By Paul Nyathi|Heavy intra party fighting caused the abandonment of MDC-T local government primary elections in Ward 28 of Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park high density suburb on Sunday.
Reports made available to ZimEye.com indicate that incumbent councillor for the ward Collet Ndlovu and some members of his family were on Monday picked up and detained by police details from the Law and Order section at Bulawayo Central Police station on public violence charges following the skirmishes.
Ndlovu and his sons are accused of damaging a vehicle belonging to rival candidate Happison Ncube and injuring several other people suspected to be rival supporters.
Ncube told journalists in a press interview on Monday that his vehicle was badly damaged by Ndlovu and his supporters in the course of the primary election voting when they realised that the incumbent councillor was on the verge of losing the election.
“They attacked my car with stones and bottles and a host of other missiles forcing the presiding officers to call off the elections for security reasons,” said Ncube.
Ncube condemned the violence refusing to comment further on the incident indicating that the party does not allow candidates to comment in the media on the ejections referring journalists to the party spokesperson Thabitha Khumalo who could not immediately be contacted.
65 year old Eunice Mpofu a member of the party who witnessed the incident told ZimEye.com that she has never experienced the kind of violence she saw on Sunday and called on party officials to bring order into the party.
“They wanted to set the vehicle on fire shouting that Happy Ncube must be killed and burnt inside the car,” she said.
“The driver acted very quickly and drove away before a group of young people with petrol bombs could set the vehicle on fire and killed five innocent people,” she said.
Talking to journalists on the incident the Bulawayo provincial Chairperson of the party Gift Banda said that the provincial executive is also not allowed to comment on matters to do with the primary elections referring the journalists to party chairman Morgan Komichi who could not immediately be contacted by ZimEye.com on the violence skirmishes.
By Own Correspondent| Hurungwe – Zimbabwe Election Commission‘s, Zec, Biometric Voters Registration process, BVR fired blanks at some polling stations in Mashonaland West province as potential voters names are missing.
In Hurungwe Central Constituency Karoi town council Ward 2 Youths Centre polling station voters were turned away on Monday as their names are not in the voters roll.
Almost 85 voters were turned away since Saturday and started re registering at Chikangwe community hall where there is BVR kit on Monday.
At Dambanzara Primary School polling station in Hurungwe East under Ward 6, 401 officially registered voters were affected as their names are missing. The school is situated about 40 kilometres east of Karoi town.
Officers were shocked when pages of prospective voters had nothing as proof of identities of voters. The officials said BVR related information was not captured.
Hurungwe District Zec officer Taona Pfunye was informed of the situation that will be rectified within the ten day period.
Pfunye could not answer his mobile phone
Voters’ inspection kicked off in low note on Saturday with some polling stations registering only four voters who inspected their names.
Voters’ inspection has been marred by logistical challenges.
President Emerson Mgangwagwa indicated that he will announce election dates in two weeks’ time’
The MDC party led by Nelson Chamisa squares up with Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF, the state media has laid claim.
The state broadsheet, The Herald presented that the MDC has demanded for BVR slips, ZANU PF style.
The party chairman, Mr Morgen Komichi however defended the requirement saying it was meant to ensure that only registered voters participate in the primaries. MDC-T has raised concern against people being asked to produce voter registration slips saying it was a way of intimidating voters. Komichi said they are not recording serial numbers. Komichi said, ”
“This is meant to ensure that only people who are going to vote in the harmonised elections participate in the primaries. You cannot open it to everyone and include people that are not registered because it will distort the whole process. This is different from what happened in the past because no serial numbers are being recorded.”
State Media -President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Vincent Hungwe as the Public Service Commissions chairperson with effect from June 1.
Mr Hungwe takes over from Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah.
The announcement was made by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda in a statement yesterday.
“The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda has announced the appointment by His Excellency the President, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, of Mr Vincent Hungwe, as the Chairperson of the Public Service Commissions.
“Mr Hungwe’s appointment has been made in terms of Section 202 Sub-section (1) (a) of the Constitution following the retirement of his predecessor Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah,” read the statement issued by Principal Director in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Mr Regis Chikowore.
“His appointment takes effect from 1st June, 2018.”
Dr Nzuwah retired in March this year.
Dr Mary Margaret Muchada was the acting chairperson since then.
By Own Correspondent| The man whose job is the building of investor confidence and the lowering of business risk, embarrassed President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday.
In what is set to clearly scare investors away from Zimbabwe, it has been declared that the army will not allow MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to enter state house, as Deputy Finance Minister Terrence Mukupe has declared.
The Finance Minister (dep)’s comments come at a time when the Zimbabwean government is seeking international recognition as a civilian state, not a military one. It also comes as the President sought to assert that the November military coup was a civilian transition and nothing to do with the military.
Mukupe said soldiers did not remove Robert Mugabe so to pass on the Presidency to a young inexperienced Nelson Chamisa.
He made these comments while addressing a cell group in Mandara, Harare.
He began by saying, “let us be truthful, our nation where it is and where it is going , it needs an elderly person with a steady hand, who will stabilise things. For me to say the army took over the country from vaMugabe so that they can hand over to a young man who is talking about spaghetti roads, and talking about impregnating all women. Isn’t you heard him saying these things?
“After saying these things, you say Mnangagwa if he wins I will give him my sister, it is almost being scornful of all women. Imagine me telling you that I want to impregnate all you women, would you vote for me?
“This is what I am saying, even I myself I want to rule, do you hear? No one refuses to sit in a Mercedes Benz and get all the sirens, but these things have their own time. I don’t think I have the maturity level to get the whole country and the soldiers now saluting me(di; but I heard him saying at one time saying he is already rehearsing performing Presidential guard inspections like this…”
On Wednesday the 23rd of May 2018, parliament is to receive oral evidence from His Excellency the former President of the Republic of Zimbabwe R. G. Mugabe.
The decision to summon the former Head of State and Government follows a claim he made in February 2016 that the country could have been prejudiced of over $15 billion in unrealised diamond revenue from Chiadzwa.
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy chaired by Norton MP Mr Temba Mliswa (Independent) set tomorrow to hear evidence from Mr Mugabe who resigned in November pending impeachment proceedings against him.
Mr Mliswa confirmed the development yesterday.
“A letter was written and delivered to him last week. We now expect him to come. While his office has not yet confirmed, that is not a legal requirement but is usually done out of courtesy.
“The most important thing is that we have discharged our obligation, we have summoned him,” said Mr Mliswa.
He said the inquiry was not a witch-hunt, but was aimed at getting the truth on the utilisation of national resources.
“The committee was of the view that we might even hold the meeting at his residence considering his age. It was just an alternative view that we were suggesting,” he said.
A source at Parliament however, shot down the proposal to hold the meeting at Mr Mugabe’s Blue Roof residence in Harare.
“The letter inviting him was delivered on Thursday last week. That suggestion to hold the meeting at his residence is not supported by any law or Standing Order. That would be unprecedented and not permissible. It would set a bad precedent hence we will not allow that,” said a Parliament staffer.
“The fact that Mr Mugabe has not confirmed his attendance is not of any consequence to us. It is not a legal requirement but done out of courtesy. He might even pitch up without confirming and that has happened several witnesses in respect of other committees. We will however, further make inquiries tomorrow (Thursday,) but we can confirm that we delivered the invitation last Thursday,” said the source.
Parliament has since indicated on its committee schedule the pending appearance of Mr Mugabe.
“Subject to confirmation, oral evidence from His Excellency, the former president of the Republic of Zimbabwe, comrade R. G. Mugabe, on diamond mining revenues,” read the notice posted yesterday.
The committee has since held meetings with several other stakeholders regarding diamond extraction at Chiadzwa before Government consolidated the mining firms into one firm.
Some of the entities that have since given evidence include the former Minister of Mines, Walter Chidhakwa, former permanent secretaries of the ministry, Professor Francis Gudyanga and Prince Mupazhiriho, former Home Affairs Minister Dr Ignatious Chombo.
Other entities include Zimbabwe Republic Police, Central Intelligence Organisation, Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, Minerals Marketing and Corporation of Zimbabwe, among others. – state media
Two young women killed in a Harare car accident on Saturday have been named as Grace Rukute and Deborrah Nyamasoka Gute. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY….
President Mnangagwa has launched his own youth interface rally.
Mnangagwa is next week addressing over 100 000 youths from across the country at a Youth Issues Convention to be held in Midlands province.
The convention is a brainchild of the Zanu-PF Youth League whose aim is to see President Mnangagwa addressing issues affecting the country’s youths.
Zanu-PF Youth League deputy secretary for administration Mabutho Moyo yesterday said the meeting with the President would take place on Thursday next week.
“We want to give the youth of Zimbabwe a platform to interact with the President. It’s not limited to youths in the party’s structures because we know that it’s not everyone who is outside our structures who is not supporting us,” he said.
“Youth associations are invited, youth in churches are invited, and we want to give them a platform just to interact or to have their issues addressed by the President.”
The convention will come days after President Mnangagwa met with women’s organisations last Friday.
In the meeting the President said he was aware of the challenges affecting women and his Government was doing everything to address them.
Moyo said the impending interface was different from the ones held by former President Mugabe which were hijacked to further factional agendas.
“Remember last year we had disastrous youth interface programmes which deviated from their initial cause. But ours as youth of the new dispensation will give the President a platform to address youth issues outside politics and the economy. As you know our campaign is driven on the economy more than politics as we approach 2018 elections,” said Moyo.
Moyo said each province is expected to send over 10 000 youths to the convention.
He said the country was already in the election period and the party will use the platform to explain Zanu-PF programmes. Moyo urged every registered voter to vote for Zanu-PF.
He urged the party’s supporters to be the party’s ambassadors.
He said cadres should not soil the Zanu-PF name.-state media
State media- Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa was yesterday elected the World health Organisation (WHO) 71st Assembly president, a position he will hold until next year.
Dr Parirenyatwa takes over from Professor Veronica Skvortsova, Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation who presided over the assembly last year.
The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO.
“It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board.
“The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the organisation, appoint the director-general, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget,” says WHO.
The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland and the 71st session ends on May 26.
A digital innovation using over the top currency called for by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has seen the Reserve Bank Of Zimbabwe being slapped with a lawsuit for banning it.
Cryptocurrency, as it has now been termed, is digital currency which has turned many into overnight millionaires in western countries. The system, which uses computer network paths as an alternative currency has challenged conventional monetary systems in western countries, while yet making their citizens super rich. In some Western Nations there have been calls to ban it. But these are countries which have their own currencies. Zimbabwe has none.
The RBZ, whose governor has no experience whatsoever in managing a local currency, has banned it. The development has seen Zimbabwe’s largest cryptocurrency company Golix taking the RBZ to the High Court.
Golix argues that the RBZ has no authority to declare cryptos illegal.
Golix says only Parliament has authority to formulate legislature banning virtual currency.”I submit that the ban in effect outlaws and classifies as illegal Applicant’s operations,” they said. They continued stating that “The Respondents are in fact purporting to classify the trade in cryptocurrency as illegal. That will amount to law making, a function that belongs to the legislature and not the Respondents. Respondents are thus clandestinely usurping Parliament’s law making powers.”
Golix also argued that the RBZ did not give ample time for notice and a right of response when they issued their ban. He he case continues. Tonight ZimEye discusses cryptocurrency.
Dear Hon. Webster Shamu: Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in Mashonaland West,
I trust you are well.
Pursuant to our discussion, I hereby put in writing, which I will follow with official correspondence, my extreme concern at the transport charges being illegally charged to vulnerable people to access Government food aid.
