at the funeral mourners head downA woman from Bulawayo rushed in panic to alert her boyfriend’s wife after unknown assailants attacked and killed her lover while the two were having sex in a bush.
The duo was allegedly attacked by two people who were wearing black clothes that covered them up at a rocky area between Mabutweni and Njube suburbs at about 10PM on Saturday.
The incident happened some metres away from the man’s house in Mabutweni.
Jameson Mwembe allegedly took advantage of an electricity blackout to have a tryst with Fadzai Mativenga (33), one of his neighbours. Mativenga is in a critical condition at Mpilo Central Hospital as she sustained head injuries.
Mwembe’s wife, Mrs Rudo Mwembe, said a bloodied Mativenga broke away from the assailants and rushed to inform her that her husband had been attacked.
She said Mativenga initially lied to her. “At around 10PM, this woman came knocking at my door, she called me by name. She told me that she was on her way from church when she found my husband lying lifeless on the ground. I suspected she had a hand in my husband’s attack because why would she know me by name and my house.
“When l wanted to rush to get a vehicle to take my husband to hospital, she said we should first rush to the scene and check if he was still breathing,” said Mrs Mwembe, who struggled to speak between sobs.
She said she only learnt that Mativenga was Mwembe’s girlfriend when the police were taking statements. “Fadzai told the police a different story, she said they were together when my husband was attacked,’’ Mrs Mwembe said.
The Chronicle caught up with the family and neighbours and most of them blamed Mativenga for Mwembe’s death.
A neighbour who declined to be named said: “This was not a random attack. I suspect these murderers are her boyfriends because such ladies are a nuisance. They play games with many men.”
When The Chronicle visited the scene where the attack occurred, there was a congealed pool of blood near a big rock.
“His parents will know what to do with it (the blood),’’ said a relative. Mwembe’s brother, Mr Dudu Siyabela, said the death was a tragedy to the family.
“I was surprised when l received a call about his death, he was in good health and we did not expect his sudden death. I suspect the ‘girlfriend’ knows what exactly happened. We are waiting for our parents so that we know where to bury him,’’ he said.
Mr Siyabela said it was improper for the girlfriend to attend the funeral because it may cause secondary harm to Mwembe’s family.
This newspaper caught up with Mativenga’s family and her mother —who declined to be named — said she was distressed by the incident.
“I hope the murderers will be caught so that justice is served. I’m deeply saddened by the death of that man because he left a widow and children,’’ she said.
The mother was later overheard by this reporter speaking to her uncle on a cellphone saying: “I feel humiliated by Fadzai’s behaviour. I wonder where she was going with a married man during the night. I cannot even face the family of the deceased because they will point fingers at me.’’
Mativenga’s mother said her daughter rents her own house and she was not aware that she went out during the night.
Mativenga, neighbours said, is a single unemployed mother of three children. Mwembe is survived by his wife and three daughters aged 15, 12 and eight years.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Chief Inspector Precious Simango was not reachable for comment. – state media
Steelmakers Zimbabwe (Private) Limited in Redcliff, Kwekwe is being sued over a debt owed to an oxygen cylinder supplier.
This comes after the two parties signed a deal in early 2016 which later collapsed as the giant steel
company faced liquidity challenges.
The supplier, through Maxwell Chioto, this week filed summons against the steelmaker at the High
Court demanding the sum of $11 661, from Steelmakers, which is cited as the defendant.
“The plaintiff’s claim is for payment of the sum of $11 661 being damages for the lost income as a
result of the defendant’s breach of an agreement made and entered into by and between the plaintiff and defendant on February 20, 2016 and at Redcliff and unilaterally cancelled by the defendant on April 18, 2016 despite the fact that the agreement was valid until December 31 same year,” reads the summons in part.
Chioto demanded interest at temporae morae from the date of the claim to the date of full and final
payment and payment of the costs of suit on a higher scale.
In his declaration, Chioto submitted that in June 2016 he entered into an agreement with Steelmakers on condition he will supply the firm
with oxygen cylinders at the rate of $1,80 per cylinder- Daily News
Terrence Mawawa|Dynamos caretaker coach Lloyd Chigowe is still very much confident that his team will not be relegated despite being a point above the drop zone.
Chigowe was thrust into the hot seat on Thursday following the sacking of Lloyd Mutasa.
The coach lost his first game in charge to FC Platinum but was quick to defend himself saying he only got a chance to see his team just 30 minutes before leaving Harare for Zvishavane.
“There is a lot of potential in this team. Imagine I only got a chance to assess the team for 30 minutes before coming for this match. If I had more time with this team, we could have done better. Actually, we are in the right direction, we are going to face some sides in the relegation fight and by then we would have shaped up,” said Chigowe.
Dembare had a slow start to the match allowing the hosts to dictate the pace. They were let down mainly by defensive blunders with goals from Mkhokheli Dube and Rodwell Chinyengetere coming as a result of errors at the back. The defeat left them with just 31 points.
By Dorrothy Moyo| The Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo has said the cholera death toll has remained at 49.
“The death toll remains at 49,” he was quoted by the state media.
He continued saying, “we continue to receive further assistance from our partners, amongst them the Chinese, who donated $200 000 towards the cause over the weekend.”
“Otherwise we continue to ensure that the infected receive treatment.”
Meanwhile speaking in Parliament last week (See video), Moyo said as of September 26, 2018, over 10 000 persons had presented to the screening and treatment centres.
He said 6 645 suspected cases had been reported, with 96 of them testing positive to Vibrio cholerae, while 49 had died.
He said, “we realise that this is a unique outbreak from those experienced earlier in that there have been high levels of resistance to antibiotics commonly available, high fatalities despite the outbreak being predominantly urban and in that it is happening in the same areas that are heavily affected by typhoid and that raises the possibility of dual infections,” he said.
ZAPU leader Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has revealed that he is the brains behind the original Public Order and Security Act (POSA) Bill but former President Mr Robert Mugabe refused to sign it because it was “too liberal.”
In an interview yesterday, Dr Dabengwa said the POSA Bill that eventually sailed through Parliament, was a “grossly edited version” of his brainchild.
POSA repealed the draconian and colonial-era Law and Order Maintenance Act (LOMA). It was introduced in Zimbabwe in 2002 and amended in 2007.
Dr Dabengwa, who was then Home Affairs Minister, said he was the mover to replace LOMA and invited the Law Society of Zimbabwe and members of civil society to discuss POSA.
“Indeed, POSA is my baby because I had been tortured and imprisoned by the Rhodesian government under LOMA during the liberation struggle. It really pained me to see the same piece of legislation that was used to imprison us in the early 1960s still in place in Zimbabwe hence I made a move to have it completely repealed and replaced by POSA when I was Home Affairs Minister,” he said.
The former Zanu-PF Politburo member and Cabinet Minister said he consulted President Emmerson Mnangagwa who was then Justice Minister, legal experts and civil society.
“I did lots of consultations, first with (President) Emmerson Mnangagwa who was then Justice Minister and we agreed since he had also been imprisoned under LOMA. We went together and brought a number of legal experts among them the likes of Mr David Coltart and we also extensively consulted civil society and held meetings and discussed issues with people like Ms Priscilla Misihairabwi (Mushonga) who represented civil society,” he said.
“Finally when we agreed on the format that it was supposed to take, I had it drafted by the Parliamentary Legal Committee and it was then brought back to me so that I could be able to steer it through Parliament. It was not easy as there were a number of issues raised by people who opposed certain sections of the Bill, but I managed to get it through almost completely unamended.”
Dr Dabengwa said Mr Mugabe sat on the Bill, arguing that it was too liberal.
“The Bill went through all stages of Parliament and it was passed and went to the President’s Office for a signature but the President would not sign because he had a number of objections. He thought the Bill was too liberal but he didn’t even bother to find out or ask me why I decided to bring certain issues on the Bill.
“All he did was to sit on it and made sure it lapsed because after three months without the President assenting, a Bill automatically lapses and this was about the time we were getting towards the 2000 elections,” he said.
Dr Dabengwa said changes to the Bill were later made by his predecessor, the late Cde John Landa Nkomo.
“The same name was used and during John Nkomo’s time and a number of changes were made which completely diluted the Bill from what it was. There were some repressive sections in LOMA, which we had removed, and one of them is the issue of having to get permission from the police for meetings and that Bill said all that you needed to do was to inform the police of the meeting in case you encounter problems and it also placed the onus on the conveners to first inform police of a demonstration. In the event that any property was damaged, the leaders would then be solely responsible for repairing the damages thereof,” he said.
Dr Dabengwa claimed the current POSA signifies little improvement on LOMA.
“The Bill that I introduced was a liberal POSA which you will find in almost every democratic country and it is completely different from the POSA that we have now. When they came up with the new POSA Bill, I was very angry,” he said.
Opposition parties regard POSA as an Act that helped Mr Mugabe consolidate his power post-2000 during demonstrations and protests.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Cde Ziyambi Ziyambi recently announced that the Government is set to amend POSA, the Police Act as well as the Citizenship Act as part of an initiative to align legislation with the Constitution.
There has previously been resistance to amend some laws but this reluctance to comply with the Constitution is being addressed in the Second Republic. The Government under President Mnangagwa has since pledged to entrench civil liberties. Officially opening the 9th Parliament of Zimbabwe, President Mnangagwa pronounced the legislative agenda which is guided by the need to align laws to the new constitution, to further democratise the nation and ensure that the country achieves its 2030 developmental vision. – state media
By A Correspondent| Clearly an open insult to the Ethiopian government – there was drama when Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube claimed that Ethiopia’s economy has improved all because of Chinese loans.
Ncube was recorded by the state broadcaster, ZBC speaking at a cholera donations handover ceremony held at the Chinese Embassy where the country received US$200 000.
The ZBC report states saying: Mthuli Ncube encouraged the Chinese to financially assist the Zimbabwean government as it scales up efforts to revive the economy. Prof Ncube gave reference to how the Ethiopian economy is booming due to a loan facility China extended to the country. He said Zimbabwe has the potential to exceed Ethiopian progress if adequate funds are made available.
Mthuli Ncube was Sunday named for embarrassing himself seeing Ethiopia’s maturity in politics has seen a change in leadership that now accepts a young president. Ethiopian culture has a result created the conditions necessary for economic growth. The current President elected just a few months ago, is 42 years old. ALSO READ- Ethiopia’s Chamisa – What He Has Done In Just 3 Months.
Economists say freedom in a nation inspires business creativity.
President Abiy Ahmed, was in May praised by Ethiopans in the United Kingdom. One Abyssinian told ZimEye.com, ” he is a good man he has brought hope to all of us.”
President Ahmed made the following grand announcement last week, “It is historically accurate that Ethiopia has had its fair share of leaders who, upon coming to power, destroy what their predecessors have built, and eliminate close members of former regimes.
Pardoning Mengistu Haile Mariam breaks this, and shows it is also in us to forgive.”
Terrence Mawawa|Traditional Premier Soccer League giants Highlanders and Caps United settled for a 0-0 draw in a drab encounter at the National Sports Stadium today.
Both teams took turns to waste glorious opportunities that came their way in both halves of the dull encounter.
Caps United dominated the exchanges in the first half while Highlanders were the better side in the second half.
Terrence Mawawa| A member of the MDC Alliance Provincial Executive Committee Stanley Manguma has said the opposition party will never fall into President Emmerson Mnangagwa’ s trap.
Below is Manguma’s statement:
If Zanu PF won the elections they should work towards fulfilling the promises they made to the people during the election campaigns.
Nelson Chamisa and the MDC Alliance lost the election and
accordingly we are strategizing for the future. It is mind boggling that a party which won the election
resoundingly seeks dialogue with a party that lost the election . Such kind of political confusion only happens in Zimbabwe. ED and his mafia should run the country as they see fit .
The MDC will form the next Govt and does not need Zanu PF. The MDC didn’t contest the election result
out of greed but because it was crystal clear the ballot was manipulated. The whole world
including our neighbours who play blind solidarity know the truth. ED himself knows the truth and what
we can’t afford to do is to give him the legitimacy he is desperate to have. ZEC and the ConCourt gave him the legitimacy so where is the problem?
By Simba Chikanza| The funding gap created by African heads of states when they blow millions of dollars flying for medical treatment in Europe and Asia, could be used to pay local doctors (and developing hospitals) for several years. Should not these visits be declared a crime against humanity? TWEET:
Terrence Mawawa| A woman who was desperate to restore her marriage will rue her decision to resort to juju.
Cynthia Mvhuma (36) lost her husband and came up with a plan to get him back. She used juju to entice him but things took the wrong turn when the master plan turned her into a sex addict.
Mvhuma told B- Metro the juju gave
her a ravenous sex urge instead of bringing back the love of her life.
“I always feel the urge for sex every time. A few years back when my husband left me I went to see
a traditional healer who gave me juju to help win him back. I poured it all over my body as instructed and waited for the miracle to happen. After two days I started feeling weird and my private parts were wet,” she said.
She went back to the sangoma and he said she had nothing to worry about.
“He said everything would be fine, it was just part of the process. In the first week I slept with three different men from my area. I thought it was normal for me because I was going through a hard time,’’ she added.
The sangoma is now dead and
there’s no one to reverse the juju. Now she sleeps with every man who walks her path.
“I can’t help myself for feeling this way. I just want
By Own Correspondent| Newly sworn in Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development, Advocate Fortune Chasi has revealed that his ministry now has a twitter handle @TransportZim.
Chasi’s revelations follows his pledge last week where he promised that his ministry would ensure the establishment of social media platforms to encourage engagement and the sharing of ideas towards fulfilling the developmental agenda.
Said Chasi:
Happy to announce that the Ministry of Transport now has a twitter handle as promised last week. It’s @TransportZim . Pse let’s continue to engage and send all queries there. I will continue to monitor & help ensure we have timous responses.
Opposition MDC is set to contest the upcoming Mutoko North by-election, a move that confirms the party’s departure from its earlier stance to push for electoral reforms before participation in any by-elections.
In an interview with NewZimbabwe.com, party spokesperson, Jacob Mafume said the party will soon meet to chose a candidate for the seat that fell vacant following the election of Mabel Chinomona to senate President.
“Yes we are going to meet soon as a party and we will choose our candidate to contest in the Mutoko North constituency by-election,” said Mafume.
He added that their participation will also be an opportunity to test the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission commitment to improve its administration of elections on the back of a shambolic management of the July 30 polls.
“But as we agree to participate, we look forward that the electoral body, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will be transparent and improve on how they handle elections,” Mafume said.
“Surely we need to see a big difference between general elections and by-elections and this will be a test for ZEC to see if they are going to improve on what several local and international observers Election Reports noted in the just ended election.
“We also expect the situation to be conducive for opposition to campaign and participate in areas known to be no go areas for the opposition by ruling party supporters, and state sponsored violence.”
Terrence Mawawa| Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister retired Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri has allegedly grabbed part of the farm belonging to the widow of the late national hero General Vitalis Gava Zvinavashe and allocated the land to the Chinese.
A huge chunk of Margaret Zvinavashe’s farm in Norton was allocated to Chinese firm Sunny Yi Feng Tiles so that it can set up a
ceramic tiles factory.
