Government could soon take over management of Premier Service Medical Aid Society to restore viability and ensure members benefit optimally.
Cabinet recommended the take over in early November 2015, and the Attorney-General’s Office is exploring modalities under a five-stage plan.
The Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Ministry, according to the proposal, will assume oversight and administrative functions, with the Health and Child Care Ministry retaining its regulatory and licencing mandate.
PSMAS board appointments will become the State’s prerogative. Documents seen by The State Media show that Step 1 entails publishing findings and recommendations contained in the latest forensic audit report on the health insurer to “highlight that continued schisms at PSMAS” have aggravated its default position.
A default medical aid society is one in a precarious financial position and operating ultra vires good administrative and accounting practices.
The institution will have also failed to comply with prescribed minimum financial requirements.
Step 2 sees the Secretary for Health announcing this default position, with PSMAS’ registration cancelled and an interim manager appointed in Step 3.
In Step 4, Government amends the law to empower the Health Ministry to demand and enforce good corporate governance at all medical aid societies based on international best practices.
The fifth stage will see the interim manager tweak PSMAS’ constitution and implementing the forensic auditor’s recommendations.
Public Service Minister Prisca Mupfumira said, “We have submitted our proposal on this possible take-over to the Attorney-General’s Office. Cabinet made this recommendation, and we are now seeking guidance from the AG’s Office on how it can be enforced legally.
“What we are concerned about is that PSMAS members are bearing the brunt of the poor corporate governance of a group of people with selfish interests. The squabbles at PSMAS have gone on for too long. The executives continue to play dirty tricks to ensure they remain in office.”
She continued: “Implementation of programmes like Zim-Asset is at risk because PSMAS carries with it the dependents of most primary members who also contribute to the country’s economy.
“We are concerned that PSMAS does not seem to take medical insurance as a priority. For example, they allocate 60 percent of what they get to Premier Service Medical Investments, which is an investment arm, and allocate less to their core business of medical insurance.”
Human resources expert Mr Memory Nguwi said the plan “would be the best way forward if it is done according to the book”.
“I do not see any problem with such a take-over. It may actually be the best solution. However, it should be done according to the law. Proper procedures must be followed so that Government does not send wrong signals.
“In addition, the owners of PSMAS – civil servants – have to be consulted since they form the largest component of Psmas membership.”
Mr Sifiso Ndlovu – a member of the Apex Council, an umbrella body comprising all civil service representatives – said, “We are worried that our voice is not being heard on issues relating to PSMAS. Firstly, the PSMAS board is not engaging us.
“There are various platforms like workshops and seminars where they can interact with us and map the way forward together. Therefore, we feel wide consultations should be done before any Government take-over.”
PSMAS has been in turmoil since it emerged in 2013 that the previous Dr Cuthbert Dube-led management was earning huge salaries and allowances. As group CEO, Dr Dube was taking home some US$500 000 monthly, even as service delivery declined.
PSMAS has roughly 900 000 members, mainly civil servants, and many are turned away by health service providers over non-payment of claims.

A BUHERA man has been jailed 18 years for raping a 22-year-old mental health patient. Kudakwashe Bhiza (33) of Tangwena Village under Chief Nyashanu was convicted by Rusape regional magistrate, Mr Livingstone Chipadza who suspended three years of the sentence on condition of good behaviour. Bhiza, a married man, pleaded guilty to the offence telling the court that he was prepared to marry his victim.
Public prosecutor, Mr Tafara Chawatama, told the court that Bhiza proposed love to the woman and later raped her. At law, a mental patient cannot consent to sexual intercourse.
“On July 15, 2015 around 9am, the accused was selling his wares and he found the complainant alone at her homestead. Bhiza proposed love to the complainant and she accepted. After the proposal Bhiza went away. On the same day at around 3pm the accused person returned to the complainant and he asked her to accompany her to Mvurachena River and she complied.
“Upon arrival Bhiza proceeded to rape her. The matter came to light when a relative of the woman heard about the case. A police report was made leading to Bhiza’s arrest,” said Mr Chawatama. State Media

By Tinoonga Mawere, Mwenezi|A Mwenezi man who was caught having sex with a donkey claimed before the courts the animal was his girlfriend since he had no lover.
Munyaradzi Chidhani (24 ) told Mwenezi Magistrate Honesty Musiiwa ,he slept with the donkey because he had no girlfriend .He pleaded guilty when he was charged with bestiality .
Chidhani said he slept with the animal because he wanted to satisfy his sexual desire since he had no girlfriend .
Chidhani allegedly tied the female donkey to a Mopane tree and began to have sex with it .He was caught by one Benjamin Sendeke and he tried to flee from the scene. The matter was narrated to the owners of the animal who reported the incident to the police.
 
Chidhani was sentenced to 280 hours of community service.
 
Meanwhile fellow villagers who spoke to ZimEye.com claimed there were rituals performed by Chidhani during the act while some attributed it all to witchcraft.
 
A man from Magodhonge village in the area said such people had the potential to commit crimes of a higher nature, citing the disturbing increase of rape cases in the community. Chidhani however said he committed the offence because he did not find a woman to sleep with.
Cases of bestiality have been on the increase in the province with some men allegedly being instructed by traditional healers to sleep with animals to enhance their fortunes.

A 24-YEAR-OLD unemployed Harare man, Tapiwanashe Matanhire was yesterday sentenced to 140 hours community service for contempt of court after assaulting his 55-year-old mother despite the existence of a peace order against him.
Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe convicted Tapiwanashe on his own plea of guilty after he admitted to assaulting his mother, Catherine Matanhire and breaking her sunglasses before throwing them onto her face on Monday this week.
“Your behaviour is shameful and you should repay the community by doing community service for 140 hours at the nearest public institution,” Mahwe said.
The irresponsible son mumbled his apologies after the court asked him why he was abusive to his mother.
“I don’t know why I did it, I think I was possessed by some evil spirit,” mumbled Tapiwanashe in court.
It was the State’s case that on Monday Tapiwanashe asked for some money from his mother to go to the studio. But the complainant, a school headmistress said she had no money but this did not go down well with the young man.
“The accused started shouting and pushing his mother and then took her sunglasses and broke them and threw the pieces onto her face,” the State papers read.
The State further alleged Tapiwanashe has been violent to her mother for a very long period resulting in her seeking a peace order against him.
“On July 7, 2015 the complainant was granted a protection order and her son was ordered not to verbally and physically abuse her and also not to sell or destroy her property,” the State papers added.
It is the breaching of the aforementioned Civil Court order that gave rise to the case.
Samantha Dlamini prosecuted the case for the State.