In this instance, it was discovered that at *Madziyire Farm in Ward 13, Norton*, the social worker stationed there who would appear to be working in cahoots with some members of the ZRP is indiscriminately charging disadvantaged recipients of Government Food Aid in the form of maize, the charge of $1.00/bag of maize under the guise of transport charges. Anybody unwilling or unable to make the demanded payment is subsequently denied access to the maize.
It is my understanding that when Government disburses food aid to the vulnerable, all costs are covered, transport included and I am therefore at a loss to understand why a social worker would fraudulently demand further payment from people who are already struggling and in desperate need of the food aid. It becomes increasingly worrisome to learn of alleged police involvement in the illicit deal executed for personal gain.
I therefore urgently recommend that the food aid disbursement programme be temporarily halted to allow for an investigation to be conducted and further, that the concerned social worker be suspended pending investigation.
I trust that the matter will be treated with the urgency it deserves to prevent further prejudice to people already suffering and in dire need of the maize.
Yours sincerely,
*Hon. Temba P. Mliswa (MP): Norton Constituency*
CC:
* Hon. P. Kagonye: Minister of Labour and Social Welfare
* Mr. Shumba: Provincial Administrator, Mashonaland West
* Mr. T. Tomu: District Administrator, Chegutu
By Paul Nyathi|The Minister of State for Mashonaland West Province, Webster Shamu has been relieved of his duties.
The development comes within hours of Norton MP Temba Mliswa writing a letter to him( SEE BELOW).
In a statement issued on Monday evening, the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda said Shamu’s removal from office is with immediate effect.
He added that in relieving Shamu of his duties, President Emmerson Mnangagwa exercised his power in terms of section 108 (1) (a) as read with section 340 (1) of the Constitution.
MLISWA LETTER:
Dear Hon. Webster Shamu: Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in Mashonaland West,
I trust you are well.
Pursuant to our discussion, I hereby put in writing, which I will follow with official correspondence, my extreme concern at the transport charges being illegally charged to vulnerable people to access Government food aid.
In this instance, it was discovered that at *Madziyire Farm in Ward 13, Norton*, the social worker stationed there who would appear to be working in cahoots with some members of the ZRP is indiscriminately charging disadvantaged recipients of Government Food Aid in the form of maize, the charge of $1.00/bag of maize under the guise of transport charges. Anybody unwilling or unable to make the demanded payment is subsequently denied access to the maize.
It is my understanding that when Government disburses food aid to the vulnerable, all costs are covered, transport included and I am therefore at a loss to understand why a social worker would fraudulently demand further payment from people who are already struggling and in desperate need of the food aid. It becomes increasingly worrisome to learn of alleged police involvement in the illicit deal executed for personal gain.
I therefore urgently recommend that the food aid disbursement programme be temporarily halted to allow for an investigation to be conducted and further, that the concerned social worker be suspended pending investigation.
I trust that the matter will be treated with the urgency it deserves to prevent further prejudice to people already suffering and in dire need of the maize.
Yours sincerely,
*Hon. Temba P. Mliswa (MP): Norton Constituency*
CC:
* Hon. P. Kagonye: Minister of Labour and Social Welfare
* Mr. Shumba: Provincial Administrator, Mashonaland West
* Mr. T. Tomu: District Administrator, Chegutu
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said the ruling party Zanu does not have the mandate to control the operations of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(ZEC) as the latter is an independent organisation.
Mohadi told ZBC News in an interview claims that the ruling party would rig the elections were baseless.
“Not even a single Zanu PF official is attached to ZEC so how can the ruling party manipulate election results?
Opposition parties are trying to discredit the ruling party at every given opportunity.
Where is the evidence of election rigging? There is nothing like that,” said Mohadi.
“We have always said the elections will be free, fair and credible.Opposition elements are desperate to discredit the whole process,” added Mohadi.
By Paul Nyathi|Steadfast MDC-T parliamentarian for Harare West Jessie Majome may just be winning her protracted battle to retain an uncontested opportunity to be the party’s candidate in the upcoming elections.
Reliable sources within the party have revealed to ZimEye.com that the party has withdrawn primary elections against all sitting parliamentarians in line with Majome’s complaints raised to the party leadership.
Majome withdrew from taking part in the party primary elections claiming that the party had made all sitting MPs to pay a $1000 deposit in order not to be contested to represent the party.
She further complained that the party primary elections process was flawed and subjected to manipulation. She complained bitterly about the lack of a voters roll and control in issuing party cards that made people eligible to vote in the primaries.
After withdrawing from the primary elections, the outspoken legislator declared that she was going to contest the elections as an independent candidate on the insistence of people from the constituency.
The MDC-T held primary elections over the weekend but non of the constituencies with sitting parliamentarians held elections.
The sources who spoke to ZimEye.com indicated that all the sitting parliamentarians joined the calls made by Majome and made similar threats to withdraw from the primary elections.
The party is reported to be holding discussions on how to proceed with the matter.
ZimEye.com could not immediately get a comment from party chairman Morgan Komichi who is in charge of the candidates identification process.
By Own Correspondent| MDC Alliance President this weekend dates Beitbridge as he resumes his election campaign rallies where he is mobilising for the rural vote ahead of the watershed polls set to be held this year.
Chamisa is set to address supporters at Dulibadzimu stadium in Beitbridge on Saturday 26 May 2018.
“Moving forward with the new Zimbabwe vision, meet you there,” said Chamisa in a post on facebook.
The development comes as the Alliance President last weekend cancelled all the campaign rallies including the one slated for Mberengwa.
The cancellation of the rallies were attributed to MDC T primary elections held over the weekend.
By Own Correspondent| Spokesperson for the splinter MDC T formation led by Dr Thokozani Khupe, Linda Masarira has revealed her intentions to contest the Harare Central seat under her new political home, ZimEye has learnt.
Masarira, who before joining the Khupe faction was set to contest as an independent candidate dumped her “Purple Campaign” as soon as she joined Dr Khupe’s faction two months ago.
Below are some if the reactions to Masarira’s new political move.
By Own Correspondent| In what is set to clearly scare investors away from Zimbabwe, it has been declared that the army will not allow MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to enter state house, as Deputy Finance Minister Terrence Mukupe has declared.
The Finance Minister (dep)’s comments come at a time when the Zimbabwean government is seeking international recognition as a civilian state, not a military one. It also comes as the President sought to assert that the November military coup was a civilian transition and nothing to do with the military.
Mukupe said soldiers did not remove Robert Mugabe so to pass on the Presidency to a young inexperienced Nelson Chamisa.
He made these comments while addressing a cell group in Mandara, Harare.
He began by saying, “let us be truthful, our nation where it is and where it is going , it needs an elderly person with a steady hand, who will stabilise things. For me to say the army took over the country from vaMugabe so that they can hand over to a young man who is talking about spaghetti roads, and talking about impregnating all women. Isn’t you heard him saying these things?
“After saying these things, you say Mnangagwa if he wins I will give him my sister, it is almost being scornful of all women. Imagine me telling you that I want to impregnate all you women, would you vote for me?
“This is what I am saying, even I myself I want to rule, do you hear? No one refuses to sit in a Mercedes Benz and get all the sirens, but these things have their own time. I don’t think I have the maturity level to get the whole country and the soldiers now saluting me(di; but I heard him saying at one time saying he is already rehearsing performing Presidential guard inspections like this…”
By Own Correspondent| Charge Office vendors who were last week chased away from their vending site for posing a “security threat” have relocated into Robson Manyika street leaving a single lane for motorists including commutter omnibuses which rank at Charge Office bus terminus.
The vendors, who were unceremoniously removed from their vending site without notice are selling their wares in the road, posing a hazard not only to themselves but to their customers.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police closed down the Charge Office Flea Market arguing that they posed a security threat according to the National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba.
Below are pictures of the vendors along Robson Manyika.
UPDATE: Mourners are gathered at 68 Queen Elizabeth Rd.
2 beautiful souls gone suddenly
Sudden death…
By A Correspondent| Two Harare young women were killed in a horrific accident on Saturday while driving from a party.
The fatal accident happened on Satudray night at corner Biston Rd and Enterprise, next to Grange Primary School.
Eyewitnesses said the girls (pictured above), Grace Rukute and Deborrah Nyamasoka Gute were coming from Biston Road and did not give way to a high speeding Mercedes Benz which was travelling along Enterprise Road.
The girls were at the time of writing named as Grace Rukute and Deborrah Nyamasoka Gute.
Mourners are gathered at 68 Queen Elizabeth Rd Greendale, Harare.
A total 3 people reportedly died. – More to follow…
Dynamos caretaker coach Biggie Zuze yesterday praised FC Platinum who outclassed his side 2-0 at Rufaro Stadium.
The fans also praised the visitors and booed their own players. They sang derogatory songs aimed at club chairman Keni Mubaiwa.
“Good things should be applauded even our fans applauded FC Platinum at the end of the match because they played good football.We lost to a good side,” said Zuze.
FC Platinum settled early getting the lead after just four minutes when double scorer Rodwell Chinyengetere beat two defenders before shooting past the goalkeeper. The reigning soccer star of the year returned moments later showing good technique with a well-taken strike from outside the box.
Dynamos remained on 11th position with 12 points while FC Platinum maintained a three-point gap between them and fellow platinum miners Ngezi Platinum.
Warriors forward Nyasha Mushekwi is in top form in China.
After scoring his first goal of the season two weeks ago, Mushekwi is really enjoying himself in that country.
He scored a double to earn Dalian Yifang victory over Guizhou Hengfeng
The former Swedish Djurgården striker was unstoppable as his side coasted to a 2-1 victory.
It was the third goal for Mushekwi in five league games. Having failed to make the starting line up at the beginning of the season for Yifang, the goals will surely come as a morale booster for the attacker.
By Paul Nyathi|MDC-T Chikanga – Dangamvura primary elections winner Prosper Mutseyami has dismissed Women’s Wing Leader Lynette Karenyi’s claims that the election was not free and fair.
Mutseyami who dumped his current constituency Musikavanhu to contest the Mutare urban based constituency against Karenyi told online publisher Open Parly journalists in an interview on Monday at Parliament that he won the election and will not listen to any submissions on his victory.
“I won fairly and there will not be any rerun in the constituency,” he said.
Mutseyami also introduced himself in the committee saying “My name is Prosper Chapfiwa Mutseyami and I am the confirmed MDC-T candidate for Chikanga-Dangamvura Constituency”.
Karenyi has since dismissed the election and warned that he will contest the constituency as an independent.
By Showbiz Correspondent| Barely 7 months after the November coup, Grace Mugabe’s son Russell Goreraza is set for another court case to deal with child abuse.
His South Africa based baby’s mother has hinted on her Twitter portal that she will soon be taking Mr Goreraza to court regarding their new born baby Maia.
The case is to do with child abuse by virtue of neglect, she hinted. “This is what your ex first lady son did to me…,” she wrote in direct response to an issue to do with child neglect.
She then proceeded to declare that she is already on the case to sue him. “I am on it,” she concluded. SEE PICTURES –
ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa is trailing at 18% of the national vote, while Nelson Chamisa roars at 82%, in the last 34 hours alone according to the below poll. BUT WHO ARE YOU VOTING?
A Zanu PF Youth League member who is currently in China has claimed he is bringing home lucrative business deals set to reinvigorate the country’ s waning economy.
In his Facebook message at the weekend Brian Mudumi claimed the country was poised for a tremendous economic recovery.
” I had the privilege to be invited by the Mayor of Tongchuan City to the China National Ceramic Industry Conference.
I presented a topic on ceramic
industry opportunities in Africa .
I Learnt a few things :1- SMEs occupy much space in
the ceramic industry. 2- the gvts of China and
Thailand are supporting the ceramic industry through commercial and
financial instruments including banks .
