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.

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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.

[lightbox link=”http://www.zimeye.com/http://www.zimeye.com/wp-content/live_images/2015/07/2C723FB5-2332-4BF5-A7E7-CA136C1BD593_cx0_cy10_cw0_w300_r1_s_r1.jpg” thumb=”http://www.zimeye.com/http://www.zimeye.com/wp-content/live_images/2015/07/2C723FB5-2332-4BF5-A7E7-CA136C1BD593_cx0_cy10_cw0_w300_r1_s_r1.jpg” width=”300″ align=”center” title=”2C723FB5-2332-4BF5-A7E7-CA136C1BD593_cx0_cy10_cw0_w300_r1_s_r1″ frame=”true” icon=”image” caption=””]Vendors hold placards suggesting they will exercise their right to vote in the 2018 Presidential elections after they were removed from the streets of Harare, Wednesday, July, 8, 2015. Minor scuffles ensued as police officers drove out thousands of vendors selling their wares on the sidewalks and pavements of Harare. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
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.

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.

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:
 
 

Cabinet has given the green light for the Lands and Rural Resettlement Ministry to take over the collection of land rentals and unit tax from all A1 and A2 farmers following reports that some rural district councils (RDCs) were abusing the money.
Until the recent announcement, the RDCs had been collecting the levies.
The new Cabinet directive would see the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement handing over the land levies to Treasury to ensure accountability.
Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister, Dr Douglas Mombeshora yesterday confirmed the latest development, adding that land levies would only be collected from beneficiaries of State land, while those with title deeds to their land would be spared.
Government recently introduced land levies for land holders that saw A1 farmers paying $15 per year for the land they have. Under the scheme, $10 is land rental while $5 is unit tax that goes to RDCs.
The A2 farmers pay land rentals of $3 per hectare per annum and $2 unit tax per hectare, resulting in the farmers forking out $5 per hectare per year. Private companies using State land will now pay $10 land rental per hectare per year and $2 unit tax.
To date, Government has resettled 145 775 families on 5,979 million ha under A1 and 18 289 people on 2,978 million under the A2 model. This means Government can collect about $15 million from A2 farmers alone and $2 million from A1 annually.
Said Minister Mombeshora: “It is true that the Ministry (of Lands and Rural Resettlement) has taken over the collection of levies from RDCs. Cabinet approved that all land rentals and unit tax should be collected by the ministry after which it will be handed over to Treasury that will later distribute unit tax to RDCs,” he said.
Before the Cabinet directive, some RDCs were collecting the money and there were challenges with accountability.
However, the 26-member Hurungwe RDC in Mashonaland West Province frowned at the new arrangement.
They feel the new arrangement will compromise service delivery since their council now realises less revenue than under the old system.
After the reading of a Government circular advising of the new system during a full council meeting held at Magunje Growth Point last week, some councillors condemned the new system for contradicting Section 6:2 of the Finance Act of 2009, which stipulates levies RDCs collect from communal, A1 and “It had rather been better to continue using the old system with council remitting the Government’s portion since we already have the special resources for revenue collection – trained personnel, databases, vehicles for the exercise – and everything else,” suggested one councillor.
According to some councillors, the move was also likely to cause problems in the enforcement of council by-laws particularly in environmental management and conservation.
The councillors believe that the farmers will have less respect for an authority that does not levy them right on the ground, hence making it difficult for council to implement some of its by-laws.
The councillors also claim that under the old system their personnel would simultaneously attend to most of the environmental and conservation issues during their revenue collection visits, which would now be expensive to carry out under the new system.
Before the new set-up the Third Schedule of the RDCs Act (Chapter 29:13) as read with the Finance Act, Section 6:2 of 2009, empowered Hurungwe RDC – whose land falls under three regional classes (2, 2Aand 2B) – to levy communal farmers.

