Terrence Mawawa
The Zimbabwe Warriors are currently leading 1-0 in a crunch COSAFA Cup semi final tie against the Zebras of Botswana.
Talented yet underrated forward Evans Rusike found the target for the Warrior in the 38 th minute.
The match is currently at half time and the Warriors are enjoying massive support from hundreds of Zimbabweans based in South Africa.
However it is not over until it is over as they say- the Zebras are hoping to overturn the deficit and possibly upset the Warriors.
By Own Correspondent| The controversial 40 year old owner of the Madzimai Akatendeka Ltd company, Fungai Maruta last night threw an all white party in Dunstable, UK.
The development came as Maruta made false claims that her company is registered and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the FCA. But she was exposed by ZimEye when the FCA revealed her company has never at any time come under their registration. The first story was published on ZimEye.com Friday night.
Hundreds of women have complained that Maruta has taken advantage of them claiming she is providing funeral cover when in fact it was all for her splurging. Victim after victim spoke on ZimEye.com revealing how they have been allegedly abused by Maruta. One victim wrote to ZimEye narrating, “I don’t want to be interviewed by I’m a member of madzimai akatendeka. I was paying my £18.50 till February then I stopped because things were not making sense. Per year we pay £44 400, £3 700 every month which she says is for administration. Now she even stopped the nurse training and owns a Range Rover.”
– THE FULL DISCUSSION PROGRAM IS BELOW THIS ARTICLE.
Government will not interfere with Internet connectivity or sanction illicit monitoring of citizens’ private communication over the election period, a Cabinet minister has said.
In line with Government’s new approach of promoting individual freedoms, the use of Internet will be promoted to facilitate communication.
Industry regulator, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) will soon begin an aggressive public awareness programme to promote responsible use of internet-based communication platforms, including social media.
Internet shutdowns have been used in several jurisdictions as governments grappled with the rising tide of fake news.
However, Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Cyber Security Minister Mr Supa Mandiwanzira told The Sunday Mail last week that Government does not have an appetite to interfere with social media freedoms.
Section 61 of the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression.
He said President Mnangagwa, who is an active participant on social media, is serious about promoting individual freedoms.
He, however, cautioned against fake news and stories that needlessly cause alarm and despondency, especially on the new media platforms.
“We have no intention to curtail Internet freedom or social media freedoms simply because there is an election.
“The Government values the various platforms that Zimbabweans use to share ideas and express their opinions and therefore, don’t expect us to do anything that undermines those platforms,” said Mr Mandiwanzira.
“However, we are encouraging people to use those platforms responsibly. Avoid spreading fake news and causing unnecessary grief and pain to other people.
“The President is very serious about promoting individual freedoms and is not in any way prepared to curtail people’s access to the Internet during and after the election period.
“The President himself is an active participant on social media, including Facebook and Twitter, where he personally engages with citizens and updates them on Government programmes.
“We see no need to curtail the freedoms that come with Internet access. We are in fact promoting the use of technology as a means of facilitating development.
“Our ministry is working hard to ensure that every citizen can have access to the Internet in future,” he said.
President Mnangagwa routinely uses social media to interact with Zimbabweans from around the world.
As of yesterday, he had over 320 000 followers on Facebook and 130 000 followers on Twitter.
He has also been actively encouraging Zanu-PF’s supporters to aggressively promote the party’s policies on social media.
Last week, Potraz director-general Dr Gift Kallisto Machengete told The Sunday Mail that the regulator’s primary role is to raise awareness on responsible use of new technologies.
“Election time is a volatile period in which abuse of the Internet and social media is highly likely,” said Dr Machengete.
“Potraz’s primary role during this period is to continuously raise awareness and educate consumers through various platforms on the importance of responsible use of the Internet and social media.
“Potraz will also intensify its collaboration with law enforcement agencies, especially the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), in facilitating prosecution of offences under Section 88 of the Postal and Telecommunications Act [Chapter 12:05] in relation to abuse of telephony, which includes the Internet and, by extension, the social media.
“Currently, the authority is conducting road shows interfacing with consumers, teaching them about their rights, and discouraging them from abusing social media.
“We are also carrying out consumer education and awareness campaigns to sensitise subscribers on their obligations in terms of responsible use of social media.
“The long-term plan, however, is to try and catch them young through our Child Online Protection Framework and intervene from kindergarten level, to inculcate the culture of responsible use of the cyber space at that level, right through to tertiary level.”
Government is presently crafting a legal instrument to regulate the abuse of the Internet, particularly social media, and promote indigenous social online applications and locally developed social media platforms.
Other African countries have similar laws to regulate the use of social media platforms.
Last month, Kenya enacted a law criminalising cybercrimes such as fake news, cyber-bullying and cyber-espionage.
The law provides for fines and prison sentences for 17 listed offences, including child pornography, unauthorised access, illegal devices and computer forgery. – state media
UNITED Family International Church founder Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa has hit back at business couple Mr Upenyu Mashangwa and his wife, Blessing, saying the claim that they paid US$1,1 million in tithes and offerings is a “blue lie”.
In an application filed last week at the High Court for dismissal of the Mashangwa couple’s US$6,5 million lawsuit, Prophet Makandiwa and his wife, Ruth, said the case lacks merit.
The UFIC leader’s lawyer, Advocate Lewis Uriri urged the court to protect itself from abuse at the hands of the litigants (Mashangwa couple) who “brought the suit without serious intention to obtain relief”.
“Equally groundless and inconsistent with common sense is the respondents’ allegation that they made contributions to the tune of US$1,1 million into the third applicant (UFIC) as led by the first and second applicants (the Makandiwas).
“It is submitted and therefore trite to note that tithes and offerings constitute 10 percent of the giver’s income. In the instant, if the allegation by the respondents is true that they gave US$1,1 million as offerings, it automatically turns out that their net worth was above US$11 million as at the time they disassociated from the third applicant. It is contended that it is impossible that the respondents could be having that net worth.
“In the circumstances, it cannot be gainsaid that the allegation by the respondents to the effect that they paid US$1,1 million is a blue lie. The foregoing facts evince that the respondents and their company were afflicted with penury during the time they allege to have contributed or gave as tithes and offerings to the sum of US$1,1 million.”
Prophet Makandiwa said the lawsuit to recover the tithes lacks seriousness and is meant to harass and annoy him.
Said the UFIC leader: “The case is an annoyance and abuse of the court. The allegation made therein falls outside the region of probability and therefore ought to be dismissed.”
The preacher argued that tithes and offerings are biblical concepts and an act of worship that edifies the relationship between a believer and God.
Prophet Makandiwa stated that tithes and offerings are an act of faith given voluntarily.
“…those were free will offerings not recoverable from anyone unless if the respondents (Mashangwas) wish to try the impossible and get that from God, the receiver of the offerings,” he said.
On the claim that the UFIC leader pay Mr Mashangwa US$700 000 for damages over a debt cancellation prophecy involving a house in Marlborough, Prophet Makandiwa said the house was never sold by a local bank as alleged.
In his court application for dismissal, Prophet Makandiwa said the Marlborough house was sold to Nemaji Family Trust for US$800 000 on February 29, 2012, before it was sold to Prophet Walter Magaya and his wife, Tendai, who then obtained bank loans using the house as security.
“The principal case is so manifestly groundless that it suffers from predictable failure. It does not accord with common sense and is unworthy of serious consideration. The case deserves to be summarily dismissed in terms of Order 11 Rule 75 (1) of the High Court Rules 1971.”
Prophet Makandiwa denied that he recommended Mr Tichawona Mawere as a great lawyer to the Mashangwa couple.
“It is denied that the applicants (Makandiwas) ever made representations to the respondents (Mashangwas) to the effect that Mawere was a great lawyer who could never lose a case. The truth of the matter is that the prophecy given by the applicants concerning Mawere related exclusively to their family problems. It related to Mawere’s use of their legal skills at home, particularly that they used their legal skills in resolving their family disputes,” he said.
“The couple lies that their business closed down due to defamatory statements (by Prophet Makandiwa). Evidence on the company’s Facebook account suggests otherwise and affidavits by Takawira Nzombe and Mrs Winnet Nyakabawo who purchased products from the said business show that no such closure took place.
“(Prophet) Makandiwa seeks the dismissal of the lawsuit on the basis of the claims’ falsehoods and the frivolous and vexatious nature of the entire lawsuits. – state media
Businessman Mr James Makamba still has a warrant of arrest hanging around his neck — 13 years after skipping the border over externalisation charges.
The Sunday Mail established that the Harare magistrates’ court issued a warrant of arrest for Mr Makamba on August 31, 2005.
The Empowerment Corporation chair had failed to attend court to answer six counts of violating the Exchange Control Act.
Mr Makamba fled the country in 2005 and hibernated in South Africa for over a decade, only to resurface in December 2017.
A former Zanu-PF central committee member, Mr Makamba has vast business interests in telecommunications, agriculture, retail, mining and digital publishing.
The businessman has not been cleared of illegally dealing in foreign currency under case number CRB 12678-81/04.
Approached for comment, Mr Makamba declined to discuss the matter.
“I have been misquoted a lot of times and I am not ready to comment over the phone. I prefer face to face,” he said.
However, Mr Makamba could not commit to any meeting.
This comes amidst a fierce fight over the control of Empowerment Corporation (EC), which has a 40 percent stake in Telecel Zimbabwe. Mr Makamba is still referring himself as Telecel chair by virtue of his shares in the EC, even though he reportedly sold his stake. EC was set up in 1998 to ensure locals had a stake in the telecommunications business and this saw various local organisations such as Mr Makamba’s Kestrel Corporation, Dr Jane Mutasa’s Selphon Investments, Magamba eChimurenga, Integrated Engineering Group, National Miners Association and the Zimbabwe Farmers Union, getting shares.
Mr Makamba sparked a fight last month after writing to Telecel Zimbabwe chief executive officer, Mrs Angeline Vere, announcing the withdrawal of lawyer Mr Gerald Mlotshwa as a Telecel Zimbabwe director.
Mr Mlotshwa’s lawyers — Mushoriwa Pasi Corporate Attorneys — have since wrote back to Mr Makamba and Telecel, disputing the move to remove their client from the company board of directors.
Mr Makamba wrote to Mrs Vere purporting that EC directors had met and resolved to get rid of Mr Mlotshwa.
However, EC company secretary Mr Chemunofira Caston Chikosi, in a sworn affidavit, shot down M0r Makamba’s claim that EC directors met.
“I am aware of the sale of the Kestrel Corporation Limited shares to George Manyere and Gerald Mlotshwa. I confirm that I was instructed by Dr Makamba to prepare and update financial statements of Empowerment Corporation (Private) Limited in light of this transaction,” he said.
“I have seen minutes or extracts of minutes of a meeting purportedly by Mr Makamba and Dr (Jane) Mutasa in or around the 16th of May 2018.
“However, as company secretary, I am not aware of any such meeting and cannot authenticate these minutes or extract thereof.”
Recently, Mr Makamba was dragged to court by Mr Manyere over a $2,7 million debt, which Mr Mlotshwa had initially undertook to take over on condition that the EC chair transfers equivalent shares to him.
The Sunday Mail Business gleaned EC meeting minutes dated February 9, 2017, which confirm that Mr Makamba’s Krestel had ceded its shares in EC to Mr Mlotshwa over a debt owed to Mr Manyere.
In part, the minutes read: “It was noted that negotiations for the disposal of Krestel’s shares, after the Brainworks acquisition had been taken into account, had been ongoing for a number of months between Mr Makamba and Mr Mlotshwa.
“It was agreed and resolved that the parties conclude the necessary sale and purchase agreements (SPA) in respect of the disposal. It was emphasised that fair and actual consideration would need to be paid for these shares by Mr Mlotshwa.
“The lawyers retained by Mr Manyere for the MHMK Group acquition of Krestel’s shares would also be returned for the purposes of concluding the disposal to Mr Mlotshwa of Krestel’s remaining 30.25 percent in EC.” -state media
Terrence Mawawa
Warriors goalkeeper, George Chigova has secured victory for Zimbabwe after saving three spot kicks in the crunch COSAFA Cup quarter final clash against the Zebras of Botswana at the new Peter Mokaba Stadium in South Africa today.
Botswana fought their way back into the match in the 60th minute after the Warriors had taken the lead in the 38th minute through Evans Rusike.
Chigova carried the day for the Warriors after producing three fine saves during the dreaded penalty shootout.
Zimbabwe won 3-1 to book a semi final berth.The Warriors are the defending champions.
ZimEye.com has begun investigating the activities of a UK based funeral scheme running by the name Madzimai Akatendeka. This series of articles and programs are set to run for the next few weeks.
While the organisation has been praised by some in the Zimbabwean community, the Board Of Directors have been spotted on various occasions living a lavish lifestyle that has raised eyebrows.
All this also comes after the board leadership made fraudulent claims that the organisation is registered and regulated by the British Financial Conduct Authority.
Evidence at hand points that Madzimai Akatendeka is not at all FCA registered, let alone regulated by the FCA.
Contacted by ZimEye.com, the founding Director Fungai Maruta was asked- you claimed that you are registered with the Financial Conduct Authority, are you truly registered with the FCA?
“Yes we are registered with the FCA,” she said.
When told that the FCA has revealed the organisation is not at all registered, she responded saying,”I don’t want to answer you now but you will see me in court if you want to find out that we are registered with the FCA.”
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Home Affairs Minister Obert Mpofu has warned the MDC Alliance against taking their protest to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Munhumutapa offices in Harare when they hold their demonstration over electoral reforms on June 5 2018.
Mpofu said the protestors must stay away from President Mnangagwa’s offices if their demonstration is indeed peaceful.
The Home Affairs minister’s comments come amid indications by the MDC Alliance that the coalition of opposition political parties was upping their calls for electoral reforms following the proclamation of July 30 as the election date.
Tendai Biti, last week told journalists during a press conference at Morgan Tsvangirai House in Harare that MDC Alliance protesters will first gather at Africa Unity Square, before marching to ZEC offices where they will present a document and then proceed to Munhumutapa building.
Speaking to an online publication, Mpofu warned MDC Alliance that their march cannot be labelled as peaceful if they march to Munhumutapa building.
