Details have emerged that Former Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti is being closely monitored by members of the notorious Central Intelligence Organisation, CIO in the same way democracy activist Itai Dzamara was before his disappearance on the 9th March. A 4×4 truck similar to the one that loitered around Dzamara’s residence before his disappearance, was spotted and the agent apprehended.

Report by The Standard
Bhasikiti  says he now fears for his life after a suspected intelligence official was apprehended while trailing him.
Bhasikiti claimed he received a tip-off from his neighbours that a white Toyota Fortuner had been trailing him for the past week and dropping off a young woman close to his Borrowdale house.
“I was being followed by a Toyota Fortuner vehicle to and from my house. Whenever I got home they would leave a woman manning my exit point. This has been going on for a whole week,” Bhasikiti said.
“This morning the car followed my driver as he went to buy bread. We were alerted and called the driver and he saw them. On his way back they followed and dropped the woman at the same point. I asked my guys to apprehend the girl and we took her to Borrowdale police station.”
He said a docket RRB2494285 was opened at Borrowdale Police Station.
Bhasikiti said on the way to the police station, the woman said she lived in Sunningdale but when they got to the police station, she changed her story and said she lived in Glen View.
“She told the police that she worked for the CIO,” said Bhasikiti.

“About five cars which included that Toyota Fortuner and a Ford Ranger twin cab immediately came to the police station. They said they wanted to rescue their colleague who had been abducted. The police ignored them and they left.”
Bhasikiti has been giving President Robert Mugabe headaches after taking him to court to fight his dismissal from Zanu PF and recall from Parliament.
He was fired from Zanu PF together with several party stalwarts over allegations of working with ousted former vice-president Joice Mujuru in an alleged plot to kill Mugabe. He denied the charges.
Bhasikiti lost his case at the Constitutional Court on Friday and said he was planning to travel to Masvingo where he would file his papers as an independent candidate for the Mwenezi East constituency.-Standard

A JAMBEZI man who raped his 95-year-old grandmother on numerous occasions shocked the courts on Friday when he claimed that she had proposed love before begging him to have sexual intercourse with her.
The man (32) from a village in Mbizha in Jambezi, left the court speechless when he claimed that his grandmother had begged him for sex.
“Your worship, I did not rape my grandmother but she asked me to have sexual intercourse with her after proposing love to me saying that she had been alone for a long time following the death of my grandfather. When I refused she literally begged me saying she felt she could still perform like a young woman regardless of her age. I was left with no choice but to help her out seeing that she really wanted sex,” he said, when he appeared before Hwange regional magistrate Mr Dambudzo Malunga facing three counts of rape.
The court heard that between 1 June and 5 July this year, the man went to his grandmother’s homestead during the night and made his way into her bedroom where she was sleeping.
Surprised at the sudden appearance of her grandson, she inquired on what the matter was, he did not respond but instead lifted her before raping her once. After the act, he fled the scene.
The grandmother informed her younger sister of the rape but did not reveal the identity of the perpetrator. Sometime during the same month the grandson raped the old woman again.
However, this time she yelled for help, resulting in his grandson fleeing into the darkness.
Undeterred, he pounced again at around midnight but this time dragged his grandmother into a nearby bush where he stripped her naked and raped her. He threatened to kill her if she told anyone of the rape before leaving her to spend the whole night in the bush.
When villagers found her the next morning, she lied that she had got lost fearing that if she revealed what had transpired her grandson would fulfill his threats.
Prosecuting, Mr Tawanda Sigauke further told the court that sometime in the month of July, the man resurfaced again during the dead of the night, entered his grandmother’s bedroom hut and told her that he had come to give her money.
However, before leaving, he informed her that he would return later that night to play their “sex game”. Fearing further torture at the hands of her grandson, she immediately sought refuge at her sister’s homestead after he had left.
She told her sister that she was avoiding someone who was troubling her. Efforts by the sister to convince her to divulge the identity of the person failed as the old woman chose to remain tightlipped. The next day she returned to her homestead where she found the village head, Aleck Nyoni, to whom she narrated her ordeal at the hands of her grandson.
The village head mobilised other villagers to locate and effect a citizen’s arrest on the grandson but failed to find him. A report was made to police in Jambezi who laid an ambush leading to his arrest.
He was found guilty and remanded in custody to 20 July for sentencing.-Sunday News

The Zimbabwean government has issued a stern warning on foreign diplomats that they risk being expelled and deported from the country if they comment publicly on missing democracy activist Itai Dzamara.
Foreign envoys were told that they will be deported if they are deemed to be interfering with what the ZANU PF government says are its domestic affairs.
The report sounded however more like a dry threat as there will be reciprocal consequences in expelling ambassadors at a time when also the nation needs foreign domestic investment.
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Foreign ambassadors taking to political activism in Zimbabwe risk being deported as their conduct contravenes standards of global diplomacy, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi has said.
Yesterday, Minister Mumbengegwi told The Sunday Mail at his Munhumutapa offices that Government will not tolerate errant diplomats and will invoke the relevant conventions to keep them in check.
His comments follow last week’s inference by France’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Laurent Delahousse, that state officials abducted Itai Dzamara, an MDC-T activist.
Dzamara has been missing since March 9, 2015, and Mr Delahousse alleged that he was abducted for “trying to uphold freedom of expression”.
The diplomat said this at French National Day celebrations in Harare, prompting the Foreign Affairs Ministry to read the Riot Act to him.
Minister Mumbengegwi said such accusations raised suspicion that Westerners were the ones who “organised” Dzamara’s disappearance in order to attack Zimbabwe.
“To start with, it is wrong for any diplomat, let alone an Ambassador, to want to utilise National Day celebrations as a forum for political interference in the affairs of the host State. That is supposed to be a ceremonial occasion where both the Ambassador and the host country are represented.
“It was never designed to be a forum to attack each other. This is not to say any diplomat is allowed to interfere in any way; to any extent in the domestic policy of the host country. This is strictly prohibited in terms of the Vienna Convention of 1961.”
He added: “What the French Ambassador did was unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe and this is why he was summoned to Foreign Affairs to explain himself and his feeble attempts to explain himself were totally unsuccessful.
“I take this opportunity to warn the said Ambassador and, indeed, any other foreign diplomat that it is the intention of the Government of Zimbabwe to enforce each and every clause of conventions relating to diplomatic relations among Member States. We will not tolerate any
interference in our domestic affairs.
“These conventions provide the measures that can be taken against such errant diplomats. Zimbabwe definitely does not want to get to that point. Any Ambassador who is politically-inclined must request their governments to recall them so that they can become politicians in their home countries. This is much better if they want to go into politics rather than being assisted by Zimbabwe to go home.”

MAKOKOBA legislator Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube has said his persistency in contesting for the constituency which he eventually won recently, was solely to improve the livelihoods of the people unlike most politicians whose quest was to enrich themselves.
Addressing residents at the formation of the Makokoba Constituency Development Association at Stanley Hall in Bulawayo yesterday, Rtd Col Dube said he did not become an MP in order to get allowances or fancy cars, as he had plenty of his own luxury vehicles.
“We are gathered here to seek ways of developing Makokoba. Since 1900 there hasn’t been any meaningful development in this area save for the enactment of electricity and since then people are still living in squalor.
“For me, becoming an MP wasn’t a case of getting free luxurious vehicles. I have plenty of those. I am also gainfully employed though of course I will be retiring soon but I am surely not poverty stricken but I don’t want to have my people living a messy life.
“Sometimes we would engage in a feud with my wife over my decision of pursuing to be an MP for Makokoba as she said what would I gain from receiving the allowances I will be getting but I would say to her I want people in my constituency to live a better life and have a brighter tomorrow,” Rtd Col Dube said.
Rtd Col Dube is the CEO of the Zimbabwe Defence Industries. He is also Highlanders Football Club’s long-standing sponsor. He recently added $25 000 from his own funds for the purchase of the club’s bus in South Africa.
He said it was the “inhumane conditions”, which the people in the constituency were subjected to that made him consider standing as a Member of the National Assembly so as to forward the electorate’s grievances for empowerment and development to Government.
He said there was a need for the constituency’s leadership to work together on issues to do with development regardless of political affiliation so as to improve the livelihoods of the residents.
“We need to live together in harmony regardless of political differences. We are all aiming at one thing, which is to improve the livelihoods of our people from this constituency,” Rtd Col Dube said.
He said the first project he would initiate in the constituency was the rehabilitation of the road network in Makokoba, Mzilikazi and Nguboyenja suburbs as well as youth sports and recreational centres.
Speaking at the same occasion, Ward Seven Councillor James Sithole said the Bulawayo City Council was redeveloping Makokoba, a situation which would see the destruction of the deplorable infrastructure to pave way for the construction of modern residential flats.
“What we have done as a council is to come up with a Makokoba Redevelopment Plan that will see us demolish infrastructure close to the City. We have termed the first phase the Basch Street Corridor, this will see us erecting modern flats in the area close to Basch Stree.” Sunday News

The Zanu PF Manicaland provincial youth executive has passed a vote of no confidence against three provincial executive members accused of fuelling divisions, factionalism and bringing the name of First Lady Grace Mugabe into disrepute.
The provincial youth league has also recommended the recalling of Deputy National Secretary for Youth Affairs Kudzai Chipanga for allegedly fronting the trio in causing divisions and factionalism.
Twenty-five Zanu PF Manicaland provincial youth executive members passed a vote of no confidence against Mbuso Chinguno former deputy provincial chairperson, Victor Saunyama former provincial secretary for administration and Rinashe Chinamasa who was secretary for security.
The provincial youth league political commissar Washington Zihwihwi made the announcement in Mutare.
He said the trio were fuelling divisions and promoting factionalism in the province while at the same time bringing the name of the First Lady into disrepute.
He said the youth league could not allow the rot to continue and party programmes to suffer at the expense of individuals advancing their own personal interests.
Zihwihwi said the gross misconduct of the trio has forced the provincial chairperson Kelvin Manyengavana to resign due to frustrations.
Meanwhile, Getrude Mutandi is the acting provincial youth chairperson.
Other positions are yet to be filled.

A Harare magistrate yesterday shot down attempts by accused persons in the case involving the purchase of a Land Rover Discovery meant for popular preacher, Walter Magaya’s wife, to summon the Prophet Healing and Deliverance (PHD) founder to court saying the application was misplaced.
Regional magistrate Nowell Mupeiwa said only the courts have powers to summon a witness. This was after a man who says he was the middle-man of all the transactions leading to the purchase of a Land Rover discovery 4 for Walter Magaya’s wife testified in court yesterday.
Gilbert Mafusire narrated his version of the case in which four men are accused of swindling Magaya’s wife $116 000 in a botched car deal.
Oceane Perfumes managing director Hupenyu Ignitious Prosper Mashangwa and Cosmas Mushininga, Kudakwashe Larry Mapfumo and Clifford Tinashe Gonde are answering to the fraud charges.
Mafusire said: “Last year, the first accused person failed to manage a debt that he owed a bank. I then referred him to Magaya since he was selling his house.
“He ended up selling his Marlborough house to Magaya at $600 000. When I heard Mango was seeking a supplier for a Land Rover discovery 4 I also referred him to Mashangwa.”
Mafusire said he was present when Mango gave Mashangwa $80 000 and $36 000, respectively.
The second accused person, Mushininga, who was represented by Dumisani Mthombeni, played a telephone recording in which it is alleged Magaya manipulated his client to alter his statement and implicate Mashangwa.
He challenged Magaya to come before the court and identify his voice in the recording.
However, the magistrate dismissed the application on the basis that powers to summon a witness were restricted to the court.
Mango, a senior overseer at Magaya’s church said he was referred to Mashangwa by Mafusire when he sought a supplier for a Land Rover Discovery 4, 2014 model.
Mashangwa was allegedly given $80 000 to import the car from South Africa and deliver it by August 22.
The vehicle was delivered on September 15 and Mashangwa approached Mango asking for $36 000 import duty and registration fees. However, Mashangwa is accused of engaging his accomplices and evaded payment of duty.
The anomalies were discovered by Zimra on March 13 this year leading to the seizure of the vehicle and issuance of a notice of seizure to Magaya.
The accused persons’ actions caused Magaya’s wife to be prejudiced of a vehicle that was acquired at $116 000. Daily News

Abducted democracy activist, Itai Dzamara is alive, friends of the man have said with some pointing to a location in Marondera.

They made these suggestions (saying they are revelations) on Saturday morning just as the Government Media reported of the Zimbabwe Republic Police beginning to show public care for the man’s find. This also took place as Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was jetting into Europe to appease investors.