By Welshman Ncube
27 November 2015
Death is horrible and such a stain and blight on life. Never does it ever make any sense. It is always so illogical, so pointless and meaningless and yet so final. It strikes disproportionately against the best and the good and yet numerically they are comparatively so few. Never as much as forewarn. When I sat with May Nkomazana Dulini Ncube, the widow of the late veteran nationalist, freedom fighter and founding Treasurer General of the MDC, Fletcher Dulini Ncube, in my office in Bulawayo, only a few weeks ago, discussing the winding up of her late husband’s estate, which I had volunteered to be the pro bono executor of, little did I know or even imagine that that was the last time I was seeing her alive.
Last year, after the death of Fletcher I had volunteered to May to help with the administration of the estate and every time I passed by her house to see her or she stopped at my office she would tell me that she was not yet ready to deal with the estate as she was still not emotionally ready for it. Each time I told her she should let it be until such time that she felt she wanted to do it. Only after she returned from visiting their two elder boys, their wives and her grandchildren abroad, did she come back to me to express readiness to have the estate wound up. When she returned I remarked to her that she had come back rejuvenated, full of spirit and life. She looked genuinely happy for the first time since the death of Fletcher. The visit to the boys seemed to have done her a lot of good. Before then, as one who knew the never ending grief and void arising from the loss of loved ones, I had always sensed and felt that she was physically here with us and among us but that spiritually, emotionally and in her psyche she was with Fletcher in another world. Thus when she came back from the United Kingdom, I was so happy that she appeared to have reestablished some sense of physical and emotional balance in her life. In the circumstances I was profoundly shocked when I received the news of her passing away from an equally shocked and shattered Themba Bhunu who was literally in tears as much as in denial and still hoping that if I talked to her sisters I might just discover that it was all a terrible mistake. That was not to be.
I recalled talking to May sometime after the passing away of Fletcher, that as humans we had become masters of inventing all sorts of false clichés to console each other about death, such as; time heals, with time the pain will go away; the grief will fade as the memory fades, etc etc. As anyone who has lost a child, a sibling, a parent or a spouse knows, all these are profoundly false. Time never heals. The pain never goes away. The grief never ends. The tears never dry. Understanding never comes. All there is, is a sense of a never ending void, a falling and falling that does not hit the bottom. An ever present heavy and broken heart. An unshakable and incessant desire to be taken to the departed loved one. May understood all this. I always felt that in some way she felt that with Fletcher gone her part in the story of life was done.
But who was May? Those of us who had the privilege to know her will testify that she was one of the many unsung heroines of our country. A teacher by profession. A farmer by choice. A philanthropist by love. A woman of genuine substance. Caring and loving. Trusting and fiercely loyal. Religious and of immense faith. Patient almost to a fault. Controlled and as calm as the deep ocean. Never once in the decade and a half that I knew her did I see her lose her cool. She had such a big heart. Forgiveness came naturally to her. Inspite of the many years she was separated from Fletcher by his numerous detentions both in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe and notwithstanding the brutality visited upon her husband, more so in independent Zimbabwe she never showed bitterness. May was perceptive and understanding. She was practical and realistic. Witty and Humorous. She was courageous and tolerant.
I recall the time Fletcher was falsely accused of involvement in the murder of Cain Nkala in 2001, the Police wanted to arrest him in Harare on a Thursday after Parliament so they could keep him in detention over the weekend. I had to drive him to Bulawayo in the middle of the night, evading and avoiding police roadblocks. We got to Bulawayo safely and the Police had already been to his house in Hillside. A friend of mine from our days at Luveve Secondary School graciously agreed to provide him with sanctuary for the weekend so that on the Monday, his lawyer, Josphat Tshuma, would arrange to surrender him to the Police. After safely dropping Fletcher at the sanctuary provided by Sazini, I went to explain all this to May and advised her that in our view it would not be safe for her to go there and see him. She was calm, witty, unfazed and understood the situation and notwithstanding her obvious deep concern over the television news headlines implicating Fletcher in murder, not once was there any evidence of panic. We had arranged for two nondescript mobile handsets and lines for both her and Fletcher to communicate without their conversations being traced. She was content with that and so totally supportive to Fletcher in those conversations. They were a lovely couple, clearly respectful of each other and patently so in love, notwithstanding the many years they had been together. Always affectionate to each other. Even the way they just called each other ‘Fletcher’ and ‘May’ was so natural and loving. Never did the stress of the tough world of politics Fletcher lived show any strains on their marriage.
When Fletcher eventually handed himself to the Police, they repeatedly opposed each and every bail application that his lawyers made and the courts obliged by denying him bail again and again, notwithstanding that to many of us it was obvious that he was not a flight risk. With his medical conditions, he suffered severely during that unjustified detention resulting in a sharp deterioration of his health. Throughout all this, May was strong and maintained her faith, praying incessantly for her husband’s safety and health. When we were at our wits’ end with the repeated bail refusals and Fletcher was then detained in hospital in leg irons and all, the then Chairwoman of the MDC’s Women Assembly in Bulawayo, Sakhile Khumalo approached me with a traditional and cultural approach to addressing the dilemma we were in. Myself, the late Gibson Sibanda and Paul Themba Nyathi approached May on this proposal. Notwithstanding her deep Christian faith she allowed us to accept the proposal from the Khumalos. As fate would have it, the day after the traditional and cultural act was done Fletcher was granted bail and released. He was by then in a bad shape and we were deeply worried for him. May patiently nursed him back to good health, even though by then he had lost sight on one of his eyes. Once again she had no bitterness but just understanding that in any struggle there are those who have to endure a disproportionate suffering so that we could be free.
We in the MDC worked closely with May throughout our continuing struggle for a democratic, free and prosperous Zimbabwe. Thus this obituary is not just about mourning a life lost but the celebration of the life of this unsung heroine who has been taken away from us so unexpectedly.
May and Fletcher were married in 1973 and had three children together. Given their trials and tribulations in the unforgiving Rhodesian and Zimbabwean political terrain their marriage cannot be described as a fairytale. But that they were soul mates is not capable of contestation. As intimated above some in the MDC family are convinced that May died of a broken heart and could not bear to go on living without her beloved Fletcher.
In the MDC family, May has been our pillar and bedrock, even after her husband had passed on at almost this exact period last year. She denied herself and her family the comfort and pleasures of association that come with being apolitical and was constantly living on edge due to the dangers associated with opposition politics. Here is a woman who allowed us as politicians to spend most of the time with her husband for political work up and down the width and breadth of the country. We were always welcome in her home with that infectious laughter of hers. She was our mother, our sister, our friend and counselor. Her Hillside home was our home.
May stood by Fletcher in good and in bad times and all this during the various periods of political tumult. She was his and our strength during some very difficult days in our party’s history. Her commitment to the democratization of Zimbabwe was refreshing. She is one of those people whose names are not interred anywhere in the annals of the history of this country, yet have played immeasurable roles in ensuring that Zimbabwe is where it is today. It is then left to us to sing her song, to honour her and to celebrate a life well lived on principle.
The MDC is taking this time to celebrate women like May who because of the career paths chosen by their husbands, find themselves taking on more roles in life than they had bargained for. Apart from being a high profile politician’s wife, mother and sister to all the politicians who worked with Fletcher, May was also a wife, mother, daughter -in -law, grandmother, teacher and farmer. May multi skilled and multi tasked. She played her roles as only a woman of substance can. She played and weaved her different roles with finesse, fortitude, resilience and a smile. She took all the trials and tribulations that came with Fletcher’s job in her stride and as her controlled fate. Even when the challenges seemed insurmountable, she never gave up but kept on encouraging, supporting and caring. She was fair. She was just.
As a teacher, May was a dedicated professional as evidenced by so many of her former students who attest to having gone through her hands. It is due to her career as a teacher that she was also able to extend her motherly love and advice to all those who knew her. She was also an established farmer who worked hard for the betterment of her family and the nation at large.
Fletcher was unwell for a long time. May was by his side throughout, taking care of him, nursing him and making sure he attended political functions and meetings as and when it was possible. She understood that politics was the lifeblood of Fletcher Dulini Ncube. During the many times we visited the Dulini home during her husband’s illness, May would still find it in her to share moments of joy about their three sons Bheki, Vusi and Sandi, their daughters in law and grandchildren. She would share with us their lives including all those moments captured in photographs and videos. This way, we knew how much she loved them and how dedicated and committed she was to her family.
For many of us in the MDC, from her we learnt how to be strong, courageous and resilient in times of adversity. We learnt never to give up. She taught us the meaning of loyalty and the value of love. She showed us how to forgive and how to be selfless. She was a living embodiment of Ubuntu. Her dream of a free and prosperous Zimbabwe, even though deferred, lives on through her shining exemplary life. May demostrated to us the biblical redemption through suffering. A philanthropist and humanitarian at heart, she supported various charities and paid school fees for a number of needy children in Bulawayo. This is not only a loss for the Nkomazana and Dulini Ncube families but for us all as the MDC who knew and worked with her throughout all these years and the entire nation.
May, you left us to join your husband, Fletcher. We remember how he used to ask you to sing his song for him with your beautiful voice. Go on May, may you continue to sing and watch over your children and grandchildren. We know how much you loved and love them. We know and feel the pain of your sacrifice. We know what a pillar of support you were to us and to Fletcher during his lifetime. It was an honour and a blessing to have known and worked with you. Unsung as you are, you remain a heroine of our nation.
Lala ngoxolo lokuthula qhawe lamaqhawe
May Nkomazana Dulini Ncube was born on 15 May 1948 and passed away on 20 November 2015.

State Procurement Board chairperson Mr Charles Kuwaza is now jobless as Government has resolved not to renew his contract following its expiry at the end of this month.
President Mugabe only retained Ambassador Buzawani Mothobi, who becomes the new chairman, and Mr William Kurebgaseka, who were members of the board led by Mr Kuwaza.,The new SPB set-up was announced in a Government Gazette published yesterday.
This comes as President Mugabe’s office will also directly lead the fight against corruption after transferring the administration of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission from the Ministry of Home Affairs to his department.
Mr Kuwaza has been at the helm of the tender board since the early 2000s with his contract being renewed several times, but this time President Mugabe slammed the door on him.
Other members of the new SPB board are deputy chairperson Mrs Vimbai Nyemba, Retired Colonel Joseph Mhakayakora, Ambassador Boniface Chidyausiku, Mr Michael Musanzikwa, Engineer Martin Manuhwa, Mr Davison Norupiri and a Mrs N. Moyo.
The SPB has also been stripped of powers to award tenders, a move necessitated by the discovery of loopholes that could have facilitated corrupt activities by board members.
The awarding of tenders will now be done by accounting officers in various State departments and companies, with the SPB only playing a supervisory and monitoring role to ensure Government entities comply with the Procurement Act and other set standards.
“It is hereby notified that the President has in terms of Section 6 of the Procurement Act (Chapter 22:14), appointed the persons listed in the schedule as members of the State Procurement Board with effect from December 1, 2015 up to September 30, 2016,” reads the Government Gazette.
On the stripping of SPB powers, the Government Gazette stated: “It is hereby notified that the Vice President, after consultation with the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, has in terms of Section 33 of the Procurement Act (Chapter 22:14) made the following regulations — the Procurement Regulations, 2002 published in Statutory Instrument 171 of 2002 are amended—(a) in Section 2 in the definition of ‘procuring entity” by the deletion of ‘on whose behalf the State Procurement Board conducts procurement proceedings’ and substitution with ‘which conducts procurement on behalf of Government with the supervision of the State Procurement Board.’
The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda, disclosed yesterday that President Mugabe’s Office was now in charge of the ant-graft body while announcing the new ZACC members.
Dr Sibanda said: “His Excellency the President has also transferred the administration of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission from the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Office of the President and Cabinet.”
ZACC had been operating without commissioners for the past two years and in most cases whistleblowers were turned away and referred to the police.
The new ZACC chairperson is Mr Job Whabira, a former permanent secretary in the ministries of Home Affairs and Defence who was appointed in terms of Section 254 (1) (a) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (Number 20).
Other members of the commission are: Dr Nanette Silukhuni (deputy chairperson), Mr Goodson Nguni, Mrs Christine Fundira, Mr Denford Chirindo, Ms Cathy Muchechetere, Mr Thandaza Masiye Moyo, Mr Farai Mashonganyika and Mr Boyana Ndou.
Mr Chirindo was the last substantive ZACC chairperson.
Meanwhile, President Mugabe has also appointed Bishop Emeritus Ambrose Moyo as the chairperson of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission.
He will be deputised by Ms Lilian Chigwedere while other members include Patience Chiradza, Choice Ndoro, Netty Musanhu, Charles Masunungure, Dr Geoffrey Chada, Leslie Ncube and Godfrey Chekenyere. Herald

The MDC party analyses (VP Emmerson Mnangagwa) ZANU PF’s Mega Deal banter seen in the 2016 national budget.

