When a finance minister announces a policy on Monday and come Friday he announces changes to that policy, you know there’s no science behind the policy. It’s muddling through!
In his statement Fiscal Measures for Reversing Fiscal Dis-equilibrium delivered on 1st October the Minister of Finance and Economic Development said:
“I hereby review the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax from 5 cents per transaction to 2 cents per dollar transacted, effective 1 October 2018. I am therefore directing financial institutions, banks and ZIMRA, working together with telecommunication companies to extend the collection to all electronic transactions.”
But Law Still Unchanged
As at the time of writing [2.30 pm, 4th October] the law remains unchanged. It is still as it was before the Minister’s statement: the rate of the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax is “US$ 0.05 for each transaction exceeding US$ 10,00 on which the tax is payable” as provided by Parliament in section 22B of the Finance Act [Chapter 23:04].
What the Minister Should Have Done
The Zimbabwean legal system does not allow a Minister to change any law, let alone an Act of Parliament, by a Ministerial statement.
The Minister’s should have been advised to gazette regulations changing the rate of the tax on the same day as his statement, the 1st October.
He the power to make such regulations under section 3(2) of the Finance Act.
If the Government wishes to persist with the new tax rate despite the adverse reaction in several sectors, the Minister can still make regulations now. Regulations made under section 3(2) of the Finance Act, however, must, as required by section 3(3), be promptly confirmed by Act of Parliament: Section 3(3) states:
“If any provision contained in regulations referred to in subsection (2) is not confirmed by a Bill which –
(a) passes its second reading stage in Parliament on one of the twenty eight days on which Parliament sits next after the coming into operation of the instrument: and
(b) becomes law not later than six months after the date of such second reading;
that provision shall become void as from the date specified in the instrument as that on which the rate of tax duty, levy or other charge shall be amended or replaced, and so much of the rate of tax, duty, levy or other charge as was amended or replaced, as the case may be, by that provision shall be deemed not to have been so amended or replaced.”
This means that if the time limits for confirmation are not complied with, any changes they may have made will fall away as if never made at all [same Act, section 3(3)] [i.e. taxes, etc collected might have to be refunded].
Implementation of the New Tax Must be Delayed
If they have already implemented or continue to implement the Minister’s legally ineffective review/directive, ZIMRA, financial institutions, banks and telecommunications companies will have done so at their peril. And they should bear in mind that if and when the Minister makes appropriate regulations, any attempt to backdate the new rate of tax to 1st October is likely to face a stiff constitutional challenge. Unlike the former Constitution, the present Constitution specifically commands “respect for vested rights” [section 3(2)(k)]. [Note: “vested rights” are those that already exist which cannot be impaired or taken away (as through retroactive legislation).]
IN a case of triumph over impunity, Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) welcome the judicious decision handed down by the High Court, which on 27 September 2018 ordered the state to pay $150 000 to Jestina Mungareva Mukoko, a pro-democracy campaigner and the Director of ZPP.
In a Deed of Settlement endorsed by the High Court, the defendants have been ordered to pay $100 000 to Jestina in respect of her claims while a further $50 000 will be paid as a contribution towards her legal costs.
The High Court ordered that the total payment of $150 000 must be made on or before 31 October 2018.
Background Information
Jestina was abducted by some unidentified armed men from her home in Norton on 3 December 2008, and her whereabouts together with two ZPP employees Broderick Takawira and Pascal Gonzo, who were also abducted later in December 2008 remained unknown until December 24, 2008, when they first appeared before the Harare Magistrates Court, after weeks of being held incommunicado and being tortured.
In court, Jestina and her colleagues and dozens of other pro-democracy campaigners were accused by government of plotting to topple Robert Mugabe’s administration through recruiting people to undergo military training in neighbouring Botswana.
After her release from a torturous three months stay in prison, Mukoko with the assistance of her lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, a member of ZLHR, took legal action against the state.
In September 2009, the Supreme Court granted a permanent stay of prosecution in favour of Jestina due to the violation of several of her fundamental rights by state security agents as she had been subjected to torture and inhuman and degrading treatment including simulated drowning, being locked in a freezer and being subjected to physical assaults as her tormentors tried to make her confess to plotting to overthrow the administration of Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe.
In 2017, the High Court ruled that those who had illegally arrested her could be held liable in their own individual capacities and the case culminated in lengthy protracted negotiations that have led to this outcome. During this time, Jestina was called different names such as ‘regime change agent, reactionary and other unprintable words in a bid to delegitimise her legitimate human rights activism. She was portrayed as a criminal, a tag which remains today but this settlement in the court vindicates her and her work in defending human rights.
Significance of my case
This outcome will not make up for the scars inflicted on her but it will contribute to the healing process while emboldening all those who may still be pursuing justice against the excesses of the state, including those who suffered a similar fate like mine, who are yet to get justice. I am aware, others that were abducted and disappeared as me, have had their cases stagnant with not much progress as the files are said to have been sitting in ‘one office’ for many many years. I take that again, many, many years!
The patrimonial settlement cannot atone for the trauma and suffering that I suffered and went through at the hands of the state security agents who were ruthless, merciless and very evil. It will not make for lost time as my liberty and all other human rights accorded to me by virtue of my being human was unjustifiably curtailed nor will it provide solace for my traumatised family – my mother, son, brothers, sisters in law, extended family, friends and other peace loving citizens.
However, it is a victory for the rule of law, constitutionalism and a mortal blow to impunity. The High Court’s decision is proof that the justice system is still able to prove the
involvement of the state and its representatives in gross human rights violations, and bring them to account, with justice being done for the victims like myself.
It sets a landmark precedent and shows that the state actors can be held accountable for their illegal conduct. It also sends a message to the overzealous enforcers of orders and in this case very illegal orders to violate a plethora of my rights that they will be held responsible for their actions and this can even be in their personal capacity.
I hope my story will inspire many other victims. To some extent, justice has now been done and this case will stand as an example in the continuing fight against impunity for state crimes and excesses.
My resort to litigation and the subsequent victory in court sends a strong signal that state sponsored crimes cannot go unpunished.
It is also an encouragement to human rights defenders that the dangers of their work will not be in vain. I hope this case will embolden younger activists to pursue social justice in the comfort that they can rely on this case to hold the state or anyone accountable who may threaten their liberties. It is also a vindication of the advocacy work done by all human rights activists and those who have invested in promoting and protecting human rights that even though the fruits of this cumbersome and often ardous journey may come late , they eventually come. This is a victory for everyone who has been in the trenches with me and who has walked this risky journey of human rights work.
I hope that this victory will set an example, particularly to the Zimbabwean authorities, who must now prosecute the perpetrators of abductions and enforced disappearances which is a heinous crime.
The High Court’s decision sends a clear signal to the Zimbabwean authorities, who must do everything in their power to guarantee victims access to impartial justice and to put an end to the endemic impunity that is enjoyed by torturers and the perpetrators of serious human rights violations.
This settlement comes at a time when the Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence set by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has started its work to establish the facts around the circumstances that led to the death of six people on 1 August 2018 in Harare after members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces opened fire against protesters. It must be established whether the force used by members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces was proportionate to the threat posed by unarmed protesters. It must also be established whether in doing so they overstepped their mandate and therefore should be held liable or the state vicariously liable. This case must form the basis for national rejection of all forms of impunity and the same principles must be followed by the Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence.
In conclusion, I, Jestina through the Zimbabwe Peace Project, which plays a critical role in documenting human rights abuses, will continue to join hands with other civil society organisations such as ZLHR to champion human rights in the post- Robert Mugabe era without fear or favour. The journey to full implementation of the Constitution and compliance with the supreme law of the land continues.
Staff Reporter|Giant Biscuits and other confectionery manufacturer Arenel has threatened to lay off some of its workers due to non availability of flour to run production.
Sources at the company’s Bulawayo factory told ZimEye.com that the company has advised over one and twenty of its workers that they will soon be asked to stay home due to non productivity.
Grain Millers in the country last week resolved to stop supplying the limited flour in the country to biscuit manufacturers and reserve it only for bread manufacturers.
The country is facing a critical shortage of flour which has seen Grain Millers importing the flour at a very high price. Foreign currency shortages have impacted heavily on the importation of the flour forcing the price of bread to reach $1.50 in some shops.
By Own Correspondent| The newly appointed Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube has revealed that he aims to stem the government’s ballooning expenditure by cutting down public sector jobs.
Ncube said job cuts were among austerity measures needed to revive the moribund economy as Zimbabwe suffocates under a strangulating debt of $16.9bn.
He said the government, which currently has a workforce of over 300 000, will target for purging, jobs held by workers due for retirement and “those who are not correctly positioned in their positions
Said Ncube:
“We are going to do that (job cuts). Trying to restructure your workforce is never easy. It’s painful, it’s emotional and can be a traumatic process but still necessary.”-News24
From your privileged position, you probably do not have a clue how difficult things have become for the majority of us ordinary Zimbabweans. So, I will break with convention and dive straight into it. There may be time in future, inshallah, for pleasantries.
In February 2009, the government of Zimbabwe adopted a multi-currency financial system. That act resulted in several dire consequences. In one fell swoop, all our life savings were wiped out. Our bank accounts were reduced to zero. Personally, my two insurance policies, which were both a few months short of being paid up, were worth nothing.
As a young professional, I had hoped to put them down as additional security for a mortgage bond to buy a house in a decent neighbourhood. It never happened and dreams shattered, I continued as a tenant!
At that time, we were told that the Zimbabwean dollar was still very much legal tender. It had only been suspended for the time being. The US dollar became the main means or currency of exchange. Since the Zimbabwean dollar was still legal tender, we all had to open up foreign currency accounts (FCAs) with our banks.
From a zero position, we started working again to re-establish our savings and, as a consequence, our collective dignity. Our salaries were paid in US dollars. Prices for goods and services were marked in US dollars. At the checkout point in most shops, the rate for that day could be easily established if one tendered British pounds, Botswana pula, the South African rand or the European euro.
Since that dollarisation day in February 2009, all the services that I rendered have always been paid for in US dollar. Since that day, I have always understood that my bank account was denominated in US dollars. It has always been my understanding that all deposits into my bank account were US dollar deposits. To me it did not matter that the deposit was by way of a mobile banking money transfer, a Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) transfer or cash.
If I remember well, you encouraged us to embrace so-called plastic money and payments through the mobile cellular telephone in order to reduce the stress on the physical US dollars, which, at some point, had somehow become scarce. I actually thought that I was being patriotic to follow your advice.
Then in 2016, you introduced what you referred to as “bond coins”. You later followed it up with the “bond note”. You told us that being a “surrogate” currency of the US dollar, the bond note was at par with its foster. Like sheep being led to the slaughter, we foolishly believed you.
Even up to now, from your monetary policy statement on Monday, you seem to insist that this bond note surrogate currency is at par with the US dollar. You must have such a low opinion of us to think that we buy that.
Before the general elections that were held in July this year, we had kept our fingers crossed hoping that after the polls you would come up with a workable plan to take us out of the — to borrow from US President Donald Trump’s dictionary of expletives — “shithole” that we have been in for the past two decades.
As you read your monetary policy statement on Monday, we all held our collective breath, waiting for the smoking gun — that spark — that moment when the big idea that will save us is finally revealed. The Americans call it the “aha” moment. It never came.
I am not an economist. I thought that the big idea might be hidden in some of your technical lingo. So, over the past two days, I have read your statement over and over again, thinking that I might have missed something from your televised announcement. The more I read your statement, the more I get convinced that the majority of us ordinary Zimbabweans are “screwed”, to borrow another Trump favourite.
Some of my friends who, like I see you do, from your rather misleading economic statistics, remain plainly foolishly optimistic. They cannot believe me when I tell them that, once again, we are done for, exactly as we were on that morning in February 2009. Our efforts at rebuilding our savings since you wiped them out have been futile!
Please, sir, explain to them that you have decreed that our banking accounts, that we have always thought are foreign currency accounts (FCAs), are no longer FCAs. All the deposits made into our accounts since you encouraged us to embrace plastic money, that we have always thought were US dollars are no longer US dollars. They have somehow mutated into something that I am still struggling to figure out from your underwhelming statement. I see you gloss over this. I am sure that you too have no clue as to what appellation to give them.
I see that you try to pull wool over our eyes by referring to RTGS transfers as if an RTGS transfer is a banking account. It would help us all if you told us in what currency those existing accounts are now denominated.
Perhaps you have decided to turn them into Zimbabwean dollar accounts, but you are not brave enough to get eyeball-to-eyeball with us and tell us — huh? Are they now bond notes, RTGS, Zim dollar accounts, or something else? What are they now? Please let us know.
As a result, as you did in February 2009, you now want all of us to, once again, open real FCAs into which we should deposit real US dollars and not your surrogate currency bond notes or electronic balances.
Please, let my friends know that all this is because government raided and depleted nostro accounts, thereby making foreign payments impossible. Because it is now impossible to process foreign payments from our existing FCAs, you are now telling us that the money that is in our accounts is not in fact foreign currency and that the accounts are not FCAs. But, you stop short of telling us in what currency those balances are now denominated. When did they all change and to what?
You announce pontifically that your measures will encourage people to bank their money. Christ, if this is meant to be a joke, it is in bad taste and insensitive!
Long-serving Zanu-pf member Didymus Mutasa, who was expelled from the party at the height of factionalism, says he is happy to re-join the party after spending two years in the cold.
Mutasa was fired on same day as Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa, allegedly for undermining the party leadership, then under former President Mr Robert Mugabe.
Following his application, Zanu-pf readmitted Mutasa in the party on Wednesday, together with former chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association Jabulani Sibanda.
Also admitted into the party was Chenjerai Kangausaru.
Speaking to State media following his readmission, Mutasa said he was happy to be back home.
He revealed that he had met President Mnangagwa and wished him well in his leadership of the party and the country.
“I welcomed that decision and I feel happy to be back in the party,” he said.
“I was just concerned with the developments in the party, particularly the behaviour of the former First Lady (Mrs Grace Mugabe). I felt that what she was doing was not the zanu-pf way and I was worried that the party leadership was not alive to that.”
Asked if he had met with President Mnangagwa, Mutasa said: “I went to his office to congratulate him and wished him well in his leadership of the party and that of the country.”
Mutasa said he did not have any qualms re-joining the party as an ordinary member since it was the party rule to do so.
Zanu-pf secretary for War Veterans, Detainees and Restrictees Victor Matemadanda said they were happy with the return of Mutasa and Sibanda.
He said it was their wish all war veterans who left the party for various reasons returning.
“We are very excited. zanu-pf is a mass party, but in the mass party you have what is known is the revolutionary element of the party,” he said.
“That cannot be gained from experience, it is gained from exposure of the difficult times we went through during the liberation war. You cannot replace or substitute their experience, their resilience. Now most of the people you see join politics for commercial proposes where they should have this or that benefit.
“When you are looking at the revolutionary element, which is the cadreship of the party, whether they get a benefit or not, they still retain the same position that you saw them last 10 or 15 years ago.
“The same goes to the likes of (Didymus) Mutasa. Some people would want to say, but he had formed his own party, that was frustration. Him (Mutasa), having worked closely with (Mr) Mugabe, he knew more of Mugabe than we did ourselves and during his time of victimisation, we did not support it.
“We did not see what he had seen at that time.
“Had we known or seen what he had seen ourselves, that was going to cut our revolution short. We were not going to have this issue of youth interfaces because that was going to cut that.
