Staff Reporter|ZimEye| A cabal of ZANU PF youth in Gwanda is lobbying for an urgent renaming of two of Gwanda’s main roads in President Robert Mugabe and his controversial wife Grace’s names.
A member of the ZANU PF Matabeleland South youth league told ZimEye.com through a confidential tip off, that a section of the youth league backing Grace Mugabe for party presidency met over the weekend and resolved to push the party to force Gwanda Town Council to effect the name changes urgently. According to the details, the group intends to engage some war veterans said to be loyal to Grace and the women’s league to push the agenda through.
The group is said to be targeting the name changes to be done before the party goes for its annual conference in Victoria Falls on the 5th of December. Similar pushes are said to be being undertaken in all the major centres in the country as the youth league garners support and publicity for the First Lady ahead of the conference.
Media reports claim that 91 year old President Mugabe is expected to announce his successor at the conference and also declare his retirement from active politics. ZANU PF is dissipate into two rival factions ahead of the make or break December conference. One section is backing Vice President Emmerson Munangagwa and the other backing Grace Mugabe to head the party.
According to the information provided, the youth league will demand that the main road passing through Gwanda from Bulawayo to Beitbridge be named Robert Mugabe Way. The Bigburn Road which links the town’s CBD with the Western High Density suburbs in Jawunda Township be called the Grace Mugabe Road.
Last year the ZANU PF women’s league in the town tried to push to change the name of the town’s oldest primary school, Jawunda, to Grace Mugabe Primary School. The proposal was strongly rejected by residents of Gwanda and the ruling party soon shelved it off .
Asked for a comment, political analyst and Residents leader in Gwanda, Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo said that the renaming of Gwanda Streets and buildings is not necessary a matter for ZANU PF to do but that of the community in Gwanda.
“The issue of renaming Gwanda streets is not a privilege for ZANU PF only but all of us in Gwanda. As residents we have made it clear to our local authority that when the time comes to name or rename streets and properties in Gwanda, a committee of stakeholders be set up and ZANU PF can be included among the stakeholders if they have a burning desire to see some names included, but all names will be assessed on an equal footing and those of paramount relevance to Gwanda will get a priority” said Fuzwayo.
“It will be a mistake to allow the current political issues amongst political parties to influence our decisions of years to come. If MDCT fights today and they demand to give (Thokozani) Khuphe publicity then we name a street in her name we will lose relevance and credibility as a community,” he added.
Be Focused And Defend President Mugabe : Kasukuwere
National Political Commissar Mr Saviour Kasukuwere has said that forthcoming Zanu-PF’s 15th Annual National People’s Conference is a crucial indaba meant to forge forward the economic empowerment agenda, but not about leadership change. Therefore ,Zanu-PF cadres should be contented with their current positions.
Addressing delegates during a Mashonaland West provincial inter-district conference on Sunday, Mr Kasukuwere said those carrying out covert operations were wasting their time as the revolutionary party’s focus was on improving the livelihoods of Zimbabweans.
This is contrary to misinformed assertions by some sections of the media that the conference, slated for December 7 to 13 in Victoria Falls, would see the Zanu-PF constitution being amended and some leadership changes taking place.
“Our conference is coming and, we’re going there to discuss about empowering the people not about President Mugabe. That issue has been finalised,” Kasukuwere said.
“We’re aware of clandestine, stupid moves. They’ll not succeed. I’m happy where I’m as secretary for the commissariat, Mr (Ignatius) Chombo is secretary for administration and he’s happy where he is, the chairman of the province (Ephraim) Chengeta, (Edna) Madzongwe, (Josiah) Hungwe, (Christopher) Mutsvangwa and everyone else should be happy and contented with where they are.”
Mashonaland West province endorsed President Mugabe as the party’s 2018 election candidate.
Mr Kasukuwere said the conference theme: “Consolidating People’s Power through Zim-Asset” was all about transforming people’s lives.
He added that those angling for the party’s top post would be dumped along the way as President Mugabe remained the people’s favourite.
“Going astray and selling out isn’t about what you do physically, but what you think when you’re sleeping with your wife, dreaming of when you’re in a post already occupied by someone,” he said.
“The danger comes when you start thinking about succession. Temba Mliswa did the same and look what he’s doing. Today he’s with MDC, tomorrow he’s with Mai (Joice) Mujuru. He’s everywhere. The issue of defending President Mugabe is non-negotiable. For some of us, it’s a matter of life and death. Be focused, defend the President.”
Mliswa was part of a putchist cabal led by former Vice President Joice Mujuru which wanted to topple President Mugabe ahead of Zanu-PF’s Congress last December.
Ring leaders of the cabal were sacked while other members were suspended from the party.
Mr Kasukuwere warned party members against consorting with opposition forces saying Zanu-PF was not afraid of booting them out and having by-elections, where necessary.
“Those who’ve been suspended from the party, toe the party line,” he said.
“The moment you start hobnobbing with people the party is against, you’re on your own and we’re ready to come back for by-elections and I assure you Zanu-PF will still prevail. This is a message to those wavering. In politics there’s no wavering just like in the church you can’t worship God and Satan at the same time.”
He said the First Lady Grace Mugabe, who is the Zanu-PF Women’s League secretary, deserved respect as she had played a leading role in bringing back stability in the party that had been rocked by factionalism steered by the former VP Mujuru’s cabal.
“Amai Mugabe is our First Lady, she must be respected equally alongside the President of our country,” Kasukuwere said.
“We support the President and you can’t say you don’t support his wife. We asked her to come into politics and she did a good job, helping in the kicking out of the wayward ones. The country and stability of the party was being threatened. The Americans and their money had found their way here and your farms were now under threat.”
He added: “One thing Zanu-PF isn’t scared to do is to discipline someone. Even If I go astray I’ll be disciplined. No one is above the party. No one owns the party, it belongs to the people of Zimbabwe.”
Mr Kasukuwere commended Mr Hungwe for leading the restructuring programme in Mashonaland West.
“What’s now important is to unite and move forward building the party. Down with forming small groups that have sinister agendas,” he said
“Mr Chengeta, you’re the provincial chairperson and if there’re any grey areas (in the district elections) go back and let the people’s will prevail. You’ve the support of the Politburo, don’t be scared.”
He said mobilisation and strengthening of the party structures should continue ahead of the 2018 general elections. – Herald
BLOODBATH:CIOs Raid Printing Office Over Grace Mugabe Flyers
Suspected CIO operatives raid printing office over Grace fliers By Tinoonga Mawere, Masvingo | Four suspected state security agents stormed a printing office at Robin House on Saturday accusing the business owner of printing anti-Grace Mugabe fliers.
The shopowner who refused to disclose his name said he was surprised to see four men confronting him and said he was responsible for printing anti-Grace Mugabe fliers.
They allegedly produced a bunch of fliers they said his office had printed. They also reportedly searched the office and threatened workers at the place.
The development has emerged at a time the Zanu PF provincial executive members have reportedly ditched Mrs Mugabe for Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of the make or break party conference.It is widely believed President Robert Mugabe who has presided over company closures and gross human rights violations over three decades intends to hand over power to his controversial wife.
Sources told ZimEye.com yesterday the CIO reportedly intercepted anti-Grace Mugabe fliers bankrolled by members of the Zanu PF provincial executive and the state security agents were witch hunting for the origins of the fliers. It is also understood elements sympathetic to Mnangagwa intended to distribute the fliers across the province .
“I was surprised to see four men storming my offices with some fliers they claimed we had printed. The fliers carried derogatory words about Mrs Mugabe and we have nothing to do with such fliers. They threatened us and said they were watching us. We are now operating in fear and we have nothing to do with the Zanu PF factional wars. I think these guys are overzealous,” said the shopowner.
The move by the suspected state security agents reflects desperation in the Grace camp and political observers believe Mrs Mugabe is pushing for the presidency to safeguard the Gushungo empire at the expense of the entire nation. It has emerged the fliers were bankrolled by top Zanu PF provincial members and war veterans who are fighting against Grace Mugabe and the G40 team. Their strategy is to distribute the fliers, printed using the taxpayer’s, in rural areas across the province.
Chiyangwa ZIFA Hopes ‘Shattered’
PRESSURE is mounting on Harare businessman Philip Chiyangwa to withdraw his candidature in the race for the ZIFA presidency amid claims yesterday by a number of former football administrators that he was never involved in local football structures and does not have the required five years in administration of the game as required by the constitution.
Chiyangwa’s candidature for the December 5 elections was accepted after he convinced the ZIFA Electoral Committee that he was involved in football administration between 1993 and 1999, but former football administrators who were in office during the same period yesterday disowned him.
Former Northern Region secretary general, Chivero Stanley Mudhokwani, who was at the helm of the region from 1996 when the region still covered from Manicaland up to Kariba, said he never came across the Harare businessman as one of the administrators he worked with. Back then there were only two regions in the country that is Southern Region, which covered such provinces as Matabeleland and Masvingo, and the Northern Region which covered all the other provinces such as Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central and Harare.
Following the creation of the Eastern Region in 1998, Mudhokwani then moved from Northern Region to become secretary-general of the newly-created region. “In 1990, I was Manicaland Province’s vice-chairman and then became the Northern Region secretary-general in 1996.
“When Eastern Region was created, I moved there in the same capacity as the secretary-general until 2001. “I never met Philip Chiyangwa and to make matters worse, the region stretched up to Kariba but I never met him. When I was the secretary-general of Northern Region, I used to meet all the administrators but I never had any meeting with him in that capacity.
“If he was a sponsor, well I wouldn’t know, but he doesn’t have any track record I know of because in the Northern Region, I was covering from Manicaland up to Kariba. “When I moved to Eastern Region, it included Manicaland, Mashonaland East and Masvingo provinces.
“Southern Region remained big until a recent resolution to create the fourth region Central Region. In my position as the secretary-general of Northern Region, I never came across him (Chiyangwa) as an administrator anywhere,” said Mudhokwani.
Lifelong Footballers Trust of Zimbabwe, led by former ZIFA board member Francis Zimunya, also turned on the heat on Chiyangwa and yesterday presented their petition to the ZIFA Electoral Commission that his candidature is null and void as he was never involved in football administration.
In their petition, which they also copied to the Minister of Sport and Recreation, they said they were concerned “with the way football continues to be destroyed in Zimbabwe” by bringing in people with no sound background in the running of the game in this country.
“We as members of Lifelong Footballers Trust of Zimbabwe, an organisation that was established to address the challenges faced by the former footballers and to protect the legacy created by former footballers, are concerned about how football continues to be destroyed by several violations of ZIFA and FIFA statutes.
“We are perturbed to see gross violation of the ZIFA Constitution in particular by Phillip Chiyangwa who wants to be a member of the ZIFA board whilst he knows that he was never an executive member of Futsal, Mazoe Citrus and Chinhoyi Tigers Football Clubs.
“We challenge him to prove that he served as an administrator for a period of five years, as stipulated by the ZIFA constitution, at the organisation he purports to have served. “Francis Zimunya, was a former member of the ZIFA Northern Region executive committee from July 1993 to 1999 before becoming the chairman of ZIFA Northern Region, where he was re-elected in March 2003 denies any knowledge of Chiyangwa’s participation in football at any level in the said region.
“Former players, club and provincial administrators which includes Pascal Zata, who was the Mashonaland West treasurer for 15 years, also confirms of not having seen Chiyangwa at any of the ZIFA meetings.
“The same has been confirmed by Kufandarerwa and Robert Chisvo who were the chairman and the treasurer respectively of Mashonaland Central Province where Mazoe Citrus was situated.
“Former Provincial and club executives, who administered football at that time, are prepared to testify that he (Chiyangwa) never participated in football administration at the clubs he purports to have administered.”
Chiyangwa is vying for the ZIFA presidency with former Harare City chairman Leslie Gwindi, ex-Warriors defender James Takavada and businessman Trevor Carelse-Juul. Meanwhile, Chiyangwa’s camp was not happy with clearance of Carelse-Juul by the ZIFA Electoral Committee headed by Justice Selo Nare and have indicated they will appeal.
ZIFA chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze yesterday could neither confirm nor deny receiving the appeal by Chiyangwa’s election agent, Eddie Chivero, against Carelse-Juul’s candidature following his clearance by the ZIFA Electoral Committee last Friday.
Mashingaidze said once the appeal is received, it will be forwarded to the ZIFA Appeals Committee. “Once the appeal is noted it will be sent to the relevant Appeals Committee. So the appellant has to come up with heads of argument citing the issues he or she is appealing against.
The appellant must then pay the appeal fees of US$2 000,” said Mashingaidze. Carelse-Juul’s agent Stanley Makombe said they are not moved by latest development after successfully resubmitting their papers on Friday. “It is their legal right to appeal but I think the ZIFA Electoral Committee had questioned certain documentation for Trevor and have since confirmed that all his papers are in order so any appeal against us suggesting that the Committee did not look at our papers correctly is wrong.
“My view it is a tactic to try and continue with their strategy of never wanting Trevor to participate in the elections because for them it is the best strategy. They seem to feel that if they go to elections with him they see their chances of winning slim. “When you look at the Electoral Committee it is made up of legal minds and when you question experts in law when you are not a lawyer and just getting things from the top of your head, it is just merely to waste time.
“We are not moved by it and they are disappointed because I think they had planned and their plan was to make sure Trevor is not confirmed and now they are trying to find a way to complicate things,” said Makombe.-State Media
Mugabe an Embarrassment at G20 Summit
MDC-T| The Group of Twenty (also known as the G-20) is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 20 major economies of the world. Zimbabwe is not amongst the 20 major economies of the world and as such, we are not part of the G-20.
The G-20 include 19 individual countries that are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States of America; along with the European Union (EU). The G-20 represents 85% of the global economy. The tenth annual meeting of the G-20 heads of government is currently being held in the resort city of Antalya in Turkey.
Robert Mugabe and his huge delegation are also in Antalya supposedly to attend the G-20 in his capacity as the chairman of the African Union (AU). It is actually a gross embarrassment that Zimbabwe, currently ranked amongst the twenty poorest countries in the world, is also part and parcel of the ongoing G-20 summit in Turkey.
The official explanation given by the Zanu PF regime for Robert Mugabe’s attendance at the summit is that he is doing so in his capacity as the chairman of the AU. In fact, this is a very disgraceful and nebulous excuse for Mugabe to attend the G-20 summit. Accordingly, he is just at the fringes of the summit for the simple reason that Zimbabwe is not part of 20 major economies of the world. Mugabe is not in any way involved in the actual business of the discussions being conducted by the visiting heads of government. Effectively, he is just a bystander.
It therefore boggles the mind why Robert Mugabe and his wife, accompanied by a huge entourage of not less than 60 people, are in Antalya purportedly to attend the tenth annual meeting of the G-20.
Mugabe and his huge delegation had to charter an Air Zimbabwe jet to travel to Turkey notwithstandingthat the national economy is presently in a comatose state and the government is struggling to pay salaries and bonuses for civil servants. Mugabe cannot be purporting to be representing Africa at the G-20 meeting because only one African country is a member of the G-20 and that country is South Africa. President Jacob Zuma of South Africa is representing his country at the Antalya meeting.
Robert Mugabe has a penchant for costly foreign travel. In 2015 alone, he has embarked on no less than 40 foreign excursions at the expense of the national treasury that is virtually bankrupt. Even his annual leave and Christmas holidays are routinely spent in faraway places in the Far East. Instead of promoting local tourism by spending his holidays in Victoria Falls, Kariba or the Eastern Highlands, Robert Mugabe almost invariably travels to Malaysia, Singapore or Hong Kong for his annual holidays; at huge expense to the struggling exchequer.
As the MDC, we call upon Robert Mugabe to learn to cut his cloth according to his size. Because of the ruinous economic policies adopted by his regime over the years; coupled with rampant corruption and gross mismanagement, Zimbabwe has been reduced from being the bread basket of Southern Africa to becoming a basket case in a very short period of 35 years. Mugabe should be ashamed of the damage that has been brought upon the economy of Zimbabwe as a direct result of decades of his misrule.
To date, more than 80% of Zimbabweans are living in abject poverty and penury thanks to Robert Mugabe’s misrule and mismanagement. At least 5 million Zimbabweans have escaped to the Diaspora as economic refugees; in the past 15 years alone. Such has been the legacy of Robert Mugabe’s record of misrule, mismanagement and unmitigated corruption that to date, at least 2 million Zimbabweans are facing serious food shortages mainly because the agricultural sector has been decimated by a violent and ill – planned so – called land reform program.
It is thus a total shame and a serious national embarrassment that Robert Mugabe saw it fit to travel to Antalya,Turkey to attend the G-20 meeting.
Obert Chaurura Gutu
MDC National Spokesperson
Doctors Rubbish Timothy Stamps
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association says no sane and patriotic Zimbabwean should defend Health Minister David Parirenyatwa for siphoning the the Premier Service Medical Aid Society.
On Sunday former Health Minister who is now the health adviser to in the office of the President and Cabinet Dr Timothy Stamps wrote in the Sunday Mail defending Parirenyatwa.
Below is Dr Fortune Nyamande the ZHDA President’s response to DR Stamps
I write this article in response to the remarks made by Dr T Stamps on the controversial disbursement of $100 000 US dollars to the Minister of Health Dr Parirenyatwa company’s CHEST account .
Labeling Dr Parirenyatwa as an “impeccable character” and applauding him for reintroducing capitation is a gross misrepresentation and diversionary strategy.
It is common knowledge that not all medical practitioners in Zimbabwe enjoy the selective application of this otherwise noble scheme of capitation.
Isn’t it ironic and a gross moral misnomer that the same Minister who has superintendent the financial demise and decay of PSMAS becomes one of the few if not only general practitioner to benefit from the scheme?
Is it also financially sound for an indebted company to extend advances? Why then would such a company be immune from attachment of property for failing to settle long standing debts?
Dr Parirenyatwa should be reminded that his duties include the promotion of public good, social justice and advancing the access to health care for all Zimbabweans.
These allegations, if true will definitely infuriate doctors and other service providers who have continued to treat PSMAS medical aid holders with the hope that their debts will be settled.
It should also be highlighted that the preferential and gross overpayment to the Minister of Health can never be justified and is also a clear breach of the Zimbabwean constitution. Ministers whilst holding public office must not undertake paid work.
The case also inextricably places the embattled minister in a position where there is conflict of interest.
His office regulates the medical aid societies and therefore he must be the last person to get preferential treatment ahead of the less politically connected and influential doctors should we pretend that capitation is now back at PSMAS.
It will be a great injustice should this case fail to be thoroughly investigated and the supposed funds returned immediately to the broke PSMAS.
Isn’t it a case of unparalleled barbarism that a minister who should be exploring avenues of clearing the PSMAS debt is the first one in the queue to get monetary advances for patients he may fail to treat in a couple of years?
I have no doubt that I respect Dr Stamps for his excellent contribution to Zimbabwe’s health delivery system and am sure that his leadership exploits in the ministry are greatly missed by many.
However it should be on record during our generation that this transaction by Dr Parirenyatwa through his company is highly immoral and must always be condemned in the strongest possible terms!
This article was written by Dr F N Nyamande.
Dr Nyamande is the current president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association and writes in his personal capacity.
For and on behalf of the ZHDA
Mugabe Wants Mujuru Back
Rattled by the dramatic re-entry into formal politics by former Vice President Joice Mujuru two months ago, as well as the prospects of her working with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai ahead of the 2018 national elections, some members of a panicky Robert Mugabe controlled post-congress Zanu PF are apparently stepping up efforts to lure her back into the ruling party.
Well-placed sources in President Robert Mugabe’s warring party told the Daily News yesterday that while the overtures to Mujuru were “not universally supported”, there was widespread agreement that her brutal purge late last year had left the party more divided and seriously weakened.
“Yes, there are some overtures to her, but I don’t think that these have yet reached a formal stage, and they are certainly not universally supported.
Many hardliners are opposed to such a move as it would threaten their positions.
“One thing that is not in dispute any more is that Mai Mujuru’s ghost looms large in the party,” a senior Zanu PF official said when asked to comment on the overtures.
Since the popular widow of the late liberation struggle icon, Solomon Mujuru, was ruthlessly purged from the ranks of the former liberation movement on untested claims of working to dethrone and assassinate Mugabe, Zanu PF’s deadly factional and succession wars have escalated.
The politburo member who spoke to the Daily News said some party bigwigs were “desperate to let by-gones be by-gones”, which would see Mujuru and her allies being brought back into the party fold, for the sake of the party and the country.
“There is no doubt that things are not going well in the party. Many senior members now say privately that if Mai Mujuru is brought back into the party, we will win the 2018 general elections without any problems.
“The other issue is that everyone in the party (Zanu PF) wants to avoid a coalition between Mai Mujuru and Tsvangirai, because if the two join hands, this could be the end of our party,” he said.
Tell-tale signs of the overtures to Mujuru and her supporters first emerged at First Lady Grace Mugabe’s recent Rushinga rally, where she extended an olive branch to party members who were either dismissed or suspended on allegations of being linked to Mujuru.
“I always say if you see that you have done something wrong, apologise to the party. Even God forgives and as Zanu PF we do the same,” she said.
And in another indication that the ruling party is trying to bring Mujuru and her allies back, the inappropriately named State media columnist, Bishop Lazarus, said recently that Mujuru would return to Zanu PF.
“Mujuru’s silence is being presented as a strategy to ambush Zanu PF towards 2018. That is not the case as she is insisting that she can’t imagine herself fighting against Zanu PF in general and President Mugabe in particular.
“Gumbo and Mutasa are said to be pinning Mai Mujuru down as they try to force her to come out in the open. The Americans and the British are coming from the back, leaving Mai Mujuru with no room to breathe. It’s that bad.
“Seeing that she is in a fix, Mai Mujuru is said to have decided that she won’t comment officially on the People First project, with reports that the Build document that was attributed to her was published against her wish.
“Bishop Lazarus knows where her heart lies, but then let me not rush things here. Gumbo, Mutasa, Americans and the British will one good day know that they are and can’t be cleverer than Zanu PF,” the columnist said.
In the meantime, Mujuru’s allies say the former VP has no intention of going back to Zanu PF or meeting Mugabe as is being suggested in some circles.
Dismissing the speculation, the spokesperson of the “original” Zanu PF that uses the slogan People First, Rugare Gumbo, said there was a deliberate ploy by the country’s spies to sell the public a dummy and portray Mujuru as a sell-out who was longing to return to Zanu PF.
“We have been alerted that there are Zanu PF propagandists and security services personnel who have been assigned to fabricate and plant dubious stories in the media to the effect that (Dr) Joice Mujuru is still Zanu PF and that she intends on re-joining the faction-riddled and internally-decaying political outfit,” Gumbo said in a statement.
“We seek to set the record straight herein, that (Dr) Mujuru last met Mugabe on December 1, 2014, a day before Mugabe’s party held its congress and no other meeting between the two, or their representatives, has taken place subsequently.
“(Dr) Mujuru has no intentions to meet Mugabe or go back to Zanu PF as she is busy putting in place a strong political entity that will provide a platform for Zimbabweans, in our diversity and with the multiplicity of our skills, to turn around our economy, rehabilitate our service delivery system, restore hope to our long-suffering people and provide jobs and better livelihoods to the thousands of college and university graduates that the current government has condemned to perpetual poverty and destitution,” Gumbo said.
Mujuru recently launched her Blueprint to Unlock Investment and Leverage for Development (Build) manifesto, which caught the post-congress Zanu PF flat-footed and left many in the party visibly rattled.
“We reiterate that (Dr) Mujuru and all progressive Zimbabweans working with her will not be distracted from charting a trajectory that will return our country to economic prosperity through a people-centred political formation whose primary goal is to restore dignity to our people through providing mechanisms for economic sustainability rooted in an inclusive socio-economic and political system.
“No amount of lies, or infertile imaginations, is going to stop the people’s movement,” Gumbo said.DailyNews
Forget the Past And Move On
How should we move forward when we carry a heavy burden caused by our a bad past? Our past has a tendency to cloud our current judgement and affect our performance. The past can hold us hostage or even easily misdirect us.
At times it’s the people in our lives who affected us negatively. We got disappointed because our expectations were not met. Perhaps they actually gave some positive contribution to our lives; we are here today because of them.
Maybe it was just natural situations that affected us negatively. There was no other way. At times the situation actually helped us to be better. Nevertheless we are here today because of the impact of the past, whether good or bad.
You are here because of the past, but you can become who you want in the future based on what you do now!
Possibly we made unwise choices that brought terrible results and we hurt ourselves and our loved ones in the process. And also it’s possible our good choices made us better. You are here today because of you choices, whether good or bad.
What is required from you is that you use what you have now to go forward. Check and list the resources you have, the gifts and opportunities around you. Use them to go forward. You cannot use what you do not have!
“Don’t tell me what you cannot do, but tell me what you can do.”
Forget the past but look forward. Leave shattered dreams alone. Create a new dream. You are here because of the past, but you can become who you want in the future based on what you do now!
“Don’t tell me what you cannot do, but tell me what you can do.” Don’t tell me what you do not have, but tell me what you have, because your future is based on what you can do with what you have.
The parable of the talents in Matthew 25 explains it clearly. Everyone has something! Perhaps you can start by using your smile instead of being grumpy and miserable. Sow the small seed that you have instead of hiding it.
There is an annually national pageant to find Mr Ugly. The current Mr Ugly is a very fascinating man. Instead of complaining about his looks and how potential employer could not even allow him into interview rooms because of his looks, he saw that people are willing to pay him just because of his looks. Now he is building his career on it. What a remarkable man.
