Six criminals donning fake Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) uniforms recently robbed a businessman in Harare of $100 000.

The criminals attacked the businessman at his Borrowdale house after getting inside information from his nephew.

Three of the suspects have since appeared before a Harare magistrate charged with robbery.

On February 23, a four-member gang including a 21-year-old woman wearing ZNA uniforms pounced on another businessman Mr Tawanda Zeze at his house in Belvedere, Harare.

The gang vanished with over $21 000. One of the robbers, Mildred Makoto (21) of plot 86, Marwende Road, Snake Park, Harare, yesterday appeared before magistrate Ms Josephine Sande charged with robbery. Her alleged accomplices are still at large.

She was remanded in custody to today for bail application. The prosecutor Ms Linda Gadzikwa alleged that on February 23 at around 8pm, Makoto and her accomplices hatched a plan to rob Mr Zeze.

Two of the gang members wore a complete ZNA uniform and proceeded to Zeze’s house.
When they arrived at the house, they allegedly identified themselves as soldiers before informing Mr Zeze that he was wanted at their barracks for questioning.

They said it was in connection with the operations of his company, More than Conquerors Trust Organisation.

It is the State’s case that they dragged him into his bedroom indicating that they wanted to conduct some searches.

They allegedly ordered him to open his safe and out of fear, Mr Zeze complied.

The gang, the court heard, stole $21 000 which was in the safe and three mobile phones.-state media

By Talent Gondo| The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) today announced on the National broadcaster ZBC News Hour about missing political activist, Itai Dzamara, appealing to the public to assist with investigations regarding his whereabouts.

The ZRP, has practically ignored clarion calls to investigate and find Dzamara, who went missing 3 years ago under suspicious circumstances.

Back then on the 11th March 2015, the ZRP spokesperson Charity Charamba told ZimEye they were not at all searching for Dzamara,  SEE VIDEO:

https://youtu.be/z0SRPxM7EPM

Dzamara, was allegedly abducted by three unknown men suspected to belong to the military intelligence at the behest of the country’s deposed leader, Robert Mugabe.

Dzamara, known for his solo protests at the Africa Unity Squire in Harare, crossed swords with Mugabe’s government after he made several demands for Mugabe to step down.

Dzamara was allegedly abducted by suspected State security agents near his home in Glen View on March 9, 2015 and has not been seen since.

Government through the Home Affairs ministry has over the years practically ignored calls to institute investigations into Dzamara’s disappearance despite the issue being raised in parliament and the ministry being instructed to find the missing activist by the courts.

The former Minister of Higher Education and Technological Development, Professor Jonathan Moyo mockingly alleged that Dzamara was not abducted but his disappearance was stage managed or he had exited the country using one of the “porous boarder routes”.

However, the self exiled Professor Moyo hit the headlines at the beginning of the year when he back tracked on his statement, alleging that the current Vice President, Retired Army General, Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga had a hand in Dzamara’s disappearance.

Dzamara’s brother, Patson, last year petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to revive investigations regarding his brother’s whereabouts.

In a petition delivered to Mnangagwa following his inauguration, Patson Dzamara  urged Mnangagwa to help his family find closure on his missing brother.

“I am concerned and disturbed by the stance assumed by the former government to which you were a part of as vice-president and minister of Justice,” Dzamara said in a letter delivered to Mnangagwa’s office.

“To date, nothing has been done to assist us as a family to at least come to a place of closure,” he said.

At least 16 inmates sentenced to death have escaped the hangman’s noose when their death penalties were commutated to life when President Mnangagwa pardoned thousands of prisoners across the country in a bid to decongest prisons.

There were 101 inmates on death row countrywide. Speaking at Harare Central Prison yesterday where 173 inmates were being released, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Elizabeth Banda said some inmates, who had served over 10 years and were on death row had their sentences reduced to life.

“Today among the high profile we are looking at one who was serving a life sentence. He had served over 20 years of his sentence,” she said.

“We have another category of those who were on death penalty whose death sentences have been commuted to life and had served 10 years and above.

“At Harare Central 16 of them had their sentences commuted to life in prison. In the whole country we used to have 101 inmates on death row.”

Asst Comm Banda said at Harare Central Prison at least 534 were expected to be released. “Across the country so far we have released 1 534 of which 199 of them are females and the rest are males.
“One thing to note is that we have not reached 50 percent of our releases hence we will be expecting slightly more than 3 000 to 4 000 after the whole exercise has been completed,” she said.

“The ones who have been released so far are those whose categories which are straight forward, for example, the women since we were looking at women irrespective of the crimes they committed. Those at Conmara Open Prison, it was all of them. The young offenders it was all of them who were below the age of 18 and then we have those who are over the age of 60.”

Meanwhile, there was joy and jubilation as the prisoners were released with some relatives thronging the penitentiary to welcome their loved ones.

Among those released yesterday were Beroti Maxwell Sibanda jailed 1994.
“The President’s decision to pardon us has come as a relief to me. First and foremost I want to thank prison officials who kept me for 24 years since 1994. I was condemned to face a death penalty but after seven years my sentence was commuted to life and the President saw it fit that I be released to face the world,” he said.

“I was facing a murder charge after I mistakenly killed my father with a knife while trying to defend my mother who had been a victim of violent behaviour since we were young. We were arrested and sentenced to death.

“My mother was released in 2005 under Presidential amnesty.”
He said he was happy to be released but was afraid of relatives who might be still angry over the death he caused.

“I do not know where to start. I do not even know if I still have a wife and relatives. They stopped visiting me a long time ago including my mother.”

The executive director of Prison Fellowship Zimbabwe, Mr Peter Mandiyanike said his organisation was working with prisons in rehabilitating prisoners and re-uniting them with their relatives.

“We have some who were released who were collected by their relatives over the weekend. We will also reach to Mr Sibanda’s relatives in Lupane so he can be integrated back into the family,” he said.

Also released was a Proliner bus driver who caused the deaths of several people in Mvuma, Peter Tirivavi.

He thanked President Mnangagwa for giving him a second chance. “I would like to thank the President for pardoning me. He has given me another chance,” said Tirivavi.