“Now we are talking about the values of the cadreship of the party back into force. We have people who can hear that there is G40 and we have our leader there, they will know that the leader has been lost.
“Those are rare people and unfortunately for zanu-pf, it is that type of people we lost or are losing. But they are not dead. The view of the veterans of the liberation is to have everyone back and my appeal to those that have not yet come back already, the policy of the party is that whenever they want to be re admitted, they should reapply and they must be humble enough as cadres of the revolution.
Matemadanda added: “It is not out of desperation, but it is out of their attachment to the revolution.
“You will never have another zanu-pf in your lives.
The only zanu-pf we have is the zanu-pf led by Mnangagwa.
“I am happy that people like Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri, who had left the party have applied to come back.”
A MOTORIST in Gweru early this week parked his car and went about his business in town, but upon his return found a “stranger” seated on the passenger seat in his vehicle, and on getting closer discovered that it was a dead body.
Acting Midlands police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende confirmed the incident and said investigations into the case are now underway.
“Police in Gweru are investigating a case of sudden death after a body of an old man was found in a parked vehicle,” she said.
She said on Tuesday this week at around 9am, Taurai Shoko (30) of Windsor Park suburb left his motor vehicle parked along Third Street with the front doors unlocked.
Shoko later found a man seated on the passenger seat of his vehicle but did not recognise him. He then realised that the man was motionless and rushed to Gweru Central Police Station to make a report.
Police officers then escorted him to the car and took the body to Gweru Provincial Hospital.
“Police are appealing to members of the public who might be looking for their missing relative to come to Gweru Central Police Station and help in identifying the body, which is at Gweru General Hospital. At the same time, we want to urge drivers to ensure that they lock their cars soon after parking them,” Mukwende said.
More than 50 people have died in Mashonaland West following separate clashes among artisanal gold miners, mainly over claims and territories since the beginning of this year.
An undisclosed number, which could be more, have also seen the informal miners dying of accidents amid calls for the speedy regularisation and capacitation of the sector.
Artisanal gold miners have contributed significantly to Zimbabwe’s 24 tonnes deposited into the State reserves although the sector has been dogged by a plethora of challenges.
Speaking during a recent Zimbabwe Miners Federation stakeholders meeting, the organisation’s regional chairperson for Mashonaland West Mrs Chiedza Chipangura said more than 50 people have died in clashes involving artisanal miners since the beginning of the year.
She, however, said the deaths could be more, considering that some cases are not reported to the police.
“In our province, more than 50 people have died as a result of the gold mining activities. Artisanal miners are killing each other in clashes caused by various issues.
“We need this to end. What is most worrying is that there are highly reputable people who sponsor these syndicates are behind a spate of murders and robberies of gold ore.”
She said there were people who incite youths to go and invade or raid mines in the province whenever there is a gold rush.
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dragged to court by a Harare man, Alison Charles whose brother was shot and killed alongside six other civilians in post-election violence on August 1.
Charles is seeking to bar the seven-member commission of inquiry which was appointed to probe the post-election violence, from conducting any enquiry before completion of his court challenge.
Charles, whose brother Gavin Dean was allegedly shot dead by soldiers, has partnered with the Counselling Service Unit and jointly filed an urgent chamber application seeking an order to interdict Mnangagwa from operationalising, and or in any way proceeding with the inquiry until his application challenging the composition of the probe team has been determined by the court.
In his application filed on Wednesday, Charles said: “The legality of the first respondent’s (Mnangagwa) executive decision to appoint the commission of inquiry, the composition of such and its terms of reference have and are being challenged by the applicants before this honourable court under case number HC8436/18.”
Following the skirmishes that rocked Harare on August 1, Mnangagwa, on August 29 appointed a seven-member commission led by former South Africa President Kgalema Motlanthe.
Other members of the commission include United Kingdom-based Rodney Dixon QC, former Commonwealth secretary-general Chief Emeka Anyaoku of Nigeria, former chief of the Tanzania People’s Defence Forces General (Retired) Davis Mwamunyange, constitutional lawyer Lovemore Madhuku, University of Zimbabwe lecturer Charity Manyeruke and former Law Society of Zimbabwe president Vimbai Nyemba.
But through his lawyers, Atherstone and Cook, Charles said Mnangagwa’s commission would not deliver, arguing “it is comprised of biased commissioners” such as Manyeruke and Madhuku.
Staff Reporter|Estranged wife to Vice President Kembo Mohadi, Mrs Tambudzani Bhudagi Mohadi is far from giving up on tormenting the ailing Vice President.
In her latest moves on her husband who has recently been appearing in public in the company of another woman, Tambudzani has petitioned the High Court challenging a protection order granted to her husband.
Tambudzani argued that the magistrate who granted the order did not have required jurisdiction to deal with the divorce impasse.
Through her lawyers, Scanlen and Holderness, Tambudzani filed the application for review on October 2, following another Mohadi application at the Civil Court seeking to have her charged with contempt of court for violating conditions of a protection order granted against her in September this year.
“The matrimonial assets referred to in the protection order includes immovable assets whose value exceeds the $10 000, immovable properties known as number 2 Benata Way Alexandra Park, Harare and 108 Impala Drive, Beitbridge,” she said.
“Each of the immovable properties mentioned above have a value of more than the jurisdiction of the Magistrate Court in terms of section 11 of the Magistrates Court Act and the magistrates court (Civil Jurisdiction) Monetary Limits) Rules, 2012, SI 163/2012. The protection order granted by the first respondent (Gwatidzo) deals with rights in respect of immovable property which the Magistrates Court lacks jurisdiction.”
In September last year, the VP – who was then State Security minister – petitioned the High Court in Bulawayo seeking a divorce claiming his marriage to Tambudzani had irretrievably broken down.
He then applied for matter to be transferred to the Harare High Court in August this year where it is now pending. On August 10, he also approached the Civil Court in Harare seeking a protection order against Tambudzani, which was granted.
In her founding affidavit, Tambudzani said when Mohadi filed for an interim protection order she “did not see any reason to oppose the application since I had no issues complying with the interim protection order as set out in the DV3 form attached to the application.”
Tambudzani said, in particular, the protection order barred her from accessing any matrimonial assets which are the subject of the divorce proceedings under case number HC2520/17, except only through the express (written) consent of the VP or his designate until the finalisation of the divorce proceedings.
“The applicant was barred access to the properties that she resides at whilst in Harare and Beitbridge. It also barred her access to the business premises, which access she requires to enable her to prepare for trial,” she said, adding the mentioned terms do not take into consideration of the fact that Mohadi resides at the State residence and would not be prejudiced by the granted order.
A 25-YEAR-OLD Chitungwiza man, who on Wednesday pleaded guilty and was convicted of criminal insult after retweeting a message from a ghost account named after Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba, yesterday changed his plea.
Night Tawona Shadaya, who was expected to be sentenced yesterday by magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa claimed he made the initial plea under duress.
After his conviction, Shadaya engaged Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights lawyers who filed a notice before the court saying he was pressured to plead guilty.
The ZLHR lawyers told court that they perused Shadaya’s docket plea, but could not find details of whether the Twitter account in the name of Chigumba was fake or real.
They further told court that there is no charge on what Shadaya did because he merely repeated what the complainant had posted in the Twitter account.
The State represented by Peter Kachirika did not oppose the postponement of the sentencing of Shadaya.
Magistrate Mugwagwa postponed the matter to October 16.
It is alleged that sometime in August this year, an unknown person created a Twitter account in the name of Justice Chigumba and tweeted a message which read: “I can’t wait for the elections fiasco to come to an end. I could do with a holiday and some good sex. My body needs a break.”
The court heard that in the same month, Shadaya retweeted the message, thereby seriously impairing Chigumba’s dignity.
Chigumba was alerted by a friend who saw the message. The court heard the Zec boss does not own the Twitter account in question.
By Own Correspondent| The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is set to launch the Five Year National Peace and Reconciliation Strategy for Zimbabwe on 18 October 2018 in Harare.
Commissioner Rev Charles Masunungure revealed that the event will be graced by Vice President Kembo Mohadi and it will be held at the Harare International Conference Centre.
Said Commissioner Masunungure:
The Launch of the Five Year National Peace and Reconciliation Strategy for Zimbabwe is now scheduled to be on 18 October 2018 at HICC at 0830 Hours. The occassion will be graced by Hon VP Mohadi among other dignitaries. Invited guests are hereby notified to diarise this date.
— Bishop Charles Masunungure (@CommMasunungure) October 5, 2018
The NPRC is an independent Commission established in terms of the Constitution of Zimbabwe to promote national peace, healing and reconciliation among other functions.
In January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Bill (NPRC) into law to operationalise the Commission that was appointed in 2016.
THE country’s top judge, Chief Justice Luke Malaba has demanded the removal of Osiphatheleni and other people involved in illegal activities around Tredgold Building which houses the Bulawayo Magistrates Courts.
The illegal money changers always play cat and mouse games with the police and have refused to vacate the environs of the courts, popularly known as the World Bank, due to the availability of cash in different currencies.
CJ Malaba yesterday said it is “unhealthy” for such things to be carried out on the doorstep of the courts.
He said the Judiciary Services Commission (JSC) has already engaged the Bulawayo City Council in a quest to restore sanity on the court’s surroundings.
The areas around Tredgold Building, especially Innscor outlets, are frequented by illegal money changers popularly known as osiphatheleni, vendors and illegal pirate taxis.
CJ Malaba in his speech at the commissioning of three additional courtrooms at the Bulawayo High Court, said council should find a permanent solution to the problem of osiphatheleni.
“May I also register the JSC’s appreciation of the support the Bulawayo City Council has given us. They have been cooperating right through with the JSC in seeking to find a permanent solution to the congestion outside Tredgold Building.
“We are concerned about it and we have expressed our concern and I’m certain that the Bulawayo City Council fathers will take further steps to correct the situation.
“It’s not a healthy situation to have illegal activities taking place just outside the fountain of justice” he said.
In an interview on the sidelines of the event, Judiciary Services Commission Acting Secretary, Mr Walter Chikwanha said the Tredgold Magistrates Court like what the Chief Justice had said, should not co-exist with illegality.
“Outside there are a lot of illegal activities that are going on where you have pirate taxis, vendors, illegal money changers and there is a lot of noise as well. Having such activities happening outside the courtroom is really unprecedented and obviously unacceptable,” said Mr Chikwanha.
He said the effect of the disorder is that people would not have confidence in the justice system if illegal activities are allowed to take place on the doorstep of the courts.
“We are in discussions and engagements with the Bulawayo City Council for them to see how they can relocate some of the people so that there is some semblance of order outside that court so that even people who come to that court have confidence in the system.
“We have vulnerable groups like widows, women and children that come there seeking justice and you can’t imagine that they can get justice at a place where there are serious illegal activities happening outside that court,” said Mr Chikwanha.
He said Chief Justice Malalba’s position was clear that the Commission should engage the Bulawayo City Council in order to address the anomaly.
Mr Chikwanha said he had spoken to Bulawayo Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni and he is cooperating on the issue.
“Now I have mandated the magistrate in charge of Bulawayo Province to continue the engagement and hopefully corrective measures would be taken,” he said.
By Own Correspondent| The cost of graves in Bulawayo is set to double, should the proposed council budget sail through.
The council is trying to raise extra income to finance important infrastructure investment, particularly in water treatment and supply.
Bulawayo City Council had a special consultative meeting specifically targeted at young residents on Monday where it is proposing a $212 million budget for next year.
If approved, residents residing in the low density suburbs will next year pay fixed sewer charges of $3 per month, up from $2.23, while those in townships will be paying $2 up from $1.26.
For water, residents in the low density areas would be paying $2 up from $1.04 while those in high density areas would be paying $1.50 up from $0.52.
Fees for a standard grave are also set to increase from $37 to $63 next year should the proposed budget sail through.
The youths who gathered at the Large City Hall for the consultative meeting, the first of its kind by the BCC targeted at them, challenged the local authority to provide youth friendly services in 2019, adding they would want 2018 priorities to be maintained next year.
The priorities in their order of importance are water, health, sewer, housing, roads, education, public lighting, social services as well as fire and ambulance.
Phineas Sibanda of Emakhandeni, 26, hailed the initiative by the BCC to consult them separately as young people.
“This is my first time to attend such a meeting. There are some things in which we have been left out as young people. Views of elderly people have been fed down on us and in most of the cases it would not be what we want. This tends to stifle development,” said Sibanda.-StateMedia
By Own Correspondent| Air Zimbabwe’s first black General Manager, Augustine Mutyambizi has died.
He was 95.
Elder Mutyambizi passed away Thursday morning near Beatrice on his way to hospital from his homestead in Mhondoro.
He was a life long diabetes sufferer and a few months ago suffered a stroke. He somewhat recovered but had right side paralysis and his diabetes lately was up and down. “We suspect ultimately it’s the cause of death,” his young brother, Tich told ZimEye.com. [SEE HIS LAST PICTURES BELOW] In his last days.. Mr Mutyambizi
He is survived by his adult children: a daughter and son.
Mr Mutyambizi was a successful business man who owned all the Fragrance Beauty Hair Salons nationwide: Bulawayo, Plumtree, Gweru, Mutare, Chitungwiza and all over Harare where there were six of them.
In his earlier life, he was the founding Chairman of KOBA, Kutama Old Boys Association which had many luminaries including former president Mugabe and many other post independence leaders.
Justice Luke MalabaThe country’s top judge, Chief Justice Luke Malaba has demanded the removal of Osiphatheleni and other people involved in illegal activities around Tredgold Building which houses the Bulawayo Magistrates Courts.
The illegal money changers always play cat and mouse games with the police and have refused to vacate the environs of the courts, popularly known as the World Bank, due to the availability of cash in different currencies.
CJ Malaba yesterday said it is “unhealthy” for such things to be carried out on the doorstep of the courts.
He said the Judiciary Services Commission (JSC) has already engaged the Bulawayo City Council in a quest to restore sanity on the court’s surroundings.
The areas around Tredgold Building, especially Innscor outlets, are frequented by illegal money changers popularly known as osiphatheleni, vendors and illegal pirate taxis.
CJ Malaba in his speech at the commissioning of three additional courtrooms at the Bulawayo High Court, said council should find a permanent solution to the problem of osiphatheleni.
“May I also register the JSC’s appreciation of the support the Bulawayo City Council has given us. They have been cooperating right through with the JSC in seeking to find a permanent solution to the congestion outside Tredgold Building.
“We are concerned about it and we have expressed our concern and I’m certain that the Bulawayo City Council fathers will take further steps to correct the situation.
“It’s not a healthy situation to have illegal activities taking place just outside the fountain of justice” he said.
In an interview on the sidelines of the event, Judiciary Services Commission Acting Secretary, Mr Walter Chikwanha said the Tredgold Magistrates Court like what the Chief Justice had said, should not co-exist with illegality.
“Outside there are a lot of illegal activities that are going on where you have pirate taxis, vendors, illegal money changers and there is a lot of noise as well. Having such activities happening outside the courtroom is really unprecedented and obviously unacceptable,” said Mr Chikwanha.
He said the effect of the disorder is that people would not have confidence in the justice system if illegal activities are allowed to take place on the doorstep of the courts.
“We are in discussions and engagements with the Bulawayo City Council for them to see how they can relocate some of the people so that there is some semblance of order outside that court so that even people who come to that court have confidence in the system.