Shiri told The Standard that the ministry of lands was reducing farm
sizes.
“She was adequately consulted and
everything is being done in agreement.The Chinese hold an offer letter on the piece of land after there was an agreement to withdraw it from her…
We have given them the land and
whatever they do should be in
compliance with the demands of other
Terrence Mawawa|A married Victoria Falls woman was forced to skip the border to South Africa after her long suffering husband discovered that she was cheating on him with two
men.
The woman, Duduzile Ngwenya (30),
reportedly had a long history of cheating on her husband, Mthulisi Ncube (40).
According to sources Duduzile’s two-timing escapades came to light after her “official” boyfriend found her in the arms of another man around midnight on 11 August.
The boyfriend allegedly assaulted her before confiscating an iPhone that he had bought her as a gift.
The vengeful boyfriend did not stop there as he proceeded to leak a number of lewd pictures of Duduzile to her friends and relatives.
Left alone with no friends to turn to or a shoulder to cry on, Duduzile
packed her bags and fled to South Africa on 27 August.
According to a close friend, Duduzile was in the habit of sending nude photos to men that she desired.
“Dudu was something else. You will not believe me if I tell you that she is a baptised church member.
She was always drinking and half the time she was as high as a kite.
“But she used to be a good girl, I don’t know what happened to her. She was now neglecting her children. It’s like the maid was now their mother because the children spent more time with the maid than with the mother,” said the friend who
requested anonymity.
Jane Mlambo| Opposition MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa has poured cold water on the proposed plan by government to make him leader of the opposition in parliament saying Zimbabweans elected him to go to State house and not the house of assembly.
Chamisa who addressed bumper crowds in Glen View and Budiriro yesterday after conducting a clean up exercise told his supporters that he is still determined to prove that he won the July 30 Presidential elections ahead of Zanu PF’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
“They are saying they want me to go to Parliament and I said: ‘Are you sick?’ I was elected to go to State House and not Parliament,” he said.
“Hold forth because we are not easily convinced. I have no fear because I know you are solidly behind me,” said Chamisa.
By Own Correspondent| Part of the farm belonging to widow of the late national hero General Vitalis Zvinavashe, Margaret has been allocated to the Chinese.
Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement retired Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri reportedly allocated a major part of the farm belonging to Margaret Zvinavashe’s farm in Norton to Chinese firm Sunny Yi Feng Tiles so that it can set up a ceramic tiles factory.
Shiri confirmed the matter and told a local publication that the ministry of lands was reducing farm sizes.
The development comes against a backdrop of the government being accused of parceling out land to the Chinese. Last week, ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa was labeled a traitor for offering to dish out vast lands in Victoria Falls to US President Donald Trump. Many analysts say ZANU PF is breaking the law by dishing out assets to foreigners and this done above locals.
“I had offered President Trump ground to build a state-of-the-art golf course so that as he plays he can be able to see the big five,” Mnangagwa said.
Meanwhile, Shiri said: “she was adequately consulted and everything is being done in agreement. The Chinese hold an offer letter on the piece of land after there was an agreement to withdraw it from her… We have given them the land and whatever they do should be in compliance with the demands of other government agencies,” he is quoted by the Standard.
Terrence Mawawa|Students and lecturers at the National University of Science and Technology(NUST) have been devastated by the death of a student who committed suicide.
The second year Finance student was found hanging in his hostel at the institution yesterday in a suspected case of suicide.
The decomposing body of the student was discovered after security noticed an unusual
amount of flies on the curtains, windows and a foul smell emanating from his room. The hostel warden assumed the smell was from a blocked sewer pipe.
Nust communications and marketing officer Lindiwe Nyoni confirmed the incident and said the institution was saddened by the suicide case.
“As an institution we are saddened and pained by the unfortunate incident that occurred. We are
grieving with the family of the deceased student.
From our side all was well, he had been attending lectures as usual, we had not recorded any problem only to hear of his death this morning,” Nyoni told Sunday News.
“We are yet to hear from the police investigations on what may have transpired leading to the loss of
such a young life. However, we do have counselling services available on campus that we always encourage students to make use of if they have financial, social or any other problems so that we can
help them.”
A Mutare-bound bus was involved in an accident near the Ruwa Golf Course and two people were injured including a 2 months old baby. The bus’ brand is called, “Bless It Up,” the state media reports. PICTURE:
By Own Correspondent| Citizens here have expressed mixed sentiments on whether they still respect President Emmerson Mnangagwa after what he did to opposition leader Nelson Chamisa in the July 30 harmonised elections.
According to Chamisa, Mnangagwa allegedly rigged the polls only for his ascendancy to be confirmed through the Constitutional court when Chief Justice Luke Malaba ruled in his favour, dismissing Chamisa’s poll petition with costs.
Below are some of the responses from citizens on the question “Who still respects Mnangagwa after what he did to Chamisa?”
Where is the man who used to boast that he is the one who made Strive Masiyiwa prosperous, and the same man who says that he is the pioneer of digital technology in Zimbabwe? Where’s the man who once leaked a report that Oppah Muchinguri and Grace Mugabe have been in a long drawn fight over one man, the 94 year old former President?
The below car has been discovered in Mabvuku, Harare and a whistleblower suspects that it is a stolen vehicle.
“Mota inenge yakabiwa hama kuMabvuku along John Tapedza and Mangwende, ” Gwedu Gwebu wrote. PICTURE:
Justice Luke Malaba announcing “we believe in facts, not figures.”
By Simba Chikanza| News readers have begun discussing what would have happened if Emmerson Mnangagwa had handed over power peacefully without killing innocent civilians as he has done to date. The events after the military brutality seen on Harare’s streets on 1 August, and many weeks afterwards in several neighbourhoods, and then a War Veterans conference a day before the verdict announcement, threatening another coup, led to judges being (arguably) intimidated into making a ruling against the winner of the 2018 elections, Nelson Chamisa with Chief Justice Luke Malaba on the 24th August later announcing saying “we believe in facts, not figures.”
He then ruled that Chamisa does not have evidence to support his case against Emmerson Mnangagwa.
This verdict irked Zimbabweans with the exiled Prof Jonathan Moyo exclaiming that it is “breathtakingly scandalous. What are facts without figures? In elections figures represent voters & their votes!” Also speaking afterwards, Chamisa’s lawyer, Thabani Mpofu revealed that a chunk of evidence was ignored by the judges. Watch his briefer below:
Meanwhile, newsreaders yesterday explored what would have happened had Mnangagwa handed over power gracefully. They said he would have been better than Nelson Mandela. FULL TEXT:
If he handed power would have been a hero even more than Mandela but greediness and power hunger forced him to behave like wise
Jane Mlambo| A Twitter character by the name Matigari, known for releasing classified government information while frequently attacking the opposition has finally been exposed following an in-depth study by a group of researchers operating under the banner of Teampachedu.
According to Teampachedu, @matigary’s Twitter account is linked to an IT expert Taurai Chinyamakobvu.
Taurai Chinyamakobvu
Chinyamakobvu’s profile posted on IREX, an American organization that runs the Mandela Washington fellowship programme reveals that he is a partner and investor in Flocash Zimbabwe, a joint venture with a UK payment gateway services company.
He is also the founder of Pazimba, an e-commerce start-up business focusing on providing multiple retailers with a convenient platform to sell their goods online.
Aquilinia Kayidza Pamberi, the woman who in 2011 was suspected to have been in an affair with the late MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has fallen on hard times.
Pamberi, who is based in Bulawayo, is set to lose two luxury vehicles after they were attached by the Sheriff of the Court over a $5 000 debt.
An advertisement advising of the sale was placed in the Press last week indicating that Pamberi’s two cars, a Mercedes Benz and Nissan Hardbody will go under the hammer. In addition, Pamberi might be arrested as she is facing a criminal case where she allegedly conned her friend – Ms Irene Chinyanda of $5 000.
According to court papers gleaned by Sunday News, sometime in January this year, Ms Chinyanda met Pamberi in the CBD, where she told the latter that she was seeking to raise $575 to pay the Deputy Sheriff for a writ of execution for a case that was ruled in her favour at the High Court.
It was then stated that on 16 July, Ms Chinyanda met Pamberi outside a boutique in the CBD, where Pamberi asked about her issue that was in the courts. Ms Chinyanda reportedly told Pamberi that the defendant in the issue had paid part of the money owed to her and also made an urgent chamber application at the High Court.
Pamberi is then reported to have told Ms Chinyanda that she had a connection at the High Court, who was able to make a follow up on the case. Pamberi is said to have later phoned Ms Chinyanda, saying that her contact had checked on the file at the court. On 18 July, Pamberi again phoned Ms Chinyanda requesting for a meeting over the issue.
When they met Pamberi told Ms Chinyanda that the said connection had requested
$10 000 in cash, so that he could assist her with the matter. Ms Chinyanda is reported to have told Pamberi that she did not have $10 000 but had $5 000, which she transferred to her bank account.
Pamberi is then alleged to have phoned Ms Chinyanda telling her that she should instruct her lawyer to go to the High Court and apply for a set down over the matter. Ms Chinyanda then requested to meet the alleged contact but Pamberi declined, saying the contact was not at liberty to meet her, assuring her that “all was in order”.
On a later date Pamberi phoned Ms Chinyanda telling her that her contact had not seen any opposing affidavits in the said case. That is when Ms Chinyanda’s suspicions were raised and she demanded her money back, saying that she should write an affidavit acknowledging that she owed her $5 000, which Pamberi refused to do.
On 7 August, Pamberi is alleged to have sent a picture of an RTGs, where she purported to have transferred $2 900 to Ms Chinyanda’s account. However, upon investigations it was revealed that Pamberi had actually not done any transaction of that sort but allegedly forged the document.
Pamberi initially appeared in court on 13 September, with the matter being remanded to 15 October this year. Bulawayo magistrate Mr Tinashe Tashaya presided over the matter. Pamberi and Tsvangirai were linked after Pamberi’s late husband Jacob Mandeya made an impassioned plea to the MDC leader to stay away from his wife.
Mr Mandeya suspected that Tsvangirai was dating his wife behind his back. Before he died, Mandeya alleged that he suspected that Tsvangirai was having an affair with his wife and had caused untold suffering at his home and traumatised his two daughters.
Another tourist had local vendors to thank after narrowly cheating death yesterday when an elephant he was trying to photograph in Victoria Falls picked him by its trunk and threw him on the ground before trampling on him.
The man, believed to be German, was in the company of a woman believed to be his wife and were walking along a footpath from a local hotel going towards the Rainforest around 5pm.
The unidentified man broke an arm and leg as a result of the shock incident.
He has curio vendors to thank as they vigorously made noise by clapping hands while one of them also used a catapult to hit a female jumbo and a calf to scare the giant predators away.
“We heard a woman screaming coming from the direction of Lookout Café but we couldn’t figure out what she was saying. When she got here, we suspected something was wrong because she kept mentioning elephants but her English language was not audible.
“We rushed to the scene and saw a man lying on the ground.” said one witness, Anele Mpofu, adding that he had to quickly come up with a plan to save the tourist.
“Seeing that there was nothing we could do, I figured how we could divert the bull’s attention from the scene. I drew a catapult and aimed at a female elephant and calf. I hit the mother on the ear and it turned to protect the calf, in the process making noise by breaking tree branches.
“The bull suddenly turned and ran towards the female and calf probably to protect them and that’s when we all swarmed the man and lifted him as we ran towards a safe place,” said Mpofu.
ZimParks Public Relations Manager, Tinashe Farawo had this to say about the unfortunate event:
Staff Reporter|Chiefs from Masvingo Province have demanded that Government builds new and bigger houses to match the trendy Isuzu Twin Cabs they got from government recently.
The chiefs made the demands to the new Minister of State for Masvingo Province Ezra Chanzamira at a meeting held in the city to familiarise with the chiefs.
The chiefs claimed that it was embarrassing to park the big vehicles at their homes as the two would not match. They also demanded WiFi routers, mobile phone boosters near their homes and an upward review of their salaries.
The chiefs who stepped on each other’s toes with personal demands were Nemauzhe, Chief Murinye, Chief Chitanga and Chief Tshovani.
“We need better houses, we cannot continue dwelling in these ancient structures. When our cars are parked outside neighbours ask if we have rich visitors around because our houses and cars do not complement each other. We need houses that befit our stature and cars,” said Chief Nemauzhe.
“Our allowances do not allow us to fully support our families; the Government promised us a salary increase, we are still waiting for that promise to be fulfilled,” said Chief Tshovani of Chiredzi.
The plea for better allowances was also shared by Chief Nemauzhe, Chief Murinye from Masvingo, Chief Ndanga from Zaka and Chief Negavi from Mwenezi who spoke on behalf of their counterparts from their respective districts.
Chief Murinye bragged about being a lawyer in Harare hence he needed a WiFi at home.”We are in a technological age. Network is a serious issue in some of our areas, we receive messages after climbing up a rock. Network boosters and Wi-Fi routers are a necessity for chiefs in this age, we need to stay up to date and in communication,” said Chief Murinye.
Wellence MujuruBy Farai D Hove| Rwisa Cancer Foundation PR officer, Wellence Mujuru has apologised over a scandal which has become a major social media explosion in the last week.
Mujuru caused a stir after he was named for allegedly running at least two ghost accounts on social networking website, Facebook.
This added to another matter involving nude pictures which recently leaked and are alleged to be his.
Last night, there was another stir when he threatened suicide. He later deleted the Facebook post after causing much panic in the Zim community.
He however issued a public apology and below was his brief statement:
“I have been one vocal person for years and sometimes for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong reasons.
“I do apologize to everyone and anyone l have ever personally wronged. I do apologize from the bottom of my Heart. Going forward l look to engage with the Public in a meaningful and impactful phase that helps our country move forward.
KING DAVID INSPIRES ME..David sang psalms & hymns from the PALACE.He even wrote: “Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works! Glory in His holy name..” Psalm 105:1-3
Newly-appointed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube would like to employ a “big bang” economic reform programme to the battered economy where unemployment is running above 80%, but recognises politics will limit the speed for change.
“My preference is a fiscal shock, but there is a what you call the political collar or the politics of policymaking which then slows you down. My preference would be more of a big bang approach because every day counts in terms of cost,” Ncube, a former banker, said in a briefing with journalists on the sidelines of an investor conference in New York on Friday.
Ncube joined the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa earlier this month. Mnangagwa won a disputed vote on July 30 in the first election since Robert Mugabe was removed by the army last November after nearly four decades in power.
Lack of foreign investment, fiscal deficits and acute shortages of hard currencies like the US dollar are, but some of the economic problems Zimbabwe, once known as Africa’s breadbasket because of its agricultural exports, is enduring.
The new government’s focus on getting the economy back on track requires paying off the roughly $2 billion in arrears to international financial institutions such as the World Bank, African Development Bank (AfDB), European Investment Bank (EIB) and the $4 billion it owes the Paris Club of sovereign nations.
John Mangudya, who is both governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and chairman of the government’s arrears clearance committee, said the strategy is to clear the debts to the World Bank and AfDB first before approaching the Paris Club.
“We are looking at many options,” Mangudya said. He expects to announce the plan within six months, noting the need for debt sustainability.
