Zanu PF MPs tacitly endorsed police brutality this week, when they bunked debate on a motion on police brutality, ensuring there was no quorum to discuss the matter in the National Assembly.
However, this move boomeranged and will now cost Parliament several thousands of dollars in taxpayers’ money after the sitting days were extended to Tuesday. Parliament was supposed to adjourn on Thursday until September 8, when Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa will announce the mid-term budget.
MPs are now forced to continue sitting until a quorum of at least 70 out of the 270 National Assembly MPs is in attendance to discuss the motion. Kuwadzana East MP, Nelson Chamisa (MDC-T) first gave notice to introduce the motion on police brutality on Wednesday.
But Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, dismissed the issue, saying the video footage Chamisa planned to show must be substantiated by dates of when the brutality happened before the motion could be allowed to be debated.
After satisfying Mudenda that the video evidence showing police beating up citizens was authentic, Chamisa was then allowed to re-introduce the motion on Thursday.
If the motion is adopted, Chamisa wants Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to make a statement about those who perpetrated the beatings and apologise to citizens, as this had caused animosity between the police and Zimbabweans.
He further wants Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo to investigate the conduct of the police and report to Parliament, as well as issue a public apology on the matter.
“The minister must issue a public apology in the context of investigations and immediately implement training programmes for our police to equip them with a human rights curriculum, as required by the Constitution. An Act of Parliament must be put in place to come up with an independent mechanism for members of the public to report cases of such abuses. Parliament must set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the abuses,” he said.
On Thursday, Chamisa showed disturbing video footage in the House of police beating up a man lying on the ground using batons.
But, before the end of the video, the 32 Zanu PF MPs, who were in the House before 5:15pm when the issue was being discussed, had trickled out to ensure the required quorum of 70 MPs was not achieved.
Pelandaba-Mpopoma MP, Joseph Tshuma (Zanu PF) then raised a point of order, saying there was no quorum in the House.
Bells were rung for seven minutes calling for MPs, who might be outside the House to return, but they did not, and after a count, there were less than 40 MPs in the House to continue the discussion, resulting in Chamisa complaining about lack of seriousness by MPs to discuss important issues affecting citizens.
“It is not the first time that Zanu PF MPs have walked out of debating important motions. As you can see, 32 MPs have left the House in the last five minutes and it is being co-ordinated by Zanu PF deputy chief whip, Francis Mukwangwariwa,” Chamisa said.
Acting Speaker of the National Assembly Melody Dziva accused parties of sabotaging each other’s debates, saying they were wasting taxpayers’ money.
As a result, the House had to be adjourned due to lack of a quorum to yesterday, a day when Parliament does not normally sit.
This means Parliament will have to pay for MPs’ accommodation and sitting allowances for yesterday’s sitting.
But again, only 30 MPs, 22 from the opposition and eight from Zanu PF, turned up yesterday for the sitting.
Chamisa complained: “This is a very serious matter, where we have to use taxpayers’ money to sit on a Friday, when naturally we are not supposed to sit. I hope this delinquent behaviour of MPs will be taken to chief whips because this is the fourth time we are abusing taxpayers’ resources. Newsday

Disturbing pictures said to be those of former Minister Chris Mutsvangwa’s son, Neville with the girlfriend he is alleged to have raped according to President Robert Mugabe’s prosecutors, have emerged.
The explicit pictures show Mr. Mutsvangwa in an office with the female colleague stark naked.
The development might lead to the charge for rape being dismissed since the complainant appears to be happily cooperating in the act of intimacy.
Mutsvangwa (36), appeared in court last week Friday for allegedly raping a 43-year-old woman at an office in Harare.
He appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Vakayi Chikwekwe charged with two counts of rape and aggravated indecent assault.
He was remanded to August 28 on $50 bail.
The court heard that Mutsvangwa lives in Wyndbee Road, Philadephia, Borrowdale, Harare, and is employed at Anjin Diamonds, Airport Road, also in Harare.
Prosecutor Mr Sebastian Mutizirwa alleged that Mutsvangwa and the complainant used to play casino together at Borrowdale Race Course. It is alleged that on August 8 this year around 6 pm the complainant met Mutsvangwa and they played casino until 4am.
The complainant was offered a lift to town and when they arrived at Harare Sports Club, Mutsvangwa drove to 3 San Fernando along Fifth Street and invited the complainant to his office, the court heard.
It is alleged the complainant asked to use a toilet and indicated she wanted to leave but Mutsvangwa asked her to enter his office where he was allegedly already naked, the court heard.
Mutsvangwa allegedly told her that he had been admiring her for a long time and wanted to have sexual intercourse with her and that when she refused, he allegedly grabbed her neck from behind and forced her to have oral sex with him before forcing her to undress.
Mutsvangwa allegedly raped the woman after putting on a condom and it is alleged that he forced the woman to have oral sex with him again.
He allegedly drove the complainant who was in tears to Joina City in Harare.
He offered her $20 and the complainant refused and proceeded to Harare Central Police Station to report the matter.

Opposition leader Dr Joice Mujuru was at the periphery of the Second Chimurenga, primarily rising through the ranks via a combination of benevolence and her romantic liaisons, Mugabe biased ZANU PF officials have said.
The below is a state media article on the development:
Over the past two weeks, Dr Mujuru — who was sacked as Zimbabwe’s and Zanu-PF’s Vice-President in 2014 — has been disparaging liberation war heroes and belittling President Mugabe.
This has prompted several struggle veterans to break their silence about how she joined the war — and the picture is a far cry from the one she and her acolytes have been painting.
George Rutanhire, a member of Zanla’s General Staff, narrated Dr Mujuru’s history.
“Joice Runaida Mugari was a teenage chimbwido (a term used to describe civilian girls who ran errands in aid of combatants) in the Chahwanda area of Mashonaland Central.
“In 1973, a group of guerrillas under the command of Joseph Chipembere and including the likes of Mhukayesango, Cephas Tichatonga and Dick Joboringo, among others, were in that area.
“The chimbwidos prepared food for Chipembere and his comrades. Chipembere became interested in Runaida and they became intimate when he finished eating.
“But during the war, we had (rules and warnings) against sleeping with girls or women under such circumstances. Whilst other comrades were relaxing, Joice and Chipembere took that opportunity to enjoy the forbidden fruit.
“During the intercourse, a battle broke out (with Rhodesian forces) and Chipembere fought the better part of that battle whilst he was naked.
“This nonsense that (Dr Mujuru) brought down a helicopter – I don’t know where people got that from. It was Chipembere who did that, and unfortunately he was a casualty of that battle.
“But yes, she was there as a chimbwido with other girls. All the civilians at that battle survived and Joboringo is one of the survivors.”
Rutanhire said after the battle, the guerrilla survivors were uncomfortable leaving their civilian counterparts behind and “that’s how people like Mai Mujuru ended up in Zambia”.
He went on: “Akaurayisa vanhu mukadzi iyeyu nenyaya yake yekuda varume . . . and we had comrades vaiita musikanzwa and unfortunately a commander, Chipembere, was one of them.”
Rutanhire said the young Joice was “carried on a stretcher to Zambia because, apart from her being lazy, some comrades felt anga ari musikana washefu so they were supposed to take care of her”.
He said one of the cadres who carried her on the stretcher was Joboringo, real name Luke Mushore, the National Assembly representative for Muzarabani North.
In an interview with The Sunday Mail in 2013, Mushore said, “I am the one who took Mai Mujuru from her home area near Dotito. This was at the end of 1973.
“At the time, she had a big body and so when we were about to leave, some comrades said that we should leave her. As the commander, I stood my ground and said no, we were going with her.”
Rutanhire’s narrative continued thus: “Whilst she was in Zambia, barely a year after aurayisa vanhu, she was already in a relationship with Timothy Gutura.
“I got to know these details because when they came to the rear, they had to explain what happened and write reports, and I was a commander in the Commissariat.
“Whilst she was having a relationship with Gutura, then came Rex Nhongo (General Solomon Mujuru). After training, she was never deployed to the front because, remember, she was now married to Mujuru.
“After Nhongo discovered that Gutura and Runaida were having an affair, Gutura was always deployed to the front. Even when he brought reports, he was quickly sent back until 1980.
“After Independence, many people joined the military but Gutura was never allowed to join our State institutions. It’s sad considering the fact that he was a member of the Zanla General Staff.”
Gutura passed away in 2012 and “he died a bitter man … in fact, he died a pauper”, recounted Rutanhire.
Susan Rutanhire, wife of George Rutanhire, confirmed to us that she was one of Dr Mujuru’s training instructors.
And President Mugabe’s Press Secretary, Mr George Charamba, last week said, “At the time of Mugabe’s release from prison (in 1974), Joice was now in Zambia, staying with the family of the late Josiah Magama Tongogora, following her evacuation to that country in late 1973 after a battle in the Dotito area which claimed the life of Joseph Chipembere…
“The battle, and especially the death of Chipembere with whom she was involved, left her traumatised and she had to be evacuated to Zambia on a makeshift stretcher.
“… A handful of cadres who either survived this battle, or were involved with her evacuation to Chifombo, are still alive and ready to give testimony.”
Many of these facts were confirmed by a very senior war veteran, who declined to be named.
He told The Sunday Mail: “Around 1973, in October or November, Runaida was serving a group led by the late Joseph Chipembere, his brother is still around. He is Khumalo and he was a member of the Zanla High Command.
“There was some intimacy between Chipembere and Runaida but they were cut short by an attack. Chipembere brought down the helicopter but unfortunately he died there.”
The war-time commander said the survivors did not want to leave the young Joice and company behind in case a Rhodesian reconnaissance team got hold of them and so they returned to Zambia with them.
In Zambia, he said, General Josiah Magama Tongogara took an interest in her as she was traumatised by the battle, Chipembere’s death and the journey to the rear.
“She was taken by Tongo to go and stay with Mai Hondo, Angeline Tongogara, the wife of the late general. She looked after the children and there was already Hondo, Tichafa and Bvumai. There was also Sukai; I think she is now with the Anti-Corruption Commission.
“Sukai is the daughter of the brother to the late Tongo, Michael, who is now late. That’s where Runaida was to meet General Mujuru, just before the death of Chairman (Herbert) Chitepo. If I am not mistaken, it should be 1974 or early 1975 when Runaida went to Chimbi-Chimbi for training, I think for about two weeks.”
He said when Gen Mujuru and Joice had their daughter, Kumbirai, she, too, was left in Mai Hondo’s care in Zambia, along with her cousin, Maidei, and then another daughter, Charity.
“Around 1978, Runaida was now in the national executive under the leadership of President Mugabe. In all the structures, we had women so that we could have equal representation.
“In the High Command, we had Sheba Tavarwisa. I think she was the only female member of the High Command. She’s now late.”
He said Gen Mujuru gave a cow to Angeline Tongogara soon after Edgar Tekere’s death in June 2011 as a token of appreciation for all she had done for him and his family since the Second Chimurenga.
But Dr Mujuru, noted George Rutanhire, had never shown gratitude to the people who had assisted her.
“There are many comrades who died paupers and some are languishing in poverty yet their contribution to the Independence and development of the country is immeasurable.
“It’s wrong for Runaida to spit at the struggle and those who perished. She must just shut up or continue with her treacherous politics because deep down in her heart, she knows that President Mugabe lifted her from nothing to the Presidium; but because she is not patient, she ended up selling out.
“She must give us a break. If she continues to spit at the struggle, I can assure you she will be cursed, midzimu inoramba.
“She is fully aware that thousands of young people sacrificed their lives for this country but iye, because ainyengwa nemashefu, she was never deployed to the warfront.
“At least she must respect those who died, including those vaakaurayisa nenyaya yake yekuda varume. What she is doing is not right. Kuti imari? One can’t understand. Were it not for President Mugabe, she would be no one. I think ndiye munhu akaitwa minister asina kana chaaiziva.
“We have so many comrades who were intelligent and brave, good enough to serve as Cabinet ministers but they never got that opportunity. My advice to her is please be grateful. Zvinotirwadza.”