“We have clearly stated that we will not tolerate any undue behaviour from any quota while we prepare for the elections.
How can a demonstration that is targeting the Head of State’s office be said to be peaceful? If it is true that they want to march to the president’s office, that cannot be viewed as peaceful and we appeal to them not to do that. It’s time for campaigns and they should actually do their organisation in a peaceful manner,” said Mpofu.
By Own Correspondent| Self exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has thrown his weight behind MDC Alliance Presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa calling on Zimbabweans to unite and vote President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of office come July 30 2018.
In a tweet, Professor Moyo, whose whereabouts remain a mystery, said if Blessing Chebundo managed to defeat President Mnangagwa during the 2000 and 2005 polls for the Kwekwe constituency parliamentary race, Zimbabweans can do it again for a Chamisa victory.
“If a united Kwekwe did it not only once but twice to vote out Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe can also unite under one grand coalition and do a big Kwekwe on Mnangagwa under Nelson Chamisa,” tweeted Professor Moyo.
#JustThinking: If a united Kwekwe did it not once but twice to vote out #EmmersonMnangagwa in 2000 and 2005 with #BlessingChebundo; Zimbabwe can also unite as one grand national union & do a big Kwekwe on Mnangagwa with @nelsonchamisa in 2018!#KwekweHimJuly30 pic.twitter.com/fb8S1GRigu
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 2, 2018
By Paul Nyathi|An hour long theatre play by Gwanda based Jahunda Community Arts has left Harare theatre lovers in tears and stunned on what the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities were all about.
The very emotional piece of theatre which has been running at the Theatre In The Park for six nights ended on Sunday night with scores of people left shell shocked at how brutal the Gukurahundi soldiers were on the people of Matabeleland and parts of the midlands province.
Titled “1983 The Dark Years” the play directed by Adrian Mossa featuring Kukhanya Mkandla and highly touching Proficiency Kadder depicts a story told to a young girl born out of Gukurahundi rape by her uncle.
The play which has not only seen some in the audience breakdown into tears at one stage on Friday also saw Kadder herself a cast uncontrollably weep on stage as Mkandla narrated how the Gukurahundi soldiers raped “her mother” before she committed suicide after giving birth to the Gukurahundi child.
“During the performance you have that free-thinking (attitude) and start to visualise what you heard. Even if you were not there, the real pain comes through imagination, so you don’t need to have been there. It actually hurts. It’s too much and I can’t explain it,” said Kadder in an interview with journalists after the show.
“It’s something that is intense and gruesome. Actually, these things were not spoken about. We just have vivid pictures about it. It was gruesome and people are hurting very much.”
Kadder said she was told a lot about the genocidal killings perpetrated by the North-Korean trained 5th Brigade by her parents, who were lucky to survive.
“I cannot be so sure that I lost anyone, but I just heard stories. My parents were affected, but did not die during that time. My father and grandmother were victims.
They told me about what really transpired during that time,” she said.
Mkandhla, who is part of the cast, has his leg chopped off by the soldiers during Gukurandi as part of the script.
He said he was able to connect with his role because his leg was amputated following an accident in which he was hit by a bus in 2013. The part he plays aroused the audience’s emotions.
“Whenever I get to that scene (in the play), I imagine the pain that I felt when my leg was amputated. For somebody else, who hasn’t been through that, it might be difficult to connect with the character. That pain is an added advantage, because I can always tap into it,” he said.
Although some members of the audience said the play seemed to open old wounds than facilitate healing, others said it was good for the purposes of true national reconciliation and healing.
The play’s director Moosa, however, said the play was not meant to provoke anyone, but to create a platform to openly discuss what happened during that dark period of post-independent Zimbabwe.
“This is a theatre piece, which does not bring solutions, but instead it’s meant to create a space, whereby, people will come together and discuss this issue, which has been ignored for quite a long time,” he said.
“We are not saying who must do what, but we are only creating a conducive space for dialoguing. We want people to have dialogue and come up with solutions themselves. Maybe that can help. We are only using theatre to push the agenda not bring solutions ourselves.”
Theatre in the park director Daves Guzha praised the young actors from Gwanda for being brave enough to tell the Gukurahundi story exactly as it happened without fear.
Guzha also told that the play which was premiered in 2012 was banned by the Robert Mugabe regime and had the cast briefly arrested before they were rescued the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.
Guzha said that the play left many people in Harare with a changed attitude on the Gukurahundi atrocities urging Zimbabweans to begin to speak without fear on the atrocities.
Gukurahundi must be discussed if we are sincere about moving forward as a nation,” said Guzha.
Guzha further advised that the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission had immediately signed a contract with the theatre group to go on a nationwide tour show casing the play so as to educate the whole nation on what exactly transpired during the dark days in the country.
“Some of us were already in our teens during the Gukurahundi time but the government at the time capably managed to hide from all of us what was actually transpiring in the Matabeleland region,” said Guzha.
“Am excited that the NPRC has adopted the play and committed to using it as a lesson throughout the country on exactly what was happening during that period,” he said.
Mnangagwa Pushes Away A Man Who Wanted A Selfie | WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS?
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) June 2, 2018
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday blew out an alleged CIO secret that shows that
ZANU PF has printed MDC t shirts which it intends to use on Tuesday during the Alliance protest.
The party is going to hold a mass protest for electoral reforms in which it is demanding among other things transparency in the printing of ballot papers, as well as demilitarisation of the Electoral Commission.
Speaking in Hwedza, Chamisa said, ” as we are speaking ZANU PF is busy printing MDC t-shirts to use them under the claim that their hired thugs are MDC members. ”
He explained that this method will be used in an attempt to discredit the protest by portraying the party is if it is made up of violent people.
He also said nowadays intelligence secrets are being sent to him beforehand.
By Own Correspondent| MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said that Zimbabwe is struggling because of a cursed leadership.
Speaking during his Hwedza rally on Saturday, Chamisa said, “when a county is led by people who do not know God, things cringe, everything crashes down, the land gets angry, troubles befall our land. The diamond you now hear was finished, is not finished, this is just a curse due to a leader who is not acceptable to God. Things fails.
“Even the gardens fail. Now I hear there is a disease that has hit our land’s cows, do not think that this is a disease, this is simply a curse from the land that has come to the leaders’ conduct. Now this story will not end. What we need to fix are which things?
As for me I have five things. How many things do we have? Five.” WATCH TH VIDEO BELOW :
By Own Correspondent| Mutasa South legislator Irene Zindi, took her party’s alleged rigging grievances to parliament accussing her main opponent in the just-ended primary elections of manipulating the vote in their favour.
Zindi burst out and made the allegations in response to independent Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa’s statements where he accused women parliamentarians who are in the august house under the women’s quota of not making any meaningful contribution to parliament.
Mliswa torched a storm when he said the women parliamentarian were only good “at making themselves look presentable but did not make any meaningful contribution to parliament”.
“I want to correct Mliswa, I did not lose but I was rigged.
I am very disappointed. I am a woman, also I am a war veteran,” said a visibly angry Zindi.
She accused her party of disrespecting women.
“I thought my party was going to respect women but to my surprise, the party showed (that) it is the worst in terms of respecting women performance,” she said.
Zanu PF held its primary elections between April 29 and May 3 2018.
However, the elections were marred by controversy and allegations of rigging and violence. The party’s elections directorate ordered for a re-run in 14 constituencies following demonstrations by the party supporters alleging electoral theft.
Zindi was elected Hatfield legislator in 1995 and she was then elected Mutasa South Member of Parliament in 2013.
By Own Correspondent| Civil servants deployed to conduct the forthcoming elections must be posted in wards where they are registered voters as a way of ensuring that they are not disenfranchised, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said.
Addressing a Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) conference on elections in Bulawayo (Thursday), ZEC Commissioner, Qhubani Moyo called on authorities to ensure that civil servants recruited for the 2018 harmonised elections are deployed in their respective wards to allow them to exercise their right to vote.
“The most ideal thing is that if one is a teacher, she or he is supposed to be deployed in his or her own ward so that they are able to vote.
I suppose this also apply to police officers who are involved in the elections,” he said.
The new biometric voter registration (BVR) system, compels eligible voters to cast their votes at a particular polling station within their wards unlike the previous system which allowed a voter to cast their ballot at any polling station as long as it was within their constituency.
The ZEC hired civil servants including teachers and police officers to assist in the conduct of elections and to provide security before, during and after the election period slated for July 30 2018.
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has said that if elected on 30 July, his cabinet will only have 15 ministers to avoid overburdening the tax-payer.
Chamisa said this while addressing a well-attended rally in Mutoko on Friday.
“We are going to have just 15 ministers in Zimbabwe, that will be enough. I will also make sure that those who steal are not recycled, but are fired from government. My government will not tolerate corrupt and thieving ministers,” Chamisa assured his supporters.
Zimbabwe holds elections on July 30 to choose a President, Members of the House of Assembly, as well as local ward Councillors. The election date was announced in a proclamation made by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday this week.
Chamisa bemoaned the fact that government had become a feeding tough for corrupt politicians.
“Government today has become a feeding trough, only those in power are the ones who are wealthy. The people who are appointed into government become rich overnight, that has to stop. One can’t be a minister, a businessman, a farmer and an employer, just that one person. No! We need to share those roles for effective production and wealth creation.”
He also said his ministers would seek medical treatment in local facilities instead of flying abroad as has been happening with ZANU-PF politicians.
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Econet Media’s Kwesé on Wednesday announced that it will be broadcasting all 64 FIFA World Cup matches live in Zimbabwe on all its digital platforms; on its popular Kwese satellite TV, on mobile devices via its newly launched ‘Kwese-iflix’ mobile App, as well as on ZBC TV, through a partnership deal it has struck with the local national broadcaster.
Speaking at a media launch in Harare, where the company also launched Kwesé-iflix mobile App, a joint venture between Econet Media and iflix, the Head of Kwesé TV in Zimbabwe, Mrs Dorothy Zimuto, said Kwesé would be bringing the Russia 2018 World Cup on all of Kwesé’s platforms.
“We are proud to announce that following our recent licensing for content distribution, webcasting and video-on-demand, we will be bringing the best World Cup experience ever to Zimbabweans on all our Kwese platforms,” Mrs Zimuto said.
“We will bring you the best of the action through our Kwesé satellite service and through the Kwese TV Everywhere App that gives extended viewing on up to four mobile devices tethered to the satellite account)” she said, referring to a functionality that allows a Kwese TV subscriber to view content showing on their TV on four additional devices.
“Customers will also be able to catch all the World Cup action through our Kwese digital platforms, namely KweseESPN, Kwese.com and Kwesefied sites, through the Kwese-Free-to-Air Service (FTA) on local TV, via the national broadcaster ZBC” she said, adding that customers could also watch World Cup games on KwesePlay , the company’s online streaming service.
Besides bringing live Fifa 2018 World Cup matches, Mrs Zimuto said the newly launched Kwesé-iflix mobile App presented a flexible digital entertainment platform that is set to deliver top entertainment programmes to millions of Zimbabweans via the mobile phone, anywhere and at any time.
Also speaking at the media event, Econet Media executive Mr Zac Wazara said the Kwese-iflix platform was a joint venture between Econet Media, the pan-African company that owns the Kwese brand, and Iflix, a leading media and entertainment company that operated in emerging markets.
Mr Wazara said the service will offer users the ultimate entertainment experience, featuring extraordinary content, including live coverage of the world’s most elite sporting competitions, such as the FIFA World Cup and NBA action, as well as the best international, regional and local content programmes especially curated for the local audience.
He said the Kwese-iflix mobile App will allow Econet Wireless mobile subscribers the choice to access a wide array of ‘on demand’ content, as well as live broadcast content.
At the media event, Econet Media also launched KwesePlay, powered by ‘Roku’, in partnership with ZOL and Econet.
ZOL CEO Mr Denny Marandure explained that KwesePlay uses a Roku box – a multi-screen device and application platform that connects via the Internet, and features the next generation set top box (decoder) to deliver premium content, such as KweseTV, Neflix, Redbull TV, the NBA, TED TV and Iflix, among many others.
He said ZOL will offer Kwese Play to all its FTTH Fibroniks customers, irrespective of whatever Fibroniks package. Econet customers will be able to top up their data for consumption on Kwese content at $2 for 2GB, $5 for 5GB and $35 for 35GB.
Meanwhile, Mrs Zimuto explained that customers could download the Kwesé iflix mobile App from the Google Play or the Apple App stores. Thereafter, they can pay for any content of their choice via EcoCash or InApp for flexible subscription options of a daily pass, a 3-day pass, a 7-day pass or a monthly subscription.
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By Own Correspondent| MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa will today woo the electorate in Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s background as he addresses a rally at Mt St Mary’s in Wedza.
The venue of Chamisa’s rally is an area close to Vice-President Chiwenga’s rural home.
On Thursday, Chamisa was in Mutoko before addressing a rally in Msasa, Chikomba yesterday (Friday).
Tommorrow, the Alliance leader concludes his four day tour of Mashonaland East with a rally at Mahusekwa growth point where he is expected to address thousands of villagers in the area.
The Chamisa-led MDC-T Mashonaland East provincial chairperson, Piniel Denga said the rally was meant to send a message to Chiwenga and Zanu PF presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa that Chamisa and the MDC Alliance had massive support in the rural areas.
“We want to show the people that he (Chamisa) has no boundaries in this province.
We want the likes of Chiwenga and Mnangagwa to know that MDC is not an urban party,” he said.
Denga said the rallies would be testimony that the Alliance had support everywhere.
“We are also mobilising for our candidate in the area, Fanuel Gukwe. W
e are going to tell them how Chiwenga and Mnangagwa failed to deliver their 100 day promises,” he said.
Chiwenga is from Chigondo area and attended school at Mt St Mary’s Mission.
Gukwe will be contesting against Zanu PF provincial youth league executive, Tinodaishe Machakaire.- Newsday.
By Own Correspondent| Zanu Pf Youth Treasure for Mbare 3, Omega Jokonya and Youth Chairman, Vengesai Munaki died on the spot when a kombi they were travelling in was involved in an accident at a round about near Selous along the Harare Bulawayo road on Thursday night.
The youths were coming from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s youth convention rally held in Mkoba Gweru when their Kombi was side swiped by a haulage truck.