The development furthermore came in sync with presidential spokesperson George Charamba hinting of the disappearance saying that Dzamara will return just like any other exiled Zimbabwean has in recent years done.
Dzamara’s brother Patson slammed the police for the abduction which took place on the 9th of March 2015.
“We now know and it is now very clear that Dzamara is still alive; they must just bring him out,” an OAUS member wrote on the organisation’s social networking page. The organisation has since slated the 1st of August as the date when activists will descend on Africa Unity Square to demand his release.
Another running under the pseudonym Rwendo Rweshanduko added, “1 August lets start organizing ourselves and occupy Africa Unity Square. Something needs to be done urgently, pointers are that Dzamara is alive , action now before Zanoids kill him, they are desperate.”
Another OAUS member has suggested that Dzamara is at a location in Marondera. But Their suggestion was however not corroborated and neither proven at the time of writing. SEE MAP:

CHINHOYI Municipality on Thursday demolished three houses built on unserviced land.

The affected residents were mostly teachers affiliated to the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ).
The teachers said they paid the full purchase price for the stands amounting to $6 000, but council had failed to service the land leaving them with no option, but to start building their houses.
One of the affected residents, Forbes Dhakwa described the move by the council as inhuman.
“That is inhuman because they advertised the stands and we bought them. They even went to the extent of showing us the stands, but now they are claiming the land was not yet serviced,” an angry Dhakwa said.
“Where did they put the money we paid?” Chinhoyi town clerk Mazai Mungororo said they will never allow people to build houses on unserviced land as it was against government policy and council by-laws.
“I personally went to the extent of engaging the affected families and ordered them to stop constructing houses, but they went ahead despite the warning. The place has no sewer and water systems, and we cannot allow such confusion to reign,” Mungororo said. The affected PTUZ members have since threatened to take council to court over the issue.
“Definitely, we are going to engage our lawyers to stop council from acting irresponsibly,” a PTUZ official said. -Newsday

Shock ruling on job termination…Judgment a threat to job security, say labour experts.
WORKERS are now at the mercy of employers after the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that companies can lawfully terminate their contracts at any time without offering them packages, provided they are given at least three months notice. Termination of contract on notice becomes the cheaper way of firing workers for firms as they do not have to give any explanation or conduct disciplinary hearings, let alone follow the expensive retrenchment route. Labour experts described the ruling as a serious threat to job security in the country, as workers may be asked to leave employment empty-handed at any time, while employers feel the ruling will go a long way in lowering employment costs.
The interpretation of the law was made in a landmark judgment in which two former Zuva Petroleum managers, Don Nyamande and Kingstone Donga,were challenging termination of their contracts under the same circumstances. Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku and four other judges, sitting as a Supreme Court, unanimously agreed that the common law position placing employees and employers on an equal footing was still operational. As a result of that common law position, employers have the same right to give notice and terminate employment, in as much as a worker can do the same. “It is common cause that once upon a time, the employer and the employee had a common law right to terminate an employment relationship on notice,” reads the judgement.
“That common law right in respect of the employer and employee can only be limited, abolished or regulated by an Act of Parliament or a Statutory Instrument that is clearly intra vires an Act of Parliament. “I am satisfied that Section 12B of the (Labour) Act does not abolish the employer’s common law right to terminate employment on notice in terms of an employment contract for a number of reasons.” Advocates Thabani Mpofu and Nelson Chamisa, instructed by Mr Innocent Chagonda of Artherstone and Cook represented Zuva Petroleum, while Professor Lovemore Madhuku and Mr Caleb Mucheche acted for the two managers. Chief Justice Chidyausiku said in the judgement that Section 12(4) of the Labour Act was the one that regulates the period of notice and it reads: “Except where a longer period of notice has been provided under a contract of employment or in any relevant enactment, and subject to subsections (5), (6) and (7), notice of termination of the contract of employment to be given by either party shall be — a) Three months in the case of a contract without limit of time
or a contract for a period of two years or more; b) Two months in the case of a contract for a period of one year or more, but less than two years; c) One month in the case of a contract for a period of six months or more, but less one year d) Two weeks in the case of a contract for a period of three months or more, but less than six months e) One day in the case of a contract for a period of less than three months or in the case of casual work or seasonal work”. To that end, the Supreme Court concluded that the Labour Court was correct in allowing Zuva Petroleum to terminate Nyamande and Donga’s employment contracts on notice. “It is for these reasons that I agree with the conclusion of the Labour Court that the respondent was entitled at law to give notice terminating the employment of the appellants in terms of the contracts of employment between the parties,” the court ruled. “Accordingly, the appeal fails and is hereby dismissed with costs.” After the judgement, Mr Chagonda gave his interpretation of the court decision. “The judgement reinforces the common law right of an employer to terminate the contract of employment on notice that the parties have agreed to in their contract,” said Mr Chagonda. “Where the contract of employment does not specify a notice period, Section 12(4) of the Labour Act specifies the notice period to be given and the maximum period being three months.” Mr Chagonda said workers will now go home empty-handed.
“If the employer wishes, you are required to work and get your normal salary for the three months notice period and after the
expiry of the notice period, the worker leaves employment empty-handed,” he said. “Some companies may opt to just pay the workers their three months’ salary at once without working and ask him or her to leave immediately.” Another lawyer who refused to be named said: “Employers no longer have to go through the expensive retrenchment process or to conduct any disciplinary hearings. They will simply ask the workers to go without giving any reasons for no cost.” The lawyer said the common law position has its roots in the traditional “Master and Servant relationship”.

Some Rowdy youths suspected to be Zanu-PF youths cause havoc at the small city hall yesterday by disrupting Former state enterprises minister Mr. Gorden Moyo while he was speaking during a Bulawayo Agenda meeting.
The meeting which was meant to address the state of the economy, politics and the future of Zimbabwe turned into disarray when the youths responded to Gorden Moyo’s statements with shouting and cursing.
“Last year South Africa declassified 1980 documents by the foreign affairs ministry of south Africa .
“Those documents show that Zanu Pf, Mugabe and his Zanu, collaborated with apartheid South Africa to kill the Ndebele people,” said Mr Gorden Moyo
As Moyo was still uttering these words, the youths began shouting uncontrollably grinding the whole meeting to a halt as one of them shouted, “Why is he creating hatred between the Ndebeles and Shona’s, he does not know what he is talking
about!”
The Director of Bulawayo Agenda, Meli Dube tried to control the rowdy crowed but was not able to calm them down as they started singing and shouting.
Members of the public who had attended the meeting could be seen slowly going out as the youths continues making noise.
Other panelists who had attended the meeting including Moses Mzila Ndlovu from MDC, Joel Gabuza from MDC T, Jacob J Dube from ZAPU also watched as the crowd chanted their slogans.

BIKITA – Tawanda Matehwe who was in a bitter row with Bikita East MP over a car he was renting to buy from the legislator collapsed and died allegedly because of the stressful court case that saw the car being withdrawn from him and auctioned.
Matehwe collapsed and died on Tuesday this week after the car for which he was paying $55 a day for six days and for a period of a year was withdrawn by MP Kennedy Matimba allegedly to recover $3 500 which the MP was still owed.
Matimba dismissed allegations that he was responsible for the death because of the way he treated Matehwe and insisted that Matehwe had a history of illness.
Matehwe collapsed and was rushed to Silveira Mission Hospital where he was admitted for six days before he died.
Sources said Matehwe was so stressed by the fight for the car that he would sometimes collapse.
According to a recent court report by Newsday, Matimba claimed that Matehwe owed him $3 131 while Matehwe said he had already paid $14 000 for the Toyota Ipsum (reg ABW 3922) and was therefore shocked by the MP’s demands.
Toyota Ipsum vehicles currently cost in the region of $4 500.
The matter was heard by Magistrate Lyn Manyika.
“Just check his medical history, I heard he was ill for a long time. I don’t think he was stressed be cause of the car. Unless if you say he was stressed by other debts. It was me who was supposed to be stressed because I actually lost out on the deal.
“He owed me $ 3 500 and I took him to court and the car was attached by the messenger of court and was sold for $ 1 500. After storage and other deductions I only got $ 600. So I can say I lost out on the deal.
“Temba Mliswa lost more than 100 cattle why didn’t he die of stress vanhu vanoda
kungosonanidza zvinhu zvisizvo,” said Matimba
Sources close to the matter revealed that the two started to have a misunderstandings when Matimba accused the deceased of defaulting in paying and took him to court. Sources said that the deceased sold some of his cattle to service his loan.
It is reported that the deceased first collapsed at court and he had not been well ever since. His condition deteriorated after collapsing again and was admitted at hospital where he finally died.Mirror

A 29-year-old Mabvuku, Harare, man raped two minors on different occasions, forced them to swallow his semen and told the victims that the assault was part of initiation into Satanism.
Aggagrey Chinyonga, 29, told the victims that by raping them he was initiating them to be princesses of their cult.
He added that he had been sent by their leader to rape young girls who will automatically join their cult. According to the first victim’s statement to the police, Chinyonga told her that it was not his will to rape her but he had been sent by his “boss” who has many snakes which monitors them.
“After raping me, he said I was chosen to be the princess of their group. I then became very dizzy and collapsed. When I became conscious I started shivering and feeling something moving inside my body. He told me that Satan ruled the world not God,” read part of the statement.
After the act, Chinyonga would produce a black cloth which he would give to the victims to wipe his manhood. Chinyonga pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, aggravated indecent assault and robbery when he appeared before regional magistrate Sandra Mupindu.
For raping the two minors, Mupindu sentenced him to a combined 30 years in prison.
She then slapped him with a seven-year prison term for aggravated indecent assault and five years for robbery.
Chinyonga will serve an effective 42 years in prison. In mitigation, Chinyonga told the court that whenever he raped the victims, he would not be in contro of his senses.
He further pleaded for the court’s leniency, saying that he had an 11-year-old child to look after.
However, prosecutor Ressy Nyamombe had no kind words for Chinyonga whom he said was a serial rapist as the police had hinted that there were two more victims who had cases against him.
“He is considering his own son, what about the victims whom he deflowered and destroyed their lives at that tender age? He also used violence on defenceless minors and hadn’t he been arrested, he would’ve raped more girls. Your Worship this accused person should be removed from society,” she said.
The State says on April 9 around 10AM, the victim decided to visit her family’s fields near Mabvuku turn-off.
On her way she met Chinyonga who asked her where she was going before following her to the fields.
When they got to the fields, Chinyonga suddenly grabbed the victim by the throat and dragged her to a bushy area.
The girl wrestled Chinyonga and tried to flee but was overpowered.
Chinyonga gagged the girl before raping her. After the act he ordered her not to tell anyone about the sexual abuse and he further threatened her with death.
Chinyonga told the girl that two of his victims had already died after narrating their ordeal to other people.
He then produced a black cloth and instructed her to wipe his manhood and suddenly the girl felt dizzy and collapsed.
When she regained consciousness, Chinyonga was standing next to her and he asked her who was more powerful between God and Satan and when she said God, Chinyonga told her it was Satan. He then ordered her to rush back home where she narrated to her parents what had happened.
On June 15, Chinyonga raped another girl who was on her way home from school.
The victim met Chinyonga near Larfage Cement company and he grabbed her from behind while armed with a broken bottle.
He told the girl to surrender all valuables she had and the girl gave him $2,50.
Chinyonga threatened to stab her with the bottle if she screamed.
He then dragged her into a bushy area, where he raped her before ordering the complainant to wipe his manhood with a black cloth. Chinyonga was arrested at an identification parade.-Chronicle

Desperate to build investor confidence, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa made police advertise a $10,000 dangle for missing activist Itai Dzamara on Friday.
Dzamara has been missing for over four months and the State now faced with a collapsing economy has for the first time cast facial care for the matter.
The VP had police gazette the splash in the State Media just in time for Mnangagwa’s trip to Belarus where the latter says he is going to lure a pool of investors.
The announcement published in the government broadsheet, The Herald, read: Police have offered a reward of $10 000 to anyone with information on the whereabouts of journalist-cum-opposition activist Itai Dzamara as investigations into his disappearance intensify. Dzamara went missing on March 9 in Glen View 7, Harare. Police have been submitting fortnightly updates on investigations into the disappearance of Dzamara to the High Court and working closely with human rights lawyers in compliance with a court order issued in March this year.
In a statement yesterday, Officer Commanding CID Law and Order Division Assistant Commissioner Crispen Makedenge said police investigations conducted so far have failed to yield any fruitful results.
“The Police is now appealing to the general populace, any civic and non-governmental organisations who might have any information of his whereabouts to contact Officer Commanding CID Law and Order Division, Assistant Commissioner Crispen Makedenge on 04-251505; Officer in Charge, CID Law and Order Harare, Detective Chief Inspector Runganga on 753411; Police General Headquarters Complaints Desk on 703631 or any nearest police station,” he said.
According to Police, Dzamara was allegedly abducted by three male adults who entered the barber shop where he had gone to have a haircut and advised him that he was under arrest for stock theft.
The barber shop is owned by one Wellington Deketeke.
“They dragged him out of the barber shop and bundled him into a white Nissan Hard Body double cab vehicle whose registration number was only captured as ABB 2, with the last three digits not visible. He was driven away to an unknown location,” he said.
A High Court record seen by The Herald on Thursday showed that eight reports had been filed by the police giving updates of progress made, although no tangible evidence had been picked.
The revelation came amid claims from some quarters that the police were not doing anything to establish the whereabouts of Dzamara.
The opposition has been trying to profit from the alleged disappearance in the hope of triggering what it calls a Zimbabwe ‘Arab Spring’ to unconstitutionally unseat the Zanu-PF government.
The Arab Spring refers to the wave of demonstrations and protests, riots, and western-sponsored wars in the Arab world that began on December 18 2010 in Tunisia after the self-immolation of a vendor, Mohamed Bouzizi, culminating in the overthrow of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Analysts have accused Western countries of using the alleged disappearance of Dzamara to prop up the fortunes of opposition political parties ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections.
Information at hand also indicates that the West has planned to pour resources into the civil society and arms of Government such as the judiciary in a bid to weaken the control of the ruling Zanu-PF.
Government on Wednesday summoned French ambassador Mr Laurent Delahousse after he pulled a shocker on Tuesday by proposing a toast to Dzamara accusing officials of abducting him.
Sources said Mr Delahousse said in his disappearance the former journalist had become a “symbol and he would not let him down”.