“We have vulnerable groups like widows, women and children that come there seeking justice and you can’t imagine that they can get justice at a place where there are serious illegal activities happening outside that court,” said Mr Chikwanha.
He said Chief Justice Malalba’s position was clear that the Commission should engage the Bulawayo City Council in order to address the anomaly.
Mr Chikwanha said he had spoken to Bulawayo Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni and he is cooperating on the issue.
“Now I have mandated the magistrate in charge of Bulawayo Province to continue the engagement and hopefully corrective measures would be taken,” he said. – state media
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation must improve the quality of its productions to meet regional and international standards; Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Cde Monica Mutsvangwa has said.
Officially commissioning two High Definition Digital studios at ZBC Pockets Hill Studios yesterday, Minister Mutsvangwa said never again should ZBC programming be done from makeshift studios.
She said ZBC must be at the centre of Government efforts to rebrand the country.
“Never again do we want to see programming done from makeshift studios, which also make them makeshift programmes. Zimbabweans at home and abroad deserve better. It is common knowledge that Zimbabwe got television ahead of most countries in the region and today we cannot look the other way when we lag behind. It is time for ZBC to modernise its productions and operations and today marks the beginning of that process,” she said.
“The national broadcaster should be at the centre of Governments efforts to rebrand the country. We must project the right image of Zimbabwe. President Mnangagwa has declared that Zimbabwe is open for business and the national broadcaster should move with this agenda.
“Let these studios be used for debates on this transformational agenda and others. They must be the centre for this developmental agenda and the new ZBC I want to see is one which is modern and open for various ideas. No one should be denied access as we are all Zimbabweans whose common goal is to see a better Zimbabwe.”
Minister Mutsvangwa said communication was central to development hence the nation must be armed with relevant information in order to make correct decisions.
She said although the scarcity of funds had seen the digitisation programme lagging behind, she was happy that two HD digital studios were ready for use coupled with 11 out of 42 transmitters, among other developments.
“Yes, the digitisation process shall continue with the focus now on completing the remaining transmitters and acquiring the Set Top Boxes needed to receive the digital signal in the home. But we are saying while the process is ongoing, Zimbabwe should start enjoying the fruits of the digitisation programme through the use of the studios,” she said.
“As you are aware, the Second Republic is all about action, as espoused by our leader, His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, who himself is a man of action, hard work and dedication. If we are going to develop the nation, then we have to move and move fast. Communication is central to the developmental process. The nation must be armed with relevant information in order for them to make correct decisions as we move forward,” she said.
Minister Mutsvangwa advised ZBC to be professional in the use of the studios by adhering to strict standard operation procedures which should never be flouted.
“These studios are a national heritage and therefore should be guarded jealously through proper professional conduct. Users of these studios must be properly trained not only to ensure proper use of the facility, but so that every piece of digital innovation is utilised for modern programming,” she said.
Minister Mutsvangwa challenged ZBC to bring back drama series such as Mukadota, game shows and talk shows.
She said ZBC should have a culture of training their staff in various fields such as producers, presenters, editors and DJs to ensure that it catches up with the rest of the world in broadcasting.- state media
The Mines and Mineral Amendment Bill, which sailed through Parliament early this year, is set to be re-tabled after President Mnangagwa declined to give his assent and referred it back to the Legislature.
The Head of State and Government expressed reservations on some of the sections of the Bill which he felt violated the Constitution.
Parliament is now expected to consider the reservations expressed by the President.
Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda confirmed the referral of the Bill, but declined to give reasons cited by the President.
“The President, in exercising his powers, referred back to Parliament the Bill,” he said.
“The Bill is now expected to be re-tabled.
“There are processes to be followed in such circumstances when a Bill has been referred back to Parliament.”
Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda is expected to officially notify the House of the referral of the Bill.
A source close the developments said President Mnangagwa expressed reservations on some of the clauses in the Bill, which he felt might violate property rights.
“The President did not condemn the entire Bill,” said the source.
“He has some provisions of the Bill which he felt needed a re-look by Parliament. One of it includes a clause that confer rights on a miner ahead of a farmer where a mineral would have been found on agricultural land.
“The Bill takes precedence. The view was that such a clause might violate property rights and in so doing discourage investment.
“The Bill now stands referred to Parliament in terms of Section 131 of the Constitution.”
Section 131 (6) of the Constitution provides as follows: “When a Bill is presented to the President for assent and signature, he or she must, within twenty-one days, either:
(a) assent to it and sign it, and then cause it to be published in Gazette without delay; or
(b) if he or she considers it to be unconstitutional or has any other reservations about it, refer the Bill back to Parliament through the Clerk of Parliament, together with detailed written reasons for those reservations and a request that the Bill be reconsidered.”
The subsequent subsection provides for procedure to be followed when a Bill has been referred back to Parliament.
Section 131 (7) provides as follows: “Where a Bill has been referred back to Parliament in terms of Subsection (6)(b), the Speaker must without delay convene a sitting of the National Assembly, which must (a) reconsider the Bill and fully accommodate the President’s reservations; or (b) pass the Bill, with or without amendments by a two-thirds majority of the total membership of the National Assembly; and in either case the Speaker must cause the Bill to be presented to the President without delay for assent and signature and must give public notice of the date on which the Bill was sent to the President.”
The Constitution goes on to provide what the President is obliged to do if not happy with the retention of the Bill in the form in which he had referred it back to Parliament.
Section 131 (8) provides as follows: “If a Bill that has been presented to the President in terms of Subsection (7) fully accommodates the President’s reservations, the President must assent to the Bill and sign it within twenty-one days and then cause it to be published in the Gazette without delay, but if the President still has reservations about the Bill, he or she must within that period either — (a) assent to the Bill and sign it, despite those reservations; or (b) refer the Bill to the Constitutional Court for advice on its constitutionality.”
The Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube has clarified that the 2 cents per dollar tax, will apply only on transactions of $10 and above.
In the 2018 Mid-Term Monetary Policy on Monday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya announced a review of the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax from the current 5 cents per transaction to 2 cents per every dollar transacted.
However, in a statement today Minister Ncube revealed further details pertaining to the tax.
“Transactions below $10 will be exempt from this tax. There is a cap of $10 000 on the amount of tax to be paid. This implies that transfers above $500,000 will attract a flat tax of $10,000,” he said.
The Minister also specified transactions that will be exempted from the proposed tax.
These are:
Intra-company transfer of Funds including transfer from intermediary accounts;
Transfer of funds on purchase and sale of equities;
Transfer of funds on purchase and redemption of money market instruments;
Transfer of funds for payment of salaries;
Transfer of funds for payment of taxes;
Transfer of funds to intermediary accounts, for example, conveyancers;
Transfer of funds in respect of foreign currency related payments; and
Transfer of funds by Government.
This tax review comes into effect on the date of gazette of the relevant regulations.
By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed optimism for new graduates whom he capped from Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) adding that their achievements and hard work should be celebrated.
President Mnangagwa conferred degrees and diplomas to 1 583 CUT graduands at the institution’s 14th graduation ceremony.
Said President Mnangagwa:
“Today I attended the graduation celebrations at Chinhoyi University of Technology.
We are not only celebrating the achievements and hard work of these students, but also the new Zimbabwe’s commitment to education, opportunities for youth and the exciting prospects that lie ahead.”
By Own Correspondent| Vice President Kembo Mohadi has revealed that government will continue to uphold unconditional constitutionalism and strive to advance a culture of engagement, re-engagement and dialogue.
Vice President Mohadi said this while launching the United Nations (UN) book entitled: ‘Pathways for Peace,’ in Harare (Friday).
The Vice President said the new administration is striving to achieve constitutionalism and engage the international community in the best interest of citizens.
“The present government came through a history of different oppression and is addressing all challenges for a better Zimbabwe. Shared values, unity of purpose, discipline and a corrupt free economy is achieved through involvement and commitment by the citizenry,” he said.
UN Resident Coordinator, Mr Bishaw Parajuli said the UN will provide technical and financial support to the government in achieving its objectives.
Pathways for Peace is a book on research on conflict management and there are concerns that millions of dollars are used for conflict resolution instead of investing in the prevention of conflicts.-StateMedia
The researches were done in a number of African countries and other continents.-StateMedia
Press Statement|The Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters demand to know where Parliament and the Public Accounts Committee was when this mass fraud was happening. Once again parliament has displayed gross incompetence by its inefficiency to hold to account the Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank.
The one thing that became obvious after the financial misstatements by the Finance boss and his Central Bank counterpart is that government’s insincerity in dealing with real-time issues affecting Zimbabwe’s transacting public knows no bounds.
A grievous concern is the unnecessary domestic expenditure by the Government of Zimbabwe while the masses continue to suffer the ‘crunch’ from a cocktail of measures meant to resuscitate the economy. The government borrowed way above the budget and whether this was to polish up the image of the not so new dispensation or to buy an election-running commission or appease Gucci Grace upon the passing of her mother, the bottom line is that accountability and financial discipline is key to revamping our economy.
That the new dispensation over borrowed is a clear sign that no ZANU PF dispensation new or old cannot proffer workable solutions to our financial woes therefore the Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters notes the following;
The clear lack of willpower on the part of government to ease the economic life of Zimbabweans and raises the following as clear arguments to this effect.
The failure by Central Bank Governor to acknowledge the financial handicap of the Bond note to perform the intended function of easing the financial crisis being faced by the majority of Zimbabweans on a daily basis.
The failure by Mangudya to accept the simple reality that the Bond note is not, will not and has never been at par with the US dollar as this would have opened up more realistic avenues of managing our ailing economy. In conclusion;The Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters calls upon the Reserve Bank Governor Mangudya to resign with immediate effect as he promised at the inception of the bond note that he would resign if the bond failed.
If the government wants Zimbabweans to take them seriously then they should first consider facilitating the resignation of Governor Mangudya now. The country suffered under the monstrous rule of former president Robert Mugabe who segregated our people and only rewarded those who worshipped him positions.
By Own Correspondent| Axed ministers David Parirenyatwa, Josiah Hungwe and Mike Bimha have been appointed as Zanu-PF Heads of Department for Health, Labour and Production, and Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment.
These are full-time posts which the ruling party established to ensure that it exerts “its supremacy over Government.”
Addressing the media after the 321st ordinary session of the ruling party’s Politburo meeting on Thursday, Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Simon Khaya Moyo said:
“As the party reconfigures itself and moves towards exerting its supremacy over Government, the President and the Politburo continued to establish full-time heads of departments at the party headquarters…
The departments which have been added to the already existing which are run full time will be the department of health, the department of labour and production and the department of indigenisation and economic empowerment.
As I speak, the heads of these departments have been advised and the head of the health department Cde Cleveria Chizema and David Parirenyatwa will take care of health issues and the head of labour and production Cde Josiah Hungwe will also be full time, so will be the head of indigenisation and economic empowerment Cde Mike Bimha.
…And of course, since the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing (Cde July Moyo) is full in Government, somebody has been assigned to oversee the activities of that department on a full-time basis and this a committee member of the Politburo who will be assisting Cde July Moyo in that department and that is Cde Edna Madzongwe.”
After being dropped as Minister, Parirenyatwa was arrested for criminal abuse of office and the case is still at the courts.
Staff Reporter|Government through the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has placed the struggling national airline Air Zimbabwe under administration.
Reggie Francis Saruchera of Grant Thorton Zimbabwe will be the head administrator of the airline with immediate effect.
Below is the government instrument placing the airline under management.
By Own Correspondent| Retailers here have called on the public to stop panic buying saying that there was no need to hoard commodities.
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers’ Association (CZR) President Denford Mutashu urged consumers to buy what they can consume and desist from hording.
There has been a panic ever since RBZ governor John Mangudya and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube presented the mid-term monetary policy and fiscal measures on Monday.
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Said Mutashu:
“There is panic in the market and unnecessarily so. We are actually urging the public not to buy more than what is necessary for their consumption because there is really no need…
The issue of production remains the key focus a4nd even if people panic and horde, we should, in a normal situation, be able to replenish stocks.”
Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries president Sifelani Jabangwe said:
“There is uncertainty regarding what policies will be announced and how these will affect the business environment…
Manufacturers are unsure of how to price their products and there has also been lower allocation of foreign currency to industry. But the biggest problem is uncertainty.”
MAJOR pharmaceutical wholesalers in the country suspended operations indefinitely on Monday after running out of stocks owing to a crippling foreign currency shortage, triggering a massive scarcity of life-saving drugs that is putting millions of lives at risk, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.
The foreign currency crisis has also affected drug manufacturers, who import most of their raw materials.
The Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe (PSZ) said this week the majority of pharmaceutical wholesalers have stopped trading after failing to replenish their stocks due to forex shortages.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya admitted that due to the huge backlog of foreign currency allocations, the central bank has not been making timely allocations to priority areas, including the health sector.
The foreign currency shortages have crippled importation of essential drugs and raw materials, which account for between 70-90% of the country’s needs.
The suspension of operations by the suppliers of most of the country’s critical medications has turned the nation’s chronic drug shortage into a full-blown health crisis, threatening the lives of millions of Zimbabweans.
Investigations by the Independent show that essential drugs such as sodium valproate and lamotrigine for epilepsy were out of stock while drugs for hypertension (high blood pressure) such as tenoric, atenolol, nifedipine, cardura, bisoprolol, aldactone, valsartan and hydrochlorothiazide containing medicines were last supplied to some pharmacies three to four months ago. The pharmacies have now run out of stock, putting at risk millions of hypertensive patients.
According to the Ministry of Health, the number of new patients diagnosed of hypertension has been increasing with 718 648 cases reported in 2016. In Zimbabwe, the prevalence of hypertension is estimated at 30% of the total population, which is higher than HIV, tuberculosis and diabetes.
In addition, diabetes medications like ranophage, glimepiride and insulin are also in short supply.
Health sources also said pharmacies have run out of allergy medicines such as promethazine, chlorpheniramine cetirizine, anti-coagulant warfarin and xarelto as well as some basic medication like painkillers and anti-biotics. Slow-release morphine needed by cancer patients is also out of stock.
“Some of these medicines have been out of stock for the past three to four months. These are just a few of the essential drugs in short supply. The country is now sitting on a health time bomb, which cannot be wished away because people will die if nothing is done soonest,” one retailer said.
PSZ president Portifa Mwendera said despite an earlier commitment by the RBZ to prioritise the industry in the allocation of foreign currency, the central bank has, for the past six months, failed to honour its pledge of releasing US$4 million every week.
PSZ is the umbrella representative body for pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers.
In terms of RBZ policies, companies willing to import request payment of specific amounts to their trading partners through their bank’s nostro accounts. These are accounts which banks hold in foreign currency with other banks outside the country.
The bank would then request approval from the RBZ, which then does its allocations depending on the available foreign currency reserves.
However, the central bank has been failing to make meaningful allocations.
Mwendera said the RBZ has allocated only US$7 million for the second quarter.
“They (wholesalers) don’t have stocks for most of the imported drugs. The country is now in serious trouble. We are not getting any foreign currency allocation. We require US$4 million per week and the RBZ committed itself to make those allocations but this has not happened,” Mwendera said.
“The last allocation was made in the second quarter for April to June where we got only US$7 million, the bulk of which went to public hospitals. There was no allocation at all in the third quarter and now this is the result.
“To make matters worse, we used to get drugs on credit from foreign suppliers, but since we started having these foreign currency issues, no one gives us anything on credit anymore. The coming weeks could be critical.”