Patrick Tawonashe was another prisoner released yesterday. He was mobbed by joyous relatives who included his grandmother Juliana Tawonashe. “We are very excited to be welcoming our son as you can see he is still a young man. He has been given a second chance in life,” she said.-state media

By Farai D Hove| Army medics are being deployed at hospitals beginning from today.

Already a major hospital, Mpilo, has confirmed servicemen are from today turning up for work to help salvage the crisis caused by the ongoing strike.

The hospital’s clinical director, Dr Solwayo Ngwenya, said a number of doctors from the army are coming over.

“We will be having members of the Army joining us from tomorrow just to ease the pressure on the few doctors that have been overwhelmed due to the ongoing strike, he said.

He continued saying, “we are not yet sure about the numbers but I understand that public health institutions in the country will have members of the army to help.”

He also added saying there are also an additional 35 who are fresh from university.
“The Ministry of Health and Child Care has also allocated us 35 recently graduated junior resident medical officers from the National University of Science and Technology and the University of Zimbabwe that will join us from April 1. We are currently working on their applications and we are hopeful this measure will help us deliver quality health care services to members of the public,” he said.

FLOODING RIVER – A lorry driver was swept away when he tried to cross flooding Musukwe River in Chidamoyo under Chief Dandawa. The lorry was carrying fertiliser and the photos show a tractor trying to assist in the rescue operation.It was not clear if there were any casualties at the time of writing.

Terrence Mawawa| Brian Mudumi, a declared Zanu PF sympathiser has blamed the US Government for being biased towards the country’ s main opposition party.

“The US Government has listened to MDC for too
long. They have to respect the government with
which they seek to re-engage.

The conditions they have
put forward must only be viewed in terms of
discussion points – not to posit them as
conditionalities,” Mudumi wrote on Facebook yesterday.

Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo

A senior Zanu PF official has warned party members to be wary of MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa’ s influence in Masvingo Province.

Addressing party members in Masvingo at the weekend, Zanu PF Provincial Chairperson, Ezra Chadzamira stressed the need to strengthen the structures at cell level.

Although Chadzamira spoke in innuendos, he warned party members against complacency and instead emphasised the need for unity and extra stamina ahead of the polls.

“We cannot sit back and fold our arms. Everyone has to work hard.

We all know that some of the opposition leaders are very influential here in Masvingo and that should not be taken lightly,” said Chadzamira.

Chamisa’ s home area is Chiwara in Gutu District, Masvingo Province.

Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo

The coming elections will mark the beginning of a new political era in the country, the MDC has said.

MDC Provincial Spokesperson, Simon Mupindu told a local community radio station at the weekend, the party was ready to take on Zanu PF in the coming elections.

Mupindu lambasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’ s “attempt to coat a bitter pill with sugar” by presenting a fake list of the so called culprits in the externalisation of funds.

” We respect our late leader Morgan Tsvangirai and we will win the elections in honour of his lengthy battle against tyranny and dictatorship.

We are ready for the polls and this time we will not allow them to tamper with the votes,” said Mupindu.

Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo

MDC activists here have scoffed at claims made by the party’ s former national chairman, Lovemore Moyo, saying the politician blatantly missed the mark.

Moyo told a daily paper at the weekend the late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai was to blame for the leadership quagmire in the country’ s largest opposition party.

Moyo further accused Tsvangirai of deviating from the party’ s principles.

Responding to Moyo’ s remarks, Masvingo Veteran Activists Association yesterday said the form Speaker of Parliament was” a sinking man who was desperately clutching at reeds in murky waters. ”

“No sane person will pay attention to Moyo’s rants.He has since resigned from the party so who is he to comment on MDC issues?

We wish to state that he must stop denigrating our late iconic leader, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai,” said Philip Mugabe a member of Masvingo Veteran Activists Association.

Terrence Mawawa

A clergyman in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe has hailed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for promoting a culture of peace and tolerance in the country.

Reverend Rodrick Shoko of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe Mufakose Circuit hailed Mnangagwa’s government for effectively departing from hate speech- thereby promoting peace and tolerance.

“We were fed up with hate language on national television. The new leadership is preaching the gospel of peace,” said Shoko.

“During the past days we could only hear words like ‘Stop It’ or ‘Unopenga’ all the time.

We are glad that all that is now gone.

For the first time, as churches we have been consulted by the Presidium as important stakeholders in the running of the country,” he said.

Terrence Mawawa

A clergyman in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe has hailed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for promoting a culture of peace and tolerance in the country.

Reverend Rodrick Shoko of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe Mufakose Circuit hailed Mnangagwa’s government for effectively departing from hate speech- thereby promoting peace and tolerance.

“We were fed up with hate language on national television. The new leadership is preaching the gospel of peace,” said Shoko.

“During the past days we could only hear words like ‘Stop It’ or ‘Unopenga’ all the time.

We are glad that all that is now gone.

For the first time, as churches we have been consulted by the Presidium as important stakeholders in the running of the country,” he said.

Dear Nortonians,

I trust you are well.

Today, Monday the 26th March 2018, I am attending the inaugural *Harare Indaba being held at the Johannesburg Country Club in Auckland Park, Johannesburg under the banner* _*”Zimbabwe is Open for Mining”*_.

The initial event was staged in Johannesburg to compliment the already scheduled Cross-Border Services Indaba set for the 27th & 28th of March 2018 at the same venue in order to gain maximum traction and exposure for next years event.

The Indaba, was facilitated by *Resources for Africa Pty Ltd* to showcase Zimbabwe’s mining industry to potential investors and was graced by the *Minister of Mines, Hon. Winston Chitando, Mr. Kwesu, the CEO of the Chamber of Mines with fellow representatives, Honourable Committee Members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Mines & Energy, Mr. Alex Mhembere, the CEO for Zimplats and other leading Zimbabwean mining houses. People like Mr. Trevor Ncube, Dr. Paul Jourdan and others were also in attendance.*

I was part of the panel discussion with Trevor Ncube and Hon. Chitando and conducted several interviews on the sidelines of the Indaba.

The Indaba is certainly a prominent platform for mining in Zimbabwe and *”Team Zimbabwe”* certainly aroused a wealth of interest and I look forward to the future success of the event.