Former Minister of State for Masvingo province Kudakwashe Bhasikiti hit a dead end Friday when the Mugabe appointed Electoral Court slammed the door on his legal challenge against the President.
The man at the close of day Friday conceded defeat after his Supreme Court challenge against the Electoral Court ruling was thrown out with costs.
Bhasikiti has finally come to terms with his expulsion from Zanu PF and withdrew his Constitutional Court challenge after losing a Supreme Court case.
He was challenging the party and President Robert Mugabe for allegedly illegally expelling him from Zanu PF.
Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku grilled Tendai Biti over his manner of addressing the decision by Justice Chinembiri Bhunu who presided over Bhasikiti’s challenge.
Biti said the judge was wrong in his findings and Chief Justice Chidyausiku warned the senior lawyer to draw a distinction between addressing the court and political opponents.
The court said it was not its duty to patch up relationships of people of voluntary organisations whose differences are such that they are irreconcilable.
The court also questioned the logic behind Bhasikiti’s continued pursuits in being drafted back into a party he regards as lawless and dismissed the application with costs.
After taking instructions from Bhasikiti, Biti informed the court that his client was withdrawing the Constitutional Court challenge against President Mugabe, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and the Attorney General.
The court removed the matter off the roll with the consent of all parties with no order as to costs.

Harare Municipal Police on Friday clashed again with street traders returning to their old vending sites as authorities intensified their crackdown on thousands of vendors in the city’s central business district.
Harare’s central business district today resembled a war zone as municipal police engaged in running battles with illegal street traders.
Council police, who were travelling in two trucks packed with stones, allegedly started throwing missiles at the vendors that immediately retaliated.
One of the vendors, Chenjerai Muzanenhamo, told Studio 7 he survived the stone attacks but lost an assortment of wares.
Another street trader, Johannes Muguwe, accused council of allocating market stalls to Zanu PF activists and some council officials only.
This was echoed by Shylet Chipenda who said government needs to address this issue by creating a conducive atmosphere in Zimbabwe for the generation of employment for millions of vendors.
Council spokesperson, Michael Chideme, denied that city police attacked vendors.
Chideme also dismissed allegations that his council was politicizing the allocation of market stalls.
The Harare City Council says it is not backing down on its vendor-relocation exercise saying it wants to bring sanity and order in the city.
But the illegal street traders say the newly designated vending sites have not been properly serviced, adding that there are no ablution facilities on those sites.
The crackdown on vendors has also spread to other towns and cities such as Marondera and Mutare.-VOA

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in a few hours entering European airspace where he hopes to lure investors.
After a shoddy job with the Chinese where he embarrassed the nation obtaining not a single investor, Mnangagwa says he is this time making it.
He left Harare to Belarus with a large group of hangers on. The delegation left Harare this Friday afternoon and are to squander government allowances for a whole week.
The country is a former soviet nation that recently joined the European Union.
Harare and Minsk are set to strengthen economic and bilateral ties.
The two countries the State Media reported claiming “have sound economic and political relations following discussions in February to enhance cooperation, particularly in the agriculture, industrial, energy and education sectors.”
The large delegation comprises the Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Dr Joseph Made, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya and senior government officials.

President Robert Mugabe faces arrest as the Constitutional Court today sits to hear former Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti’s case where he is suing Mugabe for contempt of court.
Unless the judges conduct themselves in fear of the President, Mugabe should be arrested anytime from today, a legal analyst said.
The ConCourt will furthermore hear an appeal by Bhasikiti against a High Court ruling dismissing a case where he challenged his dismissal from Zanu PF by Mugabe and his subsequent recall from Parliament.
The former Mwenezi East MP was dismissed from Zanu PF together with several party stalwarts in May over allegations of working with former Vice President Joice Mujuru in an alleged plot to oust Mugabe.
The boot was followed by his recall from the National Assembly by Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda.
But Bhasikiti dragged Mugabe to court challenging his ouster from the party and recall from Parliament.
The ConCourt ruled that Mugabe should not proclaim a date for by-elections in Mwenezi East Constituency before Bhasikiti’s matter was resolved by the court before July 30.
Despite the ruling, Mugabe on July 2 proclaimed that the nomination court would seat on July 20, forcing Bhasikiti to file an urgent chamber application on July 7 seeking to stop the sitting. He also pressed contempt charges against Mugabe.
The High Court threw out Bhasikiti’s case claiming that the former Zanu PF politburo member was supposed to exhaust internal remedies available in Zanu PF before approaching the court.
But Bhasikiti on July 10 filed another urgent chamber challenging Justice Bhunu’s entire ruling. Bhasikiti is represented by Tendai Biti in both cases.-SouthernEye/Additional reporting.

THE trial of Upenyu Mashangwa and three others before magistrate Noel Mupeiwa yesterday took a new twist when defence counsel Dumisani Mtombeni played an audio recording of a man purporting to instruct one of the accused to incriminate the accused in his police statement.
Mtombeni introduced the clip while cross-examining Admire Mango, the complainant in the case in which Mashangwa, Cosmas Mushaninga, Kudakwashe Larry Mapfumo and Clifford Tinashe Gonde allegedly defrauded Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries of $116 000 in a botched deal to import a Land Rover Discovery 4 from South Africa.
Mtombeni asked Mango if he could recognise PHD leader Walter Magaya’s voice if he was speaking in a different room without seeing him.
Mango responded he could.
Defence counsel then played an audio clip in which a man with a deep voice was heard saying: “You should change your statement and say the $80 000 that I gave Mashangwa was done by Admire Mango, do you hear that?”
In the recording, there was also a voice of a woman pleading that Mushaninga should not be arrested.
Mtombeni then asked Mango if he knew the voice.
“That is not the voice of Prophet Magaya,” Mango responded.
The defence lawyer then asked Mango if he could lie on behalf of Magaya if he was asked to.
“I don’t lie. I am a Christian and lying is not permitted,” Mango shot back.
The defence counsels, Mtombeni and Tafadzwa Hungwe, tried to convince Mango that he was asked to be the complainant on behalf of Magaya.
But Mango insisted that he was the complainant.
Mtombeni then indicated to the court that he would introduce four more other audio clips which would prove that Mango was not a reliable witness.
The trial is set to continue today with the second State witness Gilbert Mafusire taking to the stand.
Liberty Gono is prosecuting for the State.-Newsday

A female police officer stationed at Harare Central allegedly assaulted her brother’s girlfriend (18) for eloping to her brother, forcing her to pack her bags and leave their house, the court heard.
Margret Gurumani (24) of Glen View 7, Harare, whose rank was not stated, allegedly received a call to the effect that Mitchell Masunda, of Manyame Park, Chitungwiza, had eloped to her brother.
The incident occurred on June 10 at around 8.30pm when Gurumani’s relatives gathered in protest over Masunda’s decision.
Appearing before Chitungwiza magistrate, Ms Jessy Kufa, Gurumani denied two charges of domestic violence and unreasonable disposal of property.
The court heard that Masunda was in a room with her boyfriend arguing over why she eloped.
Gurumani allegedly knocked on the door and Masunda opened unbeknown to her that her brother’s sister had come to chase her away.
Gurumani asked Masunda to pack her bags and leave since she was not supposed to stay with her brother. Masunda protested at the order. Gurumani allegedly took her service baton and hit Masunda on the hand before shoving her about.
Gurumani allegedly teamed up with her relatives to escort Masunda to her parents’ house where they dumped her.
During the scuffle, Masunda reportedly lost $20, a calculator, a skirt and a jersey.
The matter was reported to police leading to Gurumani’s arrest. In her defence, Gurumani denied ever assaulting her brother’s girl- friend.
She said she was called to her parents’ house after her father and Masunda had a misunderstanding.
“The complainant (Masunda) was staying with my aunt and on that day she had moved into my father’s bedroom. I was called by my father to talk to her since they were quarreling,” said Gurumani.
“I was also with my husband, brother and aunt when we tried to peacefully talk to her, but it did not go well,” she said.
Guramani told the court that this forced her brother to ask Masunda to pack her bags and go back to her parents’ house. Mr Innocent Tizirai prosecuted.

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ZANU PF national commissar and Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has hit back at vendors who have threatened to de-campaign the ruling party ahead of the 2018 elections.
He said his party did not thrive on chaos and would not be blackmailed or intimidated.
Kasukuwere said the Zanu PF government was doing all it could to ensure there was no chaos in Harare, vowing the ruling party would not accept “blackmail votes”.
“So you think our party wins because of chaos? We don’t thrive on chaos. We must not be blackmailed. You can’t allow someone to take fish from Mukuvisi [River] and start selling it to you or else they won’t vote. We don’t want that kind of blackmail,” Kasukuwere said responding to a question as to whether the party would lose sleep over the threats.
“We don’t thrive on disorder, never.”
Kasukuwere’s response came after vendors demonstrated last week threatening not to vote for Zanu PF in 2018, accusing the party of forcing them out of the central business district.
The placard-waving vendors said Zanu PF was insincere and fighting the same people who voted them into power in 2013.
They accused Zanu PF of failing to provide the 2,2 million jobs promised ahead of the 2013 elections which the party won resoundingly.
Observers were of the view that Kasukuwere’s task as both Zanu PF commissar and Local Government minister was to immediately decimate MDC-T strongholds in urban areas and ensure Zanu PF occupied the space.
Meanwhile, Kasukuwere said the informal sector was a form of empowerment.
“Let’s not undermine our people as they begin this unless you believe 40 000 Europeans will come to build our economy. It should be done in a correct way,” he said.
Asked whether he would be hard on MDC-T councillors, Kasukuwere curtly responded: “They should just work and deliver.”
Kasukuwere on Tuesday toured vending sites accompanied by deputy mayor Thomas Muzuva, chairperson of the Informal Sector Committee councillor Wilton Janjazi and several other councillors together with acting town clerk Josephine Ncube.
Municipal police have been on the warpath, allegedly beating up vendors refusing to move to designated sites.
More than 40 people have so far been arrested and charged with public violence. Some of them have been made to pay admission of guilty fines.-Newsday

President Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba has attacked the media for reporting saying that ‘democracy icon’ Itai Dzamara who has been missing since the 9th of March 2015, was abducted.

Speaking for the first time this week, the spokesman slammed the media for what he said was a reporting of falsehoods as he suggested that the activist is returning to his family anytime soon.
Charamba branded the use of the word, abduction, as careless, insisting that this defeats the purpose of police investigations.
He said that Dzamara would “resurface as was the case in 2008 when many Zimbabweans fled to South Africa, only to reappear years later”.
He told the State Media that the government will not tolerate any political disturbances orchestrated by what he called failed political outfits using Dzamara, as part of their political football game which they think they can simulate a situation similar to Tunisia.
Charamba said police are investigating the issue and will reveal the outcome of their findings when investigations are complete. He said those who want the President to speak on the issue do not know how government operates as police are part of the executive which does the investigations.