He added that: “We have non-availability of some drugs such as insulin and oral anti-diabetic as well as salbutamol inhalers. Blood pressure drugs such as atenolol and nifedipine have been out of stock for months now. This is making the management of patients who need these chronic medications quite difficult and costly. It had been our hope that monetary authorities would move with haste to address the dire need that exists in the sector.”
Mangudya said the backlog was attributable to high demand for forex from various sectors.
“We shall be attending to this priority requirement with the objective to reduce the backlog and to meet current requirements,” he said.
Zimbabwe imports 70-90% of its drugs, hospital consumables and equipment at a total annual cost of US$400 million.
On Monday, one supplier notified its customers that it was rationing supplies due to dwindling stocks.
However, just hours later, the supplier said it was suspending all sales until further notice.
“Please note that our stock levels are now low and we do not have enough to meet current demand. We therefore will be rationing stocks to US$2 000 per customer per week. Please bear with us until the situation normalises,” reads a notice sent to a pharmaceutical chain.
Hours later, the same supplier wrote them stating that: “We regret to inform you we have suspended all sales with immediate effect. For those who had placed orders, please note we are holding them awaiting further instructions. We sincerely regret any inconveniences caused.”
Terrence Mawawa| Highlanders have been dealt a heavy blow amid revelations that their inform goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda has picked an injury.
The goalie joins captain Honest Moyo and striker Tafadzwa Sibanda in the treatment room ahead of their Chibuku Super Cup quarter-final tie against Harare City at Rufaro Stadium on Saturday.
Ariel suffered a nasty head injury during the club’s league match against CAPS United last Sunday.
“Ariel Sibanda hasn’t trained this entire week. He got a nasty head injury last Sunday. It seems to be severe and he joins Honest and Tafadzwa who also got a head injury during our league match against Yadah. Tafadzwa still has stitches on his head,” said Madinda.
The gaffer has said Bosso will push hard for a win against City.
“It’s more like a money game. We will push hard for a win because this is the only cup that we can realistically win. It’s now late for us to talk about winning the championship,” he said.
By Own Correspondent| A Harare man on Wednesday learnt that retweeting a parody account can land one in court and time behind bars.
Night Tawona Shadaya, 25, pleaded guilty to criminal insult after telling a Harare magistrate that he was drunk when he retweeted a fake Twitter account purportedly belonging to ZEC Chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba.
Days after the July 30 elections, Shadaya retweeted the parody account stating that the ZEC chairperson could not wait for the election season to go on holiday and enjoy herself.
Read the tweet:
“I can’t wait for the election fiasco to come to an end. I could do with a holiday and some good sex. My body needs a break.”
Chigumba was forced to issue a statement clarifying that she did not have a Twitter account hence was not behind the purported tweet.
However, Shadaya told a Harare court:
“I don’t know who owns that account or its origin and all I can ask for is mercy. What I did was not intentional, even when I heard about the charges I’m facing, I apologised on all social media platforms and even warned others against making the same mistake.”
He admitted that his retweet impaired Chigumba’s dignity and asked for forgiveness.
Prosecutor, Francesca Mukumbiri said Shadaya’s defence was a guilty plea.
Shadaya is set to learn his fate on Thursday after he was remanded in custody.
In mitigation, he told the court that he owns nothing of value and is not employed.
Italian champions Juventus on Thursday broke their silence over rape allegations against superstar player Cristiano Ronaldo, saying the
claims made by an American woman do not change their perception on the Portuguese striker.
“Cristiano Ronaldo has shown in recent months his great professionalism and dedication, which is appreciated by everyone at Juventus,” the reigning seven-time Italian champions said on Twitter.
“The events allegedly dating back to almost 10 years ago do not change this opinion, which is shared by anyone who has come into contact with this great champion.”
The case has threatened the reputation of the Portuguese superstar, arguably the world’s best
footballer, with Las Vegas police this week saying they would reopen their file on the matter.
Ronaldo on Wednesday denied accusations by a former American model that he raped her in a Las
Vegas hotel in 2009, and said his conscience is clear.
Ronaldo’s denial came as lawyers for his accuser said they had obtained damning correspondence between the footballer and his legal team.
The 33-year-old has been left out of Portugal’s next four internationals, the national coach Fernando Santos said earlier on Thursday, days after the rape allegations resurfaced.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner missed the two internationals Portugal played in September.
At the time, Santos suggested that his absence was temporary, and intended to help the star adapt
after his move from Real Madrid to Juventus.
Ronaldo moved to Juventus in the summer in a €100 million deal.
Meanwhile, pressure built on Ronaldo from his sponsors on Thursday after Nike joined EA Sports
in expressing their deep concern with the rape allegation facing the soccer star.
Late on Thursday night, he received public backing from his Italian club Juventus, shortly after Nike issued their statement to The Associated Press.
Nike has had a contract with the 33-year-old Ronaldo, one of the wealthiest and most famous
soccer players in the world, since 2003.
The latest terms signed in 2016 are worth a reported $1 billion, and Ronaldo has suggested that
it was a deal “for life”.
But the Beaverton, Oregon-based apparel makers are troubled by the details emerging in a lawsuit
filed last week in a Nevada state court by a woman who alleges she was raped by Ronaldo in Las Vegas in 2009.
“We are deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations and will continue to closely monitor the
situation,” Nike said in an emailed statement to the AP.
Ronaldo wears Nike boots and appears in their advertising.
The Portugal captain is also the face of the EA Sports FIFA video game franchise, appearing on the cover of the 2019 game that was released
worldwide last week.
“We have seen the concerning report that details allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo,” EA Sports
told the AP.“We are closely monitoring the situation, as we
expect cover athletes and ambassadors to conduct themselves in a manner that is consistent with
EA’s values.” AFP, AP
Staff Reporter|At least two passengers on a South African Airways flight headed to Hong Kong from Johannesburg alleged that they were robbed of money and other valuables while on board.
Cabin crew were told by some passengers during the flight on Monday that their valuables, stowed in the overhead compartments, had gone missing, reports South Africa’s TimesLive.
SAA spokesman, Tlali Tlali, confirmed that an incident happened on flight SA 286 on Monday. He said, “While still en route to Hong Kong‚ two passengers approached our crew complaining that they had lost their valuables (money and a watch).”
“One of the complainants was able to point out a few passengers who had behaved in a suspicious manner in the cabin and who were seen opening some overhead compartments while other passengers were sleeping.”
“The crew alerted the authorities in Hong Kong and police boarded the aircraft when it landed.
“The rest of the passengers disembarked and suspects identified were ordered to remain in the aircraft and were searched by the police in Hong Kong‚” said Tlali.
Tlali added that nothing was found on the suspects, thus they had to be released.
The alleged stolen items were later recovered by the cleaning staff. They were found on the seats in the same cabin. The items have since been returned to the complainants.
Terrence Mawawa| Talented Warriors player Khama Billiat feels he is not yet ready to play in Europe but says it’s his wish move to an elite league.
The 28-year-old midfielder has been in top form since joining Kaizer Chiefs from Mamelodi Sundowns and was named the Absa Premiership Player of the Month on Thursday.
Billiat, who scored two goals and made four assists during the month says he is aiming to improve his game first before a European switch.
“Every player wants to play in Europe, but it can only happen when you’re doing good, I don’t think that I’ve done enough. I always want to do better and improve my game,” he told the media yesterday.
On receiving his POTM award, the Zimbabwe international was grateful to his coach and the team.
“I’m grateful to have a coach like him, but most importantly, it’s about the team. I don’t see it as something special, it’s always like that. I’m grateful for the love that he has for me, and I love him too, just like everyone. I love the relationship that I have with him,” Billiat added
Terrence Mawawa|Outspoken government critic Professor Jonathan Moyo has slammed the Harare authorities for claiming churches have endorsed the new monetary measures introduced by the government.
In a tweet yesterday Moyo dismissed one Jimaya Muduvuri’ s claims that the church has embraced the new monetary measures.
“CHURCHES hail new monetary measures- they can’t find business or consumer groups to back the 2% transaction tax robbery and RTGS
FCA voodoo currency. Only churches, wait.
Only Jimayi Muduvuri and his Zimbabwe
Terrence Mawawa|MDC T deputy president Obert Gutu has castigated pessimistic individuals for attempting to portray a pictures of hopelessness pertain to the economic challenges in the country.
“There’s just too much negative energy amongst Zimbabweans! We only see doom and gloom! I refuse to belong to this bandwagon of negativity and Armageddon! Where,under the Sun,will you get a PERFECT environment to run your business? If you throw lemons at me,I will make lemonade!” Gutu tweeted.
Obert Gutu
The defiant politician insists that no amount of pressure will force him to shift his opinion.
Terrence Mawawa|Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has revealed that the month to month inflation is now above 80% in spite of claims by authorities that the rate is the single digit zone.
“There is carnage in the shops with all basic commodities price spiking.
We are in hyperinflation mode with month to month inflation now above 80%.High inflation is terrible and there is mismanagement.
Hyperinflation
is total loss of confidence and trust in a gvt #RiggingDoesNotPay,” wrote Biti on Twitter.
Terrence Mawawa|Respected political analyst Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to swallow his pride and hand over power to a youthful leader.
Dr Ruhanya argues that Mnangagwa and his ilk have gone past their prime time such they must leave the political playing field.
“During the election campaign ZANU PF said they wanted a ‘mature’, old person to be in charge for stability etc hezvo zvogwadza, economy yati bodozve kumadhara aya.
Now we are in the real zone of instability with this GERENTOCRATIC leadership.”
“The future of any country belongs to the young generation; they are energetic, innovative, entrepreneurial, hard working and drivers and
manufacturers of ideas and products. The liberation generation in Zim has played its role and must leave the political dance floor,”tweeted Dr Ruhanya.
Jane Mlambo| As Zimbabweans braces for another hard phase ushered by the worsening economic situation, a former university student has confessed to at one time eating sadza and vicks, a cough and chest suppression ointment.
Posting on Twitter, Tapiwa Munjoma said things got hard during his university days that he was with no option except to resort to eating vicks as relish.
Vicks is a mentholated topical ointment used to treat chest pains, back and throat for cough suppression or on muscles and joints for minor aches and pains.
Guys I remember back in uni zvinhu zvakatombo ndiomera ndakambodya sadza ne Vicks.
Terrence Mawawa|MDC Alliance members have literally closed the door for negotiations between the opposition party and the ruling party Zanu PF.
Impeccable MDC Alliance sources told ZimEye.com yesterday holding negotiations with Zanu PF was ” next to impossible ” given the fact that the same party tricked the late iconic MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai into signing the Global Political Agreement as Zanu PF sought to shore up its battered political image.
” Nine out of ten provinces have refused to give us the green light for talks with Zanu PF.We are only left
with Masvingo Province. But it will not change anything, the pioneers of the struggle have said no to talks with the Zanu PF regime, ” said a senior party official.
ON 2 March 1983, heads of international aid agencies operating in the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces had the unenviable task of meeting then Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe to discuss a very grave subject.
Mugabe had deployed the North Korean-trained 5 Brigade soldiers in the areas to quell a dissident menace but the way the crack team was exterminating innocent civilians prompted the humanitarian organisations to seek audience with him.
Then very few people outside the affected areas knew about what was going on, and their reasoning was that if the Prime Minister was informed about the wanton killings, he could reign-in the soldiers before they committed more heinous crimes in provinces dominated by supporters of Zipra, then led by Joshua Nkomo.
When the NGO heads met the PM that sunny Wednesday morning, a seemingly concerned Mugabe duly listened to their concerns and requested them to submit a dossier of information and reports they had received. This would enable him to open an enquiry into the serious matter, he said.
They left the PM’s office hopeful that the engagement had been fruitful and went back to their stations to compile a detailed report for him. Little did they know that Mugabe had not been impressed by their intervention, and soon his government would denounce them.
Then Minister of National Security in the President’s Office Sydney Sekeremayi was quoted by the Herald of March 10, accusing “some NGOs of becoming front organisations for Nkomo’s anti Government, subversive and slanderous statements”.
This unwarranted criticism however did little to dissuade the international humanitarian organisations from working on their report.
On 18 March 1983, their representative knocked at the PM’s office, carrying an explosive document that detailed gross human rights violations perpetrated by the hate-filled soldiers, some who appeared not only determined to sniff out dissidents but to settle tribal scores dating back to pre-colonial era when the Ndebele speaking warriors allegedly raided Shona cattle and women.
Mugabe received the detailed report, replete with gruesome pictures of badly mutilated bodies, which was “meant only to yourself and directors of our agencies” but to the dismay of the humanitarian organisations, he simply frowned upon it. The NGOs, out of naivety or sheer determination, gave Mugabe the dossier even before they gave their directors.
And there was no reprieve for the civilians in the Midlands and Matabeleland province as the 5 Brigade intensified its crackdown, resulting in an estimated 20 000 people losing their lives.
After Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagagwa announced that his government was determined to put a closure to the Gukurahundi massacres when he got into power with the help of the military in November last year, anonymous Zimbabwean journalists working with INK Centre for Investigative Journalism, began an investigation into what one former senior official of an international aid agency who is based in Europe referred to as “the untold story of the massacres”.
“Had Mugabe taken action after listening to the concerns of the humanitarian organisations, the lives of thousands of innocent people could have been saved. Only he himself may know the reason why he chose to allow the notorious brigade to continue wreaking havoc in the affected provinces and why he rejected an offer by the aid agencies to restore the aid programmes and meet the material needs of the people on the affected area. I hope one day he would be made to answer these burning questions,” remarked the official who cannot be named for diplomatic reasons.
This investigative report was produced by anonymous reporters in Zimbabwe and INK Centre for Investigative Journalism in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Independent
A Member of Parliament from central Kenya ruthlessly beat up his wife after she accused him of infecting her with Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD). The first-time MP, arrived home while drunk on Tuesday night and descended to his lactating wife with kicks and blows.
According to a close family member, they alleged that he was angry with his wife, who is a medical practitioner, after she asked him how it was possible she had been treated for STD three times this year despite being faithful to him.
It is said that the legislator called his wife’s family at about 3am asking her to go pick up the “prostitute” or they would collect their daughter’s lifeless body in the morning.
The wife’s family have cried foul, accusing the MP for being abusive since it was not the first time he had assaulted his wife.
They added that the MP’s mistress once ambushed his wife and attacked her at a supermarket. On her return home, after the confrontation with the mistress and reported the matter, the MP allegedly beat and inflicted further serious injuries on her.
They also stated that the legislator called his mother-in-law at about 3am asking her to go pick up the “prostitute” or she would collect her (wife’s) lifeless body in the morning.
Her family further alleges that this is not the first time the MP had assaulted his wife as early this year, his mistress reportedly ambushed and attacked her (the wife) at a supermarket.
When she returned home after the confrontation with the mistress, the MP allegedly beat and inflicted further serious bodily injuries on her.
Sources close to the MP also allege that the mistress, with whom they have a child together, is his wife’s relative. His wife has since obtained a P3 form after recording a statement with the police.
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC), which is in the process of crafting a budget for 2019 is proposing to increase fixed charges on water and sewer.
The cost of graves is also set to double, should the proposed budget sail through.
The council is trying to raise extra income to finance important infrastructure investment, particularly in water treatment and supply.
BCC had a special consultative meeting specifically targeted at young residents on Monday. The council is proposing a $212 million budget for next year.
If approved, residents residing in the low density suburbs will next year pay fixed sewer charges of $3 per month, up from $2.23, while those in townships will be paying $2 up from $1.26.