Expelled vice president Joice Mujuru has been caught having falsified her late husband’s wealth, the State Media reports claiming.
Last month Mrs Mujuru said that her husband’s Estate is worth minus 2 million dollars as she faces a legal battle with close to 100 children sired by her late husband with different women. ZANU PF speculates that the estate is in the contrary worth over 10 billion dollars.
DETAILS of the late Retired General Solomon Mujuru’s vast empire have started emerging despite concerted efforts by his widow, former Vice President Joice Mujuru, to conceal the riches, The Herald can reveal.
Rtd Gen Mujuru died in August 2011 in an inferno, leaving behind an empire ranging from real estate, pharmaceutical, farming, to diamond mining – igniting a battle between Mrs Mujuru and some of the intended beneficiaries – mainly children.
Documents in The Herald’s possession show that Rtd Gen Mujuru ranked among the richest people in the country.
He had 100 percent shareholding in such companies as Kalmic Investments (Pvt) Ltd, Maidei Kumbirai (Pvt) Ltd, Rylance Farms, Tapfumaneyi Holdings, J and H Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, Oriel Pharmacy (Pvt) Ltd and a 50 percent stake in Kupukile Resources (Pvt) Ltd.
Kupukile Resources (Pvt) Ltd was Rtd Gen Mujuru’s investment vehicle that had equity in River Ranch Diamond Mine in Beitbridge.
Rtd Gen Mujuru also had 100 percent shareholding in Thurlow and Company (Pvt) Ltd and Kumirinje Farms (Pvt) Ltd.
He had a million shares in hospitality firm Africa Sun, a stake in Ruwa Golf Resort Holdings, Merzig Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, Zimbabwe Motor Assemblers and Distributors (Pvt) Ltd.
According to documents submitted to the executor of Rtd Gen Mujuru’s estate, Mr Stern Mufara, by the hero’s lawyer, Mr Thakor Kewada, the late general also had vast interests in real estate judging by the inventory of the houses he owned.
Mr Kewada cites the following properties as belonging to Rtd Gen Mujuru, Stand 95 Hogerty Hill Township 3 of Hogerty Hill A, measuring 1,4 hectares, Stand 96 Hogerty Hill Township 3 of Hogerty Hill A, measuring 555 square metres, and Stand 810 Marandellas Township.
He also had three other properties cited as Remainder of Sebastopol (in Goromonzi measuring 329ha) Inverangus of Sebastopol (also in Goromonzi 304ha) and Stand 9 Tara Township of Tara of Sebastopol (6,4ha in Goromonzi).
“All the above three properties were held by or transferred to J and H Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd and held under Deed of Transfer No. 4269/83, which title deed was collected by General Mujuru on 8th October 2004 as he sold one portion of the land to Damafolds Investments. The shares of J and H Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd were held by a number of individuals of the James Henry Verwey Family. They each signed declarations of trust and dividend waivers in favour of General Mujuru or his nominees being the Solomon Mujuru Family Trust. The original title deed and declarations of Trust and dividend waivers were retained by General Mujuru,” wrote Mr Kewada.
Gen Mujuru also owned Lot 1 of Lot 283 of Greendale, which property was subdivided to create Stand 1113 Greendale Township, House Number 18 Coghlan Road Greendale and Number 4 Springfield Close, Chisipite in Harare.
With regards to River Ranch Limited, Gen Mujuru’s Kupukile Resources had 5 000 shares as at August 17, 2007.
In Zimbabwe Motor Assemblers and Distributors (Pvt) Ltd he had 4 430 shares, while in Zimbabwe Sun Limited Gen Mujuru had a million shares under his company Tapfumaneyi Holdings (Pvt) Ltd c/o Interfin Merchant Bank.
He had shareholding in Ruwa Golf Properties (200), Ruwa Golf Resort (10).
At times Gen Mujuru would buy a property, but fail to transfer ownership to his name by not paying his lawyers such things as conveyancing fees.
Such properties included Stand 75 Shamva Township and Stand 5735 Warren Park.
Gen Mujuru also owned Remainder of Shamva Mine A, Shamva Mine B, Hexagon and Hexagon Extension.
In Bindura, Gen Mujuru owned Stands 22, 23 and 24 of Bindura Township.
Furthermore, Gen Mujuru owned Stand 214 Bindura Township, Stand 241 (Bindura Township), Stand 18 Bindura Township, Stand 449 Bindura Township and Lot 1 Ballantry.
In Chiwaridzo Drive in Bindura, Gen Mujuru owned stands 1399, 1400, 1401, 1402 and 1403.
In Shamva he had two undeveloped stands.
“In addition to the above, the General was the beneficial “owner” of the Beatrice Farm (where he died) together with all farming implements and farming assets,” notes Mr Kewada.
“The residential property at 4 Springfield Close, Chisipite, Harare. He bought this land and the next door land from or through a Mr Chapfika who developed the land with the buildings currently on the property. The General paid for the lands and buildings in full. He instructed Chapfika to transfer the properties to one of his companies,” notes Mr Kewada.
He added: “Apart from the farms and lands, the General bought J and H Enterprises, he owned another farm in Ruwa and also Atherston Farm in Bindura.
Gen Mujuru also had Hexagon Farm.
“We have no knowledge nor any details of the Gold Mines the General owned but we are aware one of his daughters (Nyasha) and her husband operates one of the General’s Gold Mines. The General may have owned other assets of which we have no knowledge of,” further stated Mr Kewada.
The estate executor, Mr Mufara, is unhappy with the reluctance by Mrs Mujuru to co-operate in the identification of properties her husband owned.
In a letter to Mrs Mujuru’s lawyer Kantor and Immerman dated June 16, 2015, he said: “Mr Kewada’s letter/schedule of assets does not include movable property. Since your client did not compile any inventory as per your earlier advise, I will be attending to compiling the inventories and evaluation of the movable and immovable properties for purposes of determining the value of the deceased’s shareholding in the following entities… Rylance Farm (Pvt) Ltd, Ruzambu Farm (Pvt) Ltd…”
He also demanded a schedule of Income and Expenditure for all the rentals collected by Mrs Mujuru from properties owned by Gen Mujuru.
“I also request the financial statements of the following companies from your client as at 16 August 2011 and thereafter to today’s date: Rylance Farms (Pvt) Ltd, Backbarrow (Pvt) Ltd, ZAMASCA, Desirable Investments (Pvt) Ltd, Turn Point – Karoi. Micah Gold Processing Plant, Natural Stones (Pvt) Ltd, Kupukile Resources (Pvt) Ltd.”

