Simbarashe Mumbengegwi; Mike Bimha; David Parirenyatwa; and Josiah Hungwe, together with other Zanu PF bigwigs that include Douglas Mahiya, Lewis Matutu and Cleveria Chizema to stand up so that other central committee members could see for themselves what he was talking about.

“Do you see them? They are employed full time by the party (but) only two are wearing party regalia, the rest are not, yet they are leaders of the party)? Next time you must come wearing party regalia,” he said.

Zanu PF regalia, more often than not, displays the face of the incumbent first secretary of the party who is Mnangagwa.

When he first ascended to power after taking over from deposed leader Robert Mugabe in November last year, Mnangagwa insisted that he did not believe in party symbols after realising that his supporters were taking apple-polishing to dizzy heights.

He even restrained party supporters from singing songs that idolise him.

“The praise song I desire, if you were to sing one, is that of our National Anthem and those from the liberation struggle, not for me, no,” Mnangagwa said then.
Months on, that refreshing new order seems to be turning into a mirage.

Mnangagwa’s veneration is being amplified through Jah Prayzah’s hit songs — Mudhara Achauya and Kutonga Kwaro — which upon their release stoked political controversy but have become almost national anthems at Zanu PF functions.

As if to endorse the adulation, Mnangagwa dances to the tunes at every party event and sometimes at government functions.

Another hit song, ED Pfee, has also joined the fray while party regalia emblazoned with Mnangagwa’s name have since been acquired including caps with the ED Pfee label.

While war veterans who were Mnangagwa’s foot-soldiers in the battle to succeed Mugabe regretted the fact that they had made a cult of Mugabe, the same is being perpetuated in the new president’s name. Former Psychomotor minister Josiah Hungwe set the trend when he described Mnangagwa as “a son of man” well before he became president.

Mpofu, who as former Home Affairs minister famously used to sign off his communications with Mugabe by saying “your most obedient son”, has previous likened Mnangagwa to the biblical Joshua who is “as soft, as tender as an African mother’s love” notwithstanding his nickname — Ngwena.

Zanu PF Harare provincial chairperson Goodwills Masimirembwa has also taken his bootlicking to another level when he gave welcome remarks to the party’s extraordinary congress in December last year.

“You led the tripartite of the army along with General Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga and Zanu PF. Shumba Murambwi (Mnangagwa’s totem), Shumba ye Chirumhanzu, tinoda kuti mutonge imi, murambe muchingotonga, muchingotonga, muchingotonga (We want you to rule for ever and ever),” Masimirembwa fawned.

-Daily News

By Paul Nyathi|A man from Bulawayo who was arrested on Friday shortly after giving evidence at the Kgalema Montlante led Commission of Inquiry into the killings that happened in Harare on the first of August has spent the weekend in prison.

Wisdom Mkhwananzi, who gave evidence at the commission, indicated that he grew up as an orphan after his parents were killed during the Gukurahundi atrocities of the early eighties. He went further to accuse Zimbabwe current President Emmerson Mnangagwa for presiding over the death of his father.

Mkhwananzi was violently apprehended by police from Bulawayo Central Police Station amid huge resistance from members of the public who felt that he was being unfairly arrested for giving his testimony on the brutality by the Gukurahundi soldiers.

A Bulawayo magistrate on Saturday remanded Mkhwananzi in custody to Monday where a ruling on his bail application will be held.

Court records indicate that Mkhwananzi is facing three charges, undermining the authority of the President, lying under oath and assaulting a police officer.

He is being represented by Jabulani Mhlanga a lawyer from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Bulawayo.

A fierce war is brewing behind the scenes for control of Zimbabwe’s fuel industry pitting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s allies following a bid by a South African firm to break the Sakunda monopoly, it has been revealed.

A fierce war is brewing behind the scenes for control of Zimbabwe’s fuel industry pitting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s allies following a bid by a South African firm to break the Sakunda monopoly, it has been revealed.

Music pirates in Harare had by Friday started cashing-in on unsuspecting Jah Prayzah fans through selling counterfeit copies of the musician’s yet-to-be released album titled Chitubu, The Standard Style can reveal.

The development comes at a time the Uzumba-bred artiste released the title track last week, for the first time before the official launch of the full album, which is set for Friday in the wake of growing calls for him to revert back to his traditional sound.