Do you look worse than Mr Ugly? I don’t think so.
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Drama as Cop Beats Up another Cop
BY DANFORD ZIRUGO| A police woman was on Thursday arraigned at Mbare magistrate court after she allegedly assaulted a community service officer.
The woman, Barbara Chipatiso (28) pleaded not guilty before magistrate Stanford Mambanje who remanded her in custody to 18 November.
Allegations against Chipatiso are that on November 4 she and her colleague approached community service officer Shingirai Matavire at the Mbare Community service office seeking a record for an ex-convict.
The state alleges Matavire’s supervisor told Chipatiso and her colleague that the said records had been taken to Rotten Row courts by the Director of Community Service.
It is further alleged then she started accusing Matavire for defeating the course of justice.
Chipatiso is said to have begun blocking the duty supervisor from going out for lunch resulting in Matavire intervening in the case.
Chipatiso is said to have gone on to grab Matavire’s neck by one hand intending to assault her.
Matavire’s supervisor restrained Chipatiso from hurting Matavire.
Lawrence Gangarahwe appeared for the state.
BREAKING NEWS: ZANU PF ‘Killer’ Commits Suicide
A ZANU PF man who caused havoc killing two party colleagues over political scuffles centred around Emmerson Mnangagwa and Grace Mugabe, has been found hanged in his cell, just a day before his first court hearing.
ZRP cops say Proud Mupambwa, 37, was discovered in his cell at 5 a.m. Monday morning.
He was scheduled to be tried on Tuesday.
No foul play is suspected.
“He was in his cell alone and no other inmates suspected to be involved,” a police source said.
The Chitungwiza based ruling party activist reportedly axed two colleagues in a violent fit of rage following the Zanu PF district restructuring exercise last week.
Police spokesperson Charity Charamba confirmed the incident but said that investigations are still underway.
Woman Steals From Foreigners : Mantainance Scam
A woman who has a habit of stealing hundreds of thousands dollars from unsuspecting rich foreigners using fake documents to claim mantainance has appeaated in court.
She would claim maintenance from different men for children he bore during her earlier marriage with another man .
In one of the cases, Olga Mukwindidza Bhatti (33), who was once married to an Asian, swindled Akram Mahammed (60) of $200 000 through fraudulent means, which included blackmail.
The courts heard that the woman has two children from her first marriage to Rizwan Ahmad Bhatti. She would fraudulently change the children’s birth certificates to reflect the details of the targeted foreigner. During her relationship with the unsuspecting victims, Mukwindidza would take nude photos of the men and threaten to leak the photos to their families, business, religious circles and press if they did not pay her.
She also falsely claimed $20 000 from an elderly man of Caucasian extraction (name not supplied), which he paid as maintenance fees for the upkeep of one of Mukwindidza’s children for nearly five years.
It is the State’s case that sometime in 2011, Mukwindidza had a relationship with Mahammed but they later broke up. She then lied to Mahammed that she was pregnant before misrepresenting that she had given birth to a baby boy. Mahammed denied responsibility.
Mukwindidza fraudulently acquired a fake birth certificate for her son Mason Kelly Bhatti in a bid to claim maintenance from Mahammed.
She changed her son’s name to read Mohsin Akram Muhammed. Using the fake birth certificate, Mukwindidza applied for maintenance at the Harare Civil court where she claimed $2 000. It is the State’s case that she manufactured school receipts purportedly from Little Explorer’s School and claimed $1 050 as fees.
According to the State, the said child was not even enrolled at that school. Acting on the fraudulent documents, the magistrate granted her application. Mukwindidza, who had Mahammed’s nude pictures, allegedly extorted $169 260 from him while threatening to take the pictures to his family and the press. In another case, prosecutor Ms Sharon Mashavira alleged that Mukwindidza fell in love with an 83-year-old complainant in 2004 before breaking up in 2010.
After breaking up, the court heard, Mukwindidza lied to the complainant that she was pregnant from him. On September 8 2010, Mukwindidza got a fake birth certificate in the name of Dean Leslie Mukwindidza. She purported that she obtained the birth certificate, number HMC 1221/2010 from Seke Registrar General’s office. She then asked the complainant to pay maintenance fees for the child but he refused arguing that he had not seen the pregnancy.
Using the fake birth certificate, Mukwindidza made an application for maintenance at the Harare Civil Courts and the application was granted in her favour. The complainant was ordered to pay $400 per month as maintenance fees. In 2013, the complainant made an application for downward variation which was granted and he was ordered to pay $200 per month towards the upkeep of the child.
Sometime in October this year, the complainant conducted his own investigations and discovered that the child he was maintaining was not his. He made a report to the police. Investigations through the Registrar General’s office proved that the birth entry number used by Mukwindidza belonged to another person. – State Media
Sex Shebeen Owned By ZRP Cop | BREAKING NEWS
By Tinoonga Mawere, Masvingo| Residents of Rujeko suburb are unhappy with the commotion caused by drunk patrons who frequent a sex-shebeen owned by a local police officer.
The residents who include vendors told ZimEye.com on Saturday the shebeen, owned by a ZRP Inspector based at the Central Police station, was creating mayhem in the suburb as drunk patrons had the habit of shouting obscenities at nearby vendors and residents who include toddlers in the area.
The shebeen is situated a stone’s throw from Rujeko police camp yet the police are reluctant to apprehend the patrons and the shebeen owner. On the contrary the police are harassing nearby vendors -some of them who are university graduates trying to eke out a living in the harsh economic environment.
“We wonder who will police the police because the shebeen is well known and it is owned by a police officer. We are having sleepless nights because of people who throng the place. When drunk they shout obscenities at us and our clients. Some of our clients are afraid of coming to our market place. They even shout insults at our children; it is really a traumatising experience.
“We reported the matter at Rujeko Police but some of the officers accused us of stirring trouble. Some times the patrons shout insults at us in full view of the police.
“The situation is terrible; how can a police officer own a shebeen? Our efforts to report the matter have since hit a brick wall since the police are effectively refusing to act on the matter,” said a vendor based at Jazire business centre in the suburb.
In Zimbabwe one has to obtain liquor licence in order to sell alcohol.
The police have been accused of failing to protect the citizens and the vendors alleged they were threatened with arrests and raids when they filed a complaint at Rujeko police camp.
Sex Zest: Man Bashes Wife with Machete
A 33-YEAR-OLD Emganwini man, who resides at his mother-in-law’s house, yesterday allegedly attacked his wife on the head seven times with a machete before breaking her two fingers, accusing her of refusing to have sexual intercourse with him.
The man identified as Alfred Lunga, was staying together with his wife Sikhululekile Ndlovu (22) at Christine Mudzami’s house, where the incident reportedly occurred.
The couple has a one-year-three-month-old child.
In an interview with Southern Eye, Mudzami said she was at the United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) accompanying her daughter after she was attacked by Lunga, who ran away soon after committing the offence.
Mudzami said the attack occurred at around 7am.
“My son-in-law struck my daughter seven times on the head with a machete and also broke her two fingers, one from each hand,” she said.
“He attacked her in my presence. I tried to restrain him, but he overpowered me. He even wanted to strike the child, but I ran away with the baby. He then ran away, but we have reported the matter to the police.”
Mudzami said her daughter was bleeding profusely and the blood was all over the house.
“When I asked him why he wanted to kill his wife like that, he said he had to have sex with her, but she kept on refusing and he got angry,” Mudzami said.
“I was keeping this boy at my house and he could not even bring anything home. He was only a consumer. Look at what he has done to my daughter. I want him jailed. As I speak, the police are looking for him and I hope he will be arrested soon.”
Mudzami said they were not aware of Lunga’s home, all they knew was that his mother stayed somewhere close to Fairbridge in Bulawayo.
Contacted for comment, Bulawayo Police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango advised Southern Eye to call later.-SouthernEye
Pastor’s $70 000 Theft Case Drama
THE trial of a Bulawayo-based Nigerian businessman and church leader, Oma Alphonsus Achinulo, accused of stealing over $70 000 from his Zimbabwean business partner, has taken a new twist after the matter was transferred from the regional court in Gwanda to the Provincial Magistrates’ Court.
The trial had been stalled for some time following complaints by Achinulo (48) that the then presiding regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza and prosecutor Johannes Tlou were biased against him.
After the complaint, Mabeza and Tlou are said to have recused themselves from handling the matter.
This was after Achinulo, through his lawyer Lison Ncube, filed an application for review of Mabeza’s proceedings at the High Court, where Justice Maxwell Takuva granted the application and ordered that the case be heard by another magistrate.
Last Monday, Achinulo went to Gwanda Magistrates’ Court with his lawyer, where they were advised by Mabeza that the matter was to be heard by provincial magistrate Maphios Moyo.
The development did not go down well with Achinulo, who argued that procedurally, a case should not be taken from a higher court to a lower court.
His lawyer Ncube confirmed that the case had been set for trial on December 11 by another magistrate.
“The matter has been postponed for trial in Gwanda to be heard by provincial magistrate,” Ncube said. “The High Court granted an order for a trial de novo (new trial) before a different magistrate.”
Achinulo, who is director of Enfund Trading Company, is accused of stealing over $70 533 from Nicholas Masuku.
On his initial appearance for trial in Gwanda, Achinulo, through his lawyer, complained that the magistrate and the prosecutor had been seen having lunch with Masuku, and other State witnesses.
As a result, Achinulo expressed concerns he might not get a fair trial.
He also accused Tlou of interjecting his lawyer when he was cross-examining Masuku.
He claimed Tlou led Masuku in a manner that aided his evidence, but Mabeza reportedly ignored the lawyer’s objections.
Achinulo said there was clear bias on the part of the State and the magistrate.
The State alleges that on October 20, 2010, Masuku, a managing director of N and S Properties, agreed with Umzingwane Rural District Council to service and develop residential stands at Feinspruit Township.
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Masuku then partnered with Achinulo’s company, which was to provide an earthmover and an excavator for the project, but Achinulo only brought an earthmover in violation of the deed of partnership.
Achinulo had been appointed financial director of N and S Properties and Enfund Trading Company when the project started.
The two later ran out of resources and Masuku approached the council seeking permission to sell 43 stands to raise money for water reticulation pipes and materials to complete the project.
From May 2011 to February 2012, Achinulo allegedly received a total of $70 533,34 and diverted the funds to his personal use.
He allegedly refused to show Masuku the financial books and records of the partnership.
In his defence, however, Achinulo said all the money was channelled towards the project and accused Masuku of fabricating the charges.-SouthernEye
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Econet Cuts Off 1million People
The country’s largest mobile operator, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, has disconnected one million unregistered lines. The lines were disconnected last week.
Sources privy to the goings-on said the operator gave the customers an ultimatum through text messages to register the lines by November 13.
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Executive Assistant to GCEO Mr Lovemore Nyatsine could not shed light on the development.
“In line with Statutory Instrument 95/2014 promulgated to ensure that customers of mobile networks are registered on the network, Econet has and continues to ensure that its customers are registered on the network and that their details are correct and up to date.
“Where we identify customer details not complying with our validation exercises, we are mandated to deactivate them after all efforts have been taken to ensure that they comply,” he said.
Mr Nyatsine said it was an ongoing exercise to ensure customers register their lines.
“This is an ongoing exercise and we continue to encourage our customers to update their records with us to avoid inconveniences of being disconnected,” he said.
Insiders at different Econet outlets said this was meant to rid Econet of criminal activities as people were using the unregistered lines to commit offences.
“The reason why we were disconnecting unregistered lines was as a result of an increase in the crime rate with errant and unscrupulous dealers taking advantage of the system.
“We were busy on Wednesday (last week) disconnecting some unregistered lines whose number I am not sure of. There has been an increase in cases of abuse with the use of unregistered lines,” said the source.
Added another source: “We disconnected one million lines and one is required to come with his or her ID card and enter the correct information on our forms including proof of residence to recover their lines.”
The source said details of subscribers were taken to the registrar general’s office for verification.
However, it was noted that some people entered wrong information in terms of home addresses, national identification numbers, among other anomalies.
“We investigated the matter after many people came asking for information on certain numbers to which we failed to locate the owners. This was after some people had developed a tendency of using unregistered lines to commit crimes and discard them later.”
Some subscribers expressed dismay at the manner Econet had deactivated them.
Mellody Tafirenyika of Glen View said: “It was very disheartening for me to find out that my line was no longer working. I came here to re-register it after I discovered that it had no network.”
Another subscriber said Econet must not sell its lines through the black market.
“The problem lies with Econet for failing to have the lines sold in their outlets. Most often, we buy them from the streets and sometimes we fail to register them immediately owing to other commitments,” said John Chawada of Chitungwiza.
Last year in July, Econet, Telecel and NetOne gave their customers an ultimatum to register their sim cards in line with the revised statutory regulations gazetted by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe.-State Media
Replacing Mugabe:Mnangagwa Enters State House – ALL SET
Doing a Mujuru on Mnangagwa impracticable | By: Farai Mamina
Albeit my repugnance of pronouncing informed acuity on asinine politics, 
I thought of reducing to bare bones one matter that seems to be unprovided in the faculties of some recently enrolled University of Zimbabwe adult law students. On a continuous rating scale of 1 to 10, the supposedly guileful cluster being referred to as Generation 40 within the unkempt Zanu-PF is 9,5 over 10 forlornly peripatetic regarding the fate of Mnangagwa. Even Robert Mugabe himself knows that inexorable factual veracity. Here we are talking of the architectural enterprise engineer of all Mugabe’s grittiest election survival strategies since 2002. This is the calculative man who does not comment even when the homilies hokum gets too loud and none would know what is at the back of his mind. Even the universe has a tendency to harshly sympathise with him when others desperately seeking the limelight begin to question whether he really is a “crocodile” or just but an “ambitious lizard”.
It would be an uninteresting burlesque to ever imagine the practicability of a Mujuru on Mnangagwa, lest somebody needs some rapid experience reminiscent of some historical event realities – both far and near. Unknown to the G40 assemblage of political minors plus one seasoned turncoat, Robert Mugabe understands Mnangagwa far better. Henceforward, trying hard to delude Mugabe into acquiescence against Mnangagwa is just but another foolish subterfuge that will trolley no political flight this time around, especially with the octogenarian having enigmatically realised how he was foxed over Mujuru. Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri admitted that they played out a Tingoringo (now you see me now you don’t) kind of game on Mujuru just so she could not get an opportunity to ascend. That Muchinguri-Kashiri’s admittance did not bode well with the President but instead helped him read into the toxic machinations of the G40 fungi requires no scientific number crunching. When Jabulani Sibanda was given the boot for having articulated that a bedroom coup was imminent, Mugabe refuted the allegation and the President has not forgotten the psychological contract he created with the masses then. Contrary to G40’s reported ambitions, Mugabe will likely utilise this conference to put them in their places.
Moreover, I haven’t known of any politicians who successfully assumed the presidency through foul-mouth anywhere in the world. Such level of tongue twisting is the kind that is costing one of the richest men in the world America’s endorsement as Republican presidential candidate. Donald Trump can tell you the full narrative. Having said this, it becomes untenable for Grace Mugabe to just get it on a silver plate in a party with better qualified politicians and level-headed academics. Even though it is a given that the Zimbabwean political space might now be filled with paranoid belly-politicians, a combination of these people’s last sensory nerves still functioning will make them no want to accept such a scenario. In the event of it trending, I foresee many of these so called young Turks opting out of politics in Zimbabwe rather than celebrating their so far self-propelled imaginary victory. With the party already imploding, Mugabe would be the last person to give in to any manoeuvre that is going to hurt the party further. Even if he wanted to step aside, for this particular reason, he would rather remain in office till the end of his natural life whereof the next leader would have to inadvertently emerge through an election which I wouldn’t see madam Grace winning.
Therefore, to ever think that the Victoria Falls December 2015 conference is going to debase Mnangagwa is equivalent to hallucinating that someone is going to jezebelically arise during the conference and shout “Mugabe must go”. It is an untruthful charismatic visualisation of the actual image of 3rd Heaven never seen before. Mnangagwa is a Zanu PF powerhouse reality that the G40 must just get used to and accept his seniority in not only age and tact but also political intellect. There is just no way Mugabe would forget how Mnangagwa has over the years propped up his permanent residence at the helm, especially when others had repeatedly thrown in the towel. Because of the incalculable respect for Mnangagwa that Mugabe has, any billed proposition for a woman representative in the presidium will either be outrightly rejected by the party’s godfather or conveniently accepted at the demise of Mpoko’s position. In spite of the pain of losing a daughter, and burying her without a heart – on the backdrop of having lampooned the Dzamara family – I am sure even Jonathan Moyo now has a better understanding of the crocodile he dared perceive as an ambitious lizard.
Plausible information has it many insiders are saying they would rather engineer the vote in Tsvangirai and/or Mujuru’s favour if it’s not Mnangagwa or Mugabe himself representing Zanu PF in the next election. It would be anyone’s guess their argument is that at least Mnangagwa is now talking well informed on the subject of economic reconstruction as opposed to the G40 which is still insatiably preoccupied with suspensions of those not sympathetic to their political plight. In all honesty, I think that line of argument is strategically valid. The hankering with which Zhuwawo is so untiring to prove his indigenisation point is a two-bladed knife tantamount to double slicing of any remaining confidence in prospective foreign investors. Such injudicious vehemence makes it even more impracticable for any jerking in the face of a seasoned veteran in the mould of Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. In any patriotic case, any junior party screwball that chooses not to recognise and respect the chain of seniority command can easily be mused as a traitorous rebel.
Farai Mamina is an independent analyst watching from the terraces of Hage Geingob stadium in Windhoek – as always.
‘Mother Kills New Born Baby’
A 16-year-old mother who was in a forced marriage has been arrested for suffocating her newborn baby.
The teenager, from Phihli Village under Chief Bunina in Lower Gweru who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Gweru Magistrate Judith Taruvinga facing a charge of infanticide.
She pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded in custody to November 25 for trial.
For the State, Daniel Tafuma told the court that the teenager was married sometime this year after she fell pregnant and killed her baby after giving birth eleven days ago.
He said she was living with her mother-in-law when she committed the crime.
The prosecutor said a neighbour who heard the baby crying from the girl’s room came and forced open the door, only to find the dead baby in a plastic bag.
“On November 5 this year at around 9AM, she didn’t tell anyone about her labour pains and gave birth while alone in a room at her mother-in-law’s residence,” said Tafuma.
He said the accused took the baby and put it in a plastic carrier bag and suffocated it.
The neighbour reported the matter to the police leading to the teenager’s arrest.
The post mortem results showed that the baby died due to suffocation.
The teenager however insists that the baby was already dead when she delivered hence she decided to put the body in a plastic bag to take it to a nearby clinic.
She told the court that it was best for the child to die because her husband was denying responsibility.
She said her husband always told her that his mother had forced him to marry her.
The teenager said the baby could have died during delivery as she was alone when she gave birth.
She said she was alone at home when she went into labour so there was noone to take her to hospital.
“Your worship I didn’t kill the baby as alleged but I couldn’t get anyone to take me to the hospital so I suspect the baby died during delivery. I didn’t have clothes for the baby so after delivery I had to wrap it in a plastic bag. When I was preparing to go to hospital that’s when my neighbour walked in and found the baby in a plastic bag and suspected that I had killed it,” said the teenager close to tears.-State Media
Dying Mugabe Tickled By Turkish Government
- Will Mugabe live beyond December 2015?
- Mugabe death now freely spoken of even in ZANU PF
The Turkish government has revealed why it rushed to appease old-age-patient Robert Mugabe honouring him to attend the ongoing powerful G20 summit.
At a time when Western governments constantly avoid Mugabe saying he bleats like an “old grandpa”, a government official told ZimEye.com in its view Turkey to the contrary 
recognises Mugabe as pivotal to the continent’s needs and wants. Even though Zimbabwe is not a member of the privileged G20 group of countries, Turkey believes Mugabe’s government holds the master-guidance on African developmental issues and should attend the summit.
This comes at a time when Mugabe who was shown on camera failing to walk in India, has in recent days reflected shocking levels of mental illness by denouncing both himself and his party. This development has led to analysts speculating that he will not live beyond December 2015.
Mugabe death now common news even in ZANU PF
The certainty of Mugabe’s death is no taboo anymore even in ZANU PF. Party regalia and campaign materials for the first time now have someone else’s face apart from Mugabe. Even wrist bands now have Emmerson Mnangagwa’s face, showing Mugabe’s own nation no longer recognises him as alive, …. hereafter.
The Turkish government however said it is convinced that Mugabe’s presence provides new opportunities to reflect Africa’s views. The Turkish G20 presidency “is convinced that Zimbabwe’s active participation in G20 activities in 2015, as Chair of the African Union, enhanced Africa’s voice in the platform and provided new opportunities to reflect Africa’s views on the G20 llgenda,” they said. ALSO READ:
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Mugabe who arrived in Antalya yesterday attended the session meeting which began today, Sunday. READ MORE at http://www.zimeye.com/grace-and-bob-fly-to-turkey-for-g20-summit/
But is Turkey as a nation serious when it ignores the obvious-Mugabe’s deteriorating health simply because it wants to show itself off as better than the West? Will this Turkish tickle bring any new investments to Africa or at the least to Mugabe’s country? History will speak louder than words in 2016!
Mugabe Death: Prophets Torment Zimbabwe’s President
while Shining in Vain Glory…
Learnmore Zuze|NewZimbabwe|It would appear the craving for attention by new age prophets won’t be going away any time soon. In fact, it would appear the more outrageous a prophecy is the more the lime light.
A few days ago we heard well-known Malawian prophet Austin Liabunya affirming his death prophecy concerning the person of the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. The prophecy first made headlines as we entered the year 2015. Now, with a few weeks before the close of 2015, Prophet Austin Liabunya has insisted the Zimbabwean President will be exiting human life in less than 60 days.
Liabunya has stood by his sensitive and controversial prophecy exactly 10 months after he made the utterances at a crossover service held in Area 23 at Music Cross Road tent in the early hours of January in Lilongwe. He has expressed no regret saying Mugabe will die by the 31st of December 2015. This time Mugabe will certainly die as proclaimed by this oracle of God and I will be vindicated as God’s humble messenger.
So to Liabunya and his followers, Mugabe’s death would be a way of attaining self-glory and proving to the world that he is a true servant of God. It has become trending for this new generation of preachers to make false predictions as they chase after popularity. It has to be controversy which catapults them to fame.
There is also one prominent preacher in the UK who wrote me an email about a year ago making the same Mugabe death prediction. It’s almost a year and half now and the prophecy did not come to pass and I haven’t heard from him since. The prophecies, for some reason, target deaths of prominent figures only.
As for the Malawian prophet, Austin Liabunya, one only has to look at his track record of prophecies in his own country. It was also during the same service that he told his followers that Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema would emerge as the new president of Zambia; something which turned out to be an embarrassingly false prophecy. The United Party for Development leader was beaten by Patriotic Front leader Edgar Lungu. It is no wonder even the death prophecies relating to musician Oliver Mtukudzi and First Lady Grace Mugabe have all not come to pass despite the dates given by some prophets.
The onus to take away life is the prerogative of the One who gave it. The Bible is very clear that it is only the Creator who knows the hour of anyone’s death. He created and he knows minute details of each of his creation. It is not up to some individual, intoxicated with self-importance, to know or proclaim the hour of someone’s death.
When God gave a prophecy, it had a bearing on all nations; there was never a place for private interpretation as we see in these men desperate for attention; no prophecy is of private interpretation according to Apostle Peter. These men should stop apportioning to themselves things that are a preserve of God Almighty. Like one musician sang, God did well to remain the exclusive determinant of human life.
Honestly, if the mandate had been given to human beings they would wantonly kill, in this case to prove themselves true. In my opinion, people may have their own reservations about Robert Mugabe from a political standpoint but the laid down truth on the fact of death will not change in the pursuit of fame. Only God can determine when and how to take life. Prophecy or religion aside; isn’t it ironical that anyone would want the glory of predicting someone’s death as to be “vindicated as God’s humble messenger.
True prophets carry a message of repentance. The majority of people posing as prophets today are nothing short of religious opportunists muddying the name of Christianity. We are told, By their fruits you shall know them. and the foremost pointer of their deceitfulness is that true prophets of God carried a message of repentance everywhere they went not a message of riches.
Even Jesus Christ himself would often tell the crowds, Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. This was exactly the same message that was carried by John the Baptist instructing people to turn away from their sins. It was the same message Noah gave to people before the flood. It was the same message Jonah carried to Nineveh. All genuine prophets preached repentance.
In stark contrast, just listen to the modern day prophets with strong ties to Nigeria and Ghana; all they preach is money, miracles, and breakthroughs; it has little to do with the Kingdom referred to by Christ. It’s all about vanity. All they tell people is the lure of earthly riches.
Unknown to some however, riches, miracles and predictions are also the domain of Lucifer the rebellious angel. True Christians are not swayed by miracles. In fact the Bible says false prophets will emerge in the last days and will work great miracles to deceive many, even the elect (Matthew 24).
Remember this is the Last Hour. We are in the last hour.
– Learnmore Zuze
Makandiwa Smeared By Magaya Zombie
The UFIC advert saga took a new twist as fresh information coming in reflects that Mr. Enford Tatenda Tendai Mberi who fraudulently flighted an advert in the Daily News purporting to be a Son of Makandiwa, is a full time member of PHD ministries and personal graphic designer of Magaya, who he uses to design PHD Ministries’ material.