15 Dads Caught Raping Own Daughters

One of Matabeleland’s traditional leaders, Chief Sikobokobo, Michael Nxumalo today revealed shocking news of cases involving fathers raping their daughters in his area of Nkayi as he said Satanism has hit the region.
The traditional leader, who was visibly unhappy, told ZimEye.com that he has been humiliated by the rape cases and also that he has presided over more than ten cases this month alone, and has since asked the police to be “serious”.
“I am a disappointed leader, because of the rate at which fathers rape their daughters in my jurisdiction. I am praying that our government can retain our powers, so that we can deal with rapists and offenders of our traditional values.
Satanism has also deeply entered our communities, because if a father believes that sleeping with his virgin daughter can cure his ailments and also get him riches, then something is wrong,” said Chief Sikobokobo.
He also blamed the government for not curbing corruption by introducing stiffer and deterring sentences to rapist parents.
“I am an old man who has been around for several decades, but has never seen anyone acquiring wealth through sleeping with their daughter. I think we need to revisit our culture and deal with these issues, as this has destroyed the bond between father and daughter in Nkayi,” he added.
His sentiments were echoed by those of his counterpart Chief Dakamela, who also blamed the behaviour of police when dealing with these sensitive cases.
 
“There are more than 15 cases of rape that were reported to the police, but the delay in apprehending the culprits and also the corrupt conduct of our security has let us down. More rapists have been fleeing to South Africa and Botswana, after having been corruptly released from police holding cells,” she said.
 
Chief Sikobokobo also added that last week he apprehended a rapist father and took him to the police, but was later shocked to hear that the rapist escaped and skipped the borders to neighbouring Botswana.
Asked to shed light on the alarming rate of rape cases, perpetrated by fathers to their own daughters, Nkayi Police could neither deny nor confirm, as they promised to give comments after completing some of their investigations, which was not done by the time of going to press.

Bulawayo’s top businessman and former educationist, Clemence Kunzekweguta, was Thursday afternoon left for dead when his Isuzu twin cab was hit by a mysterious vehicle. The horror was such that the man’s car veered off the road and rolled on its own body three times before landing on its roof along Nkayi strip highway, the road that leads to Vice President Phelekezela’s Mphoko’s home.
Kunzekweguta who was travelling with a business friend to officiate at the NAPH schools competitions, which were taking place at Nkayi high school, in Bubi district was taken to Nkayi General Hospital for treatment.
Kunze is a founder and Director of ZERO Supplies, which operates several Book shops in and around Bulawayo. When ZimEye.com visited the scene of the accident, which is about 18 kilometres from Nkayi business centre, Police were still attending to the vehicle which was ferrying stationery and food for the event.
In an interview with Police who were at the scene, the vehicle which caused the accident sped off and never stopped to assist the victims. They also told ZimEye.com that investigations to locate the vehicle are under way.
Speaking to ZimEye.com in his bandages, Kunzekweguta said that he was well, but shaken by the accident that nearly claimed his life.
“I am ok as you can see, but we nearly died, because we rolled three times before landing into these bushes, where the car is. The vehicle that instigated our near fatal accident did not stop, but sped off the scene,” said a visibly shaken Kunze.
Nkayi’s main highway has been a strip tarred road since the Rhodesian era, and has never been serviced to date. The road is also the only highway that leads to Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s rural home.

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The achievements of R G Mugabe.
In the interests of leaving an accurate record for future generations, let us take a dispassionate look at the achievements of our president, Robert Mugabe.
Morgan Tsvangirai and many other political opponents have been arrested and beaten over the years.
Morgan Tsvangirai and many other political opponents have been arrested and beaten over the years.
1. He assisted his mother raising children when his father went to Bulawayo.
2. Went to Ghana and got married, but back home had a girlfriend/wife. Like father like son
3. Went to Mozambique toppled Ndabaningi Sithole with assistance from other Shona leaders Rex Nhongo etc. On the war front people were told that Sithole was sell-out. Comrades started raping and killing all perceived witches and sell-outs
4. 1985/6 Prime Minister RG Mugabe established Gukurahundi with instructions to annihilate the Ndebele tribe, Perence Shiri was Commander. Emmerson Mnangagwa was the minister responsible for security and Mugabe was minister of defence.
5. In 1986 he became sole leader of Zimbabwe, arrested all perceived ZAPU leaders. Joshua Nkomo minister of home affairs resigns and escapes to Botswana
6. 1987/90 unity accord signed. Mugabe elevates himself to President, former president Canaan Banana is accused of homosexuality and arrested. He serves an open prison sentence at Conemara in Gweru
7. 1990 Rumours of Bona’s birth emerge and prove that Mugabe lied when he said that during the war as part of his torture by the Smith regime had burned/cut his sperm ducts rendering him impotent.
8. 1995 Mugabe faced challenges from small opposition parties and labour unions after ESAP failed and started rigging machinery in elections.
9. 1997 Mugabe faces strong opposition from labour and unleashes the army and water cannons on protests. His popularity sinks to the lowest. He arranges for Morgan Tsvangirai and labour leaders to be arrested and beaten.
10. 2000 Mugabe loses the referendum to MDC and NCA vote
11. Declares war on white farmers and business. Unemployment and food security under serious risk
12. 2002 Mugabe loses the election to MDC but rigged it to stay in power.
13. 2005 Mugabe orders Operation Murambatsvina, which lead to demolition and displacement of more than 700,000 people from their homes and small businesses.
14. 2008 Mugabe loses to MDC again. Rigged re-run presidential election boycotted by MDC. SADC forces the GNU with unequal advantages. Many opposition members die on his instructions, including Ndiraya and Jongwe. Many teachers dispersed through violence in rural areas.
13. Tsvangirai almost killed. His wife killed in an accident.
14. Solomon Mujuru’s farm house burnt and after the general is killed he is thrown into the fire to disguise his murder.
15. 2013 Mugabe rigs the election after serious threat from economy and the opposition. – ANONYMOUS -TheZimbabwean

THE proposed sell of properties owned by Harare City Council (HCC) to sitting tenants at discounted prices has been put on hold after city fathers sniffed a potentially scandalous deal in which a former senior council staffer became the first to offer to buy a house he occupied during his term of office.
Council has strongly objected to Dombo Chibanda’s bid to be the new owner of an up market property in the capital’s leafy suburb of Eastlea which he still uses despite having left its employ about a year ago.
Chibanda had worked as HCC’s director of waste management and social amenities.
Council sources said Chibanda, who had a turbulent exit at Town House, applied to buy the house immediately after he learnt that council had adopted a resolution to offer its properties to sitting tenants at hugely discounted prices of up to 50 percent of the market value, as it seeks to comply with a government directive.
This was after former local government, public works and national housing minister, Ignatius Chombo, instructed council to dispose of its houses to sitting tenants in the national interest in June.
City fathers smelt a rat at a recent full council meeting over the issue after two council committees rushed to approve the sale of number 4, Cumberland Street. The sale was, however, immediately overturned.
Documents in possession of the Financial Gazette indicate that the Education, Health, Housing and Community Services committee and the Finance and Development Committee met separately to consider the application and approved it.
It was acting Harare Town Clerk, Josephine Ncube, in her capacity as corporate services and housing director, who recommended the sale to the committees.
“The committee had before it a report (19th June 2015) by the corporate services and housing director (Ncube) seeking authority to sell the house to Dombo Chibanda, a former council employee who was a sitting tenant to the property in question,” partly read the uniform minutes of the two committee meetings.
The committees then shared notes and agreed to recommend council to adopt the resolution but the motion was dismissed and referred back to the committees for further consideration.
Harare deputy mayor, Thomas Muzuva, led the onslaught on the deal saying it must be fully investigated to allay any fears before council could deliberate on it.
This, he said, has the potential to open a can of worms given that many of the city’s senior employees use council properties and could sense an opportunity to grab cheap houses.
Council then ordered the housing and community services committee off the deal so that the finance committee could exclusively handle it.
Muzuva said as it stands, there were many grey areas that need to be attended to before any further action could be taken.
“This scheme is exclusively for those people without alternative accommodation who are really in need of the houses, so we need to find out if the former director doesn’t have another property which would disqualify him,” he said, adding:“We need to be very careful to avoid a situation whereby we set a precedence in which every senior employee who occupies a council property buys it for a song on retirement. What should not be forgotten is the fact that proceeds from these sales should be ring fenced to build a new social housing stock to assist those in need and we will not be doing justice to it if we sell to those who are already well up.”
Council also resolved that a proper valuation process be initiated in order to ensure that there are no losses incurred during disposal of the properties.
“For example, the committee report only talks about the valuation of the stand and we do not know whether we are selling a stand or a house. So we have requested that the whole matter be looked into before it is brought back to council for scrutiny. These issues demand us to be thorough,” said Muzuva.
Chibanda had a turbulent relationship with suspended Town Clerk, Tendai Mahachi who, in 2009, suspended him on allegations of faking operational licenses when he was deputy director for health services. Chibanda was also accused of refusing to close a restaurant whose conditions did not comply with the Public Health Act.
Last year, troubles mounted for Chibanda when Mahachi again suspended him for poor performance as director for waste management, in a bizarre development which saw Mahachi himself temporarily taking over the duties.
The former director was also fingered in the salary scandal in which city bosses allegedly gave themselves hefty perks at the expense of service delivery. His salary was reported in the press to be US$34 299 per month.
Chibanda was one of those who were sent on early retirement in June last year. financial gazette

Zimbabwe’s Information and Communication Technologies minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been exposed for grabbing the Telecel company from a foreign investor. This came at a time when the (historically)destruction-bent government is on a begging bowl for much needed Foreign Direct Investment.
Telecel shareholders, Vimplecom and local consortium, Empowerment Corporation have offered to sell their shareholding in Telecel Zimbabwe to government after the state blocked the Dutch telecommunications giant from disposing of its stake to a foreign investor, a minister said on Wednesday.
Telecel is currently embroiled in a legal battle with government over the cancellation of its operating licence in April, with the state alleging that the company had failed to comply with local ownership regulations and to renew the licence.
The firm got a temporary reprieve to continue operating after the High Court suspended the cancellation pending finalisation of its legal fight with the government. Telecel went on to pay a $5 million installment in June as part of the $137,5 million for the licence.
Amsterdam headquartered VimpelCom, which owns 60 percent of Telecel — the country’s third largest mobile telecoms firm with over 2.4 million subscribers — last December put its stake in the mobile operator on the market and invited bids from interested investors.
Information and Communication Technologies minister Supa Mandiwanzira told Parliament that the decision to block the Telecel sale was made on the basis that government had not received any capital gains tax from previous transactions involving Telecel.
“Since last year, Vimplecom has been on the market selling its interests on the African continent, including Telecel Zimbabwe. The company had almost reached an agreement with a company outside Zimbabwe and government took a deliberate decision to stop this transaction,” said Mandiwanzira.
“We made a decision that Zimbabwean assets cannot be traded outside the country without the country benefiting from the issues of capital gains.”
Mandiwanzira said Vimplecom then “offered to the government of Zimbabwe their 60 percent” shareholding.
The local consortium, Empowerment Corporation (EC) which holds a 40 percent stake in Telecel also wrote to the government offering to sell its shareholding, he added.
Government is looking to buy the company through its wholly owned entity ZARnet, which was established in 1997 as a government Internet Service Provider (GISP).
The parastatal has no experience in telecommunications and lists on its website that it offers ICT solutions and e-learning platforms.
“As you may be aware government does not have enough resources to be financing that kind of transaction so it has given this interest to one of its wholly owned entities, ZARnet to pursue it in a commercial sense and it (ZARnet) is in the process of negotiating,” said Mandiwanzira.
Government already controls another mobile operator in NetOne, which has 3,3 million subscribers according to latest official data as well as fixed line telco, TelOne.
The Zimbabwean consortium is made up of warring groups that include affirmative action pressure groups, war veterans, a farmer union, a small-scale miners’ association and an investment vehicle owned by James Makamba, a former ZANU-PF politician who fell out with President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party years back.
Mugabe’s nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, is the managing director of the EC.
Zhuwao plunged the consortium into internecine warfare in January when he pushed for the sale of EC’s 40 percent stake to Brainworks Capital – an emerging force on Zimbabwe’s largely inactive corporate deal scene – for $20 million in a transaction that would have valued Telecel Zimbabwe at $50 million.
The transaction suffered a stillbirth after a raging dispute between EC shareholders.

“I Am Richer Than Temba”
Hurungwe West’s new MP Keith Guzah has fired back at his rival Tembla Mliswa who on Wednesday alleged that he funded Guzah to win against him.
At least five(5) of Mliswa’s supporters were said to have been hospitalised after being attacked by Guzah’s alleged agents. But at a time when Mliswa had opened several lawsuits, he alleges that he also simultaneously funded Guzah to crush him.
Responding in no uncertain terms, Guzah said Mliswa’s claims were laughable.
“What can I say but laugh on such ridiculous laughable claims. comments on cheap political statements coming from a confused political ‘has been’ who is looking for a political space to remain relevant?,” he told ZimEye.com in an interview Thursday morning.
He continued, “it’s laughable for one to make such funny statements and expect right thinking people to believe that he funded me and instructed Hurungwe west chairpersons to vote for me in the Zanu PF primaries …..
“but failed to instruct them to vote for him during the by election between him and me?
“I also wonder how one funds someone with more resources than you! What a joker! At least he keeps idle minds entertained.
“Look, I won’t spend time playing to the gallery. I have a constituency to attend to and bread and butter issues to deal with in parliament.”