Prophetic, Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya was last Friday arrested in Harare for allegedly raping a congregant.
Sources told The Sunday Mail he spent the night at Rhodesville Police Station, and he was released on US$2 000 bail by a magistrate yesterday.
The PHD founder appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Vakayi Chikwekwe just before lunch, and in addition to the US$2 000 was ordered to surrender his passport, not to interfere with witnesses and report to Harare Central Police Station three times weekly as part of his bail conditions.
Magaya was not asked to plead.
The State says sometime in June 2015, Magaya invited the 25-year-old complainant to a house in Mount Pleasant, Harare and allegedly showed her around the place before leaving her alone in a room.
A while later, it is alleged, Magaya returned to the room in the nude and raped her once, thereafter giving her US$200.
The prosecution says the woman told her lover about the alleged abuse in July 2016 and a police report was made.
The State also says there are audio recordings of Magaya and the woman with issues surrounding the alleged rape.
Magaya was represented by Mr Everson Chatambudza of Rubaya and Chatambudza Legal Practioneers, assisted by Mr Oliver Marawa. Mr Gwinyiya Shumba prosecuted.
Magaya arrived at the court uncuffed in a double-cab vehicle and escorted by two police detectives. He chuckled as photojournalists captured him entering the building where some of his congregants knelt and greeted him as he walked into Court 6.
Sporting a blue shirt, black trousers and black shoes, Magaya appeared relaxed and occasionally chatted with a Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services officer as his wife sat in the gallery.
He showed no reaction throughout the proceedings and walked outside after being granted bail to the sight of some PHD congregants kneeling followers singing the popular chorus “Mhururu Kumatenga”.
Magaya laid hands on them before being whisked away in an orange Ford Ranger truck.-state media

The Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, General Constantino Chiwenga, has returned once again guns blazing in a veiled attack on Manicaland Provincial Minister, Mandi Chimene.

Chiwenga used the phrase “empty vessel” to describe his nemesis. He said, “Empty vessels make the most noise. If you were a great fighter let other people talk about you. That’s the way of all good fighters and leaders …”
He said people should not over-inflate their contributions to Zimbabwe’s development.
In an interview with the state media, Chiwenga also expressed his firm belief that there was light at the end of the tunnel of the country’s economic and political problems.
He said, “People who fought in the front are well-known and they never talk about it. We have so many great fighters, living and dead, and the majority of those are no longer with us. Those who are alive never move around claiming ‘I did this’ and ‘I did that’.
“There were also tasks that had to be done by those at the rear.
‘‘Some worked as logisticians, others were more important as instructors to train the fighters who were going to the front, others were educators like in the commissariat department because our policy was you would not hold a rifle until you understood why we were fighting.”
Turning to economic and political developments, Chiwenga said: “Yes, politically there were difficulties. This is why the country for the first time had to go into an inclusive Government with the opposition, and I don’t think I have to go into details on that one.
“We also had hyperinflation, and no country can parallel Zimbabwe, except Germany during the Weimar Republic and they did not get to where Zimbabwe was in 2008 …
“There is light at the end of the tunnel in terms of our economy. We are now striving to make sure that our infrastructure is built up, our industry and our manufacturing sector are fully operational.
“We are now on track when it comes to mining, and the only problem we are facing currently is the depressed prices of metal prices; but the price of gold is coming up and we are quite happy with that. . .This is not going to be for long, it is just a passing phase.”
He said the command agriculture thrust Government was pursuing would restore Zimbabwe’s regional bread-basket status.
“We are saying never again will we go to buy food outside the country. Never again will our country go hungry. We have the capability to produce enough for our people and to have reserves, and also have extra to sell to other countries and return our bread basket status.”
He went on: “Some people don’t realise that what the country went through takes time to recover from, but we are lucky that we have managed to bounce back within a very short time.
“We are on the right track and we are moving forward as we would expect, despite a few teething problems which are a passing phase.”

In a bizarre incident a 67-YEAR-OLD Bulilima man unlawfully entered into the house of a 19-year-old married neighbour and offered her chewing gum and $5 in exchange for her love.
Peter Mguni of Fairview Resettlement area in Figtree was convicted on his own plea of guilty to unlawful entry by Plumtree magistrate Mr Livard Philemon. He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment. Three months were, however, suspended for five years on condition that he does not commit an offence of the same nature.
The remaining nine months were suspended on condition that he performs 315 hours of community service at Figtree Police Station. Mguni told the court that he invaded the homestead in a bid to propose love to Mrs Nkazimulo Mvundla who is his neighbour’s wife.
“I am married but I was tempted to propose love to her as I found her attractive. I had tried several times to share my feelings with her whenever I met her but she always refused to entertain me. I then decided to go to her homestead when I knew that she was alone. I had just gone there to propose love to her but I had no intention to harm her,” said Mguni.
Prosecuting Mrs Rose Sibanda told the court that Mguni proceeded to Mvundla’s homestead on 14 July while her husband and relatives were away. She said Mguni arrived at Mvundla’s homestead and entered into her kitchen hut without her permission.
“Mguni told Mvundla that he had come for her response to his love proposal. She ordered him to leave her homestead and threatened to report her but Mguni refused to leave until she had agreed to his love proposal. Mguni produced a chewing gum and a $5 note and promised to give it to Mvundla if she agreed to become his girlfriend,” said the prosecutor.

She said Mguni started advancing towards Mvundla while begging her to accept his love proposal. It was the State’s case that Mvundla pushed Mguni to the ground and fled from her homestead to her neighbour where she reported what had transpired. The matter was reported to the police resulting in Mguni’s arrest and his subsequent appearance in court.

TOURISM Minister Dr Walter Mzembi’s bid to secure the post of Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) received yet another major boost when he received the backing of the Egyptian government.
Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry assured Minister Mzembi of his government’s support, emphasizing that, as a committed member of the African Union, Egypt was bound by the unanimous decision taken by African Heads of State and Government at the recent AU Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, to endorse Minister Mzembi as Africa’s candidate for the top UNWTO post.
“Egypt is committed and bound by the AU resolutions particularly on the candidature of Dr Mzembi. We want to assure him of our support”, said the Egyptian Minister.
Speaking after the meetings, Minister Mzembi revealed that they had agreed on the setting up of the Joint Tourism Technical Committee (JTTC), which would be instrumental in the operationalisation and full implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding.
“We are definitely excited about our engagements here and one key thing that was at the epi centre of our discussions was the urgent need to set up a Joint Tourism Technical Committee that will spearhead the operationalisation of our MoU with Egypt.
“There are various programmes that will be implemented in the context of our MoU. One such key programme is the agreed Egypt Tourism Week to be held in February 2017 in Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Tourism Week in Egypt in April 2017 which, essentially, is a reciprocal event”, said Minister Mzembi.
The Minister added that, “this initiative, apart from cementing relations between the two countries, helps to boost tourism promotion and enhances cultural ties that are key in sustainable tourism development as this will be undertaken by tour operators, travel agencies and the media, among other key stakeholders”.
The Egyptian Minister of Tourism, Mr Mohamed Yehia Rahed said his government is keen to see the full implementation of the bilateral tourism pact.
“We are happy to be hosting Minister Mzembi and his delegation in Egypt. There is indeed need to advance close cooperation especially in the field of tourism as espoused in our signed MoU. Africa must do more in the areas of joint marketing and promotion activities if we are to increase our market share in terms of tourism global arrivals,” said Mr Rahed.
Minister Mzembi also met with Dr Moushira Khattab, Egypt’s former Minister of Family and Population and now the country’s candidate for the post of Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Dr Khattab’s candidature for the top UNESCO post was also unanimously endorsed by the African Union at the recent Kigali Summit. State Media

The Government has failed to pay the fees for war veterans children over the past eight months.
State media reports that it has promised to settle an outstanding $8,4 million that it owes in unpaid school fees for war veterans’ children throughout the country since the beginning of the year.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of War Veterans, War Collaborators, Ex-Political Detainees and Restrictees, Retired Brigadier-General Walter Tapfumaneyi said his ministry was still waiting for Treasury to release the money.
“In total we are waiting for $8,4 million from Treasury so that we cover school fees from first term. We managed to pay for the first and second batch but failed to cover the third batch and there is an outstanding balance of $1,4 million that is needed,” he said.
He said complaints that were emanating from Bulawayo Province that some children of war veterans have not had their school fees cleared were true.
“It is correct to say some children in Bulawayo have outstanding school fees that have not been paid, this is because some of them fall in the third batch which is still to be paid. However, the rest in the two other batches are ok,” he said.
Last week war veterans in Bulawayo complained over non-payment of their children’ school fees. Rtd Brig-Gen Tapfumaneyi said the Government avails $6,4 million each term for the payment of school fees.
“We had a challenge in that we used some of the money for the war veterans’ meeting where they met the President and part of that money was meant for school fees, it was supposed to be replaced but there were some delays but we will receive that money and pay up the school fees,” he said.
A student from a local university who refused to be named said she was having challenges due to the late disbursement of the fees.
“The challenge is that at school they do not understand that our fees are through the War Veterans Ministry and when it is examination time we have to beg the school to be allowed to sit for examinations. The other challenge is that they never rotate the batches, those in the first and second batches always have their fees paid first. If they can rotate, we will also access our fees early,” she said. State Media

The Tendai Biti led People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has finally officially declared that it is joining the Joyce Mujuru led Zimbabwe People First party.
This is a plus for Mujuru to have in her ranks the top lawyer who has served in opposition ranks over the years, fell out with Morgan Tsvangirai and formed his own PDP party.
Addressing over six thousand people attending the Zimbabwe People First rally in Manjolo Business Centre today, the PDP Vice President Samuel Sipepa Nkomo said that his party will soon be finalising arrangements to be incorporated into the Zimbabwe People First.
Sipepa declared that his party will definitely not be fielding a presidential candidate in the 2018 elections but will be backing and joining the former Vice President Mujuru.
Further inquiries by ZimEye among senior PDP leaders, revealed that indeed the party is in advanced negotiations with Mujuru who has of late been on a charm offensive winning hearts among opposition supporters. Mujuru a Mugabe protege received a standing ovation when she addressed thousands of Tsvangirai’s supporters recently.
Tsvangirai who has for years led the opposition is a pale shadow of his former self, weighed down by health problems, financial challenges and leadership issues which saw him decide he needs the help of three Vice Presidents to run the once vibrant opposition party.
Mujuru welcomed the decision by the PDP and assured the gathering that her party is fully prepared to work with all other opposition parties in the country.
PDP senior leaders throughout the country have been suspiciously appearing at Mujuru provincial star rallies without formally declaring their party’s position.
Meanwhile, the PDP National Vice Chairman Washington Sibanda who recently declared his defection to the Zimbabwe People First has withdrawn his resignation from the PDP.
Zimeye is reliably informed that Sibanda withdrew his resignation after being advise by senior party leaders that the defection was no longer necessary as the two parties were soon to integrate.
Sources close to developments revealed to ZimEye that senior Tsvangirai members of the National Executive will also soon be jumping ship.
 