The ceramic industry acounts for more than 2 billions
Chinese RMB. 4 The Chinese gvt has opened up
channels of exports in support of local SMEs,” wrote Mudumi.
“Investors are willing to come to Zimbabwe and
I am eager to assist those who are
interested in venturing into this industry,” Mudumi said.
The African Union and SADC have fully endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa;s presidency.
This was said by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Retired Lieutenant General Dr Sibusiso Moyo.
Gen Moyo said this year’s Africa Day celebration is unique in that it takes place when the people of Zimbabwe, in peace, unity and harmony, resolved to rewrite the history of their country by ushering in the new dispensation.
Dr Moyo was interviewed by the state broadcaster, ZBC ahead of Friday’s 55th anniversary of the creation of the Organisation of African Unity now the African Union.
He thanked the SADC and the African Union for their understanding of the events in Zimbabwe and their unwavering support.
He said the visit to Harare by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Dr Mussa Faki Mohamati in February this year and the SADC Executive Secretary Dr Stergomerna Lawrence Tax in March to pay tribute to the people of Zimbabwe, clearly demonstrates the African solidarity that was envisioned by the founding fathers way back in 1963 when they formed the OAU.
Dr Moyo said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in conjunction with the African Group of Diplomatic Ambassadors will on the eve of Africa Day host a dinner for key stakeholders and other pan Africanists to commemorate Africa Day under the 2018 AU theme: ‘Winning the Fight Against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation’, a mantra that is in tandem with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s new dispensation.
He said the celebration of Africa Day is a time to reflect on Africa’s successes and failures and challenges’, saying since May 1963 the AU has traversed on arduous journey which has led to the adoption of Agenda 2063 and its first 10-year implementation plan.
He welcomed the signing of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance which is testimony to the new dispensation’s commitment to democracy.
Zimbabwe’s signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area; the Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons and Single Africa Air Transport Market is also a sign of Zimbabwe’s commitment to the free movement of people, an integral part of Agenda 2063.
Minister Moyo also declared Zimbabwe’s unequivocal support for peace and unity in the continent and the need to silence the guns and resolution of conflicts, including the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic issue.
Zanu PF chairperson for Harare Province Goodwills Masimirembwa has predicted a humiliating loss for the opposition in the capital city.
Speaking in an interview with state broadcaster, ZBC after yesterday’ s rally in Dzivarasekwa Harare, Masimirembwa said the opposition would not win a single Parliamentary Seat in the capital.
“Morale is high in our party and we are ready to romp to victory, come election day.
We have done the necessary groundwork and this time we will trounce the opposition right here in the capital city,” said Masimirembwa.
“We all know that the opposition has nothing to offer to the people of Zimbabwe that is why we are hearing cheap political talk about the ruling party,” added Masimirembwa.
Veteran politician Sydney Sekeramayi has said the ruling party is ready to thrash the opposition in the coming elections.
Addressing party supporters in Mashonaland East Province at the weekend Sekeramayi said the ruling party would silence noisy opposition parties in the coming polls.
“As Zanu PF we are rejuvenated and raring to go.We are stronger than ever and we will reaffirm our political dominance in the coming elections.
Do you think we will lose sleep over the noise coming from the opposition ranks? We will certainly thrash the small parties that are bragging about their imagined popularity,” said Sekeramayi.
He added:” Let us remain focused on winning the coming elections.”
Terrence Mawawa| Hard-hitting Zanu PF critic Antony Taruvinga has postulated that the opposition will defeat the ruling party because President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a dull leader.
“I personally supported the November Coup that saw Mugabe leaving office.
With Mnangagwa at the helm, Zanu PF votes will be slashed by nearly 50%.
I knew Mnangagwa would not be as charismatic as his predecessor.
Mnangagwa unlike Mugabe, is a perennial loser and too unpopular to win a free and fair election despite being at the helm.
His speeches worsened by a jerky voice do not attract or lure supporters.
One can fall asleep while Mnangagwa is speaking because of his boring and content – free messages,” argued Taruvinga.
“His facial looks make everything worse. His dark history littered with abductions,
attempted genocide, corruption, unlawful land grabbing, hate and satanic speeches make
people dislike and fear him.
“Very few people want to be like Mnangagwa,” added Taruvinga.
By Paul Nyathi|MDC-T National Women’s wing chairperson Lynette Karenyi has declared her intentions to contest Chikanga – Dangamvura elections as an independent candidate after losing what she called a flawed primary election over the weekend.
The highly vocal and controversial former Chimanimani West legislature in the seventh parliament declared her intentions to go solo in a Facebook post on Monday.
According to Karenyi the primary election results do not reflect the wishes of the people of Chikanga and Dangamvura in Mutare urban. as only two wards out of ten in the constituency cast their votes.
Karenyi who through her years in the MDC-T has been a tough fighter against former President Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF also accused the opposition party of having an irregular electoral process.
Karenyi is popular for her detention in 2011 when she was arrested for saying that former President had same sex with two ZANU PF members.
She claimed that the party never had a proper voters roll and people were being picked in the streets, issued with party cards and brought in to vote.
Karenyi becomes the second MDC-T top female leader to stand against the party primary election system and declared intention to contest the upcoming elections as an independent.
Harare West legislator Jessie Majome was first to take the move last month when she declared that she was not contesting the party primary elections before declaring her intention to contest the seat as an independent.
Reports from within the party indicate that a few more MDC-T heavyweights could be making similar announcements soon.
Karenyi’s official statement rejecting the primary election read as follows:
Rejection of Chikanga-Dangamvura Primary Election conducted on 20th may 2018
I wish to announce that i will not be accepting any of the results or any means of trying to push me out of Chikanga-Dangamvura in an unfair way. The will of the people of Chikanga must prevail. Not the will of fraudlent people bent on party destruction.
In the meantime I have raised my concerns with leadership and hope we will find a workable solution
As a strong women, i normally take what life throws at me in stride, while protecting my values. It is my hope that those who support me and the community of Chikanga/Dangamvura will prove me right
While I am not short on reasons to distrust the electoral team that presided over the primaries. At this point I would urge all those supporting me to remain silent until we hear from the leadership, To those on the ground, ground work must be continued
I wish to convince all of you that I will not be doing anyone a favor by protecting those trying to subvert the will of the people.
By Own Correspondent| Zanu Pf is ready to accept election results including handing over power to the winner in the event that the party loses the forthcoming elections, Vice President, Kembo Mohadi said.
VP Mohadi, who for the past two months has been conspicuously absent from national functions due to ill health said his party cannot force itself into power since the people had the power to chose their favourite party to lead them.
“Zanu Pf is not the one that has the power, the power lies with people.
If the people vote us out they would have rejected us. If you lose an election you’d have lost and if you win you would have won. It’s simple as that,” he said.
VP Mohadi said this in an interview with a local publication where he dismissed allegations that the country was being run by the military or “junta.
VP Mohadi said Zanu-PF draws its mandate from the people through the ballot box and would accept any outcome of the polls.
“Zanu-PF is not run by the military and we are not in the barracks.
Of course, President Mnangagwa is a trained soldier, I am a trained soldier and VP (Constantino) Chiwenga is also a trained soldier because that was our generation. We all went to war because it was a requirement then to go and fight, but you can’t then say we are a military government because we have all since retired from the military,” he said.
By Own Correspondent| Former President Robert Mugabe will on Wednesday appear before the Mines and Energy Portfolio Committee to give oral evidence regarding the missing US$15 billion diamond revenue.
Parliament (Monday) issued a notice of Mugabe’s appearance before the committee chaired by Temba Mliswa, indicating that the former president had however not confirmed his presence.
“On the 23rd of May 2018, the Mines and Energy Committee is also expected, subject to confirmation, to receive oral evidence from His Excellency the former President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde. R. G. Mugabe,” read the notice from parliament.
However, a local publication, The Newsday hinted that the hearing could be held at the former president’s residence in Borrowdale, the Blue Roof as a way of giving the former head of state respect due to his advanced age.
Chairperson of the committee, Temba Mliswa said his committee was comfortable with meeting Mugabe at his residence.
“The committee has already resolved that Kennedy Chokuda (Clerk of Parliament) must look at the issue of writing to Mugabe to appear before the committee, and there is pressure that there is need for transparency over the issue of the missing $15 billion revenue.
“Parliament is prepared to give the former Head of State respect and to meet him at his Blue Roof mansion because he is old,” he said.
Mliswa said the meeting was not meant to grill or humiliate Mugabe, but a fact-finding mission to break the puzzle over the missing diamond revenue, which the former leader alluded to at a public meeting in 2016.
MDC Alliance Leader Nelson Chamisa and Zanu Pf President Emmerson Mnangagwa
By Own Correspondent| The figures of voters who cast their ballot in MDC T primaries versus the same who cast their vote in Zanu Pf primaries has torched a storm with commentators saying this is reflective and confirms that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will romp to victory in the forthcoming polls.
However, others argue that this is not true considering that most people who participated in Zanu Pf primaries did so out of fear.
Difference is everybody, even MDC supporters, have Zanu cards (becoz nobody wants to be founded without one) and hence are Zanu members & can vote in Zanu primaries (most out of fear). But MDC has few members but more supporters than Zanu as you will see soon.
Perhaps you didn't know, I'll educate you now. Even here in Harare we hardly participate in Primary elections for security reasons. It's not easy for one to reveal their identity to zanu pf youths. Mentality yekuti muri mhondi lives wth us. Tonana ku election
Not so fast nick.I was "invited" to vote in your primaries in Harare East and I am not even a card carrying member.saw dozens more being handed $10 incentives to participate.#withmyowneyes
I guess you dont understand the difference between a mass party and a cadre party. Having more members will not win you an election against a party with less members but more supporters and sympathisers. Supporters and sympathisers in Zimbabwe are by far the largest group.
Senator David Coltart captured in the November 2017 demonstrations against Former President Robert Mugabe.
By Paul Nyathi|The state run Herald Newspaper on Monday ran a long editorial taking swipe at MDC Secretary for legal affairs Senator David Coltart.
The daily took an uncalled for swipe at Coltart apparently because the MDC Alliance candidate for Bulawayo East had demanded the paper to withdraw a false story on Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.
The editorial has received widespread condemnation from political commentators and analysts for its overly very personal attacks on the person of Coltart who is apparently one of the few highly respected politicians in the country.
Coltart retains a record of being the best Minister of Education in the country since independence.
The full editorial comment from The Herald reads as follows:
Indeed election times are upon us and these are interesting times when national discourse is centred on which political party has the vision, the stamina and indeed the depth of character to take our great country forward. In this rough political discourse, those who speak without applying their mind, more often than not, find themselves trying to apply the thought process way after it is too late.
One such character is former Rhodesian cop and MDC politician David Coltart. Coltart is a beneficiary of the colonial Rhodesian government that did everything in its powers, including spilling blood, to suppress the rights of the black majority.
The same Coltart was a beneficiary of the Zanu-PF goodwill policy of national reconciliation enunciated by former president Robert Mugabe at Independence in 1980.
The same Coltart is a beneficiary of the Constitution of Zimbabwe that gives him rights equal to all other Zimbabweans including those he spiritedly sought and still seeks to deprive their rights. Surprisingly, that does not seem to cross his mind or provoke his conscience.
He has never masked his distaste for majority rule in Zimbabwe, which he describes in his book as a continuation of Rhodesian tyranny.
Two weeks ago, before he left for London on his party’s trip of shame, he insulted Zimbabweans, stating brazenly, “For all Zanu-PF’s rhetoric about Zimbabwe being open for business, the one thing they have never learnt in 38 years of misrule is that the single most important factor in any investor’s decision to invest in a country is security of the investment.”