Kasukuwere Must Fix Mess at Nehanda Housing Cooperative

The expelled management of the ZANU PF-run Nehanda Housing Cooperative caused a scene on Monday when they sank low to disrupt a meeting venue using a smelly body of a dead dog there.
In a development that exposes the scheme of the cronies who have stolen millions of dollars, the Never Kowo shamed management killed a dog and left it to rot below the chairs of the place where Cooperative members were convening a meeting on Monday.
The recent developments also saw this year the ousted ZANU PF Harare Province Chair Goodwills Masimirembwa fight to protect this group who are headed by Kowo. Masimirembwa was axed shortly after this.
Members have since called for the assistance of Minister Kasukuwere who should expel the leadership if he at all cares about the plight of the people. This is vital because the Kowos were booted following a majority vote of no confidence on the 27th June.

More than 300 school going girls in Nkayi and Lupane districts of Matabeleland North are attending school lessons without any under wear, ZimEye.com has learnt.
In a shocking revelation during the Matabeleland North SNV partnered schools Carnival, the girls who range from 8 to 16 years have been attending school classes without panties, exposing them to infections and abuse.
In an interview with SNV’s spokesperson for the Carnival, who is also the Wash Advisor for the organisation Wamubhilani Nkala, the organisation has been working around the clock to assist the vulnerable girl children in the districts, with sanitary wear and panties.
“We have been working hard since 2013 in the most affected areas of the country, which is Matabeleland North. We discovered that more than 300 girls from Nkayi district have been dropping out of school due to menstrual difficulties. They have been going to school without panties, as they all could not afford to have them.
SNV and its European partner have since established a mothers group composed of women in the surrounding districts to manufacture under wear and ramps for the vulnerable girls.
One of the trained mothers from the Masenyane mothers Group of Lupane, Mrs Sandra Mpofu, told ZimEye.com that they have been busy with the venture since 2013, as the situation needs urgent attention.
“Our girls have been going through a traumatising experience, and most of them have been keeping the secret to themselves, as they fear humiliation.
Many girls would have been noticed after having spoiled their school uniforms, thereby leading to the intervention of female teachers,” she said.
According to SNV Official, Mrs Sphilisiwe Dube, more than 70 school teachers have since been trained to offer lectures on ramp making during their home economic classes, in an effort to cushion the vulnerable girls.

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There were running battles in Mutare city today between the municipal police and Zimbabwe Republic Police as law enforcement agents clamped down on illegal vendors and tried to drive them to new vending sites allocated by the local authority.
Most of the vendors, who were being forced to leave illegal selling sites, camped at Old Chidzera Hall and vowed to stay put until council addresses all their grievances, including the provision of convenient vending stalls with toilets.
Some businesspeople in the eastern border town applauded the move taken by the police, saying they will now be able to sell their goods without interference from vendors.

One of the affected vendors, Tendai Gotora, said some of them were not allocated new stalls by the local authority.
His sentiments were echoed by several others who said they have been driven from customers in the city center.
The chairperson of the Mutare Informal Traders Union, Ivene Mbengo, said there is need for dialogue between the local authority, vendors and the police.
He urged his colleagues to avoid any conflicts with municipal police and other security agents.
Mbengo said the local authority should also seriously consider constructing permanent structures for vendors.
Mutare businessman, Assan Hussein, commended the move taken by the local authority saying that they were now going to operate their businesses without any hindrance.
Mutare mayor councilor, Tatenda Nhamarare, told Studio 7 the move today was in line with a government directive to remove the illegal vendors from undesignated selling sites.
The mayor said it is untrue that the new vending sites do not have toilets, adding that street traders should put their own shelters.
Councilor Nhamarare said the removal of vendors went well today despite protests from street traders.
The removal of illegal vendors started in Harare last week where at least 25 vendors have been arrested and are now facing charges of public violence. Millions of Zimbabweans have engaged in vending to make ends meet due to the current harsh economic situation in the country.-VOA

Zimbabwean lawyer, Charles Kwaramba, representing disappeared Occupy Africa Unity Square leader, Itai Dzamara, has urged President Robert Mugabe to publicly talk about the abducted activist to give the case a high profile and urgency it deserves.
The remarks follow pronouncements by President Mugabe’s spokesman, George Charamba, that Mr. Mugabe will not be commenting on the matter.
Dzamara was abducted on March 9th this year by five unidentified armed men in Harare’s Glen View suburb as he was getting a haircut at a local barbershop.
The activist spearheaded the pro-democracy movement that demanded the resignation of Mr. Mugabe for allegedly failing to deliver.
But the investigations seem to have stalled with the head of the police’s law and order unit in the criminal investigations department, Crispen Makedenge, refusing to comment referring Studio 7 to the police general headqurters.
The story took yet another bizarre turn when deputy home affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi told Studio 7 today that Dzamara is not the only activist to have vanished, giving an example of veteran nationalist, Edison Sithole, who disappeared before independence in 1975 and was never found.-VOA

A Nyamandlovu woman in Ngoma township was last night caught in the act by her husband as she treated herself to the nature’s delights with another man.
The husband Mr Charles Moyo who encountered the shock of his life, a Veterinary Officer stationed at Nyamandlovu, has become the community talk in the same way his work-colleague found misfortune for wearing boxer shorts at the  latter’s daughter’s wedding- READ MORE- .
The incident took place just after 11PM Monday night when Moyo had returned from work.
He told ZimEye.com in an interview that he had just returned from work and upon entering the bedroom, found his wife deeply buried in the sheets as she made noises with another man. (WATCH ZimEye.com live scheduled streaming on Thursday morning for the full interview).
He said he controlled himself, “Yah I just controlled myself because I was very angry. Maybe I was going to be counted among those who have died or have done something wrong. But I tried to control myself,” he said.
The incident has left the whole of Nyamadhlovu male community watching after their wives.
One resident told ZimEye.com, “No man here is having peace when away on chores like work.”
(WATCH ZimEye.com live scheduled streaming on Thursday morning for the full interview).

Expelled Hurungwe West MP Temba Mliswa has lashed out at ZANU PF rumours that he received assistance from ousted Mash West Chair Ziyambi Ziyambi.
In a statement, Mliswa denied any involvement with Ziyambi.
He explained while shockingly revealing that he funded his own opponent Keith Guzah so that he could defeat him. “Keith Guzha’s win in the Primary Elections, I even went on to assist him financially when he failed to remunerate his polling agents in the just ended election. I made him politically and now he is vying for the Provincial post as Chairman,” Mliswa said as he pierced the ears of his supporters(with those words) many who were brutalised by Guzah’s agents in the just ended bi elections.
Below was his full statement:
“Nothing could be further from the truth and once again Mashonaland West cannot justify their own confused decision making without implementing me in the process. It is preposterous to fathom that the person who was instrumental in my ouster from the ZANU PF Provincial Chairmanship and then the ZANU PF Party itself is now the one disclosing election strategies to me.
“What strategies are there to be disclosed in the first place? The only strategies perennially deployed by the rogues of ZANU PF and that are common knowledge to all and sundry are those of violence, intimidation and the use of the State Security apparatus. Even if by some remote chance there may have been some new strategy or ‘secret’ how on earth could I have countered it having not had the chance to go on the ground and campaign?
“I have always been labelled as “Gamatox” and yet I am the one who appointed the entire Mashonaland West Provincial Executive, how were they then separated from my alliances? It is a fact that has always baffled me and example of how the term “Gamatox” was coined to purge the Party. It is no secret that I was the one who was key in Keith Guzha’s win in the Primary Elections, I even went on to assist him financially when he failed to remunerate his polling agents in the just ended election. I made him politically and now he is vying for the Provincial post as Chairman.
“I have alleged Ziyambi to have been in the forefront of the physical and brutal attacks in the just ended farce of a Hurungwe West by-election. I further singled out his perceived abuse of office as the reason why arrests were not being made in the Constituency and yet during the same time period we are purported to have been conspiring. It is unfortunate that this alleged sharing of information was not very effective or accurate as I would certainly have won in the election had that been the case.
“Relationships transcend beyond politics and I am human enough to be civil and polite when running into any person that I may not agree with politically. Surely that does not constitute as grounds for secret sharing? If that is the case then individuals such as Chiyangwa should be labelled ‘Gamatox’ as it was Cde. Mutasa who was instrumental in having him reinstated to the Party upon his dismissal.
“The truth of the matter is that my ouster was not effected in the best interests of the Province and as a result they will forever be haunted. I am probably the most effective Chairperson the Province has had the pleasure of being elected and the error of their judgement will rumble long and loudly in the annals of Mashonaland West’s history.”

Zimbabwe no longer has female prisoners on death row in compliance with the new constitution.
The country’s sole female prisoner on death row has been removed after her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Shylet Sibanda, the only female inmate who was on death row for the murder of Daniel Sithole committed together with the help of her husband Tongai Zireni Mutengerere and a family friend Darlington Nyaungwe, withdrew her concourt application seeking a review of her death sentence on Wednesday.
Sibanda, through Advocate Fadzi Mahere, withdrew her matter on the basis that her death sentence has since been commuted to life imprisonment.
Sibanda and her accomplices were all sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Felistus Chatukuta for murdering Sithole in 2010 and stealing the deceased’s vehicle.
The three committed the offence in 2010 and were sentenced to death by the High Court after Justice Chatukuta found no extenuating circumstances.
According to the State, Mutengerere is said to have used his wife to call Sithole pretending that she wanted to hire his truck to go and pick up a motor vehicle engine at Kamutanho Village in Zimunya, a few kilometers from Mutare.
The court heard that Sibanda fell for the trap, agreed to the contract and charged the woman 50 dollars for the job.
The late Sibanda picked up Mutengerere’s wife at green market in Mutare and proceeded to pick up Mutengerere and Nyaungwe at Sakubva bus terminus.
Mutengerere and Nyaungwe occupied the front seat, while Sibanda was at the back of the truck with her baby and they proceeded towards Zimunya.
As they arrived at Bazel Bridge road, Nyaungwe suddenly grabbed Sibanda by the throat, choking him.
Nyaungwe stabbed him twice in the stomach, his hands and legs were tied together and he was dragged into the bush where he later died.

Local Government Minister Savior Kasukuwere and a group of Young Turks called the G40 are plotting to have first lady Grace Mugabe dislodge vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa the below report says.