The MDC is gravely concerned that the 2016 national budget has not put in place a substantive programme to resuscitate the ailing economy.
The poor budget statement does not indicate the willingness of the Zanu PF regime to create the promised 2, 2 million jobs, neither does it have a definitive plan to ease the liquidity crunch that is debilitating nor a programme of action to reverse the deflationary conditions prevailing in the economy and hence no positive programmes to grow the aggregate demand in the country.
As a result, the current conditions of weakening business environment will continue unabated and any hope to grow the economy dashed.
We are also dismayed by the lukewarm approach to increase both domestic and foreign investors by government. The budget statement fails to come up with a robust investment promotion initiative yet government is aware that the critical factors militating against investment are guaranteed property rights, improved access to finance at competitive costs, poor industrial infrastructure, corruption, and the high costs of doing business.
The fact that Zimbabwe has remained at the tail of global competitiveness in the world rankings for doing business should have spurred the Zanu PF government to deal decisively, once and for all, with all the factors militating against improving the environment for doing business in the country.
The incremental, gradual approach and snail’s pace of business policy reform adopted by Zanu PF will not give the nation the immediate reprieve needed to change the misfortune of Zimbabweans wallowing in poverty.
The glaring failure to deal with the infrastructure deficits is an indicator of a government that has no solutions for the suffering masses of Zimbabwe. It must be made clear that the infrastructure deficits are not a new problem but a situation that was carefully contrived by the Zanu PF governments’ mismanagements and poor economic policies over the years. Accordingly we do not believe that it is sincere in its slap dash programs to address this problem now and in the future.
The budget statement revealed the declining performance of the agricultural sector which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy. The government’s failure to pay for the agricultural produce every year, its failure to plan for adequate inputs to support the sector, and its inability to create sufficient conditions for increased investment in the sector can only exemplify the lip service it is according to agriculture in the country.
The current hunger in the Southern and South Eastern parts of the country is a phenomenon that will continue into the future. The small allocation made to this sector will come late when the growing season is already expended and will therefore have a minimal impact on agricultural output.
The national budget should be taken as an important instrument used to direct, manage and reposition a country’s economy and welfare of its citizens.
It is a tool used by governments world over to raise revenues, allocate resources and redirect the economy to achieve set objectives which are enunciated in national plans. In this context it should ideally be a short term tool to raise revenue, allocate public expenditure and put into place economic policies and programmes, which steer the national economy to achieve set objectives usually set in economic blue prints of a nation.
In addition it is a tool that is used to address the emergent problems which many be militating against the achievement of national development objectives. It should indeed be the rallying point for all national efforts to mobilize the scarce human and material resources in a direction that engender national unity and national well-being as espoused in the development programmes of a nation.
Further, budget presentations should take stock of the status quo in the economic and national well-being and call arms all stakeholders to contribute their all in nation building and to resolving the persistent problems which may be bedeviling the welfare of the nation. The utility of this tool in Zimbabwe is no different.
Zimbabwe is currently one of the most backwards economies not only in the region but the UN subcontinent with a population that is wallowing in poverty and with an economy that is regressing especially at a time when other economies are registering rapid growth and development. Zimbabwe is an economy whose majority population is living well below the internationally acceptable levels of poverty of one US dollar a day, where the levels of unemployment are over 90% , where the bulk of the economically active population are emigrating to other robust economies to eke living, where almost all sectors of the economy are reducing production and productivity, where national infrastructure is seriously being downgraded and where hunger stalks the erstwhile breadbasket of Africa.
In particular, the Zimbabwe economy is punctuated by reducing aggregate consumer demand leading to persistent and deepening levels of deflation ever recorded in the history of the nation. As a result, the level of de-industrialisation and closure of businesses is unparalleled in history. Instead of building factories and business units which should employ the budge-oning population, it is an environment where the in formalisation of the economy is growing in leaps and bounds and where the youth nurse hopes of ever getting a job in the foreseeable future in a country of their birth.
It is in the context of the above that one would hope that any government worth its salt would stand up to address these problems. Instead the incumbent government spends its time at best paying lip service to these issues, at worse not even putting a plan, programme to address the issues.
Over and above this, the infighting that is taking place in Zanu PF and various government ministries cannot aid the country to move in one direction in shoring production and productivity. The current government is very unstable and is concentrating efforts in the power struggles whose impact can only lead to declining economics performance. As if this is not enough, its insatiable appetite to spend even above the budgeted allocations cannot go unnoticed. We are aware of the serious over expenditures on the presidential budget which expenditures have nothing to do with national output.
More importantly, such expenditures are disproportionately above the total sums allocated for capital development in the country. Surely if the highest office in the country is unable to curb its appetite for conspicuous consumption, where is expenditure control going to emanate from.
Webber Chinyadza – MDC Secretary for Economic Affairs

An armed poacher has shot and killed two senior police officers and a civilian in Chipinge.
According to the state media the shooting incident occurred at plot number 34, Naffaerton in Chipinge Tuesday morning.
Sergeants  Robert Shumba (39) and  Vengai Mazhara (35), and the civilian  Chaita Simango (22) are the victims of the sad incident.
The police officers were killed on duty while investigating a case where a suspected poacher in possession of an AK 47 rifle had been cited at Simango’s homestead.
On arrival at the scene, the police officers interrogated Simango over the issue and he led them to a hut with the intention of conducting a search.
The unknown accused, who was hiding in the hut with an already cocked AK 47 rifle, sprang into action and opened fire killing the two police officers and Simango instantly before fleeing.
ZRP Chief Spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba  has appealed to the public for information that may lead to the arrest of the suspected murderer.
Anyone with information may contact the nearest police station or national complaints desk on 04-703631.
 
 

A Harare couple is set to re-do its marriage vows after what appeared to be a marriage ceremony for the pair was solemnised by a bogus pastor, who has since been slapped with a 12-month prison term for masquerading as a marriage officer.
The convict, Philip Tsoka, was yesterday slapped with an effective eight-month jail term after snubbing an option to undergo community service.
“The court looked at the video where you performed the marriage officers’ part and, particularly, the time you made them exchange vows, you were not sober at all as you were under the influence of some intoxicating substance,” Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe said. “The couple lost $3 800 in the fake marriage ceremony and they now have to redo the same exercise.”
Tsoka, however, left the court in stiches when he pleaded with Mahwe to have his jail sentence commuted to community service after apparently having initially refused to go to the community service office for vetting.
In passing sentence, Mahwe said cases of bogus pastors were becoming more prevalent, hence the need for deterrent sentence.
“Cases of fake pastors are on the rise and yesterday (Wednesday) you expressed unwillingness to perform community service and now you have left the court with no option, but to jail you,” Mahwe said.
“You are, therefore, sentenced to 12 months in prison, of which four months is suspended for five years, on condition that within that period you don’t conduct an unauthorised marriages.”
Tsoka was convicted of purporting to be a marriage officer whereupon he solemnised a marriage knowing that he was not a registered marriage officer as required by law.
Immediately after being sentenced, Tsoka told the court he had a request to make.
“I don’t know what possessed me yesterday (Wednesday) when you asked about community service. I made a mistake, can I do that now, considering I have a wife and four children in addition to my ailing mother who all depend on me,” he said.
But his request was not granted. “The court has already made a decision, it will not reverse it,” the magistrate said.
The magistrate also castigated Tsoka for failing to be contrite even during his cross-examination of the State witnesses.
“You did not show any contrition during the trial and that you caused the holding of a full trial when you did not have any defence at all. In addition you showed arrogance in the manner you cross-examined the witnesses,” he said.-Newsday

Enrolment of pupils into Form 1 next year will be conducted on December 4 countrywide using Grade Seven results, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has said.
In a statement yesterday, Dr Dokora said this year’s enrolment had been set for December 4, but in future education authorities would provide dates.
“The ministry noted that some schools were enrolling learners into Form 1 through application of their own entrance tests and assessment,” read the statement.
“The enrolment shall be on a working day, seven days after the Grade 7 results are officially announced by the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) or as determined by the secretary every year. The 2016 Form 1 enrolment shall be Friday, 4 December 2015.”
This follows an outcry by parents over the cost of entrance tests who criss-cross the country in search of Form 1 places each year while being fleeced of thousands of dollars by unscrupulous headmasters and school authorities.
Schools sometimes conduct entrance tests for 500 pupils at $20 each when they require only 100 pupils. Dr Dokora stated that the practice of entrance tests and non-refundable fees was “discriminatory”, adding that in response, Government had issued a circular as part of comprehensive corrective measures.
“Representations have been received to the effect that parents were being subjected to unnecessary financial burden through the payment of the non-refundable entrance test fees or travelling from school to school,” he said.
“This practice is discriminatory and violates the provisions of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Number 20 of 2013 Section 563) and the Education Act Sections (4) 1) and 4) (2) (b).
“In response to these representations, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education produced the Secretary’s Circular Minute Number 13 of 2015 which provided guidelines on enrolment into Form 1. Enrolment of learners into Form 1 shall be based on Grade 7 results and shall be conducted on a specific date each year across the country,” the statement said.
He added that parents and pupils were advised to identify and approach a school of their choice for Form 1 on the enrolment date.
“Heads of secondary schools should advise their District Education Officers within two days of the enrolment date of any shortfalls in Form 1 enrolment to facilitate advice to parents and pupils accordingly.
“Provincial Education Directors, District Education Officers, Heads of Secondary schools, Responsible Authorities, Church Education Secretaries, Teachers Associations, and Trust Schools must respect the letter and spirit of these guidelines,” said Dokora.-State Media

THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has charged Gokwe regional magistrate Shepherd Munjanja for unbecoming behaviour following his much publicised court case involving a Harare prostitute.
According to the charge sheet, Munjanja’s court case which was extensively covered by the media brought the judiciary into disrepute.
“You’re charged with unbecoming behaviour likely to bring the commission into disrepute,” reads part of the letter to Munjanja, 34. He was given 14 days to respond to the charge.
Chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe told The Chronicle yesterday that he was in Victoria Falls and would not be able to tell the exact charge preferred against Munjanja.
Sources close to the matter said Munjanja was served with the letter yesterday. Melody Hamandawana, who confessed that she was a prostitute faced charges of robbing Munjanja of $156, a phone, his driver’s licence and bank cards.
However, Harare provincial magistrate Vakai Chikwekwe acquitted her saying the State had failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. The state alleged that the 21-year-old lady of the night and her friends used violence and threats to induce Munjanja to surrender his money and other possessions.
She denied the charges and told the court a different story. She said the magistrate was a long-time client who would hire her for sex each time he came to the capital. She said Munjanja had not paid her.
Prosecutors alleged that Munjanja was sitting in his car around 7AM on October 26 when he was approached by one unidentified man who was carrying a rim and two tyres which fit the magistrate’s car.
The man then persuaded the magistrate to buy the tyres and further lured him into Treckered Court, a brothel, claiming he owned an office on the second floor.
Upon arrival at the alleged office, the man then allegedly shoved Munjanja into a room. There were two men inside and Hamandawana suddenly emerged from an inner room in the company of her two friends only identified as Chipo and Tafadzwa.
The trio then accused Munjanja of having raped one of them some time ago and started assaulting him while searching his pockets.
They allegedly took $156, bank cards, driver’s licence, 20 litre Redan fuel coupons, a notepad and Ecocash debit card.
The court further heard that they then demanded that Munjanja go to his bank under their escort to withdraw more money.
Hamandawana and her friends then hired a taxi and escorted him to Stanbic Samora Machel branch where he managed to escape and sought safety at Harare Central police station.
On October 27, police were tipped that Hamandawana was at Treckered Court and organised an ambush, leading to her arrest.
The total value of the property stolen was $336 and only $180 was recovered, but magistrate Chikwekwe acquitted the girl.-State Media

Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru has reportedly approved a proposed People First (PF) project constitution, setting in motion plans to launch the party, which has been on the cards for several months now.
While a local daily says Mujuru appended her signature as leader of the new opposition party last Tuesday, paving way for a massive recruitment exercise, ZimEye.com is reliably informed

Mujuru will remain underground until around mid December. The move is to allow her to complete the necessary preparations for the final launch after Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF conference enabling her to bookmark against the 91 year old leader.
PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo is quoted by Newsday confirming that the document was with Mujuru, although he was unsure whether she had signed it.
“I am not sure about signing. As far as I know, it has not been signed, but we have generally agreed that it is a good document. We are still consulting with our sympathisers and supporters,” he said. “We need them to give input before the final document, but so far we are happy with what we have.”
It is expected that the party’s constitution will be founded on Blueprint to Unlock Investment and Leverage for Development (Build), a policy document Mujuru publicised about two months ago. Mujuru has for several months kept people guessing on her next political move, making subtle hints she was on the verge of forming a party, although she has been publicly coy.
On Tuesday, she issued a statement berating President Robert Mugabe for continuously accusing her of plotting to kill him, yet he was yet to present evidence to back his claims.
In forming her party, Mujuru has the support of Gumbo, former Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and former ministers Dzikamai Mavhaire and Kudakwashe Bhasikiti.
They are among a number of several Zanu PF members who were axed from the party on allegations of plotting to oust Mugabe and fanning factionalism. Sources claim PF has undertaken an intensive recruitment drive across the country’s provinces, targeting disgruntled Zanu PF and MDC-T activists in the process.
“They are on a massive recruitment drive and are attracting former MDC-T and Zanu PF activists, who have been dumped or are disillusioned. Zanu PF is aware of this and that is why you have (First Lady) Grace (Mugabe) panicking,” an insider said.
Last week, Grace called on Zanu PF youths to be vigilant and watch former Marondera Central MP Ray Kaukonde’s activities in Mashonaland East closely. She claimed the former Zanu PF provincial chairman and Gumbo were giving youths, some as young as 15 years old, cash to be part of their project ahead of the 2018 elections.
Gumbo said Grace’s accusations should be dismissed with the contempt they deserved.
“We are no longer members of Zanu PF, why should she be worried about how we conduct ourselves?” he asked.
“We are organising and getting ideas from people. We believe that any transformation will have to come from the people.We do not believe in the Zanu PF thinking of one centre of power. It is a feudalistic, primitive and monarchical understanding that does not have a place in modern societies.”

Staff Reporter| PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday demanded for an immediate demolition of a residential settlement near the Harare International Airport.
Taking swipe at the Ministries of Transport and of Local Government, Mugabe demanded to know why the settlement which started off in 1980 was allowed to develop.
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and his Transport and Infrastructural Development counterpart Dr Joram Gumbo could not give satisfactory answers.
The settlement is being administered by a housing co-operative calling itself Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative, but gives a view of a haphazard “squatter camp” as it is largely composed of makeshift houses. President Mugabe, who was cutting the ribbon to officially open the first phase of the Harare International Airport Road, looked at the settlement and was not impressed.
He said the settlement tarnished the image of the country and the settlers should be immediately relocated. After cutting the ribbon, the President asked Dr Gumbo about the legal status of the settlement. Dr Gumbo said he was not sure about its status and referred questions to Minister Kasukuwere, who was not immediately available.
When Minister Kasukuwere was eventually called to explain, he said the settlement was a housing cooperative. Said President Mugabe: “Ko izvo zviri kubuda uko zvii? Apa hapaite kuti mupe vanhu nekuti panhu panopfuura nemavisitors. Haisi land yeexpansion yeairport here?”
Minister Kasukuwere concurred that the land was for airport expansion. President Mugabe then added:“Vanhu vari apa ngavabve.” Legislator for Harare South, which forms part of the settlement, Shadreck Mashayamombe, who was also present when President Mugabe made the order, said the area would be cleared within 14 days.
He agreed that the area was reserved for airport expansion and other related services such as construction of hotels. Mashayamombe said a delegation led by Harare Metropolitan Provincial Minister of State Miriam Chikukwa would visit the area today to inform the residents that they should move out.
He said some of the occupants were illegal settlers who invaded the land in 2000. Mashayamombe said the settlers were offered alternative land in Stoneridge Park, but some refused to vacate. “They settled themselves on that land in 2000 and in 2013 Government ordered them to move to Retreat Farm in Harare South where they were offered 2 000 stands,” he said.
“About 700 complied and some resisted and regrouped with other new occupants to expand the settlement. We are already in the process of relocating them, but now that the President has raised concern over the settlement we are going to speed up the process.
“In 14 days the place will be clear and tomorrow (today) we are visiting the area with the Minister of State (Miriam Chikukwa), provincial administrator (Mr Alfred Tome), Harare mayor (Bernard Manyenyeni) and the district administrator of that area to inform the residents of this development.”
Some of the residents who spoke to media said the area was cleared for residential occupation. One of the residents, who only identified himself as Mr Jena, said they were given an offer letter as Nyikavanhu Housing Co-operative in 2006. He said they were also in possession of a letter from the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe clearing them to build houses on that land.
“We have all the paperwork to build houses here under Arlington Subdivision E,” said Mr Jena. “The sub-division is of 500 stands measuring 2 000 square metres.” Mr Jena said since 2010 they had paid instalments amounting to $4 000. One of the residents who refused to be named said he bought his stand from a member of the cooperative through an estate agent for $22 000.
“I am not sure of the legal status of this area because I bought this stand through an estate agent for $22 000,” he said. “As it stands right now, I am stopping all the developments I am carrying out until I have a clear picture of where this is going.”

The South African Government has extended the deadline for the issuance of the outstanding special permits to Zimbabweans in South Africa to january 31, 2016, throwing a lifeline to those that had not yet received them.
The department of home affairs had initially said the xtension would not run into next year.
The permits are valid for three years. Chairman Solomon Chikowero of the Global Zimbabwe Forum is welcoming the move.
The Home Affairs Department also announced that rejected permits which stood at 12,000 had now been revised to 25 giving more Zimbabweans a chance to legally stay in South Africa.
“We are excited about this announcement it gives hope to some of those who had initially been rejected and those that had not yet received their ZSP permits a longer time to finally have closure and stay in South Africa legally,” said Chikowero.
Chikowero said his organisation and others that promote immmigration rights in South Africa met with South African government officials on November 4, recommending an extension and he is happy that they fulfilled this recommendation giving more Zimbabwean a chance to stay in South Africa legally.
meanwhile, more than 500 nigerians deported from the united kingdom today arrived home amid concern by some Zimbabweans living illegally in that nation that they may also be sent back home soon.
According to the daily post of nigeria and press reports in london, the deportees were sent home due to expired immigration papers.
Indications are that britain is planning to deport more than 29,000 nigerians.
Some Zimbabweans who spoke to Studio 7 said most of the people without proper documents are panicking, thinking that they may be the next targets. The number of zimbabweans living illegally in the united kingdom is unknown.
Immigration authorities and British parliamentarians linked to Zimbabwean issues declined to comment.-VOA

Two men from Beitbridge yesterday appeared in court charged with assault and robbery.They were each given an effective six years for breaking into a police detective’s house, handcuffed and assaulted him before stealing property worth $1,412.
24-year-old Simon Machato and Lovemore Taurai Sam Ruvengo, 32, both  from Dulibadzimu suburb, were convicted on their own plea of guilty when they appeared before magistrate Innocent Bepura.
Russell Tanaka Wamiridza,23 who is the 3rd accomplice and also resides in the same suburb, is expected to stand trial today after he denied the charges. Machato and Ruvengo where slapped with five and one year imprisonment sentences for the two counts of robbery respectively.