While efforts to contact both Jah Prayzah and his manager Keen Mushapaidze were fruitless on Friday afternoon, Mushapaidze, in an earlier interview, told The Standard Style that the project contains 13 songs, and not the 14 written on CD sleeves of the pirated CDs.

“Chitubu [the song] is proof that we listened to our fans and it gives a hint on what to look forward to, which is an album that will make many people happy because it contains 13 good tracks,” he said.

Mushapaidze said the album contains a cameo with Kenyan Afro-pop band Sauti Sol, a song conspicuously absent on the pirated disc list that mentions Diamond Platnumz, Mafikizolo and Gonyeti as part of those featured.

Although it is highly unlikely that the songs would have been leaked, the possibility cannot be dismissed as the growing phenomenon has affected other established artistes, including Alick Macheso and Thomas Mapfumo, before.

Meanwhile, the JP camp has promised to light up Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) with a memorable show come Friday.

“On the day [November 2], we want to do something different, not in terms of numbers because it is the same venue, which we have filled countless times already, but in terms of appearance where we want to have the best sound and LED screens among other things,” Mushapaidze said in an interview.

According to him, their marketing strategies in the build-up to the launch of the eighth album yielded good results as music lovers were already jostling for tickets for the show.

“People have started buying tickets and for the first time we have sold many well before time, we have never seen that before,” he said.

Jah Prayzah also took to social media platform Instagram to express his faith in the project while appealing for support from his followers.

“Indeed what a journey it has been and like they say, ‘you are only as good as your next album’, it’s so easy to forget the years gone by…” he captioned a collage picture of previous album covers.

“…It’s you [fans] who made all the previous seven albums hits and now I hope you will love Chitubu because you were on my mind all the time I was in the studio. #02_11 #Chitubu.”

In addition to releasing all the music online on the night, the event will also serve as a launch for two new videos, one which was shot in Binga while another is set for shooting in South Africa tomorrow.

Standard

A group of former liberation war fighters, led by ZNLWVA’s Mazowe district chairperson Efanos Mudzimunyi, descended on the party headquarters around mid-morning yesterday pushing for the ouster of Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, finance secretary Patrick Chinamasa, secretary for health David Parirenyatwa, former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi and party administrator Dixon Dzora.

Other officials targeted by the boisterous war veterans include Munyaradzi Machacha, the leader of the Chitepo Ideological College, who is accused of staffing the college with elements aligned to the Generation 40 (G40) faction, annihilated by the military when it ousted Robert Mugabe in November last year.

The ex-combatants sensationally claimed that the beleaguered party honchos were undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa and engaging in corrupt activities.

They made a beeline into the ruling party’s headquarters intending to confiscate keys to Mpofu and Dzora’s offices, but found them under tight lock and key.

They later trooped into the party’s conference room to deliberate on their next course of action.

ZNLWVA spokesperson Douglas Mahiya, who is among the officials assigned to work full time for the party, was at the Zanu PF headquarters when the drama occurred.

Mudzimunyi told the Daily News yesterday that the war veterans would want to see listed senior officials relieved of their party duties.

“….there are people on this list who are engaging in corrupt activities thereby digging a trench that we feel is meant to trap out president hence we want them out as soon as possible,” he said, adding that Zimbabweans have had enough of corruption.

“Our people are suffering; there is no fuel, prices of basic goods are going up every day while these people are here seated and doing nothing. All they do is (to) plot against the president to advance their agenda.

“They should be reminded that Zanu PF is a big fish that cannibalises other fish. It is not an individual’s property, it is the people who are called Zanu PF not the leadership so these people must just go and pave way for this country to prosper. It is now 38 years of economic deterioration because of such individuals in the party and we are saying we are fed up and cannot continue with people sabotaging the president,” Mudzimunyi said.

Contacted for comment, Mahiya said he was unaware of what was taking place.

“I am actually going out to look for fuel and I don’t even know what is happening,” Mahiya said.

Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo told the Daily News yesterday that as the mouthpiece of the war veterans, Mahiya should know what his colleagues were up to.

“If Mahiya does not know then who should know? I am not (the) war veterans’ spokesperson so it is him who should confirm if they are bona fide members of the ZNLWVA.
Maybe they are not war veterans after all,” Khaya Moyo said.