The Headboy investigating team, accessed pictures on social media, which shows Mr. Mberi wearing PHD T shirt and and a number of the pictures he wore PHD wristbands.
One member of the PHD ministries sent an email to the Headboy News and gave information on conditions of anonymity, was annoyed by the fact that Admire Mango the PHD spokesperson denied knowledge of Mr. Mberi in the press. The person then provided a photo of Mberi and his close friend only known as Combination, which was taken recently in Magaya’s office. Another picture of Mberi and Mango was also provided:
People from PHD contacted by the Headboy confirmed that Mberi is a member of PHD and has a close relationship with Magaya to an extent that he gets access to personal meetings with him. One such meeting was reportedly held a day before the advert was published and our source recorded the short meeting in which shocking details about the advert saga was discussed. (The Headboy News is in possession of the audio recording and is in a process of checking its authenticity)
More information to follow as the investigations continue.
The Headboy News “setting the record straight” – The HeadBoy
Mujuru Scoffs at Mugabe
Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru has rubbished claims from some political quarters that she could be weighing her options with a view to jumping back to Zanu PF, saying that will never happen.
Speaking directly for the first time in response to the allegations, Mujuru told The Standard on Friday: “Do you see Teurai doing such a thing?” (Teurai-Ropa is Mujuru’s liberation war name.”
The former VP usually speaks through former Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo and ex-administrator of the party Didymus Mutasa, who have aligned with her in her new political endeavours.
The Standard managed to secure a brief interview with her in which she insisted on accurate quotes, failure of which she said no interviews would be granted in the future.
“I have more important people’s things to do than to talk about non-existing issues. Uri kuona zvichiitwa naTeurai izvozvo? [Do you see Teurai doing such a thing as re-joining Zanu PF?] When I am ready, I will do what the real suffering people of Zimbabwe want me to do,” she said.
Her statement follows utterances by ex-Zanu PF provincial chairman for Mashonaland West Temba Mliswa, who claimed that Mujuru was working with a Zanu PF faction dubbed G40.
“Zimbabweans must learn to respect others and even respect themselves,” Mujuru said. “I am a person of my own ways… I don’t just do things. I have my own way of doing things.”
Gumbo, who now acts as the spokesperson of an outfit linked to the former VP, yesterday corroborated Mujuru’s statements, saying it was “wishful thinking” for Mliswa to suggest Mujuru wanted to return to Zanu PF.
“How can she go back to a party that ill-treated her like that? There is no way she is going back,” he said, adding that Mujuru had made it clear she would be contesting for the presidency in the 2018 elections.
“These allegations are mere dreams which should be forgotten. It is the work of the agents who are bent on distorting information,” Gumbo said.
He said Zanu PF was paying agents to do the “dirty work of misleading the masses”.
Political analyst Alois Masepe said one would have to be “insane” to want to go back to a party that was fraught with so many problems.
“It is a fact that she was ill-treated and to imagine her going back is too far-fetched. The ruling party is on fire, why would Mujuru want to go back?” he questioned.
Masepe said it would take a lot of persuasion and wooing to get the former VP to go back to a party that is “highly unstable”.
He, however, said politics was very unpredictable.
“Politics is the art of the possible, so one can never be certain of how things will eventually turn out,” Masepe said.
Mliswa, the former Hurungwe West MP who was kicked out of Zanu PF together with Mujuru and several other senior members, recently told our sister paper NewsDay that the ex-VP would only be powerful if she returned to Zanu PF.
Along with Mutasa, Gumbo and many others, Mujuru is part of a loose coalition of former Zanu PF liberation stalwarts, reportedly mulling the formation of a party currently going by the name People First.
Mliswa claimed Mujuru was now working with Young Turks within the ruling party opposed to the ascendancy of Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the presidency.
The group (G40), according to reports, boasts among its ranks the likes of Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo and Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao.
Although they all deny belonging to a faction, this has not stopped internal party hawks from linking them to the ambitious group.
“The G40 has realised that it is losing grip. They are losing the internal war with Mnangagwa because the on-going restructuring exercise has put Mnangagwa firmly in charge. His [Mnangagwa’s] people are in charge of Manicaland, Mashonaland West and Mashonaland East,” claimed Mliswa.
IN PICTURES: Car Accident with Train: 4 Killed
Four people died on the spot last night when their Honda CRV vehicle collided with a train in Emganwini, Bulawayo. They were driving towards Emganwini while the train was travelling from Botswana to Bulawayo. According to witnesses, the driver of the vehicle attempted to cross the railway line ahead of the train, ignoring the train’s warning hoot resulting in the accident.
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that his Justice Ministry is in the process of reviewing the Road Traffic Act, a move that will see deterrent penalties including long custodial sentences being meted out on errant road users.
Addressing thousands of people at the Africa Safety Day National Commemorations at Mkoba Stadium in Gweru yesterday, Acting President Mnangagwa said the ministry was lobbying for lengthy mandatory custodial sentences for errant road users.
The Africa Safety Day National Commemorations that were the first in the country were held under the theme: “Towards Enhancement, Implementation of the African Plan of Action Measures for 2011-2020 Road Safety Decade of Action.”
“I am still responsible for the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs so we are looking at the act tirikuongorora mutemo iwoyo kuti tiwedzere makore (so that we give custodial sentences to errant road users),” he said.
“Deterrent penalties must be meted out to errant road users. If stocktheft courts a minimum sentence of seven years imprisonment, why should a driver killer be fined a mere $100 and get away with murder. Road carnage destroys lives, limbs and property hence it is an enemy of economic growth.”
Acting President Mnangagwa said the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in conjunction with Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development were in the process crafting modalities to mainstream road safety into the national schools syllabi.
“I am enthused to hear that the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and that of Transport and Infrastructural Development and the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe is now considering the modalities on how best road safety should be mainstreamed into the national schools syllabi. As a case in point is the death of six primary school pupils in Zvishavane in a preventable road crash last month which was very sad and unfortunate,” he said.
“In Zimbabwe, about five people are killed on our roads everyday while approximately 38 persons are injured. According to the Zimbabwe Republic Police, a total of 1 692 people were killed on our roads last year. This was a slight improvement over the previous year which was recorded 1 787 deaths due to road carnage. Although there was a slight decrease, the number of deaths is shocking.”
Highlanders jr Scores 115 Goals
HIGHLANDERS’ Under-18 side that plays in the Bulawayo Junior League’s Series made history when they became the first team to score a record 115 goals on their way to being crowned champions without losing a single match.
This might come as an encouraging development at Bosso, a club that was renowned for its long history of producing some of the finest talent to grace the Zimbabwe and international football landscape.
Zifa Bulawayo Province board member Mkhululi Mthunzi confirmed the league was yet to witness more than a century of goals being scored by one team in a single season, until Highlanders came along. Highlanders’ chief striker McCarthy Dube was the toast of the league, a record haul of 36 goals which must make him an envy of the country’s Premiership strikers who are unlikely to even reach half that number at the end of the current campaign. Dube was complemented by talented attacking linkman and team captain Donnet Fosho who weighed in with 21 goals, right winger Rowan Sibanda finished on 20 while forward Brighton Ncube found the net 17 times.
Highlanders finished the season on 78 points while second placed Bantu Rovers closed their account on 65. Highlanders’ head of development Dumaza Dube praised the boys saying they were a talented bunch with a bright future ahead. He said they planned meticulously for the season after chief executive officer Ndumiso Gumede challenged the juniors’ technical department to craft a strategy which they penned, fine tuned and implemented, and the rest is history.
Bosso scored 115 goals while only conceding 20 throughout the campaign ending the season with a goal difference of 95.
Bosso’s unyielding defence was made up of former senior team player Bekithemba “Super” Ndlovu’s son Nkosana, the former Bosso’s captain’s younger brother, Mbongeni, Alexius Jubane, and Samson Sakala. Deron, the son of former goalkeepers’ coach, Tembo Chuma, was in between the posts for the campaign.
Dube singled out Bukhosi Ncube and Fosho as being the architects of the campaign and praised the former’s skills saying he was an astute midfielder with great ball winning and distribution skills while the latter was immensely talented.
Dube said another key ingredient to their success was being able to keep the whole squad intact for the past four years as most of the players were part of the squad that won the championship as Under-14s in 2011.
“Keeping the whole squad together for the past four years has also worked to our advantage but the boys are talented and the executive should quickly make moves to secure the boys and ensure they move up the ladder and are retained within the club structures. Some people have been saying the club’s junior policy is dead but that is not true, while players have been coming through from the lower structures efforts were not being made to retain them at the higher level hence you find that most teams have one or two players who graduated from Bosso juniors.”
Dumaza said the best way to retain talent was to set up an academy and they had completed the relevant applications forms and a Zifa official assured them that they could pay the requisite $1 000 fee in instalments. Dumaza said he would recommend six players to the senior team next year while other players would move to the development side that has been promoted to Division One.
Mthunzi said the Highlanders championship winning side reminded him of the class of 2011 that was also coached by Dube which won the league without a loss and included the likes of Knox Mutizwa, Teenage Hadebe, Lawrence Mhlanga and Trevor Ndlovu, among others.
“I am sure Highlanders have learnt their lesson and should make moves to retain the players within their system instead of grooming players only to be forced to loan them from others clubs for the senior team. Since the creation of Serie A, the league has been competitive and this year Highlanders was in a class of its own. We first saw their exploits early in the year when they won the Emakhandeni Legends tourney in April without losing a match and we thought it was a fluke but they went on to win the league without a loss,” he said.
Mthunzi appealed for sponsorship to reward the Bosso Under-18 for its exploits adding the team did exceptionally well and it would be an injustice if they were not given some form of recognition such as medals. Bosso’s other junior teams also did well with the Under-14 also winning their league ahead of Bantu Rovers while the Under-16 took position three on 65 points, same as second placed Mpumelelo who had a superior goal difference while Bantu took the crown with 77 points. The Under-19 developmental side also took position two in the Bulawayo Province Division Two, gaining promotion into the Southern Region Division One League.-SundayNews
Magaya named by Satanist
Controversial Harare preacher (and Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) founder)Walter Magaya has been named by a top violent Satanist who spoke highly of the man during a court hearing.
Magaya was showered with praises by self confessed Satanist, Honest Sibanda (33) who also said he was a robber.
He revealed to the court Magaya shifted him from one trade to the other and now he is a robber.
The development is believed to be also a marketing gimmick by Magaya by way of religious indoctrination.
Appearing before Bulawayo magistrate Mrs Sibongile Marondedze facing a charge of carjacking together with his accomplice Freedom Nyathi (24) last week, Sibanda told the court that Magaya made him commit the crime because “he delivered me from the spirit of satanism”. He said after surrendering his goblins and all satanic tools, he was left poor and so stealing cars was a means of survival.
“I was a satanist spreading the word of satanism. I had goblins in my house and they used to bring me a lot of money so I was rich at that time. Prophet Magaya delivered me from the kingdom of darkness and I surrendered all the money and goblins; right now I do not have any money and the property that I own I got it from satanism.
“May the courts consider that Prophet Magaya said because I had surrendered all my satanist stuff, I would suffer as the devil wants me to die. I am poor, I suffered a lot and sometimes I could not sleep well or wake up. Due to these circumstances I was forced to steal a car in order for me to survive,” he said.
Sibanda said his wife, whom he married in South Africa, was supposed to come for deliverance but she did not attend hence she might be the reason why he hears a voice from the devil.
“My wife did not come for exorcism. I have a cobra (shaped) walking stick and sometimes I hear voices from it saying the exorcism must not be completed. I did not want to commit this crime but it was a temptation since Prophet Magaya banned me from using goblins to get money,” he said.
His accomplice, Nyathi, blamed Sibanda, for being a bad influence.
The two men were convicted and sentenced to eight years in jail. Two years were suspended for five years on condition that the two do not within that period commit any crime involving violence. The value of the stolen car and property was $4 121 and the vehicle worth $ 4 060 was recovered.
Prosecuting, Mrs Concilia Ncube said on 30 October 2015 Slyvester Ncube parked his white motor vehicle, a Toyota Raum, at Manor Hotel at the corner of Lobengula Street and Eighth Avenue.
“Sibanda and Nyathi then approached Ncube and hired him to take them to and from Emakhandeni, purporting they wanted to go and fetch Sibanda’s girlfriend. They promised to pay him $12 and Ncube drove along Luveve Road,” she said.
It is alleged that when Ncube approached the Masiyephambili Drive fly over he was ordered by Sibanda to park the car as they had arrived.
“Sibanda immediately grabbed Ncube’s neck, pressing him against the driver’s seat while Nyathi produced a knife which he pointed to the driver’s neck. Sibanda then dragged Ncube to the back seat where he was guarded by Nyathi.
“Sibanda started the car and drove about 800 metres along Masiyephambili Drive heading towards Victoria Falls Road and parked off the road. The two men dragged Ncube into a bush for about 100 metres from the vehicle and took away $30 from him, a Nokia X2 mobile phone and his driver’s licence,” said Mrs Ncube.
Mrs Ncube told the court that the two men cut Ncube’s t-shirt into strips which they used to tie his hands and legs.
“They removed Ncube’s trousers and tied it around his head to blindfold him. They drove away and left him lying face down, naked. Ncube managed to untie himself after about 30 minutes and he reported the matter at Luveve Police Station,” she said.
The court heard that the two men proceeded to Kadoma where they went about trying to sell the stolen vehicle.
“A suspicious prospective buyer alerted the police at ZRP Kadoma Eiffel Flats resulting in the two men’s arrest and recovery of the stolen car. The knife used to threaten Ncube was found in the car; the two men were brought to Bulawayo where they appeared in court,” said Mrs Ncube.
The two men complained in court saying they were assaulted by police officers in Kadoma. Nyathi allegedly said he was feeling pain in his private parts while Sibanda had a broken joint. (State Media/Additional Reporting)
Grace Aide Lands Top Govt Post
By Tinoonga Mawere Masvingo|Kudakwashe Machako, an ally of First Lady Grace Mugabe has landed a top government post in the Minister of Provincial affairs, Shuvai Ben Mahofa’s office in a move aimed at neutralising Mrs Mugabe’s opponents.
Machako formerly the provincial head in the Ministry of Youth ,Indigenisation and Empowerment ,landed the cosmetic post of director -created to neutralise Grace’s perceived opponents in and out of government. The post was created in September since it was noticed Mahofa was failing to stamp her authority in dealing with anti-Grace elements.
The appointment comes at a time the cash strapped government is failing to pay some civil servants’ salaries and some government employees have gone for up to 3 months without pay. “It is true Machako has been appointed director in Minister Mahofa’s office and I can confirm that the post is new but we are waiting for some clarifications from the head office .Some things have to do with policy changes,” said a source at Benjamin Burombo centre .
Both Mahofa and Machako confirmed the latest development but denied it was a political appointment.
However political observers here believe Machako who was hand picked by Saviour Kasukuwere, an ally of Grace Mugabe, has been roped into the office to neutralise Mrs Mugabeo’s perceived elements.
Machako will be given a top range vehicle among other perks as his incentives at a time the government is staggering salary payments .
Grace:Only God Can Stop Me
First Lady Grace Mugabe says only God can stop her.
Some people are saying Grace Mugabe is set to replace her husband as president; they could not be more wrong. Before she can take over the presidency Grace has two mountains to climb. First, she must establish her own Zanu PF faction strong enough to topple the Mnangagwa faction and to still keep the Mujuru faction at bay.
“Baby dumping” the Mujuru faction was easy, Grace did that in four months last year, but that was because she had the Mnangagwa faction and her husband doing all dirty and heavy duty work for her. Since dispatching Mujuru she has had to build her own faction to take on the Mnangagwa factions by enticing Mnangagwa faction members to switch their allegiance and join her. She has not been very successful in doing this.
For all the hot-air about the G40 faction, there are very few members in that faction. The three notable members of the G40 are Jonathan Moyo (who Mugabe demoted recently because he does not trust the him, no one does); Savour Kasukuwere who clearly did not have much grass root support since was not much of a threat to Mujuru and then Patrick Zhuwao, who is a political nonentity. Zhuwao lost the Zanu PF primary parliamentary elections in 2013.
Zhuwao is minister today because Bob is his uncle. As Minister of Youth he is trying hard to ingratiate himself with the party’s youths by pushing the indigenisation law which, on paper, promises unimagined riches but in practice has been one of the most disastrous policies of Mugabe’s 35 years in power. Zhuwao is making promises of jobs and wealth he will never ever deliver. The nation at large is now taking Zhuwao as some sick joke and everything he touches turns to ash not gold!
Patrick Zhuwao does not bring any gravitas and a sense of seriousness to the G40 faction but the exact opposite! That is the last thing the faction wanted given it is desperate to be taken as serious contenders for the presidency.
Grace Mugabe herself, as the presidential candidate for the G40 faction, has failed to impress. The only real arsenal in her armoury is that she is Mugabe’s wife. To a party and nation that has grown sick to the back teeth of Mugabe corruption and tyranny, the nation blames him for dragging the country into this hell, being the tyrant’s wife is now a curse not a blessing.
The second mountain for Grace to climb is the economy. Zanu PF has maintains its struggle hold on power even in the face of growing poverty and despair until 2008 when economic suffering forced Zimbabweans to risk life and limp to confront the regime and demand change. The nation would have accomplished their goal of regime change if MDC had not betrayed them by failing to implement even one of the GPA democratic reforms designed to stop Mugabe rigging the elections.
Still the economic meltdown today has produced the same economic hardships comparable to those of 2008 if not worse. The situation is getting worse by the day, not better. Grace Mugabe has no clue of the seriousness of the economic meltdown much less know what to do to end it. Come 2018 the people will wake up from their comatose sleep – they are known for going into political hibernation, the last great awakening being in 2008 – and they will once again risk life and limp and demand regime change.
The economic situation in Zimbabwe is socially and politically unsustainable; the discontent it is generating in the nation is a Tsunami wave so big it will sweep away Mugabe, Mnangagwa, Grace or whoever is the Zanu PF presidential candidate in the next elections. The cup is full and overflowing, regime change is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow.
Grace Mugabe will have her wish to be president if she can stop the tide demanding regime change or stop the sun rising tomorrow!
“If Mugabe was to drop died today Grace’s faction will disappear like morning mist!” said Patrick Guramatunhu and I agree with him.
Mugabe, no doubt under pressure from his bossy and ambitious wife, has allowed this G40 faction to exist in the hope it would propel his wife into power. Now that the G40 has completely flopped, he must be deeply regretting this.
Zanu PF is imploding his wife’s greed for power triggered the factional fighting and all he can do now is twiddle his fingers as fire consuming the party spread.
The country’s economic meltdown has exposed all his lies of economic success and empowering the people. He had, miraculously, management to salvage some pride after the 2008 rejection by the people. He knows the coming elections will be even more humiliating, he has sworn enemies everywhere even from amongst his former party members. He has humiliated them for 35 years and now they will have the last laugh.
Everywhere he goes these days everyone, even those he once thought admired him, is deriving great pleasure at laughing at Mugabe. When he tumbled and fell at the airport beginning of the year people still laugh of it as if it was yesterday.
“There is no democracy in Zimbabwe!” shouted the Nigerian Sahara TV reporter. “It there like a time limit?” She continued mocking at his 35 years in power.
It seem that the curse of the devil himself is upon him because mishap follow him everywhere, just to give the world another chance to laugh at HIM. How he failed to realize he was reading the wrong speech when he opened parliament, he will never know. And then there was him tripping over a step two inches high in India!
But it is the next national elections that scars the devil out of Mugabe; he has no money to bribe anyone with and even if he did the ground swell for regime change is just too much!
Longevity is supposed to be a blessing but only when it is accompanied by peace and tranquillity and not chaos, back stabbing, one expose after another and everything falling apart. And instead of sympathetic support all Mugabe gets is gratuitous laughing.
Grace and Bob Fly to Turkey for G20 Summit
President Robert Mugabe is in Antalya, Turkey to attend the G20 summit which begins tomorrow Sunday.
A Turkish government official told ZimEye.com that government is convinced that Mugabe’s presence provides new opportunities to reflect Africa’s views. The Turkish G20 presidency “is convinced that Zimbabwe’s active participation in G20 activities in 2015, as Chair of the African Union, enhanced Africa’s voice in the platform and provided new opportunities to reflect Africa’s views on the G20 llgenda,” they said. ALSO READ:
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Mugabe was met at the Antalya airport by the Governor of Antalya, Turkey’s Minister of Economy, Turkey government officials, and Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Iran and Turkey Ambassador Nicholas Kitikiti.
He is accompanied by his wife Grace Mugabe, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and several senior government officials. Because of ISIS threat, high security measures have been instituted for the summit.
A total of 13 400 police officers including 1 400 traffic police, will be on duty during the summit 24 hours a day.
The venue for the summit which is situated in a resort called Belek has been declared as a red zone and no visitors without an accreditation card will be allowed entry.
WATCH VIDEO:Army Attacks ZBC Journalists
Amateur footage has emerged of the moments when soldiers attacked ZBC journalists yesterday, Friday. FULL STORY CLICK HERE
WARNING DISTURBING PICTURES – Grace Mugabe Aide Hacks Mnangagwa Leader to Death
A Grace Mugabe aide and ZANU PF Youth Vice Chairman today (Saturday) attacked and hacked an Emmerson Mnangagwa party leader to death.
The newly elected District Youth Vice Chairman for the Chaminuka district’s body was found bleeding in a large pool of blood. The disturbing scene took the entire nation by surprise and comes as ZANU PF heads to its crunch congress in December 2015 which is to determine Mnangagwa’s chances of replacing Robert Mugabe.
ZRP cops descended onto the scene as crowds gathered in Chitungwiza.
Elections were conducted on Monday but until today there had been no skirmishes now blamed on fights between the First Family and supporters of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This is all to do with opposing factions between Mnangagwa and the First Lady,” a source at the scene told ZimEye.com
Commented the MDC-T’s Job Sikhala in the ZimEye newsroom, “the killer has blood all over his clothes and everyone was assaulting him why he killed and terminated other people’s lives over such trivia. He was rescued by the police who arrested him and was taken to St. Marys Police Station. After getting the police protection arikutoseka zvake kunge pasina chaiitika. Taking the crime casual. Handina kumboona zvakadai ini. Shuwa kuponderana zvinhu zvaGrace naMnangagwa as if they know who these street waifs are. Zvinonyadzisa izvi.”
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Itai Dzamara is Coming Back, Own Brother Says | BREAKING NEWS
- Secret book written by Itai Dzamara to be released when he returns
Missing human rights activist and journalist Itai Dzamara is returning soon, his brother, Patson says.
Patson told ZimEye.com in an exclusive interview he “believes” his brother is still alive and will soon be “released”.
He said this as he announced he is flying out overseas to 5 countries of the world including the United States, Bahrain, and South Africa. The breaking news comes as he launches his 7th book, “Forced to Fight” which features Itai’s bravery and was “prompted by the experience we encountered regarding Itai’s fears,” as he told ZimEye.com.
Patson also said he has a secret book written by Itai which will only be released when the man returns. “There is one page pertaining to my brother. Like I said I have written a book (together) with Itai, that book is coming. I would have released that book this year, but we are just holding onto the hope and we believe that he is going to return, and I am holding onto that book until such a time,” he told ZimEye.
What happened to my brother Itai.
(3) months after Itai disappeared, Patson back then launched a book titled: “ITAI DZAMARA:the force not the person.” In that release, Patson announced saying, “we will get to the bottom of what happened to my brother Itai Dzamara…”This message many say signaled that Patson Dzamara had at that time passed conclusions on his brother’s fate. But this time, Patson states the contrary saying he now believes the opposite, that Itai is alive and will return.
He told ZimEye.com in the interview Itai is on his way back. Patson said this as he announced he is travelling around the world to 5 countries for over four weeks. “I am travelling to (US)New York, South Africa, Kenya, Bahrain, and returning next month before Christmas,” he said.
Who is funding the trip?
Some Zimbabweans on social networks attacked Patson Dzamara questioning the source of his funding. But he told ZimEye.com he has business interests, “I sit on several boards, I am a consultant, i am an artist,” he said.
He however refused to reveal the boards he sits on for business reasons, “because those companies will end up being labeled MDC companies.”
He also appeared to hint to ZimEye the trips are not for fun as he will be marketing his works and speaking at various functions.
THE FULL INTERVIEW will be broadcast Saturday afternoon covering Patson Dzamara’s book – “Forced To Fight.”
ABOUT – Forced To Fight
Patson Dzamara first launched FORCED 2 FIGHT during a ceremony on the 29th of October 2015 at the Jameson Hotel in Harare.
The book comes just 6 months after the launch of his 6th book in April, DEAR MISS DEAR MISTER.
Again, FORCED 2 FIGHT instantly became a hit upon launch auctioned a record $1 500 and was bought by the AGG President, Chamu Chiwanza while other books went away at $450 to Nelson Chamisa, $250 to Rinos Mautsa, $200 to Chomi Makina.
Forced to fight is a book that describes how life is a series of fights and not just a walk in the park.
The leadership and personal development expert explains how fighting is the bridge separating success and failure and whether people like it or not they have to fight- forced to fight.
A panel discussion was conducted through the guide of the famous Tariro Makanga. The attendants were treated to inspirational testimonies of how the panelists had been FORCED 2 FIGHT in their quest for success.
From the discussion it was clear that opportunity and chance happen to us all and therefore we must fight for success.
The guest speakers were Dr. Dzamara’s foster mother, Dr. Sheila McCray who travelled all the way from USA to attend the launch and Dr. Nigel Chanakira. The speakers highlighted how the author himself had been forced to fight on his highway to success as they shared some of the experiences he had gone through and led to where he is today.