I look forward to returning on the ground in the constituency upon my return and will be in office on Wednesday.

Below are some picture taken during the Indaba….

Regards,

*Hon. Temba P. Mliswa (MP): Norton Constituency*

Ray Nkosi | Calls for Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa to resign over incompetence in running the health ministry have fallen on deaf ears.

The doctors strike enters its third week with Zimbabwe National Army doctors on standby to rescue the fast deteriorating situation in the country’s hospitals. Striking doctors have refused calls by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to return to work and have instead issued a stinging statement baying for Parirenyatwa’s head.

“Negotiations are being done in bad faith, with gross misrepresentation of facts by the ministry and minister. The reason why we have reached this critical point is that we accepted promises before from the same minister and ministry since 2014 and these continue to be broken.

“The ministry continues to threaten our members in an attempt to coerce them back to work. If they were genuinely working on these issues, why then threaten members,” the statement said.

Parirenyatwa in an interview with the Standard failed to disclose the casualties or the number of patients affected by the doctors strike, he however acknowledged the shortage of drugs in the hospitals and also discloses the shocking ratio of 200 000 people per one doctor.

“We have put that on alert so that we can keep our emergency services running. We have asked some doctors from the uniformed services to be on standby, but it is not a sustainable position.”

“We should be able to have our doctors back at work as a matter of urgency,” said Parirenyatwa.

Ray Nkosi | Zanu PF central committee member and former Chinhoyi legislator, Philip Chiyangwa, who is also former President Robert Mugabe’s nephew plans to stand in Zvimba South constituency in the next election.

Chiyangwa who is engrossed in a nasty divorce with his wife Elizabeth Juma, is reported to have abandoned his Chinhoyi constituency to run in Zvimba, Mugabe’s home village.

The local Newsday reports that Chiyangwa, who dismally lost the Chinhoyi race to MDC-T candidate, Peter Matarutse, in the 2013 elections, could neither confirm nor deny reports that he had ditched Chinhoyi.

“I started my political career in Zvimba and there is nothing sinister about that, as the Constitution allows a person from Bulawayo to be voted in Chinhoyi. Ignorance is what kills us” he said.

Walter Chidakwa represented Zvimba South constituency, before he was suspended for aligning himself with the G40. Newsday

A new era has dawned for Zimbabwe and the country is determined to create an open, free and transparent economy.

This was the message relayed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he addressed more than 1600 delegates attending the 2018 edition of the Africa CEO Forum underway in Abidjan.

The most influential annual forum for public-private dialogue on the continent, the Africa CEO Forum has opened in Cote d’Ivoire with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, the host President Mr Alassane Ouattara and the President of the Africa CEO Forum Mr Amir Ben Yahmed delivering their speeches.

Addressing business leaders, bankers and global investors from 120 countries, President Mnangagwa says his administration recognises the crucial role that FDI and private investment will play in the country’s economic re-emergence.

“Zimbabwe’s attendance here resonates with our current quest to engage and re-engage with the family of nations following years of isolation due to the illegal economic sanctions imposed on us. This platform provides me and my delegation with an opportunity to network with key decision makers from a broad spectrum of business, industry and commerce, from Africa and beyond guided by our mantra that Zimbabwe is now open for business,” said President Mnangagwa.

President Mnangagwa said his administration seeks to build a new, open and prosperous Zimbabwe by working together with the international community.

Said President Mnangagwa: “My administration’s top priority is the resuscitation and revival of the economy and re-engagement of the international community.”

Source zbc news online

By Langton Ncube|A war of words has erupted between Businessman Energy Mutodi and Goromonzi west MP Beatrice Nyamupinga over the constituency ahead of the forth coming elections.

Mutodi wants to stand as Goromonzi west MP on a Zanu PF ticket in the next elections while Nyamupinga wants to retain her seat.

Mutodi at the weekend told Daily News that Nyamupinga was working with the opposition to denounce him.

He accused the MP of working with the former President Robert Mugabe linked National Patriotic Front, NPF party.

“My rivalry with her is not new. In 2013, I should have become the MP for Goromonzi West but I was blocked by Ray Kaukonde who was working under instruction of the then Vice President Joice Mujuru.

“Mujuru wanted Nyamupinga to win because they are related and they were working on a Gamatox project together. They came up with trumped up charges against me and I was arrested several times only to be acquitted by the courts.”

But Nyamupinga strongly hit back saying she had no time to campaign against “a certain loser”.

“We know that he has been moving around the constituency slaughtering cattle for feasts under the guise that he was holding celebratory parties for President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“We all know he is misrepresenting the president. In terms of party and government hierarchy, I am the president’s representative here, who is he?” she exploded.

She also denied allegations that she was behind the distribution of the anti-Mutodi fliers in the constituency.

“To start with, I am not very good with computers and so there is no way I could have made those designs. I was never a part to his stands scandal for which people are demanding that he be accountable.

“I am not the only contestant here; there are many others who are eyeing the seat and these fliers could have come from any one of those, why then does he point the suspicion finger at me. I am the current MP for the area and I shall remain an MP,” she said.
“I am a very peaceful person. He should just wait for the primary elections to come so that he loses resoundingly,” said Nyamupinga.

By Langton Ncube| Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has announced that his party is mobilising its grassroots structures with the aim of humiliating the oposition MDC-T in the forth coming elections.

According to Daily News SK Moyo said the grassroots mobilisation would officially kick off of the party’s election preparations, which included an audit of its structures, and after which it would embark on the selection of parliamentary candidates.

The party’s national chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri — who also leads its elections directorate — said her team would be concluding its election manifesto soon.
“We are seized with the manifesto and it won’t be too long now before we conclude it,” she said.

MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa on the other hand has hit the campaign trail with relish, which is seeing him holding two rallies every weekend.

On Saturday, he told a well-attended party rally in Murewa that the MDC Alliance would also soon unveil its election manifesto.

Chamisa was also on Sunday at Dzvimbo growth point in Chiweshe were he addressed thousands of his party supporters.

More than 107 political parties have registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to participate in the forthcoming elections, with the presidential plebiscite seen as a two-way tussle between Chamisa and Mnangagwa.