In other words, Independence has been bad for people like Coltart, and he is happy to campaign against investment in the country so long as the MDC continues to be rejected by the people of Zimbabwe.
Then in the past week or so, Coltart has sought to turn his frustration on The Herald, citing the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Section 61 (4) to be precise, by accusing the newspaper of bias. He deliberately ignores the fact that the same section of our supreme law gives public media the right to publish without interference from those suffering from a sense of racial superiority.
It is fact not fiction that Coltart has found the going hard in the MDC-T Alliance top echelons after he made an analysis of Nelson Chamisa’s performance during an interview on BBC HARDtalk, which did not go down well with Chamisa.
The poor fellow said what his master did not want to hear. Coltart, typical of those used to benefiting from all systems, he now wants to use The Herald as a smokescreen behind which to hide his real opinion on Chamisa’s performance.
His is nothing, but a blatant attempt to abuse the Constitution of the country by picking part of a section and leaving out the other parts. And, now he blames The Herald.
The Constitution is for us all. Yes, Coltart benefited from Rhodesia, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and indeed Zimbabwe and now he thinks he can be taken as a neutral between Zanu-PF and the MDC-T Alliance. No!
It is just the Zanu-PF Government is too humane, too tolerant and too considerate. And people like Coltart know they can take advantage of that to traffic their quisling politics in the name of democracy.
It’s obviously something he wouldn’t do in Europe and America where nationalist politics is in ascendancy.
Freedom of expression, freedom of the media and all freedoms cannot continue to be reserved for a single person or political formation. Freedom should not be freedom only when it benefits David Coltart.
NO! Hiding behind The Herald is not a good idea. If Coltart is principled and said what he felt was the truth about Chamisa’s performance in London, he should stand by his opinion. That is what “democracy” is about or he should carry his own cross.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa lied when he claimed that he has entered into a private arrangement with the British government for a 100 million dollar bail out, according to the latest expose by the British embassy.
Mnangagwa announced to supporters in Mutare saying, “saka takutaudzana nemaBritish svondo rino (last week) nemusi wechipiri vakatipa $100 million kuti tibatsirike panyaya yedu yecash mukati munyika..”
Mnangagwa also claimed saying, “for the first time after nearly 20 years, we have received a soft loan from the British of $100 million and the (RBZ) Governor (Dr John Mangudya) has been telling me how he has disbursed the money and as from yesterday almost every single bank in the country had received part of the $100 million received.”
But a British Embassy official has said this is not true.
“What @CDCgroup announced this week is not a “British bailout” by any stretch of the imagination. It’s about providing much-needed credit lines to struggling Zim private sector on commercial terms. Not a cent of it is going anywhere near govt” wrote Simon Thomas Deputy British Ambassador to Zimbabwe
By Paul Nyathi|MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa who is also the MDC Alliance coalition Presidential candidate in the upcoming elections takes his country wide campaigns to Matabeleland South this week.
Chamisa who over the weekend called off rallies scheduled for Mberengwa and Zvishavane to give way to the MDC-T primary elections will be in the Matabeleland South capital, Gwanda, on Africa Day.
Most opposition political parties dread holding rallies in Gwanda town which does not normally provide the huge numbers.
Only former President Robert Mugabe normally filled up the stadium due to the financial backing on state resources that were used to bus people from around the Matabeleland South districts.
Before the rally in Gwanda, Chamisa will hold another rally in Maphisa growth point a few kilometres away from the notorious Bhalagwe Gukurahundi Concentration Camp where thousands of victims are buried in the disused mine.
No political party has ever held a major rally in the area since the Joshua Nkomo PF ZAPU era.
“It is because of the influence that has been perpetuated by some of our leaders who say they are leaders yet they are not leading us.
“The Nelson Chamisa cabal, so to speak, stopped most our members from coming to this launch by perpetrating political violence in different constituencies and areas in order to send a wrong signal that we don’t have people yet we have people. He is simply taking away power from the people and I want to announce this officially the launch of our BEST manifesto has been postponed indefinitely so that we are able to deal with housekeeping issues in our party.”
By Paul Nyathi|Sitting Bulawayo Mayor Councillor Martin Moyo was over the weekend left shell shocked when he was defeated in the opposition MDC-T primary elections.
Moyo who only last week expressed fears that he might lose the election though he wanted a second term in council was heavily defeated by little known Mr Tinashe Kambarami to represent the party in Ward 3.
Mr Kambarami, who is a member of the party’s youth assembly trounced Clr Moyo, receiving 170 votes to the Mayor’s 25.
Confirming the outcome of the primaries, the party’s provincial chairperson, Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Clr Gift Banda said the process was ongoing with most of the wards in the city having been completed.
“The process is going on smoothly with some of the wards already having completed voting while some might go on until tomorrow (today),” said Clr Banda.
Other sitting councillors who lost in the primaries are Clr Gladys Masuku (ward 10) and Clr Nephat Sibanda (ward 16). Clr Sibanda lost to Ms Mildred Ncube. Clrs Mzama Dube (ward 25), Pilate Moyo (ward 11), Norman Hlabani (ward 26), Monica Lubimbi (ward 29), Lilian Mlilo (ward 12) and Macdonald Chunga (ward 14) all won and were confirmed as the party’s candidates in the local government elections. The six join Clrs Silas Chigora (ward four), Rodney Jele (ward 22), Concilia Mlalazi (ward 18), Clyton Zana (ward 19) and Mr Felix Mhaka (ward five), who were all uncontested.
Mr Mhaka replaces Clr Banda who will be contesting to represent the party in the National Assemby seat in Njube-Lobengula constituency. However, the party had to postpone the primary elections in Cowdray Park where the sitting councillor Clr Collet Ndhlovu was being challenged by his stepson, Mr Happyson Ncube, after Clr Ndhlovu and his supporters violently disrupted the vote counting process when he reportedly realised that the results were not going in his favour.
Party sources revealed that Clr Ndhlovu became violent, attacking Mr Ncube’s supporters vowing that the election will not go ahead.
In ward 16 where Clr Nephat Sibanda lost to Ms Mildred Ncube there were also reports of violence breaking out with Clr Sibanda allegedly being attacked by Ms Ncube’s son who was attempting to block him from observing the counting process.
ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa is trailing at 18% of the national vote, while Nelson Chamisa roars at 82%, in the last 28 hours alone according to the below poll. BUT WHO ARE YOU VOTING?
State Media – Vice President Kembo Mohadi has dismissed claims by some opposition parties that the Zanu-PF Government is under the control of the military and will use the army to resist handing over power in the event that the party loses the forthcoming harmonised elections.
In an interview with The Chronicle yesterday, VP Mohadi said Zanu-PF draws its mandate from the people through the ballot box and would accept any outcome of the polls.
“Zanu-PF is not run by the military and we are not in the barracks. Of course, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a trained soldier, I am a trained soldier and VP (Constantino) Chiwenga is also a trained soldier because that was our generation. We all went to war because it was a requirement then to go and fight but you can’t then say we are a military Government because we have all since retired from the military,” he said.
“Zanu-PF is not the one that has the power but the power lies with the people of Zimbabwe and if the people vote us out they would have rejected us. If you lose an election you would have lost and if you win you would have won. It’s simple as that”.
VP Mohadi said Operation Restore Legacy, which culminated in the new dispensation, had the blessings of Zimbabweans who took to the streets calling for the former President Robert Mugabe to relinquish power.
“Zimbabwe has never experienced any coup. You call us a junta government and I don’t know what you mean because if you are talking of Operation Restore Legacy, it was not the army that took over, there was an uprising by the people and everyone was saying Mugabe must go, Parliament equally said Mugabe must go and those are the people that removed him from power,” he said.
The VP said the army did not force Mr Mugabe to resign.
“It was not the army. If it were the army they would have arrested him (Mr Mugabe). He is at his house with his family and everything is going on well.
“He was never molested and I don’t know where you are getting these ideas that we are a junta government,” he said.
Mr Mugabe convened a Press conference in March to a selected group of local and foreign media organisations and claimed that he was “unconstitutionally” deposed through a coup despite resigning ahead of imminent impeachment on November 21 last year.
He further claimed he was ready to talk to President Mnangagwa to right what he claimed was an “illegality.”
Mr Mugabe resigned after the military intervened to arrest a fast deteriorating socio-economic and political environment in the country, which naturally triggered the elevation of Mnangagwa, who by then had been elected as Zanu-PF’s First Secretary by the ruling party’s Central Committee, to the highest office in the land.
VP Mohadi said the nation is now focusing on preparing for free, fair and credible elections.
He also dismissed claims by the opposition MDC-T and its partners in the Alliance that Zanu-PF has planned to rig the outcome of the watershed plebiscite.
“I don’t know what rigging is all about just as good as I don’t how losing an election is all about. If the opposition is talking about Zanu-PF losing or rigging I don’t know how they arrived at that conclusion. How do we rig an election which is run by an independent body?” he asked.
“Zec (Zimbabwe Electoral Commission) is independent and there is no Zanu-PF member there who will be rigging elections in its favour.”
VP Mohadi said Zanu-PF and the opposition under the Constitution Parliamentary Committee (Copac), which was mandated with drawing up a new constitution for Zimbabwe by the Government of National Unity between 2009 and 2013, agreed to come up with an independent electoral body.
“If the opposition has issues pertaining to elections, Zec is there to verify what they don’t understand. We don’t run elections as Zanu-PF. How do we rig something that we don’t run? We are equal participants like them,” said the VP.
Zec chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba said this year’s elections cannot be rigged as the country’s voting system is foolproof.
She said the fact that the system is tamper-proof should ensure a free, fair and credible election that could not be rigged.
Zec has acquired a 100 percent secure Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) system.
BVR is a new voter registration system which captures an individual’s biometric features and ensures nobody can vote twice.
Justice Chigumba said members of the public with evidence that the voting system could be interferred with should bring it forward.
MDC-T leader Adv Nelson Chamisa recently told a rally in Nyanga that if the MDC Alliance did not win the coming elections that would be proof the ruling party had rigged them. He, however, failed to substantiate his claims.
President Mnangagwa has repeatedly assured the world that the harmonised elections, expected to be held in July this year, would be free, fair and credible.
The Government has invited observers from all over the world to see for themselves, with President Mnangagwa declaring repeatedly that “Zimbabwe has nothing to hide”.
Western countries like the United Kingdom and United States that were barred by the previous administration have also been invited this year, including Commonwealth representatives.
Opposition activists and Government critics, most notably fugitive former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, have resorted to referring to the ruling party as Junta PF on social media.
The move is apparently meant to lay a foundation for a protest based on army interference if Zanu Pf wins the elections. – state media
At a time when the government and the reserve bank declare that $1 is equal to 1 bond note, a messeger from Safeguard Security Company has been arrested for swapping them.
The Bulawayo man has been arrested for allegedly stealing US$4 000 delivery money and replacing it with $4 000 bond notes.
Failure to count the money sold Kumbulani Davi (41) out after he allegedly delivered $4 010 to his employer instead of $4 000 payment from Old Nic Mine.
Davi was not asked to plead to theft charges when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Ms Adelaide Mbeure.
The magistrate granted him $100 bail and remanded him to May 24 for trial.
Prosecuting, Mr Tawurayi Hondoyemoto said Davi, a trusted messenger of the company under the accounts department, was sent to collect US$4 000 from Old Nic Mine, money for contractual security services rendered to them.
“Davi’s duties included delivering invoices and collecting payments from the company’s clients and handing it over to his employer. On May 11, the accountant at Old Nic Mine, Sethi Nyazenga contacted Safeguard’s credit controller Chester Chamunorwa Machiya to send a messenger to collect $4 000 monthly collection,” he said.