For water, residents in the low density areas would be paying $2 up from $1.04 while those in high density areas would be paying $1.50 up from $0.52.
Fees for a standard grave are also set to increase from $37 to $63 next year should the proposed budget sail through.
The youths who gathered at the Large City Hall for the consultative meeting, the first of its kind by the BCC targeted at them, challenged the local authority to provide youth friendly services in 2019, adding they would want 2018 priorities to be maintained next year.
The priorities in their order of importance are water, health, sewer, housing, roads, education, public lighting, social services as well as fire and ambulance.
Phineas Sibanda of Emakhandeni, 26, hailed the initiative by the BCC to consult them separately as young people.
“This is my first time to attend such a meeting. There are some things in which we have been left out as young people. Views of elderly people have been fed down on us and in most of the cases it would not be what we want. This tends to stifle development,” said Sibanda.
Another youth, Ishmael Banda of Njube, appealed to the local authority to remain open to more submissions from the youth before the budget is approved for it to be holistic and representative.
BCC Senior Public Relations Officer, Nesisa Mpofu, paid tribute to the youths for coming to the meeting, adding that they were important stakeholders in the city.
“You are a valuable part of society, which is why we decided to consult you and gather your views as well,” she said.
TEACHERS have threatened industrial action if government does not adjust their salaries to $600 per month to cushion them against a wave of price increases and the central bank’s 2% tax on all electronic transfers.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has also rallied workers to take to the streets to protest the new tax regime that has sparked a wave of price increases of all basic commodities, consequently eroding ordinary workers’ disposal income.
According to reports, the ZCTU is yet to announce the dates of the strike action.
Prices of basic commodities were already shooting up almost on a daily basis as the exchange rate went wild. Government maintains a 1:1 bond note to US$ exchange rate but the situation is different on the parallel market.
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe said teachers want government not only to review their salaries, but to ensure their pay is in United States dollars.
The monetary policy statement by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe effectively means workers are no longer earning US$, but a local currency.
“Given the fall in the value of our salaries, our hard working and patriotic members hereby give the government an ultimatum to restore our salaries to not less than US$600, failure to which we may be forced to a collective job action to demand the same,” Majongwe said yesterday without mentioning when the educators will embark on a strike action.
He argued the government had the capacity to pay them in greenbacks.
“It is a statement of fact that the government is receiving most of its revenue in US$ and not in the less valuable Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), and, therefore, has capacity to pay our salaries in US and not in RTGS as per the policy pronouncement.”
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure weighed in saying rural-based teachers would join the industrial action, as their hard-earned salaries were being eroded by the government’s monetary and fiscal policies such as the recent introduction of a new punitive tax regime.
“It is against this background that Artuz rejects RTGS salaries as they were never agreed upon through a formal bipartisan negotiating platform. Our employer cannot just adjust our salaries without our consent. We still expect our salaries in US dollars until fresh negotiations are conducted,” Masaraure said.
“This is another wage theft herein the government is giving us a salary with the right hand and claims it is back using the left hand. We reject the tax regime and stand ready to defend our wages by any means necessary.”
Zanu PF has also expressed concern over the recent price hikes.
Industry and Commerce minister Mangaliso Ndlovu concurred, saying the government will come up with measures to address the price hikes. He said the price hikes were speculative and unjustified.
By Own Correspondent| South African radio veteran Rowena Baird has died.
Baird started her broadcasting career in the mid 1980’s at Radio BOP and spent time working at a variety of radio stations including Radio 2000, Channel Africa , Metro FM and SAfm.
Baird also co-hosted The Breakfast Club on SABC in the late 1990’s.
SAfm confirmed the news of her death on Twitter, writing:
“SAfm former senior presenter of Morning Talk Rowena Baird has passed away this morning.
Rowena Baird started her broadcasting career in the mid 1980s.
Staff Reporter|Dairiboard Zimbabwe has announced a 14% increase on all its products with effect from Monday. The company cited increased operational costs as the reason behind the increase.
Below is the memorandum from the company to its customers.
Staff Reporter|Barclays Bank Zimbabwe, which was acquired by Malawian banking group First Merchant Bank Capital Holdings, is notifying the public that they will be undergoing a name change effective from next Monday (8 October).
According to a statement, Barclays Bank Zimbabwe members unanimously approved the change of name of the Company from Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe Limited to First Capital Bank Limited.
Barclays Bank Plc completed the sale of its majority shareholding in Barclays Bank Zimbabwe to First Merchant Bank Capital Holdings at the end of May 2017 as part of its plans to exit African markets.
The Company held an Extraordinary General Meeting on 3 July 2018 at which meeting members unanimously resolved to approve the change of name of the Company from Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe Limited to First Capital Bank Limited.
Subsequently, the Registrar of Companies approved and registered the new name of the Company. The new name of the Company shall be effective from 8 October 2018 on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. Following the change of name, the abbreviated name of the Company shall be FCAZW.
IT’S over! While preparing for her white wedding Sikhanyiso Tshuma was busy cheating on her husband-to-be Milton Furira.
Her cheating game came to a halt when a local prophet found her lying with her face down inside a taxi with the driver behind her driving a sexual point into her in a bushy area in Bulawayo’s Selborne Park.
The driver, identified as Mafuta would not stop until Johane Masowe Wechishanu church goers in the same bush interrupted. All that was captured in video.
“I was going for night prayers with some church members and we were shocked to see a taxi parked at the shrine and we became suspicious that there is something wrong going on at our shrine. We moved closer quietly and caught the two having sex at our shrine where we conduct prayers and deliverance services,” said Madzibaba Mutumwa of the Johane Masowe Wechishanu.
The clip shows the church leader Prophet Madzibaba Mutumwa running after Mafuta who didn’t go far. As punishment church members hit him with open arms while some castigated him for poking someone’s wife and having sex at a holy place.
Meanwhile, Tshuma became a spectacle of shame as she remained seated while her legs were wide open. Some church members captured her prized assets.
With B-Metro already summoned to the spectacle, she begged this reporter not to write the story.
“Please do not write the story because the story will wreck my marriage. I’m tying the knot on 23 December and as I speak preparations of the wedding event are at an advanced stage. Please I beg you and I can do anything for you,” she pleaded.
Seeing that all was out in the open and the truth would set him free, Mafuta said he had tried and failed to leave Tshuma because of her sexual prowess.
“I have been having sex with Tshuma for some time now. I tried leaving her but anodziya (she is good in bed),” said Mafuta.
Tshuma’s husband Furira said he was unlucky in love. His first wife died and he thought he had found a worthy replacement.
“I’m at a loss of words. My first wife passed away and I married this one (Tshuma) and I have three children with her and as I speak we are meant to wed on 23 December. Life is very tough. This has wrecked my marriage,” he said in between sobs.
B-Metro is in possession of the wedding invitation card.
Correspondent|A Zimbabwean court has reportedly ordered “illegal occupiers” of a white farmer’s property in Goromonzi, to “vacate the land immediately”, saying that the farmer was illegally removed from his property by the ministry of lands.
According to Daily News, Hector Dalton Ludick (senior), Hector Dalton Ludick (junior) and Jennifer Patricia Ludick filed a high court application seeking to retain ownership of their property which had been taken over by a man only identified as C Samuriwo.
In their court application, the Ludicks cited the lands ministry, as well as Attorney General Prince Machaya as respondents.
The Ludicks were evicted from their Strathlone farm on September 26, 2017 after the lands ministry had issued a withdrawal notice the previous month.
The lands ministry re-issued an offer letter to Samuriwo who had claimed to have been given an offer letter in 2004.
Rightful owners
Passing judgment on the matter, High Court judge Isaac Muzenda said the Ludicks were the rightful owners of the farm, as the land ministry had erred in the issuing of the offer letter to another recipient.
Muzenda said that the family had been productively using their farm, and as a result, they should be “allowed to continue farming without any disturbance”.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently assured Zimbabwe’s white farmers that their land would not be taken, calling on them to work together with government, an AFP report said.
Under Mnangagwa’s predecessor Robert Mugabe, white farmers were evicted in favour of landless black people from 2000 by a controversial policy that wrecked agriculture and triggered an economic collapse, said the report.
But less than two weeks to go before Zimbabwe’s first elections since Mugabe’s ouster, Mnangagwa moved to quash any fears the practice would be repeated.
‘We must build the Zimbabwe we want’
Mnangagwa acknowledged the failure of the land reforms, saying the expertise of white people in the farming sector was still needed and encouraging them to take part in rebuilding Zimbabwe.
“We must build the Zimbabwe we want. We want to restore the status of Zimbabwe as a food basket of the region,” he said.
Last week the country’s new minister of agriculture Perrance Shiri said that authorities wanted to address “injustices” committed during the controversial land reforms.
The state-owned Sunday Mail newspaper quoted Shiri as saying: “Our government is firmly committed to a process of the need for corrective measures to deal with the consequences of past injustices.”
Shiri also emphasised, however, that the land reform was an irreversible exercise.
By Own Correspondent| A High Court Judge, Justice Luke Malaba recently toured Bulawayo courts where he bemoaned the state of affairs at the courts calling for the modernisation of the judiciary.
Justice Malaba likened some of the court rooms to dumpsites emphasising the importance for court officials to upgrade and make use of modern technology in their line of work.
He also urged the provincial magistrate, Mr Elias Magate, to replace the furniture in most provincial courts at the Tredgold building.
Said Justice Malaba:
“Some of these chairs are fit to be used in farms and they do not qualify to be used in this modern working environment. Some of these rooms used at courts look like they are dump site areas.”
He emphasised the need for magistrates to be well versed with new information technologies for research purposes.
“Laptops are a modern necessity for everyone in any job. It will make perfect sense for magistrates to be given laptops so they are better equipped to read and research on their cases.
We do not want a situation where lawyers come to court with latest information around law and our magistrates cannot say no because they are not well read or in touch with technology,.
With laptops and Wi-Fi, magistrates can access the virtual libraries so they can read and research for knowledge.”
According to Justice Malaba, court interpreters also needed reorientation programmes to help them deal with their attitudes in dealing with people.-StateMedia
By Own Correspondent| The recent High Court ruling which compelled the State to pay $150k to prominent human rights defender and Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) director, Jestina Mukoko has been hailed as victory for constitutionalism, rule of law and the mortal blow to impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of human rights violations.
Mukoko said this while addressing the media in the capital Harare where she said while this ruling could not erase the social and emotional scars inflicted by her experience at the hands of the state, the ruling reignited hope for victims of human rights violations and their defenders in the country.
Said Mukoko in her statement: “The High Court’s decision sends a clear signal to the Zimbabwean authorities who must do everything in their power to guarantee victims access to impartial justice and to put an end to impunity that is enjoyed by torturers and the perpetrators of serious human rights violations.”
By A Correspondent| ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa was yesterday sized down by a white investor who reveals he brought $500,000 into Zimbabwe and now all that money has vanished into bond notes.
Yesterday Mnangagwa published an update message headlined, “I was delighted to open the 2018 ZimTrade Exporters Conference.”
To this, the white investor, Mr Barney O’Hara wrote back saying, “explain please honorable President. I invested 500k in this country. I obtained investors certicates and all. I’ve operated legally in the tourism industry. I brought thousands of USA dollars into the country.
“Paid ZTA. PAID ZIMRA. PAID ZIMDEF. PAID. NEC. PAID NSSA. PAID POLICE ROAD BLOCKS. Now you tell me my forex is now bond notes. Bye. I’m out.”
Jane Mlambo| Zanu-PF politiburo has rejected an application by National Patriotic Front leader, Ambrose Mutinhiri for re-admission into the party.
The party spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo said Mutinhiri’s application was still being processed including that of Kudzanai Chipanga and Innocent Hamandishe.
This is despite the fact that former Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa and former Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) chairman Jabulani Sibanda were re-admitted yesterday.
The party said by contesting as an candidate, Mr Matangaidze automatically expelled himself from the ruling party.
According to the Herald, Mutinhiri took all effort to see Mnangagwa to convey a message that he has disbanded his party the National Patriotic Front and that he was now ready to come back to the party.
“His case as I said, falls under those cases which have been referred back to the provinces for comment and once we get a feedback, necessary decisions will be taken. Besides Ambrose Mutinhiri, we also have Kudzanai Chipanga who has also applied for readmission, Anastancia Ndlovu and Innocent Hamandishe. Their matters are being processed and we shall brief you accordingly in the near future,” said Khaya Moyo.
By Own Correspondent| Water bottling companies reportedly tried to arm-twist the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) into disowning its report on tests carried out on the quality of their bottled water it has emerged.
According to a local publication, the water bottling companies allegedly tried to get EMA to disown the report before they later claimed that the water did not belong to them.
According to a report by EMA, laboratory tests showed that only 6 brands of bottled water out of 17 were safe for consumption while the rest were contaminated.
After failing to get EMA to disown the report, the companies are alleged to have claimed that the water which was tested had been bottled by bogus bottlers.
A source from EMA who spoke to a local publication said:
“They sent representatives to us on Friday seeking two things. First, they wanted EMA to disown the test results and the report. We told them that this was not possible.
Our bosses said the newspaper, the Zimbabwe Independent, had obtained the documents confidentially and therefore EMA had no obligation to respond to it since this would make it an extension of the paper.
After seeing that this had flopped, they then sought to disown the water on the basis that the samples which we used did not belong to then had been repacked by fraudulent bottles.
We simply asked them to prove that it was not their water since samples were taken from reputable supermarkets which only trade with registered companies…the management stood its ground and refused to be used by the companies.”-ZimbabweIndependent
Staff Reporter|While Highlanders fans are busy on a drive to raise money to acquire back former Supersport United striker a product of their team financially sound FC Platinum appear to have snatched the player already.
The Zvishavane based platinum miners have registered Dube in their provisional CAF champions league squad meaning that they are confident of landing the Highlanders’ 2019 season target.
Dube is part of the six new additions that coach Norman Mapeza has identified for the demanding African sojourn. The registration deadline is October 15.
Government will continue implementing short and long-term measures to prevent the outbreak of cholera and typhoid and is pleased with the sharp decline in the number of people being admitted in hospitals due to water-borne diseases, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.
Minister Mutsvangwa said this on Tuesday while briefing journalists on Cabinet deliberations earlier in the day.
Cholera has so far killed 49 people and infected thousands others, mainly in Harare since its outbreak on September 6.
“Government continues to carry out short-term measures to address the current outbreak of cholera and typhoid as well as the long-term measures to prevent a recurrence of the same epidemics,” she said.
“It is pleasing to note that whilst the outbreak is not yet over, there is now a sharp decline in the number of cases of patients being admitted in hospitals due to cholera infections.”
Minister Mutsvangwa said Government was also happy with the cleanliness now prevailing in cities.
This followed the removal of illegal vendors from the Harare central business district (CBD) through joint efforts by the Zimbabwe Republic Police and council.
“Government is also pleased by the rise in improvement in the cleanliness of our cities and appeals to all our people and the business fraternity to continue observing general personal hygiene and to prioritise cleanliness of the environment so as to effectively contain the disease,” she said.
As part of short-term measures to prevent the recurrence of cholera, Government has rolled out an oral vaccine programme.
The programme will see over 500 000 Glen View, Budiriro, Glen Norah and Mbare residents receiving an oral vaccine that protects them from bacteria causing cholera.
It will later be widened to cover 900 000 people from eight other suburbs in Harare, two in Chitungwiza and Epworth.