He said at around 1AM on October 8, Machato and his two accomplices broke into the premises after creating a hole in the security fence.
The court further heard that when the trio got into the yard, they smashed a window to the kitchen and gained entry. They then sprayed Nyoni, who had been awoken by the noise of breaking glass, with pepper spray.
He said they then dragged him to his bedroom where they handcuffed him from behind using his handcuffs they found in his wardrobe.
Machato and Ruvengo then assaulted the detectives while Wamiridza stood guard outside.
They then took away property including a television set, five cell phones, a laptop and digital video player. The property was worth $1,374.
The duo later proceeded to a room where the house maid was sleeping and took away a cell phone worth $38 after threatening to beat up the woman if she screamed to alert people.
They then disappeared into the darkness but were arrested two days later. All the property was recovered.

By Tinoonga Mawere, Chiredzi |A 35 year old Chiredzi Hospital nurse was allegedly found with drugs stolen from the government hospital stashed at her house.
 
Moreblessing Makwangwaudze who is based at the giant government hospital appeared before magistrate Geraldine Mutsotso facing charges of contravening the Medicines and Allied Control act.
Makwangwaudze allegedly stole the drugs while on night duty.
After commencing night duty she took 22 x 100 milligrams vials of the pethidine drug and hid them in her handbag.
As the other nurses on duty requested the same drug,it was discovered only a few packets of the medicine were left. A police report was made and her house was searched leading to the discovery of several other drugs she hid in the ashes in her house. She was also found in possession of 5 x 100 milligrams of the Diazepam drug and 4 ampoules of Pethidine.
Makwangwaudze ‘s case reflects the state of desperation among the country’s medical professionals who are surviving on paltry salaries.
Zimbabwean doctors have gone on strike since they are unhappy with the paltry salaries they are getting .The country has suffered a huge brain drain trend especially in the health sector with nurses and doctors leaving the country to seek greener pastures.The lack of motivation on the part of medical staff is also jeopardising the health standards in the country.
It is understood Makwangaudze intended to sell the drugs at the black market at inflated prices . There are reports that government hospitals are running out of essential drugs and this could worsen the situation for people living with chronic illness.

A WOMAN hit her ex-husband with a water glass on the head when she found him in bed with two alleged prostitutes, a court heard.
Simiselo Khumalo, 26, of Nkulumane suburb admitted to magistrate Abednico Ndebele she assaulted Never Sibanda, 31. Ndebele cautioned and discharged Khumalo.
She said although she had separated with Ncube, the two had an on and off relationship.
Khumalo told the court she had been under the impression that they were working things out with Sibanda, adding she got violent because she was angry and she loved him.
“He paid my bride price and he was my husband. But we separated after we had a misunderstanding and my parents took me back home. Even though we split, we have been seeing each other from time to time,” said Khumalo.
“When I saw him with the two naked women in bed I lost it and the two ladies fled. I then assaulted him because I was very angry.”
Sibanda, however, said the women Khumalo found in his room were his aunts who had visited.
“The women found in my room were not my girlfriends. We were not in bed together but I was sleeping on the floor,” said Sibanda.
Ndebele warned Khumalo not to use violence to solve her problems and urged the two to resolve their issues amicably.
“Go and resolve your problems without fighting. If you resort to violence over a man, next time I will send you to prison,” said Ndebele. Stewart Madzore prosecuted.-State Media

While ZANU PF bosses and ministers who looted millions of dollars worth of diamonds from the Chiadzwa fields walk scot free, a Chinese national, Li Chengping (57), was yesterday jailed for an effective 10 years in prison for illegally possessing gold and emeralds amounting to a little over $300.00
The sentencing came despite the defence counsel’s spirited efforts to have the convict spared a jail term.
Chengping was arrested at Harare International Airport on November 17 this year while on his way back to China in possession of 2,94 grammes of gold valued at $105,70 and three pieces of emeralds valued at $240,70 without being a holder of a licence or permit which allows him to deal in the minerals.
Mahwe, in sentencing Chengping, said he applied his mind to the law and the circumstances of the convict.
“After taking into consideration all the factors, for possession of gold, you are sentenced to five years in prison, and for the second count of emeralds possession, you are sentenced to another five years. This effectively makes them 10 years in prison,” Mahwe said.
“I take that you broke the law while being aware of what it says about minerals since you are involved in mining at Zvishavane.”
Breach of the Minerals Act attracts a custodial sentence within the statute.
Chengping’s lawyer Tich Muhonde had last Friday implored the court to be lenient with his client, whom he said was a first offender, and sentence him to a fine equivalent to double the value of the minerals found on him.
Muhonde had argued that the fact that he pleaded guilty was a special reason why he should not be given a custodial sentence in addition to being a first offender.
“The accused is a foreigner, unsophisticated and non-conversant with the mineral laws of this country, who intended to use these stones as souvenirs. This, coupled with the negligible value of the emeralds and gold, should weigh in his favour,” he said. (Additional Reporting/.Newsday)

Some war veterans in Manicaland say they want to be part of an open debate on President Robert Mugabe’s succession.
The former freedom fighters say an open debate will curb the worsening political crisis in Zanu PF.
One of the liberation war veterans and Zanu PF member in the region, Ivan Mbengo, told Studio 7 the issue of leadership renewal in the ruling party has to be debated openly to avoid political machinations in the party that continue to grow due to a closed debate that does not include all stakeholders.
Mbengo said by not opening the debate to war veterans in particular, irreparable damage is being done to the party.
He said President Mugabe and other war veterans in the government should not let down the thousands of freedom fighters who lost their lives in the liberation struggle.
“On the issue of succession if we war veterans and our commander in chief President Robert Mugabe fail to leave Zimbabwe with a legacy of united party, united country, peaceful nation and prosperous and well governed, we will have failed our fallen comrades.”
Mbengo, who said he is speaking on behalf of many veterans of the 1970s liberation struggle concerned by the goings-on in Zanu PF currently, added that Zanu PF should hold conferences and open debates that should objectively look at who can succeed the president without undermining his authority.
“The issue of succession must be debated first by all war veterans openly and meeting held all over the provinces and hold conferences to even choose who would succeed our iconic leader comrade Mugabe when the time arrives, even when you look at the USA, those that take the reins are mostly Vietnam veterans.”
Mbengo, a holder of a doctorate in Policy Studies and International Relations from the University of Zimbabwe, and current Zanu PF Ward Eleven chairperson in the City of Mutare, said war veterans should be given a greater say in the succession debate.
“We war veterans should be given that allowance to choose who would lead Zimbabwe. It has to be done openly to avoid cases of factionalism that are haunting the party as we speak. Open debate does away with what we are seeing; the fights for positions.”
The former liberation fighter said nothing tangible normally comes out of large gatherings such as the forthcoming Zanu PF conference in Victoria Falls.
“What we have is a conference where there are more than 700 people and we cannot meaningfully discuss such serious issues with such a huge crowd.”
He stressed that leadership renewal is crucial for Zanu PF’s survival.
“The people who call the shots should be given a chance to air their views. We believe in organisational and leadership renewal because if we fail to do so we are faced to imminent death of a party and a movement called Zanu PF.”
His sentiments were echoed by other war veterans like Systems Machipanda, also of Mutare, who said the succession and leadership renewal debate in Zanu PF should be open.
Machipanda said Zanu PF stakeholders have a role to play in the political chess game that will produce the person to succeed their 91-year old leader who turns 92 in February.
Alex Muchena, a war veteran from Muchena village in Old Mutare, agreed, adding only things that are done in secret have the potential of destroying their beloved Zanu PF.
The succession issue has divided Zanu PF into factions as groups try to position themselves in the event Mr. Mugabe decides to retire.
President Mugabe’s wife, Grace, incensed many at the weekend by saying her husband could run Zimbabwe until he turned 100 and even if he was in a wheelchair or blind.-VOA