In his condolence message, aspiring legislator for Harare South, Tongai Mnangagwa described the death of the two youth leaders as a huge loss to the party.
“This is a huge loss to the party. May their souls rest in peace,” he said.
THE domestic Premiership could be thrown into chaos after Prophet Walter Magaya withdrew his funding of Yadah Stars on Friday following a sensational fallout with the league’s leadership over the way the club has been crippled by the absence of players on national duty with the Warriors.
The club’s match against Bulawayo City scheduled for Barbourfields today now hangs in the balance after Magaya — who is the sponsor of the team — closed the financial tap that has been oiling the side’s operations in protest over what he believes is unfair treatment by PSL bosses.
But, crucially, the future of the club is now bleak and, in the event Yadah Stars disintegrate, as is now likely, the PSL leaders could be found dealing with a complex situation which could affect the status of the championship race.
For they could be forced to nullify the results of all the 14 matches which the club has played this season.
Championship leaders Ngezi Platinum Stars could lose three points and five goals, FC Platinum could lose three points and two goals, CAPS United could lose three points and two goals while Triangle could also lose three points and two goals.
There could be a one-point loss for Dynamos, after the two sides settled for a 1-1 draw, and there could be a one-point loss, too, for Highlanders after their duel against Yadah ended in a goalless draw at the National Sports Stadium.
The spectacular fallout between the football-mad prophet and the PSL leadership was sparked by the league bosses’ refusal to grant the club a request for the postponement of their league match against Bulawayo City today.
Magaya had argued that his best three players had been lost to national duty.
The crisis started when Warriors coach Sunday Chidzambwa drafted in defender Jimmy Dzingai, the Yadah captain, as a late replacement for Costa Nhamoinesu who was withdrawn by his Czech club Sparta Prague on medical grounds.
With highly-rated forward Leeroy Mavunga, voted the Premiership’s Rookie of the Year last season, already in the squad for the COSAFA adventure, it meant Yadah now had two players among those who made the trip to South Africa.
However, a third key Yadah player, Byron Madzokere, who had been in camp with the Warriors, was injured while on national duty and the club’s leadership asked the PSL bosses on Thursday for a postponement of their match against Bulawayo City because, they argued, they had lost three players to this national cause.
While Yadah were prepared to fulfil this commitment, had Dzingai remained with them, his last-minute call-up saw them arguing they had lost three players to the same cause and were supposed to be given a choice to call for a postponement of their match.
However, the PSL turned down their pleas and Magaya, who is in South Africa for a three-day crusade, felt the league’s bosses were not sensitive to their plight and decided to take the drastic measures of withdrawing his funding of the club, leaving the team facing an uncertain future.
“I quit…be blessed,” he told The Saturday Herald.
“Ndaneta, this PSL inorwadza, I am telling you. They make money out of us every season and when you ask them to be considerate to your plight they make some funny decisions which impact negatively on the development of clubs and football.
“We wrote a letter to them saying Jimmy had suddenly been taken away from us, Lee was already there with the national team and Byron was injured on this national duty and that means we have three key players whom we have lost because of national duty and we wanted the PSL to postpone our game but they refused.
“Surely, why should we be punished for helping the country? Why should they fix me for supporting the national team not only through the camping facilities, meals and training ground that we provided for the team but also for the players who are now making the grade to play for the country?
“What type of governing is that? What type of organisation is that? Didn’t CAF postpone a Champions League match involving Sundowns recently to ensure that the club finds some space to play Barcelona because just the arrival of this Spanish club here in Africa meant a lot for our football?
“I don’t get any money from sponsoring the team, instead I spend a lot of money but it feels like there are some people in leadership positions who don’t want to see people like us in the game.
“If the team travels to Bulawayo then it’s the supporters taking them there and not me and I pray that ZIFA and (Philip) Chiyangwa use their power to stop this madness because we are destroying the game.
“Last year, they said we were celebrating 25 years of the PSL but did you see any billboard in any town celebrating the players and coaches who helped make the league what it is, of course, there was nothing and you say we are progressing as a league.
“I have always said that my prayer is simple, let’s celebrate those who do something for our country and not only for their stomachs and football is a big part of us as a people.”
Magaya said the PSL leaders were under the illusion that it was easy to sponsor football clubs.
“There is zero benefit in sponsoring local football and all that we have seen are people who used to be rich and powerful going down because of their passion for the game,” said Magaya.
“My passion was to nurture talent and helping some young people to shine. Early this year I said I could not work in such an environment where our efforts are not appreciated but my players refused to join any other club saying they were prepared to go with me to social football.
“And when you consider that these are good players, I felt it was not fair for them and I decided to soldier on.
“These are loyal players, they are not there for the money, they are there just to play the game and I have borrowed heavily to ensure we soldier on, especially during the time when I was building the factory which drained a lot from me.
“But some people at PSL seem not happy with our presence and better to leave them to do as they please because, maybe, they don’t want clubs that are run by individuals anymore in the league, they don’t want CAPS, they don’t want us.”
He said he remains hurt that Gwanzura and Chibuku, which he tried to refurbish only for his proposals to be rejected, had turned into ghost stadiums.
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By Paul Nyathi|MDC-T candidate for Shamva South constituency, Leman Pwanyiwa has made an urgent court application asking the High Court to block ZANU PF from fielding acting Chief Bushu, Bramwell Bushu as their candidate in the upcoming elections.
Pwanyiwa who is represented by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights submitted the application at the High Court on Friday.
According to the court papers, Bushu can not be allowed to take part in the elections as the law in Zimbabwe prohibits traditional leaders from taking part in partisan politics.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and ZANU PF are quoted as the respondents in the case which is yet to be heard by the court.
Pwanyiwa initially wrote a letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa calling on him as First Secretary of the party to remove the chief from contesting elections.
The letter dated May 29 and addressed to Mnangagwa through the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Pwanyiwa threatened to file an urgent chamber application for relief should he get no response by May 31.
He said Bushu, who has been Chief Bushu since June 2016 after the demise of his father Show Bushu, had contested in the ruling party’s primary elections on April 29 and in the re-run on May 14, adding that his candidature and membership of Zanu PF was in clear violation of Section 281-2- of the Constitution.
The section prohibits traditional leaders from being members of political parties or participating in party politics, acting in a partisan manner or further the interests of any political party or cause.
“We direct, therefore, that Bramwell Bushu be removed as your candidate for the forthcoming harmonized elections and his membership from your party be revoked,” he said
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said Bushu’s actions were prejudicial to their client who was an interested party in the politics of the country.
“This also takes away the right to free and fair elections guaranteed to every member of the public by section 67 of the Constitution,” read the letter, referenced NMC/PIL/18.
Early this month, the High Court in Masvingo ruled against the meddling in partisan politics by traditional leaders after opposition political party leader, Elton Mangoma had approached the court seeking the banning of all traditional leaders from meddling in politics.
Mangoma’s legal challenge came after National Chiefs Council head, Fortune Charumbira, pledged the organization’s support for ZANU-PF after the traditional leaders had received top of the range vehicles from President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
By Paul Nyathi|The young boy pictured below is Duduza Kkumalo who is 14 years old.
A couple of years back Duduza developed a nose problem whose actual diagnosis can not specify at the moment until an assessment by a Physician or Surgeon is done.
Duduza lives in Zhombe,Gokwe with his Father and has had to be operated on twice at Harare Hospital and he was last seen by Doctors in 2016 due to lack of funds to pursue treatment.
So far a well wisher based in the diaspora has taken it upon herself to sponsor the initial stages of Duduza’s treatment and expenses such as accommodation,food and traveling expenses for him to access medical care as soon as possible.
Duduza will be in Harare by this weekend for a Medical Assessment and has since been offered a free consultation by a Physician, Dr Taurai Chipamaunga of Checkpoint Health Pvt Ltd in Harare.
This is the beginning of a journey to restore the health of a young man who can not access health care due to financial challenges, this is a journey to restore Duduza self confidence and self esteem, we can all help one way or the other with whatever we have. From monetary assistance,laboratory services, clothing blankets,shoes,food and anything else that we can all help with.
Those who can assist in Duduza’s case can get in touch with his father Mr Takesure Khumalo on +263774896243 your generosity will be greatly appreciated.
By Own Correspondent| Aspiring independent councilor for Ward 7, Goromonzi West has thrown in the towel in a move aimed at supporting the MDC Alliance council candidate ahead of the 2018 harmonised polls.
Kudakwashe Andrew Manjonjo, who had declared his intentions to run for political office in the July 30 elections as an independent candidate revealed on a facebook post that he was putting his weight behind the MDC T candidate for Ward 17, Tough Mupindu in order to put up a united front against Zanu Pf.
“Even though opposition has failed to unite as one voice in this election, in my ward we have.
That is why i have made the difficult but positive decision to no longer run in this election and endorse my fellow MDC-T comrade, Tough Mupindu,” he said.
Below is the full text of his message revealing why he is pulling out of the election race.
STEPPING DOWN AS CANDIDATE FOR GOROMONZI WEST WARD 7 CANDIDATE.
When I started my campaign for Councillor I was clear in my belief that a Grand Coalition was the best way Zimbabwe could progress in the upcoming elections.
That has clearly failed over the last 9 months much to my disappointment.
However, three clear candidates have risen in my ward, myself, the MDC-T and ZANU PF candidate.
Even though opposition has failed to unite as one voice in this election in my ward we have. That is why i have made the difficult but positive decision to no longer run in this election and endorse my fellow MDC-T comrade, Tough Mupindu.
We are of the same age and he was like me in student activism. An educated fellow, we share similar ideological and policy ideas for my ward. I do believe together we can end the 38 year rule of ZANU PF in my ward who have never received less than 80% of the vote every election.
We have been in discussions with community leaders over this decision over the last month and a good number agree there is strength in our unity as a youthful vanguard.
Thank to you to all who have supported me politically, spiritually and financially. I hope at the very least you understand why I have made this decision. Its been an epic journey which I have learnt alot from.
It was never meant to be just about me but about changing ZIMBABWE for the better. Let us be ready for vote for a different future on July 30.
Thank you.
By Paul Nyathi|The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association actually authorised their Secretary-General Dr P Mugoni to speak at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s youth interface rally in Gweru a source has revealed to ZimEye.com.
The source from within the doctors Association told ZimEye.com in confidence on Friday that the Association leadership was invited to the rally after it had written an official letter to Mnangagwa thanking the President for attending to their grievances.
“Its unfortunate that our collegue collapsed to the pressure at the rally and made the public drama but the Association was indeed aware of the invitation to speak at the rally,” said the source.
According to him the Association actually wrote a letter to Mnangagwa two days before the rally thanking him for attending to their grievances and asking for a meeting with the President resulting in the invitation to speak at the rally.
The letter to Mnangagwa dated the 31st of May 2018 provided to ZimEye.com by the source reads as follows in full:
The President of Zimbabwe
His Excellency, Cde E.D Munangagwa
Dear Sir
RE: APPRECIATION FROM DOCTORS AND OUTSTANDING GRIEVANCES
The above subject matter refers.
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) hereby commends the action you took to resolve the deadlock between doctors and the employer in March this year.
The assurance that procurement of drugs and equipment was ongoing, and the raise in our allowances have
gone a long way in improving health care delivery. Moreover, we have seen some hospitals receiving these drugs over the past two months, and we hope this continues until we reach regional standards.
We would like to bring to your attention some of the outstanding issues that we believe, through your executive powers, can be resolved. Some government representatives have avoided our calls for a
meeting for eight (8) weeks, and we feel your intervention will go a long way. Moreover, we have other issues that can only be addressed by you as the President.
The issues are as follows:
1. Vehicle loan scheme – government allocated $10million to doctors to purchase vehicles for easy travel to attend to emergencies. This money has not materialised since March, and our request
for a meeting over this has been ignored. We have requested that CMED be the guarantor, and ZHDA choose the beneficiaries for the first batch, and so on as this is a revolving fund.
2. Our members are hereby requesting to be allocated land for housing, farms and mining. We already have memorandums of understanding with certain property developers and we believe this non-cash incentive will retain our doctors and keep the morale high.
3. Doctors have also previously requested that we have regular meetings with the employer to
discuss pressing issues, but this has not been responded to. Furthermore, on-call allowances that
were agreed upon were only paid for a month, then cut by margins of $190 and above. This has caused unrest amongst our members, and we have since communicated this to the Health Services Board
4. ZHDA would like to embark on outreaches to rural and disadvantaged areas, in an effort to provide health care for all. We are a non-profit organization, and lack adequate funding and material to do so.
In a nutshell, we would like to do outreaches on weekends, and require transport, food,
stethoscopes, BP machines, basic drugs and stationery. A more detailed document will be availed to you, should Your Excellency approve.
We hope to continue working well with your office, and hope you will continue to extend your goodwill to our association and subsequently, the people of Zimbabwe.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
ZHDA NATIONAL EXECUTIVE
By Paul Nyathi|Opposition MDC Alliance coalition presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to open up the national broadcaster the ZBC to open up and allow for a public debate ahead of the harmonised elections set for July 30.
Speaking on the opposition party”s electoral reforms demonstration set for the capital on Tuesday, Chamisa said that President Mnangagwa is not prepared to open up the airwaves because he knows that he will not survive an open public debate against him.
“Our planned demonstration is a demand for electoral reforms which will pave way for free and fair elections,” said Chamisa in his official Twitter page.
“We can’t speak of a free and fair election when Zanu PF abuses and monopolises ZBC,”
“Mnangagwa knows he would not survive a week of free and factual speech,” said Chamisa.
President Mnangagwa is on record declaring that the ZBC will only open up for private players after the 2018 elections.
The opposition MDC Alliance has organised a mass demonstration to be held in Harare on Tuesday against failures to effect full electoral reforms in the recently gazetted Electoral Act amendments.
The demonstration to be led by Chamisa will present a petition to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and another to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
By Paul Nyathi|Zimbabwe schools may have an early second term break to allow for the harmonised elections to take place.
Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Paul Mavhima hinted in Bulawayo on Friday that the school term scheduled to end on the 9th of August May be forced to end two weeks earlier to make way for the national elections set for July 30.
Most schools will be used as polling stations while teachers and other staff employed by the Ministry of Education will be part of the personnel running the elections.