The vaccination programme is only a short term measure to contain the disease and gives council time to address water and sanitation infrastructure as a long term solution to preventing cholera outbreaks.
TESTS in preparation for operation(s) for a 10- year-old from Tsholotsho who has both female and male sexual organs have kicked off.
Well-wishers donated towards an initial $2 500 quote for an operation to get rid of one of the organs.
However, specialists have recommended more tests that have pushed the quote up.
Depending on the results, more tests may be necessary.
The child also needs money for accommodation, food and transport with her grandmother while she shuttles between Bulawayo and Harare for the tests and operation(s).
She will also require money for prescribed medicines during and after the procedure.
The child, who cannot be named for ethical reasons, is suffering from a rare condition called “ambiguous genitalia” — also described as hermaphroditism.
The condition, the child’s grandmother told The Chronicle, is affecting the youngster emotionally and physically.
Mr Frank Buyanga, the founder of the African Medallion Group based in South Africa donated $2 000.
He said: “Our driving purpose as the African Medallion Group is to bring wealth to the people. It was part of our mandate that we came across this particular scenario of the child and we felt moved to add value to that child’s life.
“I hope the operation goes well and look forward on my next visit to Bulawayo to meet this kid who has been dealt a bad hand in life, especially for one so young.”
Scores of other donors have contributed a total of $480.
Following an article that was published in The Chronicle, the reporter, Whinsley Masara, also took the initiative to, through social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter, appeal for more funds from her friends and colleagues.
The Department of Rehabilitation at Tsholotsho District Hospital and the Tsholotsho Social Welfare Department discovered the child was suffering from the rare disorder in 2011 and have since tried to assist.
The head of department at the rehabilitation centre, Mr Francis Mpala, said when they discovered the condition, they referred the child to a gynaecologist and a paediatrician at Mpilo Central Hospital who confirmed the child was suffering from ambiguous genitalia.
“A team of specialists from Harare Hospitals looked at the child this morning and have since booked her for a first surgery on October 22 in Harare.
“A number of tests still need to be run with challenges of some doctors and pathologists demanding United States dollars as form of payment,” said Mr Mpala.
Mr Martin Makonese, a radiographer at Royal Arcade in Bulawayo, has done free ultra sound scans for the child.
“The child lives with a grandmother in a very poor background and suffers from malnutrition. The child was once treated in 2011 at Mpilo Central Hospital where they realised an operation was required to correct the ambiguous genitalia condition. She has constantly been reviewed at Tsholotsho District Hospital,” said Mr Mpala.
“This is a rare condition but the doctors confirmed that surgery could be performed locally.”
The child’s widowed grandmother said the youngster was born with the condition.
She said the child did not seem to mind about her condition but “now that she’s growing up, it’s tormenting her and a solution has to be found.”
“This is a weird situation in society and as much as the child may not have been affected in the past years, the situation has changed. Friends and schoolmates are not aware of the condition but teachers are. This is affecting the child’s health because right now pubic hair is growing and I shave it every now and then. My fear is more complications will arise and torment the child,” the grandmother said.
The mother left for South Africa and her whereabouts are not known while the father is also not known.
Well-wishers can contact Whinsley Masara on 0776 263 533 or Mr Mpala on 0776 450 919.
WATCH as ZIMPAPERS TV Network, interviews newly appointed Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Information, Media, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Ndabaningi Mangwana.
Jane Mlambo| At a time when Zimbabwe is struggling to access lines of credit to boost the economy, the state owned Herald has reported that the world is responding positively to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s efforts to take the country back into the family of nations.
Mnangagwa had high hopes that Zimbabwe would have an easy go with the world due to his ‘Zimbabwe is open for business’ mantra which now appears hard to sell as nothing in terms of loans and foreign direct investment has come his way.
“As our engagement and re-engagement efforts begin to yield visible benefits, I challenge industry to anticipate the expanded export market and develop business strategies with this in mind,” said President Mnangagwa while addressing the Zimtrade Exporters Conference.
“. . . my Government will continue the ongoing efforts to re-engage with the international financial institutions to support the recapitalisation and retooling of industry, as well as trade finance to boost capacity utilisation and production for export.
“We are, to date, encouraged by the positive response we are receiving as a result of our re-engagement efforts.”
Zimbabwe’s plans to rejoin the Commonwealth were recently thwarted with the bloc insisting that they will only look at the issue at its 2020 summit.
Mnangagwa also returned from the United Nations General Assembly empty handed despite having a busy schedule meeting up with investors.
He even hinted that United States President, Donald Trump land turned down his offer for land to put up a golf course in the resort town of Victoria Falls.
With glaring signs of failure written all over the ED administration, it is shocking how the Herald would twist facts to appear like all is well.
By Paul Nyathi|The ruling ZANU PF has set up five more full-time officers to function as Ministers within the party based at the party Headquarters.
The officers who will be getting perks and privileges as those of cabinet ministers but whose roles are not clearly set out are coincidentally all former cabinet ministers in the roles assigned to them.
The politburo which met in Harare on Thursday set up the following departments: Dept of Health to be headed by former Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa and Cliveria Chizema.
Dept of Labour and Production to be headed by Cde Josiah Hungwe; Department of Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment to be headed by Dr Mike Bimha and the Department of Local Government to be headed by Cde Edna Madzongwe
By Own Correspondent| A State-owned telecommunications company here, NetOne has applied to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) for a broadcasting licence in order to setup Video on Demand (VoD) services.
Rival mobile network operator Econet was granted three broadcasting licences earlier this year and has launched Kwese and Kwese Iflix.
Telone was also granted a licence and has launched its video on demand service called Digital Entertainment on Demand (DEOD). Trevor Ncube’s Alpha Media Holdings has also been granted three broadcasting licences.
In a notice placed in the state-owned daily newspaper The Herald, people have been invited to air their views on the matter.
Said the notice:
APPLICATION FOR A BROADCASTING SERVICE LICENCE
TAKE NOTICE that the Applicant has applied for a Broadcasting Service Licence in terms of Section 10 of the Broadcasting Services Act (Chapter 12:06).
Details of Applicant
Name of Applicant: NetOne Cellular (Private) Limited
Type of licence Applied for:Video On Demand (VOD)
Applicant’s Head Office: Kopje Plaza Building, 1 Jason Moyo Ave, Harare
Complete details of the Applicant have been lodged with the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe.
Any person who wishes to comment on the application may, within fourteen days of the date of publication of this notice, contact the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe, at 27 Boscobel West Drive, Highlands, Harare.
Staff Reporter|Parliament yesterday added five more members to the Standing Rules and Orders Committee (SROC) and nominated members who will be in the Speaker of the National Assembly Panel.
The SROC has the mandate of supervising the administration of Parliament, formulate standing orders, considering and deciding on all matters concerning Parliament and exercising any other functions that may be conferred or imposed on the Committee by the Constitution or by Standing Orders or any other law.
The announcement was made on Thursday by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, during the National Assembly sitting.
He said the appointment of the SROC was done in terms of Section 151 (1) of the Constitution.
The added members of the SROC include leader of Government Business in Senate and Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri, leader of the opposition in the Senate, Engineer Elias Mudzuri, Zanu-PF Senate Chief Whip, Tsitsi Muzenda, MDC-Alliance Senate Chief Whip, Lilian Timveos and Senator Omega Hungwe.
Buhera North Constituency legislator, William Mutomba, was retained in the Speaker’s Panel while Lupane West legislator, Martin Khumalo, and Proportional Representation legislator, Tatenda Mavetera, were added.
Khumalo and Mavetera replaces Melody Dziva and Reuben Marumahoko who failed to make it to the Ninth Parliament.
Said Advocate Mudenda announcing the final list of the committee members:
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders shall consist of the following:
Hon. Advocate Jacob Francis Mudenda, the Speaker of the National Assembly and Chairperson;
Hon. Mabel Memory Chinomona, President of the Senate and Deputy Chairperson;
Hon. Tsitsi Gezi, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly;
Hon. Sen. Lt. General (Rtd) Michael Reuben Nyambuya, Deputy President of the Senate;
Hon. Mthuli Ncube, Minister of Finance and Economic Development;
Hon. Oppah Chamu Zvipange Muchinguri-Kashiri, Minister of Defence;
Hon. Dr. Joram Gumbo, Minister of Energy and Power Development;
Hon. Ziyambi Ziyambi, Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly;
Hon. Sen. Chief Air Marshall (Rtd) Perence Shiri, Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement and Leader of Government Business in the Senate;
Hon. Tabitha Khumalo, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly;
Hon. Sen. Elias Mudzuri, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate;
Hon. Pupurai Togarepi, ZANU PF Chief Whip in the National Assembly;
Hon. Prosper Chapfiwa Mutseyami, MDC-Alliance Chief Whip in the National Assembly;
Hon. Sen. Tsitsi Muzenda, ZANU Pf Chief Whip in the Senate;
Hon. Sen. Lilian Timveos, MDC Alliance Chief Whip in the Senate;
Hon. Sen. Chief Charumbira, the President of the National Council of Chiefs;
Hon. Royi Billah appointed by the Speaker.
Hon. Sen. Omega Hungwe, appointed by the President of the Senate and eight members, four being members from the National Assembly and four from the Senate:
A 28-year-old Gweru man was recently jailed nine months for political violence.
Givemore Nyapundo (28) of 1152/2 Mkoba 13, appeared before Gokwe provincial magistrate Mr Shortgame Masiona.
Mr Masiona convicted Nyapundo after a full trial and he was sentenced to an initial 15 month, of which six were suspended on condition of good behaviour.
It is the State’s case that on July 13, the complainant was on his way from Zaire Bar in the company of his nephew and wife when they reached Chikumbiro Primary School where they met Nyapundo who was in the company of his friend Evidence Mushonwa.
Nyapundo approached the complainant and asked him whether he supported President Emmerson Mnangagwa or MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa, but the complainant responded by saying he does not do politics.
It is alleged that the response angered Nyapundo, who began to assault the complainant whom he struck twice on the head and on the mouth with a brick.
The complainant sustained injuries and was ferried to Gweru General Hospital.
A medical examination report was presented before the court as evidence of the assault.
Staff Reporter|ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Nkayi South Stars Mathe on Thursday made shocking praises on President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the army’s brutal killing of six people in the streets of Harare on August 1
Contributing to the parliamentary debate on President Mnangagwa’s address to parliament,Mathe said that Mnangagwa showed that he was committed to maintaining peace in the country by allowing the soldiers to shoot live ammunition at unarmed civilians.
The August 1 violence erupted in central Harare with hordes of MDC Alliance supporters taking to the streets to protest alleged poll fraud by Zanu PF following the July 30 national elections which restored the ruling party’s two thirds majority in parliament.
“I am also congratulating His Excellency the President and praising him greatly because he showed that he is a hero; he is somebody who is to be emulated,” he said.
“He was courageous enough to take the steps of trying to make peace in the country, taking all the steps to protect the public because there were some elements in our society who wanted to create chaos and the country would have been plunged into darkness.
“If he had not taken the bold steps of cutting off that violence, many people would have lost lives. As I am speaking, because of the steps he took Zimbabwe has peace.”
President Mnangagwa has always distanced himself from the killings that have attracted a world wide condemnation. He has gone further to set up a commission of inquiry to report to him on who deployed the soldiers into the streets and circumstances around the brutal killings.
CHURCHES under the banner of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches are leading efforts to bring President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to the negotiating table to break the post-election conundrum characterised by a worsening cash crisis and escalating shortages of some basic products.
Mnangagwa and Chamisa were the main contenders in the July 30 poll, seen as key to pulling the southern African nation out of international isolation and launching economic recovery.
But Chamisa rejected Mnangagwa’s victory despite the Constitutional Court throwing out his petition challenging the result and has since maintained that he won the election, regularly calling his rival “illegitimate”.
Mnangagwa, despite a widely condemned army crackdown on opposition supporters that left seven people dead on August 1, has offered an olive branch to ihs nemesis, saying he has “a vital role to perform in Zimbabwe’s future” and proposed an official Westminster style “Leader of Opposition” post in Parliament for his rival.
The army crackdown is now being probed by a commission headed by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe.
Churches disclosed their plan at the Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) Conversations platform on Wednesday, which was attended by clerics, captains of industry and diplomats to interrogate how Zimbabwe could move forward.
“The process of envisioning is not an easy one. It must be painful and it is supposed to give nightmares to us because we are trying to grapple with our past trying to make sense of the present. But we are also trying to envision where we are going as a nation,” ZCC vice-president Bishop Solomon Zwana told the gathering.
“Let us try to find ways to move our nation forward. Yes, there is a period of problems and there must be another period of strategising and yet another phase of moving forward and not continue to mourn without trying to look for practical ways of moving forward.”
The ZCC officials later met with Chamisa at the Anglican Cathedral in Harare on Wednesday evening.
ZCC secretary-general Kenneth Mtata declined to say what the churches discussed with the MDC Alliance leader, but said they were waiting for Chamisa to sign a “document” before going on to the next stage, adding that their focus was to bring the parties to the negotiating table urgently.
Mtata said Zanu PF party officials were aware of their meeting with Chamisa.
“Yes, Zanu PF is willing, but it must be formalised and they are aware of the meeting that we held yesterday (Wednesday). There is likelihood that we may have these dialogues starting soon,” he said without going into detail.
“What we are trying to achieve is that there are key actors in Zimbabwe who must be able to come to negotiate and how we create a future process in which there will be convergence in the way we are thinking post elections.
“The biggest challenge we have is that right now, we don’t have dialogue. The reason why we need dialogue in Zimbabwe is that our politics is poisoned, our people are polarised and even if we use official results, it means that half of the population is for Nelson and half are for ED. It tells you that we are in a country where those two people will need, in a way, to talk to each other on how they provide a common narrative for the nation.”
Mtata said even before elections, the churches had insisted on dialogue among the key political actors.
“We have proposed that at the moment, there are two main actors, that are Zanu PF and the MDC (Alliance). They can pretend as much as they want that they will go for elections and preparing for 2023 and so forth,” he said.
“But we have a deeper challenge of mistrust and lack of recognition of institutions, suspicion that some institutions are captured. So before we even try to imagine resuscitating the economy, we must clear the air. At the moment, someone will be saying ‘Zimbabwe is open for business’, while on the other hand, someone will be saying Zimbabwe is closed for business and that will not move this country forward.”
Mtata refused to shed light on who ZCC was talking to in Zanu PF, citing “sensitivity” of the matter.
After the Wednesday meeting with the clergymen, Chamisa told NewsDay that he was ready for dialogue.
“We are not dialoguing because we are in a weak position, but we are dialoguing because we believe that all nations are built on the foundation of dialogue,” Chamisa said.
“Even if we are to say we are to confront Zanu PF, after confrontation, there has to be a table. So, it’s better if you are able to get a table sooner than protests in the streets. But if they are not able to listen, we will take the long route until they see the logic and sense of unity, peace and working in a progressive manner.”
He said the people were divided and the country was confronted by many challenges, hence the need for dialogue.
“We need both hands to be able to tackle the magnitude of this problem. One hand will not suffice,” Chamisa said.
Asked about Mnangagwa’s statements that his doors were also open, Chamisa retorted: “If his doors are open, then he must walk out of those doors and locate our doors that are very open. We cannot go to his doors because they are locked. We have looked around and we see that the doors are locked.”
Chamisa said the offer to create the office of the Opposition Leader was totally unacceptable.