THE RT HON THERESA MAY MP
THE PRIME MINISTER
10 DOWNING STREET
LONDON
SW1A 2AA
Dear Prime Minister:
I write this letter to the honourable Prime Minister after a well published vindictive article authored by Mr Eliot Pfebve who is in the UK and is an envoy of Mr Morgan Tsvangirayi the opposition leader of a party called MDC T in Zimbabwe. I have noticed with great sadness how Mr Pfebve has turned his personal grudges with individuals turning them into international issues. Mr Pfebve has written to your office Madam Prime Minister requesting that you deport the son of the Honourable Minister of Zimbabwe Minister Saviour Kasukuwere. Mr Kasukuwere’s son is enrolled at Swansea School Of Management where he is studying Financial Management. The son of the Honourable Minister is called Takudzwa Kasukuwere. His sin is that his father is a minister in the Zimbabwean government. I believe that there is no crime in being a minister; it is actually an honour to serve one’s country in such an esteemed position.
 
My heart bleeds to witness the dictatorial tendencies exhibited by the MDC T and its affiliates in the UK namely Virgil Zimbabwe and RHOR and a plethora of other attention seeking groups masquerading as Human Rights groups. The irony of the matter madamme Prime Minister is that these groups purport to fight for human rights but they are using hate and unsubstantiated allegations to vilify the ministers son.
 
The reasons forwarded by these groups to your office Madam Prime Minister are that the Zimbabwean government is breaking the Rule of Law. I have checked and realised that Zimbabwe is not even in the top ten in the list of human rights abusers.
 
I have noticed with great shock that the reasons forwarded to your office for the deportation of this young man are not proved or stand in any human mind as real. The allegations come straight from a comic book and these groups are using them to destroy the life of this young man. They have further stated that the honourable minister is a thief but they have not given your office any proof of stealing except to say he is building a house. The last time I checked Madam Prime Minister building a house was not stealing. In the absence of any evidence of wrong doing by the minister I pray that the British government protects Takudzwa Kasukuwere as a student under your protection and not classify him as a politician.
 
 
Takudzwa is an honest student whose gaoal is to finish his degree. His parents are equally worried that his safety is at stake with these groups pretending to be Human Right Activists when they are actually opposition political members trying to abuse your goodness to settle a political score.
 
It is not a secret that there will be an election in 2018 in Zimbabwe and these people have an obligation to prepare for these elections not destroying the future of this young man.
It is my understanding that you will have the opportunity to meet with the group next week at your official residence where they will be submitting a petition to urge the deportation of the young man. Why have they picked this child alone defies all logic.
 
As a concerned British with Zimbabwean heritage, I would like to bring to your attention the following: (1) The abuse of Zimbabweans in UK by these groups and treatment of its minorities; and (2) the relations of these groups with the Republic of Zimbabwe. 3. The lies they tell people that once they sign the petition the Prime Minister will grant them asylum and indefinite leave to remain in the UK. Please take our concerns into consideration when meeting with Mr Pfebve and his group and raise them with him.
These issues are interrelated.
 
This group refuses to recognise Zimbabwe’s constitutionally and democratically elected government because they fear that if they do so, they would then need to return to Zimbabwe as this automatically kills their reason to remain on asylum. If Zimbabweans in England who are genuine students, can go back home after their studies, it means that those seeking asylum will not have credible reasons to seek asylum.
 
Madam Prime Minister you will remember that this is the same group which demonstrated against your government when Zimbabwe came to seek financial help.
 
 
They deliberately refuse to have Zimbabwe get any help so that they can turn back and say the government has failed. What the fake Human Rights Groups and Mr Pfebve fail to recognize is its attitude towards Zimbabwe is harmful to the whole country and not to the innocent children they are targeting. A verifiable and well-documented improvement in Human Rights respect in Zimbabwe occurred after the 2008 elections. The resounding victory of ZANU PF in 2013 HAS SHOWN THAT Zimbabwe has graduated to be a peaceful African state in elections.
 
Today, Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe can sue the government and they can have a fair judgement from the courts. Madam Prime Minister we have people in Zimbabwe who insult the President using un printable words who have been freed by courts and are roaming the streets of Harare as free men. There has been a great improvement in human rights and freedom of speech in Zimbabwe. Madam Prime Minister I am proud of the capacity of Zimbabwe democracy. All citizens of Zimbabwe have equal rights.
 
Madam Prime Minister I urge you to take immediate steps to protect the fundamental rights and bring the perpetrators to justice. I urge your government to take immediate steps to ensure that the fundamental rights of Zimbabwean student studying in your country regardless of their parents political affiliation are protected and that the perpetrators of violence are held to account.
 
“Of particular concern is the treatment of any person who is not MDC and who is not in any of the bogus anti Zimbabwe groups. The groups and MDC T in particular now believe that Britain is only democratic to the extent of being a supporter of MDC. They are making people believe that if you are MDC you will be granted stay in the UK.
 
 
This has been their operation mode to lure people to sign the petition. I have attached the page from the Facebook and from a phone WhatsApp which is circulated to the effect that The Prime Minister Theresa May will give amnesty to those who demonstrate against Takudzwa Kasukuwere. This is fraudulent, wrong and misleading.
 
 
I urge the Prime Minister to uphold fairness in dealing with this young man and with the group at large.
 
I also urge you to take steps to control the activities of groups, such as the Zimbabwe Virgil and ROHR. And instruct British security forces to enforce the rule of law and protect students coming from minority communities from politically motivated harassment and violence.
 
The peace loving Zimbabweans who are nonaligned in Zimbabwean politics and those who are related to Zimbabwean politicians but not politicians themselves have been dramatically affected and threatened by these groups.
 
“The groups effectively have demonised the Zimbabweans who are perceived to be ZANU PF threatening to seriously injure any one they will meet in the street. Since the groups have started to hunt for any students perceived to be ZANU PF or linked to ZANU PF innocent students have been subjected to threat physical assaults, extortion, threats of forced expulsion from their schools. I would like to applaud the Prime Minister for your stance on the respect of human rights and urge you to extent the rights to the minority students targeted by these groups in your own country madam Prime Minister. I beg you to turn this hope into action by publicly condemning the harassment and other forms of harassment against those who believe in ZANU PF and Zimbabweans throughout Britain by Mr Pfebve and his groups.
 
I therefore submit Madam Prime Minister That Takudzwa Kasukuwere At Swansea School of Management be protected from the unwarranted attacks by the groups purporting to be Human Rights Groups when they are actually Political parties masquerading as Human Rights Activists.
 
It is my humble submission that your government refuse to be used to settle political scores. We shudder to imagine what will happen should these Zimbabwean opposition parties become ruling party. We will have every person who never supported them removed from Zimbabwe or simply killed. They are sharpening their vindictive ways by writing petitions trying to make anyone against them an enemy. I pray that you do not allow the dictators to use your democracy to an undemocratic end.
 
I would like to thank you Madam Prime Minister for your assistance in this case.
Yours Worried
Dr Masimba Mavaza

The Movement for Democratic Change, Vice President Thokozani Khupe was late afternoon involved in a car accident.
Khupe has been under siege by state controlled media who have been on a relentless campaign to tarnish her character. It was not clear at the time of going to press if any foul play was suspected, as Khupe’s phone could not be reached.
Her office wrote, “Please be advised that The Honourable Vice President T. Khupe was today involved in a car accident on her way to her rural home.
Her Isuzu Twin Cab veered off the road and hit a tree while trying to avoid what would have been a worse off accident scenario, 60km outside Bulawayo on the Bulawayo – Victoria Falls Road. She has been seen by a doctor at Galen House Medical Clinic in Bulawayo and is currently resting at her home. She is in a stable condition and will hopefully resume her normal duties not so long after completing her medical prescriptions.”

Ntandoyenkosi Prayer Mathe (23), has been arrested for keeping pornography on her phone.

After questioning, the girl whose has been name withheld for ethical reasons, revealed that the phone belonged to her sister Mathe’s boyfriend.
She said she had borrowed it to capture images which she wanted to show off to her friends.
Mathe, who resides in Old Magwegwe Suburb, appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Mr Stephen Ndhlovu and was charged with possessing censored content.Prosecuting, Tony Kamudyariwa said: “On July 26 this year, at around 6PM in Magwegwe suburb, the young girl approached the accused and asked to borrow the phone to go and take pictures at school.

Pastor Evan Mawarire will once again haunt President Robert Mugabe with his successful demos, this time planning a massive one at the United Nations.
The UN General Assembly will begin on September 13 and Mugabe is expected to attend.
Mawarire will join hands with legend Thomas Mapfumo, activist Patson Dzamara among other notable figures.
While Mugabe might have heaved a sigh of relief following reports that #ThisFlag founder, Evan Mawarire had left the country, the Zanu PF leader’s respite could be short-lived, as the cleric is plotting a massive demonstration when the veteran ruler attends the United Nations General Assembly next month.
According to the Washington Post, Mawarire told his audience of mainly expatriate Zimbabweans in Atlanta this week that he “might stop by the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington to discuss the government’s plan to replace the Zimbabwean currency with a bond pegged to the US dollar”.
Mawarire did not, according to the report, directly respond to questions on whether he had plans to return to Zimbabwe, where the government has indicated it is willing to “interview him”.
He, however, said his movement would continue to pressure Mugabe ahead of elections expected in 2018, but ruled out “violent protests”, despite claims by Mugabe he had called for violence.
“My faith teaches us that violence only begets violence. Whatever we obtain by violence, we would have to maintain by violence,” Mawarire was quoted as saying.
The cleric started and led the new social movement demanding that Mugabe addresses rampant corruption and drops plans to introduce bond notes, as well as reverse a ban on the importation of basic commodities.
 