“On May 14, Davi was sent to collect the money from Old Nic Mine. He was given two sealed packs of United States dollars which contained a total of 200 notes in $20 denominations.
“On the same date, Davi handed over $4 010 in denominations of $5 and $2 bundles bond notes to his company.
“The money was verified and it was discovered that there was an extra $10. The paying officer at Old Nic Mine, Tracy Gambakwe, was contacted and notified of the excess $10.”
The court heard that she said it was impossible for the denominations to be in excess as she had handed US$20 by 200 to Davi.- state media
Assaulted chiefA 17-year old girl smashed a beer bottle across the face of a Chief in Binga after he reprimanded her for being skimpily dressed. Chief Siabuwa (52) said he sustained a cut under his right eye from the assault.
He was stitched at Siabuwa Clinic before being referred to Binga District Hospital for further treatment. Ms Tlou Dube, who recently relocated to Zewula village, under chief Siabuwa, from Bulawayo, was walking with a friend only identified as Mbimbi when she committed the cultural taboo.
The incident occurred last Wednesday at Siabuwa Business Centre and was reported to the police.
Chief Siabuwa said he was at the business centre when he saw the two teenagers who were dressed in “very short dresses” and approached them to counsel them on proper dressing to preserve their values and morals.
“As I spoke to them, Dube walked away, telling her friend to walk on and not listen to nonsense. I told her to go if she felt I spoke nonsense and leave the other girl to listen to what I had to say. I re-introduced myself and even produced my identification card thinking maybe she was not aware of who I was.
“She continued to yell at Mbimbi and returned to where we stood, picked up an empty bottle of beer from the ground and hit me right in the face. Well, I hope the teenagers will get real counselling to restore their values and morals which they seem not to have at all,” he said.
Chief Siabuwa said he had found the teenagers’ behaviour grossly disrespectful and irritating and had tried to talk sense to them.
“The teenagers were walking in a public place, indecently dressed and so I tried to warn them for their own protection because that could result in them being abused by men. In our society and culture, females don’t dress in the manner they did,” said the area chief.
Chief Senator Siansali said Ms Tlou recently relocated from Bulawayo to live with her grandmother in Zewula village.
He said the girl was probably not aware of the difference in culture and morals between Bulawayo and Binga.
“She also may have not been aware of the importance of the chief’s status as a community leader. Their dressing didn’t suit our Binga community and the chief tried to warn them to protect them as that is one of a traditional leader’s roles in the community.
“The teenagers’ behaviour was unfortunate. It’s unheard of in our culture.
“It may have been a result of influence from morally decadent cultures from other countries. As a nation, we need to reform ourselves to avoid becoming what we are not,” said Chief Siansali. -state media
ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa is trailing at 18% of the national vote, while Nelson Chamisa roars at 82%, in the last 17 hours alone according to the below poll. BUT WHO ARE YOU VOTING?
By Farai D Hove| The state owned newspaper, the Herald did not tell the truth when they claimed that military Commander Valerio Sibanda attended President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Saturday rally.
It has emerged from footage at the Sakubva stadium and that from the Chitepo barracks that the Herald, published pictures from the Chitepo barracks presenting them as if they were from Sakubva. ZimEye.com has since verified that Gen Sibanda did not t all show up at the ZANU PF rally as state media claimed, and footage from the Chitepo barracks can be seen below.
A Masvingo based Non Governmental Organisation has pledged to campaign for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling party Zanu PF.
Zimbabwe Revolutionary and Patriotic Youth Network- ZIRIPAYON has already unrolled programmes meant to drum up support for Zanu PF.
Below is the organisation’ s statement:
Zirapayon shall hold a clean up campaign in Bikita District on 25 May as a way of standing in solidarity and in support of Bikita West Zanu PF Candidate Cde Elias Musakwa then on 26 Saturday May the ZIRAPAYON clean up campaign will be in Bikita East at Chikuku in support of Cde Madhuku. The dates for the Bikita South programme will be announced soon.
ZIRAPAYON will visit all districts in Masvingo Province and the information desk will update you on dates and programs.
As Zirapayon we promise to leave no stone unturned in making sure that party candidates in Masvingo province and the President Cde ED Mnangagwa win the elections.
UPDATE – Following complaints on the article published in the morning, the state owned Herald newspaper, has alleged that the military commander, Valerio Sibanda attended ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa’s political rally on Saturday. The Herald furthered this in bold imprint as is seen below.
This article is an update of the earlier piece in which Gen Sibanda was reported by the state media to have attended the ZANU PF rally in Mutare. PICTURES:
By Terrence Mawawa| Hundreds of school pupils were allegedly forced to wear Zanu PF t-shirts as the ruling party desperately sought to reflect an impression of massive popularity.
The Children Of War Veterans Association (COZWA) reports that school pupils in and around Mutare were given Zanu PF regalia before President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rally at Sakubva Stadium.
Mnangagwa appeared on national television boasting of the ruling party’ s huge support base in Manicaland Province.
Teachers in Mutare yesterday claimed Zanu PF officials forced pupils from schools in Mutare to wear ruling party t-shirts.
“Our pupils were forced to wear Zanu PF t-shirts yesterday.Hundreds of school pupils attended the rally clad in ruling party regalia,” said a teacher who declined to be named.
By Own Correspondent| At a time when MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa was labelled a childish dreamer, the United States has adopted his breakthrough road interchange concept, the kind that will see a reduction in 60% of all road accidents.
Chamisa was in London 2 weeks ago labelled a nonsensical dreamer following his preaching of the concept of spaghetti interchanges meant to ease traffic catastrophes in Zimbabwe. Coincidentally, Chamisa’s arguable ‘predecessors’ on “dreaming”, the Wright Brothers were insulted in the same city, London in 1903, when they invented humanity’s first ever aircraft, at a time when British scientists were declaring that it is impossible for a metal object to fly in the sky and it is impossible for a vehicle to travel at the speed of 36 miles per hour without choking the person who is in it, as ZimEye reveals.
This time, the US has embarked on an ambitious project for a spaghetti Road interchange of it’s kind. The breakthrough concept will see a reduction in 60% of all road accidents in the United States of America… WATCH BELOW:
The ruling party Zanu PF has accused the country’s main opposition party MDC of perpetrating acts of political violence in the country.
Zanu PF Youth League Secretary for Administration Tendai Chirau described the MDC as a violent party.
Speaking at a 2018 election symposium, Chirau said:
“There is a certain political party that is actually saying if there are no electoral reforms they are going to buy beer for the youths and they will go into the streets.
“So we have certain political parties that believe youths can be given money to cause violence.
There is nothing democratic about MDC-T, it’s a pseudo-democratic party that instigates violence,” he said.
By Own Correspondent|A Kariba based security guard has been hauled before the courts for sodomising a 14 year old boy sixteen times.
The 32 year old guard appeared before magistrate Toendepi Zhou facing aggravated indecent assault charges and he was remanded out of custody until May 30 2018.
Prosecutor Phillip Urayi told the court that the guard, who cannot be named to protect the minor, started sodomising the 14 year old in November last year.
The accused, who is also a junior trainer at Kariba Junior Club lured the minor whom he was paying $30 monthly for his “services”, the court heard.
The act was only exposed on 13 May 2018 when the brother of the victim caught them red handed and upon further investigation, they revealed how it had all started.
The court heard that the brother of the minor had been monitoring the suspects’
movements which were suspicious before he caught them red handed in the act in the bedroom.
He told the court that he was alerted about the intimate relationship between his brother and the guard who is also his nephew and had confronted them but they had denied it.
It was after he caught them that he quizzed them about their affair and they disclosed how it had started.
He reported the case to the police leading to the guard’s arrest.
The subject of skin bleaching took to higher levels Sunday morning, when people described the current government under the title. The “artificial” mushrooming of political parties which has seen more than 128 parties most being formed in less than 6 months’ time has been described as such. The below fiery comments came soon after a mystery woman launched her own party.
ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa is trailing at 18% of the national vote, while Nelson Chamisa roars at 82%, in the last 7 hours alone according to the below poll. BUT WHO ARE YOU VOTING?
By Own Correspondent| The leader of Zimbabwe’s latest political party, the woman who announced her new political party during the week, told reporters there is nothing like vote rigging in Zimbabwe.
Ms Carol Nyereyegona, who says her party is called the Chief’s Party, opened her presser by thanking President Emmerson Mnangagwa “for overseeing an environment where all parties can campaign, we’ve been able to campaign peacefully,” she read out her statement.
She was asked to reveal her membership and at least the number of followers she commands, and she replied refusing to reveal her own party members; failed to reveal even just one.
She was asked on her views about vote-rigging and her reply was, she does not see any vote rigging, real or perceived in the preparations for the upcoming elections.
She was at first asked to reveal her membership numbers and she said, “well we have(sic), we count our membership on areas, for example we have met most of the chiefs, and we have met many herdmen, many villagers, so we have gone as far rural as we can,” she said.
When asked to disclose some of the chiefs in her party, she replied saying, “at this time, errrm, I would rather they mention it if they wish. There are, I don’t know, maybe six months ago I happened to speak with some of the herd chiefs and they were very pleasant to me, very nice. This is why I mentioned earlier that chiefs should not be criticised because they really are criticised by everybody for no real reason, because all they want to do is maintain their areas. They have to contend with district councils as well, there is a lot that they have to contend with and if we happen to succeed, we will have provincial governments, we will make sure that those municipalities, governments are reliable, we would have chiefs as senators, ladies and men chiefs, so we really want to include them as many as them as we have as, as much as possible.”
When asked on what is new about her political party which 127 others are failing to provide the people, she mumbled and fumbled a little, and then said she would be a practical leader and she talked about improving hospitals among other things.
She was asked on her views on what challenges female politicians are facing in Zimbabwe and she emphatically replied saying, “none!”
So who is Carol ? She was asked on her profession and she replied saying she’s a veterary doctor. “I am a vetenary doctors, been a doctor for 30 years, errm, I’m also a businesswoman, been a businesswoman for about 20 years and I just got the calling to for this party. I am very happy that we have a chief’s party, and very happy that we are running in elections.
When asked on what challenges she sees women having in politics, she said there are none.
She replied saying, “none.”
She concluded by saying that she sees no problem with media access by opposition parties. See video below:
ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa is trailing at 18% of the national vote, while Nelson Chamisa roars at 82%, in the last 7 hours alone according to the below poll. BUT WHO ARE YOU VOTING?
By Lloyd Msipa| I listened and I watched Dr Ibbo Mandaza’s presentation at the just ended ERC symposium on peace and the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe. In a commentary on Zimbabwe’s state of readiness for the harmonised elections, Dr Mandaza says the political freedoms that Zimbabweans are enjoying today is a result of a degenerated ZANU PF party and State.
The perceived freedoms are a result of the inability of the ZANU PF government being unable to control or stamp its authority on the freedoms prevailing in the country. I disagree. To the contrary, the arrival of the Emmerson Mnangagwa government following last years power transfer has been such a refreshing political development in Zimbabwe since 1980. In fact, the regeneration of political freedoms speak of a political party now so sure of itself such that it doesn’t have to resort force or cohesion.
The fact that the opposition has been able to travel and campaign the length and breadth of the country speaks of a transforming political culture in Zimbabwe. The prevailing political freedoms are clear evidence that ZANU PF has transformed itself from the monster it had become under Robert Mugabe to a liberal political party that respects the rights of its citizens to associate freely with the political party of their choice. To suggest that the prevailing political freedoms are a result of a lose of control by ZANU PF is not only foolish, but suggests that the speaker has a more sinister agenda by selling such a warped narrative.