China’s literacy level was below 40 per cent in 1949 when the revolution started; it rose to 65.1 per cent in 1982 when the fruits of the efforts started showing and by 2015, it was 96.36, growing at an average of 10.39 per cent.
Today, China has the largest number of educated human beings in the world with over 1.2 billion lettered people!
A World Bank data for 2015 comparing literacy levels among other socio-economic variables on Ethiopia, Nigeria and Zimbabwe put the data at 42.7 per cent, 68 per cent and 90 per cent respectively.
These countries also epitomise samples of bad governance in Africa, though Ethiopia is currently showing signs of rapid improvement like Rwanda. Hopefully, this will be sustainable. What is important though is that a country that has up to 10 per cent illiterates is not ready to emerge into the highly industrialised and high income group.
What we have seen in the case of China is vision of tomorrow by a visionary leader. Is it that African leaders do not have vision? They do, but, it is not national vision. In most cases, the founding fathers have both national and international visions. They were concerned about bigger Africa and tried to promote Pan-Africanism and regional integration which remain on drawing board today, as successive leaders, particularly the military that took over through coup d’etat seemed more concerned about personal aggrandisement.
The visions of the latter day leaders are of and for personal benefits. They value education to the extent that they send their children to study abroad so that they have good, exclusive and exotic education that will place them above the other citizens when they return while destroying the fabric of education at home. They send their children to study law, humanities and commercial courses that will put them in political saddle and business circle where they can control the economy and politics on return.
The leaders seem more contented with having peace in their respective home even if there is war in the public. They prefer to see poverty in public but not at their homes. They can foresee glamorous burial at death based on excess stolen funds and feel contented with underdevelopment of their citizens who have been reduced to nothingness by their actions or inactions.
They do not see the ticking time bomb that frustrated citizens can unleash on them and their families when they are pushed to the wall. They rely on security operatives that have also been compromised with deepening poverty and rely on prayer houses where the poor bury themselves crying to God, who may not answer such prayers having provided required resources for each country to survive on.
What the African leaders have forgotten is that educated citizens are easier to govern than illiterates. That those countries doing well economically are able to do so because at some level of education nationally, all a government needs to do is to sit back and see the citizens working on their own to produce efficiently and effectively with less supervision.
At the end of the day, the economy moves forward seamlessly in terms of growth and development. Education frees the mind, helps in reducing expenditure on health, housing, provision of basic needs generally and particularly in population planning.
Educated people have vision of standard of living they want to enjoy and the number of children they can nurture that would not disturb that standard of living; they want to live decent lives and therefore make sure their environment is kept conducive for such decent living.
The Chinese population was growing at an alarming rate when illiteracy rate was very high and government had to legislate on population control of one child per family.
The legislation has been relaxed, yet education has taught the citizens the benefit of population control. A lot of studies across the world have shown that there is inverse relationship between education and poverty; education and rapid population growth; and, education and income inequality.
On the other hand, positive and direct relationship exists between education and factor productivity; between education and rising income; and, between education and good governance as well as enduring institutions.
Studies also show that economic development is not dependent on the volume of natural resources but human capital development. Japan has no worthy natural resources beside water and human beings but grew to occupy the position of the second economy in the world on the basis of human capital with over 98 per cent literacy level.
That was the much that Bill Gates told the Nigerian government when he was invited by Aliko Dangote early this year and in the 2018 Goalkeeper Report of his Foundation.
Even if we borrow money from China and build highways, air and seaports, stadia, and other social infrastructure, are we going to ask them to maintain the projects?
It is hoped that African leaders would borrow from China the policy thrust of agriculture and education that has taken the country this far rather than money that will lead to debt trap and put future generations of Africans in perpetual production efforts to pay debts they never benefitted from.
Let there be an African leader who will bell the cat! That will be the leader who will raise their head among the comity of developed nations.
SOUTH African police on Wednesday night intercepted a truck load of abalone fish worth R6 million intended for smuggling into Zimbabwe via the Botswana border.
The trade of abalone shellfish, which is regarded as endangered species, is prohibited in most Sadc countries.
Abalone shellfish is a unique type of snail classified under the gastropod phylum-mollusca and is often referred to as the sea ear because of its flattened shape.
This type of seafood is considered a delicacy in Asia.
Limpopo police spokesperson Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe yesterday said the smuggling attempt was busted at their border with Botswana (Groblersburg Border Post).
He said they were still pursuing the driver and another suspect who fled after realising that their plot had been discovered.
“The South African Police Service in Limpopo made a major breakthrough when millions worth of abalone were recovered during a regular stop and search operation at the Groblersburg Port of Entry.
“The recovery, which is considered a step closer to breaking the back of abalone trade, occurred when a truck travelling to Zimbabwe via Botswana was last night (Wednesday), stopped by the police at the search point of the border post. During the search, the driver and his crew jumped off, ran away on foot and disappeared in the darkness,” said Col Ngoepe.
“The police continued searching the truck and found a hidden compartment under the loading bin stashed with bags of potatoes. Inside these bags, there were 1350 kilogrammes of abalone with the estimated value of R6 million”.
Col Ngoepe said anyone with information that can lead to the arrest of the suspects, may contact Captain Richard Boshomane on +2779 894 5501 or the crime stop number +27860010111, the crime line SMS 32211 or the nearest Police Station.
The Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in Limpopo Lieutenant General Nneke Jim Ledwaba yesterday commended the efforts to curb smuggling by the police and the border authorities.
He said the interception was a milestone achievement by the security authorities.
The smuggling of abalone between Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana is common.
In May 2012, two South Africans – Alick Maunwere (30) and Joseph Ndanganeni Ndou (48), were arrested after smuggling 973 packets of abalone fish worth nearly R40 million rand into Zimbabwe via Beitbridge Border Post.
The contraband had been concealed in packets of charcoal.
Earlier that year, another South African truck was intercepted while carrying a similar consignment worth R18 million destined for Harare.
In September last year, two Mozambicans were arrested at the Plumtree Border Post while smuggling from Botswana R26 million worth of sea snails weighing almost two tonnes.
SPORT, Arts and Recreation Minister, Kirsty Coventry, has said unity of purpose is necessary for the country and called upon youths to play a leading role in moving the nation forward.
In a post on her official Twitter account, Coventry said people should use sport and arts to foster unity in all walks of life in order to develop the country.
“Sport bridges all divides and brings pride to a country. So does art, which portrays our culture and defines who we are. It’s us youths that have the energy to move our nation forward. Our artistes, athletes and youth should not be divided by cultural differences, political parties, gender, religion or race, but united by our common goal for real opportunities. It’s these real opportunities where the potential lies, but this can only be realised if we work for it,” Coventry wrote.
The former Olympiad, who is also the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes Commission chairperson, said she spent time coming up with inclusive strategies that will develop sport and arts in the country.
She, however, noted that the road to development is not easy as it requires some short term sacrifices along the way in order to have long term benefits.
“I have been spending my time in discussions with as many different people as I can, digging into solutions that will overcome the issues we are facing. By speaking to as many different people as I can, I have been developing a strategy that has your buy-in because it’s not my strategy, but our strategy: a collaborative effort that represents our entire nation.
“There will be short term pain, but this is necessary to build a strong foundation that has a long term positive impact. This is necessary to achieve an upper middle income country by 2030. I will be counting on you for your support so when I stand up, you stand up with me,” she said.
Coventry will be joining over 1 600 participants from across the globe in a two-day Olympism in Action Forum, which starts today in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The forum will create a platform to deliberate on various issues that affect the future of sport in the world.
By Paul Nyathi|An investor has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the new monetary policy by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube which has converted all monies in Zimbabwean bank accounts from US dollars to Zimbabwean surrogate currency, the Bond Notes.
In a Facebook response to a statement by President Mnangagwa where he was urging Zimbabweans to embrace the new measures, investor Barney O’hara laments at how his US$500 000 investment into the tourism sector has suddenly been turned into nearly valueless Bond Notes.
“Explain please honorable President. I invested 500k in this country. I obtained investors certicates and all. I’ve operated legally in the tourism industry. I brought thousands of USA dollars into the country. Paid ZTA. PAID ZIMRA. PAID ZIMDEF. PAID. NEC. PAID NSSA. PAID POLICE ROAD BLOCKS. Now you tell me my forex is now bond notes. Bi. I’m out,” wrote O’hara.
Finance Minister, Professor Ncube, on Monday ordered banks to convert all local accounts into bond notes values and facilitate opening of new foreign currency accounts.
The move has been met with huge uproar from industry and commerce with a lot of investors threatening to quit the country.
A senior Nigerian judge falsely
claimed he had suffered a bereavement to get cash from litigants and lawyers appearing
in his court, the country’s main judicial body said on Thursday.
James Agbadu-Fishim “received various sums of money from litigants and lawyers that had cases before him and some influential Nigerians under the false pretence that he was bereaved or that there was a delay in the payment of his salary”, the
National Judicial Council said in a statement.
The judge sits in the National Industrial in Court but has now been “recommended for dismissal from office”, it added.
The amount of money involved was not specified.
A similar recommendation was made against another judge, Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, after it was established that government officials, among others, had paid money into her bank accounts.AFP
Press Statement|We read with utmost disgust, the purported allegations made by one clown, a ZANU PF secretary for legal affairs Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana that Devolution was not a Matabeleland issue and that it is being spread by secessionist Mthwakazi Restoration Movement in a bid to curve the country into tribal fiefdoms”.
We would like to put it to him that tribalism was a creation of ZANU PF in 1963, not us. It was then further implemented through the 1979 grand plan by both Zanu PF and her sister party MDC.
It is a fallacy and grand standing of the highest order for Mangwana to claim that Zimbabwe including Matabeleland is a unitary state. It is only on paper that Mashonaland and Matabeleland are one country. If we were one country as purported by Mangwana, why did the Gukurahundi genocide only target Mthwakazi and not the whole of Zimbabwe? Why were the North Korean trained 5th brigade killing Mthwakazi people, looting and destroying everything in Matabeleland only?.
Mangwana and his party should know that we don’t even appreciate the kind of Devolution of power provided in the Constitution in it’s current form. We only supported the idea as it seem to be a temporary relief for the suffering masses out there who continue losing jobs and business opportunities on daily basis to people from Harare.
The people of Zimbabwe together with those of Matabeleland demand the implementation of Devolution of power as soon as possible, to boost development in marginalized areas like Matabeleland. This advocacy has, in the past days been spearheaded by 66 Matabeleland civic society organizations.
This clown by the name Mangwana, who tried to file papers in court on a holiday does not in anyway surprise us by being shallow minded, that he has even forgotten that it’s the majority who voted for that constitution to be in place, way before the formation of MRP.
Mangwana thinks he is making us favour, disregarding the fact that its our constitutional right to enjoy our God given resources.
Nevertheless, we are aware of the plans by the Junta to try and destroy the Mthwakazi people’s revolutionary party. We are aware that there is a spirited effort to intimidate influential individuals and organizations in Matabeleland to dissociate themselves from the people’s movement. We are also aware that we are being targeted for arrests, persecution, assassination and so on. But we are determined the people’s revolutionary party will not die.
Of late we have been observing the sudden interest by state media in our activities, also have noticed a number of Zanu PF bigwings threatening us, prior and post July elections where Zanu PF rigged us so as to portray us as being rejected by our own people together with our noble cause. All this we have kept it in our records.
There has been an upsurge of people writing about us in pseudo names while distorting our party and the history of this country and trying to rewrite the history. In all this we remain resolutely in defense of Mthwakazi Nationwood. We are happy that as a party we know Zanu PF is feeling our presence hence their propaganda against us.
For Peace and Justice in Our Life Time
Mbonisi Gumbo Secretary for Information and Publicity
Mthwakazi Republic Party
Staff Reporter|FORMER Dynamos chairperson and Nestle Zimbabwe corporate and public affairs manager executive Farai Munetsi has died.
A family member confirmed to the Business Times that the former Dynamos Football club chairman passed on this morning after a long battle with kidney problems.
“He died this morning (Thursday) and we are on our way to his house in Borrowdale where people are going to gather for his funeral. It’s a sad loss for the family and the business fraternity.
“He was the backbone of the family and a jovial character. We will miss him,” said the family member who did not want to be identified.
Munetsi was at the helm of DeMbare between March 2010 and June 2011 when the club took part in the African Champions League before he was replaced by Kenny Mubaiwa.
The club’s former secretary general Brian Kashangura confirmed the death.
“I am saddened by the passing on of Farai Munetsi who was chairman during my time as Secretary General at Dynamos FC.
“While Kenny Mubaiwa was Vice Chairman. It is me and the late Richard Chiminya who convinced the late Munetsi to accept the post.
“He wanted to turn the club into a business model. He really loved Dynamos,” said Kashangura.
The Premier Soccer League tweeted:
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of former Dynamos FC Chairman, Farai Munetsi. Our sincere condolences to the Munetsi family, Dynamos FC and the entire sports fraternity. May his soul rest in peace.”
Efforts to get an official comment from Nestle Zimbabwe headquarters were fruitless, but a lady who answered the phone could neither confirm nor deny the development.
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and the Zimbabwe Teachers Association
(Zimta) have slammed Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Paul Mavima’s decision to turn down their request to be paid for invigilating Zimsec examinations.
Mavima said: ” They should consider that invigilation is part of their normal duties undertaken during working hours and in place of other duties that they would normally be doing at that time…I believe that all our teachers would be inclined to put the interest of the country and those of the learners first and would answer the call to duty.”
Reacting to the comments, Zimta secretary-general Tapson
Sibanda: “This shows us the kind of leaders we have in our education system. The minister should have engaged us after we wrote the ministry a letter on September 26, demanding that conduct of public examinations need to be remunerated.”
In a statement, Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) said: ” These venomous utterances by the minister must be condemned by any sane human being under the sun…Mavima must be reminded that his colonial mentality of thinking that teachers are pawns that can be pushed anywhere willy-nilly is very unfortunate in as much it is regrettable and unacceptable.”Daily News
BELGIUM-based Warriors midfielder
Marvelous Nakamba is back to full fitness, giving national team coaches something to cheer about ahead of next week’s back-to-back Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Warriors will play DRC in the first-leg of their Group G qualifier in Kinshasa on October 13, with the reverse fixture in Harare on October 16.
Zimbabwe top Group G tied on four points with DRC, who have an inferior goal difference.
Nakamba, who missed the 1-1 draw against Congo Brazzaville due to injury, is elated to be back in action. The left-footed midfielder was introduced in the 56th minute for Siebe Schrijvers in Wednesday night’s Uefa Champions League game, which his Club Brugge lost 3-1 away to Spanish side Atlético Madrid.Chronicle
Chatunga Mugabe has scoffed at Zoey’s claims that she had a flirtation with him in South Africa on the stage.
Dancer Zoey said she hit on a guy who “looks like him” but Chatunga argued he was not even in the South African capital at the said time.
Chatunga said: “I am sooo dead. So, this girl hits on this guy and gets with him thinking it’s me. And the guy went with it, I wasn’t even in the city bro. The dressing is what’s killing me, and the confidence in the “I charmed”,” said Chatunga.
However, Zoey maintained she had a date with Chatunga.“I insist. I still maintain my position, I charmed him. I will return to South Africa soon and he is a regular at that place, I will prove to you. I saw his post about
the story, I wouldn’t want to appear as if I’m fighting him,” said Zoey.
She added that she will soon provide concrete evidence to support her claims.