The Ministry is expected to release an official statement to the effect within the next few days.
The exiled prof Jonathan yesterday mocked the vice-president Constantino Chiwenga.
He commented as president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rally continued.
He scoffed at the wearing of Lacoste regalia with Mnangagwa’s picture on them.
He wrote:
SMH. A whole commander of a supposedly professional Zimbabwe Defense Forces, only six months ago, now reduced to this??circus! pic.twitter.com/gMZSFpG2H4
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 1, 2018
State Media- In a move meant to ensure fair, peaceful and credible elections, Chief Justice Luke Malaba has designated 57 magistrates to expeditiously handle cases of politically-motivated violence and intimidation in the country’s 10 provinces.
A special court was gazetted under General Notice 379 of 2018 with a view to ensure the nation of a free, fair and credible 2018 election. This year’s harmonised elections will be held on July 30.
According to the notice issued by the judiciary boss, who is also chairman of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the courts sit during the pre-election, election and the post-election period.
“It is hereby declared that the Judicial Service Commission, in terms of Section 133 J(3) of the Electoral Act (Chapter 2:13), has designated the magistrates listed in the schedule below to try cases of politically motivated violence and intimidation in the provinces under which their names appear before, during and after the harmonised elections for President, Members of the National Assembly, Senators and Councillors scheduled to take place on Monday 30th July 2018,” said Chief Justice Malaba in the Gazette.
JSC acting secretary Mr Walter Chikwana said the special courts would expeditiously deal with all cases brought before them.
“The special courts were established in compliance with the Electoral Amendment Act,” he said. “Such courts will try and finalise criminal cases brought before them with expedience.
“The setting up of the courts, according to the law, follows the proclamation of the election date by the President.”
The recently signed Electoral Amendment Act prohibits politically motivated violence and intimidation.
Part of the Act reads:
“No political party or any of its members or supporters and no candidate, any of his or her supporters and no stakeholders may —
a) Use violence or threaten violence or incite or encourage the use of violence, against anyone on account of his or her political opinions or membership or support of a political party or participation in the election;
b) Intimidate, or incite or encourage the intimidation of anyone on account of his or her political opinions or membership or support of a political party or act in a way that may provoke violence or intimidation.”
The Act also prohibits the use of violence or threats to force others to refrain from voting for a candidate of their choice.
It also prohibits forcing people to vote for a candidate they do not like.
Bribing an election official to induce him or her to make a false entry in the voters’ roll or to alter election results will attract a penalty.
Use of hate language which incites violence through songs, speeches and slogans is also prohibited.
Publishing false or defamatory allegations about a party or its candidates is also not allowed under the Act.
Carrying weapons at political meetings, marches, demonstrations or rallies is prohibited.
The schools opened on May 8 for the Second Term and are supposed to close on August 9.
In an interview on the sidelines of the official opening of Bulawayo Book Fair, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Professor Paul Mavima said elections have a disruptive impact on schools.
The book fair was attended by educationists, school heads, publishers and booksellers.
Minister Mavima said he will seek an approval for an early closure of schools at the next Cabinet meeting.
President Mnangagwa on Wednesday proclaimed July 30, 2018 as the country’s harmonised election date.
“We know that it will be disruptive for elections to run when schools are open. This is something that we are going to present to Cabinet. Maybe we can close schools a week or so before elections since most of our schools are polling stations,” said Prof Mavima.
He said the Ministry will find a way of compensating learners for the lost learning time.
“We will deal with that in an administrative way. Our Permanent Secretary (Dr Sylvia Utete-Masango) will be working on that. We may close a week before the elections and then work out how we can compensate the pupils for the lost time,” he said.
Many teachers are likely to be engaged as polling officers which again will disrupt the pupils’ learning. “In the event the schools close early, they will have to open early for the Third Term to compensate for the lost time.” – state media
The Council of former NEC members of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association has noted with great concern the recent developments pertaining to the meddling of ZHDA office bearers in activities of political parties. Specifically, we note the indecorous conduct and utterances made by Dr P Mugoni at a ZANU PFrally in Gweru where he conflated his political opinions and those of all government-employed doctors.
Whilst we acknowledge the said doctor right to freedom of assembly, speech and association we are enraged by the politicization of the ZHDA. The ZHDA is a professional body that represents the interests of all government-employed doctors regardless of political party affiliation. We join Zimbabweans across the country who have in their different forums deplored such conduct and strongly encourage the present leadership at the ZHDA to immediately take stern disciplinary measures against Dr P Mugoni.
To restore the confidence of the members of the ZHDA we advise you suspend, investigate and if found guilty discipline Dr P Mugoni for bringing the association name and its entire brand into disrepute. As pastleaders of the ZHDA, we dissociate ourselves from such conduct and advise the current ZHDA to develop a code of conduct that guides the actions of its office bearers and members to avoid a repeat of such episodes in future. ZHDA is founded on firm principles of representation and should at all times remain apolitical!
We will be following up with your esteemed office soon to hear of the latest developments.
The United Kingdom has told president Emmerson Mnangagwa his administration will only be accepted into the Commonwealth after conducting free and fair elections.
The bold message was conveyed soon after a meeting between thee government and two British MPs who last month had met MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.
One of them works for Britain’s most influential official, the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
While the state media claimed that the MPs spoke positively about the upcoming elections, the sharp message from the UK government is that there will not be acceptance into the Commonwealth if Mnangagwa does not hold free and fair elections.
British Labour Party Member of Parliament Ms Kate Hoey and Conservative Party Member of Parliament Mr Cornor Burns personally met Mnangagwa at his Munhumutapa Offices.
Ms Hoey is also chairperson of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe while Mr Burns is a parliamentary private secretary to Mr Boris Johnson, who is a Member of Parliament and British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
Ms Hoey described the meeting with President Mnangagwa as fruitful.
“We had a very interesting and useful meeting,” she said.
Ms Hoey said they were in the country to look at how election processes were going and hear about the issues Zimbabwe had raised with Britain.
“We want to hear about issues raised with us,” she said. “I think we find it to be the most useful visit. We are hoping very much that you are going to have a free and fair election and that we can really start to re-engage with Zimbabwe again as British Parliament and British government.
“I think we would all like to see a successful election and we can do what we can to make sure that it is monitored properly. We are pleased by that. I have been here a number of times and I have seen a number of changes which I welcome already.”
Ms Hoey said elections would not be possibly free and fair if they had witnessed violence like what happened with previous polls.
She warned political leaders to be wary of soft violence.
Ms Hoey said President Mnangagwa had assured them of a credible election.
Mr Burns said the British government welcomed Harare’s intention to re-apply for membership of Commonwealth, saying the move was a powerful signal to the world about the change in the country.
“It is a very important journey,” said Mr Burns, who is visiting Zimbabwe for the first time. “The step on that journey to re-join the Commonwealth will be the election you will have in July.
“We welcome the commitment by the President that elections will be free and fair. We also welcome the Government position to invite international observers from all over the world, from different organisations and countries to come and see that process.
“We would love you back in the Commonwealth. It will be very good for Zimbabwe, it is very good for the Commonwealth.”
Ms Hoey and Mr Burns would be in the country for a few days and they are expected to travel to Bulawayo today where they will also meet other political players, civil society, churches and organisations, as well as talking to people in the streets.
Mr Burns paid tribute to the people of Zimbabwe for their hospitality saying they had so far met a number of schoolchildren.
“They were neat and tidy and incredibly polite when we were speaking to them as we were going around. They are a great tribute and a great hope for the future of this country.”
President Mnangagwa this week proclaimed July 30 as the date for harmonised elections to choose the President, National Assembly members and councillors.
He also fixed September 8, 2018 as the date for the Presidential election run-off if it becomes necessary while the nomination court will seat on June 14.
The top American broadcaster, CNN says the US President Donald Trump has lied on several things during his rally speech.
The editorial article begins with the line that states that: “All politicians exaggerate. All politicians hedge facts to suit their arguments. But practically no politician has ever stretched the truth to — and past — the point of breaking more than President Donald Trump.”
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker says, Trump has said more than 3,200 partially or totally inaccurate things in his first 497 days in office. That’s 6.5 mistruths a day; every day.
The CNN editor says during Trump’s campaign rally for Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Tennessee Senate campaign on Tuesday night, Trump said 35 things that weren’t true. 35! (I went through that speech line by line.) READ MORE ON IT HERE…
The exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has claimed that President Mnangagwa’s leadership has blown money flying 30 jets to import 4,200 tonnes of regalia. He wrote, ” 1/2 Through the govt & at public expense, as did Abel Muzorewa in 1980, Zanu PF’s HURAYADZO election campaign is busy air freighting (duty free) regalia (in the process smuggling other goods) whose payload is 4,200 tonnes using 30 cargo planes, each with a payload of 140 tonnes!
“2/2 In 2013 Zanu PF used 7 cargo planes, each with a payload capacity of 140 tonnes, to air freight 980 tonnes of election regalia. The 4,200 tonnes of regalia being air freighted by 30 cargo planes for the 2018 poll is unprecedented; even by the senseless HURUYADZO standards!”
1/2 Through the govt & at public expense, as did Abel Muzorewa in 1980, Zanu PF's HURAYADZO election campaign is busy air freighting (duty free) regalia (in the process smuggling other goods) whose payload is 4,200 tonnes using 30 cargo planes, each with a payload of 140 tonnes!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 1, 2018
2/2 In 2013 Zanu PF used 7 cargo planes, each with a payload capacity of 140 tonnes, to air freight 980 tonnes of election regalia. The 4,200 tonnes of regalia being air freighted by 30 cargo planes for the 2018 poll is unprecedented; even by the senseless HURUYADZO standards!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 1, 2018
By Wilbert Mukori| The contemptuous arrogance of President Mnangagwa is soaring to new dizzying heights!
“Mnangagwa says Zanu-PF is the only demo
cratic party!” screamed the headline.
“PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday thousands of ruling party supporters at a Zanu-PF youth convention in Gweru that Zanu-PF was the only democratic party in the country that allowed people to freely choose their candidates without any form of coercion,” said the report.
How many “democratic” parties in history does President Mnangagwa know of that have to resort to “a military assisted transition”, known to everyone else other that the Zanu PF coup plotters simply as a military coup, to remove its leader?
Zanu PF is using coercion to win these elections. The party has paid the Chiefs their bribe, a new twin cab truck each, and the other traditional leaders to coerce rural voters to attend Zanu PF rallies and, ultimately, vote for the party. It has deployed Chris Mutsvangwa’s rogue war veterans backed up by 5 000 Army personal to campaign for the party, reminding the populous that the violence that swept the nations in 2008 will return if Zanu PF should lose these elections.
Zanu PF is not using blatant violence this year, preferring to rely on its reputation as a party of ruthless thugs. This is operation harvest fear! “Kurova imbwa wakaviga mupini!” as the Shona would say.
President Mnangagwa and his coup putsch know their regime is illegitimate by virtue of having seized power unconstitutionally. They had no choice but to promise to hold free, fair and credible elections (promising is one thing delivering is another) just to take the sting out of those who were going to demand action to be taken again the regime. Using blatant violence would have been a dead give-away for one claiming the elections are free and fair.
There five basic reasons why Zanu PF has decided to put its thugs on even shorter leashes this year than in 2013:
1) The people were very pleased to see the back of Robert Mugabe and to be saved from the nightmare of having his erratic and scatter brain wife’s taking over; they hugged and kissed the coup plotters for the deliverance. President Mnangagwa and his junta have milked their new found heroism for all its worth and hope this will propel them to electoral victory. The truth is the people have a very short and selective memory; a serious fault with equally serious disastrous consequences.
Mnangagwa and his junta are the individuals who are responsible for imposing Zanu PF and Mugabe on the nation for the 37 years of the tyrant’s long stay in power. It was Mnangagwa and his junta thugs who have carried out the bulk of the vote rigging, looting and wanton violence to establish and retain the Zanu PF dictatorship. It is common knowledge that it was the junta who forced Mugabe to stay in power after his heavy defeat in the 2008 elections and they then carried out all the blatant cheating and violence that followed.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, Perence Shiri, Constantino Chiwenga and all the other Zanu PF thugs have shed the blood of the over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans murdered in Zanu PF’s 38 years reign of terror. Shine the light of justice on them and they will glow like scorpions under ultra-violet light!
Contrary to junta’s propaganda spin portraying the November coup as a fight to save the nation from “state capture and to remove criminal elements” from Zanu PF. The coup was about wrestling political power from Mugabe and giving it back to the junta, who are the heart and soul of the Joint Operation Command, the shadowy junta and the real power behind Mugabe all these years!
In their myopic “Mugabe must go!” fixation the people have mistaken the demise of the dictator as the end of both the dictator and the Zanu PF dictatorship. Mnangagwa and the junta are only too glad for the chance to masquerade as “new dispensation”, even “the only democratic party”. When the people finally open their eyes and see that the corruption, the vote rigging, etc. has not ended and the party’s new-found popularity start to wane the junta will revert to its tried and tested ways to retain power.
The removal of Mugabe was no more than a black mamba shedding its old skin. Just because Zanu PF has not used it hallmark wanton violence does not mean it has lost its black mamba fangs and venom!
2) The junta has inherited the Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its control of State institutions such as ZEC and the security services and therefore the carte blanche powers to rig elections. In the 2013 elections, Zanu PF showed that the party could use other subtle vote rigging schemes, other than using violence, and had the great fortune of have the unfettered access to public resources and the billions of dollars of looted public wealth to bankroll its schemes.
The junta has promised free and fair elections but has pointedly refused to implement any meaningful democratic reforms designed to end the party’s influence and control of ZEC, Army, public media, etc. The junta has certainly toned down on the use of blatant violence and it is hoping the nation and the international elections observers will consider this sufficient for the elections to be judged free and fair.
3) President Mnangagwa’s “Zimbabwe is open for business!” call was a welcome reassurance. With the country’s economy is such a mess that unemployment had soared to 90%, ¾ of the people lived on US$1.00 or less a day, etc.; it was wonderful to hear a political leader putting economic recovery firmly on his national agenda. Many Zimbabwean voters are willing to vote for the junta just to give “ED a chance!” But once again, the people’s short and selective memory is playing tricks on them.