The mystery surrounding the shadowy elements who have been stalking Trevor Ncube deepened with the Zimbabwe Defence Forces coming out to say it has no interest in killing the Alpha Media Holdings chairman.
Ncube has reported that his Harare home was yesterday stormed by suspected CIO agents and also recently visited by soldiers, who asked who owned the house and asked to take a tour.

Spokesperson, Brigadier-General John Chris Mupande, in a statement said the military had no hand in the perceived threats on Ncube’s life.
“The ZDF takes great exception to reference that its personnel were involved in the visits to Trevor Ncube’s house,” he said. “Such is tantamount to trivialising as well as criminalising the role of the ZDF, especially to the extent that an attempt is made to link this unverified episode to the disappearance of Itai Dzamara.”
Mapande said Dzamara and the nature of activities leading to his supposed disappearance did not constitute any threat warranting the involvement of the ZDF, “ much as house searches are not a role of the ZDF”.
“Even the kind of activities that Ncube is involved in, namely publishing, do not constitute the nature of threat that ordinarily or historically warranted the mobilisation of any capabilities of the ZDF,” he said.
“As a national defence institution, we are at all times seized with our primary role of defending Zimbabwe and its interests, as enshrined in our national Constitution, including preparing ourselves for that role. Such interests are not located at private residences of any of our nationals.”
Mupande said part of the ZDF regalia, such as berets, caps and badges were obtainable from many sources and are subject to abuse, and are, “therefore, not by themselves proof that anyone adorning them is a bonafide member”.
Bizarrely, the first docket, after Ncube’s family made a police report, went missing and another had to be opened. – newsday

EIGHT High Court judges vying for four vacant Supreme Court posts will battle it out in public interviews to be conducted in Harare next month.
The judges — six men and two women — have been nominated to participate in the interviews scheduled for September 29.
Only four best performers will make it to the Supreme Court.
The eight candidates are: Justices Francis Bere, Priscilla Chigumba, Alfas Chitakunye, Charles Hungwe, Samuel Kudya, Joseph Mafusire, Lavender Makoni and Nicholas Mathonsi.
In a statement, the Judicial Service Commission said the nomination and interview process was being done in terms of the supreme law of the land.

Following in the footsteps of their counterparts on the African continent who have dislodged entrenched dictatorships through grand coalitions, Zimbabwe’s opposition parties will on Monday make history when they all unite and take a stand against the ruling Zanu PF party.
Recently, Zimbabweans woke up to news that some opposition political parties had decided to form a grand coalition that would face Zanu PF in the forthcoming 2018 general elections as a way of dislodging the ruling party from power. The plan of a grand coalition came about after opposition parties realised that individual electoral challenge to Zanu PF has always been a failure since Independence in 1980.
It was also reported that MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Zimbabwe People First leader Joice Mujuru held a joint rally in Gweru last Saturday, showing the envisaged coalition of the opposition parties could become reality. The joint rally has been viewed by some political analysts as a milestone that could possibly see the fall of Zanu PF come 2018.
It was also reported that Zanu PF is uncomfortable with the prospect of a coalition at a time the party seems divided along factional lines. Zanu PF members feel the party needs to put its house in order before it can tackle any opposition coalition.
However, history has shown that coalitions have been a major source of problems to ruling elites and in most instances a winning formula at the ballot.
In 2002, Kenyans voted out the Kenya African National Union (Kanu) which had been in power for 39 years through the National Rainbow Coalition (NRC) led by Mwai Kibaki.
Macky Sall of Senegal resoundingly defeated Abdoulaye Wade in the presidential run-off in March 2012. Abdoulaye’s defeat was a result of a coalition of those who had been defeated in the first round of presidential elections who then endorsed Sall as their main presidential candidate in the run-off poll.
The above examples and many others elsewhere show that coalitions are a danger to ruling parties, hence there is need for Zanu PF to put its house in order as the new coalition truly gathers momentum.
Zanu PF should realise that time is not on its side. The situation in the country, which has seen some social activist groups holding protests against the ruling party, calls on Zanu PF to seriously consider implementing its 2013 electoral promises. It should also address the issue of factionalism within its rank and file.
It must be noted that the economic crisis Zimbabwe is reeling under is a major cause of concern. Zanu PF should focus its energy and time into reviving the economic fortunes of the country.
It is self-defeating that at a time President Robert Mugabe is calling for peace and unity not only in Zanu PF, but in the country as a whole, some senior party members are grouping into camps to destroy the party from within. He has also called on Zanu PF members not to rush into issuing votes-of-no-confidence against other party members as it is counterproductive.
Surprisingly, some of the Zanu PF top leadership in some provinces are not heeding his calls to unite the party. Only recently, 11 party officials in Masvingo were suspended without going through the required disciplinary procedures.
As Zanu PF is facing the prospect of a coalition, there should be no time to create divisions for the sake of settling personal differences-turned-political.
The party should also take heed of the recent call by national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere for peace and unity in Masvingo as the province prepares to host the party’s annual conference in December.
Kasukuwere, who held a meeting with senior provincial party members in Masvingo at Victoria Junior School last weekend, reversed all suspensions that had been imposed on certain officials in the province and called for all Zanu PF members to work together. For that reason it is wise for the ruling party to make sure that they adhere to what Mugabe and Kasukuwere called for so that it avoids facing the same scenario as Kanu or Wade.
It is evident that Zimbabweans are suffering because of the economic crisis brought about by corruption in both public and private sectors with no meaningful arrests of offenders. It would seem the ruling party is more concerned on suspending its officials than making sure the government’s economic blue-print ZimAsset is implemented. So the move taken by Kasukuwere to bring sanity in the party should be welcomed by all peace-loving party members so they can face the coalition of opposition political parties united.

 

The government of Zimbabwe is headed for a showdown with disgruntled civil servants following revelations that they will be paid in bond notes. Civil servants are already up in arms against government over delays in receiving their salaries.
Zimbabwe’s central bank chief has admitted that people will be paid partly in bond notes, despite earlier claims the notes were to be an incentive for exporters.
“If you are getting a $400 salary, you will still get $400 in United States dollars, bond notes, rand or euros. If you don’t want them then you use plastic money,” central bank chief John Mangudya said in quotes carried by the official Herald daily.
The bond notes are likely to be introduced around October. They are supposed to be at 1:1 parity with the US dollar.
Mangudya’s announcement in May that bond notes were to be introduced followed months of cash shortages.
His claim that they would be backed by a $200m loan form the African Export-Import Bank has not reassured Zimbabweans who fear a return to the overprinting of the pre-2008 hyper-inflation era.
An opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) official told News24 earlier this week that the authorities could be stacking up as much as $2.5bn in bond notes, but that figure will be hotly contested by the central bank.

A 43 year old, City of Harare employee, Nahor Mushavi, died on Tuesday after being run over by a reversing refuse collection truck.
The city’s acting communications manager Mr Michael Chideme confirmed the incident.
He said the city has lost a hardworking employee whose contributions will be missed.

There was service disruption at West End Hospital in Harare this Friday morning when some of the workers downed tools over four months’ salary arrears.

The Government has announced that it will be carrying out Operation Murambatsvina style of eviction and demolishing peoples homes under the guise of restoring law and order.
This is despite the fact that ever since the same government displaced some 800 000 people during the 2005 Operation Murambatsvina it has failed to bring back normalcy to the country’s housing sector.
Speaking in the state media government warned all people who it claims have illegally settled themselves in different areas around the country to immediately vacate state land and return to where they came from by September 6 this year.

Unshaken Joice Mujuru has threatened to expose all of her former boss President Robert Mugabe’s garbage to do with his questionable war credentials.
The Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader Mujuru, who has come under intense attacks from Zanu PF, has threatened to ‘‘expose’’ Mugabe and “revisionists” in her former party whom she accuses of trying to rewrite history.
Mujuru has become a subject of Zanu PF relentless attacks after she held joint rallies with MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai in Gweru last week.
Yesterday, Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba said Mujuru should zip up and stop provoking history by belittling the role that the veteran Zanu PF leader played during the country’s liberation struggle.
This was after Mujuru claimed her late husband — Solomon ‘‘Rex Nhongo’’ Mujuru — catapulted Mugabe to the leadership of Zanu during the liberation struggle in Mozambique.
“The history of this country should not revolve around Mugabe, what Charamba and other apologists call history is not history at all,” said Mujuru, in a statement issued on her behalf by the party’s spokesperson, Jealousy Mawarire.
“We have a lot of people who have done a lot for this country and need recognition; we are not saying Mugabe has not done anything because we are in the current status because of his misrule.
“He is responsible for all the bad things that have affected this country, Charamba wants to celebrate Mugabe’s stay in Ghana, but the truth of the matter is that Mugabe’s return from Ghana was far from glorious, he was not an ally of Kwame Nkrumah, he is a selfish leader, he was never a socialist,” said Mawarire.
In his autobiography, respected Zanu PF elder Cephas Msipa, who accommodated Mugabe upon his return from Ghana in 1960, insinuates that the 92-year-old strongman, left the west African country under unclear and not-so-rosy circumstances.
“Mugabe supported the idea of a one-party State back then, but did not much about his personal experiences in Ghana. It was as if something had gone wrong while he was in Ghana, which he did not disclose,” Msipa said in his book.
Mujuru served as Mugabe’s deputy for 10 years and was expelled from the ruling party in 2014 on untested allegations of trying to kill the nonagenarian.
Mawarire said Mugabe should not be treated as super hero.
“He is not a trained soldier and he should not be treated as a superhero, if anything the history that Charamba wants to rewrite is something that was happening from where Charamba was, he himself should tell us whether he was part of (Abel) Muzorewa he cannot dispute Mujuru’s account of history, how old was he in 1970,” questioned Mawarire.
On Monday, the State media launched a savage propaganda blitzkrieg against Mujuru and tried to soil the political legacy of her immensely-popular husband Rex — whom they blamed for working with Tsvangirai during his time in Zanu PF.

26-YEAR-OLD Memory Dube, from Nxele Village, faked her father-in-law’s death to defraud a burial society of $219.
 
She approached Batanai Burial Society sometime in February and told them that her father-in-law had died in Nkayi.
She was given $219.
Dube told a court she had been contributing to the burial society for 10 years but had never lost a beneficiary, so she felt it was time for her to benefit.
The treasurer of the burial society, Mrs Marrieta Moyo,  said they discovered that Dube had tricked them three months after giving her the money.
Last month a criminal court sentenced Dube to 315 hours of community service at the social welfare offices at the Plumtree Border Post for defrauding the burial society.
Last week, the society dragged her back to court in a civil claim for the $219.
Plumtree magistrate, Mr Livard Philemon ordered Dube to pay back the money.  He gave Dube a tongue lashing for using such unethical methods to obtain it.