An 18-year-old Epworth woman strangled her two-year-old daughter using a necklace before setting the toddler’s body on fire in a bid to hide the offence.

Talent Kuvimba was not asked to plead to a murder charge when she appeared before Harare magistrate Ms Tilda Mazhande. She was remanded in custody to April 5 for routine remand.

The court advised her to apply for bail at the High Court since she is facing a Third Schedule offence.

The State, led by Ms Ropafadzo Botsh, alleged that on March 10, at around 10pm, Kuvimba allegedly fatally strangled her daughter using her necklace. After killing the baby, she reportedly left the necklace around the minor’s neck. In a bid to conceal the offence and make it appear to be an accident, Kuvimba allegedly left a burning candle on the bed where the lifeless body was lying. When the room caught fire, the deceased body was burnt beyond recognition.

It is the State’s case that Kuvimba later returned home and rushed to the police, where she misrepresented the circumstances surrounding the “accident”. However, a forensic postmortem revealed that death was as a result of strangulation. Also, the necklace which had sunk into the neck of the toddler was retrieved. – state media

Just a day after doctors said that they are confident in president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s efforts to restore normalcy in hospitals, they have turned backs against him citing what they point to and allege is violation by the minister in charge of health. During their protest last Friday, doctors filmed by ZimEye at the main Pari hospital said, their strike “is all because of David Parirenyatwa.”

This time the doctors have claimed that, “Negotiations are being done in bad faith, with misrepresentation of facts by the Ministry and Minister.”

Below was the ZHDA’s latest full statement:

The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association would like to inform members of the press, public and other stakeholders of its stance following the update by the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) concerning our strike, which has entered day 25 today.

The Minister of Health has stated that the President of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Cde ED Mnangagwa, has appealed to members to go to work while he looks into our issues. ZHDA has brought this to the attention of members and these are some of the concerns raised:

1. The MOHCC has dragged its feet since the 23rd of January this year to fix our issues, and shown
no lack of urgency even during the strike. They do not value ordinary citizens‘ life (sic) and have lied to the press and public several times

2. Negotiations are being done in bad faith, with misrepresentation of facts by the Ministry
and Minister.

3. The reason why we have reached this critical point is that we accepted promises BEFORE from the
same minister and Ministry, since 2014, and these continue to be broken

4. The ministry continues to threaten our members in an attempt to coerce them back to work. If
they were genuinely working on these issues. why then threaten members?

In view of these issues raised. members would like to thank His Excellency, the President for his
intervention. He is a man of his word and we believe that he will act with the urgency he has always shown.

We would also like to express lack of confidence in the Minister and MOHCC, and as such feel that we will be shortchanged like before, as all communications go through this ministry. Members have therefore resolved to remain on strike until a solution has been tabled on paper and goes through the proper legal channels. We believe a commitment on paper should not take long. We also await action in providing the materials to use In our hospitals.

ZHDA appeals to members of the public to continue praying for our doctors and health care system as we work towards getting full legal documentation of any agreement, to avert further strikes should the
ministry fail to deliver like before.

By Paul Nyathi| President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived in the Ivory Coast Capital Abidjan on Sunday in his now traditional scarf of many colours.

He is in the country for the sixth edition of the Africa CEOs Forum.

Besides his scarf Mnangagwa is accompanied by his advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Chief Air Marshal (Retired) Perrance Shiri, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Dr John Mangudya and a large delegation of CEOs from both the private and public sectors.

He was seen off at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in the morning by Vice President Kembo Mohadi, the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda, Cabinet Ministers and service chiefs.

Mohadi is the Acting President.

By Paul Nyathi

Smaller partners to the MDC Alliance have told their supporters to be patient with the Alliance amidst complaints that the bigger partners MDC-T and the MDC are bullying them.

Speaking at the Alliance partner, Transform Zimbabwe’s congress on Friday, the leaders of the parties acknowledged party supporters that the MDCs were not treating them as equal partners to the Alliance.

The parties claimed that their leaders are not being given as much time and respect at the Alliance rallies as is done with partners Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti.

“Our leaders in the Alliance are being belittled and treated as if they have nothing to contribute,” fumed a delegate at the congress.

The delegate raised the concern when deliberations were being held on whether the party led by Jacob Ngrivhume should continue within the alliance.

Ngarivhume said there have been areas of concern regarding the treatment of alliance principals that he has taken up with the alliance president Nelson Chamisa.

“There have been various complaints within the alliance as the principals feel they are not being given adequate time to speak during the rallies, and I feel this is justified as we are also bringing something to the table. I have some members from my party who have reported to me saying the areas given to us to stand as members of parliament  as part of the alliance agreement are being contested for by MDC candidates, for example in Bikita.”

The parties further complained that inn some cases MDC-T supporters just don’t tolerate the other leaders as when ZANU Ndonga’s Mutape Sakwinje was booed off stage without addressing at an Alliance rally in Gweru.

Speaking at the event, Zim first president Agrippa Mutambara who is also an Alliance principal said they were aware that as leaders of small parties within the alliance that their followers were disgruntled by their treatment within the alliance, but however urged them to look at the bigger picture that is the promised MP seats.

“Transform Zimbabwe and Zim first are some of the parties that joined the MDC alliance , the most important part within our strategy is to be seen in Parliament , let us not be short-sighted , I know that in my party and also in TZ people are murmuring questioning why we joined this alliance as they feel we are being tagged along, understand that in politics we adopt strategies that take us to the next level . By the time we enter Parliament people will know us, however when we meet with other partners we raise such issues,” said Ngarivhume.

The MDC-T has been accused of giving alliance partners ZANU PF stronghold areas that they themselves have never won as their allocated areas to contest.

By Paul Nyathi

Acting President Kembo Mohadi has conceded that it was never possible to turn around the country’s economic fortunes within hundred days as was dreamt by the new ZANU PF leadership.

Mohadi said only after holding credible election will international investors begin recognising the government as legit and have confidence in investing in the country.

Acting President Mohadi said this while addressing ZANU PF members during a national cell verification meeting in Epworth, Harare, on Sunday.

Mohadi pleaded with Zimbabweans to give the President Emmerson Mnangagwa leadership a five year chance to turn around the economy and not one hundred days as Mnangagwa had promised at his inauguration.