“One year from now, our wish and our hope and prayer is that we would have cleared our arrears,” he said.
Going to the International Monetary Fund cannot happen until the arrears are cleared, however. In the meantime, Mangudya would like to engage in a six-month IMF staff-monitored programme through June 2019 as part of the nation’s re-engagement with the global economy.
Mangudya gave an economic growth forecast of between 4,5% and 6% for 2018.
“Next year, in line with our vision to grow the economy to above $3 500 per capita income by 2030, we think we need to grow above 7% in 2019,” he said. He predicted inflation would be slightly above 4% in 2018 and about 5% in 2019.
The creation of a Zimbabwean currency is not a priority, however. Zimbabwe uses a mixture of other nations’ currencies to conduct daily economic functions, which can be problematic if there are shortages.
Mangudya indicated it might be up to five years before reintroducing a local currency again in Zimbabwe, which suffered from hyper-inflation as the economy collapsed.
“Currency reform is a process. The economic fundamentals are not good and ready for us to have our own currency,” he said, adding: “There is a danger of re-introducing a currency before the fundamentals are met.” — Reuters
MASVINGO – In a wave of new self-centered demands, chiefs from Masvingo Province have demanded that Government builds new and bigger houses to match the trendy Isuzu Twin Cabs they got from tax-payer’s money just before this year’s national elections.
Ironically Government failed to provide the chiefs with fuel to return to their homes after a meeting they held on Friday last week. They were promised that money would be sent in their ecocash accounts later.
The chiefs said it embarrassed them to park the Twin Cabs at their homes because the two don’t match. They also demanded WiFi routers (efficient WiFi routers cost $500 per month), boosters near their homes and an upward review of their salaries.
The chiefs who already have many other benefits including farms and sugarcane plots demanded fresh sugarcane plots at Tugwi-Mukosi Irrigation scheme in Chivi.
The chiefs had been called to a meeting at Benjamin Urombo House in Masvingo to welcome Ezra Chadzamira, the new Minister of State for Masvingo.
While there are some concerns that were raised that could help the people, it was the demands for personal benefits for chiefs that dominated the meeting.
The chiefs who stepped on each other’s toes with personal demands were Nemauzhe, Chief Murinye, Chief Chitanga and Chief Tshovani.
Chief Nemauzhe, real name Nelson Murandu of Chivi pleaded with Chadzamira to refurbish the chief’s houses to complement the latest Isuzu Twin Cabs.
“We need better houses, we cannot continue dwelling in these ancient structures. When our cars are parked outside neighbours ask if we have rich visitors around because our houses and cars do not complement each other. We need houses that befit our stature and cars,” said Chief Nemauzhe.
“Our allowances do not allow us to fully support our families; the Government promised us a salary increase, we are still waiting for that promise to be fulfilled,” said Chief Tshovani of Chiredzi.
The plea for better allowances was also shared by Chief Nemauzhe, Chief Murinye from Masvingo, Chief Ndanga from Zaka and Chief Negavi from Mwenezi who spoke on behalf of their counterparts from their respective districts.
Chief Murinye bragged about being a lawyer in Harare hence he needed a WiFi at home.
“We are in a technological age. Network is a serious issue in some of our areas, we receive messages after climbing up a rock. Network boosters and Wi-Fi routers are a necessity for chiefs in this age, we need to stay up to date and in communication,” said Chief Murinye.
RENOWNED United States economist Steve Hanke says Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate is 69,9%, much higher than the official figure of 4,83%.
“At present, Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate, by my measure, is 69,9%. I measure the inflation rate daily by using high-frequency data.
“At elevated inflation rates, the method I use, which is based on purchasing power parity (PPP), is very accurate.
“It measures the rate of overall inflation for all goods, services, and assets in Zimbabwe,” Hanke said in emailed responses to Standardbusiness.
“In short, my ‘basket’ includes everything. The PPP methodology, with the application that I use, is recognised in scholarly literature as the most accurate way to measure inflation in ‘high’ inflation countries.”
A paper titled, On the Measurement of Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation covering the 2008 hyperinflationary period, prepared by Hanke and fellow economist Alex K F Kwok, states the reason this method is preferred is because of lack of inflation data.
Until that data void is closed, a huge mismatch between Zimstat data and changes in the prices of goods will continue to remain.
Addressing Zimbabweans living in the United States at an investment conference meant to lure American investors recently, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said annual inflation was 6%.
“Inflation has been well behaved hovering between 2% and 6%, currently at about 4%, but we think it may creep up, “he said.
“I was watching the prices last week and I must say we have just hit that 6% mark, but I must say it is reasonable in my view and I do not think we should be able to go above that.”
EDWARD Masendeke, who has been on the run since 2013 in connection with a murder case committed at a bar in Mbizo in Kwekwe has been arrested.
Masendeke (40) was arrested by police detectives after he resurfaced at his elder brother, Elson’s funeral last week. He allegedly assaulted Jonathan Mpofu together with brothers Ernest and the late Elson as well as two other accomplices Walter Mahofa and Justice Mukarati following a misunderstanding in the bar in 2013.
Mpofu died on the spot from the assault. Masendeke appeared before Kwekwe magistrate Mr Storey Rushambwa last week and was remanded in custody to 15 October. He was advised to apply to the High Court for bail.
Allegations are that on 27 March 2013 at about 3am, Masendeke was playing snooker in the company of his two brothers and two other accomplices at Cold Spring Bar at Mbizo 4 Shopping Centre. A misunderstanding ensued between Mpofu and one of the accused leading to a brawl.
The gang then pulled Mpofu outside the bar where they assaulted him with wooden sticks all over the body.
Mpofu died on the spot from the attack. Ernst, Elson, Mahofa and Mukarati were arrested and appeared before the courts where they were released on bail. Edward reportedly fled to South Africa where he had been in hiding until he resurfaced recently, leading to his arrest.
Mr Vincent Chimwenje represented the State while Archibold Madzima of Mutatu and Partners represented Masendeke.
Edward is related to Edmund Masendeke, one of the notorious robbers and murderer to ever live in Zimbabwe during the 1990s.
Meanwhile, a man linked to the gruesome machete attack at the long distance bus terminus in Kwekwe on Saturday appeared before a Kwekwe magistrate facing murder charges last week. Jefta Matambo (43) of Mutsanyamate, Village under Chief Sayi in Gokwe appeared before Mr Rushambwa facing murder charges for attacking Clement Moyo with machetes at the bus terminus. Moyo, who was waiting to board a bus at the terminus, died on the spot after Matambo and his six friends launched an attack on him following a misunderstanding in the terminus toilet. Matambo was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody to 15 October. He was advised to apply for bail at the High Court.
Staff Correspondent|THE Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe’s (AFM) leadership woes continue to mount as top church leaders have been suspended.
The battle to control one of Zimbabwe’s biggest churches rages on, threatening to further split the group.
The church’s general secretary Reverend Amos Madawu communicated that seven top church leaders have since been suspended for violating the church constitution.
The church’s president, Reverend Aspher Madziyire on Wednesday suspended vice-president Reverend Cossum Chiangwa and his allies without salary and benefits.
“AFM Council resolved to suspend without pay and benefits, the church’s deputy president and Harare West province Overseer Rev Chiyangwa, Harare North Overseer Rev Arthur Nhamburo, Harare East Overseer Rev Amon Chinyemba and Ruwa province Overseer Rev Maron Mashumba,” said an internal circular.
Rev Donald Ndoni and Rev Nathan Nhira , we also supsended in terms of SI of 2006 for “conduct inconsistent with the express or implied conditions of their employment”.
Reverends Madziyire, Join Mdlongwa, Rabson Mbedzi, Innocent Murefu, Knowledge Munjeri, Enos Manyika and Munyaradzi Shumba were lifted to be in the committee to fill the vacant posts.
A new documentary film on the Matabeleland and Midlands atrocities soon after Zimbabwe’s independence claims the mass killings were probably plannedplanned before independence.
The film by Bulawayo-based journalist Zenzele Ndebele, titled Gukurahundi Genocide 36 Years Later, was launched in the city last night.
Ndebele interviewed Zapu and Zipra stalwarts, including Dumiso Dabengwa, former dissidents, a former 5th Brigade soldier, victims of rape and a villager who was detained at the Bhalagwe “concentration” camp in Matabeleland South.
Dabengwa said he believed the military campaign targeting the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo’s Zapu supporters was planned by “both Zanu and I want to think the British were involved”.
Dabengwa and other prominent Matabeleland leaders attended the launch of the documentary.
In the film, former Zipra fighter Vincent Hillary Ndlovu, now living in exile, explains how he was hounded out of the national army and ended up as a “dissident”.
He said he operated in Tsholotsho, but was arrested and spent 15 years in jail after he was arrested in Botswana.
Misheck Velaphi, an administrator of the Zipra-owned Nitram Farm, said the alleged arms caches were used as an excuse to deploy the North Korean-trained 5th Brigade by former president Robert Mugabe.
He said both Mugabe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was State Security minister at the time, knew the arms belonged to the ANC’s military wing Umkhonto weSizwe.
Velaphi was arrested with Dabengwa and late Zipra commander Lookout Masuku in connection with the arms.
He was the only one who was convicted and sentenced to three years for possession of arms of war.
Velaphi claims Mnangagwa and Mugabe were used by apartheid South Africa to weaken the ANC, which operated side by side with Zapu.
He claimed that there were mass graves in Bulawayo’s Luveve area of ex-Zipra combatants that were killed when the clashes began at Entumbane.
Prior to the launch, Ndebele claimed that he had been harassed by the police who demanded that he must first be cleared by the Censorship Board.
He received support from the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC).
Mnangagwa last week said he would accept any recommendations by the NPRC on how to deal with the Gukurahundi issue after he was asked whether he would apologise by CNN.
By Own Correspondent| Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Jesimen Chipika has revealed that Zimbabwe requires a foreign currency cover of US$1 billion, against current reserves of US$200 million emphasising the need for increased production to narrow the gap.
Chipika told delegates attending the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries conference in Bulawayo last week that boosting exports will help the country out of the current situation.
Said Chipika:
“We are looking at US$1 billion foreign currency cover but we only have $200 million.”
Zimbabwe wiped out the hyperinflation figures in 2009 when it abandoned use of the Zimbabwe dollar for a basket of foreign currencies, but mostly dominated by the US dollar.
Over the past two years, the economy has been facing serious foreign currency shortages, with the foreign payments backlog ballooning to over US$700 million last month. Foreign currency shortages are partly resulting from subdued exports.
The central bank has been arranging lines of credit to ease the shortages, but this has had marginal impact as demand for hard currency has continued increasing as production increases.
Measures such as the introduction of the Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016, which restricted imports of goods that could be manufactured locally, triggered revival of the industry. SI 64 of 2016 was then consolidated with various import licensing regulations under Statutory Instrument 122 of 2017.- StateMedia
Jane Mlambo| The opposition MDC will contest against an ‘exaggerated’ bill from Zanu PF lawyers who have reportedly tabled $3,2 million in legal costs for the election results petition, the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of their client President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
According to The Sunday Mail, MDC will soon seek arbitration from the Registrar of the Court, to determine the bill through a process called taxation of costs.
Taxation of costs is a process performed by the court upon resolution of a civil case where representatives of the claimant and defendant fail to agree on the quantum of costs as ordered by the court.
Dube, Manikai and Hwacha Legal Practitioners, the instructing firm to Mnangagwa’s legal team, invoiced Mr Chamisa’s lawyers a bill of around $3,2 million.
That figure excludes costs for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and Mr Elton Mangoma’s lawyers.
MDC-Alliance secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora said they will invoke the process of taxation of costs.“We were advised that they have billed us for the costs as ordered by the court,” said Mr Mwonzora.
“In our view, the bill is extremely excessive, not bonafide and grossly exaggerated and our lawyers are going to contest it.
“We are told that they have billed us a figure of around US$3, 2 million.
“There is a process called taxation where if we fail to agree on the bill, the court will have to go through the bill and determine what is fair.
“The bill we have at the moment is grossly malicious.”
By Own Correspondent| Lands, Agriculture, Rural Resettlement, Water and Climate Minister Perrance Shiri has extended an olive branch to the white farmers adding that government would correct past injustices made under the land reform program.
In a speech read on his behalf at the 75th CFU Annual Congress in Harare by director for farmer training, Mr Moffat Nyamangara, Minister Shiri said that while the land reform program was an irreversible exercise, government recognised the property rights of existing land owners.
Said Shiri:
“On the challenges which the farmer community faces, there is one which is a matter of particular anxiety to many of your members — the land reform.
Our Government is firmly committed to a process of the need for corrective measures to deal with the consequences of past injustices.
But it is equally important that new injustices are not created or production capacity disrupted. Our policy acknowledges the property rights of existing land owners.
It also recognises the legitimate demand for justice from those who have been dispossessed or excluded. In addressing these matters, organised agriculture should seek to be part of the process of change, with the aim of sharing in the creation of a more just dispensation.”- StateMedia.
By Paul Nyathi|Residents of Bulawayo went on the rampage in the early hours of Sunday morning damaging several shops and vehicles following a power failure I the middle of a hugely attended South African music group, The Soul Brothers.
Thousands of people of the Mbaqanga music outfit filled up the Large City Hall Car Park to watch the legendary music group perform in the country for the first time since the passing on of lead vocalist David Masondo in 2015.
The group treated the huge number of fans with a thrilling performance that did not show the absence of Masondo.
Trouble started when there was a sudden power failure in the Bulawayo Central Business. Police have not confirmed any arrests.
Jane Mlambo| Deputy Minister of Transport, Advocate FOrtune Chasi has urged the national airline, Air Zimbabwe to optimally use its assets to sustain its operations and stop seeking Government bail-out all the time.
Air Zimbabwe, which is choking in a debt amounting to over $300 million has struggled to remain operational with some of its planes grounded at foreign airports but Chasi said the days of over-reliance on Government are over.
“We are completely unhappy with a situation where the planes are grounded and they are not earning income. We don’t believe that Government must perpetually be putting in money into parastatals when they have assets they must sweat,” he said.
Chasi told state media last week that it is unacceptable for parastatals to struggle for funds when they have grounded aircraft.
Jane Mlambo| Harare Mayor, Councilor Herbert Gomba has hinted that he is mooting opening Morton Jeffray water works to Harare residents so that they can appreciate the work done with the $72 million received from a Chinese loan to refurbish the city’s water infrastructure.
Gomba said contrary to reports that the money was abused by the local authority, the Chinese funder stopped disbursements after a dispute arose over repayment terms.
“I will engage with the director of water to allow residents to visit the treatment works so that they can see for themselves how we put to use the $72 million council received from China,” he said.
Residents’ groups have accused council of supplying contaminated water and in some areas not being able to supply at all.
READER COMMENT: Action needs to be taken.This cannot be allowed to continue. This regime has to be exposed for its hypocricy. SADC, AU has to know about this blatant unfairness and abuse of state institutions. Our MPs should bring this up in Parliament. We can’t fold our arms while this continues.I also fail to understand how a football match can be played at Rufaro stadium but the MDC can’t hold its rally at Gwanzura. ZANU PF is taking us for fools. Nothing has changed under this fake New Dispensation.