As President Robert Mugabe squanders $80 million on foreign trips, the strike by Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) doctors entered its second day yesterday amid indications that the health insurer was awaiting the release of funds from Government to ease the situation.
Despite the countrywide health scare, Mugabe’s Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira reported saying she is not aware of the strike.
Doctors attested to PSMAS institutions that are administered by its investment wing PSMI, began an industrial action on Monday protesting over unpaid salaries stretching over six months.
But there was no immediate end in sight to the strike action with the PSMAS board indicating yesterday that it was pinning hopes on Government paying part of what it owes in order for the organisation to pay its workers.
Public Service Minister Prisca Mupfumira said she was not aware of the strike and was only reading about it in the newspapers. The authorities at PSMAS, she said, had not briefed her on the prevailing situation.
“Today we were supposed to meet with board of PSMAS, but I had a Cabinet meeting,” she said.
“The meeting was supposed to take place after the Cabinet meeting, but for some reasons they did not come. As you know, a strike is an emergency issue but I have not been briefed about it.
“We are still waiting to be briefed. Obviously we are concerned and we will sit down with our principals to chat the way forward.” Minister Mupfumira said as Government, they were aware of the challenges facing the medical aid society.
“As Government, we are concerned about the contributions made by the members and payments to service providers. That is where our interest is.”
PSMAS board chairman Mr Jeremiah Bvirindi said they were expecting payment from Government and would pay the doctors their salaries thereafter.
“We are doing all that we can to make sure that our clients get access to our health facilities. All those who owe us money should bring back our money for us to make a way forward. We have not received money from the Government, we are still waiting for it,” Mr Bvirindi said.
The strike has also forced the closure of some PSMI clinics resulting in PSMAS members having to use cash to access medical attention.
The strike also comes against the background of a petition by the Medical Professional and Allied Workers Union last week Friday seeking Minister Mupfumira’s intervention to help improve the plight of workers at PSMAS and PSMI.
The union’s national organising secretary Mr Lancelot Mpofu said PSMI workers who had salary arrears which were up to two months had not been informed on what progress was being done to remedy the discrepancy.
“We wrote the letter because there has been insensitivity to the workers problems. The workers are now living in a state of job insecurity given the information that is circulating that the board and directors of the two institutions have resolved to retrench 300 workers who are linked to some individuals,” said Mr Mpofu.
“At the moment junior staff want to join the strike but they have been threatened that if they do that they will be given dismissal letters. Clinics especially in Harare have closed and they referred their patients to West End Hospital which is failing to cater for the patients because there are a few doctors,” Mr Mpofu told the State Media

A Harare woman allegedly killed her six-month-old baby after she mistakenly scalded him with water she meant to burn her husband with after coming across a video of a naked woman in his laptop.
The infant, Munesuishe, was sleeping on the same sofa with his father Owen Mironga (32) when the incident happened.
Fortune Vutete (27) was facing two counts of physical abuse and culpable homicide when she appeared in court yesterday before magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe.
Mr Mahwe granted Vutete $50 bail with the State’s consent. She will be back in court on December 8.
Allegations are that on November 15 at around 5pm, Mironga received a WhatsApp massage from Vutete telling him that he had a visitor and was supposed to come back home.
It is alleged that Vutete also sent a WhatsApp massage to Mironga’s brother, inviting him to their home saying she had come across a video of a naked woman in Mironga’s laptop.
The court heard that Mironga went back home in the company of his brother and upon arrival he asked to see the visitor and Vutete told him that she was not going to say anything unless his brother’s wife was also called.
It is the State’s case that a messenger was sent to call Mironga’s brother’s wife while Vutete locked herself in their bedroom. The court heard that Mironga and his brother sat on the sofas in the sitting room while Munesuishe slept on the sofa.
After a few minutes, it is alleged that Vutete came out from the bedroom accusing Mironga of taking her for a fool while heading towards the kitchen.
The court heard that Vutete proceeded to the kitchen, picked up a pot that was on the stove with boiling water and poured it on Mironga’s body.
It is alleged that Mironga reacted swiftly and jumped from the sofa and had his right arm burnt in the process and it is alleged that the rest of the water meant for Mironga burnt Munesuishe, who was fast asleep on the sofa.
The State further stated that the two were rushed to Parirenyatwa Hospital for treatment where they were both admitted. It is alleged that Munesuishe died on Monday at around 2am.

Axed Vice-President Joice Mujuru yesterday implored Zanu PF to stop denigrating her by continuing to make false allegations that she plotted to kill President Robert Mugabe in the same manner the late Democratic Republic of Congo leader, Laurent Kabila, was assassinated in 2001.
By Staff Reporter
In a statement, quickly becoming her favoured means of responding to brickbats from her former colleagues, Mujuru said after she was accused of plotting to unseat Mugabe and consulting witch doctors, she challenged her accusers to take her to court, but they had not done so almost a year since she was fired on those allegations.
“When I denied the allegations a year ago, I challenged the authorities to take action in a court of law. This is still to happen,” she said.
“I was accused of plotting to overthrow the President, I was accused of visiting witchdoctors for assistance and that I had betrayed the ethos and the values of the liberation struggle. I did nothing wrong.”
Mujuru, believed to be at the forefront of the yet-to-be-launched People First party, said, now that she was no longer part of the ruling party, she should be allowed to be free to do as she pleased, without Zanu PF being obsessed with her.
“Lately, I have been said to be a part of People First, as if it is a crime. I am free to do whatever I choose to do with my life outside Zanu PF,” she said.
“It is part of the freedom I fought for when we went to war. This is enshrined in our State Constitution. We should desist from thinking and believing that any other political party is illegal or unconstitutional for that matter.”
Mugabe at the weekend claimed Mujuru had plotted to kill him in the same manner Kabila was assassinated by aggrieved aides.
He said they had fought the liberation war together with Mujuru, but she had rebelled, accusations Mujuru has strenuously denied.
“Let’s put our People First and avoid focusing an entire nation’s energy on denigrating a poor widow, who is quietly, lawfully and constitutionally pursuing her own wishes outside Zanu PF,” Mujuru said in response to Mugabe’s allegations.
She instead urged her former boss to spend his energies on dealing with electricity shortages, the economic crisis, poverty and mitigating the potential drought “bedevilling our nation”.
In messages pregnant with innuendo, Mujuru signs off by saying: “Let us Build Zimbabwe together by putting the People First.”
Build is an economic blueprint she publicised a couple of months ago, while People First is the party she is reportedly expected to lead.
“Zimbabweans are free to choose whom they want or wish to lead them or what party they want or wish to join or support,” she said.
Mujuru has for the better part of the year kept the nation guessing on her political plans, although most believe she is readying up for a challenge against Mugabe.
There is no love lost between the two since the President’s wife First Lady Grace Mugabe last year vehemently and repeatedly accused Mujuru of plotting to oust him, accusations that led to her being fired as Vice-President.Newsday

TWO soldiers stationed at 1 Commando in Harare ganged up and assaulted a police officer who had waved down a commuter omnibus they were travelling in, the court heard last Thursday.
Prosper Mageza (25) and Homora Homora (29) appeared before Mbare magistrate Ms Gladys Moyo charged with assaulting a police officer and defeating or obstructing the course of justice.
The two were remanded to December 8 on $50 bail.
Prosecutor Mr Fanuel Madanire alleged that on November 17 around 7:30am, Marcus Mbenge was on patrol in civilian clothes arresting drivers of commuter omnibuses picking up passengers at undesignated zones.
It is alleged that Mbenge arrested a driver dangerously parked at Matererini Flats in Mbare.
Mbenge allegedly ordered the driver to drop off all the passengers as he wanted to take him to the police station.
Allegations are that Mageza, in army uniform, barred Mbenge from entering the commuter omnibus by grabbing his belt and dragging him from the door. Mbenge identified himself to Mageza.
The State alleged that the kombi driver managed to escape from police custody during the scuffle and that Homora then joined in and punched Mbenge in the face.
Mageza allegedly drew a dagger from its sheath and hit Mbenge on his forehead with the handle, the court heard.
Mbenge sustained a deep cut on his forehead. The matter was reported to the police leading to the pair’s arrest.

A general hand at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals’ Annexe Hospital allegedly raped a mental patient in the institution’s toilet.
It is alleged that Tafadzwa Chitaunhike (32) of 4261 Dzivaresekwa 1, Harare, fondled the 20-year-old woman while she sat on the toilet seat before raping and forcing her to perform oral sex on him.
Chitaunhike appeared before Mr Tendai Mahwe facing two counts of rape and aggravated indecent assault and was remanded in custody to December 7.
Prosecuting, Miss Sharon Mashavira alleged that on November 17, the victim visited the toilet around 7pm and Chitaunhike followed her. He started caressing her, telling her how much he loved her, the State alleged.
The woman told Chitaunhike that she was not interested and when she tried to escape, he allegedly kicked and tripped her and she fell down.
He then raped her before forcing her to perform oral sex on him. Chitaunhike allegedly ordered his victim not to tell anyone, but the woman reported the matter to a nurse who later advised her superiors, leading to Chitaunhike’s arrest.
Meanwhile, a 26-year-old house- maid is before the courts on allegations of sexually abusing her employer’s four-year-old grandson.
It is the State’s case that Spiwe Chigurupati performed oral sex on the minor on several occasions.
On August 13, the minor visited his grandmother for the holidays. Chigurupati is employed as a maid by th e grandmother.
During the same month when the minor’s grandmother was away, Chigurupati called him to her bedroom.
She ordered the victim to lie on the bed while she performed oral sex on him. Chigurupati repeated the act on several occasions whenever the minor’s grandmother was away. After each act, Chigurupati, the court heard, ordered the boy not to tell anyone and threatened to send snakes to bite him if he revealed the sexual abuse.
The offence came to light when the minor went back to his parents’ home. The mother noticed that the minor would always cry with pain when urinating or when she was bathing his privates.
A medical report confirmed the abuse. In another case, the chairman of the Chipiwa Sugarcane Farmers’ Association in Chiredzi, has appeared in court charged with raping his two-year-old daughter, reports George Maponga.
The man (60), who cannot be named to protect the minor’s identity, is a divorcee. The victim now suffers complications of her urinary system following the attack. The accused was not asked to plead when he appeared before Chiredzi magistrate Ms Geraldino Mutsoto.
He was remanded in custody to December 2. The farmers boss allegedly visited his daughter on September 27 this year. The daughter was staying with her grandmother at Mkwasine Estates. It is alleged the man ordered the daughter to sleep on the sofa.
He subsequently removed her clothes and raped her. The man threatened to kill the minor if she told anyone about the abuse. The grandmother later noticed that the victim was having problems in passing urine.
The minor opened up when the grandmother interrogated her. She reported the matter to police leading to the man’s arrest. Mr Liberty Hove prosecuted.State Media