First Lady Grace Mugabe has apparently been given “a blank cheque” by Zanu PF’s ambitious young Turks, the Generation 40 (G40) group, who are now said to be actively lobbying her to succeed her ailing nonagenarian husband, President Robert Mugabe.
If this were to come to pass, it would effectively torpedo Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s chances of ever landing the top post, a move that many of the VP’s supporters are zealously working towards.
Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News yesterday that with a berth in the party’s all-powerful politburo, courtesy of her position as women’s league boss, as well as “her close proximity to the ultimate authority in Zanu PF and the government (Mugabe)”, it is no wonder that she is “increasingly enjoying as much bootlicking and sycophancy” as Mugabe — with G40 allegedly and expedient at the heart of all this.
One insider claimed that the G40 camp, which comprises relatively young ruling party politicians and some of Mugabe’s relatives, was “so anti-Mnangagwa” that they were now “furiously” pushing for Mugabe’s wife to be Zanu PF’s next leader.
“The young Turks don’t trust Mnangagwa and they feel that if he was ever to be the president their hopes of ever succeeding him will be blown away.
“They would rather have Grace with whom they can determine the future together than Mnangagwa who has already demonstrated that the Karangas will be in charge once he is in power. There are lots of tribal and regional dynamics at play,” the insider said.
And apparently seduced “by the promise and fruits of unfettered power”, Grace is warming to the idea and is thus allegedly turning on the Mnangagwa faction with whom she had had an alliance since last year when she fronted the political decapitation of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her allies.
“Among many other reasons, including their over-weening ambition, the G40 also feels that Mnangagwa will be a hard sell to the electorate come 2018, for many reasons including allegations pertaining to his perceived ruthlessness and alleged role in the infamous Gukurahundi atrocities of the 1980s — hence their (G40) rallying behind Grace,” another source said.
Mugabe’s often loose-tongued nephew, Patrick Zhuwao — an alleged key G40 member — recently wrote that “it would be foolish” for the two VPs, Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko, not to listen to Grace’s advice, after stunning revelations by the controversial first lady last month that the two bigwigs regularly take instructions from her.
Another source intimately familiar with Zanu PF politics also said there was “a disturbing trend” as the party’s deadly factional and succession wars deepened, whereby “tribalism and regionalism are coming to the fore in a bad way”.
In this “madness”, Mnangagwa and his allies were now being accused of setting up structures that were sympathetic “to the Karanga dream of leading the country”.
Addressing party youths last month, Mugabe panned Zanu PF factionalism in remarks that many insiders said were allegedly directed at Mnangagwa, further warning party youths against coalescing around individuals.
“If you are choosing between my two vice-presidents, you are beginning your own Gamatox. They (the VPs) occupy equal sphere. If you say you want this one to succeed, you are already bringing division within the people and this so soon after our election.
“The people will choose when the time comes, and you will be part of that process, but don’t get divided by that question now,” Mugabe said in a rare admission that factionalism continues to be a big problem in his warring party.
Another source said Grace had played a key role in Mugabe’s latest Cabinet reshuffle, claiming further that the two VPs had only been “advised later”.
“That (new Cabinet appointees) is a line-up from Amai. Mnangagwa wanted his wife to be the Women’s Affairs minister but Amai chose her long-time friend Nyasha Chikwinya who was plucked from nowhere although she is connected to the Mujuru faction.
“Years back, she (Chikwinya) was also linked to a corruption scandal but because of her friendship with Amai she is back. And former Mashonaland East minister of State Biggie Matiza lost his post because he was a Mnangagwa ally in the province,” the source said.
Giving examples of how much the Mnangagwa faction was under the cosh, another senior party official told the Daily News on Monday that in the past fortnight alone, a number of alleged key allies of the VP had either been suspended from the smouldering ruling party ship or had been publicly humiliated, with Grace again said to be at the centre of all of this.
“It’s not a coincidence that (Zanu PF) Mashonaland West (province) kicked out interim chairman Ziyambi Ziyambi this week and replaced him with Keith Guzah. Ziyambi is in the VP’s faction and you will remember that Dr Amai dressed him down in public when she officiated at the ground-breaking ceremony of housing stands in Kadoma recently,” he added.
The Daily News also reported yesterday that the uneasy alliance of the past year between Grace and Mnangagwa was unravelling, as Mugabe’s increasingly influential wife was now said to be working again with the G40 camp.
Insiders told the daily that a number of developments over the past few weeks suggested that the pact between Grace and Mnangagwa, which had been witnessed when they worked together to annihilate Mujuru and her allies, “is now on shaky grounds”.
“I think you guys in the media are missing a trick here. It’s not the G40 that is reeling under pressure, no. It is the Mnangagwa camp that is taking a massive beating at the hands of people who are hobnobbing with Dr Amai as comrades and their factions fight to the bitter end to succeed President Mugabe,” one of the sources claimed.
Another well-placed source corroborated the claims that the G40 — which allegedly includes self-proclaimed “political thug” and Zanu PF’s national commissar and minister of Local Government, Saviour Kasukuwere — had “floored” many of Mnangagwa’s supporters in the party’s ongoing restructuring programme.
“Surprisingly, where you would have expected Tyson (Kasukuwere) and the G40 to be punished by the party for doing this, President Mugabe has actually moved to reward the group with important Cabinet positions,” the central committee member said. -Daily News

Three men have appeared in court for a string of rape offences involving the abuse of a 5 year old and two 13 year olds each respectively.
The first of these cases has already been concluded and the alleged offender convicted albeit the fact that the man’s lawyer was not present during the allocated defence time.
In his judgment, Magistrate Mr Mahwe said the State managed to prove through a medical affidavit produced in court that the girl was penetrated.
“The girl’s age is also not in dispute. It is not in dispute that the accused gave the girl money for sadza and $5 for the school trip.
“Above all, the girl’s evidence was credible and she even said the sexual act was consensual.”
Madzudzo was found guilty and was remanded in custody for his sentence.
In a related matter, a 26-year old man, Noah Tafirenyika, also allegedly raped 13-year-old girl.
It is alleged that the girl was lured by her friend to go and play at their house after Tafirenyika coaxed the friend to take the girl away from her home.
Another 23-year-old man, Clemence Mundezha, allegedly raped a five -year old after her mother had gone to fetch water.
Mundezha and Tafirenyika were remanded in custody.

It is the responsibility of investigating arms of Government, not President Mugabe’s, to take a leading role in establishing the whereabouts of journalist-cum MDC-T activist Itai Dzamara, Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said yesterday.
Charamba said it was sad that some misguided elements were vainly using the alleged disappearance of Dzamara in a bid to regain political foothold.
Dzamara “disappeared” on March 9 and opposition parties have tried to capitalise on the development, blaming the President and ZANU-PF for the alleged abduction.
The European Union and the US have dutifully issued several Press statements threatening that Dzamara’s “disappearance” would further spoil relations with Zimbabwe.
Said Mr Charamba: “I dismiss calls for the President to pronounce himself on the matter as pre-eminently political and thus not worthy of his attention. People go missing here and elsewhere in the world.
“In our case, some skip the borders to go to foreign lands, others get caught up in mishaps and still others might just change location and withdraw from contacts. The fact of the missing persons need not indict sitting Governments the way it is playing out here.”
Mr Charamba said opposition political parties and non-governmental organisations were tainting the image of Government before police pronounced themselves on the matter.
“The script we are getting from those that present to be concerned about a missing citizen is that Government is guilty until proven innocent,” he said.
“It’s a strange sense of justice and there are also claims that Dzamara was an opponent of Government. Dzamara was never an opponent, let alone an enemy, of the Government much as he and his associates, obviously to give profile and consequence to themselves, may have had that as a wish-image.
“What obligates sitting Governments in respect of missing persons is for them to enquire and investigate as to their whereabouts, and this in line with basic international norms and expectations, principally that governments stand in loco parentis to all citizenry.”
Investigating authorities, Mr Charamba said, would make a public report when done with investigations.
“This, the Government of Zimbabwe has, is, will do, albeit without fanfare as is being demanded by persons, parties and interests which seek to feed political fate on the missing person,” he said.
“When it is appropriate, a public report shall be made by the investigating authorities in ways that do not jeopardise investigations, but never for the edification of persons, parties or interests whether local or foreign.”
He added: “It is clear to Government that there is a vain hope to use the missing person for political parties to regain political foothold and mileage and in the case of foreign interests to put Zimbabwe back in the dock.
“It leaves Government wondering whether or not the whole incident is not a politically calculated contrivance. Before long, investigations shall reveal.”
Last Saturday, civil society, opposition parties and church leaders convened a prayer meeting ostensibly in honour of Dzamara.

The Australian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Suzanne McCourt says Zimbabwe is not yet fit to be re-integrated into the Global world.
The disqualification of Zimbabwe to fit into the international community has been further caused by its reluctance to investigate the disappearance of rights activist Itai Dzamara who was abducted by suspected state security agents four months ago.
Dzamara prior to his disappearance, he was staging peaceful protests against President Robert Mugabe who he demanded to fulfill his 2013 election campaign promises of creating jobs.
Since his abduction government has not given an update on Dzamara’s investigations despite the existence of a court order directing them to do so.
In an exclusive interview with ZimEye.com Ambassador McCourt said although there has been progress in the Zimbabwe-Australia bridge building process, like other western countries, they are worried by the lack of democratic principles observation by Harare.
“There is certainly some improvement that could happen in the bilateral relationship and I think both governments are aware of that but there are some few issues that need to be resolved and I am looking forward to working on those issues during my time here,” she said.
“Australia has along with other governments been keen to encourage democratic values in all where we work; Australia has a very strong democratic tradition”.
Ambassador McCourt said during her term of offices she will intensify dialogue with everyone so that Zimbabwe once rejoins the international community.
“I have come with mandate to engage as broadly as I can, to speak with members of government, members o f the opposition, and other political parties, to speak with community members and whoever I can reach out to,” she said.

Beleaguered Welshman Ncube led MDC could be faced with more senior members defections to the MDC Renewal.
Very reliable sources in the MDC Renewal claim that former MDC National Spokesperson Nhlanhla Dube and former Secretary General and parliamentarian Priscillia Misihairabwi Mushonga could be the latest former right hand persons to Professor Welshman Ncube to make a move to the MDC Renewal. Also mentioned in the list of senior MDC officials said to be making their way to the MDC Renewal is former Gwanda mayor Lionel De Necker.
The sources indicated that the MDC Renewal is strategically building up for it’s congress scheduled to be held before the end of the year and so in the process of recruiting “big brains and reputable people” to have the people elected into the party’s structures at congress. According to the sources the party is welcoming most people “disgruntled by the operations of the MDC and the MDC T as they seek to reestablish the 1999 founding values of the MDC.”
The sources claim that Mushonga, Dube and De Necker have been approached by the party’s senior officials and have agreed on paper to join the party and an announcement will be officially made soon. The sources claim that negotiations are currently being held with several other prominent opposition politicians in favour of democratic principles of the original MDC.
Other high ranking former MDC officials who have found their way into the MDC Renewal include former National Chairman Frank Chamunorwa, former Matabeleland South Chairman Petros Mukwena and several other members of the youth wing.
Contacted for a comment, Dube and De Necker rubbished the said moves to the MDC Renewal.
“They are possibly speaking from the realm of wishes and dreams,” said Dube.
De Necker also described the link to the Renewal as wishful thinking by the MDC Renewal leadership. He denied attending a meeting with the MDC Renewal officials where he was offered a senior position in the party’s National Executive.
“The MDC Renewal is composed mostly of people I have worked with in the MDC and they remain my friends and nothing can stop me from associating with them,” said De Necker.
An official of the MDC who would not have his name published however indicated that there could be an element of truth in the information provided by the sources. The official indicated that at a recent standing committee meeting held in Gweru a motion seeking to withdraw Mushonga from parliament because of her links with the MDC Renewal was moved but left unclosed. He further indicated that De Necker could indeed be on his way out of the party after the former mayor has been disassociating himself with party activities including withdrawing from the party’s national executive committee social media chat groups.
The official further stated that there is a likelihood of seeing more members of the party moving to the MDC Renewal ahead of the party’s congress with a hope of landing leadership positions at the congress. The two parties have been negotiating a unification exercise which appears to have collapsed prompting an exodus of ambitious members to the newly formed party.

A snap opinion survey has suggested that first lady Grace Mugabe is a far much better candidate for the presidency than expelled vice president Joice Mujuru.
The survey conducted by the little known Generation X Institute suggests that Grace Mugabe will be a better president for Zimbabwe than Mujuru.
100 people were sampled around Zimbabwe and the shady organisation claims that they credibly represent the Zimbabwean population. Each participant was used to vote on one question regarding the suitability of either candidate.
66 percent voted for Mrs Mugabe while the rest went for Mujuru.
A brief look at their portfolio however showed that the paper is the organisation’s first ever survey.

A 30-YEAR OLD man from Mvuma was yesterday jailed for an effective five years after he was convicted of theft charges and arson.
Taurai Felix Munatsi stole an assortment of goods belonging to Jerifano Manyemba at Plot 62 Musena in Mvuma and a week later burnt the house to ashes to conceal the theft.
Magistrate, Shotgame Musaiona convicted Munatsi on two charges of theft and malicious damage to property.
On the first count Munatsi was sentenced to seven years of which one year was suspended on condition of good behaviour.
A further three years was suspended on condition Munatsi paid $4 090 restitution to the complainant by August 31.
On the second count Munatsi was slapped with five years in jail and a year was suspended.
The remaining two years were suspended on condition that he pays $3 215 restitution by the end of August.
Munatsi’s alleged accomplice, Francis Chitawu is still on the run.
Prosecutor Andrew Marimo told the court that on June 30, Munatsi entered premises at Plot 62 Musena where he stole a bike, solar equipment, radio, satellite dish, generator, water pump, DVD players, half bucket of maize, telescope, car battery, blanket and clothes.
On July 7, Munatsi and Chitawu went to Manyemba’s homestead and set the thatched house on fire.
Inside the burnt house were nine bags of fertiliser, six asbestos sheets, wardrobe, five doors and door frames among other goods.
Munatsi was arrested after a tip off.-SouthernEye

Makokoba MP Tshinga Dube yesterday struggled to read his prepared maiden speech in Parliament and was forced to sit down after his extended time ran out.