Terrence Mawawa, Mkwasine | In a rare polyandrous marriage that has stunned the local community two men are living cordially with one wife sharing the same bed.
The three even eat their meals at the same table,it has emerged.
The daring woman, Mollen Zvidzai of S Village, Mkwasine, has confirmed her marriage to Mugari Zibuda and the second man identified as Makamure. Neighbours told ZimEye.com they were amused by the polyandrous marriage.
It is understood Zibuda has four children with Zvidzai while Makamure has two children with the same woman. “I have never heard of a woman who has two husbands, even animals give each other a chance.
The husbands need to be mentally examined or they were given love portions.How can a man wait for another man to finish the act ?
If you look at it you can see that it is not normal,”said a neighbour who identified himself as Wills Mujaji. Fadzai Zibuda Chikwanda, the woman’s daughter with the first husband confirmed her mother’s polyandrous marriage.
“Yes everyone knows my mother here .My father works in Hippo Valley and my mother’s other husband is a cane cutter here in Mkwasine,” she said.
It is also understood Makamure dumped his original wife for Zvidzai. “Makamure left his original wife in controversial fashion. We wonder why he did such a thing,”said another neighbour.

Members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise pressure group on Friday took their fight to Harare, marching to the offices of the Ministry of Education where they demanded free education for their kids.
More than 300 placard-carrying demonstrators handed a petition to the ministry’s permanent secretary, Sylvia Masango, demanding that the government should introduce free education.

 

Former Zanu PF Youth leader and Viva Chairperson Acie Lumumba has slammed other political parties for using young people like condoms for their own political achievements.
Speaking in an interview on Ten Minutes with Vimbai program Lumumba said there is no political party in Zimbabwe at the moment that has a clear agenda for the young people.
‘If we don’t save ourselves no one will and if young people don’t stand to the plate we will remain political condoms…. they take us, use us for their personal pleasure and throw us out of the window….’
Generally Zimbabwe’s political sphere has been dominated by old people and efforts to facilitate the involvement of young people in decision-making processes and facilitate a smooth transition of the country’s old ways of doing things ‘I don’t know what Tsvangirai’s message for the young people is ………. I don’t know what Mujuru’s message for the young people is, I don’t think they even listen to our ideas or care about them.
 They call for rallies for them to talk to us not us to talk back……..so at which point will we be relevant to that political sphere. I don’t know any political party that is focused on the ideas of the young people’
As we are now living in the world that everything has been modernised and technology based we cannot afford to have a country which is run in a primitive way.
Even the bible says in Mark 2:22 that ‘And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined, No they pour new wine into new wineskins.” this scripture exactly depicts Zimbabwe’ situation where we have ruined our destinies by entrusting our great country in the hands of the old guard.
I remember there is one interview in the UK where Minister Chinamasa acknowledged that he is computer illiterate and that he implored young people to sell technological ideas to the ancient leaders like him.
We as young people cannot afford to be led by technologically blind leaders in this era. To backward people technology for example social media is a threat rather than an advantage to the smooth flow of information and empowerment to authors of such computer programs.
Advocating for youth participation in the voting system Acie Lumumba said there is 4.2 million virgin voters and these people are youths but are afraid of making it to the ballot box. He emphasised on the fact that young people need awareness on the voter’s registration and participation.

Staff Reporter |A three week old baby will have her arm amputated, after nurses at Gwanda Provincial Hospital allegedly mutilated it and left it to rot while trying to insert a cannula.
The Baby’s mother, Patience Chikahamadze (25), told the media that the nurses at the hospital continually complained to patients of being demotivated due to lack of apparatus to use at the hospital over and above their delayed salaries which the family believes could have been the cause of negligence.
The weeping mother explained that her family has engaged lawyers to represent them in demanding compensation from the hospital.
Chikahamadze said Andile was born at the hospital on July 22 when she went to visit relatives in Gwanda. The baby, she said, was admitted for routine observation on July 29 after she was said to be dehydrated.
“We’re devastated as a family. Our happiest moment has turned into a horrible nightmare,” she said, holding back tears.
“A doctor is carrying out tests on my baby here in Bulawayo. However, we’ve been told the arm is likely to be cut off at the shoulder.”
Miss Chikahamadze said she shed tears as she watched nurses pricking her daughter all over her arm in a vain attempt to insert the cannula as they could not locate a vein to put a drip.
“They pricked my baby on almost 10 parts of her body and she wailed piteously. When they eventually forced it in, two pints of fluid were pumped into her arm before the drip stopped flowing and her arm began to swell.”
“We tried to tell the nurses on duty that something seemed amiss but they cut us short. They said they knew better. My baby’s condition began to deteriorate and she cried a lot indicating she was in pain. Nurses that I won’t mention by name turned a deaf ear and instead concentrated on their phones.”
Miss Chikahamadze said Andile’s body temperature shot up to about 40 degrees.
“The cannula was stuck on my baby’s arm for over a week, although we could see that the arm was getting infected. The arm was getting dehydrated and skin on her whole body began to peel off. Still no one was willing to listen to our pleas as they claimed to know better,” she said stifling sobs.
She said baby Andile was eventually transferred to Mpilo Central Hospital on August 8.
Matabeleland South provincial medical director Dr Brian Maponga said he had requested the family to put their complaint in writing to assist investigators.
“I have asked the parents to submit a complaint detailing everything in writing. I will meet them and I have also asked the hospital to give me an update on what transpired. Those two reports will guide us on the next step,” he said.
Meanwhile, sources at the hospital have denied any wrong doing by the nurses instead blaming the mother for refusing to cooperate with the nurses and he hospital.
The nurses claim that the mother actually sneaked out of the hospital without official release from the hospital.

Terrence Mawawa | Zvishavane Zimbabwe Republic Police officers were last week exposed in a gold ore scam after nailing an unlicensed dealer they clandestinely worked with in selling the precious minerals.
Stephen Svova(23), a Zvishavane based gold dealer told Magistrate Story Rushambwa that when he appeared in court, Zvishavane based police officers were aware of his movements and they only turned against him after realising the deal had been exposed.
Svova appeared before Magistrate Rushambwa facing charges of transporting gold ore without a license. He said senior officers based at Zvishavane Police Station were behind the gold ore scam. He said the police loaded the sacks of gold ore in his truck and later plotted his arrest after realising their deal had been exposed.
“The police were aware that I had no license.The police officers loaded the gold ore into my truck but they later threatened me because I had refused to follow their orders,”said Svova. However, according to facts of the state case on August 8 2016, Svova was stopped by the police after a tip off from the public that he was carrying gold ore. Nineteen bags of gold ore were found in the vehicle.
Although Svova was ordered to pay $200 fine, the magistrate urged the police to execute their duties in a professional manner, instead of arresting people on trumped up charges.
He also said the police should not cook up evidence against innocent people. Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police have been implicated in cases of corruption and gross incompetence across the country. Legal experts have also slammed the partisan manner in which the police execute their duties.

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ZRP cops seeking to imprison teachers from the Rural Teachers Union who are marching to Harare from Uzumba, failed their plot at court today despite the continued  state harassment which led to 5 teachers being arrested yesterday (Thursday).
The five teachers (part of a 16 member delegation) who are on a 10-day 200km protest march to Harare from Uzumba to raise awareness to President Robert Mugabe on urgent issues in the education sector, were arrested at Mrehwa yesterday.

The police changed their charge description from contravention of section 37 of the Criminal Codification Act, shifting it to section 45 of the Criminal Codification Act.
The incarceration was the third in a series of attacks from both the CIO and the police.
The five slept in cells last night only to be released for court today, Friday. Their court case which was not heard until after 5pm, saw all of them being released with only one, Obert Masaraure being remanded out of custody. The RTUZ President, Masaraure was granted $50 bail and told to reside at his house in Wedza.
The police were ordered to release the others and to proceed any future action only by way of summons. The others are Secretary General Robson Chere, National Coordinator Blessing Makunike, Programmes officer Pride Mkono, Spokesperson Robson Ruhanya and the Board Secretary Lynnete Mudehwe, the latter who had just joined in the protest yesterday.
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#ThisFlag campaign has spread into the East African nation of Kenya with scores of Zimbabweans coming out to support the global cause. After South-Africa, this is the second African country to which the campaign has spread its wings. See pictures below;

 

National Vendors Union Chair Sten Zvorwadza who two weeks ago returned from the UK choosing to forsake luxuries of western life and to rather suffer with Zimbabweans on the ground, was this week tortured by ZRP cops and is recovering in hospital. VIDEO by Crisis Coalition of Zim:

Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Walter Mzembi has received a major boost in his campaign for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) secretary-general post following the creation of a website to run his campaign online.
The website, which was set up by the Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services, was unveiled yesterday.
Mzembi yesterday left for Egypt as he kick-starts the globalisation of his candidature, following his endorsement by the African Union as its sole candidate for the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.He will also visit Tunisia and Kenya.
Mzembi is gunning for the top post which falls vacant next year.
Speaking at a media briefing in Harare yesterday, ICT, Postal and Courier permanent secretary Sam Kundishora said his ministry created the website to aid Mzembi’s campaign.
“The campaign website, we have tried to make it a hub of information, to make all the information available under one roof,” Kundishora said.
Speaking at the same event, Mzembi said Cabinet approved a fortnight ago to support his candidature for UNWTO secretary-general in 2017.
Mzembi said the campaign was also a platform to promote brand Zimbabwe.
“The government has deployed full weight of their mandate which has been lent towards the task of the campaign. I am fully enjoying government support on the campaign, as this campaign goes beyond the African continent to the world. So we are outsourcing for support and resources from other ministries and we have outsourced from the ICT ministry to come up with the website,” he said.
He said the website would be updated on a daily basis, and managed through the command centre at the Ministry of Tourism.
Mzembi said he would start his international campaign tour tomorrow.
Last month, Mzembi was endorsed by the African Union to gun for the top post.

13 Escape Death Along Gwanda Highway

By Chrispen Tabvura | Thirteen people were badly injured at Mawabeni Bridge near Mbalabala, along Gwanda road, when a Honda fit.
The accident occurred when the vehicle had made a U-turn in face of an oncoming Mazda truck.
Five passengers travelling in the Honda Fit and seven from the truck were ferried to Bulawayo’s UBH hospital. Police on the scene referred ZimEye.com to their police spokesperson for comment.
They however confirmed the casualties although specific details were not available at the time of writing.
According to the ZRP and onlookers at the scene, the Honda Fit suddenly made a Uturn in face of the oncoming truck, and was hit from the behind, resulting in the driver losing control of the car, and landing in the bridge.
Both drivers were also injured.