Dr. Chanakira esteemed the launch of this 7th book as the ‘watershed moment’ for Dr. Patson Dzamara as the number 7 has a biblical meaning of perfection. Dr. Morgan Tsvangirai, President of the MDC-T graced the occassion and endorsed the book. Other dignitaries that endorsed the book were Mathews Kunaka, Temba Mliswa, Dr. Chomi Makina Mellany Mariri and Chamu Chiwanza.
Forced to fight was well attended by the guests comprising of business people, authors, clergy, motivational speakers and academic students. Pastor G, Gary Tight and Baba Shupi entertained the guests with music.
The guests were mermerised by the surprise music performance of Dr. Patson Dzamara.
It was interesting to learn that the leadership Guru is also gifted in singing from his inaugural music piece entitled ‘Ndimi vanhu wangu
16 University Students Arrested for Rioting
Police yesterday arrested 16 female college and university students who were demonstrating in Harare against exorbitant fees and sexual harassment at tertiary institutions.
National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the arrests, saying the march was illegal as it was not sanctioned by police.
“Sixteen of them were arrested. I think people think it’s now fashionable, but police will not stop maintaining order. The march was not cleared by police,” she said.
Zimbabwe National Students’ Union (Zinasu) spokesperson Avoid Masiraha said Obey Shava; a member of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, was by last night battling to secure their release.
“We had a demonstration from Rezende Street to Second Street when police intercepted and started assaulting everyone there. Some were seriously injured,” he said.
“The march was all about female students from different tertiary institutions who were protesting against poor accommodation, sexual harassment and exorbitant fees as well as the right to education.”
The arrests came hard on the heels of a massive clampdown on demonstrations being organised by the main opposition MDC-T against the worsening economic situation in the country. Newsday
Mugabe Endorsed for 2018 Presidency
The Zanu PF Harare province youth league has endorsed President Robert Mugabe as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2018 elections.
Scores of the Zanu PF youth league from Harare province attended a youth league provincial conference held in the capital.
“President Mugabe will go into the presidential elections in 2018 unchallenged by the Zanu PF members,” declared Harare youth chairperson Edson Takataka.
Speaking to the State Media, the national secretary for youth affairs and politburo member Pupurai Togarepi took a swipe at the MDC youths who allegedly attacked the police and described the act as barbaric and uncivilised.
“The recent attack on the police by the MDC youths is inhuman and barbaric,” Togarepi said.
Meanwhile, the Zanu PF inter-district conference for Harare province that was slated for Saturday the 14thof November at Girls High School has been cancelled until further notice.
ZRP Cops Caught On Camera Bribe Bending
TWO Plumtree police officers were caught on camera demanding a bribe from a cross border transporter at the Plumtree Border Post. The officers, Fume Chibvuri, 32, and Aaron Zivuku, 27, who are both attached to the Police Internal Security Intelligence (PISI) section at Plumtree Police Station, were outmanoeuvred by Gift Moyo of Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park suburb who recorded them demanding payment to allow him to pass through the border.
Chibvuri and Zivuku yesterday appeared before Plumtree magistrate, Gideon Ruvetsa facing extortion charges. They were remanded out of custody to November 26 on free bail.
Prosecuting, Jane Phiri said the police officers approached Moyo and demanded a bribe to allow him free passage. They threatened to arrest him if he did not comply. Moyo gave them $20 but they complained that it was not enough. They said they also wanted money for their workmate Constable Taurai Musiiwa.
“On 14 July around 3PM the two police officers were deployed at the Plumtree Border Post.
Moyo arrived driving a Toyota Grandhiace on his way to Bulawayo from Botswana and he went through all border formalities. Upon reaching the entrance gate he was approached by Chibvuri and Zivuku who demanded money from him. They threatened to arrest him if he didn’t comply,” said Phiri.
She said Moyo pointed out to the two officers that he did not have money on him but they insisted until he gave them a $20 note.
Phiri said the cross border transporter requested $10 back indicating that he did not have any money left.
“The two officers refused to give him change but instead demanded more money, saying it was for their workmate Constable Musiiwa who wasn’t with them,” she said.
The prosecutor said the pair again threatened to arrest Moyo if he did not give them more money.
She said after realising that the police officers were bent on extorting him of more money, Moyo then recorded them on video using his cellphone.
Phiri said the video recording could be played in court as evidence.
The Chronicle managed to obtain two video clips from Moyo showing the police officers separately demanding money from him.
In one of the video recordings, Moyo is confronted by Cst Musiiwa who orders passengers to disembark from the vehicle to leave the driver alone inside.
Moyo goes on to handover some money to the police officer and indicates that it was $30.
An unsatisfied Cst Musiiwa, however, demands $20 more.
‘’I can see that this is $30 but I’m saying produce an additional $20 more. Come on bring the money,’’ says Cst Musiiwa persistently.
Moyo insists that he does not have the money and indicates that he has to bribe other police officers and leaves.
The other video recording shows Moyo being confronted by Chibvuri and Zivuku who tell him to give them money so that he could go through.
‘’I want a lot of money from you. Smuggling is one offence which we can’t allow to go by unnoticed without a payment being made,’’ says Zivuku.
Moyo goes on to plead with the officers to reduce the amount saying business has been low.
The officers tell Moyo that the amount he has given them is not enough for them to share.
It is not clear if Musiiwa would be taken to court.
Corruption has become a common feature at the country’s border posts where officials are facilitating criminal activities in exchange for bribes.
An immigration officer in Plumtree was recently arrested by police in Botswana after he was found in illegal possession of 70 Zimbabwean passports belonging to different people.
Mncedisi Ngwenya, 34, who was the Principal Immigration Officer in charge of Mpoengs Border Post, is alleged to have been involved in a scam of illegally extending days for Zimbabweans working in the neighbouring country. It is alleged that he would collect passports and stamp them to extend the days at a fee of 100 pula per passport.
Councillor Axed for Insulting Mugabe
BUBI Rural District Council (RDC) has suspended an MDC-T councillor who was arrested last month for posting a message on a WhatsApp group denigrating President Robert Mugabe.
The MDC-T ward 18 councillor, Nduna Matshazi, was arrested for posting the message insulting President Mugabe on a councillors’ group chat on the social media platform.
The group’s administrator notified the police about the message, leading to Matshazi’s arrest.
The councillor adulterated the Lord’s Prayer to denigrate the President.
Bubi RDC Chief Executive Officer Patson Mlilo said it was decided before a budget consultative meeting on Thursday that Matshazi should be suspended.
“The team felt they could not deliberate their ideas in the presence of a member with that kind of behaviour. The full council resolved that he be suspended until his case is finalised,” said Mlilo.
He said police said yesterday that they were still carrying out investigations.
Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Siphiwe Makonese could not immediately comment on the suspended councillor’s case.
Last month, the administrator of the chat group, who declined to be named, told The State Media that he was offended when Clr Matshazi digressed from discussing development issues that councillors had created the group for.
The WhatsApp chat group, Bubi RDC, has 23 councillors and three council officials as members.
“We created this group solely for communication as council. As council we notify each other on meetings dates, agendas and other business. When Matshazi’s message reflected on the group chat, everyone reacted with shock and we later reported him to the police,” he said.-Chronicle
ZIFA Presidency:Chiyangwa Mysteriously Pulls Through | BREAKING NEWS
Despite revelations that he does not deserve the ZIFA Presidency having not served at the required division level, Harare businessman Phillip Chiyangwa on Friday pulled through “vigorous” screening tests and now goes to the next round of final voting for the post.
Chiyangwa in a recent radio interview announced that “in December I will be in Zurich.” But his opponent Lesley Gwindi maintains that the man is automatically disqualified. Chiyangwa was recently humiliated by a radio caller when he failed to elaborate the common FIFA and COSAFA acronyms.
However the football body’s electoral committee announced on Friday it has allowed Chiyangwa through. Judge Selo Nare said the ZIFA Electoral Committee has found Chiyangwa fit for the contest, “after carefully perusing the papers filed by the aspiring candidates who number 17.”
Judge Nare did not address the concerns raised by Lesley Gwindi fueling more speculation and mystery around the matter.
Judge Nare’s announcement continued: “The electoral Committee hereby announces the successful candidates as follows:
FOR PRESIDENCY:
MR JAMES TAKAVADA
MR LESLIE GWINDI
MR TREVOR DAVID JUUL
DR PHILIP CHIYANGWA
VICE PRESIDENCY
MR LINCOLN MUTASA
MR OMEGA SIBANDA
NB* Mr Elkana Dube succeeded but formally withdrew from the Election.
BOARD MEMBERS:
MR WILFRED MUKUNA
MR JOSEPH MUSARIRI
MR LEWIS URIRI
MR PIRAISHE MABHENA
MR MUSSA MANDAZA
MR BEADLE GWASIRA
MR JACKSON MUNYAKA
MR PHILEMON MACHANA
MR EDZAI KASINAUYO
MR FELTON KAMAMBO
The Committee meticulously went through the papers and is comfortably satisfied that the named candidates qualify to run for the positions they have selected.
All the positions are therefore contested and hence there shall be elections for all the vacant positions.
Endemic Corruption – Zimbabwe’s Daily Friday the 13th!
It is but a coincidence that on a day, which I want to highlight the destructive nature of endemic and pervasive corruption in our country Zimbabwe, it is the metaphorical Friday the Thirteenth. As an ardent film goer of the 1980s, I was part of the millions of people worldwide who savoured the blood chilling moments in Friday the 13th film series written by Victor Miller and conjured by director Sean Cunningham.
Looking back, I still have the same hair-raising moments when I ponder over how, under the ‘supervision’ of ZANU PF, our country has been turned into one big reality film set where our moral fabric, wealth, humanity and spirituality have been violently, viciously and mercilessly ‘slashed’ Jason- style by corruption. Continue reading “Endemic Corruption – Zimbabwe’s Daily Friday the 13th!”
No More Free Zanu PF Agric Inputs- Minister
Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made said government has stopped giving free agricultural equipment to farmers and urged them to be self sufficient.
Government for the past 15 years since the beginning of the land reform programme had been dishing out free agricultural inputs and implements to the “new” farmers.
Most of these inputs and implements were given to undeserving characters who would sell them at the parallel market.
In 2007 government through the Reserve bank disbursed farming implements which included Scotch carts, Tractors, Combined harvesters and were given to top Zanu PF officials and a few who were linked to the regime.
Most of these implements are still lying idle in areas like police camps (Morris Depot) and unproductive farms.
Addressing agricultural stakeholders gathered at an event hosted by the Tobacco Marketing Board to mark the end of the 2015 Tobacco marketing season in Harare recently , Minister Made said farmers are going to pay for the newly acquired Brazilian farming
equipment.
“When we are looking at the irrigation and mechanisation that we are installing it is for the totality of the farmer be it A2, A1, communal and old resettlement and obviously it will come stage by stage in some areas we are focusing on but comprehensively soon we will be announcing the different areas where A2 farmers will also be having some projects,” said Made.
“I want to put it that obviously there will be nothing for free anymore”.
Government in May secured a $98, 6 million loan facility from Brazil and imported agricultural equipment from the Latin American that country.
Violence Between Mnagagwa and Grace
With President Robert Mugabe looking increasingly frail and unable to stop the factional and succession wars devouring his ruling post-congress Zanu PF, analysts warn that the party’s ugly infighting could turn violent before, during and after its annual conference to be held in Victoria Falls next month.
While such gatherings have traditionally been uneventful and boring, this year’s is promising fireworks as bitterly-opposed factions linked to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Mugabe’s controversial wife Grace jostle to gain decisive advantage in the brutal succession war.
And with the opposing camps ratcheting up their rhetoric against each other over the past few days as tension rises, analysts told the Daily News yesterday that the threat of serious intra-party violence was becoming a distinct possibility, particularly given the past tendency by party hardliners to default to violence when their hold on power was threatened.
As it is, there have been disconcerting threats within ruling party circles this week that unaccredited rival youth groups may be bussed to Victoria Falls, which if it happens, will further raise the chances of violence breaking out at the conference.
The Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform (ZYAP) — a youth group that supports Mnangagwa — has already not only savaged the party’s ambitious Young Turks known as the Generation 40 (G40), who are rabidly opposed to the VP, they have also threatened violence against these alleged mafikizolos (party Johnny-come-latelies) that include national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao.
Another group calling itself the Children of Zimbabwe National War Veterans Association has also threatened the alleged kingpins of the G40, also demanding not only that Kasukuwere apologises unreservedly for having once insulted some war veterans as drunkards, but that he is also ousted from his powerful party position.
The political analysts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said given this “fraught climate” — as well as the fact that Mnangagwa had recently been reported to have upped his personal security, while some of the ruling party’s stalwarts such as Solomon Mujuru and Border Gezi had died in disputed circumstances — the spectre of bloody disagreements could not be discounted.
University of Zimbabwe political science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, said a person like Mnangagwa could “ill-afford to be reckless”, especially after reports that his offices had been sprinkled with cyanide in an apparent attempt on his life by alleged party rivals.
“With the succession issue becoming more vicious, nothing can be left to chance. Mnangagwa has been forewarned and given his experience in the party during the liberation struggle where eliminations were a common feature, he wants to ensure that no such thing happens to him,” Masunungure posited.
Academic Ibbo Mandaza said Mnangagwa “probably knows better that … many have died under our watch from the 1970s until today, including the suspicious death of Rex Nhongo … so one cannot rule out anything”.
Afghanistan-based political analyst, Maxwell Saungweme, said there were many incidences of ambitious officials who had died in mysterious circumstances that included “road accidents”.
“That Mnangagwa is reported to have upped his security is testament to what the party is capable of doing,” he said, adding that “cases of violence involving members are well documented”.
And as paranoia continues to grip the party, the VP’s supporters are pointing out to last year’s car accident and the cyanide attack at his Zanu PF offices as some of those ominous signs that have also made his family, specifically his wife Auxillia, vulnerable.
All this is happening as Grace’s allies are ratcheting up their efforts to “checkmate” Mnangagwa’s presidential aspirations at the ruling party’s annual conference next month.
Well-placed sources linked to the G40 — who are rallying behind Grace as the race to succeed Mugabe hots up — told the Daily News on Wednesday that the embattled VP would face his Waterloo at the increasingly-important Victoria Falls gathering.
“Everyone agrees that it is now time to end all these misguided plots by secessionists (G40 code for Mnangagwa camp) that the president plans to retire soon and that their man will finally be king.
“We will end all this silly excitement once and for all in Victoria Falls, as it will be checkmate time. Just keep watching this space,” one of the sources, a senior Zanu PF official, declared boldly without giving details.
But further investigations by the Daily News showed that just like the VP’s allies are hoping will happen, the G40 faction is also hedging its bets on the Victoria Falls gathering becoming an elective conference.
This would see constitutional changes catapulting Grace to the party’s vice presidency using Zanu PF’s abandoned women’s quota system — which would in turn see Mnangagwa relegated to a lower position, possibly that of party chairperson which was dropped last year.
Under this scheme, the G40 would push for Zanu PF to revert to its old constitution, under whose Article 7 (31) it declared that four members of the party’s central committee were supposed to be a president and first secretary, two vice presidents and second secretaries — “one of whom shall be a woman” — and a national chairperson.
“We will be pushing to see to it that Dr Amai Grace is nominated to the vice presidency post, while Comrade Mnangagwa may become the chairperson, which currently alternates between him and Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko,” a confident women’s league official said, arguing that the old party constitution was “in line with the Unity Accord” which was agreed by Mugabe and the late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo in 1987.
“VP Mphoko should keep his post by virtue of being the Zapu representative, which will mean that Comrade Mnangagwa has to be accommodated somewhere else,” she said.
BREAKING NEWS-Soldiers “Open Fire” On ZBC Employees
Soldiers in Harare today beat up former ZBC employees who had stormed the state broadcaster’s Pockets Hill head offices in Highlands to demand their retrenchment packages.
Over 500 ZBC employees lost their jobs in August after the infamous July 14 
High Court ruling which gave employers the green light to sack workers on three months’ notice.
On Friday over 100 former ZBC employees thronged Pockets hill where they wanted to meet with the management over their retrenchment packages.
Upon arrival the workers were denied entry by members of the Zimbabwe National Army who manned the area.
It was after the group had resisted the orders from the army to retreat that the soldiers beat them up before threatening to shoot them.
One of the workers said,“ we wanted to hear from the management when they were going to give us our retrenchment money because since we were dismissed there has not been any word from them”.
ZBC spokesperson Gladman Bandama was not available for comment.
Man Beats Mum to Death Over Inheritance
A BINGA man was yesterday sentenced to an effective nine years in jail for assaulting his 80-year-old mother to death following a dispute over cattle which he inherited from his father.
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Nokuthula Moyo, during a circuit in Hwange yesterday, convicted Solomon Dube, 45 of Lubimbi village of a charge of culpable homicide in connection with the death of his mother Esica Dube six months ago.
Dube, who was initially facing a murder charge, offered a limited plea of guilty to a lesser charge of culpable homicide.
In passing sentence, Justice Moyo said Dube’s conduct was deplorable and taboo in African society.
“What is aggravating is that Dube chose to assault his mother instead of showing respect. Although Dube was provoked by his mother’s conduct of taking cattle that he inherited from his late father and giving them to his sister, his actions cannot be condoned. In fact, he should have sought dialogue with his mother or elders rather than resorting to violence,” said Justice Moyo.
The judge said the courts had a duty to uphold the sanctity of human life.
“It is an act of abomination and a taboo in our African society to assault a parent or your elders. The courts are inundated with cases of domestic violence where lives are unnecessarily lost. Although beer drinking is some form of merry making during leisure time, it should, however, not be a reason to kill each other,” said Justice Moyo.
“Life is sacred and these courts have time and again frowned upon such deplorable conduct. He will certainly live to regret his actions which will haunt him forever.
“This is a very bad case of culpable homicide and accordingly a nine year prison term will meet the justice of this matter.”
Prosecuting, Namatirai Ngwasha said on May 31 this year at about 7PM, Dube was seated in his bedroom hut with his son shortly after returning from a beer drink when his mother arrived at his home.
The court heard that Dube’s mother enquired from Dube’s son about the whereabouts of her cattle.
“While talking to her grandson, Dube sprang from his chair and confronted his mother accusing her of taking his cattle and giving them to his sister,” said Ngwasha.
In a fit of rage, Dube, who was drunk, grabbed his mother’s walking stick and used it to strike her several times on the head, face and chest. She cried for help and Dube fled from the scene leaving the old woman lying on the floor writhing in pain.
Neighbours came and took her to Lubimbi Clinic but she died along the way.
According to the post mortem report, pathologists concluded that the cause of death was due to brain haemorrhage, multiple injuries and assault.
Dube, through his lawyer Tonderai Mukuku of Marondedze and Mukuku legal practitioners, said it was not his intention to kill, but had negligently caused his mother’s death.
In mitigation, Ndlovu pleaded for leniency saying he was being tormented by his mother’s spirit in prison. He said at the time of committing the crime, he was drunk. Dube told the court that he is also a breadwinner looking after his wife and four minor children.-DailyNews
Grace loses grip in Masvingo as allies face expulsion
By Tinoonga Mawere, Masvingo|The Zanu PF provincial executive here is expected to pass a vote of no confidence on First Lady Grace Mugabe and endorse Vice President Emmerson as President Mugabe’s successor in tomorrow ‘s meeting, it has emerged.
It is also understood Zanu PF members loyal to First Lady Grace Mugabe face expulsion ahead of the Victoria Falls conference if they fail to endorse Mnangagwa as Mugabe ‘s successor.
The provincial executive led by acting chairman Ezra Chadzamira is reportedly campaigning for Mnangagwa by holding a series of meeting across the province. Party sources told ZimEye.com senior officials have been holding caucus meetings at posh venues for that pupose.
“The Provincial executive will meet tomorrow here and it is quite clear they will endorse Mnangagwa as President Mugabe’s successor.Their stance is Grace should concentrate on the Women ‘s League affairs . Meetings are being held across the province -last week we met at Chivi Growth Point and Nemanwa Growth point over the same issue. People respect Grace as the First Lady but they are not happy with the way she is positioning herself,” said a provincial member who chose not to be named.
Chadzamira and provincial secretary Jappy Jaboon who are both MPs are reluctant to comment on the issue for fear of being reprimanded by Grace who is increasingly becoming the force behind the troubled ruling party. It has also emerged Chivi ward 5 councillor Grace Mukungunugwa ironically Grace’s namesake was last week threatened with expulsion by Mnangagwa loyalists.While Zanu PF is splashing money on factional fights, the party is yet to act on the need for urgent food relief in some parts of the province.
Mukungunugwa allegedly told the Mnangagwa apologists Mrs Mugabe would ascend to the presidency and she was threatened with expulsion .
“Mrs Mugabe appears to be losing grip in Masvingo province but we must not rule her out because she is a fighter.Some of her supporters are being victimised here,” said another party official . Although the party denies the beef between Grace and Mnangagwa, it is understood the tussle will see senior officials being sacrificed ahead of the explosive conference.
Wharton Showers Mugabe With Praises
United States outgoing Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton has described described President Robert Mugabe as a lion of Africa who has dedicated his whole life to liberating the continent.
Wharton, speaking to journalists in Harare, said he was leaving the country at a time when relations between the US and Zimbabwe were showing some improvements.
He pointed out that there were still some grey areas that needed to be polished before his country removes its sanctions against Zimbabwe. He also commended the country for holding peaceful elections in 2013, that were won by Zanu-PF.
“Robert Mugabe is a lion of Africa. He has dedicated his life to creating a free and independent … a lion of Africa … he is one of the leaders, not only of Zimbabwe’s liberation but of the Frontline States,” said Wharton. He said there were areas in which credit was due for Zimbabwe.
“We do recognise the improvement in the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Thank God, the election of 2013 was peaceful. It’s a huge step forward,” said Wharton, who is returning to Washington to become the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs at the US Department of State.
Wharton, however, alleged that some people still disregard court rulings.
Wharton said there was need to restore property rights and compensate former white farmers, but added that he believes Zimbabwean authorities were sincere when they say they are presently incapacitated economically to pay compensation.
He also talked about the disappearance of MDC-T activist Itai Dzamara, but was quick to add that he could not prove in a court of law who was responsible for his abduction.
Wharton said he accepts the government’s explanation that people disappear everywhere including in the US, but added that he feels more could be done in Dzamara’s case, including roping in Interpol.
On the economic front he said “a small number of policy reforms” were needed to improve the country’s economy, and praised Zimbabwe’s empowerment policy, though adding that it needed to be made clearer.
“The indigenisation idea is a very worthy concept. All governments have the responsibility to protect their own citizens’ economic rights first, but the implementation of the indigenisation law has remained hard to predict and it seems to change from time to time and that has a chilling effect on an investor’s willingness to put money into a country,” added Wharton.
He said as he leaves Zimbabwe, some of his achievements are that he has been able to
facilitate high level meetings between government officials, adding that people on the sanctions list “were 25 fewer” since he came.He said for the past 12 months, he supported the IMF staff monitoring programme in the country and was supportive of the country’s debt repayment plan, which he said may clear the way for debt relief and new loans.
The US ambassador said as a result of that support the US “did not bang our shoes at the podium and say no, no, no” at the recent meeting in Lima, Peru, where Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa met the IMF and World Bank officials to resolve the debt issue.
“Fundamentally, the most important determinant of Zimbabwe’s future will be the actions of the people and government of Zimbabwe.
“You’ve heard me say the future of Zimbabwe is in the hands of Zimbabweans. I absolutely believe that,” he said.
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8 Murderers Roaming Freely
AT least eight suspected murderers are on the loose in Matabeleland South and police are seeking information that could lead to their arrestA police schedule of wanted persons gleaned by Southern Eye showed that several murder suspects, allegedly heinously attacked and killed a number of people in different parts of the province before disappearing.
Among the most wanted persons was Peter Phiri of Dulibadzimu in Beitbridge, who allegedly savagely killed his girlfriend near a railway line in Gwanda by stabbing her several times all over the body, before leaving an Okapi knife lodged in the victim’s neck earlier this year.
Another suspect, Zibusiso Mangena of Phakama in Gwanda, who allegedly stabbed to death a police constable at Phakama business centre in 2012 before fleeing, was also being sought by police.
Other suspected murderers, who are on the police wanted list, are Jabulani Dube of Filabusi, Bongani Ndou of Matopo, Mncwonywa Ncube and Frank Gatsheni of Guyu, Nkosilathi Ndlovu of Manonywe Village in Gwanda as well as Jabulani Dube Nyoni of Gwakwe area in Gwanda.
According to the notice, police are urging members of the public with information on the whereabouts of the suspects to approach their nearest police station.-SouthernEye
Sex At School:Pupils Defeat Govt
FIVE pupils expelled over allegations of engaging in sexual intercourse at school have defeated the Ministry of Education who were left with an egg on their face in court.
Nyahuni Adventist High School was yesterday ordered to reinstate the five after it emerged that the headmaster had not followed correct procedure in dismissing the children, and the Government also acted in haste.
High Court judge Justice Charles Hungwe yesterday ordered the reinstatement of the children — two boys and three girls — in his chambers after the school head climbed down on his earlier position of opposing the application.
The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, who was represented by Mr Joseph Mumbengengwi of the Attorney-General’s Office, said he was not opposed to the order sought because he had not sanctioned the school’s decision.
However, considering that the headmaster, Mr Sheckleton Makamba, was no longer opposing the application, the judge did not order the respondents in the matter to pay costs of the suit.