VERENANDA LANGA|Newsday| Dube spoke in a very low voice causing opposition MPs to lampoon him saying he was speaking to himself.
The MPs said the legislator should just hand over his speech to Hansard, a parliamentary publication that records proceedings verbatim, so that MPs will read it the following day.
Mabvuku/Tafara MP James Maridadi (MDC-T) even took a picture of Dube in jest.
Maridadi’s actions led Bindura South MP Remigious Matangira (Zanu PF) to suggest to the deputy Speaker Mabel Chinomona that the MDC-T MP should be thrown out of the House.
Chinomona ignored Matangira’s plea, but reminded Maridadi that he was not a journalist.
She said MPs were not allowed to take pictures of other legislators while they debated in the House.
Dube continued to read his speech inaudibly before other MPs offered him some bottled water assuming he was thirsty or choking.
After his 15 minutes lapsed, Zanu PF deputy chief whip Francis Mukwangwariwa moved that Dube’s time be extended.
Chinomona allowed it to be extended by a further five minutes as per parliamentary standing rules and orders.
However, Dube’s speech remained inaudible, causing Musikavanhu MP Prosper Mutseyami (MDC-T) to complain.
“Madam Speaker, can something be done to assist Dube to raise his voice, otherwise it would be better for him to just submit his speech to the Hansard,” he said.
Chinomona rejected the suggestion saying there was nothing that could be done to help the Zimbabwe Defence Industries boss.
“He just has a low voice and there is nothing that can be done,” she said.
“But at the same time the extended five minutes have again expired and the MP can just hand over his speech to Hansard.”
Some of the issues that were in Dube’s speech included that his constituency, which was thriving in its heydays now signified squalor due to economic difficulties.
“The constituency has a rich heritage with celebrities like politicians, entertainers and popular footballers like Madinda, Adam and Peter Ndlovu having come out of Makokoba,” he said.
“We also have popular landmarks like Stanley Square, Renkini Terminus, Mpilo Hospital and others.
“The majority of people in Makokoba live in poverty due to economic problems and closure of companies. Many people have become vagrants while still more have migrated to South Africa where they are often subjected to barbaric treatment. Sadly the younger generation has been driven towards drugs and many people struggle to send their children to school.”
In an unrelated matter, Sunningdale MP Gift Chimanikire (MDC-T) said the country was failing to attract investment because of human rights violations.
Chimanikire cited a Victoria Falls incident where President Robert Mugabe was making a speech to accept African Union chairmanship, while his body guards were busy beating up an old woman who had collected grass near the venue.
“Young Zimbabweans marching in the streets to protest about unemployment are brutally beaten by police — and how can investors come into the country?” Chimanikire asked.
He was debating a motion introduced last week by Hatfield MP Tapiwa Mashakada (MDC-T) on the deteriorating social and economic conditions in the country.-SouthernEye

A haulage truck driver survived death by a whisker on Monday evening when his vehicle overturned along Simon Mazorodze Road at the round about popularly known as “Pambudzi” cemetery.
The accident caused heavy congestion that lasted for several hours.
Eye witnesses say the haulage truck overturned when the load spilled to the left side while the haulage truck was negotiating the round about.
Grain Marketing Board workers tirelessly worked trying to recover the grain and clear the road.
The congestion was bad news for South African bound buses and trucks that were rushing to find the Beitbridge border still open.

Shurugwi – A close relative of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was found dead here of a cyanide attack.
Mr Joachim Mungenge is said to have killed his three children before turning on himself according to the latest indications
The incident has left the entire Shurugwi community shell-shocked.
Mungenge is a cousin-brother in-law relation of VP Mnangagwa through his first wife who was also sister to the late army commander Josiah Tongogara. The incident also comes short in the heels of a cyanide attack on Mnangagwa’s office in December last year.
‘We are all short of words and this is indeed an appalling tragedy,’ a police source told ZimEye.com.
The children were in form 4, form 2 and grade 6 respectively. Their bodies were at Shurugwi police station for several hours yesterday.
The police are said to be investigating the case amid a community outcry that they are compromising evidence on what truly happened.
Although the State Media were yesterday blocked from covering the incident, ZimEye.com managed to obtain interviews with key people.
‘It appears the man became possessed with spirits,” suggested one source close to the investigations.
Mnangagwa could not be reached for comment as he was said to have kncoked off work at the time of writing.

FIRST LADY Grace Mugabe has begun fighting Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa having already expelled Mnangagwa ally Mash West chair Ziyambi Ziyambi, a report suggests.
The uneasy alliance of the past year between First Lady Grace Mugabe and Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is apparently unravelling, as President Robert Mugabe’s increasingly influential wife is now said to be working again with Zanu PF’s ambitious Young Turks who operate as the Generation 40 (G40) camp, the Daily News reports.
Zanu PF insiders quoted by the Daily News yesterday said that a number of developments over the past few weeks suggested that the pact between Grace and Mnangagwa, which had been witnessed when they worked together to annihilate former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her allies, “is now on shaky grounds”.
One of the well-placed sources said it was clear that all was not well between the two, particularly as it became more evident that “Dr Amai (Grace) could be priming herself for the ultimate post, rather than assist Ngwena (Mnangagwa) to get there”.
“I think you guys in the media are missing a trick here. It’s not the G40 that is reeling under pressure, no. It is the Mnangagwa camp that is taking a massive beating at the hands of people who are hobnobbing with Dr Amai as comrades and their factions fight to the bitter end to succeed President Mugabe,” he said.
Giving examples of how much the Mnangagwa faction was under the cosh, the senior party official said in the past fortnight alone, a number of alleged key allies of the VP had either been suspended from the smouldering ruling party ship or had been publicly humiliated, with Grace said to be at the centre of all of this.
“It’s not a coincidence that (Zanu PF) Mashonaland West (province) kicked out interim chairman Ziyambi Ziyambi this week and replaced him with Keith Guzah. Ziyambi is in the VP’s faction and you will remember that Dr Amai dressed him down in public when she officiated at the ground-breaking ceremony of housing stands in Kadoma recently,” he added.
The province’s secretary for administration, Simbarashe Ziyambi, said part of the accusations against Ziyambi included untested allegations that he was feeding ousted former provincial boss Temba Mliswa with incriminating information about how the ruling party had allegedly rigged the recent Hurungwe West by-election.
“Due to the gravity of these offences, and as clearly spelt out in the Zanu PF constitution, we recommended that Ziyambi be expelled from the party on grounds of misconduct, disloyalty and treachery,” Simbarashe Ziyambi said.
The province which presented its petition on Ziyambi to Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko — who apart from heading Zanu PF’s disciplinary committee, is also aligned to the G40 camp and is engaged in a vicious power brawl with Mnangagwa — accused the ousted acting chairperson of working against Grace.
“In gross violation of the party statutes, Ziyambi Ziyambi, connived with a small cabal and leaked party secrets to Temba Mliswa and clandestinely encouraged and assisted by way of passing information on our campaign strategies to him and his family.
“Ziyambi Ziyambi mounted a vigorous campaign to dissuade members of Zanu PF from attending the much publicised Kadoma ZimAsset-inspired business and housing initiative by Macsherp, which was officiated by the First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe, in the company of two vice presidents, Cde Mnangagwa and Cde Mphoko, the secretary for Administration Cde Ignatius Chombo and several politburo and central committee members,” Simbarashe Ziyambi added.
Another well-placed source corroborated the claims that the G40 — which allegedly includes self proclaimed “political thug” and Zanu PF’s national commissar and minister of Local Government, Saviour Kasukuwere — had “floored” many of Mnangagwa’s supporters in the party’s ongoing restructuring programme.
“Surprisingly, where you would have expected Tyson (Kasukuwere) and the G40 to be punished by the party for doing this, President Mugabe has actually moved to reward the group with important Cabinet positions,” the central committee member said.

No amount of bullying, burning, or bashing can turn away Zimbabwe’s vendors, the street merchants have proved after they made a boisterous return to the cities yesterday.
 
Barely (3) three days after they were brutally bashed by the police, the vendors have vowed with their lives as they seek to sustain their families in this time of catastrophic economic turmoil.
 
Recent revelations that the Municipal Police are army trained will not stop them.
 
Zimbabwe Informal Sector Organisations(ZISO) Director Promise Mkwananzi told ZimEye.com the vendors are not going anywhere until government has provided employment or at the least commercial restoration.
“More than thirty vendors arrested and heavily assaulted. We have resolved to reconstruct structures tomorrow and continue selling,”  said Mkwananzi.
 
Government two weeks ago created vendor facility properties outside the city. But these areas are out of reach for most customers and there is no business life there.
The vendors who constitute over six(6)million people outnumber Zimbabwe’s entire electorate.
“We are going nowhere we have been there and I tell you, you cannot even make 5 dollars a day,”  one David Mako told ZimEye.com
 
 

MDC-T secretary-general Douglas is facing de-registration any time in the next 5 months after he was reportedly convicted by the LSZ of professional misconduct after he allegedly used a forged or irregular notice of appeal in a bid to stop eviction of a client from a disputed property.

Mwonzora and two other lawyers face de-registration by the Law Society of Zimbabwe for various acts of misconduct. Mwonzora is a senior partner at Mwonzora and Associates law firm.
The firm has been mired in a fraud case that resulted in Mwonzora being hauled to court facing criminal charges. The cases are still pending.
Mwonzora and two other lawyers — Ollyn Kanyenze and Tererai Gunje — on Friday had their cases in which the Law Society of Zimbabwe is seeking to de-register them deferred to September this year.
Mwonzora’s case was not on the roll although he had been notified of the hearing.
Justice Chinembiri Bhunu chairs the Disciplinary Tribunal, which hears such cases at the High Court.
Other members of the tribunal are Justice Felistas Chatukuta and lawyers Mrs Sarah Moyo and Mr Davison Kanokanga.
The LSZ applied to deregister Mwonzora after it convicted him on charges of misconduct.
Mwonzora has approached the High Court to quash the LSZ decision citing procedural flaws.
In his review application, Mwozora argued the LSZ showed bias against him when it applied to de-register him as a lawyer, notary public and conveyancer on a matter pending before the Supreme Court.
“It obviously anticipated my acquittal on the criminal charges and wants to prejudice me,” stated Mwonzora in his papers.
“The disciplinary proceedings against me are tainted by gross administrative irregularities, which include, among others, bias, gross unreasonableness, lack of respect and observance of principles and rules of natural justices.”
Mwonzora was convicted by the LSZ of professional misconduct after he allegedly used a forged or irregular notice of appeal in a bid to stop eviction of a client from a disputed property.
The LSZ is now seeking to have his name struck off the register of practising lawyers.
Advocate Lewis Uriri is acting for the LSZ in the matter.

Zimbabwe’s former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has failed to get his State Benefits for over two years a situation that is blamed on President Robert Mugabe.
Newsday|Tsvangirai has not received his terminal benefits two years after leaving government amid claims he was being fixed by President Robert Mugabe because of their political differences.
Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka yesterday said the MDC-T leader had not received any benefits from government despite the fact that he was entitled to them.
“It is true that he has received nothing and there has not been any communication either way,” Tamborinyoka said.
“They owe him, but you must know why he is not making a fuss about it. It is because for his participation in the GNU (government of national unity) was never about his personal material needs.
“It was about service and sacrifice and this is why for three of the four years he was Prime Minister, Tsvangirai was staying in his own house.”Tsvangirai stayed at his Strathaven house in Harare before switching to a government-owned mansion in Highlands.
The move caused controversy after some in government tried to push for his eviction following his defeat in the 2013 elections.
Tamborinyoka insinuated that the former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions leader was being punished for refusing to recognise Mugabe’s election following the controversial 2013 polls.
However, he said the government had no right to withhold the benefits. “But these are his entitlements and he earned them. However, he is not going to beg anyone,” Tamborinyoka said.
“If the condition is that he must first say the 2013 election was legitimate for them to give him his dues, then tough luck. That is not going to happen. He is not going to endorse that fraud.”
A senior MDC-T official told NewsDay that Tsvangirai, who served as PM between 2009 and 2013, was legally entitled to terminal benefits.
“He has not received anything from the government, not his pension, not even a car,” the official said. “Most of his compatriots who served as ministers were allowed to take the vehicles they were using.
“Mugabe is punishing Tsvangirai for refusing to recognise his 2013 electoral theft. Most, if not all, of his juniors walked away with off-road vehicles as well as other cars, but he only got the battered Mercedes-Benz (vehicle) that is now beyond repair.
“This is despite the fact that according to the agreement used to form the coalition government, Tsvangirai and Mugabe shared executive powers.”
Tsvangirai’s house in the leafy suburb of Highlands was reportedly valued at $4 million after renovations and upgrades that cost around $800 000. Efforts to get a comment from Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba over the matter were fruitless as his mobile phone was not reachable.
Tsvangirai has lost three times to Mugabe, but the opposition leader claimed massive vote-rigging during the polls.