Beitbridge casanova, Rayson Tsvangirai Rushwaya, who is infamous for seducing numerous schoolgirls, yesterday broke down and cried in court when he was jailed for an effective two years for kidnapping and unlawful detention of young girls.
“Can the court allow me to pay a fine or even compensate the parents I wronged instead of sending me to jail,” he sobbed.
The 26-year-old, who had now turned to God and prayed for people at a local church, even offered to marry the girls.
“I am asking the court for forgiveness … I will marry the girls,” he pleaded with an unamused resident magistrate Gloria Takundwa, who, for sentencing, took the two counts as one.
Rushwaya was convicted of contravening section 93(1)(b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, which makes it an offence to detain a child below 17 without the consent of parents.
Takundwa said the State proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and met all the essential elements to prove a case.
Although the girls went to Rushwaya willingly, parents of both girls had not relinquished custody of their children. They actually reported to the police, Takundwa said.
Between October and November last year, Rushwaya stayed with a 17-year-old girl he violently dismissed when she fell pregnant.
On February 23 this year until April 20, another girl fled her home to settle with Rushwaya. The convict was arrested when the mother of the girl reported to the police.
The girl was found at his house.
Rushwaya, who in mitigation said he was a father of one, was this year a subject of discussion by a panel of government departments after 12 girls from a local secondary school confessed to having slept with him.
Takundwa, who advised Rushwaya to appeal after he raised his hands several times with requests, sentenced him to four years in jail, but conditionally suspended the other two for five years.
Lloyd Mupfungidza prosecuted.

Three people are reported dead while several others were injured, in a serious accident involving a long distance minibus that occurred at Odzi, near Mutare along the Harare highway on Thursday around 11am.
Eye-witnesses said, the minibus, an Iveco, veered off the road an overturned. Several people were ferried to Mutare General Hospital where one person died on arrival.
Police have not yet released the names of the deceased or injured from the accident.-state media

A taxi driver and his assistant were arrested on allegations of kidnapping, beating and dumping two police officers outside Bulawayo in a bush near Ngozi Mine Landfill Site.
It is alleged that Brilliant Nsingo (25) of Cowdray Park and Nicholas Moyo (25) of no fixed abode allegedly told the cops they wanted to prove to them that they (the driver and tout) were dogs but not human beings.
Reports are the pirate crew allegedly threatened to kill Assistant Inspector Vongai Munyikwa and Constable Bonface Mashora.They appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Mr Stephen Ndhlovu yesterday facing kidnap, assault and resisting arrest charges.
Mr Ndhlovu remanded the pair in custody to today.
Prosecuting, Mr Tony Kamudyariwa said on August 17 along Nketa Drive near Western Commonage Court, the traffic police were carrying out an operation dubbed “No to Honda Fit,” targeting small unlicensed vehicles which he said have caused havoc along the road.
“At a certain point along Nketa Drive the driver picked up two officers, Mashora and Munyikwa based at Bulawayo Traffic West, who were clad in civilian attire and were purporting to be commuters,” said Mr Kamudyariwa.
He added that the officers identified themselves by showing their police identity cards to Nsingo who immediately stopped the car and refunded two other passengers asking them to get out of the car.
The prosecutor said: “Moyo then took over the steering wheel and drove at high speed toward Old Khami Road intersection. He was ordered to drive to Traffic West but did not take heed.”
“He turned into Masiyephambili Drive and drove due north towards Ngozi mine, threatening the officers with death, indicating to them that he wanted to prove that he was not human but a dog.”
The officers only managed to jump off the moving vehicle which had slowed down due to the bad state of the road. — State Media

Two police officers based at Gweru Central station have  appeared in court facing charges of theft.
The two constables, Logistics Muzvuve and Brighton Zimiso Sibanda allegedly stole two pairs of shoes worth $40 which they had recovered as stolen property.
They were not asked to plead as they appeared  before Provincial Magistrate Mrs Phathekile Msipa facing one count each of theft of trust property, but were remanded in custody to September 15. Mrs Msipa advised the pair to apply for bail at the High Court. Prosecuting, Mr Andrew Marimo told the court that on July 21 Kenneth Keche stole 35 pairs of shoes from a flea market in the city.
He gave two pairs of the shoes to Lameck Toperesu for safe-keeping. Keche was sentenced to six months in prison on July 27 of which two months were suspended on condition he restitutes the complainant of $500.
Mr Marimo said Muzvuve and Sibanda approached Toperesu demanding that he hands over the shoes he had received from Keche.
“It is alleged that Toperesu was ordered by the accused persons to accompany them to Gweru Central Police Station for receiving stolen goods. However, along the way, Cst Muzvuve gave him his cellphone number and told him to go back and use the number in case he came across Keche,” he said.
The court heard the cops took the two pairs of shoes and did not hand them over when they arrived at the police station.
Mr Marimo said Toperesu was later apprehended by another police officer after Keche’s arrest. –  State Media

Teachers on a 200km protest march to Harare have been arrested.
Teachers who are on a 10 day march from UMP to Harare to push the incompetent government to address the demands of the union, have been arrested. ZimEye.com is reliably informed Murewa police have arrested President Obert Masaraure and activists Robson Chere, Lynette Mudehwe, Brighton Makunike, Pride Mkono and Robson Ruhanya and charged them with contravening section 37 of the Criminal Codification Act.
They are currently at Mrehwa.
They were involved in the 200km walk from Mutawatawa to Harare under the Rural Teachers’ Union of Zim banner.
The delegation comprises of 16 members.
The arrested are President Obert Masaraure, Secratary General Robson Chere, National Coordinator Blessing Makunike, Programmes officer Pride Mkono, Spokesperson Robson Ruhanya and the Board Secretary Lynnete Mudehwe, the latter who had just joined in the protest yesterday.

Happymore Chidziva The (Morgan Tsvangirai) MDC Youth Assembly condemns in the strongest of terms the brutal and arbitrary force used by the police as they descended on  citizens who were exercising their democratic and constitutional right to demonstrate under the banner of Tajamuka/Sesijikile campaign.
Amongst the injured in today’s protest was the Assembly’s Secretary General, Lovemore Chinoputsa and Harare Province driver Mr Jemwa. We view this as a declaration of war and we will not take this brutality lightly.
This only goes to show the level of desperation on the part of Robert Mugabe regiment. We will not sit back while the citizenry is harassed willy-nilly. As an assembly, we call upon the people of Zimbabwe to rise up and face this regime head on. We therefore are warning individual police officers  to desist from being used as tools of oppression.
#MyZimbabwe
Happymore Chidziva

MDC Youth Assembly Chairperson

Staff Reporter |Zanu PF has recalled former deputy Energy and Power Development Minister and Chimanimani west legislator Munacho Mutezo from parliament.
Mutezo has been on the firing line for allegedly siding with the ousted former vice President Joice Mujuru.
Mutezo’s ouster was endorsed by the party’s highest decision making body, the Politburo last week after getting recommendations by the Zanu PF disciplinary appeals and review committee of the Central Committee, which was chaired by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, to expel the legislator.
Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda this week officially announced Mutezo’s expulsion from Parliament.
“I would like to inform the House that on the 16th August 2016, I was notified by the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) that Mr. Munacho Mutezo, a Member of the National Assembly for Chimanimani Constituency had ceased to be a Member of ZANU PF. Therefore, he no longer represents the interest of the party in Parliament,” he said.
This means that Chimanimani west constituency is now vacant.

Kate Hoey |Robert Mugabe remains in power in Zimbabwe. His 36-year reign has set new standards in vanity, mismanagement, corruption, outright theft, oppression, and organized violence against opponents. Over three million Zimbabweans have fled. The rich country’s economic ruin was symbolized by the issue of banknotes with a paper value of 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars (14 zeroes). They are worthless but make entertaining birthday presents for children.

His finance minister since 2013 is Mr Patrick Chinamasa, formerly a long-serving Justice Minister. In Mugabe’s government, that title has an Orwellian tang. Chinamasa was rewarded for his role in destroying the rule of law with two stolen farms and being entrusted with what is left of the economy. His urgent task this year is to procure an international bailout so that the regime can afford to pay its civil servants, police and army and most importantly, Mugabe’s private army of thugs.

Peter Mandelson has worked for Lazard Bank since 2011. He is described as Chairman of Lazard International. It is terribly hard to discover what this part-time post entails, or the exact size of the bundle of money he gets paid for it.
In February this year he popped into Zimbabwe and, with the help of our ambassador, Catriona Laing, held an unreported meeting with Mr Chinamasa. A few months later Mr Chinamasa was engaged in intense negotiations on a bailout – with Lazard. When Mandelson’s meeting and Chinamasa’s negotiations wereeventually reported in the Sunday Telegraph on August 7 they caused a storm of protest both here and in Zimbabwe, and widespread speculation that the British government had secretly abandoned its opposition to a bailout while Mugabe remained.
A spokesman for Peter Mandelson hastily denied that there was any connection between Mandelson’s visit and the bailout talks with Lazard. No, no, no, he went to Zimbabwe only for the purpose of “meeting representatives of the business community and civil society to encourage them to continue the process of reform.”
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office believe this flannel and flummery and issued statements supporting it. They have assured me that Peter Mandelson paid for the trip himself.
I find this hard to believe – and not from any personal bias against him but because it costs a tidy sum to jet into Zimbabwe and stay there in a top-class hotel. Although I personally paid for my own undercover visits a few years ago very few politicians dip into their own pockets to visit a country just to deliver a bucket of bromides!
I also find it hard to believe that Peter Mandelson gave no report of his encounter with Mr Chinamasa to his employers at Lazard before they entered detailed negotiations with him. If I were a shareholder of Lazard, that would make me query his value to the bank.
I wonder also why the FCO thought there was any value to Britain in Peter Mandelson’s mission. He has no previous relationship with Zimbabwe that I can discover. Certainly he has never attended one meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe which I chair and which has many members from the House of Lords.
Representatives of the surviving business community and civic leaders do not need to be persuaded of the case for reform – they are desperate for it. There is no point in preaching to Chinamasa, who is a creature of Mugabe and has no future in a post-Mugabe settlement.
Why does the FCO see Peter Mandelson as a persuasive advocate in any country? He has not won an election for himself since 2001 nor taken part in a winning political campaign for any party or cause since 1997. In the recent referendum, his public interventions for the REMAIN campaign were eagerly awaited – by the LEAVE campaign.
This episode calls for an urgent response from our new Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson.
On Zimbabwe he must reaffirm Britain’s position in the most robust and colourful language he can command: no money, no bailout until Mugabe disappears from power and influence for ever.
He also needs to review the use of our missions overseas and the whole conduct of British diplomacy.
Our missions must not act as a speed-dating bureau for any passing VIP, whether from politics, or business or any other field.
Our overseas diplomats need to be particularly wary of requests for help from visiting politicians, current or former, since it has become so easy for them to pick up lucrative jobs with outside interests, including foreign companies and even foreign government.
They need to ask: “Why are you really here? Who is paying you? Whom are you reporting back to?” They need answers they can trust. If they cannot be certain that the visitor is not representing some private interest they should tell him to fend for himself.
Apart from Lazard, Peter Mandelson has a relationship with Glencore, the giant minerals conglomerate, which has interests in Zimbabwe. It is a client of his shadowy consultancy, Global Counsel, although this was revealed by the media and has never been declared on the House of Lords Register of Interests. Glencore needs and deserves no help from any of our missions.
More importantly, Boris Johnson should end any assumption that our missions should always help Britons to do business in their host countries.
He should set minimum standards of good governance and observance of the rule of law. When he knows that British business or other activity gives benefit to a corrupt or repressive regime – and makes our country more dependent on it – our missions should not encourage it. Apart from Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, I personally would apply these tests to the regimes in Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia and quite a few others.
He should end any comforting pretence that better links with repressive regimes help to promote reform and liberalism. The weight of history is against this idea. It failed with Nazi Germany. It failed with apartheid South Africa. It is failing now with present-day China.
Finally, he should end the use of secret emissaries to conduct diplomacy overseas.
They inevitably encourage host governments to imagine that they are more significant channels than our regular diplomats, and that our government has entrusted them with a private agenda. We taxpayers should not be represented in any country by vain, self-important people– or even competent ones– who are beyond the reach of Parliament and face no assessment of their performance or results.
If we have anything to say to a foreign country, it should be delivered only by a Minister or a trained diplomat not a Peter Mandelson.