“Give us a chance. We have been in office for only three months. Give us a five-year term and see what we can do. We have the capacity to deliver on our promises,” he said.

“For the past two decades, our economy was not performing well and don’t expect us as the new leadership to perform miracles. But there is goodwill internationally. If international investors invest here, they will not take everything away. They will create jobs for our people and as Government we will be able to get money from taxes.

“It’s not a question of chanting slogans but walking the talk. Zvido zvevanhu kumberi zvako kumashure. (People’s wishes should come ahead of ours),” said Mohadi.

Mohadi implored that the international community has demanded ZANU PF to provide free and fair elections and be recognised as a legitimate government to invest in.

“I was sent to Japan, Spain and Portugal by President Mnangagwa as his special envoy. What they all want is for our elections to be peaceful and if we fail to do that they will not recognise them. I know there are youths from other parties that are provoking us but just be tolerant,” said Mohadi.

On the cell verification programme, Mohadi said the exercise was to verify the number of ZANU PF members who are ready to vote for the party in the area.

The “roll call” for Epworth claimed that ZANU PF has 906 cells and out of 63 000 registered prospective voters in the constituency, 43 500 are people in ZANU PF structures.

ZANU PF was this weekend involved in a nationwide cell verification programme as it readies for the national elections set for July this year.

By Dorrothy Moyo| President Emmerson Mnangagwa was at the weekend praised by doctors who said he is a man of his words.

The ZHDA spokesperson, Dr Mxolisi Ngwenya, said they were confident in President Mnangagwa’s intervention to end the current ongoing strike.

Today the strike hits 26 days running.

Medics began the strike on the 1st March as they began demanding an upping of their locum allowances, availability of medicine and equipment at public health institutions.

Dr Ngwenya said, “Members would like to thank His Excellency, the President for his intervention. He is a man of his word and we believe that he will act with the urgency he has always shown…The reason why we have reached this critical point is that we accepted promises before from the same minister and Ministry, since 2014, and these continue to be broken.”

He said a commitment on paper should not take long, a signal that the strike will likely be called off this week.

“Members have therefore resolved to remain on strike until they get commitment in writing through the proper legal channels. We believe a commitment on paper should not take long and we also await action in providing the materials to use in our hospitals,” he added.

Terrence Mawawa

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to expose President Emmerson Mnangagwa’ s underhand business deals.

Addressing thousands of MDC Alliance members at a rally in Murewa yesterday, Chamisa said Mnangagwa was involved in several illicit business deals.

Although Chamisa indicated the MDC Alliance would focus on policy issues and matters affecting the suffering people of Zimbabwe, he said corrupt Zanu PF honchos – including Mnangagwa would be exposed.

“We have a list of companies in which Mnangagwa has shares and we want to know how he acquired those shares,” said Chamisa.

“We will focus on key issues that are affecting the people of Zimbabwe regardless of political affiliation.

However we will certainly expose corrupt Zanu PF officials, ” he added.

Terrence Mawawa, Zaka

Masvingo State Minister Josaya Dunira Hungwe was startled by the poor attendance at a rally he addressed at Jerera Growth Point at the weekend.

Hungwe accused party officials here of failing to mobilise villagers to attend the rally.

After being stunned by the poor attendance Hungwe later claimed the gathering was not a rally.

“Who told you it was a rally?Minister Hungwe addressed party members at a meeting at Jerera Growth Point. Do not rely on cheap beerhall talk.

There is a marked difference between a meeting and a rally,” said an official in Hungwe’ s office.

Vice President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga is in India where he met that country’s President, Ram Nath Kovind and sealed a US$2 billion solar deal.

In a telephone interview with the ZBC News, Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to India, Maxwell Ranga said the two held discussions on wide ranging topics including the international solar alliance, which Zimbabwe will sign.

He said after an agreement on the signing of the solar alliance, Zimbabwe will benefit from the US$2 billion agreement.

Ambassador Ranga said the Vice President also met members of the Confederation of India Industries (CII) who were impressed by Zimbabwe’s new investment guide.

He added discussions were mainly on areas of agriculture, mining, power, healthy and pharmaceuticals, and the business people promised to come to Zimbabwe next week to explore some investment opportunities.

Retired General Chiwenga also held some discussions with a private company that promised to come to Zimbabwe to see whether it can partner local health companies and institutions on the manufacturing and selling of anti-cancer drugs in the country.- state media

Terrence Mawawa, Zaka

A local man ran amok last week and brutally axed a fellow villager to death, in a gruesome murder incident that has stunned the community.

According to Acting Masvingo Provincial Police Spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa, the villager Petros Mwidza broke into Marufu Nhira’ s house and struck him with an axe several times.He accused Nhira of having an intimate relationship with his wife.

The incident happened on Wednesday last week.

“Petros Mwidza broke into Marufu Nhira’ s house and struck him with the axe he was branding.

Nhira was sleeping with his wife in the house when Mwidza violently broke open the door at the house,” Dehwa said.

Mwidza has since been arrested and is expect to appear in court soon.

Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo

A site for the construction of a new town in Masvingo Province has been identified at Tokwe Murkosi Dam.

Masvingo State Minister Josaya Dunira Hungwe yesterday said he was under pressure from Chinese investors who were eager to fund the construction of the town.

Hungwe said the town would stretch from the dam to Ngundu Business Centre.

“I am under relentless pressure from investors who are eager to finance the construction of the new town.

We are therefore making frantic efforts to finalise the necessary paperwork,” said Hungwe.

By Talent Gondo | Zanu Pf has taken its election campaign to first time voters from the Muslim community in Zimbabwe, most of whom have in the past been classified as aliens.

However, these so called ‘aliens’ were last year granted the opportunity to vote in the forthcoming poll by a High Court Judge, Justice Nyaradzo Munangati-Manongwa in November 2017.

Justice Munangati- Manongwa ruled in favour of the aliens and ordered the Registrar-General’s Office to allow them to register to vote during the biometric voter registration (BVR) exercise provided they produce their identification documents and proof of residence.