Prolific writer and poet, Chenjerai Hove has died.
He passed away in Norway of liver failure ZimEye.com can reveal.
Family sources confirmed to ZimEye.com the man died and plans are underway to repatriate his body to Harare. His friend Dr Chirikure-Chirikure said he died on Sunday afternoon of liver failure.
“He died of liver failure,” Chrikure said.
He had been in political exile, in Europe for several years.
He was born in Mazvihwa near Zvishavane in 1956 and attended school at Kutama College and Marist Brothers in Dete, near Hwange.
He became a teacher and then took degrees at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the University of Zimbabwe.
He has also worked as a journalist, and contributed to the anthology ‘And Now the Poets Speak.’
Hove has published numerous novels, poetry anthologies and collections of essays and reflections and one of his pieces stands bold as one of Zimbabwe’s great scripts of the millennium – READ MORE– Click here.
His publications include:
•    And Now the Poets Speak (co-editor; poetry), 1981
•    Up In Arms (poetry), Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1982
•    Red Hills of Home (poetry), 1984; Gweru: Mambo Press, 1985.
•    Bones (novel), Harare: Baobab Books, 1988; Heineman International AWS, 1989. ISBN 0-435-90576-7
•    Shadows (novel), Harare: Baobab Books, 1991; Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks, 1992. ISBN 0-435-90591-0
•    Shebeen Tales: Messages from Harare (journalistic essays), Harare: Baobab Books/London: Serif, 1994
•    Rainbows in the Dust (poetry), 1997
•    Guardians of the Soil (cultural reflections by Zimbabwe’s elders), 1997. ISBN 0-908311-88-5
•    Ancestors (novel), 1997. ISBN 0-330-34490-0
•    Desperately Seeking Europe (co-author; essays on European identity), 2003
•    Palaver Finish, essays on politics and life in Zimbabwe, 2003
•    Blind Moon (poetry), 2004. ISBN 1-77922-019-7
•    The Keys of Ramb (children’s story), 2004
Honours and awards
•    1983 Special Commendations for the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, for Up in Arms
•    1984 Inaugural President, Zimbabwe Writers Union
•    1988 Winner, Zimbabwe Literary Award, for Bones
•    1989 Winner, Noma Award for Publishing In Africa, for Bones
•    1990 Founding Board Member, Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (Zimrights)
•    1991-94 Writer-in-Residence, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
•    1994 Visiting Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA
•    1995 Guest Writer, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts and Leeds University, UK
•    1996 Guest Writer, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Germany
•    1998 Second Prize, Zimbabwe Literary Award, for Ancestors
•    2001 German-Africa Prize for literary contribution to freedom of expression
•    2007-08 International Writers Project Fellow, Brown University
 
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Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa last week aborted a trip to Samba Ranch in Chiredzi after angry settlers warned that they would beat her up.
Mahofa and officials from the Ministry of Lands intended to evict newly resettled farmers from the ranch, allegedly to pave way for a well-known Harare businessman who could not be named for legal reasons. The businessman wants to embark on a sugarcane project on that piece of land.
According to sources, the resettled farmers had threatened war on anyone coming to evict them, forcing Mahofa to cancel her trip to meet them and instead, singled out village heads for a closed door meeting at the District Administrator’s office.
The villagers had been on the ranch for the past 15 years and the businessman is keen to kick out the villagers so that he can expand his sugar cane farming business.
Mohafa’s advance team which had visited the ranch earlier in that morning alerted the
Provincial Affairs minister that the villagers were baying for her blood, forcing an about-turn in the minister’s proposed meeting with the villagers.
The Standard later caught up with one of the chairmen soon after the meeting and he confirmed that Mahofa could have been harmed had she dared to visit the ranch.
Although no journalists were allowed in the closed meeting that lasted for seven hours, sources who attended it, told The Standard that Mahofa was forced to stop the intended evictions following fierce resistance by village heads.
“We were told not to talk to any reporter but the issue is that we have been spared for now,” one village head who attended the meeting said.
“We are not sure whether the issue is over but we have made our point heard that we are prepared to spill blood for our homes some of us have built permanent and expensive houses and we have huge livestock so where can we go.”
Efforts to get a comment from Mahofa yielded no results as the minister swiftly drove off straight after the meeting.
Clara Muzenda, Chiredzi District Administrator whose office hosted the meeting was also whisked away from journalists who swooped on her for a comment soon after the meeting.
About eight village heads attended the meeting.
Villagers alleged that government was trying to reverse “the gains of struggle” by evicting them on the 4000 hectares piece of land to give way to a sole farmer, who has supplied vehicles the government.
Meanwhile, Chiredzi Ward 3 Councillor Tarusenga Makamba was manhandled by vendors and commuter omnibus owners, accusing him and his fellow councillors of chasing them from their selling point at Nyore-Nyore, in Chiredzi town.
A day before commuter omnibus owners, vendors and Chiredzi town councillors clashed after the later forcibly removed them from their usual trading point at Nyore-Nyore in Tshovani.
On Thursday, council police forcibly removed vendors from the place to another close to the railway station, where vendors are saying there are no toilets and water. The manhandling stopped upon arrival of the news crew.
“We want council to upgrade the new area where they are relocating us. After all we are paying money every day and where is that money going,” said a commuter driver who only identified himself as Oscar.
Makamba said he was not aware of the evictions but he is only a victim because the area is in his ward.
“I was just passing by and these people mobbed me. I told them that we have to sit as council and them to hear their grievances unfortunately they could take none of that hence this situation.” -Standard

An MDC T female supporter stripped naked yesterday in protest against illegal arrest after she together with 67 activists were abducted outside the Zimbabwe grounds where the Itai Dzamara prayer rally was being held.
People were just rounded up outside the rally venue as they were coming from buying food. They were forced onto Police trucks and taken into cells at Machipisa.

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Mourners salute David Masondo
By The CITIZEN|A family man who always put his children first. This is how mourners attending the memorial service of legendary musician David Masondo, described him on Thursday.
Masondo, the lead singer of the traditional music group The Soul Brothers, died on Sunday in a Johannesburg hospital. He was 67. He died after he had admitted after complaining of exhaustion.
“Despite his burning passion for music, he always managed to find time for his children. He almost made it a point that they received the love of a parent,” the singer’s friend and neighbour Dumezweni Mcoyi, said.
Mcoyi, who was one of the speakers during Masondo’s memorial service at the Hammersdale Elangeni College attended by more than a thousand people, said Masondo’s love for children went beyond the singer’s family.
“He also showed the same love that displayed to his kids to his neighbours’ children – he was such a caring person,” he said.
Joy Mbewana, from the Creative Workers Union of SA (CWUSA) said the union was proud of the way Masondo had conducted himself as a musician.
“He brought back our dignity and dispelled the perceptions that musicians were irresponsible people who misused their money,” she said.
“He was a shining example of how responsible musicians should live. Today as I speak on behalf of musicians, I’m filled with pride because I’m speaking on behalf of someone who had been a role model.”
Another memorial serivice was held at the Bassline in Newtown, Johannesburg, where people paid their respects to Masondo.
Masondo started his career doing gigs around the townships of Durban in the 70s.
In 1974 Masondo co-founded The Soul Brothers – a group that went on to become a household name within the African continent.
Considered a pioneer in the Zulu soul music genre, the group went on to release more than 30 albums and sold millions of copies throughout Africa.
KwaZulu-Natal Social development MEC, Weziwe Thusi, who was representing KZN premier Senzo Mchunu, said the province was proud to have produced an outstanding person such as Masondo.
“We are not here to mourn but to celebrate David’s life – he lived life to the fullest and fulfilled all the tasks that God had given to him,” she said.
Artists, Thusi said, should draw lessons from Masondo’s well lived life.
“The reason why some many people had come for his memorial service today is testimony to the good life that Masondo lived.

KNIVES are out for acting Zanu PF Mashonaland West chairperson Ziyambi Ziyambi, with a petition being circulated to remove him in favour of flamboyant businessman and central committee member, Phillip Chiyangwa.
Sources said a vote of no confidence was set to be passed against Ziyambi who is being accused of dishonesty and disloyalty.
Zanu PF provincial executive members told The Standard that the signing of a petition against Ziyambi was almost complete and the announcement of his removal would be made this week.
Ziyambi is being accused of failing to revamp structures in all the districts to pave way for provincial elections. The provincial structures collapsed when several officials linked to former Vice-President Joice Mujuru were fired.
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 chairperson, a move that has reportedly angered Grace.
Mashonaland West Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) had initially refused the imposition of Muchemeyi as the provincial women’s boss by the Grace-led national executive last month without the blessing of the provincial committee at their last meeting in Chinhoyi. But they were forced to reverse their decision overnight.
Ziyambi yesterday said he was not aware of such a plot to remove him.
“I am not aware of such a move but if I am accused of having failed, then the whole provincial executive committee has failed, not Ziyambi alone,” he said.
He claimed district committees were restructured but they were only awaiting verification.
Ziyambi said he was aware of some officials who have always wanted to chair the province noting they were the ones responsible for sowing seeds of confusion in Mashonaland West.
“They have always wanted to lead the province at whatever cost and those are the people going behind my back,” he said.
Ziyambi spearheaded the removal of former provincial chairperson Temba Mliswa — the same scenario that has come back to haunt him.
Chiyangwa yesterday refused to comment on the issue.-Standard

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was yesterday attacked for wearing a hat during prayer time.
This was at the Itai Dzamara prayer rally at Zimbabwe Grounds in Machipisa.
“Why is he the only person wearing a hat during prayer time when there is no reason for wearing a hat on this cold Saturday”? asked one attendant.

An MDC T female supporter stripped naked yesterday in protest against illegal arrest after she together with 67 activists were abducted outside the Zimbabwe grounds where the Itai Dzamara prayer rally was being held.
People were just rounded up outside the rally venue as they were coming from buying food. They were forced onto Police trucks and taken into police cells at Machipisa.
For over two hours, desperate police officers failed to declare charges. As the arrested activists and worshipers continued demanding answers, an angry woman stripped her clothes beyond her undergarments in protest.
“Why have you arrested us? What have we done? You better kill me along with Dzamara then,” she lashed out.
In the following video footage, she is seen screaming aloud in anger as others in equal rage break in song.
By this time, their sadza meals they had bought at the shops had gone cold.
Many are wondering on the implications of democracy in Zimbabwe. Sadly the same woman who dared to openly flaunt her activism will have to stay in prison until Monday as her MDC party led by Morgan Tsvangirai forsook her.
Despite close to 100 party members being arrested in broad daylight, there was no mention whatsoever of the incident in party spokesperson Obert Gutu’s statement at the end of the day.
Efforts to obtain a comment from Morgan Tsvangirai were fruitless.
During the time that the group of elderly men and women were all in the police cells, one woman in her periods struggled for hours pleading for cotton wool. The scene was so humiliating and disturbing as she was heard by men young and old begging for cotton wool. She was only later assisted by the Zimbabwe lawyers for Human Rights Jeremiah Bamu who saved the day managing also to bring some sanitary wear.
Stay watching to see and hear their ordeal: VIDEO LOADING….

A BULAWAYO man has allegedly been forcing his wife of 28 years and their five children to sleep next door so as to make way for his girlfriend. As if that is not enough, Beatwell Nyathi has also been beating his wife, Florence Mlilo, who has since applied for a protection order from her husband. According to Mlilo, Nyathi, a Bulawayo City Council cleaner at Zulukandaba Primary School, has since brought his girlfriend into their matrimonial home.
Nyathi and Mlilo appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Miss Evelyn Mashavakure.
Mlilo told the court that she has been married to Nyathi since 1987 and they have five children.
“Your Worship, two of our children are minors and I live with them in our rural home, while my husband stays in our house in Makokoba but now he has a girlfriend. Whenever I come to visit with the children, my husband chases us out of the house, insults us, and sometimes assaults me,” she said.
“He chases me out while he lets his girlfriend stay at our house. He has been abusing me since 2004. The incident last occurred on 1 July where my husband chased me out of the house and verbally abused me resulting in me sleeping next door, while he enjoys with his girlfriend.”
Mlilo stated that the conduct of her husband was disturbing her peace and that of her children.
“I have been embarrassed enough. I pray that my husband be ordered not to chase me out of the house, not to insult me, and that woman who now stays in our house be ordered to leave,” said Mlilo.
Nyathi, however, denied the allegations and told the court that the woman his wife was referring to was actually not his girlfriend but his second wife.
“Madam, these are my two wives. I actually married them at the same time. It is not true that I am denying my wife access to the house, instead she leaves on her own,” he said.
Miss Mashavakure granted Mlilo the protection order and Nyathi was barred from harassing, assaulting and insulting her.
“If what your wife has said is true that you are harassing her. I urge you to desist from such practice. You are ordered to keep peace with your wife. You are not supposed to emotionally, physically and verbally abuse her.
“Lastly, I’m referring you and your wife for counselling,” said Miss Mashavakure.

ZimEye.com reveals footage from the cells at Machipisa Police’ Station where Itai Dzamara Prayer Rally attendants are currently held… just as the number continued to rise on Saturday afternoon –  FULL STORY – Click here to read–Police Raid Dzamara Rally, Arrest MDC-T Supporters:

 

LIVE UPDATE:  16:45 – The arrested are now being forced to pay fines on charges of “Public Drinking.” ZLHR lawyer Jeremiah Bamu tells ZimEye.com the police later became conciliatory and made the arrested pay fines. Still not clear how many have the money to pay and will be released.
16:28 – The number of the arrested continues to grow…is now more than 60 men and women. They are denied to see their lawyer, Jeremiah Bamu (ZLHR).
16:07 – A woman in her periods is stranded inside, and is currently begging for cotton wool. Police are ignoring her repeated requests.
16:01 – Another woman has stripped naked in protest. VIDEO LOADING
 
ZRP Cops have just raided worshipers and democracy activists just outside the Dzamara rally venue and arrested over 50 MDC-T supporters.
ZimEye.com can reveal over (50) fifty MDC-T supporters men and women are locked up at Machipisa Police Station at present (Saturday 1530Hrs).

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights advocate Jeremiah Bamu told ZimEye.com, “I am just getting to the police station right now,” he said.
Although Bamu was earlier told by the police the raid is disconnected from the Dzamara rally, ZimEye can exclusively reveal the arrest has everything to do with the rally as the people were arrested at the entrance to the rally and are all prayer-rally attendants. “Yes but current indications are that its nothing material and entirely disconnected from the prayer meeting,” Bamu said.
But upon a follow up with Machipisa Police Station, ZimEye.com was told the move was a deliberate on the rally to frustrate the Dzamara prayer. One of the incarcerated told ZimEye.com:
“We had just gone to get some food, where we were rounded up. They beat up some of us and put us into a truck.”
ZimEye can reveal the police have shifted statements on the reason they have arrested the activists and at the time of writing, Mr Bamu later said: “The police are saying they are yet to decide and are requesting for time.”
At 16:10 Hrs, Mr Bamu was told by the police that the charge is “public drinking.” But the large crowd of mature men and women seen by ZimEye had no alcohol at all on them.
 More to follow…

Expelled former Vice President Joyce Mujuru is missing at the Itai Dzamara prayer rally which started early Saturday morning, ZimEye.com can reveal.
It is 1330 Hours in Harare here, and Mrs Mujuru the topmost special guest is nowhere to be seen.