The people are forgetting that Mnangagwa and his whole team have been senior members of the Zanu PF governments all these last 38 years; why did they do nothing to stop the country going to the dogs, if they are as competent as they now claim to be. Worse still, the junta’s “Zimbabwe is open for business!” has already failed to attract the flood of foreign investors.
Investors are shrewd lot, they have looked ED in the eyes and they saw the same old Zanu PF thug of yesteryears who is claiming to be a democrat, to con the naïve and gullible! Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs; investors do not do business with thugs!
4) Zanu PF has suffered greatly from the time the party booting out of former VP Joice Mujuru and her supporters to the dramatic events of last year’s coup throwing out Robert Mugabe and the G40 members. The party has fractured and imploded. The only reason the party is still here is that it is a party of thugs whose only true allegiance is to whoever is in a position to give them power and wealth. For the time being, Mnangagwa and his junta has emerged as the powerful faction and as long as the junta is able to feed the insatiable appetite for power and wealth of the party members – an impossible task given the ever worsen economic situation – there will be peace in the party.
The junta is hoping the truce in the party last throughout the elections and not result in another 2008 “Bhora musango!” in which Mujuru supporters voted for Zanu PF parliamentary candidates but voted for MDC presidential candidate.
5) Ever since the GNU, Zanu PF has never been more susceptible to pressure to abandon its dictatorial powers than it is now. The party has just imploded, members know the truce following the coup will not last long, the air is heavy with mistrust and intrigue. The junta promised free, fair and credible elections with no intention of keeping that promise, even with the present favourable political environment the junta was not going to risk losing power by holding free and fair elections.
Lucky for the junta, the opposition is fractured and there is confusion and pandemonium in their camp. The opposition is not only unable to take advantage of Zanu PF’s vulnerability, but they are so disorganised and incompetent the opposition presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, is making Emmerson Mnangagwa look “mature, responsible and wise,” as the BBC HardTalk presenter aptly put it.
Ever since this nation started talking of the need for democratic change in the late 1990s the nation’s priority was to dismantle the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship. By refusing to implement any democratic reforms, President Mnangagwa has just proven beyond all reasonable doubt that although the dictator, Mugabe, has gone the obnoxious dictatorship itself is still very much alive and continues to rule the roast! These elections must therefore be about rejecting Zanu PF and thus finally deliver the democratic changes the nation has been dying for all these years!
The people should not be fooled by this year’s relatively peaceful elections into believing Zanu PF is now a democratic party, it would have implemented the reforms and given up its dictatorial powers if it was. Many of the things that made it easy for the junta to tone down on the need for blatant violence to win the elections this year will not be there in future elections and the regime will revert back using violence.
As long as we have done nothing to dismantle the dictatorship the will be no hope of holding free, fair and credible elections!
Compared to the nightmare elections of 2008, all the junta has done is rollback on the naked violence; and for that we, the electorate, are expected be impressed and show our gratitude by voting for President Mnangagwa and his junta on 30 July. But just to be absolutely certain Zanu PF wins with the usual landslide victory the party has retained all its other vote rigging powers – no public media, no verified voters’ roll, etc.
“Zanu PF is the only democratic party!” roared President Mnangagwa. Yeah right! The only democratic party yet to hold free, fair and credible elections after 38 years of rigged elections!
Terrence Mawawa
Warriors star defender Costa Nhamoinesu has pulled out of the COSAFA
Cup after his Czech club Sparta Prague barred him
from taking part in the tournament.
Nhamoinesu was named in the Warriors squad but
had to drop out of the team after his club blocked his quest to play in the tournament.
“My club was reluctant in having me play in this
tournament, but I convinced them and came here.
Last night they called me saying I should report back
as soon as possible,” said a dejected Nhamoinesu.
“I missed some games because of
injury and the club wants me to go for some
treatment in Germany. So I am cutting short my stay
here. These are the things that happen
in our professional world.”
Terrence Mawawa
Zimbabwe Warriors Coach Sunday Chidzambwa and his assistants are paying special to attention to Botswana with the hope they might face the improving Zebras in the quarter-finals of the 2018 COSAFA Cup.
The two teams met in April in a friendly match to celebrate Zimbabwe’s Independence Day and Botswana stunned Zimbabwe 1-0.
The Zebras are currently leading Group B with four points and could seal a quarter-final berth with a win over Mauritius today.
Warriors team manager Wellington Mpandare told COSAFA.com that Chidzambwa and his assistants Lloyd Mutasa, Rahman Gumbo and Brenna Msiska were eager to face Botswana.
“Botswana have kept the same squad in place for a long time and we noticed that there are just one or two changes to the team that came to Harare and our coaches have been monitoring not only their matches but all the teams in Group B.
The Group B log shows that it’s going to be a tight competition again this year- but from our perspective it looks like Botswana are the favourites and we just have to be ready for them,” Mpandare said.
Terrence Mawawa
A Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) Cop had the entire court gallery in stitches when he told the magistrate it was necessary for him to smoke mbanje to manage stress
and anxiety.
Constable Prince Chiwawa of Nkayi was found with twists of mbanje in his bag after he had refused to pay bus fare from Bulawayo to Masvingo.
Chiwawa was arrested and appeared before Zvishavane Magistrate Shepherd Munjanja last week.
The court heard that Chiwawa boarded a Masvingo bound Joma Bus and when the conductor approached him for payment of bus fare he refused to oblige.
A police report was made leading to Chiwawa’ s arrest.
Chiwawa pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a dangerous drug and refusal to pay bus fare.He was ordered to pay $ 200.
2/4 There are no longer serious ideological barriers between Zimbabweans; especially the younger generation of the ages 18 to 49 years, who constitute 64% of the electorate & whose generational consensus is decidedly opposed to #JuntaPF's "Chunhu Chedu" politics of entitlement!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 1, 2018
87 Yr Old Man Greets Chamisa: I’ve Been Waiting All My Life To Shake Your Hand….
Holding free elections is a bridge too far for ED – declared, illegitimate junta must accept 2008 reforms writes Wilbert Mukori.
Below is Mukori’s opinion piece regarding electoral reforms in Zimbabwe.
After seizing power in the military coup in November 2017, President Mnangagwa and his putsch junta promised to hold free, fair and credible elections.
Even they knew that the coup was an unconstitutional act and per se their regime was from the word go illegitimate and still is to this day.
The junta’s promise to hold free, fair and credible elections was, in itself, a tacit acknowledgement by the regime that it is illegitimate and a promissory undertaking to return to legality. There is a mountain of evidence to prove that President Mnangagwa and his junta are not going to deliver of their promise to hold free, fair and credible elections. It is the duty of every thinking Zimbabwean out there to make sure the junta delivers on this one promise and not allowed to get away with another rigged election, if it fails.
Zimbabwe is in a serious economic mess; unemployment has soared to dizzying heights of 90%; ¾ of our people are now living in abject poverty whilst the few, ruling elite, are filthy rich; basic services like health have all but completely collapsed, the ruling elite routinely travel to SA, Singapore, etc. for all their health needs; etc. The root cause of this mess is the country’s failure to hold free and fair elections.
The nation has been stuck with this incompetent, corrupt and murderous Zanu PF dictatorship for the last 38 years because the regime rigged elections to stay in power.
Our ticket out of this economic and political hell-on-earth that this de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship has landed us is holding free, fair and credible elections. This is why implementing the democratic reforms necessary for free and fair elections is Zimbabwe’s holy grail. Nothing of any substance can ever be accomplished until we exorcise the dictatorship devils, implement the reforms and hold free and fair elections.
The primary task of 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms agreed in the Global Political Agreement and signed by Robert Mugabe, on behalf of Zanu PF, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, on behalf of the two MDC factions. President Thabo Mbeki of SA signed on behalf of SADC leaders, who were the guarantor of the agreement.
Throughout the five years of the GNU, SADC leaders nagged Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends to implement the reforms but were ignored at every turn. When it was clear to SADC leaders that, with no reforms in place, Zanu PF was set to rig the elections they made one more desperate bid to have the elections postponed.
“Of course, they (elections) can be postponed. In June 2013, before the elections, the Maputo Summit was all about having the elections postponed – the SADC summit. I went there.” Dr Ibbo Mandaza, director of SAPES Trust, told Violet Gonda in a detailed interview.
“I was there at the Summit and Mugabe pretended to agree to a postponement of the elections. If you recall, the postponement was based on the need to reform at least electoral laws.
“And after that Summit, Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, all of them were called to a separate meeting by the Heads of State of SADC in the absence of Mugabe, that same evening. And they were told; I was sitting there outside the room with Mac Maharaj; they were told, ‘If you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done’.
“And we came back on a Sunday and that Monday we had a SAPES Policy Dialogue to discuss the Summit and lo and behold, whilst we were discussing it, the court papers arrived calling the MDC to court to show reason why the elections should be postponed. Mugabe had done a volte-face against the decision of the Summit. Mugabe went on TV and threatened to leave SADC – ‘who is SADC, we can leave SADC anyway’.
“And so, under some pretext of a court application by Jealousy Mawarire, which others claim was really a ZANU PF ploy, the elections were held.
“And 3 or 4 days before the election Morgan Tsvangirai was lamenting that he had evidence that the election was already rigged. But they were warned like they are being warned again now. But blindly, they cannot make any excuses now, they going into elections again.”
The staging of the November coup has put Zanu PF, now under the management of the coup plotters, under renewed pressure to hold free and fair elections. President Mnangagwa as Mugabe’s right-hand man; especially on such matters as vote rigging, political violence including intimidation and murder and looting to bankroll the party’s vote rigging schemes and shenanigans; knew what the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA were and, if he so wished, would have implemented them after the November coup. He did not.
Indeed, instead of implementing the reforms he has continued to dismiss those calling for reforms as barking.
“Zanu PF ichatonga! Igo tonga! Imi muchingovukura! Nokuvukura!” (Zanu PF will rule! And rule! Whilst you (calling for reforms) bark! And bark!) Was the first thing President Mnangagwa told his Zanu PF supporters after the coup, to reassure on his commitment to the party’s no-regime-change mantra. This was Mnangagwa’s favourite boast before the coup and he wanted everyone to know he had not changed.
Just as SADC leaders had predicted in 2013, this year’s elections too “are done”. There is no free public media, the voters’ roll is in a shambolic state, Zanu PF has unfettered access to public resources and to billions of dollars of looted public wealth to bankroll it vote rigging juggernaut, etc., etc.; these elections are not going to be free, fair and credible.
In their bid to regain their lost legitimacy, President Mnangagwa and his junta; extended the official invitation to observe the elections to many other nations and organisations including USA, EU, Commonwealth, etc. besides the usual ones SADC, AU, China, Russia, etc. The task of every thinking Zimbabwean is to make sure the international observers judge these elections honestly and truthfully.
The basic tenets for free, fair and credible elections; free media, verifiable voters, transparent party funding, etc.; are the same the world over. If these tenets are missing, then the observers must declare these elections null and void. That is all we are asking, and it is not too much to ask!
President Mnangagwa and his junta were never going to hold free and fair elections, risk losing power by giving up the party’s carte blanche dictatorial powers to rig elections; that was a bridge too far for these seasoned thugs!
By failing to keep its promise to hold free elections the junta has failed to redeem its illegitimacy following the November coup and opened a great opportunity to revisit the 2008 GPA reforms.
It is for us, the people of Zimbabwe, to demand that the illegitimate Zanu PF junta must step aside to allow the appointment of an interim administration that will be tasked to implement the 2008 GPA reforms, hold free elections and thus finally get this great nation out of this hell-hole!
We know that Zanu PF is rigging these elections, they “are done”, as SADC leaders aptly put in 2013. Our main task now is to make sure the whole charade is declared null and void so we can go back to implementing the reforms!
Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo
Gutu South Constituency MP Berita Chikwama’ s chauffeur, Zvaoma Muusha was stabbed by Zanu PF activists last month in the wake of intraparty battles in the ruling party.
Muusha was attacked by two Zanu PF activists who were not happy with Chikwama’ s victory in the primary election in the constituency.
The two appeared before Gutu Magistrate Victor Mohamadi last week.They were charged with assault.
The court heard that Edmore and Tinashe Marwizi entered Muusha’ s shop at Ching’ai Business Centre on May 17 and assaulted him.They allegedly stabbed Muusha with an okapi knife on the fore finger.
They also struck Muusha with a metal bar.The two were granted $ 100 bail each.
By Own Correspondent| The MDC Alliance will on June 5 2018, march to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s offices to demand for electoral reforms.
Speaking at a press conference at Morgan Tsvangirai House in Harare today (Friday), Tendai Biti who was standing in for the Alliance spokesperson Welshman Ncube said the protest was a peaceful demo which aimed at pushing President Mnangagwa to impliment electoral reforms ahead of the July 30 election.
“The MDC Alliance has thus resolved to mobilize its members in terms of
Section 59 of the Constitution to cause ZEC and the government to accede to our legitimate demands in the spirit of Constitutionalism, justice and most importantly, Zimbabwe.
The demonstration will take place on the 5th of June 2018,” Hon Tendai Biti, one of the Alliance Principal has said.
Hon Biti said that the people will march from the Africa Unity Square to the ZEC offices, then proceed to the Munhumutapa building and wind back to Africa Unity Square where they will be addressed by the Alliance leadership.
“Of concern to us is the absence of reforms to ensure a free, fair and credible election that will set the country on a sustainable path to recovery,” Hon Biti said
Among the issues highlighted in the MDC Alliance’s Peace document launched in March this year, the principals are demanding a clean voters’ roll in an analyzable and searchable format.
“We need a copy of the voter’s roll in its analyzable form,” he added.
Adding on, Hon Biti said there is an undeniable need for a voters’ roll audit by a credible audit firm in order to deal with all the fictitious and non-existent names that marred the previous election.
“We need an audit of the voters’ roll because the voter inspection
period between 19th and 29th of May had two processes.
There was a process of fresh registration of voters and a process of massive transfer of voters from one constituency to another. That means we need another inspection period before the election of 30 July.
“We need an external audit to do three things, establish the legitimacy of the people sitting in that voters’ roll.
The audit should establish the credibility of this voters roll vis a vis the 2013 voters’ roll. Our fear is that they have contaminated the 2018 voters’ roll with the corrupt voters’ roll that was used to steal the 2013 election.