Three members of the Johane Marange Apostolic Church were killed by lightning while at their church gathering in Munetsi Village under Chief Nyamukoho in Mudzi on Sunday.
Rachel Magasu (22), Emmanuel Magasu (2) and Cathrine Mavhengera (24), had gone to worship at a place popularly known as Masowe, when they were struck by a bolt of lightning while in the tent hiding from heavy rains that pounded the area on the fateful day.
After the lightning struck, the victims’ two colleagues, all from Nyahuni Village, who had stayed behind when the three got into the tent, noticed smoke filling the tent before discovering lifeless bodies in there.
A report was made at Suswe Police Station, who attended the scene. Post-mortem was waived and the bodies were taken to the village for burial.
Mashonaland East Police Spokesperson, Inspector Nobert Muzondo confirmed the incident.
This is the third disaster to occur in Mudzi within four days. On Thursday, a complex housing 25 vendors was gutted by fire, destroying goods worth tens of thousands of US dollars before 15 members of the African Apostolic Church (Mwazha) were killed on Friday night when their vehicle was involved in an accident along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway at Kachimana turn off.-State Media

• 18 000 graduates offloaded onto the dusty jobless streets in 2004 alone
  
• Mugabe installs Professor Kuipa

By Sydney Barson, LUPANE | President Robert Mugabe capped 644 graduands Monday, and installed Professor Pardon Kusaziwa Kuipa as the inaugural Vice Chancellor of Lupane State University.
Kuipa, a Shona, becomes the first Vice Chancellor for the University.
The 91 year old from Zvimba was accompanied by Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Professor Jonathan Moyo, his deputy Dr. Godfrey Gandawa and the Minister of Provincial Affairs, Matebeleland North Cain Mathema.

In his acceptance speech, Kuipa promised to make Lupane State University a world – class high education provider.
Both Mugabe and his spin doctor, Higher Education Minister said nothing about the official opening of Lupane State University which still operates from rented apartments in Bulawayo almost a decade since construction began in Lupane.
The 6th graduation attended by thousands of hungry people from Lupane included the most visible bussed ZANU PF supporters in full regalia from all over Matebeleland North.
In 2014 alone Mugabe capped 18 000 graduates from all universities in Zimbabwe. Today’s graduands join rest of unemployed professionals topping Zimbabwe’s unemployment index.
With the ongoing infighting in the ruling ZANU PF and the dwindling economic situation, graduates face a hopeless homeless and jobless future.

6 months unpaid salaries as Mugabe watches.
The corruption ridden Public Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) doctors have hit Robert Mugabe’s administration going on strike over 6 months unpaid salaries.
The strike on Monday left the PSMAS hospitals in Harare paralysed with patients struggling for their lives.
The striking doctors said PSMAS management were rather threatening them with dismissal whenever they tried to engage with them over their dues.
They (doctors) say the parastatal’s senior management are busy awarding themselves hefty salaries and buying luxurious cars at the expense of the struggling doctors and patients the latter who are failing to get medical assistance.
The striking doctors wrote a letter to the PSMAS management before the job action when they requested for a meeting.
“We have collectively decided that we cannot continue to work in the absence of payment for work from previous months,”
“We have made previous communication to this matter and have been promised payments which until now have not materialized and any move towards payment of our salaries will promptly encourage us to get back to work as zealously as we have always done”.
The latest move is a blow to Robert Mugabe’s credibility as the 91 year old prepares for upcoming 2018 elections at a time when his party is battling to survive under factionalism.

A senior army captain, Faster Gono who is based in Chiredzi came under fire at a recent Zanu PF ward election meeting where a rowdy crowd allegedly called him ngochani (gay).
Captain Gono has since reported MP for Chiredzi West Darlington Chiwa at Triangle Police Station for calling him a gay.
Chiwa confirmed the issue and said he (Chiwa) failed to attend Vice President Mphoko`s meeting at Mkwasine because he was at the Police station where he was making a statement.
He said Gono made a report to the Police that he insulted him by calling him a gay in public.
However, Chiwa said the gay allegations were not new and he had in the past written to the army commander to investigate Gono on gay accusations.
When asked for comment, Gono said Chiwa can say whatever he wants about him.
“I was summoned to Triangle Police Station last Thursday by Inspector Masiya who is the officer in Charge. A warned and cautioned statement was recorded from me.
Those gay allegations are not new, they were brought to me by several people in my constituency and l was only saying that they should be investigated. I wrote a formal complaint to the Army Commander for them to investigate those allegations,” said Chiwa. Mirror

OPPOSITION parties and analysts have demanded that First Lady Grace Mugabe should explain the source of clothes and goodies she and her son Russel Goreraza have been dishing out in large quantities to Zanu PF supporters.
Grace, has of late been staging rallies in different provinces, where she has donated food and clothes, including suits to traditional leaders, a move that has raised the ire of opposition parties, who yesterday queried the source and motive behind the hand-outs.
Goreraza donated 3 000kg of salt, 3 000kg of sugar, 3 000kg of bathing soap and 1 000 litres of cooking oil in Murewa on Saturday, after making almost a similar donation in Mbare and Mberengwa.
Grace gave suits, shoes and shirts to chiefs over and above bicycles for their security personnel.
The First Lady also donated 8 000 litres of cooking oil, 150 tonnes of maize, 105 tonnes of rice, secondhand clothes weighing 3 184kg, maize seed and fertiliser to people in Murewa.
Among the donations were also soccer kits donated to eight secondary schools in the province.
MDC-T said Zanu PF was not treating people fairly, amid suspicion the goods Grace and her son donated were looted goods.
“It just goes to prove that both Grace and her son, Russell, have an extremely low and contemptuous opinion of the people of Zimbabwe as well as our traditional leaders,” MDC-T spokesperson, Obert Gutu said. He said they were treating people like beggars, who should survive on the benevolence of the First Family.
“This is in extreme bad taste. Zimbabweans are a very proud and hardworking people, who don’t deserve to be treated in such a disgraceful, patronising manner.
“Those groceries are, obviously, looted property. Those people have got absolutely no shame. How can a country be run on hand-outs from the First Family? We are not surprised, however, because dictatorship thrive on the pauperisation of the masses.”
People’s Democratic Party spokesperson, Jacob Mafume said Grace and her son should disclose the source of the goods.
“It is primitive politics, where a leader of a party can donate goodies without disclosing where they come from. We are seeing a worst case of abuse of State resources at an unprecedented rate,” he charged.
“It would appear as if Mugabe and his family destroyed the nation so they could be able to buy things for people. How does a First Lady of a suffering people show so much wealth?”
Political analyst, Takura Zhangazha, described the dishing out of goodies as a strategy to patronise the recipients, describing it as sad for Zimbabwean politics.
“It’s the politics of materialism with the intention of winning hearts and minds of poorer citizens and voters. It essentially means their intention is to move away from value-based politics, to that of patronage. In this case, only those with money or access to vast resources will qualify to be political leaders and it’s a sad development for Zimbabwe politics,” he said.newsday

Exams cancelled because of Grace

By Tinoonga Mawere, Mberengwa|A Geography teacher at Vurasha Secondary School left pupils stranded after bunking lessons to attend Grace Mugabe ‘s rally at Mataga Growth Point.
Sources reveal that the teacher, who did not excuse himself for the absence, told pupils anyone who wanted an explanation on his absence should call the First Lady.
Grace’s rallies have courted controversy across the country and the recent development may suggest Mrs Mugabe’s influence among a few in the Midlands godfather Vice President Mngangagwa’s home province.
Sources at the school told ZimEye.com some end of term papers had to be cancelled because of the teacher’s absence.
It is said authorities at the school are afraid of instituting disciplinary procedures against him due to the highly political nature of the incident.
“There is a staff member who left the school to attend the First Lady’s rally without notifying the authorities .We are still compiling information but it is difficult to proceed with such matters. These are political matters because the teacher was clad in Zanu PF regalia when he addressed pupils .This is a sensitive matter and please do not mention any names,” said a staff member at the school.
Mrs Mugabe was accompanied by Mnangagwa and Saviour Kasukuwere now seen as the First Lady’s blue-eyed boy.
Mberengwa remains a Zanu PF stronghold such that the Vurasha teacher reportedly chants Zanu PF maxims right in the classroom. Despite the fact of Mberengwa District being under the biting economy, people in the area have remained loyal to Mugabe.
Meanwhile teachers in other places have been forced to attend Grace’s rallies and in Murehwa for instance, they were ordered to travel over 50 kilometres to the venue at their own expense. Sources told ZimEye.com teachers who failed to attend the SAturday rally are now fearing reprisals.