• Kate Hoey is MP for Vauxhall and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe

Movement for Democratic Change Vice-President, Nelson Chamisa yesterday made  a suggestion that will likely put him out of favour with many of his fellow Members of Parliament, that ministers be allocated cheaper vehicle models like Toyota Vitz and Honda Fit to cut down on high government spending.
Sadly the political culture in Zimbabwe among politicians is that public office gives one an opportunity to ‘eat’ euphemism for looting, with President Robert Mugabe the chief looter himself allowing this culture to thrive unabated.
Chamisa made the proposal in the National Assembly when Deputy Minister of Public Affairs Tapiwanashe Matangaidze was being quizzed by Mkoba MP Amos Chibaya (MDC-T) on why government was struggling to pay civil servants.
Matangaidze said government had since improved in payment of salaries.
Chamisa then suggested as a way of reducing expenditure, government should consider cutting benefits for top government officials.
Matangaidze said he would take up Chamisa’s suggestion.

THE June Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) O-Level and A-Level results are out and will be ready for collection today.
The candidature for the A-level examinations has decreased by 19, 37 percent.
Zimsec director Mr Esau Nhandara yesterday said he was proud that the results were released simultaneously, adding that they are being sent to Zimsec regional offices for collection by the examination centre heads.
“We look forward to the usual smooth and expeditious collection of the results. Candidates who sat for these examinations will be able to collect their results from their respective schools and centres starting Thursday 18 August 2016,” said Mr Nhandara.
He said a total number of 65 380 candidates sat for the O-Level examinations for a range of subjects from one to nine per candidate. “The number of candidates decreased from 81 083 this year to 65 380 last year. Of the 65 380 candidates, 130 were candidates with special needs. The total candidature, however decreased by 15 703 which is 19,37 percent from the previous year.
“The number of school candidates was 8 974 and for private candidates it was 56 406,” said Mr Nhandara.
He added that the number of candidates who sat for five or more subjects was 2 391 which is 3,6 percent of the total candidature of 65 380.
“The remainder, 62 989 (96,3) percent sat for four or fewer subjects.

“The private candidates who sat for five subjects or more were 1 723 and of these 168 passed with Grade C or better, giving a percentage pass rate of 9,75 percent,” said Mr Nhandara.
For the A-Level results, Mr Nhandara said a total number of 4 007 candidates sat for the examinations compared to 4 086 in June last year, a decrease of 1,9 percent.
“The total number of candidates who sat for two or more subjects was 1 844 which is 46 percent of the total candidature of 4 007. The percentage pass rate for school candidates who wrote two or more subjects is 84,13 percent and 60,8 percent for private candidates”.
Mr Nhandara commended the examiners and all Zimsec staff who worked tirelessly throughout the setting, marking and results processing up to the analysis of the results.
The June examinations are meant to provide an opportunity to candidates who need to make good on their previous efforts and complete a full certificate with five subjects at Grade C or better.
A few good candidates who feel confident enough to take some of their subjects before the October and November session also register for the June examinations.

Opposition parties are demanding to meet President Robert Mugabe and State security chiefs over the deteriorating economic situation in the country, which was now causing social unrest, and to push for electoral reforms ahead of the 2018 polls.
The parties, under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera), resolved to seek audience with Mugabe demanding that his administration reforms the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) before 2018.
Nera currently comprises of Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T, the Welshman Ncube-led MDC, Freedom Front led by Cosmas Mponda, Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF), Transform Zimbabwe, Zanu Ndonga, Zunde, ZimFirst and FreeZim Congress, among others.
ZimPF founder and current Nera chairperson Didymus Mutasa told NewsDay at his Chishawasha home on Tuesday that they had initiated the process to meet Mugabe to bring to his attention the poor state of the economy and the need for electoral reforms to ensure free and fair elections.
“We want to tell him that the people of Zimbabwe want this and that. They want free and fair elections. He has no option, but to meet us. He will have to because our concerns are legitimate,” Mutasa said, while flanked by Mponda.
The former Presidential Affairs minister said Nera leaders were also pushing to meet State security chiefs, who were critical in the administration of polls as they normally campaign for Zanu PF.
“We want them to know that politics is not for them, but us civilian people. We are saying they should stay in barracks and protect us from external forces, not telling us who should be the next leader,” Mutasa said.
“I am saying this from experience. I know how the military and CIO [Central Intelligence Organisation] are used to campaign for Zanu PF. We are saying that should end. People should not be afraid of the CIO and say they are partisan, but people must work with them in safeguarding our internal security.”
He added: “Today, the CIO is the most feared institution because of the way it operates and we are saying that should end. The CIO should be a secret service, but when you see people campaigning for a particular party, it ceases to be a secret service.”
Mutasa said Mugabe should feel free to meet his political opponents as this was the best way he could redeem his “tattered” legacy which had been marred by allegations of vote rigging and abuse of State machinery to retain power.
“If you look at all the States in the Sadc region, they have changed their leaders several times since gaining independence. Their democracy has improved tremendously. That is what we also want. We should have a new President also, but that has to be done in a democratic way. That is why we are saying he should meet us and we usher in a new playing field for a democratic Zimbabwe,” Mutasa said.
“We also want the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to be reformed. We want (Zec chairperson) Justice Rita Makarau to
go. She is not impartial in the discharge of her duties. We want the United Nations to help us run the elections so that we get a credible outcome.”
Mponda, who said Nera was pushing for a demonstration on August 26, said Zec must not run the 2018 elections.
“Not only do we want (Justice) Makarau to go, the staff too should go. Zec is full of CIOs who are working for Zanu PF,” Mponda said.
Zanu PF secretary for administration Ignatius Chombo said he was unaware of any move by Nera to meet Mugabe, while also defending Justice Makarau’s appointment as legal.

RTUZ 200KM UPDATE- DAY 3
17 August 2016 :22 00 hrs
ZARANYIKA (60KM COVERED) – After the barbaric and desparate attempts by state security agents in Uzumba to scuttle the RTUZ advocacy walk for the betterment of rural education, the Union is finally out of the violent and fear infested area of U.M.P.
Today (17 August 2016) at 2100hrs RTUZ leadership reached Zaranyika Primary School in Murewa to signal the start of the March on Murewa District Education Offices where a petition will be handed on Friday, 19 August 2016 .
What is apparent in the challenges and security risks of the last 3 days which confronted the union, speak to the deplorable state of infrastructure in the rural areas.
Most schools that the RTUZ leadership visited hardly had a library and let alone a science laboratory.This state of affairs exposes the Government’s much hyped STEM program to be a fallacy and further proves that rural schools are not ready for the total implementation of the new curriculum.
It therefore follows that rural schools will not benefit a cent from the so called STEM monies and more precariously mean that rural schools will be left far behind on the implementation of the new curriculum which will result in the further disenfranchisement of rural pupils and teachers.
The so called 20 million gorvenment schools infrastructure bond proposed in the 2016 budget statement has been proved once again part of the many lies and chicenary which the Gorvenment is deliberately playing to confuse and mislead the ordinary masses and other stakeholders.
Even the general public infrastructure which is meant to improve the quality of life of rural areas is in a deplorable state.The internet and general network for mobile phones is either super slow or completely inaccessable in most areas.
This means the life of being a rural teacher is a life of being left out of the broader information world.
It is therefore against this background that the RTUZ leadership marched through the dry forest plains of Uzumba under one of the demands of the Union’s petition which is for Infrastructural development in rural schools and communities.
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RTUZ Information Dept

Terrence Mawawa, Mberengwa| A local man brutally killed his stepfather last week for failing to provide him with a piece of land to build a house.
In a shocking incident of gruesome murder, Mkhokheli Moyo (36) of Machova Village in Mberengwa hit his stepfather Masvora Hamadziripi Zhou (71) several times with a shovel for failing to allocate him land to build a house. According to a police report, Moyo had just returned from South Africa where he had gone to seek greener pastures. He demanded a piece of land from his stepfather. When his stepfather said the land he had demanded was not available, Moyo lost his temper, picked a shovel and hit his stepfather several times on the forehead.
“Moyo had just returned from South Africa when he demanded land from his stepfather.However his stepfather indicated the land was unavailable.He then attacked his stepfather with a shovel.His stepfather sustained severe injuries after the brutal attack. He died on the way to Mnene Hospital. Moyo has since been arrested,” read the police report. Shocked neighbours told ZimEye.com the incident has shaken the entire community. “It is unbelievable nobody expected such a thing to happen. Moyo shocked all and sundry when he brutally killed his stepfather,” said a devastated neighbour.

Redley Mugabe| ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) boss, Trevor Ncube says he fears for his life following mysterious visits to his Harare home by suspected members of the military intelligence over the past two weekends.  

Writing on his facebook page Ncube said, “Thank you for your love, support and prayers. Some of you have suggested l beef up my security in Harare. Good advice but is it possible for civilians to protect themselves from the state or from rogue state elements? I doubt it,” adding that God is his protector.
AMH are publishers of NewsDay, Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard.
“We have a duty to speak out against this intimidation and harassment. Could this be the same people that disappeared Itai Dzamara? Nobody knows,” Ncube wrote.
He added the matter has been reported to Highlands Police Station.
“Preliminary indications are that a car registration number, BCB7664, belongs to military intelligence. The military uniform and the beret hats are similar to the Presidential Guard outfit. Strange!,” Ncube said.
“Military intelligence and/or Presidential Guard visiting a civilian residence. Why? We have been warned by those familiar with both the Presidential Guard and military intelligence that this is not a good visit at all.”
Ncube’s sister, Trinity, confirmed the visits and the subsequent police report.
“We are not sure about the identity of the persons who came as they refused to identify themselves. They were asking questions about the ownership of the property. I am just coming from the police to follow up on our report now,” Trinity said yesterday.

Staff Reporter| The Zimbabwe Republic Police has transferred ALL officers from the Beitbridge Police Station for allegedly failing to handle the civil unrest that took place at the border town in July.
According to senior police officers at the town, all officers were served with transfer letters today that are effective immediately and new officers from various stations around the country will resume duty at the station also immediately.
The officers are accused of having been lenient on the demonstrators to an extent that they are alleged to have conspired with the demonstrators.
Included in the transfer list is the Officer Commanding of the district who failed to effectively address the rioters before they went wayward.