Four of the pupils — two boys and two girls — are Upper Six students who are still writing examinations while the two boys’ sister, who was fired for being in the same house where the sexual activities were suspected to have taken place, is in Form Three.
Harare lawyer Mr Charles Nyika of Nyika Kanengoni and Partners confirmed the development saying his clients were now free to go back to school without any hindrances.
“The court has ordered the reinstatement of the children and they are now free to join the others and continue with their usual business without any hindrances although they were seriously prejudiced by the school’s decision.
“The others are writing their final year examinations but the Form Three girl will even proceed to next year in the school without disturbances,” he said.
The minister’s lawyer, Mr Mumbengegwi, could not be reached for comment by the time of going to press yesterday.
The pupils, through Mr Nyika, argued that the expulsion was driven by malice on the part of the headmaster who took the hard stance without any proof that they became intimate.
It was the school’s allegation that the two brothers who stayed with the matron, a relative, spent a night in the house with the girls who had sneaked out of the boarding school’s hostels.
The headmaster, Mr Makamba, assumed that the four could have indulged in sexual activities before expelling them.
The boys’ sister was not spared because she was in the same house where the escapades could have been committed despite the fact that she officially stayed at the house.
In his notice of opposition, Mr Makamba attached a letter from the Mashonaland East provincial education director approving the expulsion but it was withdrawn at the eleventh hour just before the court hearing.
That left the headmaster exposed without any shield, a development that resulted in the collapse of his case.
In terms of the 1993 circular that governs schools on suspension, expulsion and corporal punishment issues, the headmaster cannot expel a pupil without authority from the regional director.
Clause 4.3 of the circular reads: “A head shall not expel a pupil without the prior approval of the regional director. The regional director shall be provided in writing with the full circumstances and reasons for the intended expulsion.
“The head shall include medical reports, police reports, etc, where appropriate.
“Copies of the letter of intended expulsion shall be sent to the regional director, who if he or she is in agreement with the head’s recommendation, will forward a copy to the (permanent) secretary for his information together with his or her comments.”- State Media
Harare Dishing $1/2Million to Mahachi
Harare City Council has offered ousted town clerk, Dr Tendai Mahachi, a $500 000 exit package but Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Ministry has reduced the amount to $100 000.
Sources close to the deliberations said Dr Mahachi, through his representative Mr Chenjerai Daitai of Magwaliba and Kwirira Legal Practitioners, was holding out for a $700 000 golden handshake.
They, however, said a team appointed by Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni, led by Councillor Enock Mupamaonde to negotiate a package with Dr Mahachi’s representatives, had offered $500 000, an amount subsequently agreed to by both parties.
“The team reported to the mayor that they had settled for $500 000 and the mayor in turn briefed the ministry. The ministry felt the amount was hefty and slashed it to $100 000, a figure which Dr Mahachi’s representatives have rejected,” said the source.
Mr Chenjerai Daitai confirmed that they had reached an agreement with the city but that council was dragging its feet on payment.
“We reached an agreement with the city on a certain figure which I cannot disclose but the city has not yet implemented our agreement.
“We have written two letters which the city did not respond to. We will be filing an application at the High Court challenging the city to fulfil its obligations,” he said.
Mayor Manyenyeni was diplomatic saying progress had been slow in negotiations.
“We are still discussing his retirement from council. Progress has been slower than we had hoped for. Nothing has been agreed to yet,” he said.
Council endorsed a decision by the human resources and general purposes committee in September to terminate Dr Mahachi’s employment contract.
Mayor Manyenyeni was authorised to negotiate a package with Dr Mahachi’s lawyers during a special council meeting.
Dr Mahachi had made an application at the High Court arguing that Section 139(2) of the Urban Councils’ Act requires that prior to the termination of a contract of employment in respect of a town clerk, the Local Government Board must approve the termination.
He, however, withdrew the application in which he wanted an order compelling the city to reinstate him following the negotiations.
Prior to making the High Court application, Dr Mahachi had demanded a golden handshake from the city and among his 22 demands he wanted a mansion in Belvedere and two top of the range vehicles.
According to a letter written by his lawyers to Manyenyeni, Dr Mahachi, who earned more than $27 000 per month, wanted the city to pay him more than $100 000 for every year he served the city.
He joined the city in 2007.-State Media
Ndebele Kingdom Revival Gains Momentum
- New Ndebele King coming, VP Mphoko guarantees.
- Revival of the Kingdom, the only way resources can comeback
Staff Reporter| The controversial revival of the Umthwakazi Kingdom of the Ndebeles appears to be gathering momentum following this weekend’s Gadade Battle commemorations.
An estimated 5 000 ethnic Ndebele people gathered at Gadade in Ntabazinduna on Saturday to commemorate the day the last Ndebele Kingdom under King Lobengula Khumalo was destroyed. History records that the point at Gadade is where the last of Lobengula’s bravest warriors were killed off by the cannon gun wielding British forces on their way to burning down KwaBulawayo Lobengula’s palace.
All dressed in Ndebele traditional outfit, the thousands of people who gathered at the event sang and danced to Ndebele war songs calling for the revival of the Mthwakazi Kingdom. Some opportunistic elements in the gathering used the chance to send messages demanding for the cessation of Mthwakazi from the rest of Zimbabwe.
Leaders of the Mthwakazi Kingdom revival groups used the stage to call upon government to immediately facilitate for the crowning of a new King for the Ndebele people. They also demanded that government accords the Ndebele warriors who were killed at the Gadade battle the national heroes status and declare Gadade as a national monument.
Addressing the crowd, Chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna where Gadade falls under, called on government to start respecting the cultures of the people of Matabeleland and have the income generated from the region benefiting the people in the region.
Chief Ndiweni castigated the marginalisation of Matabeleland region by the ZANU PF government since independence claiming that the region fought the toughest battles in the liberation of Zimbabwe but it’s never recognised for its efforts. He also took swipe at people who are bent on dividing Matabeleland into different ethnics groups.
Ndiweni reiterated his recent remarks that he was not happy with having the Police and Prison training depots in his area while they do not employ locals. Ndiweni claimed that his father the late Kayisa Ndiweni had allowed for construction of the depot as a skills training centre to benefit local people but was shocked when it was unceremoniously turned into a Training Depot for the police and prisons services.
Addressing the same gathering, Chief Gumede of the Ndebele people based in South Africa called on the people of Matabeleland to remain focused on fighting for the restoration of the Mthwakazi Kingdom. He claimed that the revival of the Kingdom will be the only way under which the people of Matabeleland can begin benefiting from the resources in the region.
The Gadade commemorations come just a couple of months after the King Mzilikazi commemoration which was attended by a similar crowd including Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko. In his address, Mphoko assured the people that government was working hard in ensuring that the king of the Ndebele people is coronated before the end of this year. Speakers at the Gadade commemorations assured the crowd that the king will be coronated before the end of the year as promised by Vice President Mphoko.
Kabila Jets Into Zimbabwe
President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has arrived in Harare for a one-day working visit in his capacity as African Union (AU) First Vice Chair.
Mr Kabila is expected to deliberate with the AU Chairman, President Robert Mugabe current issues and situations prevailing on the African continent.
The meeting is in preparation for his take-over of the continental chairmanship in January next year.
President Kabila, who is being accompanied by Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to the DRC, Mr Faranisi, was met on his arrival at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Foreign Affairs officials and some African diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe.
Fake Foreign Investors Messing About
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) says it is concerned with the number of foreign business delegation who are coming into the country to “spy” without putting forward investment plans.
CZI president Busisa Moyo told captains of industry at a roundtable meeting in Bulawayo on Wednesday that a number of business delegations from all over the world had been to the country, but so far nothing had come out of the visits.
“Sometimes I feel these business delegations are just coming to take a look at the challenges we that we have,” said Moyo, describing the number of delegations as ‘nauseating.’
Zimbabwe has hosted delegations from Germany, Italy, South Korea, South Africa, Turkey and the United States in recent months. It has also received two trade missions from the United Kingdom, last year and this year, while delegations from France, China, Russia and Turkey have also come looking for investment opportunities.
So far only Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, who visited the country in August, has announced plans to build a 1,5 million tonne cement plant in Zimbabwe.
In September, French firm Sociètè Industrielle Lesaffre (Lesaffre), a global leader in the manufacture of yeast and fermentation products, acquired a 60 percent stake in Zimbabwe’s Anchor Yeast, the country’s sole manufacturer of the product, lifting it out of the doldrums.
Moyo, however, noted that the increase in the number of delegations means Zimbabwe remained a possible investment destination for some international companies.-The Source
Fire Brigade Fails to Save a Burning Vehicle
BULAWAYO – The Fire Brigade was today reduced to helpless spectators after a golf CTI caught fire and went into flames before the firefighters failed to extinguish the inferno.
As they arrived (20 minutes later), angry crowds pelted stones and shouted unprintable words at them. The firemen who were unable to respond to the mob were captured battling to extinguish the golf.
“Get away you fools, why do you come now when the vehicle is already finished. You are idiots, you fools,” shouted some of the gathered at the scene….
Scores of furious onlookers were captured booing the already under pressure fire fighters who were concentrating on their task. The vehicle owner will now have to pay $500-00 in addition to losing the car, as is the police requirement that whenever the fireservicemen are called to a burning vehicle, the owner is liable to pay the fee.
Police Arrest Journalist For Covering Demo
Police in Harare Thursday arrested and detained freelance journalist Shadreck Andrison Manyere who was covering people protesting in the central business district.
Manyere was picked up together with the peaceful protesters believed to be MDC-T supporters.
He was taken to Harare central police where he is currently been detained.
In a short statement the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights says reasons for Manyere’s arrest still remain unclear adding that they are trying to establish the circumstances surrounding journalist’s apprehension.
Efforts to get comment from the police’s national spokesperson Charity Charamba were fruitless as her phone was not reachable.
Another “Dzamara”Arrested
The police in Mrewa have arrested and detained 35 year-old man Moenda Mberi for allegedly blaming President Robert Mugabe as the author of the country’s economic crisis, which has “brought untold suffering among some of his ruling Zanu PF party sympathisers.”
Mberi (pictured) was been charged for undermining authority or insulting President Mugabe in contravention of Section 33 (2) (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
The police led by one Detective Sergeant Munotumani of the CID Law and Order Unit in Mashonaland East province claimed insulted President Mugabe after he allegedly accused the 91 year-old ZANU PF party leader of having run out of ideas to arrest the country’s agonising economic crisis.
The police charged that Mberi, who was being represented by Kennedy Masiye of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), and was said to have uttered some unpalatable words at a beer retail shop located at Juru Growth Point in Goromonzi North constituency in Mashonaland East province.
The police alleged that Mberi blamed President Mugabe for the poor fortunes of some ruling ZANU PF party supporters, who are experiencing weight loss despite the promises from their leader who in the run-up to the 2013 general elections had pledged to create two million jobs and help fix the economic crisis.
Mberi was however on Wednesday released at the Murehwa Magistrates Court before he could appear in the courtroom after prosecutors declined to proceed with the matter as they had not secured authority to prosecute the villager from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head and Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana as provided under the law.
There has been a dramatic increase in the arbitrary application of Section 33 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act (Chapter 9:23) in recent years, where individuals have been charged with allegedly “insulting or undermining the authority of the President”.
Since 2010, ZLHR has attended to more than 100 cases where clients have fallen foul of this law and the bulk of the victims are residents and villagers residing in the politically volatile Mashonaland Central province.
ZLHR has challenged the constitutionality of Section 33 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act (Chapter 9:23) on several occasions, on the basis that it infringes on freedom of expression, particularly of a public figure, and one who must be subjected to scrutiny as a political candidate.
In courts, the NPA has in recent years and months been withdrawing charges against several suspects after declining prosecution and conceding before Constitutional Court judges that the allegations do not disclose the commission of an offence.
This would be after ZLHR attorneys would have petitioned the country’s apex court seeking orders challenging the constitutionality of the insult law.
Matebeleland a Mujuru Nightmare for Mugabe
Three months after President Robert Mugabe made a cabinet reshuffle, he is still failing to find a suitable person to appoint as Minister of State for Presidential Affairs in Matabeleland South province.
High ranking officials in the ZANU PF Provincial set up claim to ZimEye.com that the President is failing to pick a person for the position in the province because a majority of the high ranking party members in the province are sympathetic to ousted former Vice President Joice Mujuru.
In the reshuffle, President Mugabe removed his self confessed most loyal son Abednico Ncube from being his eye in the politically sensitive province as Minister of state to a new Ministry for Cultural Affairs and Rural Development.
The party sources claim that the President “is at sixes and sevens in trying to come up with Ncube’s replacement” made worse following the ouster of former party Provincial Chairman and strongman Andrew Langa. Langa who is generally credited with helping the ruling party win all the thirteen seats in the province, draws a huge respect from party members who he is now suspected to have dragged with him to the Mujuru People First yet to be launched party.
Mujuru’s project is said to be threatening to totally take over Matabeleland South province as it continues to secretly gather very senior members from all the political parties.
The sources claim that the yet to be unveiled party is making massive inroads in the province which is likely to eventually turn out to be the party’s stronghold.
“Mugabe does not have anyone of trust anymore in the province and will not be able to come up with his best trusted resident Minister from anyone in there,” said the sources.
“This problem is not only with Mugabe but all the political parties no longer have anyone to work with in the province as the Mujuru factor has silently swept through the province,” added the sources.
“People in Mat South must wait for shocking surprises when the party is launched as some very big names from will be unveiled…”
Asked on who the President may likely appoint to the position, the sources claimed that the position is being earmarked for former Gwanda senator Japheth Dube at the recommendation of his trusted aides.
Mphoko Killed Ndebeles In Gukurahundi Terror – War Vet
Ex ZIPRA fighter fingers Mphoko in Gukurahundi terror
By Tinoonga Mawere, Gutu | A man who claims to be a former ZIPRA fighter during the liberation struggle has made sensational claims Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko was part of the intelligence system that masterminded the Gukurahundi atrocities.
James Nhongonhema Chamisa (70) of Gutu District further claimed Mphoko was sitting on the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission programme because he was part of the technical team that was behind the Gukurahundi terror.
Chamisa also claimed Mphoko was a CIO operative during the time and he was actively involved in shaping strategies during the terror period that resulted in the death of thousands of Ndebele speaking people in Matabeleland and Midlands.
“I know that chap(Mphoko) -we fought together in the liberation struggle as a ZIPRA soldiers just before independence .He then joined the CIO and that is why he is afraid of the Gukurahundi shadows.
This is the reason behind his reluctance to act on the peace and reconciliation programme.He has been on record defending the government on the Gukurahundi issue because he was part of the system. Many people were surprised when he ascended to the post of vice president but I am not amused.Mugabe also wanted to coax Jacob Zuma-who is close to Mphoko and he wanted to hoodwink the Ndebele speaking people . Mark my words young man Mphoko will continue to drag his feet on the Gukurahundi issue.I have the facts to substantiate my side of the whole story and I am not afraid to meet him (Mphoko),” said Chamisa.
Many Zimbabweans were amazed by Mphoko’s rise but Chamisa claimed he had all the information about his controversial elevation.
The Mugabe regime has reflected a general lack of zeal in addressing the sensitive issue and Mphoko who has been tasked to head the peace commission on Gukurahundi is seemingly reluctant to implement the exercise . The Mugabe administration has been accused of gross violation of human rights.In 2008 hundreds of MDC supporters were murdered while some were maimed ahead of the controversial presidential election run-off and Zimbabweans now fear for the worst following reports of political violence in Harare.
Change Coming to Zimbabwe-US Envoy
The outgoing US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Bruce Wharton says Zimbabweans should continue fighting for democracy “because” change is inevitable.
Ambassador said this in a farewell letter.
BELOW is the full message from the courageous US diplomat.
Dear Friends, Colleagues, Family, and Comrades –
My time as the U.S. Ambassador is up. It has been an extraordinarily rich and wonderful time for me and my family — our second time to live in Zimbabwe — but it is drawing swiftly to a close. Thank you for your friendship, for teaching me about Zimbabwe, and for showing me the power or resilience.
Though I am sad to be leaving, I know that the change will be good. Good ideas or projects that I may have had here will withstand the test of time, and my departure provides an opportunity for my not-so-good ideas to go quietly away.
My successor, Ambassador Harry K. Thomas, is an extremely distinguished American diplomat. He is also a tremendously warm, smart, and decent man. He will fit right in among the millions of warm, smart, and decent Zimbabweans who are the soul of this great nation. Please welcome him and support him as you have me. I will “unplug” this Facebook account when I leave, but hope you will connect with us though our embassy Facebook page (www.facebook.com/usembassyharare) and keep an eye out for Ambassador Thomas’ social media presence.
I am returning to Washington, DC to become the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. In that position, I will work to support the efforts of Assistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Secretary Kerry, and President Obama to build stronger, more mutually beneficial relations between the U.S. and Africa. It is not an easy job, but I am honored to have been asked to take it on and very happy to remain focused on U.S.-Africa relations.
I remain deeply committed to the ideals on which Zimbabwe was founded, ideals that Americans and Zimbabweans share. I will do everything I can to support progress toward those ideals in the U.S., in Zimbabwe, and across Africa and the world. I will miss many friends here, and hope to return in a few years – perhaps when we open our new embassy — to renew those friendships.
In the meantime, support each other, reach out to people who are not like you, listen thoughtfully, be proud of your great country, and look for ways to support it.
Thank you, ndatenda, siyabonga, farewell!
Expelled MDC Council Worker Joins ZANU PF and Gets Job Back
Staff Reporter| The Municipal of Gwanda Workers’ Committee chairman and former member of the Welshman Ncube led MDC who early this year was fired from his work allegedly for disrespecting President Robert Mugabe at a Council workers meeting, has been reinstated at work after joining ZANU PF.
Sipho Ndhlovu who before his dismissal was a member of the MDC national executive committee was dismissed after continuous clashes with Council as workers chairman which body colleagues claim was turned into a political rival by the ZANU PF dominated Council. According to a source within the workers, Council sought reasons to dismiss him from work on several occasions but failed until he was accused for undermining the authority of President Mugabe of which he was eventually dismissed.
Several appeals through the labour courts would not move Council to re-engage Ndlovu. Facing a bleak future without employment Ndlovu is said to have approached then Minister of State Matabeleland South Abednico Ncube who undertook to help Ndlovu get his job back on condition he resigns from the MDC and join ZANU PF.
A few weeks after Ndlovu was paraded at the ZANU PF offices in Gwanda led by Minister Ncube denouncing the MDC and confessing his allegiance to ZANU PF. His move to join ZANU PF shocked many not only within the MDC but within ZANU PF itself where he is reportedly not getting the best reception from members there.
True to his words, Ncube is reported to have swiftly facilitated to have Ndlovu reinstated at the Municipality. Over and above the condition to quit the MDC for his job, Ndlovu was forced to resign from his position as Workers’ Union chairman.
Following his reinstatement, Ndlovu was unavailable to give a comment to the media. An officer at the Council reception however confirmed that Ndlovu was indeed back at work and was only out of office at the time ZimEye.com telephoned him.
ZANU PF loyalist and AAG president Chamu Chiwanza recently made shocking remarks when he told Zimbabwean youths to join ZANU PF in order to get rich. Opposition parties and activists have always come hard on the ruling party for its partisan handling of national opportunities giving ZANU PF supporters priority and social favours all the time.
Workers at the Municipality of Gwanda have expressed disappointment on the conditions given to Ndlovu for his reinstatement with some describing him as a coward and a sale out.
Mujuru’s Secret Miracles: Destitute Poor Girl Raised Now Top Accountant
Joice Mujuru has been called a stingy woman who helps no-one. Some have attacked her saying she did nothing for the community during her tenure in government. But ZimEye conducted some research recently and obtained direct eye-witness accounts from several of Mujuru’s secret works of compassion.
As Zimbabwe struggled through the post independence period of darkness with many school children failing to make it past secondary school, Mujuru unannounced would tour the jungles of rural Zimbabwe quietly lifting many orphans and destitute kids some who are now sitting on top of the world. ZimEye begins this series to investigate the untold Mujuru story.
Case Study 1 – Netsai, Public Accountant, Foreign Missions
Netsai (not her real name) had the following to narrate: “I was born into a poor family. I never had a pair of shoes until I was 14 years. My parents were separated. I was an intelligent child but lacked parental love and care.
I passed grade 7 despite the challenges. As a primary school child in grade four I remember jumping onto a truck with other people from my village and surrounding areas and going to work on a commercial farm near Bindura (kwaSorati). They did not care what age one was as long as one was old enough to be able to help pick cotton from the fields. We could be at that farm or other farms for a week or two.
One memory that stayed with me is when we got to the farm: they cleared out a disused large hall of human excretion on the floor using farm machinery and told us to put down our mats and get ready to sleep before going to work the next morning. We had no choice. Poverty is real.
I would make around ZW$10 and use it to pay my school fees for primary education. I enrolled for form 1 in a school where I had to walk at least 2 hours to reach the school. That was only one way.
Leaving home at around 5am. This was now a different ball game altogether no amount of labour on the farms was going to be adequate for me to raise my own school fees while active in school, but I wanted to further my education and I was blessed with a good brain.
My intelligence made one teacher advise me to seek Social Service help, since sometimes I could be absent from school for weeks due to school fees problems. I was so young but I went to Mt Darwin to the Social Welfare Office.
I was promised support and letters were sent to school from there. I approached a local businessman; Mr Stavros who owned a service station by that time in Darwin for help with bus fare to go back home.
He felt so much pity and wanted to know more about me. He gave me his attention, and through our discussions he said, “You deserve to go to a boarding school. Social Welfare should send you to a boarding school. I will give you support and we can talk to other businessmen here to help you with uniforms.”
He took me to Mr Patel who was an Indian businessman who then offered to give me uniforms. It’s a long chain. Unfortunately Mr Stavros died a week later from heart attack.
But the good news is I had found a place at Mavhuradonha Secondary school through Mr Patel who had contacted the Headmaster. But still the dilemma came when fees was not paid in advance I could not go to Mavhuradonha. The challenge continued.
Then one lady told me, “Go to Mai Mujuru’s office and tell her your problem she will help you.”
Mai Mujuru was the Governor of Mashonaland Central and based in Bindura at the time and I was in Mt Darwin and I had no bus fare. It was a sad story indeed. From this lady at the Welfare Office I got help with bus fare and I went to Bindura.
I carried all my school results with me. When I arrived at her office the secretary was very kind. I told her why I was there.
She took my school results to Mai Mujuru as I waited in the secretary’s office.
She came back and ten minutes later Amai came out smiling and said, “come here Netsai (not real name) “, calling my name as if she knew me from before and I was a long lost relative.
I followed her. She then said, “We have kids but they are playing with school and a child like you is such a great blessing. I want you to be my own child.
“I want you to go to a girls’ high school of your choice and tell anybody who asks you anything that am your mother. During your school holidays you can stay with us.”
I was in disbelief for a while. I did not expect that. It was like a drama. But it was real. This stranger was taking me in as her own child just as I was: wearing my only pair of shoes: sandak by Bata one of which was torn and I was holding it together using back elastic (ndandi/rekeni). She asked me which school I wanted to go to, but the young village girl I was I had no clue.
She suggested that I go to the Salvation Army run Usher Girls’ School and sent me there. I had a new life. I became a child of hers. The lady who was Head of the school took me so close like her child too as she knew my painful past. She was fully informed of my life. What my adoptive mother gave me nobody could ever give me…a mother in letter and spirit. My biological mother left when I was three months old.
I was nursed and raised by my paternal aunt on one of the Mashonaland central commercial farms until I was about eight years old. I was the youngest of three siblings from my parents. I met my biological mother for the first time and only once when she came to our village homestead for my paternal grandmother’s funeral.
Two years later we visited my maternal grandparents homestead in another village to bury my mum. Until I met Mai Mujuru I had never felt nor experienced a mother’s love. I had only ever been the ‘unwanted’ step-child. My natural family is large as I have half siblings on my dad’s side.
Thanks to Amai for taking me in I am the only one that went to school up to and past ‘O’ levels in my whole family. Today I am the family’s main breadwinner and beacon of hope. After Usher Girls’ Amai arranged that I go to Chipindura for A level. She connected me with the late Boarder Gezi so that in case of sickness or anything he could give me close support. He was very supportive too. I remain her real daughter.
She could remove a dress and give me if I say, “Amai I love it” and she would give me…anything I needed or wanted including under garments. I remember getting T shirts from her backyard tailors…women who made T-shirts from her servants’ quarters as a women’s income generating project. She never cared to know who my family was or if we had any relational ties.
She just saw a needy child and met me at my point of need. Now I work for one of the Foreign Embassies as Chief Finance Officer. She is a woman with a humane heart. Those who have had a chance to know her as a person did not fail in their lives and I know I am one of the many children she helped. She does not give only school fees support, she gives love and encouragement.
She gives her whole being. In my rural district she started an irrigation scheme which was helpful to many. It gave a source of livelihood to many in the community. One of my natural brothers used to buy tomatoes from the scheme for re-sale in Bindura. While I may not be Dr Joice Mujuru’s biological child I am blessed and proud to call her my mum. She is my mummy, the only mother I have ever known. She made me who I am today. She has touched many lives in her quiet and unassuming ways.
Nude Nun Pictures: Dodgy Journalist Sentenced
A Marondera man who impersonated a B-Metro reporter to extort $1 200 from a Catholic nun in Gweru has been ordered to perform 270 hours of community service at a primary school in his home town.