To confirm the incongruence of that statement, Dr Ibbo goes on to to say it is because of these freedoms that ZANU PF is weak and will lose. That the degeneration of ZANU PF and the state happened sometime in the 1990,s and according to him it got worse under the Mnangagwa administration. What a warped analysis.The truth of the matter is ZANU PF and the State under Emmerson Mnangagwa, has regenerated and established freedoms that had become non existent in Zimbabwe, established a free political environment that the world has taken notice of. This is a significant development. The political environment prevailing in Zimbabwe and the disabling of past oppressive legislation through amendments in parliament has not gone unnoticed by international financial institutions.
They have suddenly developed the confidence to lend money to Zimbabwe after two decades of isolation. Internationally, countries that considered Zanu-PF as a repressive political party have suddenly transformed and are happy with the same political party.
The same countries that considered ZANU PF and the Zimbabwe government incapable of running a free and fair election have suddenly transformed overnight all A’s a result of efforts put by the incumbent president, a president who listens to the citizen and above all a president who knows that the “Voice of the people, is the voice of God”. Dr Ibbo Mandaza is a respectable academic, but like all humanity, we sometimes get it wrong. This is one of those instances.
After trying to impose her own parliamentary candidate, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife, Auxillia is seen in the below video, in the 4×4 vehicle which quickly drives away fleeing an angry crowd in Mvuma. The furious crowd of ZANU PF supporters continues to sing: “we will simply humiliate you by kicking the ball into the bush!”
VIDEO: Auxillia Mnangagwa Chased Out Of Mvuma | WHAT'S THE LESSON HERE?
“It is because of the influence that has been perpetuated by some of our leaders who say they are leaders yet they are not leading us.
“The Nelson Chamisa cabal, so to speak, stopped most our members from coming to this launch by perpetrating political violence in different constituencies and areas in order to send a wrong signal that we don’t have people yet we have people. He is simply taking away power from the people and I want to announce this officially the launch of our BEST manifesto has been postponed indefinitely so that we are able to deal with housekeeping issues in our party.”
Zimbabwe born Chelsea Davy arrives at her ex boyfriend’s wedding
By Showbiz Reporter| Zimbabweans made mirth of the Zimbabwean daughter of a ZANU PF farmer Charles Davy, Chelsea, who appeared at her ex boyfriend’s wedding on Saturday.
The above picture was circulated with many Zimbabweans expressing how her face was conspicuous in photographs at the royal function. “Would you attend your ex’s wedding like this?,” asked one Les Moyo commenting on the above photograph.
Prince Harry and Chelsea dated each other between 2004 and 2007. They later broke up and went their separate ways. The Zimbabwean beauty, Chelsea’s mother once represented Zimbabwe as Miss Rhodesia in the 70s.
Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) managing director Thomas Makore’s suspension was triggered by an extortion scandal involving a ZBC journalist and one of the struggling miner’s senior executives, it has emerged.
Bruce Chahwanda was reportedly caught red-handed by police after allegedly receiving $65 000 from HCCL company secretary Allen Masiya.
Masiya was accused of leaking confidential information to Chahwanda, which the journalist allegedly used to blackmail Makore.
Chahwanda and Masiya are out on bail and will re-appear in court on May 26.
Makore was suspended last Monday for alleged insubordination, bribery and corruption.
According to HCCL sources, Makore has since offered to resign “in the best interest of the company and national interest”.
“The managing director’s contract was due to expire in the middle of 2019,” the source said.
“The strategy and vision to return Hwange Colliery to its glory days is achievable with the will, heart and conviction to do what is right.
“Other influences have been architecting the recent negative press about the MD.”
Makore was summoned to the police after Masiya allegedly reported that he had stolen his laptop.
However, the HCCL boss’s lawyers said the laptop had been taken by the MD for “safe-keeping”.
The sources said Makore had initiated a disciplinary process against Masiya, which led to his suspension on May 10 before the tables were turned against the MD.
“The board commenced an investigation after advice from lawyers, which led to the suspension from work of the managing director and the lifting of the suspension of the company secretary despite the board’s press statement that
. . . .‘allegations of impropriety had emerged following a dispute between two senior company officials’,” the source added.
“Hwange Colliery has not been performing for a long period.
“The $200 million that is alleged to have been siphoned from Hwange Coal Gasification in which Hwange Colliery has a shareholding matter emerged more than five years ago.”
The sources alleged that there was a political dimension to Makore’s suspension.
The Hwange MD joined the company in 2014 and his backers say claims that he ran down the country’s biggest coal producer are not true as he had initiated a number of projects that had begun to bear fruit.
Welshman Ncube with Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti
By Paul Nyathi|MDC President and MDC Alliance coalition government Vice President hopeful professor Welshman Ncube has joined the brigade of presidium hopefuls not contesting the national elections.
In an interview held with the state run Sunday News on Friday, Professor Ncube revealed that he will not be contesting in any of the constituencies seconded to his MDC party in the MDC Alliance coalition.
As was said by the ruling ZANU PF current Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi who did not contest the party primary elections, Ncube said he will also only help co-ordinate and campaign for his party candidates and MDC-Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa.
Mohadi and Chiwenga also revealed that they will not be contesting their party candidacy elections but will be campaigning for the party alongside with the ZANU PF presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa hoping to be re-seconded into their current Vice President positions.
The move by Prof Ncube has equally raised questions on his relevance, post-elections as he is the only party principal in the alliance who is not gunning for a seat.
MDC-T president Mr Chamisa is the alliance’s presidential candidate while other principals are standing as either MPs or Senators in the seats that have been reserved for their parties.
The MDC Alliance is made up of seven political parties, MDC-T, which is led by Mr Chamisa, PDP (Mr Tendai Biti), MDC (Professor Welshman Ncube), Transform Zimbabwe (Mr Jacob Ngarivhume), Zanu Ndonga (Mr Denford Musiyarira), Multi-Racial Christian Democratic Party (Mr Mathias Guchutu) and Zimbabwe People First (Retired Brigadier-General Agrippa Mutambara).
“I am certainly not contesting. I think you have seen that the MDC has published its list of the candidates for the National Assembly and my name is not there so that tells you I am not running for the National Assembly seat nor am I running for Senate nor the Proportional Representation. So you will not find my name in any of them,” he said.
Prof Ncube however declined that he was angling to become a deputy to Chamisa as he was already a leader of a party — MDC.
“I am already one of the seven principals in the alliance so why should I be a deputy?” he said.
Sources within the party however revealed to ZimEye.com that Ncube is definitely set to become Chamisa’s Deputy as his party and Biti’s PDP are set for a historic unification immediately after the elections regardless of the outcome of the elections.
MDC president Professor Welshman Ncube will not contest for any position in the forthcoming elections and will only help co-ordinate and campaign for his party candidates and MDC-Alliance presidential candidate, Mr Nelson Chamisa.
The move by Prof Ncube has raised questions on his relevance, post-elections as he is the only party principal in the alliance who is not gunning for a seat. MDC-T president Mr Chamisa is the alliance’s presidential candidate while other principals are standing as either MPs or Senators in the seats that have been reserved for their parties.
The MDC Alliance is made up of seven political parties, MDC-T, which is led by Mr Chamisa, PDP (Mr Tendai Biti), MDC (Professor Welshman Ncube), Transform Zimbabwe (Mr Jacob Ngarivhume), Zanu Ndonga (Mr Denford Musiyarira), Multi-Racial Christian Democratic Party (Mr Mathias Guchutu) and Zimbabwe People First (Retired Brigadier-General Agrippa Mutambara).
In an interview on Friday, Prof Ncube said he was not contesting for any position in the forthcoming elections.
“I am certainly not contesting. I think you have seen that the MDC has published its list of the candidates for the National Assembly and my name is not there so that tells you I am not running for the National Assembly seat nor am I running for Senate nor the Proportional Representation. So you will not find my name in any of them,” he said.
Prof Ncube also said he was not angling to become a deputy to Mr Chamisa as he was already a leader of a party — MDC.
“I am already one of the seven principals in the alliance so why should I be a deputy?” he said.
The alliance has also been dogged by power struggles resulting in the parties failing to come up with neutral colours and symbols to use for the campaigns. In Kenya, the National Super Alliance (Nasa) formed by opposition political parties led by Mr Raila Odinga adopted a single colour branding with all the parties in the coalition dropping their respective regalia.
Prof Ncube, who is also the alliance’s spokesman said campaign regalia will be in two forms — red for the presidential campaigns and respective party colours for other campaigns such as Parliamentary and Senatorial. MDC-T’s brand colour is red while MDC-N is branded in green, PDP’s colours are orange, Transform Zimbabwe (blue), ZimPF (white) while Zanu-Ndonga does not have defined party colours.
“The presidential campaign material, that is to say the t-shirts, berets, posters and pamphlets, will obviously be branded in red, the colour of the MDC-T where our presidential candidate is coming from. In respect of our candidates’ campaign at Parliamentary level as well as at ward level, the candidates and the parties are at liberty to use all of the seven colours of the alliance,” he said. The alliance is also grappling to consolidate the ideas from the seven parties to come up with a manifesto.
Other major players in the coming elections, Zanu-PF and the MDC formation led by Dr Thokozani Khupe, have already launched their manifestos.
Prof Ncube said the alliance had put in place a policy and research committee that was spearheading the process of coming up with the party’s manifesto. He was, however, non-committal on when the alliance planned to launch its election manifesto.
“We have a policy and research committee which is chaired by Tendai Biti. That committee in consultation with the other committees and the principals has been working on two documents. The first document is a comprehensive detailed policy document. That committee is also working on the second document, which is an abridged version of the bigger document which will become the manifesto that we are going to launch and present. So at some point in the next few weeks we will set a date for the launch of the two documents, the comprehensive policy document and the manifesto. So it is work in progress, which we hope to complete as soon as possible and hopefully before an election is proclaimed,” he said.
The MDC Alliance has threatened to crack on several occasions, with Transform Zimbabwe leader Mr Ngarivhume at some point threatening to quit the coalition over allocation of Parliamentary seats among the seven political parties. Reports have indicated that MDC-T was also selecting candidates in seats that are already reserved for other parties. – state media
State Media- President Mnangagwa says he will announce dates for the harmonised elections within the next two weeks, signalling that the ruling party should engage in overdrive campaigns designed to both lure voters and consign the other contesting parties to the political dustbin.
The President’s statement comes as Senate passed the Electoral Amendment Bill last week, paving the way for a credible plebiscite.
The milestone development by Parliament empowers the President to sign the legislative changes into law and subsequently proclaim dates for the nomination court sitting and the actual polls.
Addressing a bumper crowd at Sakubva Stadium yesterday — gathered in haste at a side event to the renaming of the Headquarters 3 infantry Brigade Barracks to Herbert Chitepo Barracks — President Mnangagwa said he would proclaim election dates by month-end.
“Ikozvino tiri muhurumende itsva yandinotungamira nemakurokota andinawo pano, mamwe haapo,” he said.
“Panapa tina vaVice President vaChiwenga (Constantino), vaMohadi (Kembo) havapo, pane musangano wavari kuinda kuGwanda nhasi (yesterday).
“Tigova nemakurokota mazhinji muchaavona kana tave kuita macampaign, atanga kupera kwemwedzi uno.
“Saka ndozvazviri, zvinofamba negwara, neronga.”
Added President Mnangagwa: “Asi Zanu-PF, ndinokuvudzai kuti kupera kwemwedzi uno, tichange tichiita proclamation, kuti munyika muno muchava nema elections kuti campaign igotanga nemutsindo.
“Tozovuya kuno ku Manicaland toita campaign zvino yokuti mikono ndiani muno munyika, zvobuda pachena,” he said.
President Mnangagwa thanked Zimbabweans for the peaceful transition in November last year.