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Obert Gutu |The MDC is a social democratic political party that has always held deep respect for the revolutionary struggle against settler colonialism; which heroic and selfless struggle ultimately led to the attainment of our independence on April 18, 1980. As such, the MDC will always show its support for and solidarity with all the toiling and down–trodden masses of Zimbabwe, regardless of political affiliation.
The Zanu PF regime, as it continues to fizzle out of power and collapse like a deck of cards, has recently been persecuting and harassing genuine war veterans.The recent arrest of war veterans leaders, Victor Matemadanda and Douglas Mahiya is a case in point. Whilst the MDC has got absolutely no brief for both Matemadanda and Mahiya, we are a political party that tenaciously and resolutely believes in the rule of law as opposed to the rule by the law. Thus, the MDC shall continue to denounce the continued and uncalled for harassment of all genuine war veterans by the beleaguered and faction-ridden Zanu PF regime. The Bill of Rights as captured in Chapter 4 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe applies to all Zimbabweans, war veterans included. The MDC will never, ever celebrate the unlawful harassment and imprisonment of any Zimbabwean citizen, regardless of race, colour, creed or political affiliation. We are a modern day and progressive political party that believes in the respect and upholding of the fundamental human rights of all citizens of Zimbabwe.
Of late, the bankrupt and paranoid Zanu PF regime has launched a relentless and mindless media onslaught against some genuine and iconic war veterans, both living and dead. False, malicious, misleading and defamatory stories are being written about revolutionary icons in the mould of the late General Solomon Mujuru.
The Zanu PF-controlled media has gone into overdrive trying to propagate the false and frivolous story that the MDC and the late General Mujuru are/were agents of the West; whatever that means.We would like to make it abundantly clear that the MDC is a lawfully registered and legitimate political party that has always advocated for peaceful, democratic change in Zimbabwe. We are a party that is firmly rooted in Zimbabwe and we shall continue to fearlessly push forward a Zimbabwe-centred agenda until the corrupt and bankrupt Zanu PF regime is lawfully and constitutionally removed from power.
The MDC led revolution against the Zanu PF dictatorship is certainly bound to succeed.As the former Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, once said: ‘’a revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past’’. The MDC represents not only the present but also the future of Zimbabwean politics. No amount of puerile and vexatious mudslinging by the collapsing Zanu PF regime shall ever dissuade the MDC from continuing with its peaceful and democratic struggle for the establishment of a new Zimbabwe. The people of Zimbabwe deserve a new beginning; a fresh and brand new start.The MDC is the government-in-waiting and we are not going to disappoint the long-suffering masses of Zimbabwe. Victory is within touching distance.The enemy is cornered and vanguished.
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Obert Chaurura Gutu

MDC National Spokesperson.

THE controversial president of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ), Archbishop Johannes Ndanga, has attacked #ThisFlag Pastor Mawarire, who he charges saying is not an ordained Pastor.

The Archbishop also criticised self-ordained pastors like Pastor Evan Mawarire for leading people astray.
Addressing a gathering at the ordination of 38 apostolic bishops in Bulawayo on Sunday, Archbishop Ndanga did not have kind words for Mr Acie Lumumba who recently insulted President Mugabe, saying the youthful politician was only trying to make a name and money for himself.
The ACCZ president said Mr Lumumba was just like prophets Magaya and Makandiwa.
He said the two prophets want the continued use of a basket of foreign currencies in the country as they wanted to use it to pay their spiritual fathers in Nigeria and Ghana to maintain their powers.
“People like him (Lumumba) just want to make a name for themselves and money and yet he does not understand where this country came from. And people who do this are like Makandiwa and Magaya but we don’t have a problem with them but what we fail to understand is why they are refusing bond notes.

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A HARARE man is denying his sister in-in-law access to her child after she allegedly bedded one of her former hubby’s brothers who she claims infected her with a sexually transmitted disease.
This was revealed at the Civil Court yesterday when Shylet Matoneni made an application for access to her child, who is currently in the custody of her brother-in-law Kenneth Nyaguma.
In her application, Matoneni had indicated that after her husband left for the United States in 2010, her in-laws chased her from her matrimonial home.
“They forced me to sign off my child to them yet they never paid my bride price nor met any of my relatives,” Matoneni said. She also told the court that from the time her husband left, one of his brothers, who was not identified in court, started proposing love to her.
“I used to resist his advances, but one night he came and managed to manipulate me into having sex with him and infected me with an STI,’’ she said. Nyaguma opposed the application saying Matoneni was an unfit mother who was not even welcome at their home.
He alleged Matoneni had turned into a prostitute after her husband left the country, adding for the few days that she had lived with the child she exposed him to different types of men.
Nyaguma said Matoneni had initially dumped the baby claiming she had nowhere to stay.
Presiding magistrate Gamuchirai Siwardi will pass her judgment today.
Meanwhile, a Harare couple has gone for four months without sex amid allegations that the husband brags about his girlfriend’s privates, the Civil Court has heard.
This came to light yesterday when Yevai Zvichauya applied for her child’s custody against her husband Amon Hukasha.
Zvichauya told the court that her husband had since left their matrimonial home to stay with his girlfriend, taking with him their first child. She told the court that whenever he decides to come and spend the night with her, he verbally abuses her in front of their last-born child.
“He comes at dawn and makes sexual advances and if I refuse he insults me,” Zvichauya said. “He also boasts that he has a girlfriend who has much better privates than mine and enjoys oral sex with her.’’
Zvichauya went on to say Hukasha was irresponsible and did not maintain her and the children.
“Since we got married he has never bought even panties for me,’’ Zvichauya said.
In his response, Hukasha said if the court were to grant Zvichauya custody, he would wish to be awarded reasonable access to his children. He, however, said the major problem in their marriage was that Zvichauya was denying him sex.
“The only issue is that she has been denying me sex for the past four months and sometimes when I ask for it, she says I should go and bed my mother,’’ Hukasha said. Hukasha further denied being irresponsible saying he only faced difficulties in paying rentals recently after his contract was terminated at a local beverage company.
Magistrate Gamuchirai Siwardi will pass her ruling today.-state media

THE president of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ), Archbishop Johannes Ndanga, has sensationally claimed the Holy Spirit told them about bond notes.

He castigated prophets Emmanuel Makandiwa and Walter Magaya saying their alleged opposition to the introduction of bond notes in the country was motivated by selfish reasons.
The Archbishop also criticised self-ordained pastors like Pastor Evan Mawarire for leading people astray.
Addressing a gathering at the ordination of 38 apostolic bishops in Bulawayo on Sunday, Archbishop Ndanga did not have kind words for Mr Acie Lumumba who recently insulted President Mugabe, saying the youthful politician was only trying to make a name and money for himself.
The ACCZ president said Mr Lumumba was just like prophets Magaya and Makandiwa.
He said the two prophets want the continued use of a basket of foreign currencies in the country as they wanted to use it to pay their spiritual fathers in Nigeria and Ghana to maintain their powers.
Magaya is leader of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) while Makandiwa is the founder of the United Family International Church (UFIC).
“People like him (Lumumba) just want to make a name for themselves and money and yet he does not understand where this country came from. And people who do this are like Makandiwa and Magaya but we don’t have a problem with them but what we fail to understand is why they are refusing bond notes.

By Terrence Mawawa, Chivi| Today marks 10 months, 10 days since First Lady Grace Mugabe first launched her death rallies last year. The meetings saw several people killed in horrific stampedes as Mrs Mugabe dished out goods stolen by ZIMRA from poor citizens at the Beitbridge border post.
Scores of people were injured at Shindi High School as they scambled for First Lady Grace Mugabe’s donations.
Mrs Mugabe’s pickings, distributed in the name of philanthropy, left several people dead during her ‘death’ rallies. (SEE FULL SATELLITE MAP). Critics argue the First Lady has been raiding the Zimra (border confiscated goods) warehouses to dish out to people. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW…

At Shindi High School, villagers were nearly crushed to death as they scramble for maize meal, shoes and grocery items distributed by Chivi Rural District Council Chairman Killer Zivhu, who showered praises on Mrs Mugabe. Zivhu described the First Lady as a woman who had a kind and warm heart for the starving masses.
“We wish to thank our kind -hearted First Lady for giving each household here mealie meal and no one has been left out of the food distribution process.Therefore we should support those who care for us and let us all vote for Zanu PF in 2018,”said Zivhu.
This came at a time when there are reports her party Zanu PF is intercepting food relief bags from various donor agencies in a way to silence perceived opposing voices.
Political analysts believe Mrs Mugabe is using food aid to penetrate the volatile province of Masvingo. The First Lady is working with President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao, Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo and National Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere to advance the G40 faction’s cause in the explosive province.

 
South Africa has given Zimbabwe three weeks to roll back the import ban from that country ahead of a meeting of regional ministers later this month. This follows a meeting between Zimbabwe’s minister of Industry and Trade, Mike Bimha and his South African counterpart, Rob Davies in Pretoria last Thursday. The list of goods includes furniture, baked beans, potato crisps, cereals, bottled water, mayonnaise, salad cream, peanut butter, jams, maheu, canned fruits and vegetables, pizza base, yoghurts, flavoured milks, dairy juice blends, ice-creams, cultured milk and cheese.

• South Africa is Zimbabwe’s largest trade partner, accounting for about 70 percent of imported goods in the southern African country and over 60 percent of its total trade. The two countries have to resolve the impasse before a meeting of SADC trade ministers in Botswana on August 24 as failure between the two nations reaching a consensus may result in political unrest hence leading to poor relations between the two countries.

THREE Zimbabwean men commonly known as ‘omalayitsha’ and a South African woman, are expected to go for trial at the Palm Ridge High Court in Johannesburg between October 10 and November 4. They are facing 62 counts of murder, rape, robbery, extortion and assault among other violent crimes committed against fellow countrymen south of the Limpopo.
The four are accused of kidnapping more than 100 Zimbabweans and killing several others including two Harare women.  Charles Cecil Brewer (36), alias Boss of Nketa 7 in Bulawayo, his South African wife, Madida Petition Sicelo alias ‘Sister’ (30), Jaheni ‘Satan’ Luphahla (28) of Old Lobengula in  Bulawayo and Phathumuzi ‘KK’ Sibanda (27) of Emakhandeni in Bulawayo are accused of committing the offences between May 30 and July 11 2015.
They have been languishing in remand prison since their arrest in July last year, and were denied bail at the Thembisa Magistrates’ Court in Johannesburg before the matter was transferred to the higher court. The matter has been dragging on as the accused have been struggling to get a lawyer after they dumped free legal practitioners from the State.

Sources close to the investigations say that, Brewer and his accomplices have been formally charged with 62 counts for crimes ranging from murder, rape, kidnap, assault, robbery, human trafficking and extortion. UPDATES TO FOLLOW