Zanu Pf leadership, led by Vice President, Kembo Mohadi, met the Muslim community at the City Sports Center in Harare where the party made a litany of promises including establishing Muslim health centers and setting aside prayer areas for Muslims at public places such as hotels and airports.

In a speech read on his behalf by the Vice President, Mohadi, President Emmerson Mnangagwa made a plea for the Muslim community to vote for him and Zanu Pf in the forthcoming elections, adding that his party was aware of their social, economic and religious needs which would be addressed once voted back into power.

“We know that you have a right to freedom of worship as enshrined ib the Constitution. We also understand that your religion requires that your pregnant women are not attended to by males,” he said, promising the establishment of Muslim health centers.

The Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Zimbabwe pledged support for Zanu Pf in the forthcoming polls revealing that over 500 000 Muslims, most of whom were first time voters and who had registered to vote during the BVR exercise would vote for Mnangagwa and Zanu Pf.

Of 366 respondents to the poll survey 60percent believe Thokozani Khupe by refusing to talk to MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has destroyed herself, with 29percent saying she has built him.

Khupe Refuses To Negotiate With Chamisa, Shuts Him Away

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) March 24, 2018

By Paul Nyathi

Health and Child Care Minister Doctor David Parirenyatwa says that he has failed to solve the impasse with the striking government doctors.

In an interview with The Standard Newspaper on Saturday, Parirenyatwa (DP) told the paper’s senior reporter Xolisani Ncube (XN) that though he is concerned about the prolonged strike he has handed the matter over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office to handle.

Below are excerpts from the interview.

XN: It’s day 24 (yesterday) since doctors went on strike. Do you have any plans, tangible plans, to end the job boycott that has paralysed the health delivery system?

DP: We are taking the strike by doctors very seriously and right from the start, we have had a lot of negotiations through the Health Services Board (HSB) under the tripartite forum.

Usually when things like this occur — the strike — and when people are negotiating, it is always better not to negotiate through the press.

Once we start negotiating through the press, there is always escalation. So we have taken a stance that we continue to talk because we believe that the concerns by doctors and other health practitioners are very genuine and need to be addressed holistically.

I am aware that the doctors also agree that we are working so hard to convince (the Ministry of Finance). To be quite honest with you, the biggest challenge is the finance.

We all agree that there is a need for people to be cushioned a bit in terms of allowances, on-call allowances, salaries and so on, but all these things centre around finance.

I am glad that now the matter has been escalated to a higher office, the Office of the President and Cabinet [OPC]. This is how serious the matter has now become.

It has been long. The grievances are genuine and they need to be addressed in such a way that it does not begin to disturb other areas of government.

XN: The doctors have complained about drug shortages in hospitals, they are saying: ‘we can’t treat patients with prayers, we are not prophets.’ As Health minister, what are you doing to address these issues?

DP: We have a number of initiatives that have been put in place to ensure we have drugs at our institutions. This is a very serious matter, which I believe does not confront the Ministry of Health alone.

We have the health levy, which has raised $22 million to buy more drugs. But we still need a lot of money from the treasury so that we are able to provide a comprehensive health package to our people.

We don’t want to hear that our people do not have drips, do not have drugs and that is what government should commit itself to.

I was talking to the president recently and he committed himself to fund these things, the tools of the trade, the environment where doctors and nurses are working from.

Things must improve, gloves must be available, emergency services must be kicking. I think these things are solvable in the short- to medium-term.

XN: Do you have statistics of casualties during the strike? Do you know of any deaths caused by the strike?

DP: When the strike continues like it has done, you find a lot of people not willing to come to hospitals because they know that there is a strike.

We don’t then know what happens in communities and it is very sad. that is why we think it is urgent that our doctors go back to work.

They have made their point, they have been out for a number of days, and they have been heard.

The only person who is now suffering is the patient. They have been heard, heard fully and government is in the process of addressing their issues.

XN: Zimbabweans are saying government is prioritising all that has to do with political power and not the welfare of people. Government is buying vehicles for chiefs yet doctors only want a duty-free facility to import vehicles.

DP: Yes, I think those are the kind of issues that I have said with regard to our priorities as a country. Our priorities should recognise the importance of health.

I have advocated that the health sector should be given the top priority. As a country, let us convince ourselves that health is a priority.

Often when we say let us improve the conditions of service for our health workers, others would come and say, what about us?

So if you convince each other that health is a priority, if you see salaries of doctors and think it is important for them to be increased, it would be better for us.

If we increase the salaries of doctors and nurses, people should not complain because it is a top priority. We need money for drugs, ambulances and other essential services; we would be doing ourselves a favour.

We don’t want to lose these doctors who then go to other countries. We want them to train here and be specialists so that we can attract medical tourism as a country.

XN: What is the doctor to patient ratio in Zimbabwe?

DP: We have a high ratio of over 200 000 people per one doctor, that is not acceptable. What we need to do is to be able to keep our doctors here.

They should not just concentrate on Harare or Bulawayo; they should go all over the districts and provinces. And to achieve that, we need to train more, absorb them more, make them happier and we know that some are getting allowances from the Global Fund, but those are donors and donors can withdraw anytime.

XN: In case the doctors stick to their guns and refuse to go back before their demands are met, are there any contingency plans to alleviate the plight of patients?

DP: What we normally do when we are faced with such a situation, all emergency services should be kept and we usually get support from the uniformed forces.

We have put that on alert so that we can keep our emergency services running. We have asked some doctors from the uniformed services to be on standby, but it is not a sustainable position.

We should be able to have our doctors back at work as a matter of urgency.

XN: Your ministry has been issuing threats against the striking doctors over the job action. Why did you choose that approach instead of negotiations?

DP: As I have indicated, the matter is now before the highest office and proper attention is being given to the matter.

The OPC is attending to all those issues. as a minister, I would like to see doctors at work for the sake of patients.

We have heard their demands and a proper solution is being worked upon by finance as well as the highest office in the land.

XN: How far have you gone in absorbing nurses who have been outside the system for many years?

DP: As you know, last year we absorbed 2 000 nurses who were unemployed.

We have agreed with (Finance minister) Mr (Patrick) Chinamasa that he should take some more and he has agreed to take some more, at least 2 400 nurses, so that we fill the gaps.