The former combatants of the country’s guerrilla war of liberation fought in the 1970s and ended with independence from Britain in 1980 have previously issued a petition pleading with Mnangagwa to give named party officials their marching orders.

In the petition, which was addressed to Zanu PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and signed by war veterans representatives from 10 provinces, the former fighters accused Mpofu and others of sabotaging Mnangagwa’s efforts to turn around the country’s economic fortunes.

At the height of the factional fights that erupted in Zanu PF over Mugabe’s succession, ZNLWVA members backed Mnangagwa against the G40 faction which was doing the bidding for former first lady Grace Mugabe to succeed her 94-year-old husband.

Mugabe had harshly punished the association’s executive through expulsions from the ruling party and government only for ZNLWVA to emerge even stronger after the military stepped in mid-November last year through an operation that vanquished G40 and hoisted Mnangagwa into the top office in the land.

Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a run-off against MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa in the July 30 polls after registering a 50,6 percent victory. Chamisa has, however, refused to concede defeat saying the election result was manipulated in favour of Mnangagwa.

Although the Constitutional Court dismissed Chamisa’s electoral challenge, the post-poll ructions have muddied the waters for the Zanu PF leader, who was hoping to gain domestic, regional and international support which is critical in turning around the country’s fortunes.

The result has been a biting economic meltdown that has now resulted in finger-pointing among Zanu PF cadres who not so long ago fought on the same side to depose Mugabe and his G40 backers.

Daily News

A fierce war is brewing behind the scenes for control of Zimbabwe’s fuel industry pitting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s allies following a bid by a South African firm to break the Sakunda monopoly, it has been revealed.

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa wants any talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to yield electoral reforms and an economic rescue package for the country, it has been revealed.

Chamisa told the coalition’s structures that although “the people’s victory was stolen”, he had been “broadly mandated” by the MDC national council to talk to rivals on stringent conditions that include having acceptance of his victory as well as the upholding of the “people’s result”.

“On 29 August 2018, the national council met in Harare at Morgan Tsvangirai House, to review the situation and consider its position and way forward,” he wrote.

“The president is broadly mandated to engage all stakeholders, local and international, in dialogue with the scope of dealing with the current impasse arising from a stolen election and to resolve related governance issues.”

However, Chamisa said “any such dialogue by the party must and shall be anchored on a five-point plan (that) includes return to legitimacy and democracy — the respecting of the win and will of the people, respecting the true outcome of this election”.

“Instituting reforms that allow for the holding of truly free, fair and credible elections in Zimbabwe. The reforms must include electoral reforms, political reforms, and constitutional and legal reforms,” he said.

Chamisa has refused to acknowledge that Mnangagwa won the July 30 elections as he accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of rigging the polls.

After the Constitutional Court threw out the opposition leader’s petition challenging the election results, there has been speculation that Zanu PF and MDC Alliance will engage in talks to find a political solution to the poll dispute.

Chamisa, without confirming whether talks between the two rival parties were already underway, said dialogue must be centred around reviving Zimbabwe’s struggling economy.

“We need to come up with an immediate shared and robust economic rescue plan to deal with the deteriorating economic situation and the social security and humanitarian situation,” he said.

“We have to build our nation, foster healing, peace and reconciliation and this we can by dealing with the rule of law, protection of human rights and good governance issues.”

Chamisa said the dialogue must also deal with “democracy hygiene issues and with the debt challenge”.

Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana said the ruling party was not under any pressure to negotiate with Chamisa as it controlled Parliament.

“Who does he think he is? He is a citizen of Zimbabwe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa is willing to talk to any progressive citizen without pre-conditions,” he charged when asked for a comment about Chamisa’s conditions.

“He [Mnangagwa] has the mandate of the people to govern this country and not from Chamisa.

“He must realise that he is a leader of an opposition party that is a minority in Parliament. We can ignore him and nothing will change.”

Mangwana said Chamisa had no power to set Mnangagwa any conditions for dialogue.

“He has absolutely no right to set conditions for dialogue because Zanu PF and the president will not tolerate such nonsense,” he said.

“He must realise that the mandate to govern comes from the people and not in dialogue.”

The results of the presidential elections announced by Zec showed that Chamisa got 44,3% of the vote translating into 2,1 million votes.

Mnangagwa received more than 2,4 million votes, which translated to 50,67%.