He said he had to skip the country after he was fired by former President Mr Robert Mugabe on November 6 last year as his life was under threat.
“Asi kubva November last year tinokutendai ne runyararo rwakaitika panguva iyoyo musi wa, I think, 18 or 19 November last year nekuti ndakanga ndaita border jumper, ndakajamba ne makomo iwaya, ndakayambuka makomo aya vaakuda hupenyu hwangu, asi kana zuva rako risati rasvika unorarama.
“Saka ndinokutendai pa transition yakaitika, yakaitika murunyararo, hapana ropa rakateuka, former President wedu va Mugabe vakaita step down, Central Committee yedu yemusangano ikandisarudza ndisipo kuti nditungamirire musangano wedu we Zanu-PF, ndikatambira izvozvo.
“Ndinofunga kuti nemiwo ve Manicaland munotambira zvakaitwa ne Central Committee, ndizvo? Hallelujah!”
President Mnangagwa said he was surprised at the huge crowd that had gathered to meet him on short notice.
He said it was his hope that the numbers would translate into votes to safeguard Zimbabwe’s legacy.
“Ndinokutendai zvikuru nekuungana kwamaita, haisi rally yatanga takarangana, ndatoshamiswa munouya makawanda kudai in one minute yamanzwa.
“Tinofanira kuti musi we kuvhota tovhotera kuchengetedza nhaka yenyika ino.”
The President said no other political party can safeguard and meet the aspirations of the people.
The electorate, he said, should be wary of fly-by-night political parties that are bent on causing violence.
“Tungavapo tumwe tumisangano tunotinakidza kana tuchinge tuchitaura tichinakirwa, asi isu kana tichitaura tonangana nebasa, hatitukane nevanhu.
“No violence, we want our election to be free of violence. I plead with you, it’s more important, it’s more powerful for us to be peaceful, it means we are mature and Zanu-PF is power.
“We should not be distracted by small parties in the country which go about preaching hate speech, no! no!
“We must preach love, we must preach unity. People are allowed to differ, but never be violent because your brother has differed with you, because your sister has differed with you.
“To the youths, we must leave behind a legacy where they say madzikoma edu vakatisiira nhaka yakanaka, nhaka yerugare, nhaka yakavakika, nhaka yatakabatana, ndoyatinoda iyoyo mukati menyika yedu.”
The meeting was attended by Vice President Chiwenga and the ruling party’s national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, among other senior party members from various party organs.- state media
EVANGELICAL Fellowship of Zimbabwe president and Faith Ministries pastor Dr Shingi Munyeza has shut down his alcohol-selling businesses that were a cause for much debate in recent years.
Faith Ministries at one point reportedly tried to pressure the clergyman into stepping down from the pulpit because he ran gambling establishments and night clubs.
Pastor Munyeza’s News Cafe outlets in Borrowdale and Five Avenue Shopping Centre closed doors last week.
Some former employees have claimed they are owed salaries. “The businesses were just shut without notice to workers and some of us are owed huge sums of money. We were told that News Cafe was likely to reopen at a shopping mall close to Chinhoyi Street,” said one of them, while declining to be named for fear of victimisation. Pastor Munyeza said News Cafe was relocating.
“There are a number of factors which led to the temporary closure of the businesses. Chief among the reasons are the foreign currency challenges.
“There are also issues about rentals because the current arrangement was not working. We haven’t closed the businesses but it’s about consolidating, restrategising and refocusing.”
A strong critic of former President Mr Robert Mugabe, Pr Munyeza has dabbled in politics and has also called for free, fair and credible elections in 2018. – state media
Thokozani Khupe yesterday laid blame on Nelson Chamisa, for the low turnout at the launch of her party’s manifesto.
After the flopper, Khupe’s press conference was conducted inside a dingy beerhall.
A paltry turnout of less than 50 delegates by 2 pm saw the party’s leadership at the venue of the occasion, hold an emergency press conference where they revealed how their members had been intimidated and blocked from attending the launch.
Secretary General of the party, Nixon Nyikadzino(jah man) flanked by the Secretary General of the Women’s wing, Lynette Mudehwe while inside the beerhall (SEE VIDEOS), told journalists that the presence of the Vanguard had sent shivers within the party leadership and members forcing the Khupe faction to cancel the rally.
“We have since cancelled our event until further notice and this is because of the acts of violence and intimidation by Chamisa’s youth wing, the Vanguard,” said Nyikadzino.
Mudehwe revealed that this was the reason why notable senior leaders from their party were also conspicuous by their absence at the venue of the rally.
“Our President, Thokozani Khupe is in a safe venue as she waits to hold a crucial meeting with the party’s leadership in Harare tomorrow,” she said.
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Questioned on whether they had made a police report regarding the acts of violence against their members, Nyikadzino confirmed that a police report had been made and the party hoped that the perpetrators of the violence and intimidation would be brought to book.
“Yes, we have the evidence to support our claims and since this matter has been reported to the police, we will be following due process regards availing that evidence,” said Nyikadzino.
By Own Correspondent| The splinter faction of the MDC T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe has laid blame on Nelson Chamisa, and his youth wing the Vanguard for the low turnout at the launch of the party’s manifesto.
A paltry turnout of less than 50 delegates by 2 pm saw the party’s leadership at the venue of the occasion, hold an emergency press conference where they revealed how their members had been intimidated and blocked from attending the launch.
Secretary General of the party, Nixon Nyikadzino flanked by the Secretary General of the Women’s wing, Lynette Mudehwe told journalists that the presence of the Vanguard had sent shivers within the party leadership and members forcing the Khupe faction to cancel the rally.
“We have since cancelled our event until further notice and this is because of the acts of violence and intimidation by Chamisa’s youth wing, the Vanguard,” said Nyikadzino.
Mudehwe revealed that this was the reason why notable senior leaders from their party were also conspicuous by their absence at the venue of the rally.
“Our President, Thokozani Khupe is in a safe venue as she waits to hold a crucial meeting with the party’s leadership in Harare tomorrow,” she said.
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Questioned on whether they had made a police report regarding the acts of violence against their members, Nyikadzino confirmed that a police report had been made and the party hoped that the perpetrators of the violence and intimidation would be brought to book.
“Yes, we have the evidence to support our claims and since this matter has been reported to the police, we will be following due process regards availing that evidence,” said Nyikadzino.
Inspite of the intimidation and threats of violence by the so – called Vanguard,MDC – T cadres were brave enough to come to the Harare showgrounds,Nelson Mandela hall,for the launch of BEST on Saturday,May 19,2018#ServantLeadershipAndServicepic.twitter.com/5xaqJNyH7g
By Own Correspondent| Renegade former MDC-T deputy, Thokozani Khupe who called off her manifesto (BEST) launch after less than 30 people attended the occasion, later changed after managing to recruit 30 youths. The youths appeared visually drained and hungry, as ZimEye reveals (see videos and pictures).
Khupe’s party secretary general told ZimEye he blamed the low turnout on intimidation from the her former boss, Nelson Chamisa.
The (BEST) manifesto launch was supposed to take place at Nelson Mandela Hall in the Exhibition Park.
The only notable people present were Nyikadzino, spokesperson Linda Masarira, women’s assembly chairperson, Lynnet Mudewe, organising secretary Yvonne Musarurwa and Isabel Mwonzora.
Khupe did not come to the hall as her officials made claimed that she would not be “safe.”
Speaking at Dandaro Bar while drinking Viceroy, Khupe’s aide treated journalists to a plate of sadza and a drink.
Khupe’s deputy, Obert Gutu has before accused Chamisa of bussing thousands of supporters to his rallies.
The uncanny similarities between Grace Mugabe and Nelson Chamisa.
Tino Chinyoka
There was a time when Robert Mugabe said Nelson Chamisa was his best minister. Some have speculated why this was so, given that Chamisa was from the opposition. It has been suggested that this was because Chamisa was/is in business with the Gushungus, namely that it is his trucks that provide logistical support to the former first family’s dairy business. This has always been denied by Chamisa’s people, though not necessarily because they are in the know, but because as often happens, supporters make denials for those they admire out of wishful thinking than facts. The truth is we don’t know if he is in business with them or not, and given his record of late, we wouldn’t be none the wiser if he did it.
But, looking at events in the recent past, l posit that there is a perfectly rational explanation for the old dotard’s due regard for Dr Nero. In the young man, Mugabe would have seen many of the same qualities as those possessed by his wife Grace.
It was death of our dear First lady, Sarah Heffron, loved by many and missed by a nation, that catapulted Grace Marufu from a married secretary sleeping with her boss to within a heartbeat of the Presidency.
And it was the death of Learnmore Jongwe that made Chamisa Kuwadzana MP, and the death of Tsvangirai that has brought him one election win away from the Presidency.
Death, it seems, was good for both of them. And like Elisha inheriting a double portion of Elijah’s blessing, Chamisa has been doubly fortunate in this way.
Neither Grace nor Chamisa have in any way been accused of complicity in these deaths of course. That would just be absurd.
In 2017, the nation endured the so-called ‘Interface Rallies’, a series of auditions for Grace Marufu to showcase herself as a President in waiting, which really ought to be called instead an ‘Insultathon’: littered as they were with Mnangagwa-bashing themes. Had the army not intervened, Grace anga aenda nenyika.
Fast forward to 2018, and Chamisa is going around the country, rent-a-crowds on tow, and treats his audience to, you guessed it, Mnangagwa-bashing themes. There might be no ice-cream served to the President at these rallies, (as he customarily does not attend MDC rallies) but the tenor of the language is the same. Mnangagwa, it turns out, is regarded very lowly by Grace and Chamisa. His audiences listen and ululate when Chamisa gets into his grove, and their friends on sosho media gush that Chamisa aenda nenyika.
Grace went around to these rallies with a man in a wheelchair, telling all and sundry that this man was brought to this state by President Mnangagwa. There was never a police report, nor are the police summoned to arrest the perpetrator (attempted murder has no statute of limitations), but the lie was repeated over and over, because it didn’t need to be true in order to be damaging. Mnangagwa you see, was dangerous, even though he was usually sat very close to Grace at these rallies – certainly close enough to get that ice-cream.
Fast forward to 2018, and Chamisa goes around with his friend who has one arm. It is claimed that Mnangagwa did this to him, in 2008. The people look at this young man and are pained at a life damaged, by Mnangagwa. Only a few know that as far back as the days when Learnmore Jongwe was still a student leader at this UZ, this same boy was campaigning to be in the SRC, with his one hand, and has been very vocal in disability rights circles since the late 1990s. With his one hand missing. The lie is not unknown to Chamisa: they worked together with this disabled fellow in Zinasu. But who cares, if the truth gets in the way of a good Mnangagwa-bashing, to hell with the truth.
Ask Charamba or Kazembe Kazembe how they were humiliated by attacks from Grace Mugabe. Grown men reduced to children, kutukwa sebenzi ranyira mutsime. Their crime? They were perceived as liking Mnangagwa more than Grace.
Then dial up to 2018, and ask Catriona Lang, the British Ambassador, how she has been subjected to withering insults from Chamisa’s camp. Her crime? She is perceived as liking Mnangagwa more than Chamisa.
When Mai Mujuru needed to go, Grace went around saying how evil she was, and Mnangagwa was then not in her cross-hairs. She attended his investiture as Vice President. That was before she went around questioning his role in the liberation war or in Zanu PF or in government, or anywhere.
To the MDC, Mnangagwa needs to go. It is now par for the course that Chamisa and his cohorts call the current government a coup government. It is illegitimate, and they are coming to remove that stain from our country’s landscape, because God himself is in it. Yet, both Chamisa and Tsvangirai attended President Mnangagwa’s inauguration. For a coup government?