Air ZimbabweGovernment says the time for parastatals such as Air Zimbabwe to be perennially carrying begging bowls seeking funds from Treasury when they have idle assets, is over.
Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Advocate Fortune Chasi told The Sunday Mail that it is unacceptable for parastatals to struggle for funds when they have grounded aircraft.
Adv Chasi said Air Zimbabwe should optimally use its assets and sustain its operations instead of seeking Government bail-out all the time.
“We are completely unhappy with a situation where the planes are grounded and they are not earning income. We don’t believe that Government must perpetually be putting in money into parastatals when they have assets they must sweat,” he said.
Currently, the ministry is engaging authorities at Air Zimbabwe to establish the extent of the challenges they are facing and proffering possible solutions. A source at Air Zimbabwe said management is waiting for direction from the ministry, but is keen to transform the national airline’s operations.
“We are in the skies. We have two aircraft plying the Harare-Bulawayo route, Harare-Johannesburg route, Harare-Victoria Falls route and the Harare-Dar es Salaam route. I think we are doing relatively well considering that employees are getting their salaries every month,” said the source.
Operational challenges at Air Zimbabwe, some of which are traceable to maladministration by previous managers, and legacy debts of up to US$330 million, have opened avenues for privately owned firms to grab the company’s market share. The “managed liberalisation” of the air transport sector, meant to enhance destination connectivity for the benefit of travellers, has increased competition for Air Zimbabwe.
As a result, the national airline has lost considerable market share to budget airline, fastjet.
fastjet is now plying the Harare-Victoria Falls, Harare-Bulawayo and Harare-Johannesburg routes. The three routes were cash cows for Air Zimbabwe but its inability to fully service them due to aircraft breakdowns, terrible on-time adherence and high costs, have tilted the balance of power in favour of fastjet.
fastjet’s strength is on costs and 90 percent on-time adherence. Air Zimbabwe also used to be Southern Africa’s airline of choice for travellers going to England considering that it flew directly into the European country. But since its aircraft, a Boeing 767-200 commonly known as Victoria Falls was impounded by a United States firm, American General Supplies in December 2011 at Gatwick International Airport over a US$1,2 million debt, Air Zimbabwe stopped flights into England, fearing a repeat.
However, there is hope that the Harare-London route will be revived in the near future when Zimbabwe Airways, another national airline, gets an Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) to start flying.
At the moment, the first of four Zimbabwe Airways’ Boeing 777s, which was commissioned in April this year, is in Malaysia where it was taken for routine maintenance.
Two of the Boeing 777s have since been paid for in full while the other two have a balance of US$29 million.
The total cost for the four planes is US$70 million.- state media
The election dispute between President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will derail the country’s chances of moving forward, outgoing British ambassador to Zimbabwe Catriona Laing has said.
Speaking to journalists at Munhumutapa Offices soon after meeting acting President Kembo Mohadi, Laing beseeched the presidium to work towards ensuring that all stakeholders’ voices are heard.
This comes at a time when Mnangagwa is under pressure to accommodate Chamisa — his rival in the July 30 elections — who has insisted that he is the legitimately-elected president despite losing his electoral challenge at the Constitutional Court (Con-Court).
“There have been many positive changes but there are still some huge changes ahead. We talked about the elections and the positive steps around peaceful elections and the high turnout but also some concerns that the playing field is not completely even and the fact that the opposition has not accepted the results creates some challenges for Zimbabwe in terms of coming together as a country and moving forward,” said Laing.
Chamisa, who polled 44, 3 percent of the vote, losing to Mnangagwa who garnered 50, 6 percent, challenged the victory in the Con-Court, claiming the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission rigged the elections.
Although the Con-Court threw out his challenge and upheld Mnangagwa’s win, observers insist the Zanu PF frontman still suffers a legitimacy crisis.
To get the country’s economy to work again, there have been calls for the two leaders to find common ground.
While Mnangagwa, who is currently in the United States – attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York –has revealed that he is ready to accept Chamisa as the official opposition leader, his rival has rejected the arrangement, throwing the whole plan into disarray.
The European Union and Britain have particularly been linked to behind-the-scenes manoeuvres to get Mnangagwa to recognise Chamisa as the official opposition leader in order to placate the youthful politician who is refusing to accept the poll outcome.
Currently, the country is experiencing serious problems that include foreign currency and cash shortages.
Prices of basics are shooting through the roof and the bond note is fast losing value, owing to inflated exchange rates on the black market.
The unemployment rate, believed to be over 85 percent, continues to increase, as companies are facing serious viability problems.
“I urged the acting president to try and ensure that everybody’s voice is heard in Zimbabwe. He, of course, has an important role to play as the person responsible for National Peace and Reconciliation Commission. He updated me on the work that is planned and we are very supportive and encouraging that process,” Laing told journalists on Thursday.
Zimbabwe has been facing serious problems, owing to divisions based on political and tribal lines.
From the Gukurahundi massacres, where at least 20 000 civilians were killed, observers say nothing meaningful has been done to bridge the political and tribal gaps, which aspects have been militating against unity and the general growth of the country.
Since then, there have been allegations of political violence by the ruling party against the opposition, especially after the formation of the MDC in 1999.
Only recently, at least six people were shot dead by the army, following protests that took place in Harare on August 1, 2018.
Mnangagwa has since sworn in a seven-member commission of inquiry to look into events that led to the deaths.
It is headed by former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe.
“We will also be following very closely the work of the commission of inquiry into the tragic events of August 1. We are encouraged that the commission of inquiry has been sworn in and there are very eminent people on that commission and we will be watching closely and look forward to seeing the results published and recommendations acted upon,” Laing said.
Meanwhile, Chamisa – through his spokesperson – has called for national dialogue with Zanu PF and other stakeholders to repair the current economic and political mayhem.
Nkululeko Sibanda, the spokesperson for the MDC leader, said his boss has a five-point plan capable of improving the country’s fortunes if implemented.
“We have a five-point plan for a national dialogue that would help boost confidence in our political processes and in our economy; the problem is if Mnangagwa does not listen,” said Sibanda.
“The five-point plan is well thought and aimed at easing the economy and I think Mnangagwa will be well advised to think about that because what is coming and what is happening right now is a total disaster”.
He said in order to move the country forward elections should produce a legitimate result that cannot be disputed, adding that independent commissions must be reviewed to make sure that they are entirely autonomous.
Sibanda said the capture of State institutions by sections of the military and government is contributing to the economic meltdown because it scares away investors.
Chamisa’s spokesperson spoke as Zanu PF’s secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana has highlighted that Mnangagwa is open for dialogue.
“Mnangagwa wants to speak to every Zimbabwean who means well for this country. If Chamisa means well for this country, the door is open for him to have dialogue with the president.
“Zimbabwe is not owned by one political party or by one individual, anyone who can add value to the well-being of our country is welcome to the table,” said Mangwana this week.
He said Chamisa should follow the proper channels for dialogue.
“I do not know how the approach will be, he has indicated that he wants dialogue, I’m sure he knows the channels used to reach out.
“The attitude of president Mnangagwa is very simple, every Zimbabwean who means well for this country should come to the table, the time for politicking and campaignis over we are now running a country,” he said. – Daily News
MDC-Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa’s stunt to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the July 30 polls, even against the advise from some sections in the opposition party’s grouping, has backfired spectacularly after it emerged that the party is now grappling to settle the resultant $3,2 million legal bill.
The Constitutional Court unanimously dismissed with costs Mr Chamisa’s Presidential election court petition on August 24th. The party therefore has the burden to meet the legal bills of all the parties that took part in the proceedings.
Zanu-PF assembled a 12-member legal team led by Advocate Lewis Uriri — considered as one of the country’s sharpest legal minds — for the court case. President Mnangagwa’s lawyers recently billed Mr Chamisa’s representatives, claiming the costs as ordered by the court.
But the MDC-Alliance, which claims the invoice is “exaggerated”, is yet to respond to the demand for payment a fortnight after receiving the bill.
It is, however, believed that the parties could soon seek arbitration from the Registrar of the Court, who could determine the bill through a process called taxation of costs.
Taxation of costs is a process performed by the court upon resolution of a civil case where representatives of the claimant and defendant fail to agree on the quantum of costs as ordered by the court.
The Sunday Mail learnt last week that Dube, Manikai and Hwacha Legal Practitioners, the instructing firm to President Mnangagwa’s legal team, invoiced Mr Chamisa’s lawyers a bill of around $3,2 million.
That figure excludes costs for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and Mr Elton Mangoma’s lawyers.
Mr Canaan Dube of Dube, Manikai and Hwacha legal practitioners, who was the instructing counsel to President Mnangagwa’s legal team, said a response is yet to come from Mr Chamisa’s lawyers.
“When you go to court and a judgement is delivered; if you are successful, you are entitled to recover your costs.
“What you recover depends on the attitude of the losing party. The party that is granted the costs bills the losing party and if they both agree, the bills are paid. If the parties fail to agree, we go through a process that is called taxation, which is led by the courts taxing master who looks at the bill item by item and then decides whether the bill is fair or not.
“We wrote to them sometime last week or the week before that and we haven’t heard from them since then. Obviously, we cannot discuss these matters in the Press as they are confidential and it may jeopardise the whole process.
“The negotiations are a process and not an event and sometimes the communication can come through a phone call, so we don’t know when they will respond.”
He said they have ensured that their bill is fair, just and reasonable. He however said the law and the rules of the courts do not prescribe a period during which the bills must be settled.
Zanu-PF secretary for legal affairs, Cde Paul Mangwana, who was also part of the President’s legal team, said if the matter is not resolved soon, the parties will resort to the taxation process.
Said Cde Mangwana: “The lawyers from both sides are negotiating and we haven’t yet resolved the matter; in particular, the quantum of the costs as ordered by the court.
“If the lawyers fail to reach an agreement, we will take the matter to court for resolution through a process known as taxation. When you win a case with costs, your lawyers will send a bill of estimates to the other side to see if they agree with your quantification.
“That is where we are now. The lawyers have been exchanging notes over the last few weeks and negotiations are ongoing. If they do not reach a resolution, the Registrar of Court will, through the process of taxation, go through the claimant’s bill to see whether he has charged appropriately.
“I cannot discuss how much we have claimed because those matters are confidential,” said Cde Mangwana.
MDC-Alliance secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora said his boss will invoke the process of taxation of costs.
“We were advised that they have billed us for the costs as ordered by the court,” said Mr Mwonzora.
“In our view, the bill is extremely excessive, not bonafide and grossly exaggerated and our lawyers are going to contest it.
“We are told that they have billed us a figure of around US$3, 2 million. There is a process called taxation where if we fail to agree on the bill, the court will have to go through the bill and determine what is fair.
“The bill we have at the moment is grossly malicious.” Mr Chamisa’s spokesperson Dr Nkululeko Sibanda did not respond to questions sent by The Sunday Mail despite having promised to do so by yesterday morning.
While the final bill requires approval by the Registrar of the Court, failure to settle the bill by the opposition leader will result in loss of personal property.
The opposition party is facing serious financial distress after being abandoned by its traditional sponsors. To raise funds for settling the back-breaking ConCourt bill, the party resorted to multi-platform crowd-funding initiatives, which have however failed to gain any traction.
A gofundme initiative, created on August 26 with a target of raising £100 000 pounds, has been received in a lukewarm fashion, only having raised £22 000 pounds by yesterday afternoon.
The last donation of £20 pounds was made five days ago.
The party, which is facing a myriad of financial difficulties, also risks seizure of its property over a labour case involving former director-general Mr Toendepi Shonhe. Last month, the High Court sheriff was instructed to attach party property over $264 000 in labour damages awarded to Mr Shonhe.
Sixteen other ex-employees won a challenge at the Labour Court after being fired in 2014 over alleged links to a rival opposition outfit led by former finance minister Mr Tendai Biti.
All 17 employees are owed $665 000 but the writ of seizure issued last week is in respect of Mr Shonhe’s $264 444.- state media
AFM pastor… vote riggingThe Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) continues to burn with counter-suspensions reigning supreme in the top leadership of the church as the battle for control rages on in one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in the country.
The long running fight is threatening to split the church which has millions of followers across Zimbabwe.
It now seems there is no solution in sight as AFM has two warring factions — one led by church president Dr Aspher Madziyire while another is led by his deputy, Reverend Cosam Chiyangwa.
According to an internal memorandum written by the church’s general secretary Reverend Amos Madawu on September 26, 2018, seven top church leaders have since been suspended for violating the church constitution.
He wrote that the AFM Apostolic Council resolved to suspend without pay and benefits, the church’s deputy president and Harare West province Overseer Rev Chiyangwa, Harare North Overseer Rev Arthur Nhamburo, Harare East Overseer Rev Amon Chinyemba and Ruwa province Overseer Rev Maron Mashumba.
Others who were suspended include Rev Nathan Nhira (Bulawayo North), Rev Donald Ndoni (Masvingo) and Rev Mapuranga (Midlands South). The church leaders were suspended in terms of SI of 2006 for “conduct inconsistent with the express or implied conditions of their employment”.
Rev Madawu said the church appointed Reverends Madziyire, Join Mdlongwa, Rabson Mbedzi, Innocent Murefu, Knowledge Munjeri, Enos Manyika and Munyaradzi Shumba as a caretaker committee in the vacant provinces.
Pastors, elders, deacons, deaconesses and administrators of Harare West, East and North provinces as well as Ruwa are expected to meet this weekend at the AFM Living Waters Bible College to map the way forward for the affected areas.
However, one of the pastors who is fighting in Rev Chiyangwa’s corner rubbished the suspensions announced by Rev Madawu.
He said, “(Rev) Madawu has no authority to suspend leaders because at the Saturday NWC meeting, a vote of no confidence was passed on the (Dr) Madziyire team which has overstayed in power and don’t want to step down.”
The suspension of Rev Chiyangwa’s faction came days after his group had claimed leadership of the church.
AFM’s national works council met at Rufaro where Dr Madziyire and his lieutenants were sacked from the church. Rev Nhira (the acting secretary) wrote on September 23, 2018, announcing that Rev Chiyangwa was the interim national chairman, pending elections. Rev Chinyemba was appointed the deputy chairman while Elder Sebata was named the acting national administrator.
Rev Nhira said the Rufaro national works council meeting also resolved that, “all communications made from any other source shall be ignored with immediate effect.
“That all election dates prior announced through the notice of September 21 should be ignored. As per our agreement, no AFM in Zimbabwe Assembly boards shall participate in those elections.
“That the national interim committee shall develop and circulate the election guidelines to all provinces in line with the current AFM in Zimbabwe Constitution (not the DRAFT).”
The AFM fights have mainly centred on Dr Madziyire’s firm hold to office for 15 years while the Rev Chiyangwa group has been pushing for fresh elections to choose new leadership.
The two camps are also disagreeing on the election dates and the adoption of a new church constitution.
The draft constitution seeks to ban pastors from being involved in administrative and governance issues and also reduce the number of times an assembly can hold ‘‘appreciation days’’ for a resident pastor.
‘‘Appreciation’’ is money or gifts raised in a church for the pastor.
It is alleged that some pastors were hosting several such days per year, instead of once annually.