A National University of Science and Technology (Nust) lecturer, David Foya, has lost movable property at his house in Parklands to foot $3 000 adultery damages to the husband of a female student he bedded during her time at the institution.
Foya, a lecturer with the Faculty of Business Studies, had a sexual relationship with his married student, Judith Moyo.
After discovering his wife’s adultery, Moyo’s husband, Bongani Ngulube, approached the Bulawayo High Court seeking $40 000 damages but Justice Martin Makonese only granted him $3 000.
In his ruling, Justice Makonese said the amount Ngulube was asking for was too much and in terms of case laws the highest amount which was given as damages for adultery in the country was only $5 000.
Ngulube was awarded $2 500 for contumelia damages (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect) and $500 being damages for loss of consortium.
The judgment came after Ngulube had applied for a default judgment against Foya after the lecturer reportedly failed to file his plea in the stipulated time in terms of the High Court rules.
However, on 4 November he obtained a writ of execution giving him the green light to attach Foya’s movable property at his house.
“To the Sheriff of Zimbabwe or his Lawful Deputy. You are required and directed to take into execution the movable property of David Foya of 16325 Parklands Mews, Parklands, Bulawayo, of the same cause to be realised the sum of $3 000 (three thousand dollars) for the above mentioned Plaintiff (Ngulube) which it recovered by Judgement of this court dated the 1st of October 2015, and also other costs and charges of the Plaintiff in the said suit besides your costs thereby incurred. Further, pay the to the said plaintiff or his Legal Practitioners the sum or sums due to it with costs as above mentioned and for your so doing shall be your warrant,” read the writ.
Ngulube had said he had lost love, warmth and affection for his wife because of Foya.
He also declared in his papers that he lost the support and “services” of his wife as a result of her romantic affair with the lecturer.
The judgment came at a time when Nust recently crafted a gender policy that addresses the issue of sexual harassment of students by lecturers at the institution.
Details of the affair were exposed after Ngulube stumbled upon a string of messages on his wife’s WhatsApp application which she was exchanging with Foya.
In some of the chats, Foya, demanded “hot, sexy” sessions with Ngulube’s wife.
Some of the WhatsApp messages which Ngulube filed in court as evidence are that of Foya and Moyo inviting each other for sex and deciding where to be intimate.
In his suit, Ngulube declared that he was still married to Moyo adding that Foya fell in love with his wife when she was his student at Nust.
“The defendant (Foya) has ridiculed and laughed at the plaintiff (Ngulube) in public on diverse occasions and the affair has caused plaintiff much discomfort and pain. The plaintiff has been greatly humiliated and demeaned by the defendant’s conduct, which conduct has embarrassed plaintiff among his friends, family and members of his church,” reads part of his court papers.

FORMER Zanu-PF chairman for Mashonaland West Province Mr Temba Mliswa has quit politics. Mr Mliswa told journalists in Bulawayo yesterday that he would never run for public office again or vie for a political post in any of the political parties in the country.
Speaking at the Bulawayo Press Club, Mr Mliswa said he was now concentrating on “nurturing” future leaders through his Youth Advocacy for Reform and Democracy (Yard), a youth initiative he recently founded.
The former Hurungwe West legislator was fired from Zanu PF early this year, together with several other party members who were backing former Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s putschist maneuvers.
Following his expulsion, Mr Mliswa declared that he would “bounce back” to the political fold and contested as an independent candidate in the by-election which followed his expulsion and recalling from Parliament, but lost to Zanu-PF candidate Cde Keith Guzha.
The controversial politician, who has evidently lost his way in political wilderness, has been linked with several opposition political parties and at one point was pushing for a grand coalition of opposition parties, albeit hitting a snag.
Mr Mliswa has been linked with the Mujuru led People First party, links that he and the party have both dismissed.
He has also been linked with the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC, and was again recently reported to have expressed desire to return to Zanu-PF.
Yesterday Mr Mliswa, seemingly frustrated by his mundane attempts to “bounce back”, dismissed any possible chances of him returning to politics, claiming that he was now too old to hold public office.
He bragged that he was capable of winning in any election in any part of the country if he was to return to politics, but had decided to retire to give younger people an opportunity.
“I will not go back to politics, never again. I’m done, I’m so done. I say so honestly and I never go back on what I say. I’m out of politics, totally,” he said
“I want to see young people occupying that space, that’s my passion. You cannot be a legislator at 48 and yet there are younger people who can actually do better.
“I’ll win any election any time. I’ll go back to Hurungwe West and I can win, anywhere I want to stand I’ll still win an election because I work hard and I’m passionate about what I do. I’ve said to myself what about this generation, we are eating their time.”
Mr Mliswa is going around the country meeting youths as he tries to set up structures for his youth organisation.
He dismissed any chances of the youth organisation turning into a political party.

Police allegedly shot and seriously injured a Kadoma mine manager when they fired at him and his colleagues without warning and under unclear circumstances, it has emerged.
The victim, Mr Norbert Mangena, sustained abdominal injuries, when a bullet hit his back, exiting through the front.
He is now suing police for US$513 750 for “unlawful arrest, pain and suffering, loss of amenities and medical and transport expenses incurred”.
He alleges that police abused their power and privilege as they wanted to kill him.
Papers filed at the High Court in April 2015 show that Mr Mangena and three of his colleagues enjoyed an outing in Kadoma’s Central Business District on the night of March 23, 2014.
Later, they drove to Rimuka suburb to drop one of their companions at home. As the vehicle pulled back onto the road, Mr Mangena, the papers say, saw five men — two of them in police uniform —on the roadside.
Suddenly, several gunshots were fired in the vehicle’s direction, prompting the driver to switch to top gear.
Mr Mangena was shot in the lower abdomen and left arm and rushed to Kadoma Central Hospital where doctors demanded a police report in order to treat him.
At the police station, Mr Mangena and colleagues had to seek intervention from a senior cop after failing to secure the report from the junior officers on duty.
The documents read, in part: “. . .due to the seriousness of the injuries, he was referred to Parirenyatwa (Group of Hospitals) for immediate attention and surgery. When he arrived in Harare, he was further attended to, but at 0900hrs, two police officers arrived, saying they had instruction to arrest him.
“Despite his desperate medical condition, he was chained to the hospital bed and kept under armed police guard. . . Fortunately, the operation was a success, (but the plaintiff was) unaware of the charges he was facing. On 4 April (2014), Detective-Sergeant Chidzenga and Det-Sgt Chikorondo came to the hospital where they formally informed the plaintiff that he was facing charges of assaulting with bottles one Sgt Eric Salim, a police officer who is stationed at Chakari Police Station.”
The papers continue,”It was also alleged that the plaintiff had stolen Sgt Salim’s pistol that had four rounds (of ammunition). A warned and cautioned statement was recorded where the plaintiff denied the charges, stating that he was not even in Chakari on that date, and that the police were fabricating the charges so as to cover up the unlawful shooting.
“Prior to this, the plaintiff’s legal practitioners had formally complained of the shooting and the manner in which the plaintiff had been treated by the police with the Complaints Desk at Police General Headquarters. The attitude of the police was that the plaintiff was a suspect, implying therefore that the shooting and treatment was justified.”
In its defence, the ZRP argues that Mr Mangena’s case falls away as “the Police Act states that civil proceedings must be brought within eight months of the commission but summons were issued 11 months after the incident”.
“Section 70 of the Police Act (Chapter 9:10) clearly states that all civil proceedings instituted against the State or member in respect of all claims arising out of an act or omission by a member such as the defendants should be brought within eight months of the omission or commission,” reads the defence.
“The cause of action arose on the 23rd of March 2014. Summons were issued on the 5th of March 2015, 11 months after the cause of action had arisen. The plaintiff’s claims have thus prescribed as they were instituted out of prescribed time.
“Wherefore, the defendants pray that the plaintiff’s claims be dismissed with costs.”
Yesterday, Mr Mangena’s lawyer, Mr Tazorora Musarurwa of Mambosasa Legal Practitioners, told The State Media: “They were supposed to be humane and at least assist with medical bills, for example, or apologise to Mangena.
“Instead, they brought up fabricated charges. The charges do not have merit as it is now more than a year and the person is still to appear before the courts.”
National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon as her cellphone went unanswered.
The High Court is still to rule on the matter.State Media

On Thursday Lindela Ndlovu’s family elders chased away the National University Of Science and Technology (Nust) Council Chairman, Mike Ndubiwa, citing that he was not welcome at Prof Ndlovu’s funeral church service.
Ndlovu passed on Wednesday after suffering from diabetes. Prior to his death he was not happy about the way he was treated following the non-renewal of his contact. Ndlovu caused a stir at Mr Lawton Hikwa’s funeral, leading to everyone thinking that he was drunk.
Sources say after this incident as normal, Ndlovu prepared a speech that he was supposed to deliver at the 21st graduation ceremony at the University, but to his surprise,he was told his contract which expired in August could not be renewed.He was replaced by Professor Samson Sibanda as the Vice Chancellor.Prof Ndlovu was not happy about the way he was informed.
Mr Tymon Mabhena,who is Prof Ndlovu’s family spokesperson,said Ndubiwa is not welcome at the funeral of the late Vice Chancellor.
“He came yesterday (Thursday) for the funeral service and the family elders chased him away. They said they didn’t want to see him anywhere near the proceedings. They said they don’t want anything to do with him,” said Mabhena
Mr Mabhena could not state why Ndubiwa was unwanted at the funeral proceedings. Ndubiwa himself could not be reached for a comment.
Nust’s spokesperson Felix Moyo refused to shade light on issue saying Ndubiwa was the right person to comment on all matters concerning the late vice-chancellor.

“He knew that his contract could either be terminated or renewed but the Nust council ill-treated him in his last days and he didn’t make that a secret hence the family’s stance.” said a family source
Prof Ndlovu will be buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery after the church service which will be held at the Amphitheatre.
 
 
 
 

 
A businessman working with Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife, Ruth, Enrico Sibanda, is in court for serious fraud.
Sibanda who calls himself by the title “Doctor,” is being tried for fraudulently contracting for the holding of his functions one of which Makandiwa’s wife, Ruth was seen fully participating in.