Thirdly, we need the external audit to be married with the data in the Registrar general’s office, so that the register of birth and death must marry with the voters’ roll so that we do not have phantom voters in the voters’ roll,” he added.
The Alliance further highlighted that polling stations have been increased by 1 500.
“We are concerned about polling stations. ZEC has unilaterally increased polling stations to 11 500 from 10 000. This is illegitimate because when the voter registration exercise took place, it was polling station based.
When people went to register to vote, immediately a person was given a polling station from where they will cast their ballot on the 30th of July so to unilaterally establish more stations is detrimental to the voter and prejudicial to the system as it is opaque, its illegal and meant to frustrate the efforts for the holding of free, fair and credible elections in Zimbabwe,”
Terrence Mawawa
By merely watching President Emmerson Mnangagwa’ s grand entry into Pfupajena Stadium today, one would have been compelled to believe that the country’s former leader, Robert Mugabe is still in charge.
In typical 
Mugabe style, Mnangagwa entered Pfupajena Stadium today.
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa is a product of Mugabe’s political orientation, according to analysts.
Surrounded by a team of men in dark glasses and members of the Presidential Guard, Mnangagwa and the First Lady Auxillia, disembarked from the back of a branded party vehicle after waving at the crowd in typical Mugabe style.
Mnangagwa himself who has never attacked Mugabe in public, opting to circumvent issues involving his former boss, has also literally admitted there is no love lost between the two strongmen.
In his speech Mnangagwa declared that the ruling party would romp to victory in the coming elections.
Terrence Mawawa
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has admitted the military junta is totally in control of political affairs in the country.
Speaking at a Zanu PF star rally at Pfupajena Stadium in Chegutu today Mohadi said Zimbabweans should not be amused by the government structure running the country.
“We hear a lot of names out there but that will not bother us.
Some people say the military junta is running the country and that is very correct.
We are all trained and it is our time to rule so you have to understand how the government is operating,” said Mohadi.
“Everyone knows that we are trained soldiers- yes that is very correct and we cannot deny it,” added Mohadi.
MDC Alliance coalition big brother partner the MDC-T members have openly called for the rejection of the Mbizo constituency, candidate who is seconded into the constituency by Alliance partner the PDP led by Tendai Biti.
The MDC-T structures are reportedly opposed to having the seat allocated to the PDP parliamentary candidate, Settlement Chikwinya.
MDC-T supporters are resisting Chikwinya’s candidature, and have been circulating fliers in the constituency calling on the electorate not to vote for the MDC Alliance candidate before the issue has been addressed by the alliance leaders.
“Chikwinya is the enemy of Mbizo. You sold out Zimasco workers. You betrayed MDC and donated the seat to Zanu PF. You want to impose yourself on Mbizo. Mbizo structures will never vote for you,” read some of the fliers being circulated in the city.
The fliers carry an MDC-T logo.
Chikwinya, however, claimed the smear campaign was being funded by other forces outside the MDC Alliance.
“These things are not coming from within the MDC Alliance. External forces are pushing this agenda because they know I am the strongest candidate in the race to win the Mbizo seat and I am being targeted so that the Zanu PF candidate can capitalise,” he said.
MDC-T council candidate, Morison Chinwada said he supported Chikwinya’s candidature.
“We are guided by our leadership and our president Nelson Chamisa, taking vision from the late leader Morgan Tsvangirai is committed to respect the alliance pack, so will we,” he said.
Contacted for comment, MDC-T national chairman, Morgan Komichi said: “I am working 24/7 because our members feel strongly that we should field candidates in all constituencies and we are mindful that if we were to have primary elections in all constituencies our alliance partners will not get a single seat. But we have to provide leadership and make sure the agreement is respected.”
Newsday
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has spoken for the first time on plans to take back farms from owners of multiple properties.
The revelations come after the Ministry Of Lands And Agriculture pointed directly at former President Robert Mugabe’s properties.
In January, officials in Gen Perrance Shiri’s office told a publication, “Minister Shiri has ordered, through our directors, that we compile a full list of the former First Family’s farms and we are already doing it.”
This time Mnangagwa yesterday confirmed the development although without mentioning Mugabe’s name.
The President told over 40 000 youths at a convention in Mkoba that his government is repossessing land from multiple farm owners and will soon redistribute it to the youths and other Zimbabweans yearning to venture into farming.
Mnangagwa said Government was also downsizing farms to benefit those who did not have land.
“There is a land audit committee underway,” said President Mnangagwa.
“The committee is discovering that there are people with more than one farm and we are taking those farms and leave you with one. We have also discovered that some farms are very big farms exceeding what is recommended depending on the region. We are downsizing those farms and you have requested that when we redistribute, we must think about the youths,” he said.
“That message is very clear. We do not want one individual to disadvantage others. We want fairness in the distribution of land. On that request we take it on board by making sure that the land we are getting back as a result of people with many farms we are going to take, some we have already repossessed, and some of that we are going to downsize, we will give our people.” – state media/additional reporting
Below is the state media full text over the arrest of former ZANU PF National Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere’s police encounter today:
Former cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere has been picked up by the police and arraigned before a Harare Magistrate facing charges of violating the Immigration Act by unlawfully exiting the country.
Kasukuwere, who returned last week after more than six months in self imposed exile outside the country, was picked up this morning for questioning.
Kasukuwere is among members of the G40 cabal that went into hiding outside the country following Operation Restore Legacy that was instituted by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces.
Another member and Kasukuwere’s brother, Dickson Mafios, was on Wednesday sentenced to 11 months in prison with an option of a fine over the same offence.
Mafios (51) of Plot Number 2, Insingizi Farm, Bindura, was convicted on his own plea of guilty when he appeared before Bindura magistrate, Mrs Vongai Guwuriro yesterday.
He was eventually sentenced to six months in jail with an option to pay a fine of $300, while the other five months were suspended on condition that he does not commit a similar offence in the next five years.- ZBC
State Media – Government has opened floodgates of economic opportunities to empower youths in all sectors as President Mnangagwa’s administration intensifies efforts to reconstruct the economy towards a middle-income country by 2030. If fully seized upon, the opportunities can significantly reduce the rate of unemployment among youths.
President Mnangagwa told a youth convention organised by the Zanu-PF Youth League here that young people should grab these opportunities with both hands to transform their lives.
He said young people were the future leaders and it was incumbent upon the Government of the day to lay the foundation for their lives. President Mnangagwa said Government now prioritised business and economics.
He said in the past five months, his administration secured US$16 billion in investment commitments some of which were already being implemented. “The youths are the future,” said President Mnangagwa.
“If you are the future, you must be empowered now for you to be good leaders tomorrow because you have been empowered at the correct age. You should not remain poverty stricken when you are young because when you come our age you will not value the young who come after you. But if we empower you, you shall have the same benevolence to empower the youths who will come after you,” the President said.
“You have talked about the Empowerment Bank. We have given it US$12 million from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe so that you can access funds for whatever project you want to do,” he said.
“It is important that as young people you do projects as groups and start small. We have put aside funds to support you. If you are focused in no time you become middle companies. These are the things that you must take advantage of because we have put aside funds for such purposes,” he said.
“In mining sector, we have said there are funds but the minister thinks that you must congregate as groups so that we can give you machinery.” President Mnangagwa also urged youths to venture into agriculture.
“There is now a programme for livestock. There is now a programme for fisheries. In the livestock sector, we have given them some money so the youths can also come together and approach Government and say we want to do our livestock project either breeding or cattle fattening,” said the Head of State.
“Come forward as groups and be supported. Those who want to do poultry, goats, or sheep, all these things are wanted in the Middle East. The point is as long as you have a piece of land come forward, there are funds for that. If you want to do fish (project) Mai (Oppah) Muchinguri-Kashiri will give you free fish and you create your own ponds. In six months or less they will have grown and you start to sell and all those projects are suitable for young people who are willing to do business on their own,” he said.
The President also urged the youths to consider venturing into industry and commerce. “You can also go into industry and commerce. Again, Government has created windows for you where you can access money.”
He said his administration was a listening Government that focused on addressing the concerns of the people. “Under the new dispensation, we have brought back the party to move forward following the correct line of the revolution.
“What is the correct line of the revolution? The correct line of the revolution is where the revolutionary party continues going to the people, continues to listen to the people, continues to address the challenges and concerns of the people and this is what we are doing,” he said.
“We are here to receive your challenges and we are here as your Government; we must address your challenges. We must address the challenges that you face. The new dispensation is back on rail and the Government itself is now on rail because it must address the needs of the people. It must address issues of the economy and it must fight corruption day and night,” he stressed.
Spiritist preacher Uebert Angel has been exposed for making false claims that he owns several properties which include the Great Hampton Limited building in Birmingham where he was just a lodger.
By Own Correspondent| Zanu Pf youths who died near the round about in Selous along the Harare Bulawayo road while coming from a rally addressed by their leader Emmerson Mnangagwa in Gweru have been identified.
The two youth leaders from Mbare 3 reportedly died on the spot after the Kombi they were travelling in was side swiped by a haulage truck on their way to Harare last night.
ZimEye is with holding publishing their names until their next of kin have been advised.
This is a developing story. Refresh the page for Updates.
By Own Correspondent| The former ZANU PF National Commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere is appearing before the magistrates court to answer for charge of border jumping.
Scoffing at the development, the exiled prof Jonathan Moto tweeted, “why was Mnangagwa not charged for violating immigration laws on 6 Nov 2017 when he jumped the border with an LV briefcase & thousands of dollars? Instead he’s been boasting about it & recommending border jumping as a prerequisite for the presidency!”
By Own Correspondent| The MDC Alliance Spokesman Professor Welshman Ncube is unwell.
This was announced Friday morning at the Morgan Tsvangirai House.
MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti said Ncube is unwell and that is the reason the press conference started late.
“Prof is our spokesperson…. prof is unwell, and I stood up for him, so sorry that we failed to start on time,” said Biti.
It was not clear at the time of writing what the man is suffering from. (This is a developing story)
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“The MDC Alliance will on the 5th of June 2018 hold a peaceful demonstration in Harare. This demonstration will be over the failure by the government and @ZECzim to implement key electoral reforms. Zimbabweans must come in their numbers. ”
Bulawayo Regional Magistrate Sibongile Msipa-
Marondedze sentenced a 49-year old Bishop
(name withheld) at Church Ways of Salvation
Apostolic to 21 years in prison.
The Bishop was
convicted on three counts of rape and indecent
assault after the court heard that he started
raping his now 19-year-old daughter when she
was 14.
The abuse started after the
child had been raped by a neighbour.
The
Bishop would claim that he was acting on
instructions from God.
Said the magistrate in passing sentence:
“The accused person’s
blameworthiness is very
high due to the fact that he
is the complainant’s
biological father. Accused
person is a danger to the
society and to himself.
People like him should be
taken out of the community
and be jailed for a long time.”
The bishop tried to blame the devil saying he
was not responsible. He will serve 17 years in
prison after the magistrate suspended 4 years
on condition that he does not commit a similar
crime – Chronicle
ZEC has increased polling stations to 11,500 from 10,000, says Tendai Biti. VIDEO BELOW:
By Own Correspondent| An unconfirmed number of Zanu Pf youths have died and others left seriously injured after their kombi was side swipped by a haulage truck near Halfway Selous round about along Harare- Bulawayo road.
The youths, were coming from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s youth interface rally held in Gweru yesterday (Thursday).
Efforts to get a comment from the police was futile.
This is a developing story. Refresh this page for updates.
The MDC T will today hold a press conference at Morgan Tsvangirai House in the capital Harare whose agenda has not been specified.
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ZANUPF paid for the North Koreas accommodation in a hotel to come and train the 5th brigade to kill innocent civilians.Check the name of the person who updated parliament about the payments . #Asakhe pic.twitter.com/PhX6v3yUyb
— YiseWabahlanu (@NikisiNikisi7) May 31, 2018
By Own Correspondent| Zanu Pf legislator for Mt Pleasant, Jason Passadi is reportedly capitalising on people’s poverty and dishing out rice in a move which has been described as vote buying.
Aspiring legislator for Mr Pleasant, Advocate Fadzai Mahere made the claims on Twitter where she accused Passadi of using people’s poverty to coerce them to vote for him.
Just been to Gunhill where I heard that our “honorable” MP is giving rice to people to buy their vote. We choose not to run such a campaign as we don’t believe poverty should be abused for political advantage. Change must be empowering & sustainable. The long way is the best way. pic.twitter.com/Xndi4W9E2l
— Fadzayi Mahere?? (@advocatemahere) May 31, 2018
Efforts to get a comment from Passadi were futile.
By Own Correspondent| MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa has dismissed previously held misconceptions that rural areas are Zanu Pf strongholds revealing that the MDC T was guaranteed of victory come July 30 2018.
On his facebook page after completing day one of his four day tour of Mashonaland East, Chamisa appreciated the huge turnout of people at his rally in Mutoko adding that victory was certain for his party in the forthcoming harmonised elections.
“It is a lie, the most rotated lie that rural areas are strongholds of Zanu Pf.
We have taken over and our winning is guaranteed mainly because we are fighting God’s battle,” he wrote.
Chamisa yesterday started his four day rallies blitz in Mashonaland East province where he held a rally at Mutoko centre.
Today, the people’s president will be at Masasa in Chikomba before proceeding for another rally at St Mary’s in Hwedza on Saturday. He winds up his tour with a rally on Sunday at Mahusekwa centre.
“President Chamisa is prioritising the rural areas in this year’s campaign, where the majority of Zimbabweans live,” said presidential spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka.
He said Chamisa is using his rural campaign tours to articulate the incoming government’s innovative policy programme that will positively transform the lives of the people.
:Zimbabweans in the rural areas have fallen in love with his comprehensive plan to uplift the lives of rural people through an innovative programme dubbed DURA-Developmen
The popular presidential candidate’s policy programe is anchored on the tripod pillars of Transformation,
Tamborinyoka said President Chamisa, fellow MDC Alliance principals and the party’s national leadership are all over the country spreading the incoming government’s innovative programme that will create jobs, devolve power and authority to local communities and improve people’s lives.
“Behold the new and brace for change that delivers!” he said.