The draft constitution has been viewed as a move to clip the wings of pastors opposed to Dr Madziyire.
In a notice dated September 25, 2018, Rev Madawu said the new constitution remains suspended until December 15, 2018, to accommodate views from church members.
“For the avoidance of doubt, no changes to the new constitution shall be made outside the workers council and without being subjected to scrutiny and vote of the workers council.
“Following the workers council meeting, the new constitution shall be implemented with or without amendment,” he said. -state media
A retired Bulawayo based journo has told of King Lobengula’s dramatic escape from Cecil John Rhodes’ army in 1897.
The below story is presented with precise details, times, and exact names of person’s who were with the King at the time of his heroic escape from the invaders. ZimEye was at the time of writing, working to corroborate the deeply riveting and mind gripping account. Below is the account –
By Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu| INFORMATION diffused widely in this country after the extermination of the Allan Wilson Patrol by the heroic rear guard of King Lobengula under the command of Mtshana Khumalo was that the last Ndebele monarch had died of small pox and was buried at Pupu.
This was, in fact, falsely purposely spread by King Lobengula’s public relations personnel in order to stop the British South Africa Company (BSAC) armed forces from pursuing that monarch to where he actually went, that is, to Mpezeni Jele’s country in what is now Zambia’s Eastern Province.
The two people buried at Pupu are King Lobengula’s last senior counsellor (Prime Minister to use modern political parlance) Magwegwe Fuyana, and his aide-de-camp, a Mhlanga.
Oral legend has it that as the Ndebele royal group was moving northwards, mounted BSAC armed forces under Colonel Forbes were getting closer daily.
King Lobengula and senior members of his entourage decided that Magwegwe Fuyana must be sacrificed in order for the king to escape.
King Lobengula is said to have told Magwegwe: “Magwegwe, wena nami savumelana ukuthi nxa singahlaselwa yizitha, sizakulwa sifulathelene, wena ubheke le, mina ngale. Usuzakufa, Magwegwe, ukuze abafo bengangibambi.”
The literal translation of that statement into the English language is: “Magwegwe, you and I agreed that should we be attacked by some foes, we will stand and fight back-to-back, you facing in one direction and I the other.
You’re now going to die, Magwegwe, so that our enemies cannot capture me.”
The king’s bodyguards seized and killed Magwegwe.
But when they tried to get hold of Mhlanga, he violently defended himself for quite a while during which he used vulgar words as he threw whatever weapon and missile he could lay his hands on.
He was, however, eventually subdued, killed and interred in the same rocky crevice with his chief, Magwegwe Fuyana, on a sultry November afternoon as black clouds rose menacingly from both the south and the east to portend an imminent violent storm.
The king and his group crossed the Shangani River and trundled on towards the land of the BaTonga, into Chief Pashu’s territory to be exact.
His rearguard also crossed that waterway before the storm broke, so did a party of BSAC mercenaries under Major Allan Wilson that was in hot pursuit of the king.
The king’s party was less than a day’s walk from the rearguard, and Mtshana realised that at the rate the king’s group was moving, on foot by and large, and that of the BSAC patrol, on horseback, the king’s party would be overtaken sooner rather than later.
The commander of that historic, heroic Ndebele military contingent decided to stop and lay an ambush.
Allan Wilson, who had, according to a BSAC subsequent commission, gone further than his senior officer Forbes had instructed him, pressed on with his pursuit of a monarch who had literally yearned to be a friend of the British people.
He wanted to take the king’s head back to Forbes and Rhodes. British colonialists had done so in the Cape Colony and elsewhere, and wanted to do the same with King Lobengula.
The mercenaries were moving at a leisurely pace when the Ndebele patriots suddenly attacked from all sides except the rear, where within earshot, the then flooded Shangani River was roaring furiously as a result of the storm cloud that had come down mercilessly in that river’s upper and middle reaches.
The Ndebele commander, Mtshana Khumalo, had ordered his warriors to take no prisoners, but to kill whoever of the mercenaries within their striking reach.
He would later narrate how the patrol members tried to ward off spear shafts with their bare hands as they pleaded: “Hayikhona wena bulala zonke!”
The Ndebele warriors showed no mercy for very, very obvious reasons: That war was deliberately provoked by the BSAC, the whites had used devastating weapons at all recent battles and killed hundreds of thousands of black people and there, they were impudently, disdainfully and arrogantly trying to capture an obviously innocent victim of naked and criminal aggression.
The Ndebele monarch, meanwhile, arrived in the land of the BaTonga where he remained under very strict security conditions while arrangements were being made for him to cross the mighty Zambezi River and go to his cousin, Mpezeni Jele, in the eastern region of what is now Zambia.
Tonga oral legend says Chief Pashu actually got some of his men to make a cavity big enough in a baobab tree nearby to enable a person to sit in it with relative comfort.
The stem’s colour was rather dark, almost the same as that of a black person who could merge with that of the tree and not be easily distinguishable, a form of natural camouflage.
The BaTonga also carved many canoes with which King Lobengula and his group were ferried across that river.
But most unfortunately, oral legend has it that all the Tonga people who were involved in helping the last Ndebele king to leave their area were killed, after he had crossed to the northern side of the river, on his orders lest they should reveal his whereabouts.
When he arrived at Mpezeni’s palace, he is said to have told that Angoni king: “Zimbi indaba ekhaya!”
That means: “Affairs are bad at home!”
Because of that statement, Jele called him ‘Ndabambi’ (bad news or bad affairs).
King Lobengula was accompanied by a relatively large number of highly seasoned warriors, some of whom had seen action at one or another of the already mentioned battles.
He wanted and tried, but failed to build a big enough army with which to return to free his kingdom from the BSAC.
He died in about 1920 and a Bulawayo-based group of Ndebele royalists sent a seven-member delegation to Mpezeni to pay their last respects to their monarch.
It is of much Nguni traditional politico-cultural interest that King Lobengula was accompanied by a non-Nguni queen when he left his kingdom.
That queen was a Madumani (MaMlalazi), a totem found more in the BaKalanga than in the Nguni cultural cluster.
After he had selected her much earlier from a group of girls who paraded before him as was the socio-cultural norm, his senior counsellors advised him: “Khafula mntwana wenkosi, ulihole.” (Spit out, prince, she is of the serf social class).
The king did not act as advised, but ordered all his chiefs to tell their people to come to a meeting below the Tshabalala hillock on a date that has never been officially remembered.
He said people of Nguni and Suthu extraction should be told to sit separately from the indigenous (abetshabi).
The word ‘tjaba’ is tjiKalanga and means ‘people of foreign tribes or nations’, and is derived from ‘sechaba’, a seSotho word meaning exactly the same nation.
However, when used as an adjective such as in the sentence ‘Banhu bezwitjaba’, it means ‘people of foreign tribes or nations’. The Ndebeles adopted the word from the Kalangas.
So, to go back to our story, when King Lobengula arrived at the venue, he commented: “Where are the people whose ancestors came from the south?”
The chiefs showed him where the Ngunis and Sothos were seated, and he remarked: “Just this little group!”
He went on: “I would like you all to realise that when we talk about our nation, we’re referring mostly to the people we found here because they are many more than we are.
So, one of their daughters is now one of this nation’s queens.”
King Lobengula was by that incident nation-building, socially and culturally unifying his multi-ethnic people.
However, in January 1980, an elderly Ndebele man who was accompanied by a boy of about eight or nine years arrived at Zimbabwe House, PF-ZAPU headquarters in Lusaka.
His totem was Msimanga.
He found Andrew Mafu and the author of this account, and said he had been sent by ‘amaNdebele ukuzatshela uNkomo ukuthi ayebona lapho okulele inkosi yamaNdebele, uLobengula. Engakayi ekhaya’. (He had been sent by the Ndebeles to Nkomo to tell him that he should go and see the grave of the last king of the Ndebeles before he returned home).
Attempts to reach Nkomo by telephone took the whole day, but eventually, we contacted him and he was at Shabani (Zvishavane).
He was campaigning, and said he found it both ill-advised and well-nigh impossible to return to Zambia at that very critical time.
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu is a retired, Bulawayo-based journalist. He can be contacted on cell 0734 328 136 or through email. [email protected]
Top social and political commentator, Wellence Mujuru has announced he is quitting the Rwisa Cancer Foundation he has for a while been spokesperson for.
Mujuru made the announcement following what appeared like clash with his boss. (THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY) Below was his statement posted on his port:
Since 2 Feb 2018 l have been working as the Information & Publicity Officer for Rwisa Cancer Foundation. Personally l strongly feel that l managed to build the brand “Rwisa Cancer Foundation” and advocating for various issues which are cancer related at all levels as well as increasing awareness.
This message serves to inform you all that l have to take a decision which is not easy at all – l am stepping down as Rwisa Cancer Foundation Information and Publicity Officer with immediate effect. It was a great pleasure working with the dream team on bringing more awareness on issues related to cancer in Zimbabwe and abroad.
Someone who is valuable and experienced in this field with take over and the person will formally be introduced to you all through the organizational communication platforms. Thank you very much for your unwavering support during my time and may you continue doing so. I will be looking into other opportunities and new projects that will benefit our Country
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Staff Reporter|Local football giants Dynamos hold very high chances of finding themselves relegated from the country’s elite soccer league.
The now glamourless Glamour Boys lost a crucial encounter against FC Platinum on Saturday by two goals to nil in Zvishavane pushing the former champions to just one point above the relegation zone.
By Own Correspondent| Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has assured the electorate that all shall be well demanding his election victory which he alleged was stolen by Zanu Pf’ s Presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Addressing hundreds of party supporters who joined him for the Glen View and Budiriro clean up campaign aimed at fighting cholera, Chamisa told President Mnangagwa that he wanted his election victory.
Said the MDC leader at the clean up campaign which ended up looking like a rally:
“Ndakavaudza vaMnangagwa kuti mukandipa chinhu ichi masikati chaiwo mari inoswera yava mapata-pata meaning I told Mnangagwa that if you give me my victory, money shortages will be a thing of the past since it will be over flowing everywhere.
Makatora chinhu chedu. Toda chinhu hedu. Toda chinhu chedu meaning you took away our victory. We want our victory back. We want our victory back.”
By Own Correspondent| Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry, is leading a delegation of athletes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the third edition of Youth Olympic Games where she will be the chef de mission of Team Zimbabwe.
Coventry, who will be joined by the rest of the team on Monday, told guests at a send-off ceremony yesterday that they are looking forward to doing well at the Games.
Fifteen athletes and eight officials will represent Zimbabwe at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina from October 6 to 18.
Said Coventry:
“We have a team of five sport codes which are preparing to participate in the third edition of the YOG which are scheduled for October 6 to 18 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
These games are significant in preparing athletes as they provide a competitive opportunity before the main Olympics and therefore should form part of the Long Term Athlete Development Plan and preparation for National Federations.
This in turn provides the appropriate pathway for young athletes to reach senior elite level through a structured LTHPP”.- StateMedia
By Own Correspondent| MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa temporarily turned the party’s Budiriro clean up campaign into a “broom dance challenge” when he stopped his address twice to show his dancing skills while holding a broom to Killer T’s tune “Kufamba KwaPaurosi”.
The youthful leader temporarily stopped midway his address twice asking the Public Address system team to play “Kufamba kwaPaurosi” breaking into the “broom dance challenge”.
Chamisa who was in the company of several party leaders attributed the cholera outbreak to the country’s leadership crisis calling on his elected councillors to “provide SMART leadership options to the electorate.”
Watch Chamisa’s “broom dance challenge” below for this and more:
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By Own Correspondent| MDC Director of elections, Henry Chimbiri was on Friday afternoon assaulted by members of the Harare municipal police and Zimbabwe Republic Police riot squad while fueling his vehicle at a service station in Harare.
He reportedly sustained serious back injuries with a doctor who attended to him requesting for a 2nd orthographic angle x-ray.
Chimbiri, who reportedly made a police report under CRB092255 alleged that he was assaulted, arrested and bundled up into a police truck while he was in a fuel queue at Total Service station at corner Second and Kwame Nkurumah streets.
He revealed that the officers who were targeting vendors went about beating up everyone including innocent civilians who were visibly not vendors and were going about their business.
Said Chimbiri:
“The riot and municipal police officers assaulted me and several others including the petrol attendant before bundling me up into one of their several trucks where they continued assaulting me with barton sticks and what looked like broom sticks.
When we reached corner second street and Nelson Mandela avenue they pushed me out of their truck and i landed on my back hurting my backbone.
I am in pain and about to go for a second scan as prescribed by the doctor,” said Chimbiri in a telephone interview.
He is receiving treatment at Parirenyatwa hospital.
Chimbiri told ZimEye that he managed to identify some of the officers who assaulted him and threw him out of the police truck.
Efforts to get a comment from the Zimbabwe Republic Police were futile by the time of writing.
Staff Correspondent|A high school principal allegedly told her female students that the length of their skirt and shorts made male teachers ‘uncomfortable’.
Furious students from Francis Greenway High in northern New South Wales, were told to change into longer shorts because their current shorts or skirts could put males in an ‘awkward situation’, the Newcastle Herald reported.
Female students from years eight to 11 were called into a meeting with the school’s principal, Jo Edwards, who allegedly said their length of skirt could attract unwanted attention.
After the meeting, 20 students were sent home from school, while other students spent the day feeling victimised after the conversation.
The parents of the public school are now calling for a change in leadership after female students felt ‘ashamed’, ‘targeted’ and ‘worthless’.
Mrs Edwards allegedly told female students the length of their shorts and skirt could lead to the girls being categorised as provocative and may put them at risk of being sexually assaulted.
Parents have now bound together to broach the topic with claims the principal was ‘victim blaming’ and should be kicked from the job.
Kerri Field was shocked when her daughter Alexis came home from the school assembly.
‘The principal proceeded to have a talk about the uniform which then turned to how the male teachers feel uncomfortable with girls in such short shorts and the boys are distracted,’ Mrs Field told Daily Mail Australia.
‘Alexis wore trackie pants to avoid anyone wanting to measure her. I’m happy with the sports shorts she normally wears, they are not too short and have the modesty lining inside them so nothing is ever visible,’ Mrs Field said.
‘I feel disgusted, because we are trying to empower those girls,’ Mrs Field added.
Another concerned mother said the tone of the assembly was ‘not appropriate for impressionable young teenagers’.
‘We don’t have a problem with the school wanting to enforce the uniform policy. But the whole way they’ve gone about it was wrong – making these children feel like every male is looking at them like they want to do something to them.
‘It sexualises them,’ she told the Newcastle Herald.
Since the meeting, students have said they want the principal to apologise for the comments.
Sufiya Walks, who is a student at the school said the comments were derogative.
‘We feel anger, frustration – girls are worried what our male teachers and students are thinking. We should be feeling safe in school, not threatened. We’ve been treated like objects, not people,’ Miss Walks said.
In a statement to the Daily Mail Australia, Francis Greenway High said, ‘The principal has reiterated the importance of students wearing the correct uniform to school according to the policy endorsed by the school community.
‘It was not her intention to reflect on the character of students addressed earlier, and she has apologised if her choice of words caused offence. The Principal did not refer to rape in connection with the issue.