By Paul Nyathi

Stunning Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe leader Barbara Nyagomo has confirmed information previously highlighted by ZimEye.com that her party was being merged into the Dumiso Dabengwa led ZAPU.

Nyagomo confirmed the developments in a memorandum circulated to members of her party on Thursday.

The memo to the PDZ members reads in full as follows;

TO: All PDZ structures, members, supporters and affiliates.

FROM: PDZ Presidium.

22 March 2018

REF: PDZ-ZAPU MERGER.

The above caption refers.

This memo serves to confirm that the talks and negotiations that have been going on between PDZ and ZAPU have come to fruition.

The two parties have agreed to merge thus forming one strong party to operate as ZAPU. This decision has been reached after extensive consultations with all relevant stakeholders.
Dr Dumiso Dabengwa will lead the outfit deputized by none other than our own Ironlady Hon. Barbara Nyagomo. All other positions (from National down to ward) shall be incorporated into the ZAPU hierarchy at the same level. PDZ and ZAPU share the same ideologies and policies that can usher us into a new democratic Zimbabwe. The combination of the progressive part of PDZ and the revolutionary part of ZAPU begets a powerful democratic movement. Members and supporters are therefore kindly requested to support this strategic move.
This move will see us bargaining powers as we continue to advocate for grand coalition of opposition parties. With 107 registered parties in Zimbabwe, it was deemed that vote splitting will be at rife and will not earn us a victory as opposition.

PDZ and ZAPU will bring value to each other and it will be powerful to go to the negotiating table under the ZAPU banner as compared to go alone as PDZ. The unified ZAPU will also engage and advise other opposition parties to set aside their pride and egos and unite for a common purpose. The 2018 plebiscite can’t be won when we are not united.

UBUKHOKHELI EBANTWINI.
HUTUNGAMIRI KUVANHU.
LEADERSHIP TO THE PEOPLE.

DEVOLUTION IS THE SOLUTION.

PDZ Presidium:
Ms. Barbara N. Nyagomo (President)
Adv. Norris J. Matarirano-Moyo (VP & National Chairperson)

By Paul Nyathi

Sunday marks the 25th day of the nationwide tools down industrial action by the country’s government hospital doctors.

With no doctors, hundreds of lives are being lost in the hospitals on a daily basis on ailments that may have been avoided with adequate health attention.

As the situation deteriorates, the Minister of Health and Child Care Doctor David Parirenyatwa on Thursday yet again avoided parliamentary interrogation on the matter.

Parirenyatwa initially escaped the Wednesday question and answer session at parliament leaving the august house claiming that he was going outside “to meet with somebody” and was to return to attend the session.

The Minister disappeared and never returned to the house with the Acting Speaker of Parliament trying to cover for him attracting heavy repudiation from the parliamentarians.

On Thursday, Parirenyatwa briefly returned to the House and gave a lukewarm Ministerial statement in which he refused to have his Ministry take the blame for the collapse in the health delivery system and the doctors strike.

The Deputy Speaker again sided with the Minister indicating that he was wanted in the Senate Chambers to answer questions in the Senate Question and Answer Session and was due to return to the house.

“Hon. Member, with your indulgence. The Hon. Minister is wanted in the Senate for questions,” declared the Acting Speaker as Joel Gabbuza MP for Binga North was asking a question on the Minister’s presentation.

“Order please, so because of that, Hon. Gabbuza be to the point and then we release him. He is going to come back,” the Acting Speaker implored before Minister Parirenyatwa arrogantly walked out while Gabbuza was still raising his question.

The Minister’s walk out attracted a heavy uproar from the parliamentarians while the Speaker battled to contain them and protect the Minister.

“Order, order, let us hold our fire. The Hon. Minister is going to come back,” he screamed.

“Wait, let us hold fire, the Hon. Minister is going there and coming back quickly to continue with our clarifications.  The day is ours, if we do not move out of the House and we remain with a quorum.  We can be here up to tomorrow,” said the Speaker before shouts from the MPs that the Mimister should just resign.

MDC-T Member of Parliament for Harare West Jessie Majome took swipe at the Acting Speaker for allowing the Minister to leave for another house of the same parliament.

“Mr. Speaker Sir, is to seek direction from your good self the Chair, as to that the Hon. Minister has left to go to another House of this same Parliament.  This is a House of Parliament; the Senate as well is also another House of Parliament,” she said.

“The question is – does the Senate take precedence over the National Assembly because in terms of the Constitution, if the Hon. Minister can go to the Senate, we may also require him to come back here.  So if we say that we want him back here, will the Senate adjourn so that the Hon. Minister can come and answer us because from the new Constitution, the Senate is not the Upper House.  In fact, I am seeking the good guidance of your good office because this is the House that is indeed the Upper House in terms of the issues, particularly that the Hon. Minister is dealing with these matters of finance and budgeting,” quizzed Majome.

“In terms of the Constitution, the budget and money Bills are presented first in this House.  So I am rather, I do not know what you are standing for but I am rather perturbed and would really like your guidance as to what in principle it is that allows the Hon. Minister of Health and Child Care to cease and go and attend to the Senate when we are either equal Houses of this Parliament or in fact, this House since it is the one where even money Bills and budgetary issues that affect the issues of the payment of doctors and nurses are affected.  Is there any order of precedence, that is my point of privilege?”

The Speaker responded claiming that both Houses were equal.

“Hon. Member, both Houses are equal but there are times when you make discretions on matters that are being debated.  So your concerns are noted but it depends now on us if we could remain with a quorum, the Hon. Minister will be here shortly and continue with the clarification but I beg Hon. Members to remain in the House until the Hon. Minister returns for clarifications,” said The Acting Speaker though the Minister never returned.

By Paul Nyathi

A defiant ZANU PF has reintroduced its notorious half hourly jingles on national radios and television.

At a time when opposition parties and the international community are demanding for the opening of the airwaves ahead of this year’s elections, the ruling party has extended its monopoly of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation by reintroducing its very partisan jingles soliciting the nation to vote for them.

The new jingles typical of the “Hondo Yeminda” jingles that patronized Zimbabweans ahead of the 2005 and the 2008 elections are played almost simultaneously on all ZBC radio stations every thirty minutes.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week declared that his government will only open the airwaves after the elections.