A warrant of arrest against Mike Chimutanda issued last Friday was cancelled after he appeared at the Gweru Magistrates’ Court later that day and said he had been late as his vehicle had broken down.
Chimutanda told Sister Concilia Jangara, the headmistress of Gweru’s Regina Mundi Girls’ High School, that he had indecent pictures of her.
He demanded $1 208 from the Roman Catholic Church nun to stop publication of the photos in B-Metro after lying that he worked for it. Chimutanda’s wife has since repaid the money. Gweru magistrate Musaiwona Shotgame yesterday handed Chimutanda a wholly suspended 15 months jail term on two conditions; that he performs 270 hours of community service at Nyaguvi Primary School in Marondera and does not commit a similar crime within the next five years.
“This was a well-planned offence considering you were hiding your identity and I can safely say you committed this crime out of greed than need because you are self-employed and have enough valuable assets,” Shotgame said.
“However, the court considers that you are a first offender and that you deserve a chance out of prison. I hereby give you a wholly suspended sentence of 15 months.”
Nine months were suspended on condition that he performs 270 hours of community service from November 15 and the other six months were suspended on condition that he does not commit a similar offence within five years.
Chimutanda, who was representing himself, had pleaded not guilty and was out of custody on $100 bail. The court heard he somehow opened a CABS account in the name of one Showan Ndlovu.
During his trial, detectives told the court Ndlovu and his given national identity card number did not exist on the national registrar’s records. His accomplice, Tenias Mapfune, was also said to be fictitious.
Initially, Chimutanda was charged with extortion together with Tsitsi Kahari, a CABS Textacash agent. Kahari then turned State witness.
Chimutanda asked Sister Jangara to deposit the money into the non-existent Ndlovu’s account and he found a way to transfer it to Kahari’s account, from which it was withdrawn, the court heard.
In defence, Chimutanda said: “I was expecting money from Mapfune and asked for the ATM card. I paid back the money to show that I didn’t intend to con the complainant. I’m popular in Marondera, I’m a music promoter and wouldn’t do this.”
Ireland:Zim Man Arrested for alleged Predatory Rape
A 37-year-old Zimbabwean sexually attacked a Belfast woman, charges slapped on him allege.
Pondai Bamu, 37, allegedly attacked the woman at Rosemary Street as she waited for a friend to collect her in the early hours of September 24.
The defendant, appeared before Belfast Magistrates’ Court to face charges of rape and sexual assault. He was refused bail amid fears he could flee or potentially re-offend.
Bamu, of Malrborough Avenue in the city, spoke only to confirm he understood the charges. Opposing his release, an investigating detective said it was due to “the predatory nature of the offences”.
She said the alleged attack was carried out in a dark alleyway after the woman’s friend told her he was on his way to pick her up. Police also revealed that he left Northern Ireland and spent a period in the north of England following the alleged rape.
However, a defence lawyer told the court: “His account consistently was that this was a consensual act.”
He added that one of Bamu’s relatives was prepared to let him stay at her address in Co Armagh. But District Judge Fiona Bagnall denied bail based on concerns the accused may leave the jurisdiction.
Citing further reasons for her decision, she said: “Given the nature of the offence and the information put before the court at this stage there’s a predatory nature to the offence.”
Bamu was remanded in custody to appear again by video link on December 9.
Prophet Catches Wife In Bed with Stranger
A prophet fainted when he returned home and found his wife in bed with another man.
Thulani Ncube of Bulawayo who was on A night shift, got sick and returned home without telling his wife Clara Rubaya. He was shocked to find his wife in the arms of boyfriend Ezlamm Sibanda.
Instead of taking action, Ncube collapsed and Sibanda fled from the scene naked. But he was apprehended by neighbours who took him to Western Commonage Police Station.
Ncube explained how it all happened.‘‘While at work I developed a running tummy. As a result my boss said I should go home. When I got home at around 9pm, I was shocked when I heard strange sounds. I tried to listen and thought maybe we had visitors. I then opened the door since I had spare keys. I found my wife bending holding the bed while her lover was on her case. After that I don’t know what happened because I had a blackout. I only woke up to see a lot of people surrounding me,” said the distraught Ncube.
He has since sent her packing. “I had gathered substantial money to pay part of the lobola. I won’t pay anything anymore- I sent her back home,” he said.
Clara Rubaya, the cheating wife that she had a past and strong feelings for Sibanda.
“ I don’t know what got into my head. I failed to stop my previous relationship with Ezlamm because I fail to get rid of him and I believe I still love him,” she said.
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Muchinguri Hit Mujuru from Behind
In a new twist to the post-congress Zanu PF’s seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars, it is now being claimed that Water minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was the “main author” in the brutal purging on untested allegations of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her allies from the party.
Well-placed sources claimed in briefings to the Daily News yesterday that Muchinguri-Kashiri, who is now viewed as the ruling party’s godmother in her home province of Manicaland, had only later roped in controversial First Lady Grace Mugabe to achieve this goal, although she had since fallen out with President Robert Mugabe’s wife “over the spoils”.
“You guys in the media have mostly got this whole story wrong. Oppah was the main player behind the ouster of Mai Mujuru and not Dr Amai (Grace) as you think, who was only roped in to help persuade the president to act.“
She clearly thought then that she would score big, but things haven’t gone according to her plan,” one of the sources linked to Zanu PF’s ambitious Young Turks, the Generation 40 (G40),who says he used to hobnob with the minister, said.
Former close Mugabe confidante and ex-senior minister in charge of intelligence, Didymus Mutasa, also described Muchinguri-Kashiri as “one of the main authors” of Mujuru’s fall when he was approached for comment.
Former close Mugabe confidante and ex-senior minister in charge of intelligence, Didymus Mutasa, also described Muchinguri-Kashiri as “one of the main authors” of Mujuru’s fall when he was approached for comment.
“I started to know the president in 1971 when we were together in prison, and I have known him since then. He also used to visit us when we were staying in Bristol (UK). He is a straightforward person and I hold him in high regard.“Even after independence we were very close. We used to like each other very much. Don’t ask me what went wrong because I don’t know. What is now clear is that the G40 and Mnangagwa cooked up the lies but are now fighting for power.
“We now also know that it was Chamu (Muchinguri-Kashiri) who lied to the president about Mai Mujuru. For what reasons I cannot say. But she used her connections to send lies, resulting in the president acting on the wrong advice,” Mutasa said.
Clearly still harbouring hopes of one day meeting Mugabe again despite the two men’s fallout, Mutasa said the only way, at the moment, through which he could reach out to the man he still fondly calls “Baba” (father), was through the media.
But he also realises that the chances of them meeting anytime soon are remote, as Mugabe is surrounded by “many self-serving praise-singers and mafikizolos (Johnny-come-latelies)” who were determined to stop this from happening and to give the increasingly-frail nonagenarian a “daily dosage of lies”.
One of the sources who spoke to the Daily News said Muchinguri-Kashiri’s controversial slogan at the congress of the Zanu PF women’s league in August last year, when she said “pasi nevanopisira varume mumba” (down with those who burn their husbands in their houses) was a public sign that she disliked Mujuru intensely.
Mujuru’s late husband, the decorated liberation struggle icon Solomon Mujuru, died in a mysterious inferno at the couple’s Beatrice farm, just outside Harare, in 2011.
Repeated efforts to speak to Muchinguri-Kashiri yesterday did not bear fruit, with her aide saying she was attending a Cabinet meeting.
However, the minister has previously boasted about her role in Mujuru’s ouster.
“Takaona kuti pane vamwe vakamirira kuti vapinde pachigaro chababa VaMugabe, tikavarova nemunyati, tikavatamba inonzi tingoringo, tikati regai titore Queen mother, mai vauye vatungamirire vazotonga kuti vasazotora chigaro chikuru (We realised that there were some who wanted to oust Mugabe from power, but we were too smart for them and also decided to use our mother [Grace] to thwart their plots),” Muchinguri-Kashiri also said last year.
Ironically, she now finds herself sidelined and in the firing line of the increasingly-influential Grace, as the battle to succeed Mugabe intensifies, amid claims that Muchinguri-Kashiri feels that she was not adequately recognised and compensated for her role in deposing Mujuru.
Instead of being rewarded “for this sterling work that she did”, Muchinguri-Kashiri found herself relegated to the less glamorous post of secretary for transport and communication in the politburo, when it is said that she had hoped to replace Mujuru as VP or at least become the party’s secretary for administration”, a source said.
Mutasa said yesterday that “what goes around comes around”, and Muchinguri-Kashiri was getting her comeuppance, as the mindless bloodletting in the warring post-congress Zanu PF worsened. DailyNews
AFM Pastor Rapes Four Women – Court Proc
By Tinoonga Mawere, Zvishavane|An Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) has been nabbed for allegedly raping four female congregants claiming the act was a sacrifice to God.
Pastor Lawrence Gwaza(60) of Redcliff Kwekwe,allegedly warned the women not to disclose the incidents to anyone since they would get a curse from God . Gwaza appeared before Zvishavane magistrate Story Rushambwa who remanded him to November 24 2015.
Gwaza is accused of raping a 35 year old Chegato High School teacher, a mission school in Mberengwa, between 2002 and 2008. He allegedly told her she would get what she asked from God if she made an offering to God by sleeping with the pastor.Gwaza also allegedly raped a 48 year old Church member from Tura Village in the same area between 2002 and 2003. He also told the woman the act was an offering to God.
Gwaza also raped two other women between July 2002 and the end of 2005 after telling them sleeping with him was an act of offering to God .Gwaza who went on a preaching exercise in Zvishavane at that time would call the women on one on one prayer sessions. The cases came to light after one of the women reported him to the police after realising he had slept with different women.
Cases of rape have of late been on the rise due to socio-economic hardships since people flock to spiritual leaders to seek remedy for the bitter living conditions they face . Several women have been raped by self-styled prophets under the guise of prophetic revelations.
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Mnangagwa Youths Bash Grace sympathisers
Violence broke out in Highfield yesterday as Zanu PF youths linked to vice President Emerson Mnangagwa thrashed the pro-Grace Mugabe faction during a restructuring exercise which the party is conducting ahead of its December Victoria Falls conference.
Report by Newsday
Journalists visited Highfield, where witnesses said violence erupted after sharp differences over the criteria to be used to vote for the youth leadership in the district and several people were caught up in the fracas.
The situation had returned to normal at a local community hall, but the atmosphere was tense, with eyewitnesses narrating how they dodged stones and several objects that were being thrown from all directions by the fighting party youths.
Police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba could not immediately confirm the violence, saying she would check on it.
Highfield West MP Psychology Maziwisa was not available for comment, as his mobile phone was unreachable.
Harare provincial commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe was also not available to comment on the skirmishes, while national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo was not answering his mobile number.
Witnesses said skirmishes started on Monday evening, forcing the adjournment of the restructuring exercise.
The process resumed yesterday, but officials failed to agree on modalities before the fights broke out.
“They were throwing stones and all sorts of objects at each other,” a witness said.
“We only heard that some wanted to use a book with names of party supporters, while others questioned that and wanted everyone present to vote, hence the violence. One of the troublemakers was taken to the police.
“The stones hit our houses and some cars as the fights turned nasty.”
Several onlookers watched from a safe distance as the elections proceeded.
Last week, Zanu PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere reportedly witnessed violent clashes as ruling party supporters fought during a restructuring exercise in Kadoma. Several party members were reportedly injured and rushed to Kadoma General Hospital.
Zanu PF officials are divided along factional lines, with one group allegedly loyal to Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the other to First Lady Grace Mugabe.
Grace Mugabe’s Blue Eyed Boy For Zanu PF Harare Provincial Chairmanship
Zanu PF Harare provincial political commissar who is also the Harare South MP Shadreck Mashayamombe is tipped to be come the party’s Harare provincial chairmanship in the party’s ongoing restructuring exercise, he is fighting with Mt Pleasant MP Jason Passade.
Mashayamombe is campaigning for Grace in her national rallies where she is preparing to succeed her 91 year old husband President Robert Mugabe.
He is also the current Zanu PF Harare province political commissar, while Passade is the deputy secretary for indigenisation.
Charles Tawengwa is the acting provincial chairperson after Godwills Masimirembwa was booted out in June by his provincial executive on allegations that he was fanning factionalism.
Masimirembwa was also accused of disrespecting the party’s top leadership after he reportedly misled Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko that Mavis Gumbo would represent the party in the Harare East by-elections when, in fact, Terence Mukupe had won.
Masimirembwa had sprung to the Harare province top post after the sacking of the late Amos Midzi, who was accused of conniving with former Vice-President Joice Mujuru to oust President Robert Mugabe.
Mashayamombe yesterday said he would contest for the post as soon as the party opened up the floor and was optimistic of victory.
“I am confident of winning,” he said.
Passade also said he was waiting for a directive from the party and would contest as soon as the green light was given by the politburo.
“I was in the race before I lost to Midzi. I got 3 500 votes while Midzi polled 5 000 votes. The people who voted for me are still there and I am sure I will win. I am tried and tested. Mashayamombe is only 31 years old, he still belongs to the youth,” Passade said.
Passade lost to Midzi in 2013 in tightly-contested polls that were marred by factional accusations.
Midzi reportedly belonged to the Mujuru faction that swept eight provinces out of 10.
“We have to follow instructions from the leadership. I will campaign as soon as the post is declared open for contestation,” Passade said.
Other members reportedly eyeing provincial executive positions are Highfield West MP Psychology Maziwisa and Harare East MP Terence Mukupe.(Additional Reporting Newsday)
Mnangagwa Chases Grace
CIO agents save Grace from Mnangagwa
By Tinoonga Mawere, Masvingo| First Lady Grace Mugabe was saved from humiliation and told not set foot in Masvingo where roudy war veterans were eagerly waiting to abash her.
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters forced the First Lady Grace Mugabe to bunk the Masvingo rally to the avoid embarrassment, it has emerged.
Mrs Mugabe’s eleventh hour U-turn plunged the Zanu PF leadership loyal to the women’s league boss into a quandary as officials could not explain the reason for her absence. However intelligence sources revealed to ZimEye.com yesterday Grace got wind of the plot by the pro-Mnangagwa war veterans and war collaborators to humiliate her by raising placards and singing in front of ZBC tv cameras. Grace’s rallies are beamed live on the national television.
It is understood Grace made a last-minute about turn after being told at least 500 Mnangagwa loyalists wanted to embarrass her during the live coverage of her scheduled address. The president’s wife has been accused of disrespecting liberation war veterans.
“There are some people who had been given beer and money to embarrass the First Lady in front of the ZBC cameras during the live broadcast. The plan was to raise placards and sing derogatory songs against Mrs Mugabe.
The plan was to take her by surprise but everything was discovered and she was advised not to come. That is the reason why nobody managed to explain her absence.
Her opponents had hatched a secret ploy to embarrass her live on television but everything was discovered. They wanted to tell her to concentrate on the Women’s League business,” said a Zanu PF intelligence source.
Although Zanu PF denies the beef between Grace and Mangagwa, it is understood the two are pumping out thousands of dollars in territorial battles at a time when the government is struggling to pay civil servants.
The battle is reportedly intensifying ahead of the party ‘s conference in December and Mrs Mugabe is allegedly being pushed by the secret G40 group to eventually succeed her husband.
Kasukuwere Hounds Kombayi
The Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere, has appealed against a Bulawayo High Court order directing him to reinstate suspended Gweru mayor Hamutendi Kombayi and 10 councillors.
Last month, Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Nokuthula Moyo, ordered the Minister to reinstate the 11 councillors on the basis that the section of the Urban Councils Act that was used to suspend the city fathers contravened the country’s Constitution.
Justice Moyo’s ruling, which was delivered on October 2, followed an urgent chamber application filed by the 11 councillors who sought an order declaring their suspension null and void.
However, in a move that will keep the councillors away from Town House, Cde Kasukuwere yesterday told The State Media that his Ministry had appealed the order.
“We have appealed against the High Court order to reinstate the Gweru councillors,” he said.
The State Media could not immediately get hold of the appeal papers.
In August, Minister Kasukuwere indefinitely suspended Kombayi, his deputy Artwell Manyorauta and the other councillors on allegations of gross misconduct, incompetence and mismanagement of council funds and affairs.
Justice Moyo said section 114 of the Urban Councils which the Minister used to suspend the councillors and to appoint a tribunal was inconsistent with section 278 of the Constitution.
She said the Constitution provides for the establishment of an independent tribunal to exercise the function of removing from office mayors, council chairpersons and councillors.
The judge said the authority to remove councillors or constitute an independent tribunal was no longer vested in the minister.
“In summary, section 114 of the Urban Councils Act vests all powers to suspend and dismiss councillors, in the Minister of Local Government who is the first respondent. However, section 278 of the Constitution on the other hand gives an impression that the Constitution has taken away the powers that the Minister had in terms of section 114 of the Urban Councils Act and vested the same in an independent tribunal which should be established through an Act of Parliament,” said Justice Moyo.
She said the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and any law or Act that was inconsistent with it has no force or effect.
“The Constitution thus speaks for itself. Any act or practice which is inconsistent with its provisions is invalid to the extent of the inconsistency. It stipulates that the obligation imposed by it are binding on everyone and must be fulfilled by all, including the first respondent as Minister of Local Government,” said Justice Moyo. State Media
MDC Leaders Assaulted in Mbare
Three youth leaders of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai were on Tuesday allegedly assaulted by a group of ruling Zanu PF supporters, leaving them for dead.
One of the youth leaders suffered a broken rib and lost four teeth in the attack in Harare’s Mbare high density suburb.
The three, according to party spokesman Obert Gutu, sustained serious injuries that left them hospitalized.
The MDC youth leaders, James Chidhakwa, Rhino Mashaya and Keith Charumbira were attacked while having lunch after earlier attending a court hearing in which 17 party supporters were remanded in custody for alleged violent behavior during clashes with Zanu PF supporters in Harare South Sunday.
Also on trial was the MDC’s Harare provincial chairperson, Eric Murayi.
“The three sustained grave injuries, with Mashaya losing four teeth and a fractured rib, while Chidhakwa and Charumbira sustained deep head cuts,” party spokesman Gutu said.
“The attack was brutal and unprovoked. No doubt Zanu PF has reignited its terror thugs to start terrorizing the people of Zimbabwe, especially those in the opposition. We call on Zanu PF to desist from engaging such violent tendencies.”
The three have been admitted at a Harare Hospital.
Efforts to get a comment from the police or Zanu PF Harare Province were futile.-VOA
UK: ‘Prophetic’ Vapostori Kill Child In England
Wolverhampton – A Vapositori couple killed their 8 month old baby by denying her treatment saying they were following their church’s orders and requirements that prayer alone is enough.
Their baby died from rickets and pneumonia as a result of severe mal-nourishment.
Brian and Precious Kandare, aged 32 and 36, were jailed today (Tuesday 10 November) after pleading guilty to manslaughter for killing their eight-month old baby Rebecca. Brian Kandare was sentenced to nine and a half years and Precious Kandare was sentenced to eight years.
Nottingham Crown Court heard that paramedics were called to Park village in Wolverhampton on Monday 6 January 2014.
Rebecca was found to be suffering from extremely severe rickets and double pneumonia and doctors were unable to save her life.
A subsequent post-mortem investigation found that she was malnourished and weighed only 11lbs 11oz − just 4lbs heavier than her recorded weight two weeks after she was born on 22 April 2013.
The court was told that Brian and Precious had not sought medical care for Rebecca as they were members of the Apostolic Church of God which discourages parents from presenting children for conventional treatment.
As such Rebecca was never taken to see a doctor or nurse despite the post-mortem examination finding that she had reached critical levels of malnutrition two to three months before her death.
Rebecca relied completely upon the care of her parents in order to develop and thrive. Sadly this care was nowhere to be seen.
Rebecca’s condition would have been abundantly clear and medical investigations found that if she had been treated sooner she would most likely have survived.
By not seeking help her parents allowed her to become severely ill and she subsequently died.
A serious case review has been commissioned by Wolverhampton Safeguarding Children board.
Mugabe Assassination(s) Just Internal Democracy, Says Moyo |ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS – The assassination of General Solomon Mujuru in 2011, part of the incessant factional and succession wars threatening to tear Zanu PF apart are all an indication that internal democracy is well and alive, party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has hinted.
What ZANU PF has persistently said were assassination attempts on President Robert Mugabe also resulted in the evidential assassination of Gen Solomon Mujuru and then the subsequent ouster of the late General’s wife, Joice, all culminating in spiral removal of party members nationwide along faction lines (Mujuru and Non-Mujuru).
Khaya-Moyo made these revelations while commenting on the suspensions and counter-suspensions blighting provincial structures countrywide.
Moyo quoted by the Daily News, said the deadly infighting was emblematic of a thriving political party.
“The revolutionary party is the embodiment of democracy and differences are bound to be a common feature in any democratic environment as ours in Zanu PF,” he said.
He accused the media of being obsessed with what is happening in the ruling party.
“You have seen it even in the opposition parties and some have even gone on to split but you do not talk about it,” he said.
In Manicaland, chaos reigned supreme at the weekend as Zanu PF women’s league national spokesperson Monica Mutsvangwa openly traded insults with politburo member and youth league deputy secretary Kudzanai Chipanga.
The clash occurred during a special provincial coordinating committee meeting to resolve the issue of a vote of no confidence recently passed on women’s league boss Happiness Nyakuedzwa.
Mutsvangwa and Nyakuedzwa are both linked to a faction led by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the race to succeed President Robert Mugabe while Chipanga is aligned to First Lady Grace, who is also said to be eyeing the presidency.
Nyakuedzwa’s vote of no confidence was allegedly at Grace’s behest as punishment for the provincial chairperson’s “insubordination”.
Khaya Moyo said the quarrels playing out should not be viewed from a factional point of view.
“In the end, when we have such differences, we are members of one party, we need each other so there is need for those involved in the fights to realise that there are rules in the party. We must amicably resolve our differences guided by the values and virtues of the party which emphasise unity. There is need for unity of purpose,” he said.
The Zanu PF information tsar revealed that the party would be launching an investigation into the disturbances in Manicaland and Mashonaland East provinces in particular.
“We are awaiting detailed reports to the politburo of what is transpiring in the provinces and from there, investigations will begin after the politburo has given direction,” Khaya Moyo said.
“The provinces will have to compile reports which the politburo will look at before dispatching an investigation team.”
He spoke as factionalism exploded in Mashonaland East where the provincial chairperson Joel Biggie Matiza, an alleged Mnangagwa ally, was ousted in a no-confidence vote before regrouping and turning the tables against his rivals believed to be led by a Grace loyalist Lawrence Katsiru.
Even the intervention of party political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere could not douse the flames as the working relations among the party leadership had “irretrievably broken down” as the fiasco left sediments of mistrust, according to Zanu PF insiders.
ZESA Bosses Caught Lying
Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority bosses and their regulatory Authority Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority counterparts were today humiliated by an unscheduled blackout while trying to defend their bad service.
The shameful situation occurred in the presence of officials from the Ministry of Energy and Power Development.
ZERA and CCZ organized a public meeting for domestic consumer education, where the senior officials took turns to defend the electricity supply company on why there are power cuts.
ZESA national senior engineer Mathew Sibindi and the Western Region ZESA General Manager Lovemore Chinaka were at loss of words when ZESA abruptly switched off during the address by Mrs Gloria Magombo who is the Chief Executive Officer.
“Now you can explain to us practically, as we have been telling you in the morning that you cut power without notifying us your consumers. Address us now as to how does this happen!” shouted the crowd who were in the middle of the workshop.
The situation was rescued by ZERA technical department, who diverted the attention of the angry crowd by making group presentation on the solar power and biogas energy.
This did no did not go well with the already livid crowd who demanded that ZESA officials must explain their load schedule.
ZESA’s commercial Manager Western region Sibindi braved the chilling situation by addressing the crowd in admission that their power company was in trying times, adding the power utility owes their external power service providers citing that the situation can only be arrested if consumers settle the outstanding bills.
His sentiment were echoed by those of Mrs Magombo, ZERA CEO, who said that Zimbabwe owes other countries, and they were exporting power to get payments to settle the debt.
“Please bear with us, we are not living in a vacuum, we borrow from others and we need also to repay the debts, that is why we are in this predicament,” she said.
Mphoko Faces Lawsuit for Gukurahundi Atrocities
Civil society organisations are moving to take Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko to the constitutional court for government’s reluctance to establish a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission to deal with Gukurahundi atrocities.
Vice President Mphoko was tasked to oversee national healing programmes in the Zanu Pf government and the establishment of the NPRC falls under his portfolio.
If established the NPRC will deal with human rights violations which happened since the attainment of independence in 1980, most of which were perpetrated by Zanu PF including the Gukurahundi of 1982 – 1987.
Mphoko is on record defending government on the Gukurahundi atrocities which claimed more than 20 000 lives of the Midlands and Matabeleland civilians in the 80s.
Leaders of the civil society who include Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum director Lloyd Kuveya, Gladys Hlatywayo the director of the Zimbabwe Civil education Trust and Heal Zimbabwe Trust director Rashi Mahiya told reporters in Harare Tuesday they are dragging Mphoko to the courts for failing to create the NPRC.
“If the delay is inordinate we will take the government to the constitutional court for non compliance because the government has a responsibility to uphold and defend the constitution and according to us if that does not happen we will be left with no option than to approach the highest court of the land,” they said.
The NPRC was supposed to be been established at the adoption of the new constitution in 2013 because it has a life span of ten years from the ‘effective date’ of adoption of the new constitution.