Grace Marufu stole money and said that it was loans to do business because her family must eat. She claimed that before she met him, President Mugabe was a poor man, and it was up to her to feed the family.
Chamisa took the Zuva case brief and shafted workers with his three months notice thing, and the response to criticism of a leader of a party founded by workers doing this is what? Because family must eat. It is up to him to feed the family.
When one looks at these similarities, one should then not be surprised at how the campaign is going. The new dispensation brought one new leader, but it (and death) replaced a pretender to the presidency with another one. The most insidious aspect of that chastening BBC HardTalk is not that Chamisa lied, we know he does that. It is not that he failed to articulate a single policy: we know they don’t have any. Rather, it is this: that when faced with the lie about Trump promising him $15Billion if he wins, Chamisa tried to blame other people for making that claim. Until reminded there was a video.
When Grace was accused of assaulting a girl in Johannesburg, her first reply through her people was to deny there had ever been a scuffle. Until there was a video of the injuries.
Zanu Pf with their bad old tricks of forcing people to close shops and attend Rally, Hiring Musicians so that people they follow free live shows. Suluman Chimbeti, Seh Calaz,Police band etc performed in Sakubva today. @ZimEyepic.twitter.com/pf0WqlhVCm
The below is the direct transcript of what MDC leader Nelson Chamisa said to the Vungu people which was corrupted by the state media to mean that he has pledged to impregnate a woman.
SHONA-
“Asi kuti musvike ipapo, munoda hutungamiriri hutsva. Ubukhokheli obutsha. A young man. Kana muchindi doubter mukandipa (mukana) ndinogowesa definitely.”
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“We want to uplift and develop Vungu, but for us to reach that stage, we need a new leader, a young man. Does anyone doubt that if you give me a chance I will score?”- Nelson Chamisa at Maboleni in Vungu.
Public media ups propaganda ante against president Chamisa
The public media has upped its propaganda ante against the people’s leader, president Adv. Nelson Chamisa by putting words into his mouth in a desperate bid to malign and ostracize him from the women constituency of Zimbabwe.
The State-owned Herald and Chronicle newspapers today published a malicious story falsely alleging that president Chamisa told a rally at Maboleni in Vungu yesterday that he was young and energetic enough to impregnate a woman when in fact he never said anything to that effect. He never made any direct or inferred reference to impregnating any woman at the rally. All he said was that he will score many positives when elected to lead the country.
In the past week alone, the public media has published 49 stories all denigrating the person of the incoming president who is set to resoundingly win the forthcoming election. The public media has incessantly concocted vulgar words and anti-women messages as purportedly coming from president Chamisa with the aim of making him unpopular with the majority women-folk in the country.
The public media clearly has an agenda to concoct lies and sculpt malice against the young and popular MDC Alliance presidential candidate in the vain hope that they will succeed in denting his towering brand and image.
The negative public media reportage provides ample evidence why we are demanding media reforms as part of a comprehensive reform package that must precede the next election. Equal, fair and impartial coverage must be the dictum of our public media.
Regardless of how many times they put words into president Chamisa’s mouth, the people of Zimbabwe will not stop reposing their faith and trust in his dynamic leadership.
Indeed, a new Zimbabwe is on the horizon.
Zimbabweans want change that delivers.
Behold the new.
Luke Tamborinyoka
Presidential Spokesperson and Director of Communications
By Own Correspondent| Several people were seriously injured when a commuter omnibus coming from Norton and heading towrds Harare was involved in an accident with a private vehicle along Samora Machel Avenue in Harare.
According to eyewitnesses at the scene of the accident, the driver of the Kombi was speeding and he did not give right of way to the vehicle as he proceeded despite the red robot.
Zanu PF chairperson for Harare Province Goodwills Masimirembwa has predicted a humiliating loss for the opposition in the capital city.
Speaking in an interview with state broadcaster, ZBC after yesterday’ s rally in Dzivarasekwa Harare, Masimirembwa said the opposition would not win a single Parliamentary Seat in the capital.
“Morale is high in our party and we are ready to romp to victory, come election day.
We have done the necessary groundwork and this time we will trounce the opposition right here in the capital city,” said Masimirembwa.
“We all know that the opposition has nothing to offer to the people of Zimbabwe that is why we are hearing cheap political talk about the ruling party,” added Masimirembwa.
MDC politician Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga on Friday praised President Mnangagwa for his humility and pro-people stance.
Misihairabwi-Mushonga, who helped organise a meeting between the President and women in Harare yesterday said the President easily accepted the invitation, even though she was from the opposition party.
She said the only two questions the President asked were about the venue and the time.
“Mr President just for you to get a context on why women felt this was important, this has been a standing issue for women’s organisations in particular and women that are coming from communities to be able to access and to be able to speak to their President.
“We want to break with the past by coming up with this meeting. We are breaking the past in a number of ways. The first one is we know that presidents were difficult to access.
“Presidents have always been difficult to access for a number of reasons and I hope because we said this is going to be very open and frank, you will allow me Mr President to be brutally frank. Your Excellency the main problem that we had with accessing Presidents has been gatekeepers around the President. Literally those that are around Presidents, we had to work with them as if midzimu (spirit mediums) and just to getting to where you are is a struggle and for us having you here is exceptional and it is historic.
“So we broke with tradition in a number of ways. We broke with tradition in terms of how this meeting was even organised because tradition has always said we have to go and be vetted by security, our organisations have to say who funds them in case we are being funded by regime change agents. Your Excellency, we are glad we did not have to do that.”
Mrs Misihairabwi-Mushonga said President Mnangagwa was the People’s President.
“I must tell my colleagues here that on the day that his Excellency agreed to this meeting that you had asked for us to go and request, he asked only two questions, ‘where is the venue and what is the programme’. For me that was important because we were tired of having to sit down and explain anything and everything that we were going to do. We also want to break from the past because there are people that think they own a Head of State so unless you are coming from a party or ruling party, it was impossible to get to the President. I am not coming from the ruling party. I come from the opposition and I want to thank you your Excellency that that tag did not stop you from coming here,” she said.
She added: “We are also breaking the tradition around formalities so our seating arrangement here and the fact that you are sitting at that table, it is breaking the formalities. We are breaking the tradition because we have been prisoners of language so today isiNdebele, isiShona, isiXhosa siya sikhuluma. We are breaking from the tradition and being prisoners of the cockpit syndrome were only those around you is the voice that you hear.
“You are always saying your Excellency that the voice of the people is the voice of God but if that voice is only dominated by a particular people and a particular gender, it ceases to be the voice of God. So you will need today voices that are different and we are hoping that you will allow these voices to be as bold to challenge you but also for you to challenge us as for this interaction to be as good as we want it to be.
President Mnangagwa praised the organisers of the interactive dialogue saying it was a first of its kind in Zimbabwe.
He said that next time he would bring his entire Cabinet for them to respond to concerns directed at their ministries.
“I would like to thank the organisers of this meeting. It has never happened before, if it happened, well maybe it was that time I had jumped the border. This exercise we had today was extremely fruitful and in future if you call it again, my entire Cabinet will be here so that they answer questions relating to their ministries,” he said.
By Paul Nyathi|POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has banned police from eating, smoking and even putting hands in their pockets while in uniform and in public.
Commissioner Matanga made the ruling while addressing senior police officers at the Police Protection Unit (PPU) in Harare on Friday as he announced measures to realign the police services to what he described as “going back to basics.”
“Acts of walking with hands in pockets, carrying bags while in police in uniform, are now the norm rather than exception,” said Commissioner General Matanga.
The General took swipe at police officers who have developed a habit of spending time on social media while in police uniforms at work and travelling to and from work in civilian clothing.
“Some members unashamedly spend most of their time swiping on their phones even in circumstances where a high level of alertness is demanded. That has to be corrected.”
“Across all provinces where police uniforms are worn junior members have of late developed a practice of putting on civilian attire when they travel to and from work. I do not know why members shun police uniform.
“I really wonder whether this stems from their failure to appreciate the effect of police visibility to the prevention of crime. This practice should cease forthwith. Corrective action should be preferred against anyone doing so without sufficient cause of leave of the superiors,” he said.
He warned police against engaging in corruption and exhorted discipline.
“I am reliably informed that the distribution of police uniforms was being done in an opaque manner that borders on corruption. Resultantly, some so called ‘connected’ members continued to access uniforms to the prejudice of others.
“On this note, I am pleased to inform you that I have since instituted measures to ensure transparency. I urge you to report all underhand dealings which take place in the distribution of resources. Corrupt individuals should be exposed to allow decisive action to be taken,” said Comm-Gen Matanga
“We cannot condone deeds that debase our organisation like that. The onus is therefore upon all of us to collectively take bold steps that put a stop to such disgusting practices which apparently are alien to our police discipline. We certainly cannot continue normalising the abnormal,” added Comm-Gen Matanga.
He said the ongoing restructuring exercise was meant to ensure the ZRP has personnel devoted to their work.
Comm-Gen Matanga said some posts would be abolished while other sections would be trimmed.
Those performing duplicate roles would be disbanded.
He said he was alive to the challenges facing the ZRP like shortage of vehicles, accommodation and unserviceable communication equipment.
Comm-Gen Matanga pledged to lobby for increased fiscal support to address some of the challenges.
The meeting was attended by the officer commanding PPU Senior Assistant Commissioner Lee Muchemwa and senior police officers.
By Paul Nyathi|A love infested Zimbabwean man based in the Eastern Cape in South Africa has shocked the love world when he set up a huge billboard on a South African Highway to show love for his pregnant wife.
Nhlanhla Nxumalo that was not enough who grew up in Bulawayo’s Old Pumula suburb put up a billboard along a busy highway in South Africa with his pregnant wife Sindiso as the star attraction.
The billboard with his wife’s picture and some special words “Somoya wam, Ngiyaziqhenya Ngawe, Uyathandwa (My soul mate, I am proud of you, you are loved), had social media buzzing for the better part of the month in Mzansi.
The billboard has definitely become the talk of that country as people have showered Nhlanhla with praises for showing off the love he has for his wife.
In an interview, Nhlanhla said he just wanted to appreciate his wife.
“I wanted to make my wife feel special with the gesture. She had been on maternity leave for about four months and it was hard for her to leave the baby behind as she returned to work. I wanted to cheer her up through this gesture. These days we live in a world where grandmothers aren’t near to us to help her with the baby,” said Nhlanhla.
“I’m happy at how excited she was when she saw the billboard with her picture on it. Even the added attention from people who started talking about the billboard made her day. People’s attention has shifted from them asking how the child is to people talking about the billboard every time they meet me, her or us, which eases her mind.”
Refusing to reveal how much he paid for his romantic stunt, Nhlanhla said the billboard was erected on May 1 when Sindiso was on her way to the salon.
“The original idea was that when she returns to work on May 2, she’d see it on the main road. However, the billboard was erected a day before so she ended up seeing it when she was on her way to the salon to do her hair in preparation of getting back to work.”
Sindiso a lawyer at the East London Magistrate’s Court said it was unbelievable seeing herself on a billboard.
“I was on my way to the salon and I saw the picture from afar then I said to myself, this looks like me. When I got closer, I was shocked upon realising it was me. I was confused as to how this happened,” said Sindiso.
After all that has been said and done, Nhlanhla believes that he has done the right thing with his friends feeling challenged to do something similar for their wives.
On Wednesday the 23rd of May 2018, parliament is to receive oral evidence from His Excellency the former President of the Republic of Zimbabwe R. G. Mugabe.
EVANGELICAL Fellowship of Zimbabwe president and Faith Ministries pastor Dr Shingi Munyeza has shut down his alcohol-selling businesses that were a cause for much debate in recent years.