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will not hold a Zanu-
PF star rally in Matabeleland South
tomorrow as earlier announced.
Zanu-PF national spokesperson Cde Simon
Khaya Moyo yesterday said the Matabeleland
South rally would be held at a date to be
advised.
He made the clarification following media
reports claiming that the President would
visit Matabeleland South tomorrow to
monitor projects and hold a star rally.
“The National Political Commissar
Lieutenant-General Engelbert Rugeje
(Retired), advises that the media reports
stating that His Excellency, the President and
First Secretary of Zanu-PF Cde ED
Mnangagwa, will be visiting projects and
addressing rallies in Matabeleland South
Province this weekend (Saturday) are
misplaced,” said Cde Khaya Moyo.
“The said visit to Matabeleland South
Province will be advised at a later date.”
Cde Khaya Moyo said Zanu-PF had set its
sights on resoundingly winning the
harmonised elections.
He said for the party to achieve its goals,
party members should start mobilising votes
for Zanu-PF.
“Campaigns for the President and Zanu-PF
candidates for the coming harmonised
elections to be held on 30 July 2018 must be
in full swing from now onwards, as Zanu-PF
must win resoundingly like it did in 2013,”
said Cde Khaya Moyo.
“Unity and peace are the watch words.
Forward to total victory.”
Zanu-PF on Tuesday and Wednesday this
week held a healing and reconciliation
workshop for the party’s winning and losing
candidates in Harare.
During the workshop, President Mnangagwa
urged Zanu-PF members to work towards
delivering an election victory for the party.
In an interview, Matabeleland North
provincial chairman Cde Richard Moyo said
the workshop was crucial for party
supporters as the primary elections had left
Zanu-PF divided.
Cde Moyo, who is the party’s candidate for
Umguza Constituency, said provinces were
set to hold Provincial Co-ordinating
Committee meetings to relay the President’s
message to grassroots supporters.
“We learnt a lot through the workshop,” he
said.
“It was important for the party as we
prepare to campaign for the party. It made us
understand that we have to put the party
first in all our programmes and our personal
interests later.”
Matabeleland North provincial chairman Cde
Rabelani Choeni, who lost the Beitbridge
Senatorial seat primaries, said the workshop
paid dividends as the party prepare for the
elections.
He said members would be more united
while campaigning for the party – State media.
Mliswa and his portfolio committee should leave President Mugabe alone.
Harare—31 May 2018-The National Patriotic Front (NPF) wishes to register disquiet over the abuse of parliament and parliamentary procedures by Honourable Temba Mliswa and his parliamentary portfolio committee on mines and energy.
Honourable Mliswa has been abusing his position as chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee to harass former President Robert Mugabe through a fake process aimed at obfuscating debate around the abuse of diamonds and diamond revenue through illegal mining activities by Zimbabwe’s security ministries, namely Home Affairs, Defence and State Security.
As a starting point, it is quite cynical for Hon Mliswa and the 8th Parliament of Zimbabwe to interrogate President Mugabe over anything when the same parliament participated in the ignoble November 15 2017 coup that unconstitutionally removed his incumbency.
Hon Mliswa and his portfolio committee members, by participating in an attempted impeachment process against President Mugabe, which was an apparent artifice to legitimise the November 15 2017 coup, have no moral ground to conduct any genuine parliament business because their hands are dirty and are as illegal as the regime and the President they are desperately trying to cleanse.
The activities of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee and Hon Mliswa are clearly contrived and meant to exonerate President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from allegations of looting diamonds by creating a sideshow involving the former president.
Despite public knowledge that the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, under its then commander, General Chiwenga, and then Minister of Defence, Mnangagwa, mined diamonds through a company called Anjin in partnership with some Chinese nationals, Mliswa’s committee has avoided questioning the duo’s role in the looting of the country’s diamonds.
It is inconceivable that such common knowledge is lost to the committee and its chairperson that they feel it is not necessary to question why the army, under the direct command of the duo, mined diamonds in the first place.
Mliswa’s committee has been tepid on interrogating Mnangagwa and Chiwenga yet very fervent in its grandstanding and duplicitous attempts at dragging President Mugabe before it.
While it is not our duty to give terms of reference to the portfolio committee, it is within our purview, as one of the biggest political parties in the country, to voice concerns over what is happening in our extractive sector.
We believe that the looting of diamonds in the country has its genesis in the corrupt manner in which the company to partner the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) was chosen.
We believe that the Mliswa committee should interrogate why Minister Obert Mpofu, despite written communication in the “ZMDC Due Diligence Memorandum” went on to award the right to partner ZMDC to mine diamonds in Marange to an undeserving company against available information to the contrary.
Despite available information in the memorandum which pointed out that Reclam, the company that later partnered ZMDC to form Mbada and mine the Marange diamonds “is not a mining house and is currently not involved in diamond mining”, the minister went ahead to bless the partnership.
Even the fact that Reclam had “no diamond mining equipment” and that the company had “no diamond mining as part of its vision and growth strategy,’ did not dissuade the minister from blessing the joint venture and one wonders what sort of ‘gain’ the minister realised for awarding such an undeserving company a piece of this important national resource when the company was bringing in no expertise, equipment nor strategic vision to such an important national venture.
The Mliswa committee should investigate why Reclam sold its shares to Transfrontier resulting in a convoluted ownership structure in Mbada through multiple nominee shareholders which betray an intricate web of unscrupulous business dealings. The Effective Ownership
Interests of Nominee
Shareholders in Mbada, before its dissolution, included Lesley Chang 12.50%, Billy Li (6.25%), Express Agents (3.13%) and Leisure Star Limited (3.13%)
Lesley Chang and Billy Li are Hong Kong residents who own CLHL Secretaries, a company that provides services setting up anonymous, offshore shell companies mainly used in money laundering and other unscrupulous business dealings.
We therefore believe that Mliswa and his committee should get down to real business investigating how our diamonds were looted not playing games through sideshows meant for expediency and outright political skulduggery.
In fact, Mliswa is not fit to chair the committee after allegations that he connived with a businessman he is now attacking through parliament, to dupe the government of Zimbabwe into selling Bokai mine for $100million then went on to sell the same company for $1 billion within a month of their purchase.
It is the duty of every Zimbabwean to front the fight against corruption but we can’t afford to let the narrative determined by unscrupulous individuals whose past is littered with questionable deals.
Together we can fight for what is good.
lwe neni tine basa, umsebenzi 10 umkhulu
God bless you all.
Asante Sana
Jealousy Mawarire
National Spokesperson
By Own Correspondent| The development that saw fears being raised over the health of former police boss, Gen. Augustine Chihuri last week Friday have been dismissed.
The riveting rumours came after a well known close source claimed Chihuri died last week.
The trouble with dying in rural Malawi is that you can be buried without a death certificate: people are culturally buried on the very day of passing on and once you are gone you are gone, an analyst told ZimEye.com.
Relatives have spoken albeit under strict anonymity, bringing their contributions to what is really going on. Their statements, drifting from the Friday core claim, have however brought to light that there could be underhand motives in The Rumour which circulated last week.
One female kin yesterday unequivocally told ZimEye.com of the purported death, ” that is a whole load of nonsense, nothing like that happened.”
Another source who is in senior government ranks also said the man is alive. This flood of talk came at a time when the various family members continued causing confusion on the alleged plight of the former police boss.
To somewhat add fire to the twisting tail, another relative 2 days ago provided a totally contradicting testimonial as she said that the man died on Tuesday.
Last week the original source who would not be named as they claimed “sensitive disclosure,” took social networks by storm claiming that the man has passed on.
Chihuri has been unwell in the last 18 months.
The man briefly disappeared mid November last year at the time of the coup and then resurfaced around the time of Robert Mugabe’s resignation.
He later on disappeared when Parliament began investigative hearings on his alleged role in the 15 billion diamond scam.
The parliamentary committee’s chairman Temba Mliswa was told Chihuri last week was hospitalised and was struggling with his health in Malawi.
THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY – refresh this page for the updates
By Dorrothy Moyo| A breakthrough has been reached with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission – for the first time since the MDC was formed in 1999, as ZimEye reveals: the ZEC has promised to dish out the electoral roll soon after the 14th June 2018. Article continues below VIDEO :
The development is set to empower both politicians and voters with knowledge and access to a level playing field.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted that previous elections were not free and fair. One of the areas has been the voters roll which has been edited so to favour ruling party contestants. That is set to be a thing of the past if the declarations by the ZEC can be relied on.
The ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has promised that every candidate will obtain a copy of the roll.
Justice Chigumba who has been albeit accused of travelling to Russia to learn vote rigging tactics said, “we have said we will give the voters roll to everyone who wants it as soon as we have the final copy, what we have at the moment is work in progress; In fact, each candidate that will be successfully nominated we also receive a free copy of the voters roll, every one of them and it will be at ZEC’s expense.”
She also added saying the roll will be accessible in all requested formats, paper and eletronic. “So whether it’s Presidential candidate, Parliamentary or local authority as soon as you are nominated you will get a copy of the voters’ roll of the area you are contesting,” she said.
She continued adding that, “anyone who wants it can still come and get them for a fee at our offices in the various formats,” she said.
See Justice Chigumba’s recent video interviews below:
A Bulawayo man is suing his wife for maintenance.
The ma approached the Bulawayo magistrate court seeking for a discharge in spousal maintenance.
Gumbuka Mhlanga yesterday dragged his ex-wife Ms Maselina Mhlanga to court applying to stop paying spousal maintenance for her.
Mhlanga is paying $80 for spousal upkeep.
Mhlanga brought his wife and three minor children to court and two of the children were dressed in school uniform.
He said he now has another family.
Mhlanga also said Ms Mhlanga was now staying with another man.
“Your worship, I am applying for discharge in spousal maintenance. I am no longer employed, I am a pensioner. The money is being garnished and I am losing my entire pension to her. We separated in 2003 and I have not seen her for the past 17 years. She is staying with another man. I also have a wife and three minor children. There is my wife and our children, two of them are in school uniform because they are supposed to be at school,” he said.
Ms Mhlanga denied that she has re-married.
Bulawayo magistrate Miss Rachel Mukanga dismissed the application for discharge in spousal maintenance.
“The application before this court is dismissed. You cannot prove that she is staying with another man therefore she might not have re-married. Come back to court when you have proof that she is married,” she said. – state media
Elections observers accredited by yesterday, Thursday, do not have permission to monitor the actual casting of votes, it has emerged.
The more than 1 000 local observers who passed up for the country’s pre-election season to assess the Biometric Voter Registration and Voters Roll Inspection, will need a 2nd level of accreditation, it has been revealed.
The Zec acting chief elections officer, Mr Utoile Silaigwana, was quoted by the state owned Chronicle saying more than 1 035 local observers were accredited for the voter registration and inspection programme.
“The commission accredited 41 observers during the inspection exercise and the 994 observers accredited during the Biometric Voter Registration exercise were also free to observe the inspection exercise,” said Mr Silaigwana.
The state media says their activities include organising voter registration campaigns which include road shows and music concerts.
The report continues saying:
One of the local observers noted that while Zanu-PF was visible on the ground, opposition parties were lacking due to squabbles.
Mr Silaigwana said ZEC was yet to invite local election observers for the actual elections.
International and continental bodies have so far expressed satisfaction with the country’s election road map.
The Australian Embassy during the day donated equipment worth $46 000 to Harare Children’s Hospital. – pic credits: Harare Hospital
MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa during the day fired back at critics who claim that he needs to stick to prepared speeches.
Cynics attack him for his recent statement on promises of economic support from the Donald Trump administration, something alter proven to be accurate because Trump’s administration did of a truth meet Chamisa and passed the promises.
The latest attack this week has been on Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, assisting him with his ICT policy, which were later proven to be accurate and Kagame’s written denials disproved.
Chamisa was speaking in Mutoko on Thursday when he said, “Some people are saying ‘Chamisa speaks at a rally without a written speech’. Well I do not do things like those old men who read like (Simon) Muzenda saying ‘erm because of’, ah ah; I would have practiced and memorised the speech beforehand,” he added.
Sten Zvorwadza has betrayed the vendors struggle and dumped them in the middle of the ” Red Sea” writes Don Chigumba.
Below is his opinion piece.
I was shocked by allegations from the media that Sten Zvorwadza has started warming up towards ED and ZANU PF, I am not trying to limit the freedom of speech and politics of Sten here but just to advise him that he left the vendors of Zimbabwe in the middle of the ‘RedSea’.
Sten Zvorwadza swore before the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe support that he would take them to Canaan. This piece aims at asking Sten Zvorwadza on whether ED and the recycled ZANU PF is the Canaan he meant during the sworn in ceremony before the vendors (majority of them being university graduates).
I am now forced to believe that Hunzvi was better than Sten Zvorwadza, Chenjerai Hunzvi (with colleagues) started the land reform program and was consistent and died after grabbing the land from the whites and killing some ‘very few people’. He never changed his position like the current government that seems to be reversing the original objective of their (ZANU PF) land reform.
If Sten Zvorwadza could have survived during the liberation struggle, I have no doubt that he could have been [REDACTED] because of betraying the struggle (should ask Rugare Gumbo once alleged to have been thrown in a pit like Daniel for some days during the struggle). The aim of the struggle was to get political independence and the aim for Zvorwadza was to liberate the vendors on and from streets to the ‘four wall’ of formal employment.
Zvorwadza initiated the formation of the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe because he wanted to inform Mugabe and ZANU PF that only ‘street vendor industry’ was the only viable industry left in Zimbabwe, hence it was to be promoted until the economy starts to perform.
Zvorwadza should have learnt from Madhuku, instead of (running away or leaving) NCA as an organization calling for constitutional change, he turned NCA into a political party because his aim was to take his followers to Canaan (though law practice/the love of money pulled him from his initial vision of serving the masses).
Zvorwadza should know that, the organization is more powerful than an individual, that is why some organizations kill, throw in boiled cooking oil or chase leaders who go against its founding principles. What I want to tell you is that, just like the split in the MDC (because of violations of their founding objectives of 1999), your organization will definitely follow suit.
Another original vendor will rise up like Joshua and take over from where you left. Just like Nelson Chamisa (who rose up) to take Zimbabweans to Canaan, another vendor will take your place and deliver vendors home.