Professor Names University fac’ After Mugabe
By Tinoonga Mawere, Masvingo| Great Zimbabwe University Vice Chancellor Professor Rungano Mudadirwa Zvobgo has passed a motion to rename the Faculty of Education after President Robert Mugabe.
In a move seen by university lecturers and academics as a political gimmick aimed at pleasing the nonegenarian and his wife Grace, Zvobgo has gone into overdrive and proposed to name the faculty The Robert Mugabe School of Education. The move has since angered lecturers and academics who feel Zvobgo intends to consolidate his stay at the university by buying loyalty from Mugabe.
Ironically the development comes at a time Mugabe has presided over a prolonged economic abyss that has led to an alarming rate of unemployment .The bulk of the Mugabe capped graduates have been reduced to street beggars and airtime vendors.
Addressing university staff at the Great Zimbabwe University main campus Zvobgo said:” We will live the president’s dream. The president deserves respect and honour,” he began.
Therefore the Faculty of Education will be named the Robert Mugabe School of Education .We are doing this to honour his legacy,” he continued.
Furious lecturers last week slammed Zvobgo’s utterances as cheap political grandstanding. “We are puzzled by the utterances. The Mugabe regime has caused untold suffering for us and it is really pathetic because these graduates have nowhere to go after completing their programmes-yet one man wakes up in the blankets and names the Faculty of Education after the same man. It is an insult to all academics and students, “said one lecturer in the faculty.
They angrily added:”Zvobgo and his ilk must moot ideas to help the graduates to find jobs instead of spending time speculating about heaping praises on Mugabe”.
Grace Mugabe’s Son Kicked Out Of Gold Mine
First Lady Grace Mugabe’s son Russel Goreraza has been kicked out of the gold rich Tolrose Gold Mine in Kadoma.
Report by the News Day
Goreraza, Grace’s son from her first marriage before she married President Robert Mugabe, is locked up in a bitter ownership wrangle of the mine with Jameson Rushwaya.
“About two months ago, the First Family sent an emissary to Rushwaya to find out what was going on. They realised that Goreraza had been drawn into the fight by businessman Patterson Timba after the later realised he was losing the intriguing battle for control of the mine to Rushwaya,” said a sources
“Given the bad publicity the wrangle has attracted, the First Lady has called her son off the feud. She (Grace) is not as bad as people portray her and on realising that her son was being used for a dirty deed, the First Lady pulled the plug.”
But Goreraza has reportedly roped in hawks from the black empowerment lobby group, Affirmative Action Group, in the form of regional presidents Munya Kashambe (Mashonaland East) and Mike Chimombe (Mashonaland West) amid reports the current vicious push has been fuelled by claims the mine is holding a “stockpile of gold ore”.
While Kashambe was not available for comment, Chimombe confirmed he had helped “broker a deal” between Rushwaya and Goreraza.
“We were involved and helped broker a deal between Goreraza and Rushwaya. Rushwaya, unfortunately, is now changing goalposts and we have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. I last had any involvement in that issue around March this year,” Chimombe said.
“We actually helped Rushwaya return to the mine after he had abandoned it for three years.”
Rushwaya confirmed Goreraza’s involvement to NewsDay, but tried to downplay the dispute. “I heard police went to the mine and spoke to my manager as I was not there. I am yet to get full details of what they really wanted. I have no problem with Goreraza or the First Family. But I have a problem with his (Goreraza’s) allies who are abusing their links to those in power and claiming to be representing the First Family,” Rushwaya said.
Mnangagwa Humiliated as ZANU PF Fundraising Bumps Down
ZANU PF’s crowdsourcing effort for Congress funds engineered by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in an attempt to raise over $1million last month has failed “miserably,” as described by insiders.
This came as several MPs bunked the dinner fund raising event on Friday that had ticket offers of $100,000 each.
Only a little over $1 million was raised instead of the budgeted for $2million.
A source told ZimEye.com, raising $2 million in one night was a cheeky ambition as this is impossible during this time of economic tumble.
Report by Newsday:
Zanu PF was reportedly forced to accommodate the bulk of struggling companies – including State entities – at “cheap” tables during its fundraising dinner hosted last Friday, as most could not afford the top tables pegged at $100 000 for 10 people.
The ruling party, which intends to raise $3 million for its December conference, hosted a dinner on Friday, with the cheapest table going for $10 000 for 10 people, while the most expensive was pegged at $100 000.
The conference will be held in Victoria Falls from December 7 to 13 and over 6 000 delegates are expected to attend.
Party insiders told NewsDay yesterday that due to a poor response from the corporate world and other State-owned companies for the expensive tables, the party decided to fill the exorbitantly-priced platinum tables, which were going for $100 000 each, with companies that paid $50 000 and $30 000, to avoid public embarrassment.
From the Friday dinner that was addressed by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, President Robert Mugabe’s party had hoped to raise no less than $2 million, while the balance would be raised by provinces and other party-related business enterprises.
The host province, Matabeleland North, is expected to raise at least $100 000 towards the conference.
However, sources told NewsDay that the dinner, which was also snubbed by most party MPs, who opted to attend Walter Magaya’s Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries’ all-night vigil across town, could only raise around $1 million, half of its target.
“Due to the economic situation, most companies managed to pay for the $50 000 and $30 000 tables, while the bulk of them settled for the ordinary $10 000 tables,” a source said.
“There were two companies seated at the $100 000 tables, while the rest of the platinum tables were occupied by
those who had paid less.”
According to insiders, the party had prepared 50 tables for the night, 10 reserved for the platinum class, 10 for those who were to pay $50 000, and the rest for those who would have paid $30 000 and $10 000.
However, some firms paid as little as $5 000 to attend the dinner dance.
Zanu PF secretary for finance Obert Mpofu told NewsDay that the dinner dance was oversubscribed to the extent that they had to turn away some people.
“We don’t mind what people say or what you guys write, we are very happy with the response we received from the party stakeholders,” he said.
“It was oversubscribed. We even had to turn away some people who wanted to come because we could not accommodate them. We are on course to meeting the target, and we will certainly do so. I can’t tell you how much was raised because we are still tallying, validating and doing our calculations to ascertain how much was raised.
“But maybe by Wednesday (tomorrow) I will be able to know how much was raised from the dinner dance.”
Last week, the party reportedly approached some churches including the crowd-pulling Pentecostal denominations led by Magaya and Emmanual Makandiwa’s United Families International Church for funding.
Zanu PF has always been accused of coercing companies, including financially-troubled parastatals, to contribute towards its private functions.
Several companies were allegedly compelled to fund First Lady Grace Mugabe’s 50th birthday in July, five months after being forced to fund Mugabe’s birthday bash that was held in Victoria Falls.
ZRP Cops Raid Down Kombis
In a move that has created an increase in accidents in Bulawayo, the ZANU PF controlled police force has turned its energies on motorists in particular commuter buses.
Claims were rife that move is part of the party’s fund-raising for the upcoming congress.
The leadership of Bulawayo’s Transporters Associations are crying foul over the rate at which traffic offence tickets are being issued to their drivers who are now having to play cat and mouse with the Police motor cycles traffic section.
“We are now worried and also praying to God that this congress may pass or rather be transferred to other provinces, because it has become a dog eat dog on our low income transport businesses.
“The traffic police are on our necks, and they told us that they are on a target to make sure that the congress which will be taking place in the resort town fully funded,” said Carlson Dube.
Dube is the chairman of local commuter omnibuses in the city of kings.
Last week three omnibuses collided along Pumula road while trying to escape the police motor cycle, which is now working tirelessly to raise the said cash.
This reporter tried in vain to get comment from the Bulawayo ZANU PF hierarchy that was said to be in a serious meeting concerning the forthcoming congress, which is in need of hundreds of thousands in cash to succeed.
Police motor cycles were captured cruising around the streets in search of traffic offenders. The cat and mouse situation, also led to the attack of a police officer at Bulawayo’s most popular omnibus rank Egodini.
Last week three omnibuses collided along Pumula road while trying to escape the police motor cycle, which is now working tirelessly to raise the said cash.
Commuter operators blamed the police for milking them their hard earned cash, through what they called corrupt means, but police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango refuted the allegations, saying that the police are on an operation to ensure that drivers are licensed and their vehicles must also have proper documents.
“Police have embarked on a number of operations, to restore order in the cities around the country. It’s not a new operation, as the kombi drivers would want people to believe. Police are on an operation to ensure that drivers are licensed and their vehicles have proper documents,” said Inspector Simango.
Blood Gush as Soldier Shoots Self Dead
A Bulawayo-based soldier blew up his head with an AK-47 rifle while on duty on Saturday night in a suspected case of suicide following alleged problems at home.
Corporal Blessing Munetsi, 31, reportedly told his friends that he was having serious problems with his wife. A colleague later found him dead at Imbizo Barracks.
Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango said: “We received a report of a Bulawayo man who committed suicide. Investigations are in progress.”
When the State Media news crew visited Munetsi’s rented home in Nkulumane yesterday, some soldiers barred reporters from speaking to the family.
Family members said they could only speak when Munetsi’s bosses give them the greenlight to do so.
Efforts to get a comment from army spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Alphias Makotore were fruitless.
Sources within the army said Munetsi was guarding the armoury when he decided to take his life at about 7:20PM on Saturday.
“Munetsi went to the toilet behind the armoury and used his AK-47 rifle to shoot himself. He shot himself through the chin and the bullet blew up his head, killing him instantly.
“A colleague rushed to the scene and found Munetsi’s body in a pool of blood. He alerted senior soldiers at the army base and a report was made to Queens Park police station. His body was taken to the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) mortuary,” said one of his colleagues.
He said Munetsi, who was earlier seen drinking with friends at the Highlanders FC clubhouse told his friends that he was frustrated by his wife’s unbecoming behaviour.
“Munetsi said his wife was in the habit of going out at night and coming back in the morning. He said he had tried on several occasions to talk to the wife but she wouldn’t listen to him,” said the friend.
Munetsi, added the friend, said he was tired of arguing with his wife all the time.
Last month, a Bulawayo police officer’s alleged lover died at Mpilo Central Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit after shooting herself with the cop’s service pistol following a domestic tiff.
Marble Chiture, 32, was rushed unconscious to the referral hospital following the incident that is said to have happened at Superintendent Crissen Masuka’s home.
Chiture shot herself in an attempted suicide following an undisclosed marital dispute and later died in hospital. State Media
New Twist to PSMAS Fleuve
The Premier Service Medical Aid Society managing director Mr Henry Mandishona has approached the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare seeking to stop his disciplinary hearing set for tomorrow.
Mr Mandishona, who is facing an array of charges, is arguing that the stipulated time within which he was supposed to be tried lapsed.
In his letter of complaint to the ministry dated November 2, 2015, through his lawyers, Mr Mandishona said he was seeking intervention from the labour officer because the stipulated 30 days had lapsed before his matter was heard.
This is in line with section 101 (6) of the Labour Act chapter 28:01, which provides for either party to refer a matter to the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare should 30 days lapse without a date of hearing being set.
“This matter is being referred to your good offices for the simple reason that more than 30 days have gone without the matter having been heard,” said Mr Mandishona.
“Section 101 (6) allows either party to refer this matter to your good offices if the matter is not determined within 30 days from the date of notification. You will notice from the documents that we have submitted that we have gone beyond the 30 days without a date for the hearing being set.”
The delays were, however, at the behest of Mr Mandishona who initially requested for more details with regards to his charges.
Interference by Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Priscah Mupfumira and Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa, who ordered the unconditional reinstatement of Mr Mandishona, also delayed the hearing.
Mr Mandishona was suspended on September 24 this year and served with notification for a disciplinary hearing on October 2.
His hearing was scheduled to take place on October 8, but through his lawyers, he requested for further particulars to his charges, resulting in postponement of the matter to October 23.
Before Mr Mandishona could stand before that hearing, the two ministers on October 20 ordered the PSMAS board to reinstate him, a move that saw the board budging in to the order.
But a few days after, a Bulawayo based PSMAS member Mr Emmanuel Javane Mwale filed a lawsuit at the High Court seeking to bar the two ministers from interfering with PSMAS affairs.
In his lawsuit, Mr Mwale cited the nine PSMAS board members as second respondents.
This resulted in the PSMAS board rescinding its earlier decision to reinstate Mr Mandishona and set tomorrow as the new date for Mr Mandishona’s hearing.
Mr Mandishona’s request is expected to be heard today. State Media
Namibia Breaks History Scraps School Fees, Exam Fees
WINDHOEK. — Namibia has scrapped examination fees for pupils sitting for junior and senior secondary school certificates and it would be effective until 2016, Education Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa has said. Hanse-Himarwa told the media on Sunday that parents would only pay hostel fees following the decision taken in 2013 by the government to ban school fees in secondary schools. Former President Hifikepunye Pohamba introduced Free Universal Primary Education in 2013, while Free Universal Secondary Education was put on the cards.
Hanse-Himarwa said the government was improving the life of Namibians one step at a time. “First there was fee primary education, now we are going for free secondary education and the president recently called for study loans to be turned into grants. We are getting there,” she said.
President Hage Geingob has already hinted that the government was considering introducing free tertiary education as well as scrapping study loans.
Hanse-Himarwa was quoted by local media as saying all schools were expected to comply with the order once it is implemented. “It is a thing of one state school will comply and another not. There will be no negotiations about it, all state schools will comply,” she was quoted as saying. When primary school was declared free, enrolment shot up across the country by about 15 000. — Xinhua.
Mnangagwa Burnt In Fear, Beefs Up Security
HARARE – As the ugly factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe’s post-congress Zanu PF worsen, it has emerged that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has beefed up his security ahead of the party’s crucial annual conference to be held in Victoria Falls next month.
This comes as the VP’s party enemies, mainly those linked to its ambitious Young Turks known as the Generation 40 (G40), are ratcheting up their attacks and schemes against the Midlands godfather.
At the same time, Mnangagwa’s allies are also said to be working hard to nudge President Robert Mugabe, who looks increasingly frail, to announce both his retirement timetable, as well as his successor at the December gathering.
Well-placed sources told the Daily News that Mnangagwa, who is now popularly referred to as Lacoste by his supporters, had upped his security arrangements amid fears of “more attempts on the VP’s life”, as had allegedly happened on a number of occasions since he was appointed Mugabe’s co-deputy late last year.
“The man no longer trusts anybody because of the cyanide that was sprinkled in his office in an apparent attempt to poison him just after he became VP, as well as the subsequent motor vehicle accident that he was involved in which still linger in his mind. You should also remember that the man has always been not so trusting of anyone and his new high position makes it even worse,” one of the sources said.
State Security minister Kembo Mohadi would neither confirm nor deny the development when the Daily News approached him, saying issues of State security were not for public consumption.
“We do not discuss what we do in the area of security with the media. That is why it is called security. Where have you heard that such issues can be discussed with the media? It doesn’t happen,” Mohadi said.
Reports over the past few months have said Mnangagwa has discarded several close security aides and senior security aides from the Central Intelligence Organisation, preferring to have his own people.
“While his wish to have his hand in picking the personnel that guards him was granted, he still thinks he needs to expand his security especially following the attempt on the life of one senior security officer who had to be rushed to South Africa for treatment about one-and-a-half months ago.
“The VP wants the security expanded particularly ahead of the December conference because he is looking forward to having the unresolved succession issues discussed and it could turn violent there,” another insider said.
Zanu PF is notorious for using State security agents, both in their internal power struggles and against the opposition — a situation that has bred a culture of paranoia among Zimbabweans across the political divide.
Only recently, Mashonaland Central provincial minister, Martin Dinha, received a bullet parcel with a chilling message from suspected political rivals within the ruling party.
In the run-up to the disputed 2013 elections, Dinha also allegedly received death threats that forced him to withdraw from the party’s primary elections for Bindura South constituency. Daily News
Mugabe Cursed For Dzamara Abduction
The family and friends of the abducted democracy activist Itai Dzamara, say they will be conducting prayer meetings in Africa Unity Square where the missing journalist and human rights activist used to stage his anti- President-Robert-Mugabe protests to curse government for failing to bring back “our beloved family man”.
This was revealed in Harare on Monday by the chairperson of Itai Dzamara Trust, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya at a prayer meeting they were hoding in memory of Dzamara.
Today Monday 8th November marks 8 months since the abduction of Itai by members of the dreaded CIO in Harare.
The human rights activist before he was disappeared was challenging President Robert Mugabe to step down for failing to fulfil his 2013 election 2.2 million job promises he made to the people.
Bishop Magaya said since the police had bared their national prayer meeting they were now resorting to holding them in Africa Unity Square.
“What we are doing today is a beginning and also a continuation in another form and version of an ongoing public demonstration in prayer but also condemnation of such wanton, ruthless display of power of those that think that they control people’s lives,” said Bishop Magaya.
“So we are happy that we have successfully been able to conduct this prayer meeting today and this is going to be an ongoing thing”.
Zanele Corpse:GENITALS REMOVED in another case
Staff Reporter | The case of Zanele, professor Jonathan Moyo’s deceased daughter has opened a can of worms amid revelations of another development where a Zim corpse was found without any private parts, all allegedly removed by South African pathologists.
Sources say mortuary attendants and South African pathologists are regularly removing body parts and selling them for Satanic rituals particularly in India and Nigeria.
Following reports that the corpse of Zanele which arrived in the country with the heart missing, a Plumtree family has revealed a bizarre story where they also received their loved one’s body from South Africa with the genitals missing.
Themba (real name concealed) revealed to ZimEye.com how in June this year his family received the body of their brother who had died in South Africa with several body parts missing.
The body is said to have arrived for burial with the private parts missing, all the pubic hair roughly shaven off and six toes missing.
According to Themba, their brother died at a hospital South of Johannesburg after a short illness declared to have been of food poisoning. A postmortem was carried out by doctors at the hospital before it was collected by a prominent undertaker two days after the postmortem was done.
The man says that members of the family in Johannesburg never obtained a chance to view the full body after the postmortem until it arrived in Zimbabwe.
A neighbouring well known traditional healer was asked to perform a ritual on the body before burial, who later demanded close family members to have a private view before burial as “he suspected something fishy.”
“In our culture we don’t bury anyone who dies under suspicious conditions without doing the ritual which empowers the deceased to fight back those who may have killed him and block them from attacking remaining members of the family,” he explained.
“We asked the traditional healer to do the ritual for us where on he insisted on us viewing the body before burial as he suspected further foul play, that’s when we discovered the missing parts.”
The family is said to have been strongly disturbed by the incident so much that some members were refusing to go ahead with the burial. The stand off went on until the healer managed to calm the family claiming that “he was going to sort out the perpetrators” of the act. According to Themba the family agreed to keep the incident as a family secret while waiting for the traditional healer to go through his processes.
“We agreed not to disturb the funeral proceedings and not to raise eyebrows from the mourners and went on with the burial as the body had already stayed too long without burial and was beginning to decompose besides the embalming that had been done way back in Johannesburg.”
The traditional healer is said to have demanded to be given the pair of trousers that the deceased was dressed in for him to use for his process. According to Themba, who confesses to Christianity, five months later they still haven’t seen any results from the traditional healer’s promised which was “return fire”.
Huge business selling body parts
A Zimbabwean man working for a South African based funeral parlour made a strange revelation to ZimEye.com when asked in a confidential interview that trade in human parts of deceased people is huge business in South Africa.
According to the man, traditional healers mostly from West Africa have a huge demand for human parts which are used for making get rich quickly charms or for casting revenge on other people.
“I am not surprised by the things you are asking, this is very big business here in South Africa. Some parts can fetch as high as R100 000 depending on the social status of the deceased person where the part is removed,” he said.
According to the undertaker who claims to have been in the job of attending to dead bodies for close to 15 years, the sale of the body parts normally includes some members of the families who are called to the side and given irresistible offers and they agree to the deal.
“In some cases especially where family members keep a close monitoring of the body like wanting to wash, dress and load the body themselves, huge offers for outside body parts like private parts and eyes are made and they normally fall for the offers.”
“Parts that are closed inside the body like the heart are normally just removed without consultation and the body simply stitched back. Sometimes they come to the undertakers already missing from the hospitals and it’s called a missed call,” he added.
Asked what the family is considering doing now that there is a revelation of confirmed other cases of body parts going missing, Themba refused to commit himself to the issue claiming that his Christian beliefs divorced him from the whole matter and the family elders will decide what to do.
“The elders will decide, I am not party to it and not concerned as my brother was buried and done with,” he said.
Professor Moyo’s family has in the meantime engaged services of private investigators to investigate both the sudden death of Zanele and the missing heart. According to the undertaker interviewed, the Moyo family will be very lucky to get any meaningful leads on the matter as bodies pass through too many hands before they are buried and will not be easy to link a certain stage to the missing part.
In most cases bodies being transported from South Africa to Zimbabwe are loaded into the coffins privately by undertakers and the coffins sealed off and family members ordered not to open the transparent seal.
Drama as Zanu PF Land Baron ‘Kills Resident’
There was drama in Ruwa on Saturday after relatives of a deceased Caledonia man, Farirai Jera dumped his body at the doorstep of a Zanu PF
land baron Oswell Gwanzura , accusing him of having contributed to the deceased’s death.
Gwanzura is the Chairman of the Goromonzi Housing Scheme which is at the centre stage of land scam in Caledonia.
Jera’s body was dumped at Gwanzura’s Ruwa home at night, amid accusations that the deceased sustained injuries from an attack initiated by the Goromonzi Housing Scheme chairman on June 30 this year.
Gwanzura, however refuted the claims, saying he was never part of the clashes and he only came in to initiate dialogue between the people who clashed on the named date.
Police spokesperson, Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi told the state media that they have taken the dumped body to Parirenyatwa hospital adding that investigations were in progress on the circumstances surrounding Jera’s death.
Police Arrest MDC-T MP Over Hopely Violence
Police on Sunday arrested MDC-T Member of Parliament for Highfield East constituency, Eric Murai and 16 party supporters for holding an unsanctioned meeting and for violence which happened at Hopely farm last week.
Ironically hoards of armed Zanu PF supporters thronged the MDC-T Hopely rally on Sunday last week and brutalised MDC-T supporters.
Instead of arresting the intruders, (Zanu PF supporters) the police on Sunday pounced on MDT-T supporters who were holding a rally in the same area and arrested them for contravening Chapter 37 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act.
National Police Spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba told the state media that Murai was arrested at Hopely farm together with 16 other MDC-T supporters for holding an unlawful public gathering to promote public violence and breach of peace.
The meeting was attended by more than 2000 MDC-T supporters.
Mahofa Threatens To Kill for Grace Mugabe
By Tinoonga Mawere, Masvingo| Overzealous Minister of State for Masvingo Shuvai Mahofa told Zanu PF supporters at Mucheke Stadium on Saturday there will be bloodshed if unruly elements attempt to unseat President Mugabe’s controversial wife Grace and her husband, Robert.
Standing in for her boss Grace who did not attend the rally which coincided with the ZILIWACO conference,Mahofa said war veterans and war collaborators were prepared to go to war and attack all perceived Mugabe opponents.
Mahofa who last year collapsed while celebrating Grace’s elevation and soon forced government officials at Benjamin Burombo centre to shift her office from the second floor to the ground floor after failing to walk up the stairs, said all those who oppose the First Family would be ruthlessly dealt with.
Mahofa did not say anything about the looming drought in the province as thousands face starvation. She also remained mum on the increase in ritual murder cases across the province.
“We are Freedom Fighters and we are not finished and we know there are some of you who have been given money by western countries to betray the revolution and reverse the gains of the liberation struggle. If you are Gamatox and want to follow (Joice)Mujuru then get out of Zanu PF. If you want to unseat the president we will go to war. Don’t think we are finished we will suddenly become alive. You must stop talking nonsense about the First Lady. We are prepared to defend the First Family by all means necessary,” said Mahofa
The veteran politician has also been accused of unleashing violence against opposition supporters in Gutu district. Local residents here who attended the rally went home disappointed after being subjected to the traditional liberation war rhetoric.
“We went to the rally expecting to hear our leaders addressing issues to do with the welfare of ordinary Zimbabweans but nothing was said to that effect. It is unfortunate and disturbing,” said Mavis Ziki of Mucheke suburb.
Robbers Stab Police Officer
A police officer was stabbed with a knife by a gang of robbers as he tried to arrest them after they had broken into a shop in Bulawayo’s Central Business District.He is recovering in hospital
The police officer, only identified as Constable Shonhe, was stabbed twice on the back by one of the four suspects who had broken into Cool Spot Supermarket along Fife Street at the corner of Masotsha Ndlovu Avenue last Monday.
The cop, who was on patrol with a colleague when he was attacked, is recovering at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH).
National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the incident and said the suspects are on the run.
“On November 2 at about 1AM, two police constables were on patrol and they arrived at a supermarket along Fife Street at the corner of Masotsha Ndlovu Avenue. They witnessed unlawful entry in progress, with four criminals in the shop,” said Snr Asst Comm Charamba.
“The criminals panicked and three ran away while one remained in the shop. On seeing the police officers, he jumped out of the shop through a window and Cst Shonhe tried to apprehend him. He produced a knife and stabbed the police officer who fell on the veranda.”
She said the suspect escaped and police attended the scene and Constable Shonhe was taken to hospital where he is recovering.
Snr Asst Comm Charamba said investigations were underway.
One of the workers at the supermarket who declined to be named said they were shocked to find the shop with broken windows and blood stains when they reported for work.