Chamisa, however, claims he has evidence that he got 2,6 million votes and was “the legitimate president of the country”.

Meanwhile, Phillan Zamchiya, a political commentator, told a Mass Public Opinion Institute post-election public seminar last week that Mnangagwa and Chamisa needed to find each other.

He said Mnangagwa still suffered from a legitimacy crisis even after he was sworn in as president, while the opposition was under pressure from the international community to work with the new government.

“At the moment the legitimacy of Mnangagwa is heavily contested by the opposition, and even though the Constitutional Court ruled in his favour, it did not resolve the issue of his political legitimacy which is still being contested,” Zamchiya said.

He said Sadc and the European Union wanted Zimbabwe to move on even if the elections were seen as flawed.

“If the opposition rejects dialogue, then they lose out,” Zamchiya said.

“The opposition will be perceived as being prevented to do so by narrow partisan interests and they will lose their key constituency such as churches.

“The main opposition won 81% of urban local authorities, and they might fail to deliver due to tensions with central government, and so an all-inclusive dialogue with politicians, churches, students, business and labour is important.”

Mnangagwa recently said he was open for dialogue with Chamisa.

-The Standard

A manhunt is under way for a Zimbabwean wanted for the murder of a British resident in his Cape Town flat last weekend.

Police have since issued an arrest warrant and put out an identikit for Iryvine Dzvitiro, 24.

The Zimbabwean is wanted in connection with the murder of Upendra Galegedera after he allegedly stole the victim’s car, changed the number plates to register it in his name and then bizarrely reported a theft of the vehicle at Sea Point police station where the murder docket had been opened.

The suspect did this, said a police source, on the same day that cops found the bloodied body of Galegedera, 50, originally from Hertfordshire in the UK, at his Hillside Heights flat in Wessels Road, Green Point.

He had been stabbed to death and there was evidence of a struggle.

On Friday night police officially announced that Dzvitiro was wanted for Galegedera’s murder and that an arrest warrant had been issued.

The police source could not elaborate on why Dzvitiro would have risked reporting the theft out of Galegedera’s stolen Audi A3, nor confirm if he had reported it before or after police found Galegedera’s body.

“The suspect probably thought it would take days or weeks for the body to be found,” said the source.

But the gruesome discovery came sooner than expected after concerned UK relatives reported to police that Galegedera was not returning their calls.

Sea Point police investigated and, after breaking down the front door to his sixth-floor flat, found his bloodied body.

Police also seized CCTV footage of Dzvitiro arriving at Hillside Heights with Galegedera and then leaving alone in the victim’s white Audi A3.

On Monday, Dzvitiro tried to register Galegedera’s Audi in his name after fitting false number plates.

“He wanted to drive the car back to Zimbabwe,” said the source.

“But when he couldn’t get this right he dumped the car.”

Police confirmed this week that the Audi had been found on Tuesday near the victim’s flat in Prestwich Street.

Some sources said that the suspect also lived at Hillside Heights. But according to the police source Galegedera had picked up Dzitiro at a gay nightspot last weekend.

“Detectives suspect that he went home with the victim not for sex, but to rob him and that the victim was stabbed to death when he resisted,” said the source.

Police spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk said: “The investigation into this matter is currently in a very sensitive stage and this office cannot elaborate further on this matter.”

“If you know the whereabouts of 24-year-old Iryvine Dzvitiro or can assist with information that will lead to his arrest, kindly contact Detective Sergeant Christopher Botha on 021 430 3700 or 079 894 1317 of Sea Point police, as he is wanted for murder. Alternatively Crime Stop can be contacted on 08600 10111.”

ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa has invited members of the business community to a breakfast meeting.

Mmangagwa will meet members of the business community at State House in Harare tomorrow for a “predominantly interactive” session that the state media claims seeks to tap industry’s views as Government shapes its vision for the future.

Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet (Presidential Communications) Mr George Charamba told the statw media yesterday that the meeting represented the beginning of “intensive interaction” between Government and business.
“On Monday morning, His Excellency the President is hosting the business community — bankers and industrialists — to a breakfast meeting at State House. This is the beginning of intensive interaction between the President and various economic players as the country works to recover the economy in line with the Transitional Stabilisation Programme,” said the Presidential Spokesperson.

“The meeting will be predominantly interactive. The President wants to get the thinking of the business community in respect of the broad policies Government has spelt out and in respect to the recent measures taken to stabilise the supply of goods on the local market,” he said.