The U.S. government this week also decided to extend its sanctions on Zimbabwe under the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act ZIDERA with one of the reasons being that the government is not willing to open the airwaves for a free campaign by other opposition parties.

By Paul Nyathi

The Madzudzo Pawadyira-chaired caretaker commission that has been running the affairs of Chitungwiza municipality since May 2017 has been declared illegal by the High Court.

The 3-member commission was appointed by the then Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere after the suspension of the town’s entire elected councillors including the Mayor and deputy in April last year.

On Thursday, the Harare High Court judge Justice Jester Charehwa ruled that the term of office of the caretaker commission expired 90 days after its appointment and that its legal tenure could not be lawfully extended in terms of the Urban Councils Act.

The municipality was ordered to terminate the office of the caretaker commission and reinstate all acquitted councillors.

13 out of the 25 suspended councillors have been acquitted so far.

This ruling came after the Chitungwiza and Manyame Rural Residents Association (CAMERA) through the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) filed an urgent chamber application under case number HC2605/18 for a declaratory order and interdict on the 21st of March 2018 and cited Chitungwiza municipality, the Minister of Local Government, Madzudzo Pawadyira, Zivanai Chisango and Joshua Mabhiza as respondents. Pawadyira, Chisango and Mabhiza were the 3 members of the now illegal commission.

CAMERA led by Marvellous Khumalo argued in its application that the term of office of the commission had long expired while it continued to operate contrary to section 80 of the Urban Councils Act and this had adversely affected the state of service delivery as well as citizen participation in the affairs of Chitungwiza.

The local authority as the first respondent together with the other four respondents did not oppose the application by Chitungwiza residents but consented to the illegality of the commission.

CAMERA is proceeding to demand that the commission reimburses the municipality all the financial and material benefits that it accrued after the lapse of its 90 days term of office and that all the decisions made by the commission after the expiry of its tenure are rendered null and void.

The thirteen councillors are set to resume work on Monday.

The matter was heard by justice Jester Helena Charehwa.

“We obtained a judgment by consent to remove matter from the roll as the interim relief had been overtaken by events due to the fact that the councillors are back at work as at Monday.

“We will proceed by way of ordinary court application to seek final relief on the matter to render the caretaker’s functions after the 90 day period illegal,” ZHLR lawyer Idirashe Chikomba said.

Camera argued that the respondents have violated section 80(3) of the Urban Councils Act Chapter [29:15], which states that the tenure of a caretaker commission must terminate after 90 days.

The residents also argued that 13 out of the 25 Chitungwiza councillors, who were suspended last year in April have been acquitted.

Section 80(3) a states that “the care taker commission must terminate as soon as there are any councillors for the council area who are able to exercise all their functions as Councillors.”

By Paul Nyathi| As government remains in desperate closed door negotiations with the striking hospital doctors, the rest of the civil service could soon be another thorn on the government’s backside.

The government employees have joined in the pressure on their employer requesting for an urgent meeting with the Minister responsible for the administration of the Public Service, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi.

The civil servants are requesting for a meeting to discuss a possible upward salary review, among other conditions of service.

Apex Chairperson Mrs Cecilia Alexander confirmed the letter. She said the civil servants like the doctors and other health professions who have been on a three week industrial action, also want their employer to cushion them from the obtaining economic environment.

“The value of civil servants’ earnings has been eroded by the price hikes and the four-tier pricing system. We are therefore requesting the Government to restore the value of what we earn. Civil servants’ salaries should be cushioned somehow,” she said.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Mumbengegwi as the minister responsible for the administration of the public service at the beginning of this month.

The appointment came up following the movement of the civil service to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC).

The civil service used to be under the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare.

Mumbengegwi administers the Public Service Act [16:04] and the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management Act [25:17].

The appointment of Minister Mumbengegwi came as a relief to the Apex Council who had written to President Mnangagwa expressing concern over the lack of effective communication between Government and its workers.

The Apex Council has wasted no time writing to Mumbengegwi requesting he immediately addresses concerns by the Government workers.

“As we welcome you, we are having to ask you to put your shoulder on the wheel as there are weighty and urgent issues that have been waiting your appointment. The matters among others include; the rationalisation of the civil service and harmonisation of our labour environment,” part of the letter reads.

The civil servants also asked the minister to quickly attend to the pending issue of teachers vacation leave. Vacation leave for teachers was cancelled in January 2016 as part of austerity measures by the Government and teachers have been protesting the decision.

“We wish to make exception of the need for Government to quickly attend to the school teachers leave whose settlement is long overdue. It is against this background that we request for a familiarisation meeting that should set us on a dialogue path on these and other matters,” the letter further reads.

Mrs Alexander said civil servants were eager to iron out their various grievances to Cde Mumbengegwi requesting for a meeting.

The Government and civil servants met over the matter in September last year, with the Government reportedly promising to come up with a final position on the matter within two months. Earlier this month the Zimbabwe Teachers Association threatened to go on strike to force Government to rescind the decision to withdraw vacation leave for educators as formal efforts to come up with a solution have failed.

The Apex Council is a Union of representatives of government employees excluding the health workers and the uniformed forces.

It is currently the largest workers representative body in the country as government remains the biggest employer in a country with over 80% unemployment. Members of the Apex Council currently include

1-COLAZ – COLLEGE LECTURES ASSOCIATION OF ZIMBABWE

2-CSEA – CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION

3-GOA – GOVERNMENT OFFICERS ASSOCIATION

4-GWA – GOVERNMENT WORKERS ASSOCIATION

5-PROTEC – PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION

6-PSA – PUBLIC SERVICES ASSOCIATION

7-PTUZ – PROGRESSIVE TEACHERS’ UNION OF ZIMBABWE

8-TUZ – TEACHERS UNION OF ZIMBABWE

9-ZDTU – ZIMBABWE DEMOCRATIC TEACHERS’ UNION

19-ZIMTA – ZIMBABWE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

11-ZAPTA – ZIMBABWE AMALGAMATED PROGRESSIVE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

12-ZRTU – ZIMBABWE RURAL TEACHERS’ UNION