‘The school takes great pride in its uniform and recognises that the school community sees it as important to the school.’
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HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba has challenged government to avail funds towards decongesting Harare roads, saying the situation was unattainable, with traffic accidents now rampant.
Speaking after touring road rehabilitation programmes in the city, Gomba said government should help the local authority deal with potholes and decongest traffic through the construction of traffic circles and flyovers.
“We have projects that ought to be financed by government. We are appealing to the Ministry of Transport to assist,” he said.
“I am talking about the project to decongest the Mbudzi roundabout, government should play ball and ensure that we have a flyover so that traffic, be it commercial or private that would be in transit, does not mix with the local vehicles. We are losing business because of this congestion.”
The mayor visited road constructions works in Budiriro, Gaydon and at Mbudzi roundabout, and was accompanied by senior council officials and various contractors.
Since end of last year, council has embarked on road rehabilitation programmes with a target budget of $13 million mainly within the central business district.
Now the programme has been moved to residential areas, where roads have become impassable due to potholes.
“This project is part of our 100-day plan. These projects we are funding them from our own resources and we have opened talks with Zinara [Zimbabwe National Roads Administration], banks and other capital developers so that we could give our city life. Harare should be Harare again and we are committed to that,” Gomba said.
“We are saying government should also come to the party and help us. This is our city.”
Council wants to spend at least $5 million and hopes that Zinara would bring in more funds to ensure that roads in residential areas are usable, while street lighting and other amenities are in place.
“We are not going to be cry-babies, but we shall start to do something while we lobby for more funds from government because it is the people who should enjoy the money they pay to Zinara,” Gomba said.
At least 800 000 vehicles drive through Harare City Council’s 4 000km road network daily, with 80% of the road network said to be in a bad state.
Council has been lamenting that of the 800 000 licensed motor vehicles that move around Harare, the city could raise $10 million per quarter or $40 million per year, if it was allowed to collect vehicle licence fees directly.
Harare is among several cities and towns lobbying central government to allow them to collect vehicle licence fees.
By Own Correspondent| One of the six people who were shot by soldiers on August 1 following the violence over Presidential results in Harare, Sylvia Matambo Maposa’ s memorial service has been held.
Maposa’s memorial service was held at her Waterfalls home in Harare.
Speaker after speaker spoke of how the late Maposa was a very religious, peaceful and humble person who loved to pray and fellowship.
However, no one out of the more than 10 speakers talked about the circumstances behind the death of their late relative.
Matambo was brutally shot by soldiers who opened fire indiscriminately on civilians following a fake protest in the capital. She was shot on her way from work.
Her son spoke of how the death of his mother affects him daily.
“I pass through Zororo cemetery where my mother is buried everyday and hardly a day passes by without thinking about her. I am comforted by the word of God and i pray for strength to go on.”
However, Maposa’s husband Robert refused to speak to the media revealing that his family and his late wife’s families could not give a comment on any issue relating to Maposa’s death.
“No. I cannot speak to you. And no. He (uncle) can’t. No one can,” he said dismissing journalists before walking away.
He is however on record revealing that his wife did not deserve to die the way she did.
Correspondent|Facebook says it has discovered a security breach affecting about 50 million user accounts which could have allowed hackers to access those accounts.
The social media giant said Friday it has taken steps to fix the security problem and alerted law enforcement.
The company said hackers exploited the “View As” feature, which lets users see how their own profiles would look to other people. It said hackers were then able to use the security flaw to steal log-in keys, called access tokens, that would allow them to access people’s accounts.
“It’s clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code,” vice president of product management Guy Rosen said in a blog post.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company does not know if any accounts were actually misused. He said Facebook discovered the breach on Tuesday, and patched it on Thursday night.
Facebook said it took an additional “precautionary step” of resetting the logins of 90 million users. This will require those users to log back in to Facebook the next time they try to access their account.
The breach is the latest privacy embarrassment for Facebook, which earlier this year acknowledged that a political consultancy firm, Cambridge Analytica, gained access to the personal data from millions of user profiles. Facebook has also come under criticism for fake political ads posted on its site from Russia and other countries.
Zuckerberg appeared at a Congressional hearing over the company’s privacy policies in April.
An explosion which rocked Gweru Rural Police Station last week, sending tremors across the central business district, was caused by a suspected war time anti-tank mine planted inside the station.
According to a memorandum from the police, the explosion, which occurred at the police station at the corner of Leopold Takawira Road and Eighth Street uprooted a huge tree and left several vehicles’ windscreens shattered.
It also affected surrounding buildings.
It is suspected that the anti-tank mine could either have been buried or planted during the liberation struggle.
“This memorandum serves to put on record circumstances surrounding the explosion,” reads part of the memorandum. “Circumstances are that on September 27 at around 1000hrs, Master Ndirwo (46), a general hand at ZRP Gweru Rural Police station was burning litter which was in a rubbish pit near the perimeter fence of the police station.
“The pit is about 25 metres from the charge office. At around 1445hrs, Ndirwo went to put out the fire that had spread out of the pit towards the fence. When he was about four meters towards the pit, an explosion occurred in the direction of the pit.
“He managed to flee from the scene unhurt.”
Zimbabwe National Army engineers attended the scene and suspected that the explosion was a result of an anti-tank mine because of the magnitude of the explosion’s impact which uprooted a big jacaranda tree stump and shook nearby buildings.
“There were no fragments of the anti-tank at the blast scene,” reads part of the memorandum. “The explosion could have been a result of the heat generated by fire and sun. They also stated that the anti-tank mine has no life span, that is, it remains armed as long as it has not exploded.
“Seven cars, which were parked along 8th Street closer to the scene had their windscreens and door glasses shattered by fragments from the uprooted tree stump. Ceiling paint of the charge office peeled off as a result of the tremor. Five roofing tiles at Lutheran Church situated about 120 meters from the scene were hit by fragments from the blast and fell inside the church.
“Heritage Housing Project building situated along 8th Street, about 30 metres from the scene had some of its windows shattered,”
Acting Midlands police provincial spokesperson Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende said she was still to receive details of the explosion.
Correspondent|$2 million Bugatti Veyron Fbg par Hermès edition landed at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare on Friday – the second inside two months.
The supercar, whose owner is as unknown yet, arrived shortly after 3.30PM aboard a KLM cargo flight from the Netherlands.
Bugatti says on its website that this particular Bugatti, first released in 2008, is “highly exclusive”. Just 40 were manufactured.
In August, a Bugatti Veyron by Mansory Vivere Diamond Edition was delivered to Harare – then said to be the only one in Southern Africa.
The $3,5 million car, owned by Zunaid Moti, the controversial chrome miner and associate of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, was registered in Zimbabwe before being flown to South Africa.
The delivery drew condemnation from Zimbabweans who accused the businessman, currently in jail in Germany awaiting extradition to Russia on fraud charges, of flaunting obscene wealth in a sea of poverty.
Zimbabweans will be urgently seeking the identity of the owner of the latest Bugatti to land in Harare, a city currently in the grips of a cholera outbreak and a developing economic crisis marked by rising prices and foreign currency shortages.
By Own Correspondent| Mutasa Central constituency legislator, Trevor Saruwaka has issued an alert alleging that an MDC youth who is a businessman in Nyanga was picked up by CID Nyanga and tortured.
Saruwaka, who is also the MDC Manicaland province spokesperson claimed that Tawanda Terera was picked up by CID Nyanga where his relatives were at first denied entry and later saw him with visible marks of torture.
Said Saruwaka:
*Police Brutality Alert!!!*
*Tawanda Terera*, a young businessman n MDC youth was picked by CID Nyanga yesterday around midnight from his shop at Terera Business Centre in Mutasa Central Constituency.
Two vehicles from CID Nyanga raided the shop, forcibly arrested him tying both his hands and feet before bundling him into a car and sped away in a movie style.
Witnesses allege that the police fired 6 shots in the air before they left.
Tawanda’s father together with others then went to make a police report of the incident at ZRP Mutasa where it was confirmed that it was indeed CID Nyanga which was responsible for the operation.
Today in the morning Tawanda’s relatives visited him in Nyanga and after hours being denied access to him they were eventually shown their battered and tortured brother. He revealed that he was tortured by the investigating officers.
This is not on. Police brutality must stop. What kind of investigating is this?
Arrested persons have constitutional rights that need to be respected!!
Adien Mhere holding the Chartered Secretary of the Year trophyBy A Correspondent| Hippo Valley Estates acting chief executive officer, Aiden Mhere, has been declared the 2017 Chartered Secretary of the Year. The runner-up is Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) corporate services director, Avilla Dororosa Goba.
Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe (ICSAZ) secretary and chief executive Farai Musamba made the announcement at the institute’s annual conference banquet held at the Elephant Hills Resort in Victoria Falls on Friday (September 28) evening.
Mr Mhere was a few weeks ago appointed acting chief executive officer of Hippo Valley Estates, which has the overall responsibility for Tongaat Hullet businesses in Zimbabwe.
According to the citation read by Dr Musamba before he was presented with the Chartered Secretary of the Year Trophy, Mr Mhere last year championed and succeeded in putting together the commercial framework that led to the formation of the Fuel Ethanol Company of Zimbabwe (FECZ),which is Zimbabwe’s second largest fuel ethanol producer.
FECZ was incorporated in June 2017. It officially started trading in fuel ethanol in August of the same year. The company is a private-public partnership in which government, through the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe, holds 50 percent of the equity.
The company is highly productive and empowers local sugarcane farmers whose molasses are purchased for feedstock in ethanol production. FECZ’s contribution to Zimbabwe’s foreign currency reserves by way of import substitution is significant.
Dr Musamba added that Mr Mhere has a passion for community development and personally contributes to society through education, sports and economic empowerment initiatives.
He said Mr Mhere is an educationist at heart, having graduated from Gweru Teacher’s College. He contributed immensely to the success of Trust Academy as its principal.
He was also instrumental in the registration of Trust Academy as a college and ran the institution for three years on behalf of the Zimbabwe Project Trust.
Dr Musamba went on to say Mr Mhere is in the process of setting up formal structures to establish an education foundation which he hopes will be in place by the end of 2019.
Mr Mhere is an associate member of ICSAZ. He holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Zimbabwe. He also holds an Advanced Management Programme qualification from the University of Pretoria and University of London.
He has more than 30 years’ experience in a wide range of business activities, which include lecturing, accountancy, general management and administration.
At Hippo Valley Estates, Mr Mhere has the overall responsibility for running key business operations, which include sugar production, an ethanol plant and animal feeds factory in Triangle as well as the estate’s marketing and procurement division, enterprise development division and livestock production unit.
Mrs Goba, the runner-up for the 2017 Chartered Secretary of the Year Award, is a fellow member and past president of ICSAZ.
She holds a Master of Business Administration degree. She is currently finalising her Doctorate in Business Administration with the University of Lusaka.
Mrs Goba has over 35 years of extensive professional experience at different levels of supervisory management with specific areas of expertise in administration and human resources management.
In 2016 she chaired a number of regional meetings within the Communications Regulators Association of Southern Africa (CRASA).
This helped deal with corporate governance issues at a regional level in member countries, including Zimbabwe, thus promoting good leadership and the compliance expected in company secretarial practice.
Mrs Goba’s human resources skills contributed to the recruitment and retention of people with critical skills at Potraz.
In administration, Mrs Goba was part of the Potraz team that worked on the construction of the authority’s headquarters, which Potraz moved into in September last year thus eliminating rent costs.
As part of her personal corporate social responsibility, Mrs Goba is a life member of the Jairos Jiri Association and vice-chairperson of the association’s Harare branch.
A record 384 people have been killed in an earthquake in Indonesia.
The catastrophe was one of both a tsunami and an earthquake.
Local reports say the 384 figure is of the city of Palu alone. Hundreds more were reported injured and thousands of homes either damaged or destroyed.
The national disaster agency reported that 540 people were badly injured.
Waves of up to two metres (6.6ft) high swept through the city on Sulawesi island after the magnitude 7.5 quake brought down several buildings and sent people fleeing from their homes.
Many of those killed were at a beach festival in Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi province, which was strewn with debris from collapsed buildings and pooled seawater. – THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY –
– Agencies
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By A Correspondent| The government has blocked all inquiries about the health minister Obadiah Moyo who has for more than a quarter of a century been claiming that he is a medical doctor, when he is not.
While a Health Minister does not necessarily have to be a doctor, Obadiah Moyo has for 26 years to date been making false claims that he is a medical doctor and that he has the educational and professional training for it.
A recent ZimEye investigation has revealed he is not at all a medical doctor contrary to his long held claims. Obadiah Moyo’s claim to medical fame only goes as far as being the late First Lady Sally Mugabe’s dialysis technician and he presided over her death bed for the whole duration of her hospitalization, as the US embassy exposed him in 2008.
Furthermore, a peep into the database of medical practitioners reveals Mr Moyo is not at all registered with them, and as ZimEye reveals, he has never at any time been registered with them. The pile of fake academic papers is even higher as ZimEye reveals his medical masters degree is nothing but fake. Further investigations by ZimEye reveal that the man was at one time just a disc jockey, as even the state media reported this week.
Speaking in parliament Wednesday, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi shot down demands by MDC MPs and below were the LIVE scenes. Ziyambi said Obadiah Moyo was appointed by Emmerson Mnangagwa and the constitution says the decision for job suitability rests with Mnangagwa not with parliament.
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RAUNCHY dancer Beverly “Bev” Sibanda, who had temporarily moved to neighbouring South Africa, is set for a return with a show at the newly-launched Zanzibar nightclub in Bulawayo tomorrow.
Bev and the Sexy Angels will be the first performers at the new club which officially opened its doors last month. Zanzibar is located at the basement of Cecil Hotel, which was formerly Private Lounge.
Organiser of the show and Zanzibar manager, Florence Jubane, who is popularly known as Queen, promised an epic show.
“This will be the first big show we are hosting at Zanzibar since our inception last month and we expect it to be filled with all kinds of fireworks, fun, energy and craziness.
Our guest performer Bev needs no introduction. She is energetic and fans know that it will be hard for them to keep up with her energy. We expect a good show as we launch the night club to Bulawayo,” she said.
Local performing groups Shosholoza Queens and Dancehall Queens are expected to give Bev a run for her money.
“We also have local groups that will be part of the supporting acts. They are confident and ready to show that they also have the mettle to compete at the highest level. When I talked to them they said they wanted to show the Sexy Angels boss (Bev) a thing or two,” Jubane said.
Beverly was reported to have moved across the Limpopo in May where she took up new management after dumping her long-time manager, Harpers Mapamhidze, whom she had worked with for nine years.
By Own Correspondent| A University of Zimbabwe student who was studying Part 2:1 Geography and Environmental Science has died.
The young woman Tatenda Besa reportedly succumbed to pregnancy complications.
In his condolence message, University of Zimbabwe ZINASU Chapter President Nathan Dumba, said Besa’s death was untimely and it had robbed the nation of a promising young woman.
In a statement Dumba said:
“Deepest condolences to the Besa family for the untimely death of Tatenda. As ZINASU UZ chapter, we sincerely pass our deepest condolences to the untimely death of one of our own.”