“I also feel it’s not proper for me to come out supporting my claims as well, it ends up being a fight and I don’t think I am prepared for that.
“If he insists it’s his look alike, that’s his word and I maintain my word. I was performing at the club and know what transpired.” HMetro
Harare lawyer Mr Jonathan Samukange hasrenounced agency in a case in which he was appearing for former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges.
Mr Samukange, who is Zanu-PF legislator for Mudzi South constituency, cited conflict of interest in a letter deposited at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.
In an interview last night, Mr Samukange said the decision follows concerns raised by youths in his constituency.
He said the youths registered their concern over his decision to act for Kasukuwere when Zanu-PF is fighting corruption.
“When this occurred I made self-
introspection and heeded the appeal by the party youths in my constituency to avoid being conflicted,” said Mr Samukange.
“I have since communicated to Kasukuwere my decision to withdraw my services.”
Mr Samukange said Kasukuwere had since accepted his decision.
Last month, Mr Samukange infuriated the Zanu-PF Youth League when he offered legal services to Kasukuwere who is accused of
corruption. The youths questioned the legislator’s political standing.
They found everything wrong with Mr
Samukange over alleged endeavours to throw spanners in the work of the party thrust to combat corruption.
Kasukuwere is facing criminal abuse of office charges and is out on $3 000 bail.
Three of the charges relate to land allocations made to Mrs Grace Mugabe’s sister, Shuvai Gumbochuma, while he was Local
Government minister and a fourth one arose from alleged tender violations in granting investment firm, Brainworks, a tender to perform brokerage services to the Ministry
of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment.State media
A 22-year old man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed and stoned his aunt to death, accusing her of witchcraft.
Abel Vundla (22) of Bambanani Village in Tjingababili, Tshitshi area in Mphoengs, allegedly killed his aunt, Hilder Ngwenya (49), of the same village.
Vundla is alleged to have committed the grisly murder a few metres away from Ngwenya’s homestead on Saturday evening.
Matabeleland South police spokesperson Chief Inspector Philisani Ndebele confirmed the incident which he described as cruel and uncalled for.
“We are dealing with a case in which a man killed a 49-year-old woman accusing her of witchcraft. He is currently in police custody and is assisting police with investigations,” he said.
Chief Insp Ndebele urged members of the public not to take the law into their own hands.
“We have lost a precious life through barbaric beliefs of witchcraft. People should not take the law into their own hands but involve third parties in case of disputes which include the police, elderly, churches and other persons who can assist so that they reach an amicable solution. We do not encourage people to use violence for problem solving because we are losing lives unnecessarily,” he said. Neighbours said the incident happened when the deceased met Vundla on her way from escorting a neighbour’s child.
“On her way back, about 100 metres from her homestead, MaNgwenya met her nephew who had laid an ambush and he struck her with a stone on her back resulting in her falling to the ground. He then proceeded to stab her three times on her breast, left and right shoulders,” said Mr Jotham Ncube, a neighbour.
He said Vundla fled the scene of the cold blooded attack. Ngwenya, according to sources, rose to her feet and managed to stagger to her homestead where she narrated her ordeal to her 13-year-old daughter before she passed out. The daughter, whose name is being withheld as she is a minor, attempted to render first aid to no avail. She called neighbours who tried to assist but Ngwenya passed away before they could get medical assistance. The deceased managed to disclose the identity of her attacker before she died.
Neighbours called members of the neighbourhood watch committee who then made a police report.
Vundla was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning while he was sleeping in his hut. A bloody Okapi knife used in the attack was recovered.
Meanwhile, Vundla was not asked to plead to a charge of murder when he briefly appeared before Plumtree resident magistrate, Miss Sharon Rosemani on Tuesday. He was remanded in custody to 16 October and advised to apply to the High Court for bail. Prosecutor Mr Moses Kavhumbura appeared for the State. -state media
Perhaps the vivid sign that human beings are greater than they think they are – a little girl is seen on video playing with a huge alligator right inside the dangerous’ monster’s waters. The place of the incident could not be verified at the time of writing. A conservation expert said the alligator could have been tamed by the girl right from young age. VIDEO:
Luke Malaba yesterday – state mediaChief Justice Luke Malaba yesterday toured Bulawayo courts to familiarise himself with their operations and called for the modernisation of the judiciary and use of modern technology by court officials.
He urged the provincial magistrate, Mr Elias Magate, to replace the furniture in most provincial courts at the Tredgold building.
“Some of these chairs are fit to be used in farms and they do not qualify to be used in this modern working environment. Some of these rooms used at courts look like they are dump site areas,” said Chief Justice Malaba after touring the fast track court.
He emphasised the need for magistrates to be well versed with new information technologies for research purposes.
“Laptops are a modern necessity for everyone in any job. It will make perfect sense for magistrates to be given laptops so they are better equipped to read and research on their cases. We do not want a situation where lawyers come to court with latest information around law and our magistrates cannot say no because they are not well read or in touch with technology,” he said. “With laptops and Wi-Fi, magistrates can access the virtual libraries so they can read and research for knowledge.”
According to Justice Malaba, court interpreters need reorientation programmes to help them deal with their attitudes in dealing with people.
He also took the chance to clear the air on members of the Judicial Service Commission allegedly being blocked from furthering their studies.
“We never said people should not study, we only said they apply and we take it from there. They are encouraged to develop themselves for better service delivery,” said Chief Justice Malaba.
Chief Justice Malaba will today officiate at the official opening of the High Court in Bulawayo. – state media
Zimbabwe Airways have selected to use the full Alkym suite and will phase it into the operation as it prepares to start flying one of the four Boeing 777 aircrafts bought from Malaysia in 2017.
Captain Simba Chikore, CEO Advisor with Zimbabwe Airways, commented:” Our projected growth plans were set in motion many months ago. We sought to work with the best in the business on all aspect of the organization.
“No higher priority could be assigned to the safety of our operation. Working with Seabury Solutions ensured we had proven leaders in the field of Technical Operations.
“Alkym meets our requirements specification. However, for us it was the people we dealt with in the process that assured us we made the right decision.”
With the new Mobile platform, Alkym brings its current module list to eighteen.
Seabury Solutions, a subsidiary of Seabury Capital Group, has added the Republic of Zimbabwe’s new start-up airline, Zimbabwe Airways, to its growing customer base in Africa’s rapidly developing aviation market.
The airline will begin the certification process with the aircraft, under control of Alkym Management and Control System for Aircraft Maintenance, with Its first of the four new Boeing 777 aircraft landing in Herrera already having its data loaded into Alkym.
“Working with new start-ups is key to building our customer base and something that brings great pride to see them grow with our solution at their core,” said Seabury Solutions SVP, Head of Sales & Marketing, John Barry.
By Own Correspondent: Former Secretary for Administration in Zanu Pf Didymus Mutasa who was expelled at the height of the party’s factional fights in February 2015 has called on his party to recall and readmit all expelled cadres including National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru.
In an exclusive interview with ZimEye, Mutasa said it was important for Zanu Pf to bring back and readmit expelled cadres since they were “wrongfully expelled”.
Mutasa was booted out of Zanu Pf in 2015 together with the current legislator for Norton, Temba Mliswa for undermining the party and its leadership.
Below are excerpts from the interview:
ZimEye: Are you happy now that you have been readmitted back into Zanu Pf?
Mutasa: Well, do you mean am I happy now that Zanu Pf recognises its mistake? I mean you should be saying am I happy that Zanu Pf recognised that it was a mistake to expel Jabulani Sibanda and me? There was nothing wrong that we had ever done!
ZimEye: Do you feel that there are others who were also expelled unlawfully and without cause?
Mutasa: I know and that is what I am trying to say that the leadership that is there now within Zanu Pf are now doing good because they recognise that it was a mistake to expel us. Even they said it themselves, that it was a mistake.
ZimEye: Now that you are back in Zanu Pf, What are you looking forward to change to make Zanu Pf better?
Mutasa: I would like to support the current president (Emmerson Mnangagwa) in his search for democracy, true democracy that is what this country needs.
ZimEye: The opposition allege that elections were rigged. What is your position regarding those allegations?
Mutasa: It was them (MDC Alliance) who were told by the court that they had approached to avail proof that they (elections) were rigged. It appears that the truth is just speaking that it was rigged, that is the truth. They must show us the proof that it was rigged. That is when I will go to Zanu Pf to correct…. election rigging, because that is against what President Mnangagwa said he wants to do.
ZimEye: Do you think Joice Mujuru should be readmitted back into Zanu Pf?
Mutasa: They should actually readmit everyone who was wrongfully expelled. They should do that.
ZimEye: Your take on the recently announced mid term monetary and fiscal policies announced recently?
Mutasa: Well I am not a financial man, but I think everyone of us who is Zimbabwean, honest and sincere Zimbabwean, who knows what should be done, they should put it up so that those in authority can implement. If you know what is right come forward. Because as far as they are concerned those in authority think what they did is what is right. So without taking forward anything, it will not help. They should have an alternative which spells out that what they (authorities) are doing is wrong.
ZimEye: So going forward, what next?
Mutasa: I really don’t know, (my admission back into Zanu Pf) its just an announcement. It doesn’t really mean I have a clearly spelt out plan because I am not so sure what exactly I will be doing. But as a Zimbabwean and as a member of Zanu Pf, I will do what I am saying. What was said by President Mnangagwa, we should support him and he should introduce all reforms which should bring about good democracy.”
Maverick businessman Phillip Chiyangwa yesterday branded Zanu PF politicians “fools”, bluntly decrying the former liberation party’s policies which he said have ruined business.
The real estate tycoon said his colleagues in Zanu PF were financially illiterate, chasing away investors and eliminating indigenous business while some were being bought with bottles of whiskey while the economy implodes.
“Cash talk breaks no friendship,” Chiyangwa bellowed at the Affirmative Action Group’s empowerment conference held in Harare yesterday.
“We need a more proactive government, government official, ministers and people in Zanu PF where I am. The problem iripo havazive mari (they do not know money),” he said to uproarious laughter.
“This problem is very serious. Ukauya ukanzi nemunhu ‘bhodhoro rewhiskey, baba vangu, wakutoenda naye nyika ichiparara (Zanu PF politicians are being swayed by bottles of whiskey while the country burns). You cannot take me kupusa kwakaita sei kwekuti Marange igotorwa zvinhu zvigopera tozoziva zvapera. Kupusa kwakaita sei ikoko? (How foolish our politicians are that our diamonds are looted in Marange and we only find out when nothing is left, that is foolishness of the highest order).
“We operate in a blind way yet Zimbabwe has produced serious business people that ought to be with us but they are now cut outside the country because the country has no vision for satisfying business people who should be here.
“And sometimes we are even eliminated. I often say Strive Masiyiwa is one of those people and many others.”
Self-exiled Masiyiwa is the chairman and founder of Econet, a diversified telecommunications group with operations and investments in Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America and the Asia Pacific.
His business interests also straddle renewable energy, water treatment, Coca Cola bottling, financial services and hospitality; and also serves on a number of international boards.
Chiyangwa demanded that political leaders should not put barriers in front of those trying to get the economy running and make money.
“Right now, we have cash shortages, how do I feel that someone prints a paper, signs it and calls it money?” Chiyangwa said.
“How does that make me feel? For me, I want a situation where our economy is running well. Right now, I am coming from Cameroon (on football business). Each and every one in that country knows and appreciates the value of cash, yet Zimbabwe is much more illiterate. But kupusa (we are daft when it comes to) pacash big time. Big time!”
The businessman, never far from controversy, urged the government to put in place progressive policies that allow for development of the economy.
“A lot of my stands are sold at a deposit of $150 because I want everyone to have a roof over their heads. But you see politicians complaining how did Chiyangwa get all this, ndakaita buck wanga uripi? (when I was making money where were you?).
“I am young man who has made it on my own. I know the road I have walked. I was avoiding these politicians, then I joined them so that I criticise them while I am among them. Haikona kutiza chokwadi uri kundinzwa (don’t run away from the truth). Cash talk breaks no friendship. You (Zanu PF politicians) must address the issues that affect us.”
The Native Investments Africa Group founder said every businessman should speak against what they felt was an uneven playing field, saying no one will be arrested for speaking the truth.
Terrence Mawawa| Warriors forward Nyasha Mushekwi is set to undergo surgery in Germany when the Chinese Super League season ends next month.
The 31-year-old forward has been suffering from a pelvic problem despite featuring for his team Dalian Yifang. He undergoes a complicated pain relief procedure before every match in China.
According to KweséESPN, Warriors manager Wellington Mupandare explained Mushekwi’s absence in the Warriors squad to face DRC in the Afcon qualifiers saying the injury is too complicated for the Zimbabwean doctors to manage.
“Mushekwi is out of the DRC matches because of the same injury which kept him out of the Congo game [in September],” the manager said.
“He has been featuring for his club, yes, but that is only because they can manage his condition there, something our doctors said they cannot do here.
“Yifang are currently short of strikers and they have decided to manage his injury until the end of the Chinese season in about six weeks time, after which Nyasha will go for an operation in Germany.”
Mushekwi has scored twelve goals in sixteen appearances for Yifang this term.
Zanu PF secretary for information and publicity Cde Simon Khaya-Moyo says members who include Cde Didymus Mutasa and Cde Jabulani Sibanda have been readmitted into the party.#StarFMNews@MudzingwaTobiaspic.twitter.com/V7mwonb2yY
Terrence Mawawa| Club Brugge midfielder Marvelous Nakamba featured in his first UEFA Champions League encounter last night against Atletico Madrid.
The debut, however, was not a pleasant one as the Brugges went 3-1 down.
The Warriors international started on the bench and came on as a 56th-minute substitute for Siebe Schrijvers. His contribution was limited since Madrid were in control until the last minute.
The encounter was Nakamba’s second this season after recovering from a knee injury- which had ruled him out for over three months.
By Own Correspondent| Zanu Pf Politburo meeting today resolved to readmit back into the party ousted stalwarts Didymus Mutasa and former war vetetans leader Jabulani Sibanda.
Secretary for Information and Publicity in Zanu Pf, Simon Khaya-Moyo revealed this while addressing members of the media following deliberations of the party’s 321st ordinary politburo meeting held at the party headquarters in Harare.
Khaya Moyo also said while Mutasa and Sibanda have been readmitted into the party, the fate of individuals who include Retired Brigadier General Ambrose Mutinhiri, Kudzanai Chipanga, Innocent Hamandishe and Anastancia Ndlovu, who submitted their letters intending to come back to Zanu PF, is yet to be advised.-StateMedia
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Terrence Mawawa|Renowned political analyst Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has pointed out that the people of Zimbabwe are likely withdraw their obligation to be obedient to the government, given the impending economic mayhem.
“Social theorists posited that when the government fails to secure their natural rights (Locke) or satisfy the best interests of society (called the
“general will” in Rousseau), citizens can withdraw their obligation to obey, or change the leadership through elections or other means,” argued Dr Ruhanya.
He added:”You cannot just wake up and make critical and swift economic policies without wide
consultations with industry, labour and citizens and expect them to positively respond to your ECONOMIC DICTATORSHIP. People have rights. A social contract doesn’t
work that way!”
We are about to go LIVE on the ongoing police chaos in Harare’s CBD. Several vendors were at the time of writing being ambushed by baton stick wielding ZRP officers.
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Mawawa| Warriors forward Nyasha Mushekwi is set to undergo surgery in Germany when the Chinese Super League season ends next month.
rights. A social contract doesn’t