“We closed the shop at about 7PM as usual on Monday evening. When we reported for work the next morning we were shocked to see blood stains on the wall and broken windows. Police officers who were attending the scene told us that two police officers who were on patrol intercepted four robbers who had broken into the shop,” said the shop employee.
“The policemen noticed that there were people in the shop and rushed to inspect. They tried to apprehend them and one of the robbers produced a knife and stabbed one of the police officers twice on the back.”
She said the robbers fled after the botched robbery and left the police officer in a pool of blood.
“The shop was upside down when we came in the morning. They broke two windows to gain entry before breaking the empty tills and drawers that we had locked before we left. The police officers pounced on them while they were still searching for money in the shop. They left without taking anything,” added the shop employee.
There has been a spate of robberies in the city with supermarkets and schools being targeted.
About two weeks ago, a group of masked burglars blew up safes at Bulawayo’s Bellevue Choppies supermarket (formerly Bellevue Spar) and got away with more than $16,000.
The robbers allegedly used shears to cut through the roof of the outlet during the night.
A few weeks before that, robbers hit Bulawayo’s Richmond Spar and got away with more than $10,000. Last month robbers pounced on six Bulawayo schools and got away with more than $4,000. – Chronicle
NRZ Boss Axed
The chairman of the National Railways of Zimbabwe board of directors, Engineer Alvord Mabena, has been fired with immediate effect.
Eng Mabena has been the NRZ board chairperson for the past 17 months and his term was set to expire in 2017. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development relieved Eng Mabena of his duties last Friday as part of a restructuring meant to position the ailing parastatal for growth.
NRZ board vice chairperson, Brigadier David Chiweza, has been appointed acting chairperson. The rest of the board remains unchanged. Eng Mabena’s dismissal letter is dated November 5, 2015, and it was signed by the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Joram Gumbo.
“As you may be aware, the ministry has been re-aligning its strategic vision with that of parastatals and State institutions. To that end it has become necessary that I terminate your term of office as chairman of NRZ with immediate effect,” reads part of the letter.
Minister Gumbo declined to comment on the matter yesterday.
Eng Mabena expressed regret over his unexpected axing which he described as a bombshell. “I received a letter from the minister out of the blue informing me that my services have been terminated with immediate effect. It’s not clear why they have decided to do so,” said Mabena.
“I’m disappointed because of these stop-start things. Naturally, I have been working with a passion and putting a lot of effort in trying to revive the NRZ. I worked hard not only to serve the NRZ, but the nation.”
He said it was unfortunate that each time a new minister was appointed, he brought in his own people and the NRZ had suffered because of that.
Eng Mabena said he would continue serving his country where his services were needed.
He said the letter came as a surprise to him as the minister did not mention anything negative when they met soon after his appointment in September.
“I met him on two occasions and he didn’t mention anything along those lines. He actually commended the board for doing well and we discussed the way forward on reviving the NRZ and future programmes before the bombshell was dropped on Friday,” said Eng Mabena.
Sources within the parastatal said the minister was not happy with the process of appointing a new general manager.
Last month, there was confusion over the selection process with the board adamant that it had completed the process and short-listed three candidates while the ministry insisted that the process must be redone. State Media
Muchinguri Blurts: We Have Too Many Elephants in Zimbabwe
At a time when Zimbabwe is being ravaged by mass poisoning of elephants, Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri has lashed out announcing that the country has too many elephants and the population needs to be reduced.
Speaking during the latest pre-Budget seminar for MPs in Victoria Falls, Minister Muchinguri appeared loudly encouraging the same menacing poachers when she said the country’s elephant population exceeds 80,000 and is unsustainable. She said, “we exported elephants to China and there was backlash from America. But we are glad that they are also importing. They imported elephants from Swaziland as we speak. So now we can challenge them that they are denying us from exporting to China yet they are importing.”
She continued, “so we will keep promoting the sale of live animals because it’s part of our act that we must do spot hunting and also export live animals because it’s the most sustainable way of keeping our sizes very low because 80 000 elephants is unsustainable since our environment is being destroyed.”
Roping in the army?
She however promised she will be roping in the army to complement rangers and also the University of Zimbabwe – expected to come up with a wildlife tracking system.
As such, helicopters and drones will be deployed to the national parks while the wildlife tracking system will be used to monitor animals’ movements.
“We have now roped in the army and you will see a very serious operation which should send a warning to these poachers that we are now very serious,” said Minister Muchinguri-Kashiri.
“You will see helicopters in the national parks. I have also been advised that drones have already been bought that cover 40km. This means that where we were supposed to have so many rangers, we will just be using one drone.
“We are also working with the University of Zimbabwe to have a tracking equipment so that we can see elephants from Harare. Once we see a suspicious movement, we immediately advise the Air Force to deploy a helicopter right away. We are very sophisticated now.”
Idle army
Meanwhile Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba addressing the same subject said Government must deploy the army to the national parks “There is peace in Zimbabwe and our security forces are idle in the barracks at a time our elephants are being poached. We see our soldiers building schools yet we have critical points that need attention,” he said.
He continued, “why can’t we take a 20 000-strong force and deploy them in Gonarezhou and Hwange National Parks to bust these poaching syn- dicates?
“We are already paying these soldiers and they have the resources such as helicopters that they must use to fight these poachers.
“We want the Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate and the Ministry of Defence and that of Home Affairs to deliberate over this and see how they can curb this poaching. We want our security forces to go to these critical points,” concluded Chinotimba.
Bulawayo Children Starve to Death | PICTURES
Chrispen Tabvura, Bulawayo | Of the hundreds of Zimbabwean children affected by social neglect, I bumped into four children who are living in hell, after their mother abandoned them for her country of birth, Zambia.
This was after the death of her husband who was the bread winner.
The father of Mozambique origin and married to the Zambian woman, were both staying in Bulawayo’s Magwegwe suburb before this sorry situation that left the kids in this state.
The father whose real name was Adrea Fernando, was blessed with four children, Shelton 15, now in grade 3, Yolanda 12, in grade 2, Samuza 9, in grade 1 and Malvin 5 is still to be assisted by well-wishers to go to preschool.
All the four children are without birth certificates, as Zimbabwe’s laws only authorize the biological parents to acquire the documents, leaving the disadvantaged and orphans to struggle.
Councillor Concilia Mlalazi, who is the community leader in Bulawayo’s Ward 18, where the orphans are staying with a sick relative who cannot afford a meal for them, in an interview said the children are in need of help.
“The situation is really bad my son, as you can see for yourself. We are fighting hard to source funding from kind people to rescue this situation. We have more than 500 households who are in total poverty, as their bread winners died and some are child headed, she said.
“All this is taking place while political leaders are feasting and buying expensive cars, and failing to help the disadvantaged,” said Mrs Sikhumbuzile Sibanda a Community Health Worker.
Another resident, who is also a Community Health Worker and a Child Counselor Mrs Joice Moyo told this reporter that until the day government sets aside funds for the aid of these disadvantaged children, the situation will worsen.
The father, Fernando died of the Aids pandemic, leaving the children in the hands of their mother who also could not stand the problems and escaped to Zambia, leaving the children to fend for themselves under Zimbabwe’s harsh economy.
Magaya: Makandiwa Is My Blarney
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries founder Walter Magaya has denied claims that he is engaged in a spiritual warfare with fellow charismatic preacher and leader of United Families International Church (Ufic), Emmanuel Makandiwa.
He described the supposed tiff between the two as a creation of the two prophets’ enemies.
Although he did not name the enemy, Magaya said the supposed tussle between the two was as a result of lack of communication between the two prophets who last met six years ago and hardly spoke to each other over the phone.
“There is no fight at all but I just think that it is the enemy who wants to take advantage of lack of communication between me and my fellow prophet,” Magaya said.
The two preachers, who seemingly compete against each other, were last week at each other’s throat over an advert allegedly sponsored by one of PHD members to congratulate Makandiwa for coming third in a list of Zimbabwe’s most influential youths, in which Magaya was on top.
The Ufic church appeared to accuse Magaya and his ministry of sponsoring the advert although they did not mention him by name. Magaya’s PHD ministry in turn disowned the person who paid for the advert and said they did not know him.
Magaya told journalists who attended the all-night prayer dubbed Night of Turnaround 4 that the incident was unfortunate and blamed it on his enemies whom he said wanted to see the two prophets fighting.
“I was in Nigerian when that happened, when I returned I heard of the issue but there is no fight at all. We are not competing at all, we have different callings and our mission is not to compete, but we complement each other,” he said.
It was not easy to estimate the number of congregants that filled the vast expanse of the area that the PHD ministry headquarters is situated. The area is wedged between Waterfalls, along the Harare-Masvingo highway and Highfield high-density suburb, several kilometres away.
Among the tens of thousands that attended were government ministers Supa Mandiwanzira, Martin Dinha and Chris Mushohwe, deputy ministers Anastasia Ndlovu, Abigail Damasane and Paul Mavhima. There were also dozens of Members of Parliament from across the political divide.
The First Lady Grace Mugabe who had been expected to attend did not turn up.
To keep the multitudes entertained before his arrival and during breaks, Magaya invited Zimbabwe’s music legend, Oliver Mtukudzi, South Africa’s gospel star, Benjamin Dube and the country’s top gospel couple of Charles and Olivia Charamba.
Mtukudzi, who is accustomed to performing at secular hide outs and night clubs, put up a tantalizing act which saw the entire church dancing to his hits especially gospel rhythms.
Songs such as Hossana, Hear me Lord and Shamiso send the crowd into frenzy.
The gospel couple of Charamba and wife did not disappoint either as they paraded a breath-taking act which saw them belting out hits such as Kunamwari kudenga, Rute among other songs.
Sungura senior lecturer and now a member of the PHD praise and worship Nicholas Zacharia and dancehall artists, Shinsoman also had their fair share of the stage. -The Standard
Family and Relative Economics
This is a follow up article to Are You ‘Sharing Poverty.’ It has thoughts and insights that can transform your views on caring for your relatives and loved ones.
Very close family relationships can either build you financially or drive you broke, because our relationship bonds tend to cloud our judgement on financial decisions. It takes great wisdom, discernment and discipline to resist the temptation to over spend on those who are closer to our hearts. However if one has to be successful economically you have to apply wisdom and care.
Three Categories of needs
There are three classes of general needs; 1) Basic needs, that is, food, shelter and security. 2) Luxury needs which one can do without, and 3) Empowerment needs, that is, ones at the end make the person more productive or self-reliant. Our expenses fall into these classes.
The way we treat the people under our care revolve around two ideologies. The first ones says, ‘I grew up in poor environment. We suffered a lot. My brothers and sisters (or children) must not suffer as well. So I will continue to help them no matter what, and they do not have to work hard because I did it for them. I will make sure they live the life that I wish I lived.’
On the other hand one might say ‘I grew up in poor environment. We suffered a lot. My brothers and sisters (or children) must be empowered and work hard so that they will not suffer as well. So I will empower them so that they become self-reliant. I have to work hard and live the life that I wish I lived.’
Relative Economics Humour
Here is some humour to make it easier to understand;
- Economic Out Patient (EOP) is a term used in the Millionaire Next Door. It is a situation where by an adult person in the working age group is constantly financial supported by another person. The person or persons have no disability but require support for food, clothing entertainment and other consumables. In most cases the individuals do not work or have ‘low income.’
- ‘A star’ is a self-motivated resourceful individual who has the ability to multiply economic resources. For example if you send him/her to find a job, not only will he/she come with the job, he/she will also report that he is already in friendship with the manager and knows where he stay etc. These individual always make life better for themselves and others.
- A ‘dead horse’ is a person who no matter how much motivation or resources you put, he/she will not produce much. They always find a reason why each attempt failed. In most cases they behave like clever character. Many of the reasons seem to be reasonable, and they normally blame the environment and not him/herself.
- ‘Deep hole’ is a situation created by a ‘dead horse’ after draining all the financial resources from others.
- ‘Sharing poverty’ (vs empowering) is a situation where economic productive individual consistently share their earnings with unproductive adult individuals (in working age group) on consumables to the point that the productive persons standard of living is compromised. Often the productive persons use resource meant to improve him/herself to meet the needs of the unproductive person. At the end both are worse off than before.
The idea is not to stop supporting a ‘dead horse’ but rather be aware of the status. Perhaps you may decide not to continue giving the dead horse premium ‘stock feed’ but instead give to ‘low grade’ so as to save resources. It is true that no matter how much economic resource that you put into certain persons, they may not achieve as you expect. The quicker you accept this fact, the earlier you will realise the need for a change of approach. In life our levels of gifting, intelligence and wisdom varies in different areas.
Family is Part of Your Calling
You can choose friends, jobs, teams etc, but not family. God appointed them for you. Hence your family is part of your calling. As you accept this, God will give you the grace to be a blessing to them. Seek peace with extended family. As you do it, do not lose you peace. Your personal peace is priceless.
For couples; put up economic and social systems to handle your family as well as extend family. And be mature enough to be consistent in your approach to different relatives. The systems should reflect your values, goals and environment, and be fair. Adjust the system with time. Accept your limitation. With time the systems will define your culture and identity. As a couple if everyone does as they want, or through force, economic success is surely not coming your way. At times compromise, maturity and enlightenment are needed to put up fair and effective systems in a family.
When It’s Party Time
As far as friends and relatives are concerned, know that they have a right to have a big party without inviting you. Know that when they win lotto, they may not share a cent with you. Even if you share your heart and lungs with them, remember that each individual is independent. These days ‘blood is getting thinner than water.’
On this sobering thought, we end here today.
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FULL TEXT-Chiyangwa’s Presidential Manifesto
DR PHILLIP CHIYANGWA
ZIFA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MANIFESTO
The Twelve Points of Light
If elected President of ZIFA in the December 5, 2015, election Dr Phillip Chiyangwa will undertake to implement the following programmes:
- The restoration of constitutional democracy, accountability and transparency in the administration of the affairs of ZIFA and the recruitment of a crack cadre of professional and dedicated members of staff.
- The expunging of the legacy debt through the creation of innovative national and international fund-raising initiatives.
- Development of comprehensive soccer structures from grassroots level and promotion of competitive corporate sponsorship for the Premier Soccer League, the First, Second and Third Divisions, the Reserve League, as well as Social Soccer League.
- Creation of more sports, especially soccer, academies through lobbying for appropriate special allocations and tax incentives from the fiscus.
- The creation of a special welfare fund for professional soccer players that will guarantee timely payment of their salaries, create life, work, health and disability insurance policies for them, as well as negotiate a special dispensation with the National Social Security Association (NSSA) for sports programmes, given the short working life of professional soccer players.
- Creation of a guaranteed and continuous revenue stream for the association by acquiring appropriate and permanent lodgings both for the national and for visiting teams.
- Creation of a loan scheme for the benefit of national soccer team players through a sinking fund sponsored by the Ministries of Youth, Indigenization and Economic Empowerment, the Ministry of Sports and Recreation and the NSSA.
- Guaranteeing competitive professional contracts and fees for our national players and coaches in a bid to alleviate poverty among people who have household names. A relentless effort will be made to ensure uniform standards throughout all structures.
- Ensuring that soccer is accorded a special national healing status as a vehicle of cultural cohesion and a dynamic platform for our ongoing diplomatic push for international positive “perception management”.
- Campaigning for aggressive gender mainstreaming of professional soccer through the development and sponsorship of a professional women’s league with competitive conditions and compensation in order to promote soccer and sport in general as a viable career choice for the girl-child. Women’s football structures are currently only manifest at the senior level with no corresponding operational structures to mirror the men’s leagues. Sponsorship issues around the development of women’s soccer are the missing link in terms of achieving full equity.
- Introduction of innovative business advisory on the sweating of our existing soccer and sport assets through naming rights and taking our values to the regional and global market place through incisive and competitive corporate sponsorship.
- Ensuring that all our professional players have decent housing and transport befitting of their special status in our society, especially as our pre-eminent cultural ambassadors. Provision of housing and transport is a cornerstone of my business ethos and enterprise. I promise to bring fun, integrity and the prospect of viability back into our soccer by investing into it, rather than taking from it.
The hallmark of my entrepreneurship has always been daring innovation, being always ready to shake things up, while remaining conscious of the general welfare and the needs of the community.
I promise to breathe life, confidence, integrity and big smiles back into Zimbabwe’s soccer.
Mnangagwa Attacked By Asteroids from Outer-Space – Secretary
12 months after a mysterious deadly cyanide attack hit his office, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is still being pursued by asteroids from heaven, his secretary maintains in a bizarre report after she was together with another secretary, nearly killed by the attacks which investigators have a year later failed to solve, and to date only Mrs Magaya’s shocking account stands.
The first of the attacks was when a large asteroid fell from heaven through the roof and violently targeted Mnangagwa’s office building going straight for his desk, the senior government official, Mrs Catherine Magaya said.
“It broke through the roof nearly killing… but went directly for (Shef)Mnangagwa’s desk ” her official account reads.
Magaya first broke these damning revelations while at her hospital bedside in December when she was recovering from a cyanide attack around the December Congress that booted former Vice President Joice Mujuru.
A year after the cyanide attack, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office has also remained a hot spot for his staff who complain of deadly demons in there, she maintains.
Faced with embarrassment Mnangagwa has since shifted his staff around confining Mrs Magaya to the Shake Shake building where she is not allowed phone calls with the media. ZimEye.com was last week told Magaya who maintains the attacks are continuing on the VP, is no longer allowed media contact.
Zanele’s Heart: South Africa Refuses to Release It
South Africa’s Police Service, Saps, is said to be refusing to release Zanele Moyo, daughter of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo’s heart after they removed it following her death last month.
This comes as the SAPS dodged a formal standard autopsy request made to the Head Office Complaints Unit. Not even an acknowledgement of the family’s letter, or a response to their complaint has been received since being lodged on the 2nd November.
The family has since refuted South African media claims that the shocking removal of her heart during autopsy was done with their blessing.
The reports and their subsequent rebuffing raise further suspicion on the circumstances surrounding Zanele’s tragic death. Her grieving family continues to seek answers, with latest information indicating that South African authorities are yet to satisfactorily explain their stance.
On Friday, South Africa’s Cape Times newspaper published an article that quoted SA Police Service spokesperson Mr Musa Zondi saying removing Zanele’s heart was “in order” as the Moyo family had agreed to this.
However, on behalf of the family, Prof Moyo’s lawyer Mr Terrence Hussein yesterday dismissed the report as false.
Mr Hussein said: “We have been instructed by the family of the late Zanele to respond to reports that the removal of Zanele Moyo’s heart was in order and that the South African Police Service have advised the family on the correct route to follow, as regards the investigation.
“If the report on the above aspects carried in the Cape Times newspaper accurately reflects the views of the Western Cape Health Department and the South African Police Service spokesman, Mr Musa Zondi, the said comments are inaccurate and with respect, cannot go unchallenged.”
Mr Hussein said the Moyo family only learnt of the heart removal from the media.
“As regards the removal of Zanele’s heart, the grieving family only became aware of this unlawful, barbaric and insensitive act after a second postmortem was conducted by highly qualified personnel in Harare, Zimbabwe. The family had an opportunity to speak to the forensic pathologist on the day the postmortem was carried out and were informed that tissue and blood samples had been obtained from the deceased.
“No mention of the removal of the heart was made by the pathologist, nor was the family’s consent sought.
“A written complaint was sent to the Western Cape Health Department about this and other tardy aspects to the first postmortem and written confirmation of our complaints was received.”
He also said: “The Forensic Department did not make the revelation to us or the family that they indeed had removed the heart and that was legally in order. The painful fact has only been revealed by the Forensic Department to the Press.
“The Western Cape Health Department has not, either in writing or through its communication to the Press, indicated for what purpose they have retained the heart.
“Had it not been for the second postmortem requested by the family due to the inconclusive and tardy initial autopsy conducted in Cape Town, this illegality would never have come to light and those behind it would have gotten away with it and perpetrated this act in future cases.
“We do not find support in the law for the suggestion that the surreptitious removal of body parts without reference to the family is standard practice.”
Mr Hussein stressed that Saps is yet to update the Moyo family on the investigations of her death.
“At no time since the date of the autopsy has the South African Police Service contacted either ourselves or the family to update them on the investigation.
‘‘At no time has the South African Police Service advised, as indicated in the statement, the procedure the family should adopt in dealing with the issue.
“Having been met with frustrating silence from the South African Police Service on the status of the investigation, we were instructed on 2 November 2015 to file a formal standard autopsy to the Saps Head Office Complaints Unit. We have not had the standard courtesy of an acknowledgement of our letter, nor a response to our complaint.”
He added: “This is the legal route that one would adopt to complain about the quality of service of the South African Police Service. It is, therefore, incorrect to allege that the family has resorted to the Press and not to the Saps for relief.
“It must ironically be pointed out, however, that the family has learnt about the Saps stance through a Press report.”
20-year-old Zanele was a second year student majoring in Political Science, International Relations and Gender Studies at the University of Cape Town. She was found dead in her flat in Cape Town last month.
Pictures taken soon after her death showed the floor of her apartment smeared with what appeared to be a significant amount of blood. The blood appeared to start from the doorway of the bathroom leading to a toilet cubicle.
Man Rapes Drunk Prostitute
A HWANGE man raped a sex worker he had hired in his haulage truck after he got drunk and forgot about their arrangement.
Hillary Moyo (20) of Kolowa Village in Simangani, Hwange told the court during the confirmation of his extra curial statement that he slept with the 20-year-old sex worker after finding her naked in his bed.
Moyo, who is also facing a charge of theft, denied having taken the self-confessed sex worker’s cellphone.
“Yes, the contents of my statement were given by me and are correct. I had sexual intercourse with her because I found her sleeping in my bed naked. I do not admit to the allegations that I stole her phone because I did not see it,” said Moyo when he appeared before provincial magistrate Mrs Portia Mhlanga-Moyo for initial remand.
The court heard that on 2 November at around midnight, Moyo was on a drinking spree with the woman he had reportedly hired for sex services and her friend. At around 2am, the woman got excessively drunk and informed her client that she could not continue with the binge but wanted to sleep.
Moyo led the two women to a broken down haulage truck horse where he told them to sleep while he continued drinking.
“During that night while she slept, Moyo returned and sneaked into the truck before having sexual intercourse with her, without her knowledge and consent. The complainant discovered the offence when she woke up at around 4am when she noticed that her trousers were pulled down and that there was semen on her private parts,” said Miss Loveness Maseko, while prosecuting.
Unsure of what had transpired during the night, she woke up Moyo whom she found sleeping next to her after failing to locate her friend in the truck. She asked him about the events of the previous night before asking him about the person who had had sex with her.
Moyo is alleged to have confessed to the sex act, arguing that the two had an arrangement. He was remanded in custody to 10 November for plea recording after the case was referred to the regional court.State Media
Govt To Pay Civil Servants Bonuses
State Media-Government will begin paying bonuses to its employees this month, with uniformed forces scheduled to be the first recipients, a Cabinet minister has said.
Payment to the rest of the Civil Service could then stretch to January 2016 to allow authorities room to gather further resources against a tide of revenue constraints.
The dates are likely to be tabled before Cabinet as early as this Tuesday, with an announcement expected to follow.
In an interview last week, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira said 2015 Civil Service bonuses were not “a question of if, but when they will be paid”.
This most certainly is good news to civil servants who were keenly counting down to year-end, anxiously awaiting their employer’s position on the matter.
In early 2015, there had been indications that Government would forego paying the 13th cheque due to limited funds.
However, President Mugabe clarified that bonuses were an entitlement, and as such, civil servants should expect a windfall in the festive season.
Yesterday, Minister Mupfumira said Government – in spite of financial constraints – remains guided by this position.
“The uniformed forces will get their bonuses in November. As you know, I don’t deal with uniformed forces but the (Civil Service Commission) Chairperson (Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwa) has confirmed this to me.
“For the other civil servants, the proposal is that we stagger payment because we don’t have the money to pay everyone at once. The proposal will be brought before Cabinet most likely on Tuesday, after which we will be in a position to announce the actual dates of payment.”
She added, “Nothing has changed from the statement made by His Excellency, President Mugabe, in April; we stand guided by that. Yes, we are facing financial problems, but we have to work out ways of making sure that our workers smile.”
Civil servant representatives yesterday welcomed this assurance, though expressing reservations on staggering payment.
The Apex Council chair Mr Richard Gundani implored Government to pay bonuses to all civil servants this year.
“Our expectations are that we must get our bonuses at the end of each year. It’s our entitlement. So, it’s a good and welcome development that what the President assured us is becoming reality.
“What I would, however, like to implore Government to do is to make sure it covers everyone in November and December 2015. While we are not threatening any action, we hope bonus payment will not spill into 2016. In planning the 2016 National Budget, Government should include civil servants’ bonuses so that we won’t have to discuss bonuses again towards the end of the year like we are doing now.”
In 2014, Government promised to pay civil servants bonuses simultaneously, but ended up staggering them due to cashflow challenges.
Some of its employees received their 13th cheque in January 2015.
Government is looking at ways of cutting the Civil Service wage bill, which chews up about 82 percent of national revenue. State Media
ZANU PF Totally United, Mnangagwa Says
Grace Mugabe’s rival for the hotly contested Presidency, Emmerson Mnangagwa, denies revelations that his party is collapsing.
Mmangagwa said details showing serious divisions in Zanu PF are “just wishful thinking”.
Speaking during a Zanu PF fundraising dinner held on Friday night in the capital, Mnangagwa rubbished the revelations saying the ruling party is united and will never split.
But irrefutable evidence shows the contrary is true with the party producing regalia with Mnangagwa’s face and not Mugabe’s wife Grace’s.