Her friends took to the social media expressing their condolences describing the late Besa as a beautiful soul full of love and faith.
By Showbiz Reporter| “Lovemore Majaivana; why is he an unsung Zim musical hero?,” asks columnist Ndaba Nhuku.
He continues saying, “ZBC seems to have shut him out yet he remains to most people, across all tribes, one of the nation’s favourite musicians.
Lovemore “Majaivana” Tshuma, is Zimbabwean singer and arguably the most popular singer, and by far the most prominent to have come out of Bulawayo. He earned the stage name ‘Majaivana’ for his exceptional dancing.
“Anyone knows why this golden voice of our era is ignored?,” concludes Nhuku as he repeats his question.
In 2015, the state media reported that Majaivana’s mother, MaNyathi has declared that her son is not going to make a comeback.
“He no longer wants to sing. He has told us that he is no longer interested in singing and quit singing by the time he left the country. People should not expect anything from him,” she said emphatically.
There you have it people. It is done. It is finished. All hopes dashed. Treasure the Majee albums you have. Reminisce about his electrifying stage performances you had the privilege of witnessing because you will never experience new ones.
But why would such a talented musician, who had the world at his feet, just throw away the mic and move on?
“Just like his song Wakewashayina (he once excelled) say. Amankazana eng’thanda, oBessie beng’thanda, lath’ es’thanda. He achieved a lot of things,” MaNyathi revealed.
Since his departure in 2000, Majaivana has never set foot in Zimbabwe. It is only his wife, Jane ‘‘Bessie’’ Dube, who “surprised” the family when she paid them a visit in February this year, the report said back then.
A suspected anti-tank mine exploded at Gweru Rural Police Station on Thursday, shattering windows of buildings and wind shields of several vehicles parked nearby.
According to a leaked police internal memo gleaned by Southern Eye, at around 10am, Master Ndirwo (46), a general hand at ZRP Gweru Rural Police Station, was burning litter in a rubbish pit near the perimeter fence of the station.
At around 2:45pm, Ndirwo went to put out the fire that had spread out off the pit towards the fence.
“When he was about four metres towards the pit, an explosion occurred in the direction of the pit. He managed to flee from the scene unhurt,” the memo read.
“The scene was attended to by both DUB [duty uniform branch] and Police Criminal Investigations Department details. The Zimbabwe national engineers for Midlands province were summoned. The army engineers suspected that the explosion was a result of an anti-tank mine owing to the following observations: a big jacaranda tree stump was uprooted, the magnitude of the explosion which shook nearby buildings, the fact that there were no fragments of the anti-tank at the blast scene and the explosion could have been a result of the heat generated by fire and sun.”
The memo said an anti-tank mine remains lethal as long as it has not exploded.
“Seven cars which were parked along 8th Street closer to the scene had their windscreens and door glasses shattered by fragments from the uprooted tree stump,” the memo said.
“During the time of scene attendance, the following vehicles were still present: A Toyota Corolla — rear windscreen was shattered and a Ford Bantum — front windscreen was shattered and a Nissan Elgrand had a shattered front windscreen.”
The memo said some nearby buildings were affected by the tremor caused by the explosion, including the charge office.
“Five roofing tiles of Lutheran Church situated about 120 metres from the scene were hit by fragments from the blast and fell inside the church. Heritage Housing Project building situated along 8th Street about 30 metres from the scene had some of its windows shattered and the value of the damage is yet to be established. No one was injured following the blast,” the police said.
“It is suspected that the anti-tank mine could either have been buried or planted during the liberation struggle. The explosion could have been ignited by the heat emanating from the rubbish pit, which is about four metres from the point of blast.”
Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Ethel Mukwende referred questions to her superiors in Harare.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday confirmed the blast, but said they were still carrying out investigations.
“What I can confirm is that a general hand was burning litter at a rubbish pit and in the process, there was an explosion, which the police are still conducting investigations with a view to establishing what transpired. Once we get to the bottom of the matter, we will apprise members of the public,” he said. –
PRICES of basic commodities, among other crucial daily requirements like fuel, have continued to skyrocket, with the Grain Millers’ Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) warning that the cost of bread is likely to go up again from the current $1,10 if government does not urgently respond positively to their wheat import subsidy request.
Following President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s re-election on July 30, which the opposition MDC Alliance is challenging, prices of basic commodities have continued to skyrocket amid indications that the hikes are in response to the instability on the parallel foreign currency market.
While government insists that the bond note, which was introduced as a stop-gap measure following the disappearance of United States dollars on the formal market, has the same value with the greenback, on the streets, it is pegged at between $180 and $190 against US$100 on the informal market.
GMAZ this week warned of another bread price hike owing to the low wheat supply, with chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara on Thursday saying this could only be averted if government accedes to their request for a subsidy.
“We have requested for a subsidy of $50 per tonne from government and for the bakers to get $7 million per month for them to buy other ingredients other than flour so that the bread price comes down to $1. We are still waiting for a response. We submitted our request just before the new Cabinet was appointed,” Musarara said.
The price of bread recently went up to $1,10 due to the low supply of wheat, a situation further compounded by high operational costs and foreign currency shortages to purchase other raw materials.
Bakers argue the cost of production of bread keeps going up, leaving them with no choice, but to increase its price.
Reports say the price of wheat has in the past 90 days increased by about 10% from $375 per metric tonne to $415.
Wheat and fuel are products that are on the priority list of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in terms of allocation of foreign currency.
Musarara said the $1,10 bread price was untenable and would result in the product disappearing from shop shelves unless the price is further increased or government intervenes.
“And while we are waiting for that intervention to happen, we are now facing two tough choices: one, if we maintain the prices, bread will not be available, and two, if we increase the prices, the product will be available and we felt that increasing prices is a better devil (because) at least the product is available while other interventions happen,” Musarara said.
Nearly the prices of all basic commodities such as mealie-meal, meat, soap, toiletries, rice, sugar and vegetables are spiralling out of control due to a currency crisis fuelled by foreign currency shortages.
Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo is failing to cope with the high number of maternity patients resulting in some of the expecting and new mothers sleeping on the floor, a situation described as deplorable by Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo.
Hospital authorities say this is a result of the scrapping of maternity fees by Government at public hospitals which has seen all patients flocking to Mpilo without referral from council clinics which continue to charge maternity fees.
Patients on the other hand, say the situation may escalate maternal mortality in the country.
An average of seven women die while giving birth in Zimbabwe weekly.
The country’s maternal mortality rate stands at 614 deaths per every 100 000 live births and remains one of the highest in the region.
The World Health Organisation defines maternal mortality as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.
Speaking at the Mpilo Hospital 60th anniversary celebrations yesterday, the hospital’s chief executive officer, Mr Leornard Mabandi, said the institution was overwhelmed with the high number of expectant mothers turning up.
“The hospital is complying with the policy of removal of user fees for pregnant women who present themselves to our institution. The numbers are overwhelming and we are failing to cope. Now there are over 1 000 pregnant women on the waiting list to book for Ante Natal Care (ANC) services,” said Mr Mabandi.
He said deliveries had moved from an average of 25 to close to 40 per day since the scrapping of the fees. “Infection control is now a challenge to manage as we now experience floor beds. There is no longer space to waste. We are not advocating for the removal of the policy but strengthening of the referral system” said Mr Mabandi.
Dr Moyo, who attended the Mpilo celebrations, said the situation was unacceptable and had to be collectively rectified.
“I was shocked today when we visited the ward, we had patients who were sleeping on the floor, mothers who had delivered, on the floors. We have floor beds all over the place, we have congestion and that is unacceptable. We have to improve that and ensure that we look after our patients properly,” he said.
Dr Moyo said the new dispensation was working on improving the health care system in the country, hence his visit to Mpilo Central Hospital.
“The situation there is deplorable. I don’t blame the staff but it’s something which we all have to work towards improving,” he said.
Turning to developments at the hospital, Mr Mabandi said the institution requires high level diagnostic and treatment equipment and the 10 theatres that have been renovated lack equipment like anaesthetic machines and other relevant gadgets which have affected their performance.
“Our suppliers fail to deliver when we engage them and cite foreign currency as their biggest hurdle. We are hoping this area will improve in the new dispensation and our patients will smile all the way to the theatres and radiology services,” he said.
Mr Mabandi said Mpilo Central Hospital faces a critical shortage of specialists as there are no cardiologists, dermatologists, among others and patients have to be referred to Harare.
In terms of infrastructure, he said, efforts have continued to be made to renovate wards.
Mr Mabandi said the hospital’s management was grateful for the support they receive from Government, the community, corporate world, religious organisations and individuals in their endeavours to have a meaningful health delivery system.- state media
Mildred ChiriThe Auditor-General’s Office is ready to fulfil President Mnangagwa’s stern stance against corruption and is in the process of training some of its staff to carry out forensic audits.
This was said by the Auditor General Mrs Mildred Chiri during a media workshop yesterday.
President Mnangagwa has since assumption of office last year spoken out against corruption, saying anyone caught engaging in such practice would face the full wrath of the law.
He has since set up a special anti-corruption task force to assist in the speedy prosecution of people suspected to be involved in corruption.
Mrs Chiri yesterday said the President’s call dovetailed with her office’s duties.
“I think the President mantra resonates well with our function,” she said. “We also have a function of carrying out forensic audits. We do a lot of forensic audits and special investigations, my office does that, but due to the overwhelming demand of these forensic audits I have had to contract some of the forensic audits and we are also in the process of having some of our staff getting trained in forensic audit.
“We have got a few who have been trained, but we want to scale up the level of training so that we are able to respond to Government’s needs regarding corruption.”
The Auditor General’s Office has a staff complement of 354 out of a requirement of 374.
Mrs Chiri said they were concerned with failure by some ministries and parastatals to implement recommendations they make in their reports.
“That is an issue of concern, that year after year we issue the same recommendations, but they are not implemented,” she said.
“So, what we have resolved to do is that for the recommendation that we would have issued in the previous year we follow them up in the progress of implementation and report accordingly in our reports.
“If you go to our reports you will find that at the end of each audited ministry we have got a section which says progress in implementation of previous recommendations and we also submit those issues to the Public Accounts
Committee so that when they interrogate those accounting officers they ask how far have you gone (in implementing recommendations).”
Mrs Chiri said a special unit had been established in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development to follow up on the implementation of their recommendations with line ministries.
Deputy Auditor General, Mrs Nyasha Magadza, said resource constraints were affecting their operations.
“Just like any other institution, especially with the state of the economy, we have challenges with resources and also when you look at the public sector it is decentralised throughout the country and as the AG’s office we would want to reach every corner, but we are constrained by resources,” she said.
Mrs Magadza said some ministries were also taking long to produce financial statements on time because of brain drain hampering their ability to carry out audits effectively.- state media
THOUSANDS of people are expected to gather at Phelandaba Stadium in Gwanda for the fourth edition of the Gwanda International Gospel Music Festival (GIGMF) taking place next week.
Takesure Zamar, Mathias Mhere, Vocal Ex and Indosakusa are among the local artistes expected to perform.
The GIGMF organised by Big Time Strategic Group will be held from October 5 to 7 under the theme, “The Walls of Jericho Did Fall”.
Entrance is free.
South Africa Spirit of Praise duo of Pastor Neyi Zimu and Omega, as well as Thinah Zungu will take turns to minister to the people of God at the festival.
The festival is the brainchild of Big Time Strategic Group CEO Justice Maphosa who grew up in Gwanda before moving to South Africa to build his empire.
Addressing members of the media in Bulawayo yesterday, Alson Darikayi, Big Time group corporate affairs director, said this year’s festival was meant to celebrate that the walls of limitation on Zimbabwe have fallen.
“Our theme this year is quite foretelling especially as we work towards rebuilding the economy of our beautiful nation, Zimbabwe. We believe the walls of limitation that have kept the nation of Zimbabwe stagnant are tumbling as we lift our praise to the Mighty Man of War – Jehovah. Zimbabwe shall rise again,” said Darikayi.
He said the GIGMF was the place to be for gospel music lovers who prefer to “experience” live music while ‘reclining’ in the sweet presence of the living God.
“Once again, we’ll gather in Gwanda to give praise to the living God because He is absolutely deserving. We consider this as a calling and our desire has always been that Gwanda becomes an altar for the nation of Zimbabwe where people from all parts of the country converge to call on God free of charge.”
This year’s line-up, Darikayi said, features a diverse range of gospel music heavyweights from either side of the Limpopo River.
“We’re excited to have this year’s line-up of gospel artistes with a genuine hunger for God and a deep inclination to worship Him. Our desire is to see the banner of God lifted high as we passionately praise and worship Him.”
“As a way of empowering young people in Zimbabwe, we have roped in three youthful groups — Hybrid Psalmz from Gwanda and Vocal Ex co-founded by Eric Moyo of Joyous Celebration. For Iscathamiya fans, we have Indosakusa, who recently released their sizzling 13-track album.
“Such is the diversity of this year’s festival,” said Darikayi.
Since the country is on high alert in terms of cholera, when asked about measures they are putting in place to curb an outbreak, Darikayi said: “We’re fully aware that there’s a cholera outbreak in the country. We’ve been working in consultation with the relevant health authorities to monitor the situation.
“Also, we’ve put points around the stadium with sanitizers and more than adequate ablution facilities in terms of mobile toilets.”
The festival attracts nearly 40 000 people annually.
Compared to previous editions where tonnes of equipment were imported into the country for the staging of the festival locally, Darikayi said they had contracted Harare’s Event Solutions to provide sound, lighting and stage equipment.
“This is part of our drive to empower the local service providers. Our technical team was meticulous in choosing Event Solutions as they came to Zimbabwe from South Africa and canvased for the best here.
“So from six service providers who were shortlisted, they chose Event Solutions. They have the capacity to bring the best sound and experience for the size of Phelandaba Stadium,” said Darikayi.
SA gospel queen Rebecca Malope was turned away from the border twice because her papers were not in order, but this time, Darikayi said all artistes had been cleared.
“Everyone has been cleared by the relevant authorities. We learnt from our mistakes and we’ll do better this year as we’ve done our homework.”
“Someone please tell these MPs that no one calls themselves Hon,it’s not a title,it’s people who should be calling you Hon ,that is if they feel you deserve to be called such.Can you imagine Presidents introducing them as Excellency Obama or Mnangagwa.So those who have changed their profiles on Facebook to Hon you are only making fools of yourselves.”
By Martin Majaji| The unofficial three-tier forex pricing system now prevalent in the Zimbabwean market space, comprising of the USD/Bond Note pricing, the USD/RTGS deposit pricing and the Bond Note/RTGS pricing, has in real terms, made Zimbabwe fuel prices the cheapest in the region. This has led to the current massive spike in the demand for all fuel grades imported into the country. According to official figures, in the six months to June 2018, the country consumed 752.4 million litres of fuel, representing a 24% jump from the same period last year.
The country now needs about USD80 million a month to pay for fuel imports and the
demand for fuel continues to increase leading to frequent shortages and the resurfacing of
the dreaded fuel queues.
The IMF recently adjusted Zimbabwe’s projected economic growth rate to 2.4% for 2018,
yet real demand for fuel has short up by 24%. The increase in demand for fuel is a result of
the fact that Zimbabwe now has the cheapest fuel in the region if one makes use of the
three-tier forex pricing system to trade fuel in the country. A real-life example works as
follows; a trucking company plying the Johannesburg-DRC route, will ensure that drivers
carry US Dollars in cash. Upon arrival in Zimbabwe where diesel prices are officially pegged
around USD1.40, the driver sells his Dollar notes at USD1 to 2 Bond Notes. The driver then
uses the Bond Notes proceeds to pay for diesel at a Zimbabwean service at the marked price of USD1.40. In real terms the cost of fuel in Zimbabwe then is US$0.70 or 70c, since the truck driver obtained his Bond Notes at a rate of 1 to 2 for his precious USD notes. The price of fuel can even be way cheaper than 70c where RTGS is used for payment after trading USD notes at the higher discounted RTGS rate.
In comparison diesel prices per litre in South Africa are currently pegged at about USD1.15, in Zambia at USD1.41, the DRC at USD1.21, in Botswana at USD0.84 and Mozambique at USD1.07.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is allocating real USD cash to import fuel and yet the country only receives half or less of the real USD price paid to acquire the fuel. In real terms, Zimbabwe is now subsidising the price of fuel and this explains the spike in demand for fuel and the concomitant increased pressure on scarce USD monthly allocations towards fuel imports, to the detriment of other key national imports such as raw materials for
manufacturing companies, medicines and other critical payments.
The situation will continue getting worse, as South Africa records the highest increase of
more R1 in fuel pump prices in October, Zimbabwean fuel will become more attractive, with
more pressure for monthly forex allocation by the Reserve Bank and fuel stock-outs and
queues becoming more frequent.
Other Arbitrage Opportunities and Practices
1. Export of fuel and scarce local products to neighbouring countries at a discount
The same three-tier forex pricing system creates arbitrage opportunities for traders to
buy fuel using either Bond Notes or RTGS transfers and sell the fuel in US Dollars in
neighbouring countries and trade the US Dollars for Bond Notes or RTGS at double the
double the official rate, and immediately more than doubling their profits.
Traders can also export scarce locally produced products like cooking oil, cement,
beverages, etc even at a discount into neighbouring countries. If they receive payment in
US Dollars, they will trade the Dollars for Bond Notes and RTGS at more than 100%
margin hence making huge profits from arbitrage. This could explain some of the recent
spikes in real volume sales of beverage companies, cooking oil companies and cement
companies leading to supply shortages in the domestic market and an increased demand
for forex allocation to import more raw materials.
2. School fees payments and international medical treatment
A Zimbabwean who lives in Johannesburg can buy US$5 000 Dollars in a South African
bank, crosses the border into Zimbabwe, trades the Dollars for an RTGS deposit of
USD10,000. He then presents an application to the Reserve bank to pay real US$10,000
for school fees for his kids studying outside Zimbabwe. If the Reserve approves and
allocates the forex payment for school fees, in real terms, the Johannesburg based
parent has been gifted or subsidised to the tune of US$5,000 for his kid’s educational
costs.
The same could apply to international medical costs and any other costs which are
deemed critical on the forex approval list of the Reserve Bank.
The economic ramifications
The distortions in forex pricing is now causing massive inflationary pressures in the economy bringing fears of the recurrence of the previous dreadful hyper-inflationary environment of the 2000–2009 decade. Both demand pull, and cost push inflation are now at play as a result of the forex pricing distortions. Demand pull inflation is at play because of the massive demand for domestic products which in real terms, are cheaper in the international markets because of distorted forex pricing. Cost push inflation is being fuelled by importers who resort to sourcing forex on the parallel markets to import products as the Reserve Bank fails to provide forex allocation for their needs.
No amount of further forex injections into the system will improve the situation, instead the
arbitrageurs will continue to make more profits and the forex deficit will continue growing
to massive proportions, adversely affecting real production and inflaming further
inflationary pressures into the economy.
The immediate economic policy solutions required
The three-tier forex pricing system needs to be addressed urgently if the forex haemorrhage is to be addressed and allow the country to focus on real production, value creation and real economic growth which create formal jobs. The arbitrage opportunities created by the three-tier pricing system is creating distortions to real productive activities by rewarding arbitrageurs at the expense of the real producers.
The newly appointed cabinet should immediately implement the following key and bold
economic policy measures to arrest the situation for once and all:
I. The immediate demonetization of the Bond Notes
There is currently about USD400 million worth of Bond Notes printed and in circulation.
The government and the Finance Ministry should use the USD500 million of recently
arranged funding facilities to demonetize the Bond Notes. This is the only sure way of
arresting the current pricing distortions in the market. Injecting this funding into the
market under current market distortions will just add fuel to the arbitrage practices and
is akin to throwing the money into a bottomless pit. Demontizing the Bond note will
force people storing US Dollars for trading purposes and store of value, to start using
them for transactional purposes and hence increase the supply of US Dollar notes.
II. Opening of Customer Forex Currency (CFC) accounts and removal of Central Bank forex
allocation system.
The Finance Ministry must legislate for the opening of CFC accounts with banks that are
liquid at all times, with customers accessing their cash on demand. Exporters can trade
their export receipts with importers at market determined rates. The market pricing and
allocation of foreign currency will remove the need for parallel markets and allocate the
scarce forex to those that really need it for productive purposes and eliminate all the
opportunities for arbitrage.
III. Allow for multiple pricing for US Dollar and RTGS
The government should in the interim allow multiple pricing of goods and services in
RTGS value and real USD value, and values between RTGS and real USD dictated to by
the markets. This is mere acknowledgement that the market does not equate same
value to the USD notes and the RTGS electronic bank balances. In the longer term, the
government must gradually eliminate the RTGS balances and substitute them with real
forex currency or the new domestic currency under an independent Central Bank.
IV. Close the Government overdraft facility with the Reserve
To help reign the government’s insatiable appetite for funding for fiscal expenditure, the
new Minister of Finance must immediately put a stop to the unprecedented and harmful
practice of government’s direct borrowing from the Reserve Bank via a Central Bank
overdraft. This practice creates a carte blanche for the government’s fiscal expenditure
patterns.
V. Craft legislation for an independent Central Bank.
The new Minister of Finance must immediately initiate new legislation for an
independent Central Bank with the main sole mandate to maintain the value of the local
currency and the stability of prices in the domestic market. Hopefully with a new Central
bank governor at the helm, the newly legislated independent Central bank can start
crafting plans for a new stable Zimbabwean currency. This is will put an end to the repeated macro-economic balance destabilization caused by a subservient central bank
promoting uncontrolled fiscal expenditure through uncontrolled money supply activities.
Conclusion
Anything short of eliminating the current economic distortions caused by the three-tier
currency pricing system will not bring about any relief to the current macro-economic
disequilibrium. Pricing and supply stability of goods and services can only be restored after
eliminating the market distortions caused by arbitrage opportunities currently prevailing in
the market space. Arbitrage opportunities destroy real production as real economic benefits
are transferred from real producers to the arbitrageurs and rent seekers. Real economic
growth which creates formal employment can only be achieved by a real increase in
production of goods and services in a stable macro-economic environment.
Martin Majaji is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and read for an MSc in Finance from the University of London, he is a financial, treasury and economics practitioner based in Johannesburg.
It has emerged that the Mbare flats exposed this week as filthy and uninhabitable, were beneficiaries of a $5million grant from billionaire and philanthropist, Bill Gates.
The Harare Mayor, Counsellor Herbert Gomba revealed this in the below note. He wrote on his portal: “Today I saw a video on Mbare flats , I agree we need to do more , however more is being done we are sorry we are late if only Chipangano had not chased mayor Masunda who had gotten $5 mill from Bill Gates we could have not had a video circulating.
“To residents of these flats I am sure you know and MSF in agreement with council are doing some works there , and these works have been very helpful, I hope next time buss stop tv will have time to see and make a video of that .
“Going forward we are working on a Mbare regenerative plan and funds will be made available to do major works on those flats .”
Staff Reporter|Reserve bank governor John Mangudya has revealed that Zimbabwe should expect a return of the local currency in the next three to five years after the economy has stabilized.
Speaking during an interview with Bloomberg TV in New York, America, Mangudya said there was a need to make improvements to the economy first before the Zim dollar would return.
“For the local currency to return, we need to improve on business and consumer confidence, reduce fiscal imbalances that are putting pressure on the financial service sector on the rate of exchange and thirdly have access to foreign finance. When these things are done we can have a return of the Zimbabwean dollar” he said
Mangudya accompanied president Emmerson Mnangagwa to the UN General Assembly 73rd session where other world leaders convene to discuss on how best to create equitable and peaceful societies.
He reiterated that one can not entertain the talk of the Zim dollar until the fundamentals are addressed.
“We do believe that in the open for business narrative in the next three to five years we shold be able to achieve in the currency reform business.” Mangudya added.
Contemporary Christian music lovers are set for a treat as the Gwanda International Gospel Festival returns this year with a line-up of South African and Zimbabwean musicians set to lighten up the Gwanda town with some live performances.
The annual 3-day music concert has been dubbed “the Gwanda International Gospel Festival”.
The festival comes with a line-up of local and international gospel musicians set to charm revellers at a concert that will be held at Phelandaba stadium in Gwanda from the 5th to the 7th next month.
Group Corporate Affairs Director of the Big Time Strategic Group Alson Darikai said this year’s event which will be broadcast live on ZBC TV will be spectacular as a number of South African gospel musicians including Dr Tumi and other locals including Takesure Zamar and Mathias Mhere will be performing.
“This is going to be a three day explosion gospel festival. We have brought up South African musicians and other local including Takesure Zamar and Mathias Mhere. The stage, lighting and everything is now in place and we will have some fireworks end of each day,” said Darikai.
Last year the main acts came from gospel musicians that include Bethusile, Veliswa, Lobose Kgobela and Solly Mahlangu.
The fourth edition of the festival this year will be running under the theme: ‘The Walls Of Jericho Did Fall’.
Three of the four people who died are from Buhera and one is from Makoni district.
The province has recorded 170 suspected cases of cholera and 17 cases have been confirmed.
All the cases are suspected to have been caused by people who recently visited areas in Harare where the epidemic started.
Speaking during a Manicaland Provincial Development Committee meeting held in Mutare, Manicaland Provincial Administrator Mr Edgar Seenza raised concern over the alarming rate of the increased cholera cases in the province.
“Cholera cases are on the rise in the province with Buhera recording the highest number of cases. We are trying to make sure that cholera does not spread throughout the province. We have banned all public gatherings and we are urging people to practice good hygiene. We also want council to provide safe drinking water to places that do not have access to clean water. We also call upon our development partners to assist with safe drinking water,” said Mr Seenza.
Mr Seenza also raised concern over the high numbers of school drop outs in the province indicating that Manicaland has the highest number of school drop outs and highlighted that it was due to mostly early child marriages amongst other factors like poverty.
He also implored for stiffer penalties to perpetrators of environmental degradation after pointing out the increased cases of veld fires in the province.
“We cannot continue complaining about veld fires without acting on it. Drastic measures should be put in place to deter people from committing the same offences,” Mr Seenza added.
The provincial development meeting was aimed at reviewing the progress that different stakeholders in the province have made during the 2018 3rd quarter.
Own Correspondent|ZANU PF youths have hauled over the coals, party legislator and lawyer Jonathan Samukange for offering his legal services to former party rival Saviour Kasukuwere who is being accused of corruption.
“We have been inaudited with questions about Mr Samkange’s political standing and we will continue to seek answers to those questions,” said the party’s Youth League in a statement Thursday.
Kasukuwere is a former Zanu PF political commissar who was among a handful top officials who were elbowed out of the party when then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa orchestrated a coup against the now former President Robert Mugabe and his G40 backers November last year.
He has since been dragged to court on four counts of abuse of office charges.
However, Mudzi South MP, Samukange has infuriated the party’s youth wing through offering his services to the former Local Government Minister.
Said the youth league, “It is morally and politically irreprehensible for him (Samukange) to stand up and associate himself with our President and First Secretary while at the same time fighting to release those, we as a party led by HE are fighting to end corruption.”
Kasukuwere appeared in court early this week and is out on $3 000 bail.
But Zanu PF youths find everything wrong with Samukange over alleged attempts to throw spanners in the wake of a party bid to fight corruption as enunciated in its 2018 election manifesto.
They insist they will not sit idle and watch an MP who was elected on the same principles turning around to defend someone accused of corruption, even so, a party enemy.
“Fighting corruption is one of the stated objectives of the party as stated by our campaign manifesto and he, Cde Samkange ran with that manifesto too or perhaps he didn’t,” said the youths.
“Now that we have a person arrested under same charges, for him to actually represent and defend corrupt people or people arrested on corruption does bring into question not only his personal credibility but his political and moral standing.
“We castigated opposition members such as Job Sikhala for representing former Zanu PF members arrested on graft charges, not because we wanted to see them in jail but because we argued it doesn’t not make sense to stand in Parliament and in public and accuse one of being corrupt and then go to court and represent him against same charges.
“So now, as we hereby do, we demand that Mr Samukange state where he stands politically, what his principles and allegiance are.
“It now looks like we arrest people with our left hand and release them with our right hand, and that does not look good at all.
“He must come out in the open and say if he isn’t for Zanu PF and certainly not for our fight against corruption. It’s morally and politically irreprehensible for him to be representing such people and how does it look to the world?
Samukange has insisted his controversial client was “innocent until proven guilty” hence he had the right to be represented by anyone, including himself.
Former Zanu PF Highfield West MP Psychology Maziwisa has approached the High Court seeking to sell one of his properties registered in his son’s name to foot school fees for the minor child.
In the application, Maziwisa, who cited the Master of the High Court as the respondent, also said that he wants to dispose of the Tynwald property in order to buy a smaller one.
According to court papers, Maziwisa is seeking the appointment of Pamellah Musimwa as a legal representative for the 12-year-old boy, born on June 19, 2006.
“I am the biological father of the minor child (name withheld) … The minor’s mother is Thandeka Zimu, a South African citizen, whose supporting affidavit is accompanying this application. In 2006, I purchased a piece of land being stand number 14063 Tynwald Township of stand number 12 891 Tynwald Township for our minor child, which property is registered in the said minor’s name…
“I now seek to sell and dispose of this property in order to purchase a smaller and cheaper property for the minor as I require the extra funds…to contribute towards (the child)’s education and other expenses,” he said.
He added that he approached the Justice for Children and requested for the appointment of a legal representative, who will ensure that the sale of the property will be in the best interest of the minor child.
“It is just, desirable and in the best interests of my child that the appointment of Pamellah Musimwa as curator ad litem in respect of (the child) be confirmed to enable the matter to proceed,” he said.
Musimwa, who is a legal officer at Justice for Children, also filed a supporting affidavit, accepting her appointment as the minor child’s legal representative.
“I confirm and verify that I am prepared to accept such appointment as curator ad litem on such terms and conditions as this honourable court may deem fit and appropriate and I will make myself available for attendance before this honourable court if for any reason the court wishes to inquire as to my suitability as curator ad litem,” she said.
The Master of the High Court has not yet responded to the application filed on Wednesday.
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