Businesses have become increasingly fretful after Cabinet decided to suspend Statutory Instrument 122, which restricts imports of certain goods that can be produced locally.

The intervention is meant to cover the supply gaps of basic commodities on the market after retailers failed to meet panic-induced consumer demand.

Although business acknowledges that Government acted in the best interest of consumers, who were buffeted by shortages of basic commodities and extortionately high prices, they are currently seeking assurances that the intervention is temporary.

Industry representative bodies are pushing for the expeditious implementation of a Local Content Policy that will insulate businesses from the influx of cheap goods.
Government has already indicated that the policy — which will compel local and central Government, including public entities, to procure locally where the capacity exists — will be launched before year-end.

Mnangagwa, who often says he is a listening President, will be having his second interface with business representatives this year.

On January 18, the Head of State and Government met the Zimbabwe Business Club, a private organisation made up of business people and captains of industry. Government is trying to rally all stakeholders to invest in Vision 2030, which is premised on building an upper middle-income economy in the next 12 years.

The TSP has been launched by Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube as a roadmap to guide economic development from October this year to December 2020.

It will be succeeded by two five-year economic programmes that will run through 2030.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered Zanu PF bigwigs who are employed at the party headquarters to wear party regalia when on official duty.

He told the Zanu PF central committee meeting on Thursday that it was disconcerting to note that former Cabinet ministers and other ruling party bigwigs who were given full time jobs at the party headquarters were not wearing Zanu PF regalia as the party’s brand ambassadors.

To stress his point, he requested former Cabinet ministers Simon Khaya Moyo; Patrick Chinamasa; Obert Mpofu; Chris Mushowe; Edna Madzongwe; Paul Mangwana; Simbarashe Mumbengegwi; Mike Bimha; David Parirenyatwa; and Josiah Hungwe, together with other Zanu PF bigwigs that include Douglas Mahiya, Lewis Matutu and Cleveria Chizema to stand up so that other central committee members could see for themselves what he was talking about.

“Do you see them? They are employed full time by the party (but) only two are wearing party regalia, the rest are not, yet they are leaders of the party)? Next time you must come wearing party regalia,” he said.

Zanu PF regalia, more often than not, displays the face of the incumbent first secretary of the party who is Mnangagwa.

When he first ascended to power after taking over from deposed leader Robert Mugabe in November last year, Mnangagwa insisted that he did not believe in party symbols after realising that his supporters were taking apple-polishing to dizzy heights.

He even restrained party supporters from singing songs that idolise him.
“The praise song I desire, if you were to sing one, is that of our National Anthem and those from the liberation struggle, not for me, no,” Mnangagwa said then.
Months on, that refreshing new order seems to be turning into a mirage.

Mnangagwa’s veneration is being amplified through Jah Prayzah’s hit songs — Mudhara Achauya and Kutonga Kwaro — which upon their release stoked political controversy but have become almost national anthems at Zanu PF functions.

As if to endorse the adulation, Mnangagwa dances to the tunes at every party event and sometimes at government functions.

Another hit song, ED Pfee, has also joined the fray while party regalia emblazoned with Mnangagwa’s name have since been acquired including caps with the ED Pfee label.
While war veterans who were Mnangagwa’s foot-soldiers in the battle to succeed Mugabe regretted the fact that they had made a cult of Mugabe, the same is being perpetuated in the new president’s name. Former Psychomotor minister Josiah Hungwe set the trend when he described Mnangagwa as “a son of man” well before he became president.

Mpofu, who as former Home Affairs minister famously used to sign off his communications with Mugabe by saying “your most obedient son”, has previous likened Mnangagwa to the biblical Joshua who is “as soft, as tender as an African mother’s love” notwithstanding his nickname — Ngwena.

Zanu PF Harare provincial chairperson Goodwills Masimirembwa has also taken his bootlicking to another level when he gave welcome remarks to the party’s extraordinary congress in December last year.

“You led the tripartite of the army along with General Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga and Zanu PF. Shumba Murambwi (Mnangagwa’s totem), Shumba ye Chirumhanzu, tinoda kuti mutonge imi, murambe muchingotonga, muchingotonga, muchingotonga (We want you to rule for ever and ever),” Masimirembwa fawned. Daily News

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