I do not want to castigate Sten too much, because his contribution to the struggle shall be remembered even after our deaths but he should agree with his soul that he sold the struggle. What I want Sten to do is to give another person the button, he should not go to the extent of being forced to give the button like what happened to Mugabe.
Zvorwadza should have finished the journey, he is still young to go, however, I wish him well in his endeavors (if he is warming up for ZANU PF) ED should take him at Satan’s risk because he has demonstrated that his support is from the winds and the love of money.
May the evil spirits of Zimbabwe leave Zvorwadza alone.At one point in time when Ndabaningi Sithole was asked on who killed Chitepo, he said ‘the revolution has eaten its own children’, I am still hopeful Zvorwadza has ‘not eaten the revolution’ because the revolution is always dangerous to swallow and keep in the stomach. It is better for the revolution to eat him.
Don Chigumba is a mixed methods research specialist. He can be found on twitter @Donchigumba
By Own Correspondent| The MDC T youth wing has threatened to mount a massive demonstration on 5June to protest and urge President Emmerson Mnangagwa to heed calls for electoral reforms.
Speaking at a press briefing held at Morgan Tsvangirai House today (Thursday), Secretary General of the MDC T Youth wing, Lovemore Chinoputsa said there was general consensus among the youths within the party to embark on this demonstration as a strategy of ensuring that young people played their role of defending their vote.
“We are upping our calls for electoral reforms because we believe that there shall be no election without reforms.
We want to know where the voters’ roll is. If inspection can be done, why is it difficult to show interested stakeholders the preliminary voters roll,” said Chinoputsa.
Click on the video above for this and more.
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Statement: The Harare Residents Trust (HRT) met with Ardbennie suburban committee to educate them on their roles and responsibilities and to discuss some issues affecting the neighbourhood. This media update highlights that the residents are unhappy with the water from the City of Harare, water disconnections, their elected representatives are not effectively representing them and the establishment of a neighbourhood watch committee since the crime rate has been increasing over the recent years. They complained that the water they were receiving for the past half a week was not conducive for them to drink. It has visible impurities. They added that there was illegal water closure for nearly a week starting from 28 May 2018. The HRT is investigating to establish the true situation on this allegation and the suburban committee will engage the Waterfalls District Officer so that they map a way forward and try to stop these water disconnections. Resident also were not sure if it’s their duty to give to council workers food, who are deployed to do work in the suburb such as unblocking sewage or repairing burst pipes.
Speaking on neighbourhood watch committee, residents expressed concern about the crime rate in their neighbourhood. Residents indicated that previously Ardbennie had a neighbourhood watch committee which received financial help from other external organisations and also material help from the residents. Therefore, as a suburb they are thinking of engaging volunteers to conduct night patrols and during the day with the help of Zimbabwe Republic Police to minimise crime rate and increasing drug abuse.
Residents indicated that they have managed to engage the Department of Works of the City of Harare on the issue of erecting humps in Waterfalls Road at Ardbennie Primary School. However, they were notified that they have to revisit since the humps were put at places where they are not necessarily needed. Therefore, if the engagement succeeds there will be a new problem that commuter omnibus will change the route and use routes that are inside the suburb and they will be over-speeding through the roads. This carelessness by the drivers puts the lives of young children at risk. Therefore, residents need both roads to have humps to deter high speed.
Lastly, Ardbennie, being part of Ward 23, in Waterfalls, say they have been very unfortunate in that their elected representatives, both Member of Parliament and Councillor have never bothered to come and meet them to hear their issues. Elected representatives take the area as small and irrelevant therefore they neither visit them nor send representative, which makes them poorly
represented.
By Ndaba Nhuku| Zimbabwe has endured 7 days filled with drama, shock and intrigue. The hypocrisy of Zimbabweans again – Terrence Mukupe abused a so called HIV positive man, and here now a woman has abused another so called HIV positive man, and Mukupe is demonized while Mai Titi is praised and consoled, she even makes lots of money out of it.
The doors have now been flung open for all Mukupe, Mai Titi and their kind now to at any time whenever annoyed, to shoot LIVE videos to destroy their social enemies. In the way Tendai Biti was not given a chance to state his side of the story, Baba Titi, Tapiwa Mutikani has been bullied by millions of Zimbabweans as he is labelled an HIV spreader. The damage is worse for the rest of the population affected by the HIV pandemic, they will they now be labelled HIV spreaders without any evidence whatsoever of their alleged deliberate spreading.
What if Mai Titi was lying in the same way she did a few months ago when she claimed she has a doctor’s note diagnosing her for cancer, shortly before she was healed by Emmanuel Makandiwa? So far she has claimed she reported her ex husband for deliberate infecting with HIV, but there is no date, no police reference and no court file number, not even the name of a single lawyer or prosecutor she has given.
Furthermore, will Mai Titi apologise to the many HIV positive people killed inside Makandiwa’s church through her lies that she was healed of cancer in August least year? The videos are there online for all to watch.
Meanwhile, she has also gone on to claim she was sentenced to 6 months for merely sending messages demanding maintenance. Which court verdict was that and which magistrate passed such a bizarre decision? No one asks.
So far it is already known that it is a crime in Zimbabwe to reveal someone’s HIV status. And yet many Zimbabweans are not interested, they just believe this woman.
What Zimbabwe as we setting ourselves for with the Mukupes and the Mai Titis?
These two crooks, their power lies in the pit of hell, and they will destroy Zimbabwe henceforth while we watch. WATCH THIS SPACE!
Terrence Mawawa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has described MDC councillors as very corrupt and uncooperative.
Addressing a Youth Interface Rally in Gweru today Mnangagwa said the ruling party would take control of all local authorities after winning the coming polls.
“MDC councillors are difficult to work with in local
government which has resulted in chaos in
some towns,” said Mnangagwa.
Terrence Mawawa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is regarded by many observers as a calm and composed man betrayed his vast political experience today when he publicly uttered derogatory comments on the opposition.
Mnangagwa has been commended by political neutrals for digressing from hate language after taking over power from former President Robert Mugabe.
However today Mnangagwa was a bundle of nerves as he desperately attempted to discredit his youthful political foe, Nelson Chamisa at an Interface Rally in Gweru.
Mnangagwa attacked the youthful politician, describing him as a novice.
“We are running this country and we have no reason to lose sleep.
They are trying to provoke but we will not be dragged into amateurish battles.
The opposition will never defeat us.Vanongovukura vachingovukura isu tichingotonga(the opposition leaders are barking like toothless dogs but we will remain in power,” said Mnangagwa.
“I do not even remember the MDC’ s proper name, does anyone know the correct name by the way?
I know their leaders are very corrupt,”Mnangagwa said.
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa today held a rally in the abducted activist Itai Dzamara’s home area, Mtoko.
Announcing the meeting, his spokesman said Chamisa will spend four days campaigning. FULL TEXT:
Adv. Nelson Chamisa today is holding a four-day rallies blitz in Mashonaland East province which begins with a rally at Mutoko centre today.
Tomorrow, the people’s president will be at Masasa in Chikomba before proceeding for another rally at St Mary’s in Hwedza on Saturday. He winds up his tour with a rally on Sunday at Mahusekwa centre.
President Chamisa is prioritising the rural areas in this year’s campaign, where the majority of Zimbabweans live. He is using his rural campaign tours to articulate the incoming government’s innovative policy programme that will positively transform the lives of the people.
Zimbabweans in the rural areas have fallen in love with his comprehensive plan to uplift the lives of rural people through an innovative programme dubbed DURA-Development and Urbanisation of Rural Areas.
The popular presidential candidate’s policy programe is anchored on the tripod pillars of Transformation, Opportunities and Prosperity (TOP).
President Chamisa, fellow MDC Alliance principals and the party’s national leadership are all over the country spreading the incoming government’s innovative programme that will create jobs, devolve power and authority to local communities and improve people’s lives.
Behold the new and brace for change that delivers!
Terrence Mawawa
Zimbabwe Warriors head coach Sunday Chidzambwa has named the final 20 man squad to play in the Cosafa Cup.
Warriors star forward Knowledge Musona has been ruled out of the tournament due to an injury- joining Marvelous Nakamba who pulled out due to an injury.
Mamelodi Sundowns forward Khama Billiat is part of the squad while in-form Sweden based striker Tinotenda Kadewere is also part of the final squad -as well as Czech based defender Costa Nhamoinesu.
Zimbabwe will take on the winner of Group B in the quarterfinals of the tournament that is already underway in South Africa.
Meanwhile the team will travel to South Africa on Thursday.
The Warriors final squad for Cosafa Cup 2018:
George Chigova
Talbert Shumba
Edmore Sibanda
Costa Nhamoinesu
Jameson Mukombwe
Kevin Moyo
Alec Mudimu
Marshall Munetsi
Tinotenda Kadewere
Talent Chawapiwa
Ovidy Karuru
Khama Billiat
Abbas Amidu
Richard Hachiro
Tafadzwa Kutinyu
Terence Dzvukamanja
Takudzwa Chimwemwe
Evans Rusike
Leeroy Mavunga
Devine Lunga
Terrence Mawawa
Mamelodi Sundowns have reportedly tabled a new lucrative deal for Zimbabwe international striker Khama Billiat in a bid to keep him at the club, it has emerged.
Billiat has less than a month left on his contract, and the winger has already been linked with moves to several clubs.
According to Soccer Laduma, a South African football website, Sundowns have offered the player over R5 million per annum – including bonuses and signing on fees.
With Percy Tau also strongly linked with a move abroad, indications are that Sundowns want to avoid losing two of their key players at the same time and have upped the ante in trying to keep Billiat at the club.
Billiat has been influential to the success of the Pretoria-based side, and the Tswane Giants are eager to keep him in their plans for the new season, as they seek to retain the Absa Premiership title and continue their fight in the CAF Champions League.
Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo
A political heavyweight in the Movement for Democratic Change has suddenly pulled out of the Masvingo Urban Constituency Primary election.
Prominent businessman and MDC National Executive member Takanayi Mureyi stunned all and sundry yesterday when he unexpectedly announced his decision to pull out of the Masvingo Urban Constituency primary election.
” I have decided to pull out of the race because of pressing commitments.I have decided to give other candidates a chance to contest in the primary election.
As you know, I am a member of the National Executive so I have to attend to more challenging tasks,” said Mureyi.
However party sources claimed the politician chickened out of the race because he was afraid of being humiliated in the election.
Terrence Mawawa
Former Radio and Television presenter Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has urged Parliament to force former President Robert Mugabe to disclose the truth on the missing $ 15 billion.
Mugabe hinted that there was rampant looting at Chiadzwa resulting in the theft of precious stones valued at $ 15 billion.
“Robert Mugabe has failed to turn up in parliament again
to answer questions on the missing $15 Billion.
This arrogant man needs to be forced to tell
Zimbabwe what happened to the diamonds and the
money.
He should also be indicted for genocide and
many other crimes against humanity,” wrote Sibanda on Facebook yesterday.
Terrence Mawawa
A defiant Terrence Mukupe has featured at the Zanu PF Youth Interface Rally in Gweru without party regalia.
A relatively calm Mukupe was spotted by ZimEye.com fidgeting with his mobile phone as Vice President Constantino Chiwenga addressed the rally.
Mukupe, seemingly calm and unfazed by the pressure mounting on him from angry Zimbabweans, is Mnangagwa’ s blue-eyed boy, according to party sources.
Mukupe has been mired in controversy over the past few weeks due to what political observers have described as his carefree attitude towards key national issues.
Mukupe torched storm when he charged that the army would not allow popular MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to rule the country.
Terrence Mawawa
Zanu PF Secretary for Youth Affairs, Pupurai Togarepi has taunted MDC Alliance Presidential Candidate Nelson Chamisa whom he described as a shameless liar.
In a scathing attack on the youthful MDC leader at a Zanu PF Youth Interface Rally in Gweru today, Togarepi said Chamisa would be humiliated in the coming polls.
” The young man will never rule Zimbabwe, he is a pathetic liar and he has become a huge embarrassment to the natio
n.
He claimed he had a meeting with Trump and we later discovered that it was a blue lie.
Now he is at it again, we are fed up with his lies,” said Togarepi
” The young man will quit politics after losing the coming polls.Let him send his sister to school- instead of giving her to our President,” added Togarepi.
Zimbabwe Vendors Association leader Sten Zvorwadza has said he was not paid a penny by ZANU PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Explaining why he has chosen to back ZANU PF, Zvorwadza pointed at the opposition which he said has betrayed him- in a direct inference to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s administration the party of which he was a member, and a parliamentary candidate as well.
He was quoted by the Daily News saying, “If there is a person who gave me money for the things I was doing they can throw the first stone, but if there is none then I am clean. In Zanu PF — when we are knocking on their doors — no one is talking politics. We gave the MDC a platform in 2014, 2015, 2016 but they declined to give us a voice.
“The MDC-T were even telling their people not to attend our demonstrations. In essence, at every point, the MDC-T was fighting processes that they purport to stand for. As an organisation, we stand for the truth. If a Zanu PF person is beaten up, we stand by that person. We should not be seen as standing by a particular political party. We stand for all vendors.”
Zinedine Zidane has stepped down as manager of Real Madrid.
The 45-year-old led Real to their third successive Champions League triumph under his stewardship by masterminding victory over Liverpool in Kiev on Saturday.
But speculation has been rife about Zidane’s long-term future at the Bernabeu and the Frenchman announced at a press conference on Thursday afternoon that he would be leaving the club.
Appearing alongside Real president Florentino Perez, World Cup winner Zidane said: “I have taken the decision to not continue going into the next season.
“For me and for everybody, I think the moment to change has arrived. It was not an easy decision.
“I will be close to this club for the rest of my life. I want to thank the fans, who always supported me both as a coach and a player.
“There were tough moments during the season and although I was sometimes whistled at, I want to thank the fans.
“This is a beautiful moment as we have just won a third straight Champions League and I have now reflected and made this decision. Even the players need this change, I must thank them too.”
Pere added: “This was a totally unexpected decision, Zidane informed me of his choice yesterday. I thank him for the work he has done.”
Zidane, the former Real, Juventus and Bordeaux midfielder, was understood to be under contract in Madrid until 2020.
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