A suspected bed-hopping pastor and founder of Gospel of the Kingdom Ministries reportedly hired thugs to eliminate two of his congregates for exposing him as a sexual pervert.
Thomas Makoni (28) of 2588 Mainway Meadows, Waterfalls, Harare, was not asked to plead to two counts of incitement to commit murder charges.
Makoni appeared before Chitungwiza magistrate Ms Renika Dzikiti who remanded him out of custody to July 27. The prosecutor, Mrs Ntombikayise Nleya said allegations against Makoni arose on June 5 this year when he hired his childhood friend Talent Nyakunengwa to kill two of his congregates accusing them of being the cause of his problems.

It is alleged that this was after Kudakwashe Elliot (27) and Afra Nhanhanga (40), both of Chitungwiza, had exposed his shenanigans with several women at his church.
Makoni allegedly went to Nyakunengwa’s house during the night where he narrated his story and plan.
The court heard that Makoni tasked Nyakunengwa with the elimination of Elliot by beating him to death. He offered $30 and a Samsung Vinovo cellphone as a reward.
But Nyakunengwa revealed the plot to Elliot. Nyakunengwa then went to Makoni’s church in bandages and told him that he had done the job during which he sustained his injuries.
Makoni paid Nyakunengwa as promised.
Two days later, Makoni approached Nyakunengwa and allegedly ordered him to kill Nhanhanga and all occupants in his house using a petrol bomb. Nyakunengwa alerted Nhanhanga.
Nhanhanga and Elliot later reported the matter to police.

Budiriro 5 residents woke up to a gruesome murder Sunday morning as the naked body of a young woman was found close to Budiriro 5 Primary School.
Budiriro police were into Monday evening still at pains investigating the suspected murder.
Witnesses say the body was dumped from a car early Sunday morning. The woman’s head was butchered beyond recognition and a friend identified her.
The name is soon to be announced by the cops.
The friend said the deceased is part of a group that operate as ladies of the night.
They also said the victim was a mother of two, staying with her kids plus a maid at some lodgings in Budiriro.
More to follow…

Condolence on Chenjerai Hove’s passing
The MDC has learnt with sadness the passing of renowned author Chenjerai Hove who succumbed to liver failure while in exile in Norway yesterday.

The country and literary community has lost a talented, fearless and principled writer who contributed immensely towards the education sector and the struggle for a free and fair Zimbabwe through his writings. His literary works, particularly where he fearlessly exposed the evil and violent works of the Zanu PF regime personified the saying, ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’. His outspokenness and courage in taking on the Zanu PF government over its woeful policies of deceit, favouritism, corruption and gluttonous selfishness will forever be saluted.
The MDC is pained that Hove had to die a painful death in far -away lands, away from his family and loved ones because of the evil Zanu PF government.
We offer our deepest condolences to the Hove family and hope they find comfort in the Lord at this difficult time. May his dear soul rest in peace.
Mary Manyenje
MDC Secretary for Education

At least $5000,00 have been paid by individuals each so they can be accepted into secret meetings with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Newsday|Emmerson Mnangagwa is in the eye of a storm after some of his close allies allegedly demanded bribes from under siege commercial farmers trying to seek audience with the top Zanu PF official.
It is understood that some of the VP’s associates devised a way of profitably making use of their links to him to charge people seeking audience with him. Mnangagwa last night said the culptits would face the full wrath of the law.
“I don’t do that . . ., tell the police to arrest them, they are thieves who are abusing my good name. Please tell the police to get them arrested. It’s bad. I will not tolerate such things,” he said.
One of the victims, Commercial Farmers’ Union (CFU) chief executive officer Hendrick Olivier told NewsDay last week the officials openly demanded bribes ranging from $500 upwards when farmers sought meetings with Mnangagwa.
Olivier said he was a victim of the scam himself amid fears more farmers could have been coerced to part with large sums of money to meet President Robert Mugabe’s second in-command.
“I must say from the outset that I cannot blame the Vice-President for what happened or claim that he is part of it but two officials who work in his office openly demanded for a ‘brown envelope’ with a minimum $500 to which I responded that I did not have,” he said. “I also told them that it is not the way I operate.”
The CFU boss said he wanted to meet Mnangagwa to discuss continued disruption of farming activities at white-owned commercial farms around the country by suspected Zanu PF supporters.
Olivier said he had officially requested to meet Mnangagwa before he received a call on July 2 that the VP was ready to meet him at 08:15 that same day.
“I had and still have a standing official request to meet the Vice-President. I still await my chance to meet him,” he said.
Olivier said when he got to Mnangagwa’s office, two men (names supplied) demanded $5 000 before he could meet the VP. He said Mnangagwa’s secretary appeared to know the men.
“It became clear as time moved that she was aware and knew the two men. I was asked to stay downstairs, but after two hours I gave up,” he said. On Friday, one of Mnangagwa’s aides confirmed that there was a “white man” who visited the VP’s offices recently.
“He came here last week in the company of two guys known as Tonde and Maburutse, who are members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu),” the aide who declined to be named said.
“But he did not have an appointment with the Vice-President. The Vice-President has two offices here at the Ministry of Justice and at Munhumutapa Building so I am not sure which of his secretaries Olivier is talking about, we move around a lot, but I know him as an official of the Commercial Farmers Union.”
Efforts to track Tonde and Maburutse were fruitless. Sources said a group of Zanu PF activists a few weeks ago invaded some farms whose owners approached officials in Mnangagwa’s office for assistance.
The farmers were reportedly asked to part with $5 000, but ended up paying $2 000 to get the Zanu PF functionaries removed.
Impeccable sources said the official claimed to have phoned Mnangagwa, as well as “very senior military and police officials” in the presence of the affected farmers.
“An order was then issued and within hours the invaders had been pushed out of the farms,” the source added. Information, Media and Broadcasting Services ministry principal director Regis Chikowore described the allegations as “very serious”.
“These are serious allegations that you as a paper need to verify the veracity of. You cannot take what he (Olivier) says as fact on the face of it because as of now I am not even sure it happened,” Chikowore said.
“However, if he was serious and sure that it happened as you are saying, he should have made a police report.”
Mnangagwa, who is one of Mugabe’s longest serving lieutenants having been drafted into the country’s first Cabinet at independence 35 years ago, was appointed VP following a Zanu PF congress last December.
He took over from the country’s first female Vice-President Joice Mujuru who was sacked from her positions both in the ruling Zanu PF party and government following a plethora of allegations among them extortion, corruption, bribery and plotting to assassinate Mugabe.
However, Mujuru has denied all the charges levelled against her and challenged her detractors to take the matter to court.
Mnangagwa is now seen in the ruling party circles as front-runner to take over from 91-year-old Mugabe whose over half a century political career is in its sunset period.
Mugabe recently warned Zanu PF youths against using names of senior party leaders for financial gain. Suspended Zanu PF Harare provincial youth league chairman Godwin Gomwe is facing trial for allegedly extorting over $46 000 using First Lady Grace Mugabe’s name in the capital.

A top magistrate Mr Joe Kabiti has continued his job for a whole 33 years since the start of the infamous Gukurahundi massacres in 1982.

The Zvishavane magistrate Mr Joe Kabiti, who was early this year forced to retire after working for 33 years without basic five Ordinary Levels, has taken the Judicial Service Commission to the Constitutional Court contesting the decision.
Mr Kabiti was forced to retire on February 19 this year by the JSC after it emerged that he was not a qualified magistrate.
He argued that he was employed as a presiding officer on the basis of a Community Court certificate he obtained from Domboshawa Training Centre in 1981 and his status as a war veteran.
Mr Kabiti was given a chance to upgrade himself and acquire five O- Levels when the presiding officer’s post was phased out in 2006, but he refused insisting that he should simply be elevated to be a magistrate by virtue of him being an ex-combatant.
Part of his response reads:
“Pursuant to that, I was appointed to the office by virtue of some qualifications, that is being an ex-combatant . . . “The war was fought and it is over. I am an ex-combatant. I was retained for the post by virtue of such qualifications.
“With all due respect, I seem to wonder as to what you mean by upgrading myself. Are you saying the war should be started over again and I improve on my war veteran status: obviously no,” he said.
The JSC retired him with full package and benefits but he is contesting the retirement arguing that he has not reached the retirement age.
The Labour Court threw out the review application on the basis that Mr Kabiti had not exhausted the available remedies before approaching the court.
It was the Labour Court’s finding that Mr Kabiti had not been fired but he was retired.
Justice Custom Kachambwa said the local forum of approaching a labour officer must first be exhausted before approaching the Labour Court.
The decision did not go down with Mr Kabiti who then filed a review application at the Constitutional Court.
In his constitutional application filed at the Constitutional Court this month, Mr Kabiti argued that the JSC did not follow the proper procedure in retiring him.
“The first respondent (JSC) enforced its decision to retire me without taking heed of the basic tenets of justice, in particular, the audi alterum rule.
“I was not given an opportunity to be heard fairly and my side of the story was never heard, before effecting an aggravating decision on me,” he said.
Mr Kabiti argued that the JSC did not follow the procedural requirements laid down under Section 17(5) of the Judicial Service Regulations in summarily retiring him.

First Lady Grace Mugabe is believed to have personally booted Mashonaland West Chairman Ziyambi Ziyambi.
ZANU PF provincial executive members in Mashonaland West Province yesterday passed a vote-of-no-confidence on acting provincial chairman Ziyambi Ziyambi accusing him of being dishonest and failing to prepare the groundwork for election of a substantive committee.
Ziyambi was booted out after 27 out of 50 provincial executive members who included MPs, central committee and politburo members voted against him. The decision was sealed during a meeting held at the party’s provincial offices in Chinhoyi.
Party sources said Ziyambi was being removed in favour of flamboyant businessman and central committee member, Phillip Chiyangwa who refused to comment on the issue yesterday.
The provincial Women’s League also resolved to recall MP Joani Tsogorani from Parliament accusing her of manipulating her election under the women’s quota system.
Tsogorani also serves as provincial vice-chairperson.
Ziyambi is accused of being dishonest by misrepresenting facts to First Lady and Zanu PF Women League boss Grace Mugabe about the state of affairs in the province.
He reportedly received a serious tongue-lashing from Grace over allegations that he attempted to block her from presiding over the launch of a housing scheme in Kadoma two weeks ago.
Ziyambi is also said to have refused to endorse Angela Muchemeyi as the Mashonaland West Women’s League chairperson, a move that reportedly angered the First Lady.

But Ziyambi, who spearheaded the expulsion of former provincial chairperson Temba Mliswa, has accused party members of campaigning for his ouster.
“They have always wanted to lead the province at whatever cost and those are the people going behind my back,” he said. – Newsday/Additional Reporting

Residents of Matabeleland South capital Gwanda have applauded the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority for closing down a hotel cum brothel operated as a partnership by the Member of Parliament for Gwanda North constituency Ndodana Sibanda and his siblings as a family business.
The hide-out operating as Pumula Hotel was closed down by the tourism authority last week following complaints from the residents of the town after the hotel with two branches in the town had become home to scores of prostitutes. According to residents the prostitutes were operating their immoral business in broad day light posing semi naked in the area around the two hotel sites at the busy Jawunda high density business centre.
“This is a very welcome move by the responsible authorities as the situation at the hotels was getting out of hand,” said a resident Dorcas Ndlovu. “These women had resorted to pry on men in broad day light without regard to age or social status right in front of the society’s eyes.”
Another similar lodge, Tusanang Lodge also operated by Gwanda South based ZANU PF provincial executive member Martin Mawuva was also shut down by the authority for not meeting the standards expected by the ZTA. The lodge also housed several prostitutes who targeted mostly long distance truck drivers who park their trucks overnight along the Johannesburg highway near by.
Gwanda is expected to host a very high profile music concert at the end of August which will feature at least five music artist from neighbouring South Africa and tourism authorities are under going a clean up programme to make sure that all tourism standards are met by service providers. Residents have also in the meantime asked authorities to check the standards of two night clubs Iocated in the town’s CBD which are said to be operating from dilapidated buildings and running for nearly 24 hours becoming a home for prostitution and other crimes.
A section of the residents complained that the closure of the brothels had very little impact on eradicating the immoral women as they were quickly absorbed into the community by land lords who took them into their homes and gave them lodging. Some media reports claim that some of the evicted ladies were seen carrying their belongings and finding their way to Beitbridge and Bulawayo to continue their trade.
According to national statistics, Gwanda town ranks very high in terms of HIV/AIDS infections and the business of sex workers in town is reportedly booming due to the availability of the small scale informal gold miners in the area.

First Lady Grace Mugabe’s blue-eyed-boy wants every corrupt person in Zimbabwe executed by a firing squad.
Mrs Mugabe’s preferred Vice President Simon Khaya-Moyo told ZimEye.com Zimbabwe must be merciless to corrupt individuals. The country must adopt the Chinese model of killing corrupt persons, ZANU PF’s spokesperson said. – Click here to read full story VIDEO: