Joel Biggie Matiza has made it to become the new Zanu PF chairman of Mashonaland East after he beat five challengers yesterday.
The provincial chairmanship became vacant after businessman, Ray Kaukonde was expelled from the ruling party. There were also elections to decide who shall lead the women and youth leagues positions left vacant following the death of the party’s Women’s League chairperson, Aquelina Katsande, and the two-year suspension of Youth League chair, Luckson Kandemiri. Goromonzi East Legislator, Beatrice Nyamupinga, who was spared the axe by the Politburo last month over her possible links with Mujuru, was beaten by former senior police officer, Aplonia Munzveregwi-Chard.
Full Results:
A Chigwedere 2438,
S Maisiri 295,
JB Matiza 15126,
E Mbwembwe 8845,
S Mususa 92,
W Nyarugwe 662,
Women’s League ~ A Munzverengwi 5612 ,
B Nyamupinga 4386
 
 
Youth League
 
Bvunzawabaya 193,
Kahari1834, Maimba 279,
Mutsvairo 4436,
Mutyambizi 1364,
Ngondo 72,
Peyama 240

• Sex positions.
• Naked picture.
• Prophet begs young church girls for sex

Man of the cloth and man of the “broth” – fugitive preacher “Prophet” Uebert Angel has been exposed in a sex scandal with female church members.

The 37 year old preacher who makes church folk revere him under the title “Major Prophet”, and “Papa,” is currently under fire for other scandals some in which church members are threatened with eternal punishment if they dare query his conduct. He is now in the business of approaching young girls for sex.
ZimEye.com can exclusively reveal Angel (real name Mudzanire) is in secret prowls behind the walls to pleasure himself on unsuspecting girls.
One woman in her twenties (in Zimbabwe), was soon after a slopper, ordered to vocalise a denial as she said that the preacher did not rape her. But the same woman would in a different conversation with Angel’s Zimbabwe based former Chief of Staff, Terrence Madiro, acknowledge that she slept with the preacher. In the below footage she is heard affirming when told, “you are the ones who were laid, lets hope it was done when his health was well.”
In another case to do with another congregant based in the UK, Angel approached the woman, (Name Withheld), via the microblogging website Twitter and also via the Whatsapp network between the 10th July and October 2014, when he demanded of the woman to send a nude picture of her. He was throughout the period of his luring addressing himself as “Papa” when he also told the woman to inform him what “sex position” she prefers.
“Tell me what sex position you would like me to do you,” he wrote.
The digital communication records have been fully corroborated with the Twitter company for IP(internet protocol) authenticity. Although Angel attempted to destroy the records in their entirety, ZimEye.com was able to retrieve the full data cache including that from the Whatsapp network.
The full pack of shocking videographic evidence now compiled into a documentary is on the way to be broadcast while it passes through lawyers for redactions for the purpose of privacy concerns.
When contacted for comment by ZimEye.com, Angel dodged questions. However, on the day he was handed a final written request with evidence of his infidelity to his wife Beverly, an unrepentant Angel took to micro blogging site twitter to state that he was not bothered about what people say about him. To add salt to his wounded victims, he posted a picture of himself on a stationery chartered plane sitting with his wife’s brother in a rigid exterior to show he is still married to his wife.

Two people are feared dead after an elevator had a free fall twenty three floors down the NRZ building in Bulawayo.
Information currently trickling in at the site of the accident says that a female employee of the Bulawayo Beitbridge Railway Company housed on the 23rd floor of the building got into the elevator late yesterday evening upon knocking off from work and got stuck in the elevator before it could leave the floor.
The lady is said to have called the local technician from the elevator’s internal communication device. The technician managed to make his way into the lift but on trying to release the lift it lost grip and went on a free fall twenty three floors down.
Since the accident happened after hours no one in the building realised that an accident had occurred until 18 hours later when a colleague of the technician discovered his colleague was not available at his place of duty.
On checking the colleague’s log book that’s when he discovered that he had recorded a call for a stuck lift on the 23rd floor but there was no entry of the result of the accident call.
On investigation he discovered that the lift in question had thumped down to the basement.
Bulawayo fire and ambulance personnel and members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police are currently on site trying to retrieve the bodies of the deceased people.
Information is still coming through and this reporter remains on site as the events unfold.

Ever since controversial First Lady Grace Mugabe revealed that the country’s vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko take instructions from her, the two Zanu PF “strongmen” have become the butt of bad jokes at dinner tables and on social media.
And yesterday, stalwarts of the country’s liberation struggle joined the fray, describing President Robert Mugabe’s co-deputies — both of whom have until now been seen as tough and strong-willed personalities — as “weak pawns” who were allegedly clinging to their positions through “shameless bootlicking” of the nonagenarian’s influential wife.
Speaking during a ground-breaking ceremony for a housing project in Kadoma on Wednesday, Grace — who has no formal executive functions — surprised the gathered crowd when she disclosed that she often sat down with the two VPs, who were both present at the function, to tell them what to do.
“The leadership of VPs has changed. It is different because in the short time that these two men have been appointed to office, I cannot count how many times I have sat down with them and discussed the development of Zimbabwe.
“That is the leadership that we want, leaders who know they are servants of the people. They know they are there to work for the people and understand that they have been given jobs to work for the people.
“They know that they must sit down with Amai to discuss about developmental issues. I support that. VP Mnangagwa, I support that and am sure you have lost count the number of meetings we have had.
“This never happened in the past as there was a woman who wore dresses like me (former Vice President Joice Mujuru) but never came to me to discuss about the development of Zimbabwe.
“But I tell you, Mnangagwa comes with a notebook, Mphoko comes with a notebook to listen to me. They know I am younger than them but they appreciate that I am Amai and I have something to tell them about developing the nation.
“They will be taking down notes as I speak. I tell you, they will be jotting down notes as I speak so that the nation moves forward. I would like to tell them that I want that relationship to continue because that is the only way Zimbabwe can develop and become successful,” Grace said.
And as if to confirm the First Lady’s power over him, Mnangagwa appeared to ask for her permission when it was time for him to depart early for Harare, before the end of the function.
Former Presidential Affairs minister and close confidant of President Robert Mugabe, Didymus Mutasa, told the Daily News yesterday that he had never heard of a minister, never mind a VP, making a report to a First Lady or any other unelected official in his long tenure in government.
He also pointed out the fact that Grace was well below the VPs even within the post-congress Zanu PF structures as Women’s League secretary, which made it even more ridiculous that the VPs would willingly subject themselves to her at State level.
“It is a new type of democracy where two vice presidents report to a person who was not elected. This only started last year at the so-called December congress. I however do not think that this type of democracy will take us far and we now have to wait and see how this circus ends,” Mutasa said.
Grace, a former typist in the president’s office, entered Zimbabwe’s tumultuous political fray last year ahead of the party’s disputed congress, and was instrumental in masterminding the decapitation of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her allies — who have all since been purged ruthlessly from both the ruling party and government, amid untested claims that they plotted to oust and kill Mugabe.
Scornfully, Mutasa added that the behaviour of the VPs was “a clear negation” of the tenets of the liberation struggle which among other goals had aimed to bring “wholesome democracy” to the country.
“I believe people who died during the war were not fighting for this. I was not fighting for this, I was fighting for the freedom of the masses.
“I don’t know how these VPs think, although it is up to them to behave as they please because they are serving at the will of someone,” he said.
Reminded about freedom fighter Margaret Dongo’s famous words in the 1990s when she likened Zanu PF’s fawning bigwigs to Mugabe’s wives, Mutasa said tongue in cheek that he hoped Zimbabwe would not allow same sex marriage “because it could end up embarrassing us”.
Spokesperson of the “original” Zanu PF that uses the slogan People First, Rugare Gumbo — and the first of many senior officials to be expelled from Zanu PF ahead of its damp squib “elective” congress last year, said everything that was taking place was meant to reflect that the two VPs served “at the mercy of their masters”.
“They said they wanted to create one centre of power, and these two guys were appointed by Mugabe and his wife. Mugabe and his wife now do as they want.
“So we are not surprised because to all intents and purposes, these two VPs are ceremonial, they are lame ducks who can be fired anytime,” Gumbo said.
On her part, Dongo said she was so shocked by the revelations, that for once she almost felt “tongue-tied”.
“I am still preparing a comprehensive response. This is unacceptable,” she said.
In the early 1990s, Dongo caused pandemonium in Parliament after she called Zanu PF MPs, including cabinet ministers, “Mugabe’s wives”.
So incensed by the assertion was the late liberation war icon, Solomon Mujuru, who had by then traded his military uniform for a berth in the august House, that he wanted to beat her, insisting that he was his own man.
Zanu PF insiders also told the Daily News yesterday that the majority ruling party legislators and other party members who were seeking higher officer were also “behaving like the two VPs and reporting to Amai in order to get promotions and the president’s ear”.-Dailynews

Former Deputy Justice Minister Fortune Chasi has been roped into a senior parliamentary role.
Chasi who was ejected by First Lady Grace Mugabe last year after she publicly accused him of blocking her land grabs, has been appointed into the Parliamentary Legal Committee, a promotion he denied has anything to do with his former senior Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, as some reports allege.

Chasi will wield the influential role of formulating laws for both debate and passage.
ZANU PF’s chief whip Joram Gumbo confirmed the development. “Yes I can confirm Mr Chasi is now part of the committee since last week,” he said.
Chasi was last year randomly ejected from his parliamentary seat when the Joyce Mujuru purge began. He was then subsequently removed from his ministerial post. But he continued a strong bond with VP Mnangagwa and was not vindictive, a source said.
Chasi responding to reports has said Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has nothing to do with his appointment saying that it was rather the ZANU PF party which did.
He responded saying, “a somewhat misleading article has hit the airwaves over my appointment to the above Committee. The purpose of this post is to correct the impressions that may have been created by the article in question.

Harare preacher Emmanuel Makandiwa has admitted to his fake belly fat miracle in April. In a televised address, Makandiwa flanked by his staff admitted the video expose footage released by ZimEye.com is genuine apart from arrows pointing to his fraud. To add to this, the Kwekwe based woman under investigation, evaded supplying evidence she two weeks earlier claimed she possesses. SEE VIDEOS BELOW:

A CENTRAL Intelligence Officer (CIO) stationed at Parliament yesterday appeared in court facing charges of extorting $10 000 from a Kenyan national using the name of Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi.
It is the State’s case that Zvikomborero Walter Ngorima on Wednesday, went to Timothy Waweru’s residence in Highlands pretending to be seeking Benjamin Masyuku, who is a director of Inyaka Mine in Zvimba.
On being told that Masyuku was in the United States on business, the State alleges that Ngorima demanded $10 000 from the complainant saying it was for Mohadi and his deputy Ziyambi Ziyambi.
He said it was a bribe to facilitate Masyuku’s return after his deportation in 2013.
“Accused alleged that the two ministers were furious about Masyuku’s failure to honour his promise to give them a reward of $10 000 for facilitating his return to Zimbabwe after his deportation in 2013,” the State papers read.
“Accused then threatened the complainant that his failure to avail Masyuku or pay the money was going to result in him being deported by the immigration department or sent to prison.”
Waweru allegedly pleaded with Ngorima to go back and tell the ministers to wait for a week when Musyuku was expected to have returned to Zimbabwe.
Waweru then told his friend David Kurwaisimba about the incident.
Kurwaisimba is said to have approached Mohadi who denied sending Ngorima and advised the complainant to report the matter to police.
The State says it has evidence against Ngorima in the form of statements from five witnesses confirming his actions and audio recordings of the conversations he had with the complainant.
Magistrate Tendai Mahwe did not ask Ngorima to plead and remanded the matter to July 17. Newsday

Statements by South Africa’s opposition EFF leader, Julius Malema that President Robert Mugabe is not to blame for the problems in Zimbabwe and that he and other African leaders, with the exception of South Africa should rule for as long as they like are sickening as they betray either a serious lack of understanding on the Zimbabwean situation or a deep hatred for the people of Zimbabwe.
Malema is entitled to his opinions, but when he makes such inflammatory statements over a situation he does not have a full grasp of, it crosses the line.
It baffles the mind why he would absolve President Mugabe of all blame of Zimbabwe’s problems when he and his Zanu PF party have presided over the suffering of Zimbabweans through the mismanagement of the economy, corruption, violence and genocide over the past 34 -years. The country has been reduced to a vending economy due to catastrophic unemployment while millions of Zimbabweans have fled the difficult conditions to other countries, South Africa included, under President Mugabe’s watch.
What is so troubling and inexplicable about Malema’s remarks is that he makes it clear that democratic practices should only be applicable to South Africa and not any other African country. For him to say any other African leader with the exception of South Africa can rule for more than two terms is foolish and should not be coming from of a person who aspires to be a President of a country one day. As MDC we find it quite disturbing that Malema finds it palatable to condemn the rest of Africa to the whims of dictators while fighting against the same in his own country. His statements betray his selfishness, hypocrisy and a blatant disregard for the welfare of the rest of Africa.
As MDC we believe that as a continent, the day we begin classifying some countries as more worthy than others is the day we abandon our commitment for a just, prosperous and democratic Africa.
Kurauone Chihwayi
MDC Secretary for International Relations

Following the expulsion of Mr Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, David Butau and Ray Kaukonde respectively from both Parliament and the ruling party Zanu PF,the President Robert Mugabe has set September 19, 2015 as the date for by-elections for Mwenezi East, Mbire and Marondela Central.
Yesterday the Government Gazette published that President Mugabe said these seats became vacant after the three stopped to be members of the ruling party.
“I do, by this proclamation, order new elections for the constituencies of Mbire, Mwenezi and Marondera Central.
I do, by this proclamation, fix 19th day of September 2015, as the day on which a poll shall be taken if a poll becomes necessary in terms of section 46(17) of the Electoral Act.” said President Mugabe.
President Mugabe said the Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda notified him of the existence of the vacancies as set by the law.
Section 39(2) of the Electoral Act empowers the President to make a proclamation ordering new elections after receiving notification of a vacancy in the membership of Parliament.
In the proclamation, President Mugabe set July 20, 2015 as the date on which nomination courts shall sit to receive nominations from aspiring candidates for the three vacant constituencies.
The nomination courts will sit at Bindura Magistrates’ Court for Mbire, Masvingo Magistrates’ Court for Mwenezi East and Marondera Magistrates’ Court for Marondera Central.
The three former legislators were fired from the ruling party after they were linked to a cabal led by former Vice President Joice Mujuru that sought to topple President Mugabe from power at the 6th National People’s Congress last December.
In addition, the party has also expelled Dr Olivia Muchena and Mr Dzikamai Mavhaire, who are Senators.
The proclamation comes after Mr Bhasikiti, the erstwhile Mwenezi East legislator and Minister of Provincial Affairs for Masvingo, had taken the President to the High Court challenging his expulsion from the party.
Mr Bhasikiti’s case flopped after the court ruled that the matter had been overtaken by events after Adv Mudenda had declared the seat vacant when he received a letter from Zanu PF disowning him.
Mr Bhasikiti had also sought the Constitutional Court to bar the President from calling an election in his former constituency before the end of his case whereby  he was contesting his expulsion from Zanu PF.
High Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu on Wednesday reserved judgment in Mr Bhasikiti’s case challenge.
By-elections have already been conducted in Headlands and Hurungwe West constituencies after Zanu PF expelled former legislators Mr Didymus Mutasa and Mr Temba Mliswa respectively for their link to the cabal that sought to unconstitutionally remove President Mugabe.
Other by-elections were also recently held in 14 constituencies after the opposition MDC-T disowned its legislators who had joined the splinter Renewal Team.
All the by-elections were won by Zanu PF after the MDC-T boycotted them on the grounds that it wanted electoral reforms first.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Rita Makarau said Zanu PF had nominated  Kereniya Uta to fill the vacancy in the National Assembly following the death of  Annastacia Nyahwo.
Nyahwo held the seat as one of the party-list members.
Justice Makarau said anyone wishing to object to the nomination of Mr Uta may lodge their objection with the ZEC Chief Elections Officer.

Ousted ZANU (PF) Harare provincial chair Goodwills Masimirembwa has been embodied in a $3 million dollar scandal from the government’s vehicle parastatal CMED.
Sources close to the investigation told ZimEye.com Masimirembwa allegedly abused part of a $10 million grant which was extended to CMED by the Central Bank to recapacitate the ailing company.
“The net is closing and very soon Masimirembwa will be summoned to the courts of law to answer the allegations,” said one of the sources investigating the case.”
Masimirembwa was once Robert Mugabe’s highly trusted man until the Joyce Mujuru purging began last year.  He was axed on allegations of factionalism and attacking Mugabe and also allegedly misleading vice president Phelekezela Mphoko on who should be the party’s candidate for Harare East in the June 10 by-elections.
More to follow…

THE Officer-in-Charge of Guyu Police Station in Gwanda allegedly raped his subordinate after proposing love to her for two years with no luck.
Inspector Smart Dickens Siziba, 46, allegedly pounced on a general hand working in his office and raped her after putting on a condom.
His trial is set to start on July 27 before senior regional magistrate, Trynos Utahwashe.
The State led by Robin Mukura alleges that sometime in 2012, Insp Siziba proposed love to the rape victim and she turned him down.
“Insp Siziba kept on calling the woman and would sometimes send her love messages on her mobile phone but the woman continuously rejected the proposal. Sometime between January and February 2013, Insp Siziba summoned the woman to his house and she complied,” said Mukura.
He said at around 8PM, Insp Siziba met the woman at the door before they both proceeded into the house.
“While in the passage, Insp Siziba got hold of her right hand and led her into his bedroom. When they entered the bedroom, Insp Siziba was quick to undress and he started to caress the woman, fondling her breasts in the process,” Mukura said.
He said Insp Siziba overpowered the woman who vainly tried pushing him away.
“Insp Siziba pushed the woman onto the bed and she fell on her back. He then forcibly lowered her trousers and tore her panties in the process. He then took a condom which was under his pillow and put it on. While he was busy putting the condom on, the woman got off the bed, dressed up and walked towards the door,” Mukura said.
“He grabbed the woman and pushed her back onto the bed and raped her once. After raping her, Insp Siziba escorted her to the gate. On the following morning he summoned her to his office and told her the rape incident was their secret but the woman divulged the information to her friend.”

Parents or guardians who accept lobola from men seeking to marry girls under 18 years of age could in future face prosecution, together with their children’s suitors, if a motion before Parliament is approved and incorporated in the statutes.
In the debate on a motion which began on Thursday, legislators want the age of marriage for both males and females raised from 16 to 18 years.
Senators across the political divide this week questioned Prosecutor-General Mr Johannes Tomana’s recent sentiments that children aged 12 years could get married if they were idle.
Midlands Senator Lilian Timveous (MDC-T) is steering the motion in the Upper House calling on Government to enact and enforce laws that raise the age of marriage to 18 for both girls and boys.
While the laws are meant to protect both sexes, it is girls who are the most affected by child marriages due to economic circumstances, culture, religion and abuse by male adults.
Sen Timveous called for urgent re-alignment of existing laws to the Constitution.
“The Marriage Act Chapter 5.11 is unconstitutional because it allows marriage for people below the age of 18,” she said.
“Sections 20 and 22 of this Act say, “a girl between the age of 16 and 18 can marry with the consent of her mother or father”.
“The Customary Marriage Act, Chapter 5.07 is also unconstitutional on the basis that it does not provide for a minimum age of 18 years for marriage.”
Mashonaland Central Senator Monica Mavhunga (Zanu-PF) said under the envisaged dispensation, men who marry children under 18 years would be prosecuted.
“If a person is engaged in child marriage, one should be given a deterrent punishment,” she said.
“All those people who agree to these early child marriages should also be taken as accomplices and be sentenced as well because they are equally guilty.”
Chiefs representative in the Senate, Chief Musarurwa of Mashonaland East, trashed Mr Tomana’s sentiments, saying anyone who married a 12-year old girl was a rapist.
“As a mother, does it not affect you to accept that lobola?” he said. “That is witchcraft. You are bewitching your own child by carrying out such practices.”
MDC-T Senator for Matabeleland South, Sithembile Mlotshwa, supported the motion, saying there was need to protect girls.
“I think 18 years still is not enough for the girl to consent to marriage because marriage is a very serious affair where you need to have your act together, where you need to exactly know what you are supposed to do,” she said.
“I really believe Zimbabwe must take a leading role in Africa by showing that it is taboo that young girls are being married. Africa is the worst place when it comes to the child marriages.”
Senator Alice Chimbudzi of Zanu-PF (Mashonaland Central) added: “My question is, how beautiful is a 12-year old child and why should that child be betrothed to a man?”
Mr Tomana torched a storm when he reportedly said children should be allowed to choose marriage as an option if they were idle.
Many Zimbabweans reacted angrily to Mr Tomana’s remarks and called for his resignation. First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe this week joined the debate, saying Mr Tomana’s comments were irresponsible.

Government has increased the mandatory blending ratio of unleaded petrol from 10 percent ethanol to 15 percent with immediate effect following significant improvement in supplies of ethanol from Green Fuel.
The move is likely to see a decrease in the pump price of the blend which is currently pegged between $1,46 and $1,53 per litre, depending on location.
Energy and Power Development Minister Dr Samuel Undenge announced the new ratios in a Government Gazette published yesterday.
“It is hereby notified that in terms of section 4(1) of the Petroleum (Mandatory Blending of Anhydrous Ethanol with Unleaded Petrol) Regulations, 2013, published in Statutory Instrument 17 of 2013, as amended by Statutory Instrument 81 of 2014, the Minister approves the current level of mandatory blending to 15 percent,” reads part of the gazette.
“The blending of ethanol and unleaded petrol at E15 is now sustainable because there is now adequate supply of ethanol to sustain blending at the 15 percent level.”
The blending ratio was reduced from 15 percent to five percent in December last year due to low sugar cane supplies from Green Fuel, which is the country’s sole ethanol supplier.
This was after the company faced challenges in harvesting the cane due to water clogging.
Green Fuel is a joint venture between the Government through arda and two private investors Macdom and Rating.
Arda board chair Mr Basil Nyabadza is on record as saying the company was keen to reach 20 percent ratio before the end of this year.
Green Fuel initially projected that by 2018, it would have completed the construction of Kondo Dam, which is worth $300 million and also employ 36 500 people.
It is no longer certain if Green Fuel would be able to sustain the demand of ethanol after it emerged that there is a mass exodus of employees at the company due to erratic payment of salaries.
Sources said the company owes its employees salaries for the past six months.
As a stop gap measure, Government last year, contracted Triangle to temporarily supply ethanol after Green Fuel failed to meet the increasing demand on the market.

Three children died this Thursday after their house was gutted by fire in Epworth.
A two year old died on the spot while a six year old and a nine year old died on admission at the hospital.
Harare province police Acting Spokesperson Assistant Inspector Simon Chazovachii said the fire was caused by a candle which was left burning while the children aged 2,6 and 9 we left alone in the house.
Police say no foul play is suspected but urged the public not to leave children unattended.
This week a fire destroyed former RBZ Governor Gideon Gono’s house and destroyed property worth thousands of dollars.
Last month, property worth thousands of dollars was destroyed when fire gutted the house of businessman Philip Chiyangwa in Borrowdale.

Barely two days after First Lady Grace Mugabe spoke out against rapists and paedophiles, another rapist has reportedly been arrested in Mutare for abusing girls some who were 10 years old.
The arrest of Vengai Chimombe (33) of House Number 104 Muchena, Sakubva is likely to clear a litany of rape cases that hogged Mutare’s oldest high-density suburb in recent months, the State Media reports.
His arrest comes at a time when ZANU PF for Kambuzuma Tinashe Maduza was yesterday on the run for similar offences.
Luck ran out for the married suspect, who had managed to evade law enforcement agents for close to two years, when a 10-year-old victim spotted him at a busy market place in the suburb.
Upon seeing the person who forcibly deflowered her, the girl screamed, alerting residents who subsequently gave chase as Chimombe took to his heels.
Although he managed to escape, his cover had been blown off as residents got to know that Chimombe was the person behind the serial rape cases that had literally sent parents into panic mode.
Detectives then lied in ambush at his house, leading to his arrest.
Speaking at Sakubva Police Station, the suspect who is married with two daughters, narrated his modus operandi.
He appeared to have lost count of the number of girls he allegedly raped.
“I started raping these girls last year. I lured them into mountains. I don’t know what evil spirit had corrupted my mind to act the way I did. I pretended as if I needed assistance from them after which I would rape them. I only failed to rape one girl, who fought to free herself. She fought hard and I became powerless to rape her.
“When I raped the last victim, my wife had spent a month away from home. In the process of raping the girl, she soiled herself and I left her lying unconscious and bolted from the scene,” he said.
He became speechless when asked how he felt if his two daughters were to face the same abuse he perpetrated on the girls.
“It will hurt me and I would not like anyone to do that to my children,” he said.
Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Inspector Enock Chishiri said an identification parade was quickly conducted at Sakubva Police Station after his arrest, where four of the victims positively identified him as the perpetrator of the sexual abuse.
Detectives who witnessed the identification parade said it was a painful sight as the young girls wept uncontrollably when they set their eyes on Chimombe.
“They vividly remembered him as the person who abused them,” said a detective who requested anonymity.
Insp Chishiri said Chimombe pounced on the girls since last year.
“He would target his victims in bushy areas along the Mutare-Beira Road near Valley Lodge as well as near Mutare Teachers’ College en-route the Dangamvura Link Road. On August 24 last year he met a 15-year-old girl along Beira Road near Valley Lodge. He pounced on the teenager, grabbed her and raped her once.
“In February this year on an unknown date, but around 7am, he approached a 13-year-old girl near Mutare Teachers’ College. He offered to give her $2 if she assisted him to go and carry some goods. Along the way he went to Nyakamete Hills where he raped the unsuspecting girl once,” said Insp Chishiri.
On May 18 around 6am, he met a 10-year-old Sakubva girl on her way to school near Mutare Teachers’ College and lured her to a mountain which lies between the Grain Marketing Board premises and Fern Valley. He raped her once.
“On June 21 at around 12pm he met a 14-year-old girl and lied to her that he wanted to collect some goods at Gimboki South Housing Scheme in Dangamvura. He offered the girl $2 for assisting him. While on top of Dangamvura Mountain en-route Gimboki, he grabbed the girl, tied her legs and raped her once. In the process of raping the teenager, she soiled herself, but he went on to wipe clean the girl with a doll she was carrying and continued to sexually abuse her.
“She became unconscious. The girl, who was left for dead, was only helped by a woman who had gone up the mountain for afternoon prayers. She carried the unconscious girl down the mountain with blood stains all over her clothes. The matter was reported at Sakubva Police Station. Four days later, one of the victims spotted the accused in Muchena where he resides. After his arrest he admitted to all the charges. He is assisting us with investigations,” said Insp Chishiri.
Chimombe was expected to appear in court soon.-Manicapost

Clashes between housing cooperatives in Harare South and Ruwa have continued unabated with the latest clashes resulting in members of the Solomon Mujuru and Shingiriro housing cooperatives clashing in a log fight resulting in a shooting which left a dog dead.
According to the ZRP National Spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba, members of Ruwa’s Solomon Mujuru Housing Cooperative led by Oswell Gwanzura and Petronella Kagonye aligned Shingiriro Housing Cooperative this Thursday morning, engaged in a fight following the removal of pegs from the disputed Solomio Farm by Kagonye’s faction of youths on Monday.
The melee resulted in a dog dying from a gunshot when Kagonye’s body guard fired a shot at the Gwanzura aligned youths.
Meanwhile, Harare South Housing Union, the Apex Board and Hilarious Housing Cooperative also clashed this Thursday morning over allocations and evictions, with the squabble only calming after the involvement of security forces.
The three parties however say they have resolved their differences, citing miscommunication as the cause for the disturbances.
Of late, Harare and its surroundings has seen an influx of leadership wrangles and land ownership, with unregistered cooperatives putting up Zanu PF and national flags on unsanctioned land, and using party senior officials to authenticate their settlements. -ZBC

More police corruption on the roads is expected after Zimbabwe’s poorly-paid police forces stationed at various camp outposts joined teachers in being forced by government to pay rentals for their staff accommodation, ZimEye.com can reveal.
The rentals, range from $20 to $40 while those for teachers are $50 to $150.
Cops at Queenspark Police Station in Bulawayo were yesterday threatened if they do not pay, ZimEye.com can reveal. But Bulawayo’s Queenspark like many others in the country, is notorious for poor sanitary conditions amid a dying infrastructure.

In a separate investigation by a local daily, Newsday, reporters found that teachers are also on the line to be strangled by government for rentals.
Although Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora said he was not
aware of the matter, teachers’ unions said workers from the Ministry of Local Government had already visited several government schools to assess the state of the houses in order to come up with the appropriate rental charges.
Some teachers at government schools in Mbire district claimed their houses had already been assessed. “No, I am not aware. I will get the permanent secretary to check with her counterpart,” Dokora said last Thursday.
Teachers’ unions said they would express their concerns to the parent ministry when they meet government this week. Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe chief executive officer Manuel Nyawo said some government schools had always been paying nominal rentals and the “astronomical” hike of rentals on the poorly remunerated teachers was a cause of concern.
“We are in possession of a paper from government signed by the Local Government permanent secretary Engineer George Mlilo. We are surprised by the move and we are surely going to table it before the Apex Council meeting with government next (this) week,” Nyawu said.
Apex Council is the umbrella body for all civil service workers’ representatives. Mlilo said he was attending a funeral and would welcome questions today.
“We don’t see the rationale for levying teachers’ rent, a teacher naturally should be accommodated by the school. We would appreciate if the government had increased salaries substantially. Where does government want our colleagues to fork out the rentals from?” Nyawo asked.
Teachers in Zimbabwe are among the least paid in the region, with most of them earning well below the poverty datum line of $600. The development comes after Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa last Wednesday ruled out any civil service salary hike this year citing a serious cash squeeze.
Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe national co-ordinator Ladicious Zunde said it was disturbing that the Local Government ministry had bypassed line ministries.
“What the Local Government ministry was doing was a clandestine move to rob teachers of their hard-earned cash,” Zunde said.
Zimbabwe Teachers’ Union chief executive office Sifiso Ndlovu said: “The issue is typical of unfair practice on the part of government. We cannot have some teachers pay rent while others do not pay.
“This will divide them. There is no equitable treatment of civil servants. In terms of equality and values, it is not sustainable. Government has not increased salaries and they increase and introduce rentals on teachers, this is an oxymoron. The issue is under discussion at the National Joint Negotiating Council where government has raised it and as unions, we have also raised our concerns. The Local Government ministry should have been working with other ministries.”
The government has been experiencing serious cash flow problems that has seen it changing its workers’ pay date, threatening to scrap payment of bonuses and in January increasing rentals by 100% for all those civil servants who stay in government accommodation. Some of the teachers who spoke on condition of anonymity said they would consider securing cheaper accommodation away from the schools.
The new lease agreement forms given to teachers to sign were headed, Institutional and Pool Houses-Flats, Agreement of Lease entered between Local Government, Public Works and National Housing ministry.
Under the new terms, teachers would no longer be allowed to do any commercial activities at the premises, and not more than 10 people would be allowed to stay under one roof, including religious gathering, while it will also be an offence to keep the property infested with cockroaches, beetles, bees, fleas and rodents.

Chiredzi based journo Patrick Chitongo who was slapped with a one year jail term, was yesterday released on bail.
Chitongo who the State claims published a newspaper without registration, was released on bail pending appeal following intervention of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.

They announced Thursday afternoon: “We are glad to advise that detained freelance journalist Patrick Chitongo has been freed on $200 bail after his lawyer Martin Mureri of Matutu Mureri Legal Practitioners, a member of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights applied for bail pending appeal of both conviction and sentence.”
Meanwhile earlier on Chitongo’s co-accused were acquitted after the court found that they were college students who did not have a say in the paper’s publication.
Chitongo denies the charges, saying the publications were dummies he intended to hand in to the media commission for registration.
Under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, journalists have to register annually with a government-appointed commission and publishers need to have a registration certificate.
More to follow…

HARARE Civil Court magistrate Trevor Nyatsanza yesterday presided over a matter where a woman accused her husband of routinely dipping a cooking stick into her private parts to “check” if she had indulged in sexual encounters with other men.
The woman, whose identity has been withheld, shocked other litigants in court when she revealed that her husband, Everson Godhini, was in the habit of physically abusing her and accusing her of messing up their family toilet.
The woman took the matter to the civil court seeking a protection order against her husband.
In her submission, the woman also accused Godhini of having an extra-marital affair with another woman who at one point also assaulted her with the help of her friends.
“He sometimes assaults me to the extent of choking me and I have even reported him to the police on several times and they now know him for that.
“Apparently, I continue to stay with him because he begs me to stay,” she told the court.
The woman also told the court that Godhini sometimes orders their children to lock her outside her matrimonial home while calling her all sorts of names and even labelling her a thief.
However, Godhini denied the allegations telling the magistrate that they only had an argument once following an incident where she left home at around 3pm claiming to have gone to attend a church service and returned home around 7pm.
He said he later seized her phone to check who she had been communicating with and that the move did not go down well with her as she became aggressive.
This, Godhini said, was after he had seen a text message where the sender had called his wife “honey” and also informing her that he was at the meeting place they had agreed.
“When I asked her who this was she was defensive and told me that at least she did whatever she did away from our matrimonial home,” Godhini said.
The court ruled in the woman’s favour and granted her the protection order.-SouthernEye

Zimbabwe is one of the top 10 unusual holiday destinations where the terror risk is low, a leading UK paper has said.
In its ranking of destinations, the Telegraph newspaper placed Zimbabwe fifth behind Mongolia, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Cambodia.
It said while the UK Foreign Office warns about mugging and pickpockets, the terror risk in Zimbabwe was low.
“All of us were conscious of the political difficulties in Zimbabwe, its history of violence and continuing human rights issues,” said television presenter Charlotte Hawkins who visited the country for Telegraph Travel last year.
“What convinced us was the glowing testimony of people who knew Zimbabwe well, in particular their stories about how hard the safari companies worked to protect natural habitats and support local communities.”
The ranking will come as a plus for the country’s efforts to woo tourists. The Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality Industry seeks to grow tourism receipts to $5 billion by 2020 aided by favourable government policies.
According to statistics from the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) Tourism Performance in 2014, tourism receipts were down 3% to $827 million in 2014 from the previous year despite an increase in arrivals, a reflection of a decline in expenditure. In 2013, the sector recorded receipts of $856 million.- SouthernEye

Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo has met his sudden disappointment and there is no more going back on the axing of Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi.
Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni on Thursday said he does not care about Local Government and National Minister Ignatius Chombo’s reactions over his decision to remove “corruption suspect” Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi.
Speaking during a meeting with residents, Mayor Manyenyeni said,
“I did not consult him. What I did was to copy him the suspension order,and there has nothing which has changed from my decision.”
National Vendors Union chairperson Sten Zvorwadza said since Mahachi’s ouster last week, Chombo is planning to reinstate him like he did last year. SEE-Drama as Chombo Reverses Harare Town Clerk’s Suspension.
“We are calling for a Press Conference tomorrow to forewarn Dr Chombo as regards the Town Clerk’s suspension. As usual he is planning to re-engage him back. . . . Vendors are planning to protest against such decision because vendors suffered a lot under his leadership as Town Clerk…
 
Zvorwadza told ZimEye.com that
“Vendors lost their goods running into tens of millions US dollars equivalence over the past 16 or so years.. These goods can not be accounted for, meaning kuti vaigovana zvavo. . That is the angle we are coming from… Mahachi is corrupt end of story.. Only to mention this one..! Koo tikazotaura zvekuisa maSpace Barons across Harare Districts for the benefit of him and his Party… Koo tikabatana nemaResident Trusts over abuse of service delivery funds.. haadzoke.. hatichamuda.. Leaders should be accountable to the people they lead.”

VICE PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has opened war on First Lady Grace Mugabe by dismissing Zimbabwe’s most powerful woman’s declaration on Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana’s future.
Mai Mugabe yesterday concluded that Tomana must go as he is a pervert. She added she would herself even kick him out at the function where Mnangagwa was also present and was said to be taking instructive notes from her.
Tomana is under fire for saying last month that girls as young as twelve can marry.
 
Mnangagwa addressing parliament Thursday said the man is “going no- where”.
Speaking in response to MDC-T MP for Glen View North, Fanuel Munengami, Mnangagwa replied saying, “Mr. Speaker Sir, the problem is that the hon. member did not make a follow up on the subsequent discussions on the issue on whether Mr. Tomana was really guilty of the offence.
“Nobody took into account the explanation given by Mr. Tomana that he was misunderstood and that his speech was misinterpreted,” he said.
He added: “Therefore, there is no case against him because he said he was misquoted. It is only that we are two different people; if I see something in the press, I do not believe it straight away but take it with a pinch of salt.
“I would therefore advise my fellow honourable members not to take everything at face value because one day you will be in the papers being blamed for murdering your own mother.”
It was not clear at the time of writing if Mnangagwa is to suffer the same fate as former Vice President Joyce Mujuru who was expelled from ZANU PF.

The new ZANU PF MP for Kambuzuma, Tinashe Maduza has disappeared.
ZimEye.com can reveal Maduza, 26, is on the run after police went after him on charges of sexually abusing several underage girls.
His disappearance came barely 24 hours after First Lady Grace Mugabe announced she would personally kick anyone found to be abusing young girls.[READ MORE – Grace Mugabe Opens Fire On Paedos]
Arriving at his home on Thursday afternoon, neighbours were found exclaiming how his absence has become the talk of the entire community in just a few hours.
Maduza (pictured) won the recent by-elections for the area in last month’s polls.
He is the chairman of the Graceland Housing Co-oporative.  He is  also the chairman of ZimAsset Housing Union which incorporates 15 housing co-operatives.
He also features as the vice chairman of the Zanu-PF Joshua Nkomo district youth wing among several other portfolios within the party.
More to follow…

A BRAWL over a missing $2 note ended tragically on Sunday afternoon after an angry Hobhouse man set a wooden cabin on fire resulting in a fierce fireball that killed one person and seriously injured another.
The shocking incident sent tongues wagging in one of Mutare’s fast-growing high-density suburbs.
Abshalom Chitsiku died on admission at Mutare Provincial Hospital after sustaining serious injuries all over his body, while another unidentified victim is battling for his life at the provincial referral centre.
Four others escaped with minor injuries
The suspect, Rodrick Pfungwa Murorwa (28), has since been arraigned before Mutare senior magistrate Mrs Sekai Chiwundura facing murder and attempted murder charges.
He was asked not to plead and was advised to apply for bail at the High Court since he is facing a Third Schedule offence.
He will be back in court on routine remand on July 6.
Mr Shepherd Chawarika prosecuted.
The court heard that Pfungwa kicked a burning paraffin-fuelled stove in his wooden cabin while his eight friends were seated on the bed following a misunderstanding of the missing $2 note.
The stove exploded and torched the cabin, resulting in the occupants being trapped in the raging flames.
Six people, including Murorwa, escaped with minor burns and two others were seriously burnt.
Although police confirmed the death of Chitsiku, they were yet to identify the names of the victims who were injured in the inferno.
The awful incident happened at House Number 1943 Hobhouse 2, at around 11:30am.
Assistant Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Muzondiwa Clean said investigations were still underway.
“We can confirm the death of Abshalom Chitsiku. We are digging deep into the matter to ascertain what really transpired at the house. We urge people to resolve disputes amicably than resort to violence,” said Ass Insp Clean.
According to neighbours and residents who witnessed the tragic incident, the razed wooden cabin had nine people inside — seven men and two women.
“We gather that Pfungwa had a misunderstanding with his colleagues over a missing $2 note. In fact, the guys had just been paid their dues at their workplace. He reacted by kicking the stove and that set the house on fire,” said a neighbour who requested not to be mentioned by name.
In an unrelated incident that happened in Dangamvura, four commercial sex workers in the Federation section of the suburb who lived together in a small cabin will live to regret snatching a client from fellow ladies of the trade last Saturday night after their rented apartment was set on fire the next day.
The four, who were only identified by their neighbours as Mary, Fadzi, Lorraine and Ruvimbo, were understood to have lured an unidentified cash-flaunting client last Saturday night at a local night club.
Apparently the client had been attached to a different clique of sex workers during the same night.
This did not go down well with the losing crew, who then decided to take the war to the quartet’s doorstep the following day.
Neighbours interviewed by this publication said the four sex workers have since been rendered homeless and were left with nothing, but only the clothes they were putting on when their cabin was set on fire.
“There are four sex workers who reside here and they had a scuffle over a client last Saturday night at a nearby bar. The next day, which was a Sunday, their rivals came and assaulted them.
“In fact, one of the girls who live here sustained a deep cut on the hand after she was stabbed by a knife. The other one sustained head injuries during the fight. After the four who live here were overpowered, their cabin was set on fire.
“This happened in full view of all surrounding neighbours and passers-by. We are not sure where they (the four) went after the incident, but are certain that they were left with nothing except the clothes that they were wearing on Sunday,” said one male neighbour who chose to speak on condition of anonymity.
By the time of going to Press it was not clear if the four had lodged a complaint with the police.
Police could neither confirm nor deny the incident.
“We do not have that report from Dangamvura,” Asst Insp Clean.
The four sex workers could not be reached for comment as they had deserted their rented cabin by the time this news crew visited their place on Monday afternoon.
The Federation section of Dangamvura is widely referred to as KumaMahalape, owing to its squalid conditions.-ManicaPost

• Step-Dad says “I don’t know.”
• Baby crying uncontrollably with hands on her private parts.
• White semen on the thighs and private parts.
• Child’s vagina producing a bad smell.

It was a blessing in disguise that a Chiredzi woman forgot a towel on her way to the well as she, on coming back allegedly discovered that her two-year-and-three-months old baby had just been raped by her step-father in whose custody she had been left.
The baby was crying uncontrollably with her hands on her private parts and when the accused John Chisasa (33) was asked about the baby he allegedly said he didn’t know what had happened to her.
However, the mother checked the complainant and noticed that she had white fluids identical to sperms(semen) on the thighs and on her private parts.
The local Mirror reports that Chisasa who resides at Village 3B Ruware in Chiredzi appeared before Regional Magistrate Collet Ncube facing a rape charge.
It is a State case that on November 1, 2014 Joyce Maredza left the complainant with the accused as she proceeded to fetch some water.
After walking for a while, Maredza noticed that she had forgotten a towel so she turned back and found the complainant crying.
On November 7, 2014 Maredza realised that the complainant’s vagina was producing a bad smell and took her to Chiredzi General Hospital for medication.
At the hospital the complainant’s mother was informed that the girl was raped and there was need for a Police report. Maredza then reported the matter to Mkwasine ZRP. The child was examined by a medical doctor and a medical report was produced in court as an exhibit.
The State was represented by Sophia Bhusvumani. The case will continue on July 1, 2015.-Mirror

Godwin Gomwe, the notorious former Zanu PF Harare provincial youth chair and seven others  accused of stealing $46 000 from  eight housing cooperatives in Glen Norah using First Lady Grace Mugabe’s name, were supposed to appear in court yesterday but had his lawyer getting extra time to prepare.
Advocate Thembinkosi Magwaliba who now represents Gomwe, stated that he  received State papers very late and was not able to prepare a  defence  for Gomwe.
“I do not understand why the State is in a hurry to proceed with this matter. My client has a right to choose a lawyer of his own and I need ample time to explain the charges to him.
“Proceeding with this matter today jeopardises the first accused’s right to adequately prepare for trial,” he said.
Prosecutor Ms Venencia Mutake argued that Adv Magwaliba was deliberately delaying the commencement of trial.
“They were served with the State papers on time this is just a delaying tactic. The State is prepared to start the trial today,” she said.
Magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe, ruled in favour of Adv Magwaliba and postponed the matter to July 9.
“It is clear that you have to take instructions from your client and you also need ample time to craft a defence outline for the accused in order for justice to prevail,” he said.
Gomwe alias Mambo (34) is jointly charged with Muchineripi Mupindu alias Ginya (36), Fidelis Ndaradza alias Brigadier (32), Haruwandi Munyawiri alias Baya (46), Hamphrey Madenyika (29), Josephine Hadziindi (59), Norah Toronga (38) and Moses Handiseni.
The other seven are being represented by Mr Shelton Mahuni of Mahuni and Matutu Attorneys. They are all facing three counts of extortion.
The State alleged that on February 11, housing cooperatives namely NRZ, Mudadirwa Zvobgo, Tenzi Tinzwei, Spring Field, Archgrace, Palmar Vision, Westgin, First Avenue, Green Image and Ingoni, all registered under the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises, were allocated 300 residential stands by the City of Harare.
Gomwe allegedly mobilised 30 youths and proceeded to the construction site and informed them that the land once belonged to the late Amai Sally Mugabe. Gomwe added that the land was owned by Amai Grace Mugabe before he was chased away.
On May 10, Gomwe and his accomplices went back to the site ordering them to leave.
He insisted that the land belonged to the First Lady.
A fracas ensued, prompting the complainants to approach the High Court for a provisional order authorising them to develop the land.
Gomwe allegedly mobilised 80 more youths and forcibly removed the complainants from the site. They demanded four stands or $20 000. However, Archgrace Housing Cooperative was not included because its members were police officers.
Operations were stopped after complainants failed to raise the money. This did not go down well with Godfrey Chivasa, the chairperson of Perfect Hope Housing Cooperative because he had already given the suspects cash and 19 stands as kickbacks.
The suspects were given another $25 000.
The complainants were ordered to affiliate to an unregistered consortium named Dr Amai Grace Mugabe to avert further trouble.
Each cooperative was to pay $120 as joining fee and was issued with receipts inscribed Amai Dr Grace Mugabe Housing Consortium.
Handiseni stopped operations again saying Gomwe had not benefited from the $25 000 they had paid.
The complainants offered $5 000, which Gomwe said was not enough for a senior official like him and demanded $10 000 more.
The money was allegedly handed over to one Kuda, who is said to be the president of the Zimbabwe Council of Students Union (ZICOSU) who later handed it over to Gomwe. -State Media

VOA|Harare in the 1980s was affectionately referred to as the sunshine city because of its cleanliness.
The city was orderly with well-maintained roads, bright street lights and clean running water and the blooming jacaranda trees also gave the it a unique view.
But things have taken a bad turn as the city has been decaying since the 1990s. Buildings are now resembling a war zone and children hang around on street corners with nowhere to go and homeless people tell stories of disease and crime.
These pictures reveal real-life scenes from an urban area hit-hard by the recession and still stumbling dangerously into poverty. What has gone wrong in Harare?
Until the late 1980s, the government supplied safe drinking water to 85 per cent of Zimbabwe’s urban population. But decades of neglect and corruption have left the pipes dry, forcing many people to drink contaminated water. A cholera epidemic in 2008 killed more than 4,000 people and sickened another 100,000 in the country.
TOWN CLERK SUSPENSION
Though Harare has not been spared from the economic crisis Zimbabwe in general is going through, many residents allege that the political logjam at town house has worsened the situation. Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo is alleged to have taken sides with Town Clerk, Tendai Mahachi, who is being accused of refusing to work with the opposition MDC mayor Bernard Manyenyeni.
On Tuesday Manyenyeni shocked fellow councillors and residents by announcing that he was suspending Mahachi indefinitely accusing him of refusing to furnish council with the salary schedule for the city’s top executives. Asked by Studio 7 to elaborate, Manyenyeni said he was not at liberty to do so.
This is not the first time that Manyenyeni has tried to suspend Mahachi as he did it last year and Chombo rescinded the decision. Studio 7 asked Manyenyeni if he had sought Chombo’s approval this time around.
Attempts to get a comment from Chombo and Mahachi were futile as they were said to have been locked in an emergency meeting.
RESIDENTS FUMING
But deputy mayor Thomas Muzuva shot down reports that Manyenyeni has engaged lone ranger tactics in suspending Mahachi without the knowledge of fellow councillors.
Groups representing residents, the Harare Residents Trust (HRT) and the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) both welcomed the decision to suspend Mahachi. Director of the HRT, Precious Shumba, accused Mahachi of stifling development in the city.
Chairman of the CHRA, Simbarashe Moyo, concurs.
Mabvuku resident, Acqulina Manyeruke, told Studio 7 that residents of Mabvuku have gone for years without running water and they have to resort to other means to get the precious liquid.
The cash-strapped Harare City Council has also resorted to attaching and auctioning the property of defaulting ratepayers in a bid to recover over $340 million owed in unpaid rates. Goods being attached include fridges, sofas, generators, television sets, microwaves and bicycles, among others.
Shumba says the move is insensitive.
UNEMPLOYMENT
But Muzuva says the city has no choice as it has to provide services to the residents.
The daily struggle for survival in an economy with unemployment estimated at close to 90 percent has created another problem for Harare as an estimated 20,000 vendors have invaded the central business district, making it an eye sore. Critics say this is a symptom of a collapsing state, where political infighting and corruption are keeping people in poverty and misery.
Many blame the political bickering at town house for the decay of a city once regarded as a model for a post-colonial city in a developing nation.-VOA

A GWERU man went berserk and butchered his wife ripping off her chest in a gruesome domestic violence case.
Felix Chimwanda of Ascot high-density suburb allegedly left Agnes Makuvise for dead.
Makuvise narrated her ordeal from her hospital bed.
“I was at home in the evening with my young sister whom l stay with. My ex-husband came to my house and asked that we talk outside. We then started talking while walking towards Ascot Stadium. He suddenly drew a knife and stabbed me. He wanted to slit my throat but l managed to fight him,” she said.
“I then passed out and only woke up in early hours of the morning and l crawled more than a kilometre to a nearby road so that passers-by could help me,” she said.
Midlands medical superintendent Dr Fabian Mashingaidze confirmed that Makuvise was admitted at the hospital with severe stab wounds.
Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko could not be reached for comment.
Makuvise sustained deep cuts at the back, on her face, hands and a deep laceration on the chest as a result of the assault.

Great Zimbabwe University and the Zimbabwe Chiefs’ Council have agreed a landmark deal that will see the institution of higher learning offering free law courses to 272 chiefs in the country as part of efforts to improve justice delivery at the lower-tier level.
The inaugural group of chiefs to undergo law training is expected to start classes at the beginning of next year with graduates receiving certificates after 12 months of academic drilling in basic law.
The studies will be conducted at GZU’s Herbert Chitepo Law School that was officially opened by President Mugabe at the end of last year.
In an interview on Tuesday, Dean of the Faculty, Mr Victor Nkiwane said plans to train traditional leaders in law were now at an advanced stage.
“We are close to concluding our discussions with the leadership of the country’s traditional leaders while at the same time working on the subjects that will be taught because we want the chiefs to also have a say on what they will be taught,’’ he said.
“The courses will be done over a year with graduates getting certificates. We decided to offer the courses to our traditional leaders for free because they play a key role in the country’s justice delivery system,’’ he said.
Mr Nkiwane said among the courses to be taught was an Introduction to Law, Ethics and Court Procedures to help the primary courts to handle cases better.
“Traditional leaders play a key role in the administration of justice and we will teach all the country’s chiefs in batches because we want uniformity in the way our traditional leaders handle cases at their courts,’’ he said.
Zimbabwe Chiefs’ Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira said there was need for more recognition for the role played by traditional leaders in the country’s justice delivery system.
He said besides imparting legal skills to traditional leaders, there was also a need to avail more resources to traditional courts to improve their operations.
He said an estimated 60 percent of all court cases in Zimbabwe were handled by traditional leaders at their primary courts every year.
Traditional leaders have come under fire for abusing traditional courts by handing unrealistic sentences, a practice partly blamed on the chiefs’ ignorance of the law.

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe who led a cyclonic tirade to remove former vice president Joice Mujuru has opened fire on prosecutor general Johannes Tomana.
Grace yesterday offered no forgiveness for the government prosecutor saying she would personally herself kick him out for his sin of calling for child marriage in saying that girls who are as young as 12 can become mothers.
Fingering him out as a paedophile, the First Lady said people who believe children as young as 12 years can consent to sex should be fired from their posts as they were a national curse.
Mrs Mugabe has previously said that men who sleep with children should have their manhood removed to punish them.
She said people cannot make such statements and then turnaround and claim they were misquoted.
“We need people who talk sense not to say I was misquoted. Why say it in the first place?” Grace said in her address in Kadoma, speaking at the commissioning of earth moving equipment worth $3 million and a ground-breaking ceremony for the Macsherp Housing Scheme.
“We don’t want people who get carried away while at work. If you don’t know what to say, just shut up, go home and drink tea with bread in silence.”
To wild applause from thousands of people gathered, she added: “We don’t want our country to be tainted in that way. That’s madness, and that person should be fired because his behaviour is rotten.
“If you see someone saying that [a 12-year-old can consent to sex], he’s a pervert. He’s the one in the business of abusing children because a rational person, someone who’s in charge of his mental faculties would never say that. Tinokubhutsura isu vanaMai Mugabe kana zvatisvikira [We’ll physically kick you out ourselves].”
Chronicle journalists say that after receiving brickbats from all corners, Tomana has dug himself into a hole, threatening The Chronicle, The Herald and The Sunday Mail insisting that Zimpapers was in a conspiracy to get him fired.
When offered an opportunity to clarify his recorded statement, an audio of which is online, he refused.
A furious Grace said paedophiles had no place in society and reverse the gains made by President Mugabe in encouraging children to go to school.
“After all this, someone says one can sleep with a 12-year-old. That is foolish!,” she said yesterday.
“We don’t want that. We want to raise our children in a normal way and they should go to school.”
Tomana told State Media journos that girls who are out of school, even as young as nine, should be allowed to think “in the direction of getting married”.
He said: “It’s assumed that the girl child’s independent decisions start at an age that those that are speaking want to fix [16], but if you go out there you’ll find out that some of them may want to start out [having sex] in life early.
“We’ve nine-year-olds, 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds who aren’t not in school, who aren’t doing anything for example. What are we saying to them? Then we say you can’t even do this [have sex], when the environment is not giving them alternative engagements? What are we talking about?
“… to simply say ‘no such and such conduct for any girl say below the age of 16’, I think we’ve not asked ourselves what we’re saying about that girl who would rather prefer to lead their life in the direction of getting married.”

Property worth thousands of dollars went up in smoke today at retired Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono’s house in Borrowdale.
This is the third time mysterious fires have attacked the former Central Bank boss two others having been at his farm.
A double storey house worth more than $200 000 was razed to the ground and only the intervention of the Harare Fire Brigade service prevented further damage.
Below are pictures taken by the Daily News:
More details to follow… – DailyNews

• Jukwa access entry
• Disappear without explanation.
• Will Gen.Nyambuya now bring Itai Dzamara out?

THE SEARCH for abducted activist Itai Dzamara took a twist on Wednesday morning when top Ret Army General Mike Nyambuya stepped in.

 
Gen Nyambuya who shoved himself into a heated parliamentary debate discussing Dzamara and other human rights issues, appeared prepared to address public concerns on abductions.
 
He was chairing the thematic Committee on Human Rights discussion in session on Wednesday. The hot convergence continued into mid day and was still in session at the time of writing.
 
Gen Nyambuya(pictured) appeared to be interested in hearing concerns but was dismissed by participants.
 
 
Jukwa Entry
General Nyambuya is the one through whom Jukwa character Edmund Kudzayi was given entry into ZANU PF a development that eventually elevated him to the position of Sunday Mail editor. Nyambuya was also once Governor of Manicaland before being made Minister of Energy and Power Development in 2005. He was later in the 2008 parliamentary election beaten by the MDC-T’s David Anthony Chimhini.
 
 
Disappears without explanation
 
 
But no matter what his background is in ZANU PF Nyambuya remained speechless when he was told the ZANU PF run country is now a fear ridden nation where people disappear without explanation, shortly before attendants say, his outward expressions exposed him.
Elasto Mugwadi, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) Chairperson blasted  him saying, “I have stopped opening my email because I can not finish reading them. It needs me the whole year to read them and its a shame that in a highly securitised nation like ours a person disappears without explanation” he told Nyambuya.
 
Will Nyambuya change anything?
As the session continued Zimbabweans present joked with each other if Nyambuya would do anything to reveal Itai Dzamara’s whereabouts and to change Zimbabwe’s human rights record. He was exposed by his self evident facial expressions- SEE PICTURES … More to follow…
 
 

 

POLICE in Bulawayo are cracking their heads as they try to solve a cryptic puzzle where school pupils disappeared mostly in Emganwini and Nkulumane on a monthly basis for a period stretching from February to May.
Yesterday, State journalists published the story of three pupils that went missing in the city under different but equally baffling circumstances. The police said they were searching for Nontobeko Yolanda Nkomo, 10, of Nkulumane 12, Alington Shereni, 15, and Cyril Ndlovu, 15, both of Emganwini.
Now police have added a fourth name: 18-year-old Thabo Ncube, a former Founders High School pupil from Emganwini. Inspector Mandlenkosi Moyo said Thabo went missing on February 12, a day after telling family members he was going to his former school to collect his O’ Level results. That was the last they saw of him.
Cyril Ndlovu, 15, a Form 3 pupil at Hamilton High School, also from the same suburb, went missing on March 1. Insp Moyo said: “Thabo Ncube is of medium built, about 1,7 metres tall, dark in complexion. He was last seen at around 10AM on February 12 going to collect his Ordinary Level results at school and never returned home.”
Cyril was last seen on March 1 at around 8.30AM. He was wearing a green T-Shirt, a black track bottom and Adidas takkies. Police are also searching for two other missing children, Nontobeko Yolanda Nkomo, 10, of Nkulumane 12, Alington Shereni, 15, of Emgwanini. Nkulumane and Emgwanini, which are neighbouring suburbs, are under Nkulumane Police Station’s policing radius.
Nontobeko, a Grade 6 pupil at Mgoqo Primary School, went missing on May 26 and Alington was last seen on April 30.
Said Inspector Moyo: “Nontobeko Nkomo is medium built, about 1.2m tall, dark in complexion. She was last seen on May 28 wearing a bottle green pair of trousers, bottle green jersey, bottle green blouse, black shoes, green socks and a green woollen hat. She was carrying a pink and grey satchel.
“She was last seen at around 9AM on May 28.”
The Bulawayo police spokesperson said the second child, Alington, a boy, was last seen on April 30 at around 8AM. He said Alington is about 1.2m tall, light in complexion, and of medium build.
Alington, a Form 2 pupil at a college in the Bulawayo city centre, left home after he was sent to buy bread at a local grocery shop.
“Alington was last seen wearing a white vest, brown bottom and blue shoes. We’re appealing to anyone with information on the whereabouts of the four missing children to contact the nearest police station. Alternatively, they can contact ZRP Nkulumane on landline 09-481145.”
Tsebiso Ncube, Thabo’s father, told journalists that his son’s disappearence was traumatising family members.
“My son left home on a Tuesday morning going to collect his results. He came back later in the afternoon saying he had failed to get them because he owed the school a textbook which he shared with his friend who stayed in Nketa,” Ncube said.
“On the following morning, his mother gave him transport money to drop off at his friend’s place so that they go together to the school and solve the textbook issue. That was the last we saw of him.”
Thabo’s mother, Botshiwe Ncube, said she called the school and teachers confirmed that Thabo had indeed passed through the school but did not collect his results.
“We confronted the friend who denied sharing a book with Thabo. The boy said he had last seen him on the day they wrote their last examination paper. We then reported the matter to the police.”
Friends said Thabo was a “quiet and reserved boy”.
At the home of the other missing boy, Cyril, his brother, Sipho Ndlovu, told journalists that when his young brother went missing he was not at home. He, however, said that their mother told him that Cyril had left home in the company of their neighbour identified as Handsome.
“She said Cyril left home with Handsome and they seemed like people who were on their usual errands, but he never returned home. The following morning, we heard that he had slept over at Handsome’s place, which is a few houses from ours,” he said.
“When we asked Handsome’s uncle of the two’s whereabouts, he said Handsome had left for Inyathi while Cyril is alleged to have told him he was going to South Africa. Sometime in May, we heard that the two had been seen at Amarula Night Club in Emganwini where it’s alleged they told patrons they were now working at a mine in Inyathi.”
Sipho said the family got really worried when Handsome returned home without Cyril. Handsome told the family that he was by himself when he went to Inyathi. “Handsome said he was never in the company of Cyril. He said they parted ways when he went to Inyathi while Cyril headed for South Africa,” said Sipho.
Irene Shawarira, Nontobeko’s mother, told journalists on Monday that her daughter had left for school as usual and she was expecting to see her later at home.
“Ntoe left for school in the morning and at around 9AM I received a call from her teacher informing us that she hadn’t returned to the classroom from the grounds,” said Shawarira.
“We tried to look for her around the school. We even asked her friends from school but they didn’t know where she had gone.”
Shawarira said she called in the police who have been searching for her since.
Alington’s mother, Lavender Kumire, told journalists that she had no idea about the whereabouts of her son.
She said: “I gave him $5 and sent him to buy bread at around 8AM on April 30. He never came back.
“I noticed after about 30 minutes that he was not yet home. I sent his siblings to check on him at the shops but they couldn’t locate him.”
She said she got worried and decided to go and look for her son on her own, but it was in vain.

A top US and senior Congressman has derided MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s recent boycott of elections and Tsvangirai’s plot to withdraw his MPs from parliament, while directly ridiculing him for his altering of the party’s constitution so he can rule it forever.
Early this year Morgan Tsvangirai ordered all his MPs to withdraw from parliament. This came at a time when the opposition leader also pulled his party from the race for the just ended by-elections which have seen Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF gaining its first stronghold majority since independence in 1980.
Tsvangirai then launched an anti MP crusade against his legislators who campaign for their seats with their funds and the party gets the glory. The move which was seen to be contemptuous of Tsvangirai’s faithfuls led to them vocalising, “we even bring to the party the only money there is from the government Political Parties Finance Act share; The party is really a franchise that we trade under and fund.”
The MPs yesterday however received a boost US Congressman Gregory Simpkins, a director in the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organisations, who sharply criticised Tsvangirai’s moves.
He said that opposition parties cannot make it until they stand out to fight the system from within, adding that stay aways are only counterproductive.
“Oftentimes we have heard the opposition saying it is tough to compete, they have to find a way of being effective rather than just saying it is too tough to compete so we are not going to take part. If you do not take part in an election process, how can you criticise something that you did not even test?” Simpkins said.
He added, “when you test the process you can say we tried to register our candidates or observers were turned away, you can point to examples. If you are not a part of it at all, then it is as good as there is no opposition.”
Simpkins arrived in the country for a fact-finding mission to identify ways of mending relations between Harare and Washington.
He continued,“for us sometimes the Democratic Party or the Republican Party is successful, sometimes they are partially successful. When we lose we do not take to the streets, we do not always go to the courts, we do not get angry, but we go back, consider what happened and prepare for the next election and that is what you have to do.”
He also appeared to directly knife Morgan Tsvangirai whose party is now under his sole control after he altered its constitution, saying the US political system was not built on personalities.
“However, when you start a political party in a country that is relatively new, very often the personalities override the ideology of the party, people vote for the person, ethnic groups. You feel that you started something and think that you best understand how things are supposed to be done, but over time you realise that does not work,” he said.
“It takes time and African countries are not going to do that overnight either. It takes time for people to realise that it is not all about me.
“I think there is a lot of frustration on losing elections and the thinking that the people leading the party are not serving their interests so they leave thinking they can do it better.”

• I am not afraid
• I do not even have a traffic offence
• Reporter may have written what they wanted

 
FORMER Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa has vowed he was ready to go to jail for spilling Zanu PF secrets after his ouster in December last year.
Mutasa has been warned in the State media that he risked arrest for allegedly violating the Official Secrets Act after he revealed that Zanu PF rigged the 2013 harmonised elections. State media roped in political analysts who said the former Zanu PF secretary for administration was sworn to secrecy when he served in government and cannot divulge them after he was fired.
But Mutasa told the daily NewsDay the government would need to prove its case before a court of law.
“I am not afraid of being arrested as long as they tell me my crime,” he said. “There is also the issue of whether what was reported is what I said. The reporter may have written what they wanted and not what I said. I am a law-abiding citizen and I do not think there is anyone like me. I do not even have a traffic offence.”
The former Zanu PF strongman two weeks ago was quoted saying Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives were deployed in all sectors of the economy to gather sensitive information.
“Of course, you know that some waiters in hotels work for the CIO,” he was quoted as saying. “Your phones are listened to a lot. The CIO is huge and it produces many reports. From the UN (United Nations) there will regularly be a report. A report about the British. Or India. Not very good reports really. I had to read them. They made me tired.”
This, according to the State’s so called “legal experts”, exposed the government’s security apparatus and made it “vulnerable”. Section 4 of the Official Secrets Act makes it a criminal offence for any person who has in his possession or under his control any secret official code, document or information that has been entrusted in his confidence to him by a person holding an office in the service of the State; or has obtained; or has held office in the service of the State to communicate or publish it to any person.
The offence carries a 20-year jail term and if found guilty, Mutasa, who seemed unfazed, could spend the last years of his life in jail.-Newsday

Zimbabwe’s Minister for Small Enterprises Sithembiso Nyoni caused a scene yesterday when she arrived more than 90 minutes late at a function for an unveiling of an $8million cash injection for youth business projects.
The fund donated by the US, UK and Swedish governments and set to benefit 22500 young jobless Zimbabweans, saw the function’s speakers having to alter their speeches at the last minute to facilitate the late Minister.
When she finally arrives towards sunset, she neither apologised nor explained the reason for her delay despite having been pre-informed several weeks before Tuesday.
Her speech was loaded with gasps of expressions on how suspicious government is of donors and international organisations entering in to assist government.
She told delegates she had to defend her work with the International Youth Fund, “when I was defending my ministry’s partnership with IYF(International Youth Fund), I convinced the committee that we were going to work very hard and very well. I had to convince the committee to pass this partnership through and then I said if you see an international organisation signing an MOU with a government ministry it means they mean business to develop that country alongside that government and the people”. READ MORE – ZimAsset Massive Breakthrough $8Million Cash For Jobless Youths…

United States president Barack Obama has “humiliated” president Robert Mugabe by deliberately fronting away from the ageing 91 year old during his African Union visit.
The US government has made it very clear that while Obama is visiting  African Union bosses, their president has yet no plans whatsoever to meet the pivotal head of the AU, Mugabe.
 
This comes at a time when Mugabe publicly mocked Obama on gay rights at the weekend by inviting the US president to propose love to him.

 The US embassy indicated Obama has no plans whatsoever to meet Mugabe.
They replied inquiries saying, “President Obama will meet with AU leadership. However, we do not yet have any further details about those meetings,”
“What we do know is that this visit underscores US efforts to work with the countries and citizens of sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate economic growth, strengthen democratic institutions, and improve security.
“The visit will represent President Obama’s fourth trip to Africa since becoming President. He will travel to Ethiopia following his visit to Kenya for bilateral meetings,” the Statement read.
When contacted for a comment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed they have received no invitation from the US government for Mugabe’s presence to meet Obama. Foreign Affairs Perm Secretary Joey Bimha told reporters, “at present we have not received yet any indications on that. You all know that the AU Commission led by Ms (Nkosazana) Zuma) basically runs the AU,” he said.
Obama’s visit to Africa is geared at cementing US relations and cross continental investments while also focusing on the implementation of democracy in the nations.

A man appeared in court yesterday accused of striking his cousin and killing him using a knobkerrie following an argument over an exchange rate of US dollar to the South African Rand.
Lenin Mhlophe, 23, of Sibantubanye Village in Filabusi allegedly killed his cousin Mmeli Tshili, 21, last year on July 1st.
He appeared before Justice Lawrence Kamocha at the Bulawayo High Court facing murder charges.
Prosecuting, Nokuthaba Ngwenya described what happened on that evening at Mphehlane Nightclub at Vocola Business Centre in Filabusi while the pair were watching a match on the television.
The court was told  that the two cousins  decided to go outside to play snooker while listening to music played in the bar from Mhlophe’s mobile phone memory card.
Tshili liked  the music and quickly  offered to buy the memory card from Mhlophe.
“Tshili bought the memory card from Mhlophe for $6 and expected to get $4 change from R100,” said Ngwenya.
An argument started when Mhlophe gave Tshili only $3  stating that the exchange rate for United States dollar and the South African rand was not 1:10 as he claimed.
His continuous demand for his $1 angered Mhlophe who then dashed  back into the nightclub to fetch a knobkerrie which he used to hit his cousin Tshili on the  head.
“Mhlophe took his knobkerrie and hit Tshili on the head once and he fell to the ground. He ran away from the scene leaving his cousin lying unconscious,” said Ngwenya.
Tshili’s uncle, Majaha Masuku, testified in court, saying he tried to perform first aid  on Tshili before his nephew was rushed to Filabusi Hospital where he  then was referred to the United Bulawayo Hospitals.
“Soon after committing the crime, Mhlophe took his bicycle and disappeared into the dark.
I tried to perform first aid to my nephew, but this didn’t work and he  bleeding from his nose and head,” said Masuku.
Two days later the court heard  how Tshili’s condition got worse and he died .
A post-mortem report said the cause of death was intracranial haemorrhage, depressed skull fracture and blunt force trauma.
Mhlophe’s lawyer,Caroline Mudenda, defended  him saying  he only acted to defend himself.
“I didn’t intend to kill Tshili but I only acted to protect myself.
Tshili was the aggressor and I only reacted after he had pushed me against the wall and that’s when I struck him with a knobkerrie,” argued Mhlophe.
 

The District Development Fund has been rapped for failing to account for fuel worth $1,6 million amid indications that individuals within the entity were drawing huge quantities of fuel equivalent to an allocation of a Government ministry, an audit has revealed.
Auditor-General Mrs Mildred Chiri said there was rampant abuse of fuel by officials and more than 6 000 litres of fuel drawn in one month could not be accounted for. This is contained in her 2014 audit report tabled in the National Assembly recently by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa.
“Officials drew excessive fuel during the month of December 2012 and it was not clear what the fuel was being used for. In some instances the same officials would draw fuel which in other ministries or Government departments can be allocated for the whole month, but in the case of DDF, the fuel would be drawn once or twice a day,” said Mrs Chiri.
“I was concerned that officers would use the same vehicle or change vehicles more than once per day to draw fuel. For example, the officers at some point would withdraw 550 litres of fuel indicating that the fuel was used to fill a certain vehicle and when in reality no ordinary vehicle has fuel tanks with a capacity of more than 180 litres.
“In total 6 242 litres of fuel were consumed for bulk withdrawals for the month of December 2012. This was attributable to lack of an effective documented system of fuel allocation, coupled with weak supervisory controls.”
Mrs Chiri said there was a risk that without effective control system, fuel could be used for personal benefit at the expense of fulfilling objectives of the organisation. In response, DDF said the nature of their jobs required a lot of fuel.
“Issuance of fuel to management as observed by audit is project and assignment-based because of the nature of operations that call the same manager to be always on the move throughout the country supervising the projects or on administrative assignments,” read the brief response by the DDF management.
“The management response falls short of addressing the issue of fuel policy or regulating the fuel usage. Fund records do not show the project for which the fuel will be drawn to ensure proper accountability,” said Mrs Chiri while commenting on the response given by DDF.
On management of fuel, Mrs Chiri said during the year fuel amounting to $2,4 million was procured yet only $829 333 worth of fuel is accounted for leaving a balance of $1,6 million.
“The fuel shortage worth $1 581 359 should be investigated and conclusive action should be taken to avoid a similar situation. The Fund should consider migrating to a computerised fuel management system,” she said.

A PASTOR at Kingdom Fellowship Church who impregnated a 15-year-old girl after making her believe he was testing her virginity has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Elisha Persuade Nhando (40) admitted to impregnating the minor when he appeared before a Harare magistrate. He claimed they were lovers. Nhando yesterday pleaded guilty to having sexual intercourse with a minor.
Mr Tendai Mahwe sentenced him to three years in prison before setting aside one year on condition of good behaviour. In passing sentence, Mr Mahwe said cases of pastors abusing their duties were rampant hence the need to pass a deterrent sentence.
“Accused person you took advantage of the minor who looked up to you as a father-figure and abused her. Cases of pastors raping or abusing women and children are on the increase hence a clear message needs to be sent out there so as to deter offenders.
“Also you are a married man and your actions show that you only wanted to use the minor. After all, why did you take her from her parent’s house on the guise that as a pastor you wanted to take care of her. This is wickedness,” he said.
In his mitigation, Nhando pleaded for the court’s leniency arguing that he was in love with the minor thinking she was 17-years-old. In Zimbabwe, the age of sexual consent is 16. Pastor Nhando adopted the minor in October last year.
In January this year, the man of cloth proposed love to the minor and she accepted the proposal.
The following day Pastor Nhando took advantage of his wife’s absence and went to the sitting room where the complainant was watching television.
He told the girl he wanted to check if she was still a virgin. Pastor Nhando said the only way to do so was by inserting his manhood into the girl’s privates. He then slept with the minor and warned her not to tell anyone.
The pastor slept with the girl on several occasions thereafter leading to her pregnancy. The girl’s mother reported the matter to the police leading to Nhando’s arrest. The girl is now four months pregnant.

Harare Town Clerk, Dr Tendai Mahachi has been suspended indefinitely.
Harare Mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni made the announcement while concluding a full council meeting Tuesday evening, citing what he described as a standing ethical issues.
This is the second time Mahachi has been pushed off work and last year ZANU PF Local Government Minister, friend to Mahachi, Ignatius Chombo, budged in, using his muscles and forcibly reinstating Mahachi amid a cloud of discontent over the matter. SEE VIDEO:

The ZANU PF controlled State Media yesterday claimed Councillors were as equally shocked with the decision as Dr Mahachi was ousted last night. Deputy Mayor, Councillor Thomas Muzuva was quoted saying they were never consulted on the matter.
After some probing from the media, Mayor Manyenyeni revealed that the indefinite suspension is to pave way for the succession issue and the thorny issue of hefty salaries for executives.
Mahachi said the organisation had been working on a succession plan, but queried the Mayor’s decision, saying it does not make legal sense.
Meanwhile, Mrs Josephine Ncube will be the Acting Town Clerk.

A STORY CIRCULATING on social network Whatsapp that a Maranatha school bus was Tuesday afternoon involved in an accident “40 minutes ago” and  17 children died on spot, has been dismissed by the school administration.
The accident was said to have occurred at a location between Westgate & Westlea, between Cotswold Hills and Ashdown Park.
There are two Maranatha schools in the Mabelreign area, and the largest one dismissed the report as they also confidently declared that it could neither have happened for the other one which is called Maranatha Preparatory school.
When contacted, a school administrator at the school which is near Kirkman, along Harare Drive told ZimEye.com there is no truth in the rumour. “I am afraid it is not true,” she said.
She also added saying she was on Tuesday afternoon being harassed by telephone calls from parents seeking out on the school children.
“All our buses are safely back at the school and are parked at the parking bay,” she said.
Of the other school, the Maranatha Preparatory School  she said the accident could not have happened because that school does not have a bus, as she suggested that the small kombi they possess would not accommodate 17 children.
ZimEye.com failed to obtain a comment from the Preparatory School since their numbers could not be found in the telephone directory.
More to follow as the events unravel

ZANU PF Information Secretary Jonathan Moyo was on Tuesday afternoon hit by a second round of humiliation from president Robert Mugabe over his ministerial axing last week Moyo has been claiming was only a temporary event.
Since the day he was booted from cabinet last week, Jonathan Moyo’s clique of handpicked editors have been busy with inking everywhere that the man will be returning in a few days time.
But a week later Mugabe crushed all hopes.
Cabinet was conducted as normal on Tuesday as Mugabe ridiculed Moyo by furthermore proceeding without a single mention of him. The man’s conspicuous absence plus his volcanic disgrace last week all wormed against his reputation as somewhat also confirmed by Presidential Spokesman George Charamba.
Contacted for a comment, Robert Mugabe’s spokesman appeared set to reply ZimEye.com during an exclusive interview when upon hearing Jonathan Moyo’s name, he abruptly ended the interview.
“Did you say you are inquiring on Professor Jonathan Moyo?,” was all he said, before speedily ending the interview without announcement.
Close ZANU PF sources say Mugabe has already made up his mind against Moyo and has another person in mind to appoint to the Information Ministry. The reason why he changed his mind on Moyo was that security chiefs had become increasingly uncomfortable with Moyo’s media muscles as he was now deemed more powerful than army boss General Constantine Chiwenga.

The gay community is up in arms with the state weekly newspaper The Sunday Mail over its recent reportage on a Zimbabwean man who changed sexuality. 
In a statement to ZimEye.com, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe said the coverage of Tatenda Zenzo Karigambe also known as Tatelicious who the paper referred to as a “liar” and “thief”

after quoting anonymous psychologists and sources, incites violence against the gay community.  
According to the Sunday Mail of 28 June unnamed Tatenda’s Budiriro high density neighbours said “she” was gay as opposed to being transgender. 
Tatenda was reported by the media recently as having had under gone sex change operation at a cost of about $80,000. 
“GALZ does not condone acts of providing false and misleading representations or deceptive manipulation of the media that might give rise to misleading conclusions about issues,” GALZ said. 
“Such actions might have the potential to motivate violence on a vulnerable community. 
“We call upon service providers such as psychologists to treat all people with respect and without judgment”. 
Transgender people GALZ said suffer from discrimination when they approach health care centres seeking for treatment. 
“They are often mistakenly labeled as gay/lesbian. Being Transgender is not about sexual preference, it is about gender.
“Service providers seem to know about gays and lesbians; however they have little or no knowledge of transgender people. They often conflate, transgender lives and experiences with those of gay and lesbian people”.
 

At a time when Zimbabwe’s vendors need community support….

…A new gangrenous cancer is fast ripping apart industry and trade – Zimbabwe’s vendors have complained of the rising discrimination on the grounds of a person’s perceived allegiance to First Lady Grace Mugabe in this new phenomenon now labelled “Graceism.”

Vendors whose total number makes up Zimbabwe’s entire voting population, are being denied registration access on the grounds of their expressed allegiance.

ZimEye.com interviewed National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe chairperson Stendrick Zvorwadza who confirmed the development. “It is indeed true, vending in Zimbabwe is heavily politicised by Zanu PF; Zanu PF induces fear to citizens as a measure to subdue them into submission,” said Zvorwadza.
He continued, “their message is that, if you do not align with Zanu PF, you automatically fall outside their deemed protection zone. In order to enjoy freedom of trade you have to pay protection fees to their Space Barons, who are allowed to own council land for free.
“These Space-Barons are ordinarily above the law in Zimbabwe because ZRP senior officers operate within Zanu PF ranks.
“This is a well designed corrupt system bent to disadvantage those who have democratic, progressive and forward thinking. National Vendors Union Zimbabwe holds a view that such systems in Zimbabwe must be fought and dismantled.
“This is why NAVUZ is in full gear providing civic education to citizens across the country a clear cut tool to fight the institution of oppression that is deep rooted in some of our fellow Zimbabweans. Against all logical thinking, Zanu PF recently founded an organisation by the name ‘Queen of Grace ZimAsset Trust’ as an intimidatory strategy, but this came a bit too late because vendors in Zimbabwe now fully appreciate that the ZimAsset that they so talk about once promised us 2.2 million jobs but to date not even one single job was realised.
“To this end, vendors now have clarity in some clusters within and outside urban centres that livelihood is protected in our constitution on sections 13(1)a, 14, 24, 57(c) and 64.
“Our members now believe in standing firm to resist any shenanigans aimed at disadvantaging them. We view of the aforesaid, we remain resolute and steady fast in pursuing non violent methods in dealing with our ever decaying systems of our government. Unfortunately, these Zanu PF aligned Space Barons are now leading the shambolic registration process that is aimed at having records of Street Vendors mainly in Harare. So far, they are refusing to register anyone without traceable Zanu PF links, either by way of showing a card issued by Queen of Grace ZimAsset Trust or a direct referral by senior Zanu PF bigwigs.
“It is a shame and unthinkable. As a non partisan Union of Vendors, we encourage our members not to be influenced by these toxic ideologies.”

Local Government and National housing Minister Ignatius Chombo is desperately needed to move in to act on Gwanda Council’s perennial failure to handle the fire service.
Local residents headed by the prolific Bekezela Fuzwayo have opened up a dossier proving how the council is “useless” in dealing with disasters and they are now appealing to government for urgent help. At least 10 people have been killed by Gwanda fires in a series of accidents  the council could have easily averted but allowed to happen.
Wrote Fuzwayo, “in the worst incident to date, a couple of years back about ten lives were gruesomely lost when a truck and a smaller vehicle had a head on collusion a few kilometres out of town and, as always, all our Emergency Services could do was to hopelessly stand by and watch while people and the vehicles burnt to ashes.
“It is with these continuous disasters and failures by our council in mind that as residents of Gwanda then find ourselves living in fear with no guarantee that our lives and properties are safe in the hands of our council’s emergency services department.
“We are wondering how many more lives and how much more property should be destroyed before we can all say “enough is enough” and bring this to an end.
“Of major disappointment is that all these losses happen as our council continues declaring that it has acquired state of the art fire fighting equipment and that the staff has been provided with the best training available.
“Residents have been shocked time and again to see our fire fighting teams arrive to the scene of a fire failing to operate the fire fighting equipment and/or showing a complete lack of skill and knowledge on how to fight the fire.
“After the recent fire at Power Sales, as Residents representatives in the company of some key stakeholders from the town, we invited council to a round table to discuss our preparedness to these disasters with a hope that a collective strategy would be formulated therefrom but council was not prepared to have the dialogue and dismissed the invitation as being unwarranted.
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President Robert Mugabe, has challenged President Barack Obama by asking his hand in marriage, in his weekly radio interview with the State Media on Saturday.
“I’ve just concluded since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people and enjoys an attractive countenance thus if it becomes necessary , I shall travel to Washington, D.C. , get down on my knee , and ask his [Obama’s] hand,” said Mugabe deriding U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling making same-sex Marriage a Right Nationwide.
“I can’t understand how this people dare to defy Christ’s explicit orders as our Lord prohibited mankind from sodomy,” said the old recalcitrant Zimbabwean leader in an interview with ZBC radio station, adding, the American Government is run by perverts, Satan-worshipers who insults the Great American nation.
The American tradition and heritage was based on lofty Christian principles, added Mr. Mugabe, but to the detriment of this great nation, America’s corrupt political elite is acting according to their diabolic whims.
Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage, the first ever from a sitting president, came amid growing pressure for the president to clarify his previously muddled opinion, as two senior members of his administration announced personal support for gay marriage and a day after voters in North Carolina approved a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
The statement brought an immediate reaction from his prospective opponent at home as well.
“My view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman, and that’s my own preference,” Mitt Romney said at a brief news conference in Oklahoma City after Obama’s remarks were released. “I know other people have differing views — this is a very tender and sensitive topic, as are many social issues. But I have the same view that I’ve had since running for office. I shall end this mockery.”
Romney backs a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and was opposed to the Massachusetts state court decision legalizing gay marriage issued while he was governor.-MaraviPost/additional reporting

A NKAYI father yesterday withdrew a criminal case against a relative who raped his 12-year-old daughter saying the family had agreed to settle the matter out of court.
In an affidavit submitted before regional magistrate Abednico Ndebele, the rape victim’s father said he wanted the matter to be withdrawn.
The girl was allegedly raped by her 18-year-old cousin and the teenager was caught committing the crime by their aunt. “I’m the father to the complainant and I hereby wish to drop the charges against the accused because both these teenagers are school going children and their future is at stake. They’re related and we suspect they engaged in sexual intercourse out of ignorance,” he said.
“We sat down as relatives and resolved to settle this matter out of court.” Magistrate Ndebele accepted the withdrawal application.
The State led by Concilia Ncube said that on May 22 at around 10PM, at a homestead in Nkayi, the girl was asleep in a hut with her aunt and seven other cousins of different ages.
“The cousin then entered the girl’s blankets and allegedly raped her once while she was asleep. Her aunt saw the boy coming out of the blankets and she questioned him about his mission and he didn’t respond satisfactorily,” said Ncube.
“When he had left the blankets, the aunt went to the girl and found her asleep. She then noticed some semen on her thighs and buttocks and woke her up immediately.”
The family reported the rape to the police the next day and the girl was taken for medical examination.
The teenager was arrested and the father withdrew the matter before the alleged rapist could plead.
Local gender activist Lindile Ndebele rubbished the withdrawal of the rape charges saying the application was a violation of the girl’s rights.
“I wonder what the girl’s mother is saying in all this and I doubt if ever she was given a chance to contribute to this whole withdrawal decision. We’re only seeing the girl’s father, a man who sought withdrawal on behalf of the girl,” said Ndebele.
She said the fact that the cousin was aged 18 means he is an adult who should be tried in a court of law when he commits a crime.
“Rape is a serious crime and no one should be allowed to withdraw cases against rapists even in cases involving relatives.
“They may want to convince themselves that the issue will be solved at the family level but what about the girl’s emotional and psychological wellbeing. She is only 12 and who knows what will become of her as a result of the sexual abuse?”
Zimbabwe Women’s Coalition director Virginia Muwanigwa said rape is a serious crime against women which must never be negotiated or addressed internally, whether in the family or society.
“Rape is a crime and it is not within the jurisdiction of a father, family or community to withdraw it from the courts.
“This man may pretend that he is safeguarding the interest of the girl by withdrawing but the fact stands that the girl has already been abused,” said Muwanigwa.
She said the State must intervene and ensure justice prevails. chronicle

The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) has complained against the discrimination of vendors who do not display their allegiance to first Lady Grace Mugabe.
Vendors told ZimEye.com they are being abused because of their failure to show forth their support of the First Lady. CONTINUE READING- CLICK HERE….

Fresh from his Hurungwe legislature loss, Businessman and politician, Temba Mliswa saw his property at his Spring Farm in Karoi attached yesterday over a US$2,8 million debt he owes the CBZ.
The farm is said to be next in line for attachment after the property items were valued to be too small for the huge debt.
Mliswa fell into the abyss on Monday, the day the man will forever remember.
The properties attached yesterday include 108 herds of cattle, farm implements and equipment, household property from his farm house, lodge and restaurant.
The Karoi Deputy Sheriff, Mr Stuwart Magudze confirmed attaching the property this afternoon, saying it will be auctioned if Mliswa fails to settle the debt in 48 hours.
Mr Magudze quoted by the State Media said the value of the property however falls far short of meeting Mliswa’s obligation to the bank.
An order to attach to the property is said to have been granted by the High Court at the beginning of this year but the execution was however delayed to give room for a possible settlement plan.
Efforts to get hold of Mliswa on his mobile phone were fruitless.

The National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) says ZANU (PF) has taken over the registration of vendors and is discriminating their members against registration process favouring those who support First Lady Grace Mugabe.
The Vendors union representative which has more than 3 000 members in Harare alone cited the Grace Mugabe linked vendors Union , Queen of Grace, 100 Percent Empowerment, as one of the organizations which have hijacked the registration process of vendors.
“The information that NAVUZ has received thus far in respect of the ongoing registration process is that only members belonging to space baron led organizations such as Grassroots Empowerment, Queen of Grace, 100 Percent Empowerment members are allowed to register and several of our members have been barred from registering,” NAVUZ told ZimEye.com on Monday.
Two weeks ago the Grace Mugabe linked vendors’ union forced vendors to congregate at the Main Post office in Harare where it was registering them while chanting ZANU (PF) slogans.
The so called vendors’ representative also sold members ship cards at the registration point.
NAVUZ said should government through the Local Government Ministry leave politicians hijacking the vending regularization process their members are not going to be part and parcel of the process.
“Our position has always been clear that vendors must not be removed from their current vending sites until the ongoing registration process is complete.
“This registration process must be done in an inclusive, fair, transparent and non-partisan manner or else NAVUZ will not endorse its credibility and advise its members accordingly”.

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Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been humiliated by proving himself to be a mental retard, Zimbabweans have concluded.
Mnagagwa was dressed down by the MDC-T’s Nelson Chamisa when the VP in parliament tried to shoot down the latter on the grounds of age. But Chamisa told him if he wants to press on age issues, he would be directly insulting his boss the Head of State.
“In the televised debate we see Mnangagwa displaying himself as a complete fool-mental retard”, said analyst Lenson Jongwa. VIDEO:

Gwanda residents have raised their voice against the council following deadly fires which ravaged and destroyed the Power Sales Shop in the Central Business District. They are calling on Local Government Minister Ignatius to act before it is too late by absolving the council of the fire service responsibility.
FULL TEXT of the statement by the Gwanda Residents Association:.
Since the event of the fire that burnt down the Power Sales shop in the Central Business District in Gwanda on Wednesday, 24 June 2015 , we have been inundated with calls from various media houses and members of the public seeking to understand the position of the Residents Association on the matter.
As stated to other sectors already, as Gwanda Residents Association and indeed residents of Gwanda, we are all still disturbed and shocked by the extent to which the Power Sales shop was burnt down while our Municipal Fire Services team failed to deal with the fire.
While we share a lot of sympathy with the Management and Directors of Power Sales on the sad and huge loss, as Residents representatives we are not only worried about the extent of the damage experienced by Power Sales nor about the circumstances around how the fire started, we are also and more so worried about our Municipality’s preparedness and capabilities in dealing with emergencies of this nature.
What worries us more is that our council does not possess a good history of successfully dealing with fires of any magnitude which they have been called to attend to.
In recent years, property running into hundreds of thousands of dollars has been destroyed by fire in and around the town on several separate occasions and in all of them council has rushed to the scenes and failed to deal with the fires.
In the worst incident to date, a couple of years back about ten lives were gruesomely lost when a truck and a smaller vehicle had a head on collusion a few kilometres out of town and, as always, all our Emergency Services could do was to hopelessly stand by and watch while people and the vehicles burnt to ashes.
It is with these continuous disasters and failures by our council in mind that as residents of Gwanda then find ourselves living in fear with no guarantee that our lives and properties are safe in the hands of our council’s emergency services department.
We are wondering how many more lives and how much more property should be destroyed before we can all say “enough is enough” and bring this to an end.
Of major disappointment is that all these losses happen as our council continues declaring that it has acquired state of the art fire fighting equipment and that the staff has been provided with the best training available.
Residents have been shocked time and again to see our fire fighting teams arrive to the scene of a fire failing to operate the fire fighting equipment and/or showing a complete lack of skill and knowledge on how to fight the fire.
After the recent fire at Power Sales, as Residents representatives in the company of some key stakeholders from the town, we invited council to a round table to discuss our preparedness to these disasters with a hope that a collective strategy would be formulated therefrom but council was not prepared to have the dialogue and dismissed the invitation as being unwarranted.
Following this refusal for dialogue by our council, we have no alternative but to appeal to the Ministry of Local Government to immediately suspend Council from offering this service and set up a commission of enquiry into the operations and capabilities of our town’s emergency services department as we can no longer stand the risk of having more properties and lives destroyed by fire in Gwanda.
We expect the commission of enquiry to be able to give a full report on whether our council is indeed prepared and capable to handle these emergencies and if not come up with what really needs to be done to build this department to it’s expected standards.
While that is on going, our local Civil Protection Unit will need to take the matter as a crisis and engage the services of the Zimbabwe Republic Police to set up a fully fledged emergency services section within the police in the town. This section within the police will be expected to attend to these emergencies far much better than what has been the case with our Local Authority until such a time that the Council department is satisfactorily set up and functional.
Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo Information and Publicity Secretary Gwanda Residents Association.

Losing candidate for Hurungwe West Temba Mliswa has no potent legal case against winner Keith Guzah’s election, legal experts at the Veritas NGO say.
In the issue released at the weekend the experts state that the man does not have legal strength for a lawsuit against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. Even on the issue of Guzah’s alleged criminal conviction, the law only says that a person is ineligible for parliament if he or she was booted from parliament in the past five years for an offence of which Guzah was nowhere near parliament during the period.
 

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Hurungwe West, Swearing-in of New MPs, New Vacancies

 
A controversy has arisen over whether ZANU-PF’s Keith Guzah, declared winner of the Hurungwe West by-election on 10th June, was validly nominated to stand for the constituency.
What Does the Constitution Say?
All the Constitution says about qualifications for a constituency candidate is that a person is qualified for election as a member of the National Assembly if “registered as a voter” and at least 21 years old. A candidate is ineligible if he is not qualified to be a voter at all, or was compelled to leave Parliament in the previous five years because of being convicted of a crime [section 125].
The Constitution does not say that a constituency candidate must be registered on the constituency voters roll. [If this had been intended it would have said so directly – in the same way as sections 274 and 275, which state that an urban or rural councillor must be a registered voter in the urban or rural area concerned.]
Nor does the Constitution say that Act of Parliament can add additional qualifications or disqualifications for a constituency candidate. Hence any provision in the Electoral Act that attempted to do so would be null and void for inconsistency with the Constitution.
 
What Does the Electoral Act Say?
As stated above the Electoral Act cannot validly add a qualification for a constituency candidate that is not in the Constitution. And in fact it does not say anything about whether a candidate for a constituency seat must be registered on the voters roll of the constituency for which he is standing. What the Act does say is that if a candidate [presumably wanting to show good will and getting more backing in a constituency that has asked him or her to stand as its candidate] wants to transfer his registration as a voter from another constituency to the one in which intends to stand, he or she may do so [Section 23(1) of the Act]. But there is nothing in the Electoral Act which compels a candidate to do so, and an inference cannot be drawn from this section that he or she has to do so.
The nomination form in the Ninth Schedule to the Electoral Act seems to be what has caused some confusion. There were two versions of the pro forma certificate to be signed by candidates in the form distributed by ZEC:
One says “The candidate is enrolled as a voter in the constituency”. The other says The candidate is enrolled as a voter in the …………………… constituency” – leaving a space for the name of any constituency to be filled in. With the dots, the form reflects the Constitution [i.e. the true legal position]. Without the dots the interpretation is ambiguous. This suggests that the dots were omitted when the Act was printed, but whatever the explanation the presence or absence of a few dots in a mere form is no basis for reading an additional qualification into the Electoral Act, particularly when, like this one, the form also contains other obvious drafting errors.
There has been a suggestion in the press that ZEC should rerun the election. ZEC has no power to do so. The losing candidate will have to seek his remedy through the courts. He has already done so.
16 New ZANU-PF Constituency MPs Sworn In
Following the ZANU-PF clean sweep in the sixteen by-elections 10th June, the new ZANU-PF constituency members of the National Assembly were sworn in on Tuesday 16th June. The names of the new members and their constituencies are:
Bulawayo Metropolitan Province-
Lobengula: Maideyi Mpala;
Luveve: Ntandoyenkosi Mlilo;
Makokoba: Tshinga Judge Dube;
Pelandaba /Mpopoma: Joseph Tshuma;
Pumula: Godfrey Malaba Ncube
Harare Metropolitan Province
Dzivaresekwa: Omega Sipani-Hungwe;
Glen View South: Pius Madzinga;
Harare East: Terence Mukupe;
Highfield West: Psychology Maziwiza;
Kambuzuma: Tinashe Maduza;
Kuwadzana: Betty Nhambu
Manicaland Province
Chikanga-Dangamvura: Isau Fungai Mupfumi;
Headlands: Christopher Peter Chingosho
Mashonaland West Province
Hurungwe West: Keith Never Guzah
Matabeleland North Province
Tsholotsho North: Jonathan Nathaniel Moyo
Midlands Province
Mbizo: Vongaishe Mupereri
Seven New MDC-T MPs Sworn In
On 16th June ZEC in General Notices 186 and 187 declared the MDC-T party-list replacements for the unseated MDC Renewal Parliamentarians. The MDC-T replacements were sworn in on Thursday 18th June:
Senators: Anna Chimanikire [[Harare Metropolitan Province]; David Anthony Chimhini [Manicaland]; Theresa Maonei Makone [[Harare Metropolitan Province]; Beki Sibanda [Matabeleland South].
National Assembly women party-list members: Susan Matsunga [Harare Metropolitan Province]; Nomvula Mguni [Bulawayo Metropolitan Province]; Machirairwa Mugidho [Masvingo Province].
Two More Vacancies Announced
On Wednesday 17th June the President of the Senate announced two new vacancies after receiving notification from ZANU-PF that the Mrs Olivia Muchena and Mr Dzikamai Mavhaire were no longer members of the party.
All 5 MPs expelled from ZANU-PF on 21st May have now had their seats declared vacant. [See Bill Watch 21/2015 of 15th June for the previous week’s announcement that three National Assembly seats were vacant because of the expulsion from ZANU-PF of Mr Bhasikiti, Mr Butau and Mr Kaukonde].
Mr Bhasakiti is contesting his expulsion in the High Court and won a constitutional court case delaying the holding of a by-election to fill his seat pending the result of his High Court application.
Update on Parliamentary Numbers as at 19th June
National Assembly
Occupied seats:
ZANU-PF…………………………………..
206
MDC-T……………………………………….
56
MDC………………………………………….
2
Total occupied seats:……………….
264
Vacancies:
ZANU-PF (1 party-list seat,
5 constituency seats)………………….
6
Total number of seats: ………………..
270
Senate
Occupied seats:
ZANU-PF…………………………………..
35
MDC-T……………………………………….
21
MDC………………………………………….
2
Chiefs ……………………………………….
18
Disabled representatives …………..
2
Total occupied seats:……………….
78
Vacancies:
ZANU-PF only……………………………
2
Total number of seats: ………………..
80

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A Zimbabwean pentecostal pastor based in South Africa has been caught on video in bed with a married woman.
The development comes after another Zim pastor based in the UK was axed from his job after going on a fling with another married Londoner.READ MORE-Top Pastor Caught ‘Having Sex’ with Married Woman, Stripped
The incident which happened at the woman’s marital home in Johannesburg, was filmed by the husband using installed CCTV cameras which transmitted live via a live internet line.
He watched the whole “bedroom horror” while away at work in Saudi Arabia.
The husband in the video narrates the whole incident in Shona. “Now they have finished bathing and she is preparing the bed which has a warm electric blanket…”
“Where are you, are you coming,” the preacher says.
Now that she has finished he dives into the bed before her. She then follows just before the drama starts. MORE TO FOLLOW…

Due to the humanitarian situation following the Itai Dzamara disappearance, a two member staff delegation from the United States Congress is in Zimbabwe on a three day visit until June 30th 2015.
The Staff Delegation is led by Gregory Simpkins is Staff Director for the U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa, Health, Human Rights, and International Relations. Mr Simpkins will be accompanied by Piero Tozzi, Counsel in the House Subcommittee on Africa, Health, Human Right and International Relations. The two officials will meet representatives of government, business and civil society organizations to hear firsthand accounts about the situation in Zimbabwe in relation to human rights, democracy and governance.
Early this month, the U.S. Congress subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations conducted a hearing on Zimbabwe. During the hearing a wide range of issues including United States government policy on Zimbabwe and future relations between the two countries. Dr Shannon Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, gave a presentation during the hearing which is available online. Dr Smith and Steven Feldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, visited Zimbabwe on May 12 on a similar fact-finding mission.
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Gregory Simpkins is Staff Director for the U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights, where he manages subcommittee activities and advises the Chairman on policy issues, arranges Congressional hearings, drafts legislation and conducts oversight missions. He served in the same position from 1997-98 and from 2005-2006.
Mr. Simpkins has served in a variety of positions in civil society, allowing him to help shape or implement U.S. policy on Africa, including two versions of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and U.S. corporate support for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. A journalist who has worked in national and local radio as a reporter, talk show host and producer since 1977, Mr. Simpkins has written for national and international magazines and newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Times, Jane’s Terrorism and Security Monitor, the Nairobi (Kenya) Law Monthly and The Guardian (Nigeria). From 2009-2011, wrote the blog Africa Rising 2010.
Mr. Simpkins also has been an interview subject on Africa events by such media outlets as the Voice of America and the British Broadcasting System and has lectured on Africa issues before audiences at such institutions as the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, the Heritage Foundation, the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and the Emancipation Support Committee (Trinidad and Tobago).
Beginning in 1987, Mr. Simpkins has been involved in foreign advocacy projects. In recent years, he has designed and managed democratization, trade and capacity-building programs in Africa. He helped to establish the African Democracy Network, an organization of more than 200 African democrats from 31 nations in 1994; the AGOA Civil Society Network, a coalition of African NGOs concerned with the equitable implementation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, and the U.S. Civil Society Coalition for African Trade and Investment, an alliance of U.S. civil society organizations working on U.S.-Africa trade.
He holds a B.A. in journalism from George Washington University and an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management.
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Piero A. Tozzi is counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. He holds a JD from Fordham University School of Law and a BA from Columbia University.
Prior to joining the Subcommittee, Piero authored numerous articles on international law, constitutional law and comparative constitutional law, and his work has been cited by the United States Supreme Court. In addition, he has submitted friend of the court briefs to the Supreme Courts of Mexico and Argentina, as well as the Interamerican Court of Human Rights.
At the Subcommittee, Piero’s focus has been on oversight of US global health and food security programs, as well as monitoring human rights issues in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He also is tasked with overview of international organizations, in particular the United Nations. Piero engages with civil society organizations and other stakeholders on a regular basis, and negotiates the advancement of legislation within the Foreign Affairs Committee, other House Committees with overlapping jurisdiction and with the Senate, in particular the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Piero speaks Mandarin Chinese and Spanish, and lives with his wife and three children in northern Virginia.

Information minister and government spokesperson Jonathan Moyo could be sued for his endless string of insults on social media platforms, analysts have said.
Ever since Moyo joined micro blobbing site Twitter early this year, some of his conversations with followers have degenerated into serious verbal exchanges with the acerbic minister at times using uncouth language to denigrate the views of his followers, and at times using such words like “idiot”.
Moyo has justified the use of the hate language saying if provoked, he would retaliate.
Media expert and lawyer Chris Mhike said national leaders, particularly politicians and government officials were expected to be dignified and measured in their conduct and speech.
“Some of that insult language is certainly not ministerial,” Mhike said.
“As Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services (assuming that he still holds that portfolio), Prof. Moyo would also do well to lead by example through respecting the ethics of mass communication and therefore refraining from venomous language.”
Mhike said Moyo could easily be sued by aggrieved persons or institutions under civil law; or proceedings could be instituted against him in terms of criminal law and procedure, and that could be embarrassing for him.
“While he commendably objects to the existence of criminal defamation in Zimbabwe, that law is still officially valid, according to the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe and in terms of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act. The recent conviction of Tatenda Machingauta who had insulted Hon. Joseph Chinotimba on Whatsapp is a clear example of the applicability of criminal law to those who use offensive language on social media platforms,” Mhike said.
Moyo, who amassed close to 16 000 followers since he joined twitter in February, was in recent weeks involved in a verbal showdown with former South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni whom he described as an “Uncle Tom, irrational, foolish and a charlatan”. That was after Mboweni tweeted that he was annoyed by Moyo’s rants on twitter at a time Zimbabweans were suffering.
Media lecturer, Alexander Rusero said Moyo’s outbursts on social media was uncalled for since he was a government minister and spokesperson. He said Moyo ran the risk of having his personal views being mistaken for government views.
“There will be some implications of being a government spokesperson. Moyo is someone who is free to express himself but at times becomes excited and overwhelmed and forgets his government role,” Rusero said.
“I am not sure how bad the language is but sometimes it can be construed to represent government position. Moyo should know better. I don’t think he is intelligent, he is just a learned professor.”
Political analyst Pedzisai Ruhanya said Moyo should exercise restraint on social media platforms as a government spokesperson.
“Moyo should understand that he is far from being a private citizen and some people might just be there to provoke him into such rants that could be damaging to the government,” Ruhanya said. – The Standard

SIXTEEN pupils from Milton High, Townsend Girls’ High, Pace College and Girls’ College, were arrested on Friday after they were caught drinking and abusing dangerous drugs at Centenary Park in Bulawayo.
The pupils, all clad in school uniforms, were arrested and taken to Bulawayo Central Police station facing public drinking charges. They were arrested around 5PM when police raided the Centenary Park after receiving an anonymous tip-off.
The pupils, whose names cannot be published as they are minors, are also believed to have been engaging in sexual activities as there were used condoms nearby.
A source said the pupils were raided by police details from the dogs section. The police, the source said, found the pupils with bottles of whisky, dagga and a widely abused cough syrup with a high alcohol content, Broncleer, popularly known as Bronco.
They said the group made up of eight boys and eight girls admitted to drinking, taking dangerous drugs and engaging in sexual activities.
“They were all drunk when they were arrested. They said the park was their new base where they would freely drink and enjoy themselves,” said the source.
The pupils were released after their parents, guardians and school authorities were called in.
They painted a dejected picture tinted with shame as they sat on the floor at the police station with exhibits in front of them.
Bulawayo province police spokesperson, Inspector Mandlenkosi Moyo, confirmed the arrests.
“I can confirm that a group of boys and girls were rounded up by police on Friday but they were dealt with accordingly. They’ve since been released and the matter is being handled by their parents and school authorities. As the police we’re still investigating and tracing suppliers of the dangerous substances they were found in possession of,” said Inspector Moyo.
He urged parents to always monitor their children in terms of behaviour and whereabouts after school and on weekends.
“These days the pupils are engaging in Vuzu parties and they are now doing them during school days. As such we’re encouraging parents and guardians to monitor them particularly when they say they are going to weekend parties as they use the opportunity to indulge in unsafe sex,” he said.
Insp Moyo said police have joined forces with the National Aids Council and Childline Zimbabwe to do campaigns in schools against alcohol abuse and unsafe sex.
“We have joined hands with NAC and Childline Zimbabwe in holding awareness campaigns in schools to highlight the dangers of drug abuse and engaging in unsafe sex in greater Bulawayo.
“We have been doing these campaigns for about a month now,” said Insp Moyo.
Teenage binge-drinking in Bulawayo has reached alarming levels amid concerns of moral decay in the city.
Over the past few months, there has been a plethora of house parties hosted by youths, who in most cases are as young as 13 years in the affluent suburbs of Bulawayo.
The teens organise house parties on the social networking platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and Mxit.
It remains a mystery where the teenagers, most of whom are still in school, get the money to host the parties and buy the alcohol and drugs. Equally baffling is whether the children have the blessings of their parents and guardians when they host the wild parties.

Police yesterday said investigations on former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman Temba Mliswa for possessing suspected stolen farming equipment at one of his warehouses in Harare, were still continuing.
Police sources said Mliswa would soon be questioned once investigations have been completed. “The equipment is still under police guard as investigations on the case continue. He will be questioned soon,” said a police source.
It is believed that the equipment was part of equipment that was distributed under the Government’s Farm Mechanisation Programme, a few years ago. Police were recently deployed to the warehouse, which is along Simon Mazorodze Road, to guard the equipment.
Police and officials from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe also visited the premises and they will soon question Mr Mliswa in connection with the case. Last week chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the developments.
“Yes, there is equipment under police guard belonging to Mliswa. We are carrying out investigations,” she said without divulging any other details for fearing to jeopardise the investigations.
In February, the embattled former Hurungwe legislator was arrested for illegally possessing seven AK47 assault rifles, with the police still to establish the intention for which he held the guns.
Mliswa was picked up by detectives from the CID Law and Order Section at his Spring Farm in Karoi where the guns were discovered.
According to sources, Mliswa was allegedly found in possession of the seven unlicensed AK47 rifles which were stashed at his farm. This was not the first time that Mliswa has had a brush with the law, although he was acquitted on several occasions.
In 2010, his lawyers sensationally revealed that he was facing up to 78 charges in Zimbabwe’s court system.
This was after he was arrested in the same year on allegations of extorting $1 600 from relatives of his two employees and the theft of 56 cattle in Karoi. In the same year, Mliswa along with Martin Mutasa and George Marere spent weeks in prison after being arrested on charges of fraud involving $1,05 million.
The three were alleged to have defrauded a Harare man, Paul Westwood, of his 50 percent shares in Noshio Motors, a car dealer jointly owned by Westwood and Hammarskjöld Banda and his wife.
After release on bail, Mliswa was re-arrested and charged for crimes dating back to 2002, which included cases of assault and common assault, theft, public violence, contempt of court, extortion, malicious damage to property, Shop Licences Act violation, Firearms Act violation and housebreaking.
Mliswa and his co-accused were acquitted of the Noshio case in June 2011.

A MAN, who pounced on four women, who were fetching firewood, masquerading as a Zimbabwe Parks and Wild Life Management Authority (Zimparks) official and attempted to rape them has been jailed for three years.
Chamunorwa Nyangore (30), from Machipisa village in Gambuzi, was convicted and sentenced on four counts of attempted rape by magistrate Ngoni Nduna last week.
The court initially sentenced him to five years, but suspended two years on condition of good behaviour.
Prosecutor Hazel Kondo told the court that Nyangore met the women, who were fetching firewood at Highlands Farm, on December 24 last year.
He identified himself as a Zimparks employee and told them that they were all under arrest for poaching.
The court heard that Nyangore force-marched the women up a hill where he later demanded $80 from them.
After they indicated that they did not have the money, Nyangore ordered them to undress and lie on the ground as he prepared to rape them.
However, the women got up and fled in different directions.
The women reported the matter to the police, leading to Nyangore’s arrest.-Newsday

A TOTAL of 368 police officers were last year dismissed from the Zimbabwe Republic Police for various acts of misconduct, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said.
Responding to a question in Parliament last week, Deputy Minister Ziyambi said the officers had been discharged in accordance with the Police Act.
“In 2014, the police force recorded 156 deaths among its members, 467 resignations and 368 were discharged for misconduct.
“A member can be discharged for misconduct, after conviction of a criminal offence, if he or she is unfit for duty by failing to adhere to the police code of ethics and it’s recommended that he or she be discharged as unsuitable.
“Some members were discharged for desertion, where a member is discharged after absenting himself or herself for a continuous period of 21 days or more. A board of inquiry then declares that he or she is a deserter,” Deputy Minister Ziyambi told Parliament.
The highest number was recorded in 2013, when a total of 448 police officers were discharged from the police force compared to 345 in 2012.
Deputy Minister Ziyambi also revealed that about seventy-five percent of police officers in the country had no official accommodation. He said thousands of police officers are in need of decent accommodation.
Deputy Minister Ziyambi said his ministry was negotiating with local authorities for residential stands for members of the police force. The deputy minister said police have housing committees in all provinces that are responsible for addressing the accommodation issue.
He said police officers who reside outside police camps are entitled to a living-out allowance as a condition of service.
“Three quarters of police officers don’t have official accommodation. In other words, about 75 percent of our officers need accommodation and the ministry has put in place plans to provide decent accommodation for police officers,” he said.
The deputy minister said construction of houses for police officers had already begun in some parts of the country.
“The building of additional housing units in already existing police camps is underway as exemplified by building of flats at Tomlinson Depot, housing units at ZRP Glen Norah, housing units at ZRP Msasa in Mashonaland East Province, housing units at ZRP Dotito in Mashonaland Central and housing units at ZRP Nehanda in Midlands Province. These are the projects that we’re undertaking,” he said.

Harare-News|Debate over Mapostori use of open spaces
Various apostolic sects have taken over many of the city’s open spaces in contravention of the City of Harare’s (CoH) by-laws. Harare News toured a number of spots where these sects conduct their business to check if they meet the standards set by council. Most of the places fall short of the required standards as they do not provide water or proper ablution facilities.

A senior member of the Johane Masowe eChishanu sect, who only identified himself as Madzibaba Enock, defended the Mapositori tradition of worshipping in open spaces. “God told us to worship in the wilderness (Masowe) and so we don’t construct buildings to pray in,” he said, adding that his own sect has complied with the local authority requirements. “For us, the place we use for worshipping meets the standards set because there are toilets and water provided,” said Madzibaba Enock, who worships at the open space near the Delta Beverages manufacturing plant along Seke Road. The venue, known by many as PaCoke Cola, is serviced by toilets and tap water that were supplied by council for commuters at the nearby bus terminus. The worshipers took advantage of this and established their base there. “When you see churches that don’t meet the required standards then they are illegal,” he added.
Madzibaba Hebron is an elder in the nguwo Tsvuku sect which conducts their services at an open space between Rufaro Stadium and Mupedzanhamo clothes market in Mbare. He said that there are more than 30 sects who worship there. He said, “We don’t spend a lot of time here, so we don’t see that it is necessary to pay the council for any services.” At this spot there are no ablution facilities and no provision of water.
Mudzidzi Miriam of Warren Park agreed with Madzibaba Hebron that most of these sects are conducting their business in contravention of council by-laws. “We do not commit ourselves to a permanent spot because most of us are nomadic, save for very huge gatherings,” she said. She added that most Apostolic sects do not carry food to church so they don’t litter the environment and that they rarely cut down trees as they provide shelter and shade. She also claimed that because of political connections most sects cannot be prosecuted by council for not working in line with its by-laws. “Having members who are politicians in one way or another is common among the Apostolic sects and when need be, they protect us,” she said.
Meanwhile Michael Chideme, City of Harare Principal Communication Officer, said that these churches should consult with council before they occupy any open space for their activities. “They should apply and follow our standards which require them to make sure that there are proper sanitary facilities, such as the provision of water and toilets, put in place,” he said. Chideme was not forthcoming on what the Council’s position is on those who do not meet the standards, as well as the price charged for leasing or buying such land. He requested Harare News to email questions to him but he has not yet responded to them.
Some of the apostolic sects that do not worship in buildings include Johane Masowe Jerusalem, nguwo Tsvuku, Johane Marange, Johane Masowe Sabata, Zviratidzo zvevapositori, Vadzidzi, and Zion Yetambo.
These sects convene mass yearly gathering (misangano yegore). Mapostori gatherings have in some instances attracted people from around the country and neighbouring countries, posing the danger of spreading communicable diseases, such as cholera and typhoid, owing to the lack of proper sanitary services.